- Dear Radical Reader,
-
- First, I want to thank Four Horses for putting together
this excellent analysis of how B'nai Brith Canada has, via their persistent
lobbying over the years, orchestrated the implementation of influential
legislation now contained in the Canadian Human Rights Act that is having
a devasting effect upon Canadians in terms of freedom of speech and Internet
censorship. Were I to have written this piece I might have called it "B'nai
Brith Canada In Context: Lobbying for a Self-Chosen Minority".
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- What the writer has done here is weave much of the seemingly
discordant B'nai Brith threads into a recognizable and coherent tapestry,
one that I hope readers will recognize for what it is a concerted
, conspiring effort on the part of the Jewish Lobby here in Canada to create
Bolshevik style legislation which restricts and silences all criticism
of both the political ideology of Zionism and the racist, apartheid practices
of the state of Israel.
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- As a tapestry it doesn't present a pretty picture in
terms of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms and our fundamental freedom
of self-expression. Canada's democratic foundation is being undermined
by the likes of Harry Abrams and the League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith
Canada. I've known this for a number of years and that is why I am challenging
their motives and their position in this respect. Too many Canadians are
still asleep at the wheel on this issue. They need to wake up before our
rights and freedoms leave the highway and crash and burn.
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- You can help. Please pass this on.
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-
- Shine your Light for Love & Peace & Justice for
All,
-
- Arthur Topham
- Pub/Ed
- The Radical Press
- Canada's Radical News Network
- <mailto:radical@radicalpress.com>radical@radicalpress.com
- http://www.radicalpress.com
- "Digging to the root of the issues since 1998"
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- CHRC: Something isn't kosher here
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- By Four Horses
- November 27, 2008
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- In another bizarre twist in the CHRC-Free Speech saga,
blogger No-Libs takes Harry Abrams to task.
- http://www.no-libs.com/index.php/MyBlog/Thought-Police/Harry-Abrams-Fascist.html
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- Abrams is the B.C. regional director for B'nai Brith
and has received notoriety for his successful anti-hate campaign against
Doug Collins. Free Dominion blogger, Maikeru compiled the following summary,
in his
- post called the Collins Case.
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- In July 1998 the League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith
Canada was granted intervener status in the case brought against Doug Collins
by Victoria businessman, Harry Abrams. Mr. Abrams took both the North
- Shore News and Doug Collins to a Human Rights Tribunal
because of four columns written between January and April 1994. Marvin
Kurz, National Legal Counsel and National Co-Chair for the League for Human
Rights,
- served as the League's Counsel during the Human Rights
Tribunal in July 1998.
-
- This was the second of two human rights complaints lodged
against the North Shore News and Doug Collins. The first complaint was
brought by the Canadian Jewish Congress, but involved a single article
criticizing
- the Academy Award-winning film, Schindler's List.
-
- The Tribunal in the Canadian Jewish Congress case upheld
the constitutionality of the law under which the charges had been brought.
However, even though the Tribunal determined the article was "...obviously
antisemitic..." and "presents Jews in a negative light, as powerful
propagandists and profiteers, and depicts, in grossly inaccurate terms,
the extent and victimization in the Holocaust...", the Tribunal concluded
the column was not antisemitic enough to be considered "hateful"
and warranting action under the B.C. Human Rights Code. The Tribunal also
stated the case "does not carry the same weight as it would in the
case where several publications are the subject of a complaint...."
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- The second Collins case involved multiple articles on
denial of the Holocaust and Jewish conspiracies. Abrams' complaint offered
that these articles show a systematic antisemitic pattern in Collins' writings,
which had a cumulative effect of promoting hatred and contempt towards
Jews. Abrams sought $5000 in damages from both Collins and the North Shore
News for the League for Human Rights' legal fund, $2000 for his lost time
and expenses, a full apology, and an order that the North.... On February
3, 1999 the B.C. Human Rights Commission ruled against Doug Collins and
the North Shore News. The Commission stated that four of Collins' articles
put together are likely to expose groups to hatred and contempt. Mr. Collins
and the North Shore News were ordered to pay $2000 to Harry Abrams, not
to publish similar articles, and the North Shore News was ordered to print
an unedited summary of the decision.
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- source:
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- Anti-Zionist Complaints
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- Abrams and B'nai Brith also lodged a complaint with the
CHRC against the Canada-based Peace Earth and Justice News website. The
complaint was based on 18 articles from 2006 on the PEJ News which dealt
with their editorial which contained anti-Israel government policy commentary.
Although the editors, Ingmar Lee and Chris Cook, publicly stood by their
positions, they removed the articles from the website in order to avoid
defending the complaint lodged against them.
