Backlash prompts reversals: Vancouver Comic Arts Fest apologizes for banning Jewish artist; Seattle museum renews exhibit on hate after staff walkout.
Masir Badil Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement Leader and alleged PFLP operative Khaled Barakat led the Canadian crowd in chants of “long live October 7.”
The festival assured that it would revise its policies and submission guidelines and adhere to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel’s guidelines.
Police said that they had arrested the 45-year-old woman, and while Kates has been released, authorities are conducting a criminal investigation.
Activists glorified the "Beautiful, brave and heroic resistance of the Palestinian people, which did not begin on October 7, which has continued for over 75 years, which has continued over 120 years."
Canadian man arrested in Vancouver for antisemitic threats and vandalism against the posters of Israeli hostages. Jewish community and police respond to rising hate crimes.
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