Guess we didn't get that memo in K-W
Posted on 05/30/2005 5:40:18 AM PDT by fanfan
Note to readers: It is important to read right to the end of this column.
"Jewish activists capturing Tory races," screamed the front page headline in Friday's Globe and Mail newspaper.
The article that followed was just as breathless. These Jews represented a "political penetration" of the Tory party by people who take a "hard line." These Jews had "ties" to Jewish "groups." And this was not achieved through normal democracy, but by rabbis "persuading" their flocks to join the party.Out of 308 riding associations, the Globe only found eight in which Jews were candidates. But still they called it "a large number" and "an unfortunate turn" for the party, especially a party trying to shuck off accusations of a "hidden agenda."
The Globe found a Gentile politician who lost a nomination contest and served up just the right tone of worry.
"It begins to hijack the other agendas that parties have," said a candidate who lost to a Jew, a Jew who was "recommended" in his synagogue, a Jew with his own agenda, not the Tory agenda. He doesn't have anything against Jews. He is just worried that these Jews "probably can't get elected because they certainly don't represent any mainstream population view."
Other, less tolerant people are "extremely concerned," reported the Globe, but were unwilling to make their comments on the record, perhaps for fear of offending their Jewish friends. These critics "wished the party leaders had been more involved in the nominations." No one claims that the votes weren't fairly won by these Jews, so the "involvement" desired is clear: quotas limiting the number of Jewish candidates.
Canadian universities limited Jewish medical students until the 1950s, so why not limit Jewish candidates in 2005? Measured by their percentage of the population, Jews should make do with three seats, not eight. And those eight are just the Jews we know about -- MPs with names like Goldring or Strahl or Solberg could be Jews, too. Especially Monte Solberg.
One of the rabbis told the Globe he would "make no apologies" for his actions. Another "expresses no uneasiness." This was reported by the Globe because it is remarkable. Rarely have Jewish elders been so open about their protocols. The Globe explained why its readers should be uneasy -- one of the Jews was a past-president of a Jewish charity; another was the executive director of a Jewish anti-defamation organization for two years in the 1990s. Another one "has been" a leader at a community synagogue in Burnaby. These aren't just quiet Jews. They're the kind who talk too loud in restaurants and wear gaudy jewelry.
That front page article led to a column by a prominent Globe columnist who has, for several weeks, been running an inquisition into the religion of Tory candidates. On Friday, he apologized -- a week earlier he had said one Tory candidate bragged on his website that he was running a "Jewish law firm." The columnist admitted the website didn't say that. But since that candidate had mentioned elsewhere that "prayer [was] being practised by the partners," the point still stood -- fake but accurate, as Dan Rather might say. The columnist went on to expose other Jewish candidates who had hidden their real identities in their campaign brochures.
Oh, have I been writing "Jews?" I didn't mean to. The Globe would never write such things about Jews. No, the stories quoted above did run in the Globe -- except the word "Jew" here appeared as the word "Christian" in the Globe, "rabbi" was "pastor" and "synagogue" was "church." Look it up for yourself.
Shouldn't bigotry against Christians be just as unacceptable as bigotry against Jews?
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Ping me please.
Before I got to the bottom, I was thinking, "Hey in Canada, they treat the Jews like they treat Christians in American."
You've been added to the list. :-)
Yep- I've watched this brewing for some time:
| Early warning shots-- the War against Religion... |
Good work, backhoe.
Great article highlighting typical liberal hypocrisy.
Guess we didn't get that memo in K-W
Maybe ya'll don't read the gay and married, oops, the mop and pail, whoops, er, the Globe and Mail enough.
Yup, Lib's are the same everywhere.
What is the name of the "prominent columnist" referenced in this article?
My guess would be Gloria Galloway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1412022/posts
This article, along with David Warrens recent article on the "Zimbabwefication" of Canada certainly points to real trouble with democracy in the Commonwealth.
Is there any chance Canada will ever become a republic, with a transparent government, with checks and balances?
IMO, no.
Canada is hooped.
I can tell because the Queen spoke French on her recent visit to Regina.:0)
Everyone MUST boycott the Globe and Mail after that obscene article. On social issues, they are left of the Toronto Star now (although not on economic issues).
* IMHO, far and away the most actively dishonest paper in the nation!
How can that be? They are a house organ of the Ministry of Truth.
Citizen Jimmy - be careful that you don't get reported to a militant faction of the Canadian Values Coalition and re-educated in a Medicare camp, er - clinic.
Drink the Koolaid deeply and you'll learn to revere Tommy Douglas and Pierre Trudeau and a Oppressed Woman of Colour to be named later, just like all good Canadians.
What is KW?
Kitchener-Waterloo, twin cities about an hour west of Toronto.
An amazing article! I was really steaming at those antisemites! Then, the last sentences! But we already knew this....Catholics say the liberal/lefties are anti-Catholic; evangelicals get miffed at the liberal/left's sneering at us.
The truth is, what the liberal/lefties hate is that the Bible is the revealed Word of God and that Jews and Christians look to the Bible for knowing what is right and wrong; that God's laws are righteous, that they are the standard by which humanity has to measure our morals and ethics.
The liberal/lefties like making up their own personal standard, doing whatever feels good or right to them, much easier and more fun, they think.
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