Cory Silverberg and Zaid Zawaideh are Toronto District School Board parents who, along with other community members, criticized a motion put forward at the end of May to the Board’s Governance and Policy Committee to limit certain political activity in TDSB schools. The motion called on the Board to prohibit public speakers and educational partners from promoting undefined “political views, political propaganda and/or hatred” and stop “TDSB staff from incorporating political activism into teaching practices.” Cited within the motion was a book by Palestinian-American author, Rifk Ebeid: “Baba, what does my name mean?” as an example of the sort of book that should be removed from TDSB libraries, because it encourages children to draw a picture of, “Palestine from River to Sea.”
Toronto Palestinian Families 