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Argentina has elected a centre-right president, Mauricio Macri. But that tide rose and fell.īrazil’s Dilma Rousseff is currently the subject of impeachment proceedings. Early on, the forum’s mobilizations served as the front line in the First World’s polemics and propaganda for anti-corporate political movements in Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia and Brazil. So what has the forum’s annual NGO trade fair and activist networking accomplished since that first exuberance of optimism in Porto Alegre? Not much, despite annual gatherings that draw as many as 60,000 people.

It is an intellectual and moral vacuity that has crippled what the World Social Forum’s founders sincerely hoped would produce some sort of democratic alternative to what they saw as the heartless corporate model of globalization. It didn’t have to be like this, but it’s what you get when you try to build such a big anti-capitalist tent that you welcome anyone, no matter the depths of their Jew-hatred, their insane antipathies toward “the West” or their dirty allegiances to Third World despots.

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Article content Recommended from Editorial This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The forum’s main-event stupidities include a workshop delineating the “imperialist and colonialist actors” at large in Syria, which is not meant to shed any light on the ongoing atrocities being perpetrated by Russia, Iran’s Quds force, Assad’s barrel bombers and Hezbollah mercenaries - the blood-drenched alliance that accounts for the overwhelming majority of the nearly half-million Syrian civilian deaths over the past five years. It’s a good thing Concordia University is hosting a forum-affiliated seminar titled, Defeating War: Syria Under Siege, featuring Lebanese author and analyst Gilbert Achcar, chair of the Centre for Palestinian Studies at the University of London. While we were all being taken in by the elaborate publicity stunt staged in the run-up to the gathering - “Hundreds of Activists Denied Visas to Attend World Social Forum in Montreal” - just one thing that escaped notice was the most prominent conference platforms being offered to the world’s most deranged apologists for the “anti-imperialist” regime of Syrian president and mass murderer, Bashar Assad. Article contentīut that’s just for starters. Perdana is a creation of the former Malaysian strongman Mahathir Mohamad, whose anti-Semitic greatest hits include “the Jews rule the world by proxy,” and, “even after their massacre by the Nazis of Germany, they survived to continue to be a source of even greater problems for the world.” The forum will also feature sessions smearing Israel as an apartheid state and will host events to mobilize more “Gaza Boat” spectacles - the project pioneered by a collaboration between the Hamas-affiliated Foundation for Human Rights and Humanitarian Relief, and the Perdana Global Peace Organization.

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Activists will be offered workshops in how to participate in the global campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel - the eliminationist movement begun by the Arab League in 1945 to target Palestine’s Jewish population, three years before the state of Israel was even born. I guess that depends on your definition of “a better world.” There are at least a dozen major forum events that remain devoted to the proposition that in this “better world,” the Jewish state of Israel would not be permitted to exist.

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A chastened spokesperson for the forum, Carminda Mac Lorin, explained it all away: “We are really open to everyone, and we are definitely happy to welcome everyone who is interested in working for a better world.” The event the cartoon was intended to advertise was struck from the forum’s five-day agenda. Then the federal government pulled its maple leaf logo. It wasn’t until the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs raised a commotion and Liberal MPs Anthony Housefather and Michael Levitt took the forum’s organizers to task about it that the cartoon was pulled. Article content The lineup reads like a who’s who of Jew haters and despot supporters.

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