For author and political activist Naomi Klein, red paint and posters plastered on an Indigo book store in Toronto, accusing the chain’s founder Heather Reisman of “funding genocide” for her support of Israel, had nothing to do with the fact that she’s Jewish.
“That’s an outrageous slander,” she said at a rally this week in front one of the bookstores in support of the 11 people charged in the incident.
Instead, Klein said, Reisman was targeted for her support of a program that provides free tuition for soldiers who serve in the Israel Defence Forces but which critics say is an inducement to get non-Israeli Jews to volunteer in the Israeli military.
“Whoever engaged in this
