Asked if the Jewish community would benefit from the retention of Section 13, [CIJA CEO Shimon] Fogel stated: “What was intended as a shield against hate has become a sword. Certainly in its day, it was helpful in confronting the challenges related to the likes of [Holocaust denier] Ernst Zundel…
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British police arrest 179 EDL thugs after threats of violence towards Occupy LSX
EDL supporter engages in a typical spot of bother
Meir Weinstein must be so proud.
"It is fantastic if they are using their resources to try and stop people getting on to this site," said Bryn Phillips, a member of the Occupy LSX community. "If this has prevented violence then I am pleased."
The English Defence League had issued statements and made threats on Facebook to burn down
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: JDL-Canada Members Questioned In Alleged Bomb Plot
…against Palestine House. Meir Weinstein says the JDL is innocent; that its a setup. There. Now you don’t have to watch the youtube clip of his interview with Coren.
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Sorry Ezra. He’s Not Just a Man in a Suit
While Ezra Levant and Sun Media “protest too much”, the links between the Harper government, the English Defense League and the international patriot movement, which includes the Tea Party Express, continue to mount.In the following Sun TV segment, Lev…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ezra On The Jewish Defense League
Frankly, the JDL is pretty much one guy, Meir Weinstein…You don’t really have to read the rest.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Mystery of Michael Coren
I too am puzzled by Michael Coren’s latest blog post on the shootings in Norway. He doesn’t quite say that those kids on that island deserved what they got for their insufficient zealotry in support of Israel. He merely refers to a “tr…
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So, we might be a little late to the party here, but we thought we’d simply ask some EDL defenders their thoughts.
Mark and Connie Fournier, would you care to comment on this?
And Mr. Weinstein, perhaps a word from you on this bit of information?
Y…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Pro-Palestine Dykes March At Pride!
…and there’s councillor George Mammaliti who, as promised, has come to photograph the dykes in their anti-Israel perfidy. Don’t think his services are needed, with City TV around, but an A for effort.Apparently, Meir Weinstein and the JDL are s…
Continue readingAndy Lehrer: At long last, Farber forced to denounce JDL
After years of treating the Jewish Defence League as if they were a rogueish but loveable younger brother, Canadian Jewish Congress supremo Bernie Farber has finally said something about the JDL that’s stronger than “they’re not my cup of tea” or that he’s “disappointed” by them. A shame he and
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After years of treating the Jewish Defence League as if they were a rogueish but loveable younger brother, Canadian Jewish Congress supremo Bernie Farber has finally said something about the JDL that’s stronger than “they’re not my cup of tea” or that he’s “disappointed” by them. A shame he and
Continue readingCanadian Firebrand: At long last, Farber forced to denounce JDL
After years of treating the Jewish Defence League as if they were a rogueish but loveable younger brother, Canadian Jewish Congress supremo Bernie Farber has finally said something about the JDL that’s stronger than “they’re not my cup of tea” or that he’s “disappointed” by them. A shame he and
Continue readingAndy Lehrer: At long last, Farber forced to denounce JDL
After years of treating the Jewish Defence League as if they were a rogueish but loveable younger brother, Canadian Jewish Congress supremo Bernie Farber has finally said something about the JDL that’s stronger than “they’re not my cup of tea” or that he’s “disappointed” by them.
A shame he and other self-appointed leaders of the Canadian Jewish community have looked the other way or been quietly encouraging of them over the past few years as the JDL has organized and grown and been busy on campuses and even high schools recruiting youth.
The JDL is and always has been a hate group and a violent one at that and Farber et al’s insistence that the Canadian JDL is somehow different than its US counterpart has only given them cover and allowed them to work unopposed within the Jewish community. Had any other group said about Jews what the JDL has long said about Muslims the CJC would have been rightly outraged and insisted that the group in question be ostracised.
Instead, Farber has always quietly defended the JDL or, at worst, issued the mildest of rebuke. This is perhaps his greatest failure as a “liberal” who has been too opportunistic and too wary of being outflanked on the right to say anything. Indeed, he has been so reticent to be critical that JDL head Meir Weinstein actually thinks of Farber as a friend and speaks glowingly of him to others.
Now that the JDL’s extremism is undeniable will Farber finally do what he should have done years ago and work to ostracise the JDL within the Jewish community and try to deny them the space to organize? Somehow, I doubt it. There would be a political price to pay and Farber lacks the integrity needed to expend the political capital needed to root out the JDL. He’d much rather ostracise and marginalize Independent Jewish Voices for the crime of criticising Israel than to consistently oppose the JDL, an organization rooted in a variety of ultra-nationalism that can only be called fascism.
Still, good that he had this printed in the Toronto Sun, it’s a modest step. Let’s see if he issues a similar, or hopefully stronger, missive in the Canadian Jewish News. Will he actually meet with the principals of Jewish Day Schools and urge them to ban the JDL from their schools? Will he ask Jewish campus groups to refuse to work with the JDL? Will he ask the UJA to freeze them out? Or can we expect this summer, yet again, the sight of Meir Weinstein walking down the route of the annual Walk With Israel like a conquring hero or some fascist version of the King of Kensington kibbitzing and patting the back of every “community leader” he encounters, including Farber, as if Weinstein is a somebody, a Big Man on the Jewish Campus? Independent Jewish Voices and its predecessor, the Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians, have warned about the JDL and urged Farber and others to denounce them. While I’m sure we’re gratified that, however late in the day, Farber has finally seen the light let’s see if this epiphany will last. Farber’s started talking the talk. Will he and the “leadership” of the Jewish community now walk the walk?
Troubling marriage for T.O.’s Jews
The EDL is well-known throughout Europe for its anti-Muslim street protests
By Bernie Farber and Benjamin Shinewald, Guest Columnists
Continue readingAndy Lehrer: Meir Weinstein of JDL nailed by CBC Radio News World at Six
CBC Radio News has a report this evening on Meir Weinstein and the Jewish Defence League. Where other media outlets have failed to dig further into Weinstein’s past or that of the JDL the CBC managed to put Weinstein on the spot. Weinstein tries to wiggle away with some rather
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