Well said. What’s frightening is how widespread anti semitism is becoming in our post secondary institutions and indoctrinating our young people. Thanks for publishing this piece.
Jews have every right to be vigilant given the hatred that has been focused on them as a people since the time of Christ.
The Holocaust is a recent and constant reminder to them that those who scapegoat them are capable of.
Were I a Jew, I too would be concerned that Marouf had so easily gained access to endorsement and support from the Liberal government in spite of history of antisemitic activism.
As a non-Jew, I am concerned about the systemic malfunction of the Trudeau government - a government that is constantly accusing Canadians of being systemically racist, genocidal, Islamophobic, etc yet admits a bigot to its own ranks so casually.
Marouf’s access to public funding was the result of wilful neglect and incredible negligence - hallmarks of the current virtue pedlars in Ottawa.
Absolutely true. This is a direct consequence of the Oppressor/Oppressed critical theories embraced by illiberal Woke "progressives", here and abroad. In this narrative, it is impossible for the oppressed to be racist towards the oppressor, against whom they are simply defending themselves. Whites are the font of racist oppression, and Jews are cast as either White or White-adjacent, and therefore it's respectably open season on both.
In the States, a version of this narrative has been going on at least since Eldridge Cleaver and the Panthers in the 1960/70s, through Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, and spreading through his adherents such as the founders of the Women's March to entertainers like Dave Chappelle. (It's echoed, too, in Eddy Murphy's old SNL send up of Mr. Rogers Neighbourhood: "Kill de landlord! Kill de landlord.) And, of course, we've seen how antisemitism was embedded in the intersectionalism that flooded through the Labour Party in the UK under Corbyn.
Here, more recently, we've seen the adoption of White Settler rhetoric by anti-Israel voices who talk about Zionist Settlers. Within the last year, Toronto has had protest marches that featured the genocidal chant: "From the river to the sea", and marches that deliberately went through predominantly Jewish neighbourhoods: Protestors argued that if Palestinians couldn't relax in their homes in the West Bank and Gaza, then Jews shouldn't be able to relax in their homes here. The conflation of Israeli policy with Jews as a whole couldn't have been clearer, yet politicians and the media were very much, "Move along, nothing to see here" -- just as they've been largely silent about antisemitic positions taken by student governments and others at universities such as York.
This problem can't begin to be addressed as long as our government continues to buy into the Oppressor/Oppressed narratives of critical theory. But since the government continues to use DARVO tactics against all criticism, there is no reason to assume the situation will end any time soon.
Anti-racist narrative is always selective, only when the it serves certain purpose. Canadian politicians are either unbelievable naïve, or unbelievable stupid, or what else could it be?
Slow response by Trudeau et. al to Marouf affair (credit to them that they did eventually cut the funding). When it's politically expedient, Trudeau is quick to denounce and is on a knee at the BLM protests.
And no tweets from Gerald Butts decrying Marouf, anti-semitism and the government's sloppy oversight on this matter. But I suppose all this is understandable from his POV as we have to accept different perspectives. But lots of time to fawn over/tweet about Serena Williams.
I am supprised at the anti Semitism that is still out there. The fact that the radical left is spouting this evil does not surprise me. All their language is based on evil stereotypes that don't exist.
More Jews around the world need to stand up against the apartheid government of Israel. It's against the Jewish faith to be treating another group of people the way that Israel treats the Palestinians, and they're doing it in your name, as an explicitly Jewish government. Articles like this one from The Line do a great job of excusing Jews from taking action with complicated arguments that obfuscate the entire issue.
Here she is in 2018 giving a community award to the public relations chief of Palestine House, an antisemitic organization ("Israel and Hitler are the same"), and then having to apologize.
I believe you can be strongly against the government of Israel without being anti-Semitic. Incompetence by this government is almost an expected occurrence now, and that they would give a contract to someone with this history is a complete failure of the vetting process. That we still have this level of hatred over how people choose to pray...or why, is just another example of how Darwin may have been wrong.
It seems to me that the methodology of the creation of Israel is one more example of the post-war failures of map redrawing that have created violence and civil wars throughout the region ever since. But it is what is is now.....an apparently irreparable disaster area that will remain so until some form of compromise that isn't at the barrel of a gun can be worked out. I don't anticipate that happening in my lifetime. The hatred and toxicity runs too deep.
Gee! An known pro Palestinian from the most overtly antisemitic province in Canada, being vetted by a politicized red-coated force preoccupied with finding new ways to help their political masters vet and disarm law abiding Canadians, slips through the cracks. Who knew?