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- Abrams is also noted for his 1999 stance against Canadians
who opposed the boatloads of Chinese illegal immigrants into the country
via British Columbia. This was a hot political topic during its time and
one survey
- indicated that 90% of Canadians opposed this form of
illegal immigration. In this issue, Abrams said Quote:
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- "...the issue of the boatloads of illegals is being
used to piggyback a broader xenophobic campaign by Mr. Fromm and others."
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- source:
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- Abrams and B'nai Brith have more recently lodged a complaint
with the CHRC against the website RadicalPress.com. The complainants are
contending that the author, Arthur Topham and his website
- http://www.radicalpress.com are promoting "ongoing
hatred affecting persons identifiable as Jews and/or as citizens of Israel".
Their allegations are based upon the many articles which published that
are critical of political Zionism and the Israeli state.
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- Anti-Israel talk is taboo
-
-
- David Matas, in a B'nai Brith article, quotes Dr. Karen
Mock from A Report on the NGO Forum against Racism, August 28 to September
1, 2001 and the World Conference Against Racism, August 31st to September
8th,
- 2001, Durban, South Africa. Quote:
-
- "So, it is anti-Zionism, rather than Zionism, that
is a form of racism, a discriminatory denial to the Jewish people of a
generally recognized right, the right to self determination.
-
- The two most prevalent contemporary forms of antisemitism
are Holocaust denial and anti-Zionism. Each is the attempt to kill the
victims of the Holocaust a second time, Holocaust denial by obliterating
their memory,
- anti-Zionism by obliterating their legacy.
-
- Of the two, anti-Zionism is the more dangerous, because
it is the more common. Holocaust denial is the preserve of the extreme
right, the lunatic fringe. Anti-Zionism has become widely accepted in large
parts of the world. Eliminationist anti-Zionism is as much a part of the
Palestinian culture today as eliminationist antisemitism was part of the
culture of Nazi Germany before World War II. Israel has become the Jew
amongst nations, condemned for sins it has not committed and targeted for
destruction.
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- It is, of course, legitimate to criticise specific Israeli
practices and policies in the context of a global survey, country by country,
of such practices and policies. The Jewish community does not take the
position that criticism of policies and practices of Israel are beyond
bounds. There are many legitimate criticisms that can be made and are being
made every day of Israeli government policies and practices.
-
- However, when Israel, virtually alone, is the target
of such criticism, the targeting becomes political rather than principled.
Selective criticism directed to Israel, when far worse offender countries
are ignored, is a form of discrimination against both Israel and the Jewish
people."
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- source
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- This is an interesting set of points raised by Matas
via Mock's submission.
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- The Guille Case Reference
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- In the Warman v Guiile CHRC complaint, Melissa Guille
was the webmaster for the Canadian Heritage Alliance, a political group
based in London, Ontario. One of the claims in the complaint against her
was that her
- website contained messages that would expose Muslims,
amongst others, to contempt, in violation of section 13. We can read in
the ruling that Guille was guilty of having strong beliefs in Canada. The
Tribunal made
- sure that Guille's nationalism was read into the record
a warning to any other Canadian nationalist out there.
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- Quote:
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- "Ms. Guille, the evidence shows, has strong views
about her European heritage and is prepared to fight for its preservation.
Ms. Guille testified that when she refers to the notion of culture, she
refers to the European culture and when referring to the European culture,
she is referring to her family heritage. For her, those who fall under
the umbrella of European heritage are people from different parts of Europe
and include people who have grown up in Europe or whose ancestors are from
Europe.
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- [54] Ms. Guille indicated in her testimony that for her,
the European culture is different from the muslim faith, that, for her,
Europe is a geographic region built up of different races such as Italians.
Asked if in her definition of the European culture, she included people
from Africa, Ms. Guille stated that it did not include Carribean immigrants
to England and added that the latter did not consider themselves as Europeans
because they wanted to hold on to their own cultural heritage."
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- The Threat of Political Islam
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- In its brief to Dr. Richard Moon, for the CHRC commissioned
report, B'nai Brith warned that human rights commissions are unprepared
and ill-equipped to deal with ideological complaints driven by political
Islam.
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- We also have the voice of Frank Dimant of B'nai Brith.
On Dimant's blog, "Frankly Speaking", a press release from August
29, 2008 is rather revealing. The title of Dimant's press release post
is "Canadian institutions vulnerable to threat of political Islam".
The post goes on to inform the public that B'nai Brith has warned the CHRC
of the threat of political Islam. Dimant is rather interesting here:
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- In the brief, the Jewish human rights organization raises
as a matter of priority its concerns that human rights commissions are
unprepared and ill-equipped to deal with ideological complaints driven
by political Islam.
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- Quote:
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- "We have arrived at an important crossroads in the
functioning of human rights commissions and their mandate to combat hatred,"
said Frank Dimant, Executive Vice President of B'nai Brith Canada. "B'nai
Brith Canada is uniquely placed to offer insights into the strengths and
failures of the commission system, as an organization that is both the
target of a complaint in Manitoba and as a human rights organization that
has consistently valued human rights commissions for their important historical
role in fighting hatred.
