Your Daily Spiel is The CJN’s roundup of trending stories in the Jewish world.
Ticked off at town hall: An emotional town hall meeting held Tuesday at CHAT’s soon-to-be-shuttered north campus revealed many parents, teachers and students upset with the school board and administration.
The truth about post-truth: CJN contributor Paul Michaels argues that our new ‘post-truth’ reality isn’t actually new.
Rebel defends anti-Semitic contributor: The far-right Rebel Media is standing by its contributor Gavin McInnes for his video “10 Things I Hate About Jews” (see clip in yesterday’s spiel). In it, the Vice Media co-founder rants about Israel and Jews.
Meanwhile, Rebel contributor Faith Goldy can’t understand why the “Jew-owned media” is so sensitive about anti-Semitism.
In which the phrase “Jew-owned media” is invoked as a defence *against* the charge of anti-Semitism. https://t.co/vzVo5MqRXE
— Jesse Brown (@JesseBrown) March 15, 2017
The Netherlands’ favourite racist gets less seats: The party of the so-called “Dutch Donald Trump” (seriously, the hair. Look at the hair. But also the immigrant-bashing) Geert Wilders got less seats than the centre-right ruling party in yesterday’s general elections. According to early predictions, Wilders’ anti-Islam party was slated to win.
Withdraw apartheid report, U.S. to U.N.: The United States is calling on the United Nations to withdraw a report that accuses Israel of committing apartheid against the Palestinians.
Rabbi and rabbi on news: Two rabbis look at whether Jews should cool it when it comes to dwelling on bad news.