'My ties to this community are done': Jewish London member reacts to be evicted from Jewish Community Centre
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Darlene Zaifman-Gustlis was denied entry to an event for Pierre Poiliere at the London Jewish Community Centre.
A member of London’s Jewish Community said she was wrongly removed from an event.
A video posted to the Facebook page of an organization called Independent Jewish Voices Canada shows a clearly distraught Darlene Zaifman-Gustlis as she stands surrounded by police and others in the lobby of the London Jewish Community Centre on Huron Street, "This is a building that I have put my blood and tears into. I have spent thousands of hours and thousands of dollars volunteering in this building. You have no right to keep me out of here."
The exchange takes place just after Zaifman-Gustlis learned she would not be allowed into the community centre for an event featuring Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre on Thursday evening.
Eventually she agreed to sign a 24-hour no-trespass declaration.
She believed it only applied to the community centre building and was waiting outside, when she was told she would have to leave the property.
At that point, she sat down on the sidewalk and refused to move, "That is not what this forum is supposed to be about and I will not just leave."
