Galloway threatens to sue CJC CEO

by Paul Lungen
The Canadian Jewish News
April 8, 2009

https://www.legal-project.org/254/galloway-threatens-to-sue-cjc-ceo

Excerpt:

 TORONTO — British MP George Galloway has threatened to sue Bernie Farber, CEO of Canadian Jewish Congress, for allegedly calling him a terrorist.

Galloway told a crowd in Ottawa via an Internet connection, "Ihave instructed my lawyers in Canada to bring an action for defamation against Bernie Farber… and CTV for comments he made that they allowed him to make," the Ottawa Citizen reported. "I am not a terrorist. I am not a threat to Canada's national security."

Contacted by The CJN, Farber said "there will be no apology." He also noted "the irony that this poster boy for free speech had absolutely no compunction in trying to silence anyone who wants to criticize his work."

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