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- It is high time that the human rights community, at home
and abroad, recognize the dangers posed by political Islam."
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- B'nai Brith faces human rights complaints
-
-
- B'nai Brith was the subject of a complaint by Shahina
Siddiqui, executive director of the Islamic Social Service Association
of the United States and Canada, following an October 2003 conference in
Winnipeg hosted by B'nai Brith for first responders to terrorist attacks.
The complaint, filed with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission (MHRC),
alleged comments made at the meeting were biased against Muslims.
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- Bnai Brith also faces a second human rights complaint,
lodged by an anonymous complainant, regarding alleged vile and hateful
material posted on their website, used to generate donations to fight hate.
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-
- Accomplishments
-
-
- Blazing Cat Fur blogger posted comments from Ed Morgan,
the outgoing CJC president and Bernie Farber, the CEO proudly listed their
top accomplishments:
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- Quote:
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- "Trying to make criticism of Israel or Zionism illegal
as a hate crime
- http://www.necef.org/index_files/page0021.htm "
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- CHRC on the anti-zionism issue
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- In File # 20071016, the case against the Radical Press,
the investigator for the CHRC is Sandy Kozak. This is the same individual
who investigated the Steyn/Macleans complaint and the same individual whose
name was raised in the Marc Lemire constitutional challenge and the same
investigator in the Steyn/Macleans case. The CHRC investigator's report
can be found here:
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- Report from CHRC Investigations Division Re: Abrams/B'nai
Brith Complaint against RadicalPress.com
- http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=821
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- Quote:
-
- "The issue in this complaint is whether the respondent
communicated or caused to be communicated, by way of the internet, material
that is likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt on the
basis
- of religion and national or ethnic origin."
-
- What is interesting to note is the qualifier reported
by the investigator:
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- Quote:
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- "A review of the website shows that, although some
other information is present, the website focuses on the subject of "Zionism".
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- The respondent defends that his publications and writings
are not anti-Semitic, but commentary on Zionism, which he claims is a political
movement. This raises a lot of issues as does the nature of the complaint.
Is discussion (or criticism in this case) of Zionism considered hate speech?
The investigator has differentiated anti-Semitism from anti-Zionism. Abrams
and B'nai Brith, the complainants, maintain that this is offensive to Jews
and to citizens of Israel. Abrams also maintains that B'nai Brith is the
voice of Jews in Canada.
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- In her investigative report, Kozak incorporates the "Hallmarks
of Hate" in paragraph 18 of her analysis. The envelope is pushed forward
here. Kozak incorporates the "Hallmarks of Hate".
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- Quote:
-
- "the Tribunal identified a number of "hallmarks"
of material that is likely to expose persons to hatred or contempt, based
on the emerging body of section 13 jurisprudence."
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- Kozak's statement below, is rather revealing:
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- Quote:
-
- "the material appears to meet the criteria for hatred
and contempt as outlined in the case law and therefore appears to be likely
to expose Jewish persons to hatred and contempt."
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- It is interesting to note that these Hallmarks of Hate
were provided via the CHRC's expert witness, Dr. Karen Mock, and incorporated
into the CHRC's "Emerging Jurisprudence". It is also interesting
to note that Dr. Mock was formerly an executive with B'nai Brith.
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- The CHRC claims this article by WWII war hero Doug Collins
"exposes Jews to hatred or contempt".
-
- This article was written by the late Doug Collins in
2001. Doug Collins is a WWII war hero and a life long defender of freedom
of speech.
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- Quote:
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- FREEDOM IS AS FREEDOM DOESN'T
-
-
- By Doug Collins
- April 4, 2001
-
- The sinister attacks now taking place on freedom of speech
in the Western world are applauded rather than condemned, thanks mainly
to the media and lickspittle politicians. At the same time, everyone pays
lip service to freedom. It is what Disraeli called "organized hypocrisy".
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- There are two subjects that figure large on the "verboten"
list: race and the holocaust. You are free to be "anti-racist",
of course, and you are free to back the official version of the holocaust.
But if you believe that immigration can destroy your country, or that Jewish
deaths numbered anything less than the six million, take cover.
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- Canada ranks high in the kingdom of such political correctness.
Books frowned on by pressure groups like the Canadian Jewish Congress and
B'nai Brith are banned; Ernst Zundel and his lawyer are denied access to
- the Parliament buildings in Ottawa (by unanimous consent
of our MPs!); and dissidents can be hauled before kangaroo courts called
human rights tribunals for having "hurt the feelings" of Jews
and immigrants.
