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Hal Niedzviecki writes that he has been subjected to ‘online harassment over my personal beliefs, a petition demanding that I resign from the publication I founded, that the magazine formally support the Boycott Divest And Sanction Israel movement and devote an entire issue to the conflict in Gaza, and the withdrawal of authors and sponsors from our Canzine festivals in Ottawa and Toronto’.
Jonathan Rotsztain in The Grind: ‘The cherished Toronto-based zine mag is no more, after the staff and wider community butted heads with the publisher over his staunch support for Israel and its war on Gaza’.
Christopher Dummitt in the National Post: ‘Hal Niedzviecki spent 30 years building a magazine and trade show, only to have it torn down by a woke anti-Israel mob’.
Philip Moscovitch in the Halifax Examiner: ‘I think there’s a lesson here, and it’s not that identity politics and cultural purity tests are destroying culture’.