Winter Is Coming...Social In-Activists (Protestors) Will Be...

...retreating to the closest Starbucks, California, etc. where the climate is more conducive to saving the world.

October 5, 2011


More Observations of the Wall Street "Protests"

Monsieur Provocateur vs. an Elderly Jewish Man - h/t EBD

Ann Coulter discusses the "protests" - h/t Lucky Lori

Perhaps most enlightening of all is this interview with Lloyd Hart, author of the Occupy Wall Street Demands post. I have little doubt that Mr. Hart deeply believes what he's saying. The fact that he has NO CLUE into human character provides a valuable teaching moment into what precisely is wrong with the Leftist mindset ... and why Leftist public policies almost always end up in abject failure.
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It Is "CANADIAN" Heritage...

...mean't to explore and sell our past but it looks like it has been hijacked by a "social in-activist" who is perputrating a basic sin of employment; ie: using an employer's property for personal use and benefit. Penalty: DISMISSAL!

Who's the Israel basher at Heritage?

Like many Canadians, we're not exactly sure what it is the federal department of "Canadian Heritage" actually does.

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It Never Fades Away...

The return of the NDP's anti-Israel fringe


Gurney: It was just over a year ago that Israeli forces went aboard the Mavi Marmara and six other ships that had set sail from Turkey. The vessels were filled with anti-Israel activists and aimed to deliver supplies to Gaza in defiance of.. MORE...

Pride Brought Life To The City....QuAAIA Has Hijacked Pride!

QuAIA vs Rob Ford: Who is bluffing here?


Posted Toronto Political Panel: Queers Against Israeli Apartheid has volunteered to skip this year’s parade to deny Mayor Rob Ford an excuse to chop Pride’s funding. Our panel gets worked up for different reasons

Will The US Media NOW Highlight This Atrocity...

...many will not view this as an atrocity! I DO.

Were the knives used American military issue. If so, it's exactly what the American Left wants.

Two US-Trained Palestinian Officers Arrested in Bloody Slaughter of Jewish Family

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Labels: Jew hatred, murder, Palestinians

Palestinian Savages Slaughter a Jewish Family BlogWrath ...

Gaza residents celebrate slaughter of Jewish family

Barnum And Bailey Seminar...

Jonathan Kay reporting from University of Toronto: Among the Israel-haters

Last night, I went to the University of Toronto’s George Ignatieff Theatre, plunked down my $5, and, along with about 130 other interested observers, walked into a 2-hour panel discussion called “Exposing Israeli Apartheid and the Violation of Palestinian Rights: A public forum on the second anniversary of the Gaza massacre.”

Speakers included Khaled Mouammar (head of the defunded and marginalized Canadian Arab Federation); gay activist Tim McCaskell; and Jenny Peto, who, by this point, really needs no introduction. The Toronto Star‘s Antonia Zerbisias was originally on the speaker’s list, but withdrew for mysterious reasons, and was replaced by an earnest U of T undergrad named Vivien Douglas from “Students Against Israeli Apartheid” (not to be confused with McCaskell’s group, “Queers Against Israeli Apartheid”; or Peto’s “Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid”).

As someone who’s familiar with both sides of the Israel-Palestine debate, I didn’t expect to hear any new arguments. But it is always interesting to see activists in their native habitat, as it were — preaching to their own.

Mouammar started off the proceedings with a speech about the evils of Canada, not Israel — dwelling at great length about all the ways that his CAF had been mistreated by Stephen Harper’s government.

Then came McCaskell, who focused on the controversy surrounding the 2010 Pride march. A lot of what he said was new to me, because he resisted the opportunity to simply bash Zionists, and spoke more broadly to the dysfunctionality of the Pride organizers, whom he described as “weak, politically immature, incompetent opportunists.” He also spoke at some length — though often cryptically — about tensions between Queers Against Israeli Apartheid and an allied faction known as “The Pride Coalition for Free Speech,” which marched separately in the parade. (McCaskell complained that the “big yellow signs” of the Free Speech contingent somewhat overshadowed QAIA.)