Glad to see some discussion on this topic here. Sometimes it seems few discuss the ongoing "conflict" in Middle East except those obsessed with it.
Let me stipulate that Anti-Semitism is a very bad thing, and must be exposed and confronted at all times. The two thousand year history of European Anti-Semitism is a stain on Western civilization which will likely never be cleansed.
From another perspective, however, it always seems to be discussions of "Anti-Semitism" or "Hamas" which get the notice. Meanwhile, the ongoing dispossession, impoverishment, and murder of Palestinian civilians goes on apace, as if this were a normal state of affairs.
Often, the statements of Palestinians are the trigger for comment , as is the case here. I have no doubt there is a vast store of ANGER built up in that demographic, caused directly by over a hundred years of a project which has successfully attempted to insinuate itself into an area already populated by people with a thriving, vibrant civilization, present for centuries in the region. Undoubtedly, and understandably, one could readily find similarly angry people among those whose family members were persecuted and murdered by Hitler's thughs.
The intruders, initially from Europe, and practicing a fully developed European civilization, have, like Europeans intruding in other regions of the world over the past 500 years, considered themselves better qualified than the indigenous inhabitants to control those areas they have entered, and to enforce measures exclusively for the benefit of the intruders.
The outcome for the indigenous peoples, as we all know, has been disastrous, at the cost of millions of lives, and the utter destruction of hundreds of cultures, traditions and languages.
In the case of Palestine, the intruders have seized control of the homes, land, and portable property of the Palestinian people, through a well-co-ordinated program of lobbying, legal measures, threats, intimidation and murder, in this case actively assisted by the governments of two world powers, the UK initially and subsequently by the USA. It is worth noting that both of these powers were rife with Anti-Semitism, and had no wish to house the people fleeing Nazi murder after WW2, or, prior to that, those fleeing pogroms and other violence in decades before WW2.
Anyone wishing to understand why this "conflict" is so intractable should read two texts: Isareli historian Ilan Pappe's "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" and Orthodox Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro's " The Empty Wagon."
Anti-Semitism is the label that is applied by many Zionists to those who criticize Israel. Indeed, response to such criticism, rather than presenting countering arguments, goes right to the "nuclear option" and attempts to discredit critics by branding them as Anti-Semites. On occasion, the response attempts to destroy the lives of the critics by getting them fired from their jobs, or immersing them in SLAP litigation. The use of such tactics, if one thinks about it, simply demonstrates the absence of valid arguments in support of the Zionist position.
From these texts, one hears that much of what we have been told is self-serving myth. The Shapiro book details the process whereby a European right-wing Ethnic Nationalist movement, nurtured in the same 19th century philosophic swamp as Nazi right-wing Ethnic Nationalism, managed to hijack the identity of a peaceful, idealistic people and replace it with its diametric opposite. Herzl despised the religious Jew of Eastern Europe, describing him in terms indistinguishable from those used decades later by Hitler.
So let's talk about creating an environment where everyone living in the region controlled by Israel can live a full and productive life. Let's see an end to the Army-escorted Settler raids on their Palestinian neighbours. Let's see an end to attempts to push Palestinians from their farms and homes. Let's see an end to targeted assassinations of Palestinian leaders, and the application of high-tech military violence in populated areas.
The present course of Israeli politics, moving farther and farther to the right, and absolute refusal to recognize the Human Rights of the Palestinians they have dispossessed and impoverished, is not a course that will be good for anyone in the region.
What was really shocking about this story is that everyone originally working to draw public attention to it, from Mark Goldberg, to Kaye and on through to Geist, is Jewish. Not a peep from Gentile media. And weeks before anyone in the PPG asked the PM about it. Not an effing peep. Something really wrong about that.
How about an article from The Line on how Israel has helped fuel anti-semitism around the world though its invasion and decades-long apartheid rule over Palestinians?
If we care about anti-semitism we should look at all the causes, and when a country takes over another country, it tends to fuel negative opinion about an invader's culture and religion as well, and especially so with Israel, the least secular government I know of.
Well said. What’s frightening is how widespread anti semitism is becoming in our post secondary institutions and indoctrinating our young people. Thanks for publishing this piece.
Jews have every right to be vigilant given the hatred that has been focused on them as a people since the time of Christ.
The Holocaust is a recent and constant reminder to them that those who scapegoat them are capable of.