-
- Hate laws are anti-free-speech laws. Which is why they
figure in our Criminal Code. And we now never see them criticized in the
mainstream media, owing partly to increasing Jewish control. But they also
reflect the spirit of the times.
-
- For a fascinating account of what is going on world-wide,
read "Return to the Dark Ages," an article in the March issue
of American Renaissance magazine (AR). In Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland,
Poland, Austria
- and Lithuania the Jewish Holocaust has become the one
historical event on which people can be compelled to agree. Prison, exile
or massive fines face those who disagree.
-
- "Today in Europe," it states, "there are
laws as bad as anything George Orwell could have imagined." Facts
are irrelevant, and certain things may not be said whether they are true
or false....It is a tyranny of the left practised by the very people who
professed shock at the tactics of Joe McCarthy.
-
- Hundreds of people have fallen foul of that tyranny but,
contrary to what happened when McCarthy was on the loose, their fate does
not much interest our liberal watchdogs. On the contrary, such victims
are usually denounced as Nazis, neo-Nazis, Fascists, "white supremacists",
and so on.
-
- A prime example is that of Germar Rudolf, a young German
with a doctorate in chemistry who tested the "gas chambers" at
Birkenau and concluded that they could not have been used for mass executions.
He was
- dismissed from the prestigious Max Planck Institute and
sentenced to 14 months in prison. He fled to England, where Jewish groups
have sought his extradition to Germany, and is now seeking political asylum
in the
- U.S. I recall that news items in the Conrad Black-owned
Telegraph newspapers in London denounced him as a Nazi in hiding. With
no shred of evidence.
-
- Switzerland has become no better than Germany. It embraced
"holocaust denial" censorship in 1995 and is now sending offenders
to jail or forcing them into exile. According to AR, there have been 200
trials and 100 sentences in that country since then.
-
- Juergen Graf, a highly qualified teacher who wrote a
revisionist book, was sentenced to 15 months. His publisher got a year,
even though the book was published before the law came into effect. As
is the case in Germany, their lawyers could not defend them properly without
themselves being prosecuted for "denial". Graf fled to Iran and
is now lecturing in Iranian universities.
-
- In France, Bridget Bardot has become a "hate criminal".
Not for anything she said about the Jews, but because, as an animal lover,
she opposes the ritual slaughter of sheep by French Muslims. She also complained
that France is being invaded by an "overpopulation of foreigners".
-
- Canada gets some attention in the article. We now have
"a nearly 20-year tradition of censorship", with Ernst Zuendel
being our "most famous thought criminal".
-
- As most of us know, Zuendel has faced a long drawn-out
human rights hearing involving Jewish complaints about a web site that
bears his name but is run from the U.S. How's that for stretching things!
But elasticity doesn't worry the chairman of the tribunal. Nor does the
truth. As he has stated, "The truth is not an issue before us.The
sole issue is whether such communications are LIKELY to expose a person
or persons to hatred or contempt."
-
- Censorship is on the march in Europe and is licking at
our own [U.S.] borders, states AR, and "the real shame is how so few
people are willing to oppose this clampdown on freedom".
-
- Quite. They'd rather have another beer.
-
- AR is available at P.O. Box 527, Oakton, VA 22124. Tel:
703-716-0900,
- Fax 703-716-0932.
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- Canadian Foreign Policy
-
-
- In the Jewish Tribune, the Embassy Magazine is featured
which names a B'nai Brith executive one of 40 key Canadian foreign policy
influencers:
-
- Quote:
-
- OTTAWA B'nai Brith Canada Executive Vice President
Frank Dimant is among a list of 40 people who have been identified by Embassy
Magazine, Canada's foreign policy newsweekly, in its Oct.10 issue, as key
players
- working on or influencing government policy when it comes
to foreign affairs, trade, security, defence, development and immigration.
According to the article, B'nai Brith Canada and Dimant were listed because
the pro-Jewish and Israeli lobbies have gained major prominence under the
Conservative government, and critics say this is coming out in Canadian
policy at the United Nations, not to mention last year's war in Lebanon.
Sources say B'nai Brith, and, by extension, Dimant are the biggest winners.
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- source: http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:6xGKvpKKD0gJ:www.jewishtribune.ca/tribune/
- PDF/jt181007.pdf+harry+abrams+b%27nai+brith&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=63&gl=ca
-
-
- The Jewish Exemption
- Ezra Levant wrote on his blog
-
-
- Quote:
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- "I've been acquitted.
- This was a perfect scientific experiment. You see, I
had republished, word for word, the very same "hate speech" that
Rev. Stephen Boissoin had published six years ago in Alberta. Rev. Boissoin
was found by both the Alberta HRC and the CHRC to be guilty of hate speech.
- So I controlled all the variables but one.
- I published the exact same words Rev. Boissoin used.
- I published the words in the exact same jurisdiction
that Rev. Boissoin did -- in Alberta.
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