Posted on 07/24/2006 11:20:38 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
The crisis in the Middle East poses a new challenge to multiculturalism. That new challenge is double loyalty, a loyalty to Canada and loyalty to the mother countries of Canadian immigrants, old and new.
Already the Lebanese community in Canada is protesting Prime Minister Stephen Harper's defence of Israel's "measured response." Harper's war in Afghanistan is intensely disliked by Canada's Muslim community.
But the group most open to the charge of double loyalty is the Canadian Jewish community, which does put Israel second only to Canada in its loyalty and affection.
Love of Israel is natural for the Canadian Jewish community. Israel is the only Jewish state, the only democratic state in the Mideast, and allowed Jews to survive the Holocaust and flourish.
In the present crisis, the Canadian Jewish community can't help identifying with the Israelis — they worry about Hezbollah and Hamas being the new Nazis out to get the Jewish people.
The Canadian Jewish community is certainly suspicious of the left in Canada and those in the liberal media that say Israel has overreacted in this crisis.
The Canadian Jewish community shares Harper's disdain for both the Canadian left and the Canadian liberal media, and it admires the prime minister's defence of Israel.
The problem is that every time there has been a crisis involving Israel, there has also been an increase in anti-Semitism in Canada. When former prime minister Joe Clark decided in 1979 to move Canada's Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, there was a flurry of letters to newspaper editors about "pushy Jews" and "Jewish double loyalty."
In the present crisis, anti-Israel letters to the editor and the liberal media's negative response to Israel have been sharper and more bitter than they were in 1979. Israel is now being criticized for killing civilians. Few in the liberal media note that Hezbollah is hiding behind civilians in Lebanon.
There will sooner or later be a backlash against the love for Israel shown by Canadian Jews. As in 1979, there will be talk of the community having double loyalties. Canadian Jews will be accused of being clannish and un-Canadian.
Already some in the liberal media overplay the plight of the Palestinians, while showing little sympathy for Israel under attack by Hezbollah and Hamas in cahoots with Syria and Iran.
All this is a bit ironic. No other ethnic group has embraced Canada with the fervour and steadfast loyalty of Canadian Jews. They voted Liberal because Pierre Trudeau made Jews the top judges and senior mandarins in Canada. Trudeau gave Canadian Jews their place in the sun.
But Trudeau himself as a young man had no loyalty to an embattled Britain during the Second World War and didn't give a fig about the rabid anti-Semitism of Quebec and Nazi Germany. The young Trudeau was loyal only to Quebec and wanted a Quebec state. He had no loyalty to Canada at all.
Double loyalty an issue in Canada
Quebec has always been a double loyalty province. We must not forget that accusations of double loyalty has been a tool of Canadian racism in Quebec and in Canada for years.
Double loyalty charges interned the Japanese-Canadian community in the Second World War. Not a single case of sedition by a Japanese-Canadian was ever recorded.
In Western Canada, Ukrainians were interned for their supposed loyalty to the Austrian emperor, Canada's enemy in the First World War.
In the 1930s, many German-Canadians and Italian-Canadians were interned for their loyalty to Fascist Germany and Fascist Italy.
Times of crisis make Canadians forget that Canada has a British monarch and is certainly pro-British and pro Anglo-Saxon. To accuse Anglo-Saxons in Canada of having double loyalties would seem a foolish exercise.
Double loyalty is at the very core of Canadian institutions. It is sometimes difficult to avoid the double loyalty pitfall.
But Harper defends a diverse Canada. Harper also defends Israel as being the victim of wide and sustained terrorism. The war in Afghanistan is part of that war, but Harper does not tolerate double loyalties on that subject.
Sad to say, but the double loyalty charges against the Jewish community have begun. Anti-Israel feelings and anti-Semitism are a potent mixed force.
The double loyalty charge against Canadian Jews is nothing but pure racism.
The prime minister already recognizes the dangers in all this and is aware that the charge of double loyalty is often a racist argument.
Harper has called for a diverse Canada, and knows that all immigrant Canadians, new and old, have an old country they like and admire.
The love of Canadian Jews for Israel is special, since the country is not a home country but the only Jewish state in the world.
Canadian Jews are good Canadians and double loyalty is not their game.
The cries of double loyalty and Israel's role in the present crisis are false cries made by false Canadian patriots trying to spread dissension in Canada, the peaceable kingdom.
French Canadians are another interesting example of Communists supporting a "national liberation movement" for white European chr*stians (giving the lie to the racialists who insist Communism is a racial conspiracy against European civilization). Quebec was historically very anti-Semitic and even pro-Nazi in WWII but nevertheless (like the Irish, Basques, Scots, Welsh, Bretons, Cornish, etc.) was blessed by the Left with a "national liberation movement." Ironically, despite its current Leftist orientation (the Parti Quebecois is a member of the Socialist International) our neo-Confederates are big fans of French Canadian nationalism (as they are of Celtic nationalism and bilingualism in the British Isles).
