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Jenny Peto's 100-page thesis argues that today's Jews of European descent "enjoy white privilege" and maintain a victim identity by participating in "hegemonic" Holocaust remembrance programs such as the March of the Living, during which young Jewish people visit Poland and Israel. The University of Toronto accepted the defended thesis and awarded a master's degree to the 29-year-old, who is an activist associated with the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid group. She's also Jewish and a descendant of Holocaust survivors.

The thesis, entitled The Victimhood of the Powerful: White Jews, Zionism and the Racism of Hegemonic Holocaust Education, describes Israel as an apartheid state.

Full text of thesis
http://www.scribd.com/doc/37214827/Israel-Jennifer-Peto

It has provoked intense debate online, in academia and even the political realm. Progressive Conservative MPP Steve Clark raised it in the legislature Tuesday in response to sharp criticism in the Jewish community, calling it "shockingly anti-Semitic." Citizenship and immigration minister Eric Hoskins likewise condemned the thesis in the legislature saying he was "greatly disturbed and, in fact, disgusted," when he read media coverage about it.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/toronto/Thesis+Jewish+privileg
e+rebuked+sparking/3949150/story.html

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