In general, McCaskell comes across as articulate and humane — even if his politics are quite radical. His motivations, I believe, mirror those of a lot of older anti-Israel activists trying to recreate the sense of tilting against evil windmills that lent energy and meaning to their younger years. His experience as an anti-South-African-Apartheid campaigner, in particular, seems to have seeped deeply into his political DNA. (In fact, he lapsed into mini-speeches about South Africa at several points during the eventing). The campaign against Israel allows him to recycle the same slogans and sense of moral righteousness.

Vivien Douglas then took the floor. Like a lot of young campus activists, she speaks in the code phrases with which she’s been programmed — referring casually to the Gaza War as a “slaughter” and “massacre.” She also attacked the University of Toronto for cozying up to Israel and for making life difficult for Israel Apartheid Week activists. She reached her state of highest dudgeon when she recited how U of T president David Naylor had travelled to the hated Zionist state where he’s reached out a hand of friendship to Israeli universities. Several cheeky Israel supporters who’d snuck into the back of the room clapped wildly at this — making it clear that they were applauding Naylor, not Douglas. This earned them a “warning” from the event moderator, who told us that anyone who received three warnings would be asked to leave.

Then came Jennifer Peto. Give the woman credit: She is a tough nut who has not at all been intimidated by criticism from this newspaper, from the Ontario legislature, or even from her own brother (whom she referred to, by the way, as a “pro-Israel racist fanatic”). She said a few ludicrous things (such as that “[Palestinian] violence is a result of apartheid — when Apartheid ends, the violence ends,” which completely ignores the half-century of Arab violence against Jews that preceded the Israeli presence in the West Bank and Gaza). But overall, like McCaskell, she came across as a highly intelligent (if misguided) activist who could effectively communicate her dogma, and think on her feet, in any debate about the Middle East.

Perhaps more interesting than the speakers themselves was the crowd — which was disproportionately female, almost entirely white, and (by my casual observation of whose arm was wrapped around whom) heavily populated by lesbians.

This was not entirely surprising to me: Anti-Israeli activism has attained a sort of cult following among Toronto gay activists, who otherwise would be twiddling their activists thumbs in a country where gay marriage is legal and uncontroversial. But it is an interesting phenomenon nonetheless: anti-Israel types like to make a very big deal of the broad “community” and “coalition” they are forming. McCaskell, in particular, spoke (naively, I thought) about how queer anti-Israeli activism was allowing gays to forge links with Arabs and Muslims (He can prove this point to my satisfaction by holding a Gay Anti-Israel rally in any Arab or Muslim country of his choosing). Yet when it came time to hold an anti-Israel meeting in downtown Toronto last night, just about the only people who came out were seven or eight dozen campus rainbow-flag types.

In fact, self-delusion is a pronounced strain among radical anti-Israel types more generally. Every speaker last night spoke of the anti-Israel BDS movement — “boycott, divestment and sanctions” — as a sort of tidal wave that was gaining strength every day, and which would ultimately destroy Zionist apartheid. Vivien Douglas in particular spoke of the “huge progressions and successes” of the movement — then added that she did “not have enough time to list them.”

Actually, she did have time — because the movement has been a complete failure. Not a single major Canadian institution of any type has boycotted Israel. In fact, BDS supporters can’t even successfully sanction a single Israeli store or product because (as happened in Toronto last year in response to an attempted Israeli wine boycott), pro-Israel types flood in and buy up the product in question. The Israeli economy is booming compared to those of other nations, and every mainstream Canadian politician has declared himself Israel’s friend.

Only in the somewhat pathetic shadow world of BDS activism is the opposite true. That’s what makes these meetings kind of sad, more than anger-inducing.