So when do poor Southern whites get a NLM? Maybe the Cajuns would be a good place to start!
I'd be interested in knowing what you mean by this .
I understand what you mean. It's just that it's easy for chr*stians (especially individualistic, born-again types) to forget that the Jews are a chosen nation with a G-d given Law (the Torah) and government.
I actually advocate a return to Jewry as a legal sovereign corporate Theocratic entity (Jews are a nation in exile, not a mere religious denomination). This would give the Orthodox Rabbinate its proper status as the civil authority over all Halakhic Jews (and put an end to the "official Jewish leadership" being made up of secularists). As to whether the sovereign Jewish community also enjoying citizenship in the host nation, that depends on if it is good or bad for the Torah. Certainly no one complains about various American Indian tribes being both "sovereign nations" and American citizens.
Oh come on! It's a matter of public record that participation in WWII was very unpopular in Quebec because of the province's traditional hostility to Britain (anti-Semitism was very rife in Quebec as well). Look it up in any history book on the subject.
There was absolutely nothing controversial in what I said.
I simply ask you a question . Expecting a simple answer. Nothing controversial was implied , other than I suspected you were painting with an extremely broad brush . I do disagree with your labeling French Canadians as "pro Nazi" because they chose not to support what they called an "English" war. If you take the time to read a history book you will find a strong Catholic protest , led by local priests , in Quebec against the war . Until the bodies of seamen started washing a shore along the Gulf of St Lawrence.
You also might want to find out about the French Canadian regiments, volunteers all , who fought and died at places like Dieppe , Ortona and Juno Beach. . Just like the English Canadian ones. And then there is the Jewish population of Montreal and Quebec City . Persecuted to the point that they're still there . Recognized as a citizens over 170 years ago.
Yeah , nothing controversial in what you said at all .
Which I do to avoid spelling out the name of a false "gxd." I also avoid spelling out the names of the days of the week, months, planets, etc. Sorry this offends you. Most people who do this write "X-tian." I don't use the "X" because I believe it is a valid abbreviation for the Nazarene that his followers should be able to use without feeling like they're betraying their religion.
and seeming rejection of any notion as to the validity of Celtic Scottish & Irish nation states,
I never denied the Irish or Scottish nation states. I pointed out that Irish and Scottish nationalism is leftwing and even has Communist affiliates, despite Ireland and Scotland being white, European, and chr*stian.
BTW, some people deny an English nation state. I trust you do not?
combined with the rest of your intolerant comments, leads me to believe you subscribe to views not unlike those of the Taliban.
Now you've got me! I plead guilty to that! I believe in the Jealous G-d of Israel, the G-d Who will not tolerate the worship of another, and Who has an absolute claim on the loyalty, belief, and obedience of every single human being regardless of his culture/race/heritage/nation/civilization. This is very much removed from out post-"eighteenth century" concept of religion, which holds religion to be a minor private concept with no claims to absolute objective truth and which holds that national citizenship trumps religious loyalties.
Haven't you ever heard of the Messiah? What do you think he's going to do--give people "freedom of religion?" Gad!
You know, it's funny. I grew up in the Bible Belt where the drinking of alcoholic beverages is considered inherently sinful and "left wing," yet the historical temperance movement did indeed begin as a leftwing "reform" movement along the lines of labor unions, women's suffrage, world peace, et al. Similarly the Jewish People to me represent One thing and One thing only--not democracy, not pluralism, not tolerance, not intellectualism, not urban professions, not philosophy, not science, but the Book of Joshua! Now ain't it funny how people can arrive at a common position (pro-Israel or pro-temperance) from such mutually exclusive points of reference?
Now, notwithstanding that I've made numerous posts supporting Israel's obvious right to self-determination/defense, I'll just wait to be labeled an anti-Semite in response to concluding as much.
Before I can call you that I'll have to know that you deny that G-d wrote the Torah.
So can us rednecks have a leftwing "national liberation movement" like the Quebecers/Irish/Scottish/Cornish/Breton/Basques/Lapps do? Is there some place a formal request can be filed?
Kudos to the PM for recognizing and articulating that the common enemy of both Israel and Canada is Islamic terrorism.
Now if only Mr. Harper could show his support further by sending even a small Canadian armed force or even civilians to help out the Americans and Brits in stabilizing Iraq.
Why would you ask me? Perhaps you should ask your God for the answer . In your case He will answer you verbally when you expect it .
Hmmm. Funny, but I don't recall saying that. I do recall pointing out that historic Communist/Leftist support for Celtic nationalism gives the lie to the "Communism is a Jewish plot against the white race" crowd. I also wish to point out that in the UK English nationalism is as politically incorrect as is "white nationalism" in the US.
Sure, the Torah was Divinely authored. However, we likely disagree on Him having continued in His directives to us afterward.
I didn't realize you were a mormon.
Because David Rockefeller is 90 years old now and doesn't hear that well.
I can just imagine some French Canadian anti-Semite complaining that the Canadian Jews have double loyalty!
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