<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font color="#4f7a28" size="4" class=""><b class="">Another confirmation of what Brother Ted has been telling us: that the tide has turned.</b></font><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 27, 2021, at 1:27 PM, David Walsh via craic <<a href="mailto:craic@lists.integralshift.ca" class="">craic@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook', serif; background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">A hopeful sign !</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 3.75pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Toronto artists call on Koffler Centre to divest from United Jewish Appeal<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 3.75pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Hundreds have vowed to boycott the arts organization if it doesn't dissociate from groups supporting Zionist goals<br class=""></span><b class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class=""><a href="https://nowtoronto.com/culture/toronto-artists-call-on-koffler-centre-to-divest-from-united-jewish-appeal?utm_source=nowtoronto.com&utm_campaign=65bfff9ac5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_05_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bfaa0e1d4c-65bfff9ac5-81138686" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Toronto artists call on Koffler Centre to divest from United Jewish Appeal (nowtoronto.com)</a><br class=""></span></b><span style="font-size: 14.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">By Radheyan Simonpillai -- May 25, 2021<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Hundreds of artists and arts organizations have signed <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HHKV_RygitVlHtd_WHpdM3OZ8KZuu3xdOelMiokDPF8/edit" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(206, 45, 39); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;" class="">a petition</span></a> calling on the Koffler Centre of the Arts to divest and cut ties to the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) Federation.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 0cm; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; outline: none 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">“While the Koffler has shifted to a social justice mandate, presenting work that is critical of settler colonialism and working with numerous racialized and politicized artists and organizations, this has not been extended to the Palestinian context,” reads the petition, which is signed by organizations like the Chinatown Biennial, South Asian Visual Arts Centre and Xspace Cultural Centre.<br class=""><br class="">“This is artwashing,” the petition states, “in service of obfuscating its relationships to funders that uphold Israeli apartheid, namely the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) Federation.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 11.25pt; margin-left: 0cm; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; outline: none 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">The petition, which pledges a boycott of the Koffler Centre should it choose not to divest, says the UJA has “explicitly Zionist” goals.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook', serif;" class=""><a href="https://nowtoronto.com/culture/toronto-artists-call-on-koffler-centre-to-divest-from-united-jewish-appeal?utm_source=nowtoronto.com&utm_campaign=65bfff9ac5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_05_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bfaa0e1d4c-65bfff9ac5-81138686" style="color: purple; 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