Anti-Israel Gays Quit Toronto Parade TORONTO (JTA) — Queers Against Israeli Apartheid said it will not participate in the Toronto Pride Parade. The group, which has raised contro- versy with its planned participation in the parade, announced its decision last week. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford said the same day that the city should withhold city funds for the event until after the parade to ensure that Queers Against Israeli Apartheid does not actu- ally march. Pride Toronto received $123,807 from the city last year. Rob Ford The city said it would fund the parade as long as all of the groups participating adhered to the city's anti-discrimination policy. Queers Against Israeli Apartheid's with- drawal was presented by the organization as a "challenge" to Ford. "Rob Ford wants to use us as an excuse to cut Pride funding, even though he has always opposed funding the parade, long before we showed up," Queers Against Israeli Apartheid spokesperson Elle Flanders said in a news release. "By hold- ing our Pride events outside of the parade, we are forcing him to make a choice: Fund Pride or have your real, homophobic, right-wing agenda exposed." The Canadian Jewish Congress CEO Bernie Farber said, "This is a positive step and reaffirms what Canadian Jewish Congress has been saying all along: There is absolutely no place in the Pride Parade for hateful and discriminatory messages." Rabbis Condemn Attack On Reform Synagogue JERUSALEM (JTA) — Fourteen Orthodox rabbis and public figures from Ra'anana signed a letter condemning an attack on a Reform synagogue in the central Israel city. Ra'anana Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Peretz was among those who signed the letter. The World Union for Progressive Judaism (Reform) also condemned the April 14 attack, the third time the Raanan Synagogue has been vandalized in the past year. Six of the synagogue's windows were smashed by large rocks and a black Star of David was spray-painted on the wall above the words "It has begun." City officials and the Reform umbrella group both indicated that the vandalism pointed to Jewish religious extremists, though police said they had no suspects. In another incident of violence against a non-Orthodox synagogue, youths threw rocks at worshipers leaving a Masorti (Conservative) synagogue in Netanya on the Sabbath eve of April 15. The youths appeared to be Orthodox, eyewitnesses said. The youths reportedly tried to enter the building but stopped when they saw security cameras. The building has been attacked twice in the past. No worshipers were injured in the attack. "As the non-Orthodox communities continue to grow, the ugly face of Jewish fundamentalism in Israel is revealed:' said Yizhar Hess, executive director and CEO of the Masorti movement in Israel. "Some people just can't deal with the fact that there is a different Judaism. These people are hateful Jews who know nothing about Rabbi Akiva's principle of loving your neighbor as you love yourself" Goldstone Retraction Spurs Arab Anti-Semitism NEW YORK (JTA) — Richard Goldstone's retraction of key find- ings in his report to the United Nations on the Gaza War has spurred a new round of anti- Semitism and conspir- acy theories in the Arab world, according to the Anti-Defamation League. Richard "Just as the original Goldstone report was celebrated by Arab cartoonists as 'proof' of the evil nature of Israel and Jews, so too has the decision by Judge Richard Goldstone to reconsider his findings inspired another round of hateful caricatures and stereotypes in the Arab media," said Abraham Foxman, ADEs national director. "Newspapers across the Arab world have responded to the Goldstone develop- ments with a series of hideous caricatures, many of them viciously anti-Semitic." 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