One more thing to add: The most bizarre part of last night’s meeting was when the moderator announced that in the Q&A session, she would be enforcing an “equity policy” in her selection of who was permitted to ask questions — with preference given to women, visible minorities and gays (which was kind of ironic given the composition of the room). Sure enough, when the Q&A began, a white man aged about 60 was first to the microphone. But the moderator made a great show of instead picking a black man sitting in one of the back rows and asked him to come to the mic. So we all waited while this affirmative action pick ambled over to the microphone to toss Peto a softball “question” about how she had “inspired” other academics.

Then a woman said she wanted to ask a question, and the mortifying process was repeated. Finally, the man at the mic — who had been patient thus far — shouted out “Am I invisible?” Even some members of the crowd declared “Let him speak!” and the moderator looked unsure of what to do — before (naturally!) threatening the man with expulsion from the room for his impudence. (Eventually, he was allowed to ask his question.)

The fact that this man had to wait there at the mic, merely because of the colour of the skin, while others got to speak before him — why it reminded me of that thing they once had in South Africa … Apar… Aparth …

What’s that word I’m looking for?

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Wong-Tam"s Hidden Agenda...

Simon Wookey: The only candidate rejecting Queers Against Israeli Apartheid’s message


Across the country, and very much here in Toronto, the issue of trust is driving our political environment. Voters — tired of hyper-partisan gamesmanship, lost and broken promises, disappearing clouds of public funds, and endless empty rhetoric — simply seek transparent representation. They want to know where politicians truly stand, no matter their warts, without having to fight through a fog of vacillations and prevarications to find out. Read More »

Posted in: Canada, Full Comment Tags: Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, Pride parade, Simon Wookey, Ward 27 Toronto, Kyle Rae, Toronto election

Michelle Malkin

Whitewashing black racism; Shabazz: “Prepare for war”

By Michelle Malkin  •  July 9, 2010 10:35 AM

My column today blasts the MSM for its silence over the black racial demagogues of the New Black Panther Party and its ilk.

Read More FACTS...

• QuAIA dominate Pride Day Parade... 

  A case study in failure: the Israel lobby at Toronto Pride

  July 6, 2010| ByAndrew Brett

  How the campaign to pinkwash Israeli apartheid backfired at Toronto Pride.

   

   Rabble.ca  didn't count everyone which explains why the size of the crowds didn't add up to millions. 

  
  

   Toronto Pride Parade continues to draw thousands

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    July 6, 2010 ByJohn Bonnar|

    It was a day unlike any other, where same-sex couples walked hand in hand without fear of ridicule and police marched with other gay rights activists. more

  
  

   

Light Reading For QUEERS AGAINST ISRAELI APARTHIDE

Could you imagine the uproar if Israel did this???

Hamas tortures Fatah officials...

Hamas's security forces in the Gaza Strip detained over the weekend dozens of Fatah activists in one of the largest crackdowns in recent months, Fatah officials said.

The latest clampdown on Fatah comes after fresh mediation efforts to solve the crisis with Hamas failed.

It also coincides with the third anniversary of Hamas's violent takeover of the Gaza Strip.

A special committee that was formed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas last month to discuss ways of ending the power struggle has been dissolved. The committee was headed by Nablus businessman Munib al-Masri.

Its members were supposed to travel to the Gaza Strip for talks with Hamas leaders on the ongoing dispute between the two parties. However, the visit was called off after Hamas announced that it would not receive the delegation, which consisted of several top Fatah representatives.

The decision to dismantle the committee also came after Hamas refused to sign an Egyptian document that was supposed to end the crisis.

According to the Fatah officials, many of their members in the Gaza Strip were summoned to various Hamas security installations "for questioning and torture. The detainees were also instructed to bring along their passports, the official added.

The detainees included Amal Hamad, member of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Fayez Abu Aitah, a prominent spokesman for the faction and Muhammed al-Talouli, a former deputy minister in the PA government.

