(Ottawa) Diversity and Inclusion Minister Ahmed Hussen is demanding an explanation from an organization that received federal funding for an anti-racism project and one of whose consultants made anti-Semitic comments on Twitter.
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A series of controversial messages published by Laith Marouf have been denounced on social networks. He is a consultant for the Community Media Advocacy Centre, a non-profit organization dedicated to community and indigenous media whose mission is to end “colonialism and oppression in the media”.
Laith Marouf’s Twitter account is private, but screenshots of her posts are easy to track. In one, he writes that “Jewish white supremacists” should be “shot in the head.”
Minister Hussen has asked the Department of Canadian Heritage to assess the situation. The organization could thus lose the $133,800 grant it had received under the anti-racism action program.
The organization announced in April that it would hold rallies in Montreal, Vancouver, Halifax, Calgary, Winnipeg and Ottawa to find ways to remove barriers to access, representation and employment for people of color in the media.