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Vancouversun.com While Ottawa’s political leaders were meeting on Parliament Hill Tuesday with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, a group of businessmen (no women, for some reason) met for lunch in downtown Calgary with Khaled Abu Toameh, the Arab-born, West Bank and Gaza correspondent for the Jerusalem Post. And while the Conservatives condemned Israel's settlements as an obstacle to a peaceful "two-state solution", with Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff and Abbas also mouthing support for the same vision for Israel and the Palestinians, Toameh couldn’t help but chuckle. “I laugh when they talk about a two-state solution,” he said. “It’s unreal. It’s not...

Parents can no longer ignore the anti-Israel propaganda at American universities." When Khaled Abu Toameh told his friends in Gaza that he was set to go on a major speaking tour of American universities they thought he was crazy. "Don't you know what goes on over there?" they warned the senior Palestinian affairs correspondent for the Jerusalem Post. "You could get killed!" The tragic irony is hard to miss: Our hallowed institutes of higher learning have become as hostile to Israel as the disputed Holy Land itself. Abu Toameh's tour was sponsored by StandWithUs, a non-profit Israel advocacy and educational...