The Hamas security forces also summoned a large number of former PA security commanders, including Abu Hilme Dabour and Kamal Abdel Nabi, two former "generals" in the PA's Presidential Guard and "colonels" Imad Shaheen, Ameed al-Haloul, Salah Abu Wardeh and Omar Khadoura.

"Over the past 40 days, the Hamas militias have escalated their offensive against Fatah members," the Fatah officials charged. "Many are summoned [by Hamas] and forced to spend hours in the sun while their heads are covered with bags. Others are tortured and humiliated while in detention. This happens on a daily basis."

A statement released over the weekend by Fatah revealed that over 100 members of the faction have been arrested by Hamas in the past month alone.

posted by GayandRight @ 10:16 PM

QAIA Needs to Lookup Definition Of Apartheid...

Homosexual hate speech

We read:

"A group of about 35 journalists, politicians and members of Toronto’s Jewish community gathered at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre this morning in reaction against Pride Toronto’s (PT) June 23 decision not to censor the term Israeli apartheid from this year’s Pride celebration.

It was a press conference held by gay lawyer Martin Gladstone and “representatives of the organized Jewish community.” Seated with Gladstone at a long table were representatives from the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Canada-Israel Committee, the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, and mayoral candidates Rocco Rossi, Giorgio Mammoliti and Rob Ford.

Gladstone said he will resume lobbying Pride’s corporate sponsors, warning them, “You can’t separate the message of a sponsor from what happens in the Pride Parade.”

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If you want to see apartheid in the Middle East, go to Saudi Arabia and experience the severe restrictions on Christians there. There is nothing similar in Israel.

Posted by jonjayray at 9:32 AM

How Many Parades In The Middle East Will Have QuAIA Contingents?

Jewish groups plan show of force at Pride

By SUE-ANN LEVY, Toronto Sun

Last Updated: June 25, 2010 7:03pm

The presence of a controversial hate group calling itself Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) will not deter the Jewish community from marching in this year’s Pride parade, a contingent of Jewish leaders said Friday.
“We are more determined than ever to galvanize a large number of marchers for the parade,” Kulanu executive director Justine Apple told a press conference at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre.
Apple, whose group represents the LGBT Jewish community in Toronto, said both gay and straight delegations will be marching from the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Canada Israel Committee and a number of Toronto synagogues to “speak out” against discrimination and to “take back” the Pride parade she once knew.
“We will not be bullied from attending our parade,” she said. “Groups that bring messages of hate cannot be given licence to hijack the parade and turn it into a propaganda tool for such anti-Israel venom.”
Bernie Farber, chief executive officer of the Canadian Jewish Congress, told the media he will be marching in the July 4 parade and will be sending an e-mail blast to the entire Jewish community to stand in support of the only state in the Middle East that supports gay and lesbian rights.
Apple and others reserved their harshest criticism for the Pride board for deciding to reverse their earlier ban on the participation of QuAIA in this year’s parade.
Their about-face came little more than a week after the city handed Pride their $123,807 grant cheque — on good faith that any groups violating the city’s anti-discrimination policy would not be allowed to march this year.
“Clearly Pride Toronto has cowered and given in to the bullying and intimidation tactics of (certain members of) the LGBT community,” Apple said.
“The inclusion of these groups ... turns Pride into a made in Canada Durban II, an anti-Israel gong show,” added gay activist Martin Gladstone, whose DVD documented the involvement of the QuAIA contingent in last year’s parade.
It would seem that city officials have also done an about-face.
The city’s diversity manager Ceta Ramkhalawansingh indicated a month ago that Pride may be in violation of the city’s anti-discrimination policy for allowing QuAIA to march in the parade.
But on Friday she sent the Toronto Sun an e-mail indicating Pride has put “new procedures” in place that ask all participants to sign an anti-discrimination declaration.
“We understand that the intent of Pride’s new procedure is to allow members of the community to express diverse views in a mutually respectful way,” she wrote, carefully avoiding the fact that QuAIA will be marching with the same messaging as in the past.

sue-ann.levy@sunmedia.ca