Were I a Jew, I too would be concerned that Marouf had so easily gained access to endorsement and support from the Liberal government in spite of history of antisemitic activism.
As a non-Jew, I am concerned about the systemic malfunction of the Trudeau government - a government that is constantly accusing Canadians of being systemically racist, genocidal, Islamophobic, etc yet admits a bigot to its own ranks so casually.
Marouf’s access to public funding was the result of wilful neglect and incredible negligence - hallmarks of the current virtue pedlars in Ottawa.
Absolutely true. This is a direct consequence of the Oppressor/Oppressed critical theories embraced by illiberal Woke "progressives", here and abroad. In this narrative, it is impossible for the oppressed to be racist towards the oppressor, against whom they are simply defending themselves. Whites are the font of racist oppression, and Jews are cast as either White or White-adjacent, and therefore it's respectably open season on both.
In the States, a version of this narrative has been going on at least since Eldridge Cleaver and the Panthers in the 1960/70s, through Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, and spreading through his adherents such as the founders of the Women's March to entertainers like Dave Chappelle. (It's echoed, too, in Eddy Murphy's old SNL send up of Mr. Rogers Neighbourhood: "Kill de landlord! Kill de landlord.) And, of course, we've seen how antisemitism was embedded in the intersectionalism that flooded through the Labour Party in the UK under Corbyn.
Here, more recently, we've seen the adoption of White Settler rhetoric by anti-Israel voices who talk about Zionist Settlers. Within the last year, Toronto has had protest marches that featured the genocidal chant: "From the river to the sea", and marches that deliberately went through predominantly Jewish neighbourhoods: Protestors argued that if Palestinians couldn't relax in their homes in the West Bank and Gaza, then Jews shouldn't be able to relax in their homes here. The conflation of Israeli policy with Jews as a whole couldn't have been clearer, yet politicians and the media were very much, "Move along, nothing to see here" -- just as they've been largely silent about antisemitic positions taken by student governments and others at universities such as York.
This problem can't begin to be addressed as long as our government continues to buy into the Oppressor/Oppressed narratives of critical theory. But since the government continues to use DARVO tactics against all criticism, there is no reason to assume the situation will end any time soon.
Anti-racist narrative is always selective, only when the it serves certain purpose. Canadian politicians are either unbelievable naïve, or unbelievable stupid, or what else could it be?
Are we surprised.
Slow response by Trudeau et. al to Marouf affair (credit to them that they did eventually cut the funding). When it's politically expedient, Trudeau is quick to denounce and is on a knee at the BLM protests.
And no tweets from Gerald Butts decrying Marouf, anti-semitism and the government's sloppy oversight on this matter. But I suppose all this is understandable from his POV as we have to accept different perspectives. But lots of time to fawn over/tweet about Serena Williams.
I am supprised at the anti Semitism that is still out there. The fact that the radical left is spouting this evil does not surprise me. All their language is based on evil stereotypes that don't exist.
More Jews around the world need to stand up against the apartheid government of Israel. It's against the Jewish faith to be treating another group of people the way that Israel treats the Palestinians, and they're doing it in your name, as an explicitly Jewish government. Articles like this one from The Line do a great job of excusing Jews from taking action with complicated arguments that obfuscate the entire issue.
Iqra Khalid, eh?
Here she is in 2018 giving a community award to the public relations chief of Palestine House, an antisemitic organization ("Israel and Hitler are the same"), and then having to apologize.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/iqra-khalid-anti-semitism-1.4787956
But a year later, MP Khalid was still posing with the gentleman in his house, for photographs
https://www.bnaibrith.ca/khalid_reappears_with_radical_despite_past_apology/
I believe you can be strongly against the government of Israel without being anti-Semitic. Incompetence by this government is almost an expected occurrence now, and that they would give a contract to someone with this history is a complete failure of the vetting process. That we still have this level of hatred over how people choose to pray...or why, is just another example of how Darwin may have been wrong.
It seems to me that the methodology of the creation of Israel is one more example of the post-war failures of map redrawing that have created violence and civil wars throughout the region ever since. But it is what is is now.....an apparently irreparable disaster area that will remain so until some form of compromise that isn't at the barrel of a gun can be worked out. I don't anticipate that happening in my lifetime. The hatred and toxicity runs too deep.
Gee! An known pro Palestinian from the most overtly antisemitic province in Canada, being vetted by a politicized red-coated force preoccupied with finding new ways to help their political masters vet and disarm law abiding Canadians, slips through the cracks. Who knew?
