Carney’s Speech On Anti-Semitism – Nothing Changes |
Friends, like many of you I was anticipating Canadian PM Mark Carney’s speech on anti-semitism today with anger and anxiety and some residual hope for improvement. He did not mention Israel once! Wonder why?
Carney defended the right of any Canadian anywhere to criticize any country on any subject. Which means we are probably in for much more Israel-bashing. If the comments in the public gallery of the National Post are any guide (and this is a pro-Israel newspaper read by many Jewish Canadians), Zionists and Jewish Canadians are in big trouble. I almost wish our chattering classes and media would stop talking about anti-semitism. They usually make it worse and invite harassment and copy cat attacks.
Canadians (including the talking heads and ‘explainers’ at the CBC) seem to be okay with condemning anti-semitism, but not anti-Israel sentiment and murderous anti-Zionist and pro-terrorist statements and hate crimes rationalized by opposition to Israel’s military actions and policies, or its very existence. It’s hard to tell sometimes. They don’t even call Islamist terrorists threatening Canada and western democracies by name. They are ‘militants’. Or misunderstood victims of Islamophobia. Or something. God help us.
In any case our human rights law protects freedom of conscience and speech and protects equality rights on grounds of ethnicity, creed, conscience, and national origin. That includes Israeli Canadians, Jewish Canadians, and Zionists. Make a note. Before we sue for reparations. I mean it.
For those who missed PM Carney’s speech, here it is in its entirety.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-canada-failing-jewish-canadians-9.7219707
To give Carney credit, it was a well written and smoothly presented speech. This is a man who is good at giving international........