(National Post-Canada) Collin May - The newly appointed Chief of the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC), Birju Dattani, engaged in anti-Israel activity while an academic in London a decade ago. He posted links to an article comparing Israelis to Nazis and Palestinians to Warsaw Ghetto fighters, shared a stage with a member of the radical Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, and was interviewed at an anti-Israel rally. During the 2014-2015 academic year, Dattani appeared at several Israel Apartheid Week events. The writer is an adjunct lecturer in medicine at the University of Calgary and a former Chief of the Alberta Human Rights Commission.
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