Your daily spiel for Tuesday, Feb. 14

Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live.

Your Daily Spiel is The CJN’s daily roundup of trending stories in the Jewish world.


CJN contributor Salma Siddiqui makes the case that one must be free to criticize Islamism (she clarifies that this means political Islam) without fear of being branded an Islamophobe.

A McGill University student leader responsible for the now infamous tweet “punch a Zionist today” apparently said at a student union legislative council meeting last week that Jews were not “a legitimate ethnic group.

Canadian regulators hope to quash the sale of Israel-based binary options, which have reportedly fleeced thousands of investors around the world.

Disney has severed its relationship with a popular YouTube star after one of his videos featured anti-Semitic content.

A newspaper in the Dominican Republic has had to apologize for mistakenly running, alongside a picture of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a photo of actor Alec Baldwin parodying President Donald Trump instead of Trump himself.

Apparently, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner once lent Benjamin Netanyahu his bed. But who hasn’t?