The federal government is hosting two “National Summits” on anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in a bid to “figure out and negotiate (their) timetables for action.”The National Summit on anti-Semitism will be hosted on July 21, and the National Summit on Islamophobia on July 22, diversity and inclusion minister Bardish Chagger said in a statement released Friday. “These summits will bring together a diverse group of community and political leaders, academics, activists, and members with intersectional identities within these communities,” Chagger said. “We don’t need a summit to know (about Islamophobia), we see this happening in our news. We need action,” Fatimah Jackson-Best, a public health researcher and lecturer at York University told the Star. Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading... Loading...With files from Raisa Patel and Olivia BowdenAkrit Michael is a breaking news reporter, working out of the Star’s radio room in Toronto.

Source: thestar July 12, 2021 16:52 UTC