Surprised, I am not... these types of bigoted behaviors and people seem to get away with it time and again, without consequence.
Glad to see some discussion on this topic here. Sometimes it seems few discuss the ongoing "conflict" in Middle East except those obsessed with it.
Let me stipulate that Anti-Semitism is a very bad thing, and must be exposed and confronted at all times. The two thousand year history of European Anti-Semitism is a stain on Western civilization which will likely never be cleansed.
From another perspective, however, it always seems to be discussions of "Anti-Semitism" or "Hamas" which get the notice. Meanwhile, the ongoing dispossession, impoverishment, and murder of Palestinian civilians goes on apace, as if this were a normal state of affairs.
Often, the statements of Palestinians are the trigger for comment , as is the case here. I have no doubt there is a vast store of ANGER built up in that demographic, caused directly by over a hundred years of a project which has successfully attempted to insinuate itself into an area already populated by people with a thriving, vibrant civilization, present for centuries in the region. Undoubtedly, and understandably, one could readily find similarly angry people among those whose family members were persecuted and murdered by Hitler's thughs.
The intruders, initially from Europe, and practicing a fully developed European civilization, have, like Europeans intruding in other regions of the world over the past 500 years, considered themselves better qualified than the indigenous inhabitants to control those areas they have entered, and to enforce measures exclusively for the benefit of the intruders.
The outcome for the indigenous peoples, as we all know, has been disastrous, at the cost of millions of lives, and the utter destruction of hundreds of cultures, traditions and languages.
In the case of Palestine, the intruders have seized control of the homes, land, and portable property of the Palestinian people, through a well-co-ordinated program of lobbying, legal measures, threats, intimidation and murder, in this case actively assisted by the governments of two world powers, the UK initially and subsequently by the USA. It is worth noting that both of these powers were rife with Anti-Semitism, and had no wish to house the people fleeing Nazi murder after WW2, or, prior to that, those fleeing pogroms and other violence in decades before WW2.
Anyone wishing to understand why this "conflict" is so intractable should read two texts: Isareli historian Ilan Pappe's "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" and Orthodox Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro's " The Empty Wagon."
Anti-Semitism is the label that is applied by many Zionists to those who criticize Israel. Indeed, response to such criticism, rather than presenting countering arguments, goes right to the "nuclear option" and attempts to discredit critics by branding them as Anti-Semites. On occasion, the response attempts to destroy the lives of the critics by getting them fired from their jobs, or immersing them in SLAP litigation. The use of such tactics, if one thinks about it, simply demonstrates the absence of valid arguments in support of the Zionist position.
From these texts, one hears that much of what we have been told is self-serving myth. The Shapiro book details the process whereby a European right-wing Ethnic Nationalist movement, nurtured in the same 19th century philosophic swamp as Nazi right-wing Ethnic Nationalism, managed to hijack the identity of a peaceful, idealistic people and replace it with its diametric opposite. Herzl despised the religious Jew of Eastern Europe, describing him in terms indistinguishable from those used decades later by Hitler.
So let's talk about creating an environment where everyone living in the region controlled by Israel can live a full and productive life. Let's see an end to the Army-escorted Settler raids on their Palestinian neighbours. Let's see an end to attempts to push Palestinians from their farms and homes. Let's see an end to targeted assassinations of Palestinian leaders, and the application of high-tech military violence in populated areas.
The present course of Israeli politics, moving farther and farther to the right, and absolute refusal to recognize the Human Rights of the Palestinians they have dispossessed and impoverished, is not a course that will be good for anyone in the region.
What was really shocking about this story is that everyone originally working to draw public attention to it, from Mark Goldberg, to Kaye and on through to Geist, is Jewish. Not a peep from Gentile media. And weeks before anyone in the PPG asked the PM about it. Not an effing peep. Something really wrong about that.
The writer seems to make the mistake of equating anti-zionism and anti-israel with anti-Semitism a few times, including in some of his examples.
Weekend his argument a bit, but the core of it is true. That people making anti-Semitic comments need to be called out, no matter the political view.
How about an article from The Line on how Israel has helped fuel anti-semitism around the world though its invasion and decades-long apartheid rule over Palestinians?
If we care about anti-semitism we should look at all the causes, and when a country takes over another country, it tends to fuel negative opinion about an invader's culture and religion as well, and especially so with Israel, the least secular government I know of.
Is zionism a race?