Conservative MP David Sweet's Attempt to Obstruct Norman Finkelstein Lecture on Campus

Submitted on December 13, 2011

By Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East - December 13, 2011

Information received through a freedom of information (FOI) request has revealed that Conservative MP David Sweet intervened in February, 2011 to help obstruct a lecture by Israel-Palestine expert Dr. Norman Finkelstein...Finkelstein...was scheduled to speak at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario at an event organized by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME.)...[W]ithin days of a meeting organized by Sweet with college officials, Mohawk College quadrupled the price of the room booking...As a result of this manoeuvre, CJPME was forced to move the event off the Mohawk College campus.

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Conservative MP David Sweet's Attempt to Obstruct Norman Finkelstein Lecture on Campus

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