Kenney apparently confused KAIROS Canada, a charity with a 35-year history of good deeds to its credit, with a small, unrelated Palestinian group. It's a grievous error roughly equivalent to calling a group of Norwegian photo buffs, the Kristiansund Kamera Klubb or KKK, a white supremacist group. (We note that some among KAIROS Canada have called for an end to bloodshed and violence in the Middle East: hardly an anti-Semitic view.)
The gong-show gongs on.
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looks pretty speculative
The article didn't mention which group the CPC had confused KAIROS with. Googling led me to this: http://www.kairospalestine.ps/. But this seems like a very large mistake to make.
I've heard the "mistake" theory before, and that's the website. Does sound hard to believe, but there may have been an intermediary here--NGO Watch.
I've heard the "mistake" theory before...
I first became aware of it here, on this blog, in a comment by "Gus Williams."
Mistake instead of a deliberate lie?
It sounds like typical ReformaTory political ops to get Kenney off the hook.
I don't know precisely how the funding works for the BC Muslim Association that publishes the paper that ran this piece of blood libel, but this would be a far more appropriate case to tie funding to behaviour:
http://www.alameenpost.com/articles.aspx?categoryname=world&newsId=1664
In contrast to this description, KAIROS website, the organization issued a “strategy paper” on January 7, 2008, entitled “Economic Advocacy Measures: Options for KAIROS Members for the Promotion of Peace in Palestine and Israel.” This document endorses divestment from Israel, explicitly promoting the U.S. Presbyterian Church campaign led by the radical Palestinian NGO Sabeel. The text also describes KAIROS’ plans to coordinate these activities among its member churches. Rachel Fox www.ngo-monitor.org
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