I attended the MPP Peter Shurman press conference at Queen’s Park last week, to hear him denounce Israeli Apartheid Week on Ontario campuses. Click the link to read more.

Laura Rosen-Cohen has an editorial in today’s National Post about the strange, masochistic need for the Jews to be liked by people who want to murder them.

It has been said that a definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. Certainly, there can be no better explanation for Jews, and particularly liberal Jews to keep trying new ways of currying favour in the eyes of the Islamic world.

Heh. Currying. I wonder if that was intentional?

Dear fellow Jews, what is so hard to understand about “we hate your guts, and will continue to kill and maim you”?

I mentioned the other day that the loony anti-Semites would be out to complain against the Royal Ontario Museum for an exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Well, the VZC (Vast Zionist Conspiracy™) came out last night to counter-demo, and seriously, you couldn’t pay for that kind of entertainment.

First of all, on the Jew-Hating side of the street, there were almost no Muslims of any ethnic background. Maybe three in total. Most there were… wait for it… aging Jewish hippies. You know, the ones that come out to any protest, any time, any place, against The Man?

One woman (and I wish my video had turned out better) stood screaming at us “Rape! Rape! Rape!” at the top of her lungs. I wasn’t sure if it was an accusation or a request.

She's clearly Palestinian, right?

There was also a plentitude of Queers for Palestine, which always tickles my funny bone. I mean, once the Arabs are done anihilating teh jooooz, you just know they’re gunning for the queers next, right? And not that I think it needs to be pointed out, but said Queers were all pasty white and their women were not in hijab. Just sayin’.

Moonbat with the Best Sign award goes to Zionists Killed Michael Jackson:

I guess Sarah Palin is off the hook for that one.

Here’s something I totally didn’t expect though: We had more people in support of Israel. Seriously, I’m out there almost every time, and it rips my knitting that so much of Toronto’s Jewry are so apathetic to issues that directly involve them. They never leave their damn houses. And here we were, heading into sunset and the Shabbas, and a whack of them turned out in support. I was truly shocked. In a good way.

For the most part my pictures were not great, and my video not salvageable, but I was on flag duty.

Ugly Chin Crystal at the ROM finally comes in handy for a beautiful purpose

So I will direct you to Josephine over at Lumpy, Grumpy & Frumpy for excellent photos. I’m told she will have video later today.

As an aside, the pro-Pali crew were very intimidating/intimidated where our people were concerned. They’d scream at us for filming and photographing them, while photographing us! You just know they sleep in tinfoil hats, right?

Because Muslims are suspect of all things cultural or historical that they can’t blow up or steal, they are choosing to picket in front of the Royal Ontario Museum. The Museum, you see, is showing an exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Fascinating, and something I’d like to see. As a Catholic, we don’t buy into the Christian relevance of the Scrolls, but the historical value is undeniable.

The Jew haters, however, are really wrapped up in, uh, Jew hating. They are whining that the Scrolls were “stolen” by Israel. Heh. I’m reminded of a Biblical passage… “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”. From a culture that claims to have invented chess (they didn’t) and medicine (they didn’t), to accuse another culture of stealing is pretty rich. Considering that when the Scrolls were created, there were no Muslims! Mohammad hadn’t even been born yet, let alone was he slicing heads or screwing nine-year-olds. The claim is as absurd as saying the Scientologists own the Scrolls.

The usual suspects will be out in front of the ROM tomorrow night at 6pm. Why then? Because the Jews will all be home preparing for the Sabbath, of course! They always plan it that way! There will of course be a counter protest that you are strongly recommended to join. But again, it’s the start of the Sabbath, so it will be small. No coincidence.

In other news I found searching for info, one of my favorite restaurants has gone all Jew-hatey too, unfortunately.

Le Select Bistro on Wellington had this to say on their website, till they pulled it:

“Although we endeavour in this page to bring you the best this city offers, we wish – uncharacteristically – to warn against a show whose artifacts were obtained by force and looting, and which the ROM is – astonishingly – set on featuring. The socalled Dead Sea Scrolls…showcases artifacts seized by Israel in its 1967 surprise war, which it waged against its neighbours. The war led to the seizure and the ongoing military occupation of many lands, including the West Bank, from where the scrolls were taken. They had been excavated in the early 50s’ (sic) by the Ecole Biblique Francaise, the Palestine Archaeological Museum, and the Department of Antiquities of Jordan. They represent a collection of nearly 900 ancient manuscripts, including portions of the Old Testament written in Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek. By showcasing these artefacts, the ROM is violating Canada’s responsibilities under the UNESCO Conventions and Protocols relating to cultural objects seized by arms and its own obligations as a principal member of the Canadian Museums Association (CMA).”

The site also connected readers to an anti-Israel petition by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME).

“I don’t think I was taking any political side,” Geisweiller said. Rather, he was highlighting “the fact that there’s a controversy about it.”

The restaurateur said he used to be sympathetic towards the Jewish state, when it was based more on socialism, but “I am troubled when I see the extreme right having political power in Israel.”

Hope to see you down at the ROM tomorrow evening.

Another day, another psycho with an agenda and a gun. It’s like the Clinton administration all over again, with Oklahoma City, WTC ‘93 (sorry for making that sound like a football match), Columbine, Waco etc. So much, so fast.

Barely has the press gotten through with ignoring the story of the Islamic convert who succumbed to Sudden Jihad Syndrome and murdered Pte. William Long in Arkansas, then they now have a whole new story to spin to their little hearts content.

Yesterday, as I was rushing out the door, the news broke that an elderly man had opened fire in the Washington DC Holocaust Museum. You know, that place where 500 kids pass through every day to learn about what happens when hatred of Jews runs amok? An 88-year old man - an American-born German who had fought for the Allies in WWII - had spiraled down into madness and hatred over “the Jews” and “the Niggers”.

James W. Von Brunn was a racist, a conspiracy theorist (a 9/11 Truther, for heaven’s sake - like the crop circles of the 21st Century!) and a madman. Also hated Christians, but I guess that won’t get a lot of press. Yesterday he took the life of (black) security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns.

Von Brunn acted alone on the micro scale, but on the macro level, he’s nothing original. Just the day before his rampage in the Holocaust Museum, President Obama’s preacher, Rev. Wright, went on an anti-Semitic tirade about “them Jews” who were gonna keep him from the president. And while the erstwhile golden boy was on his “It’s All America’s Fault” tour of the Middle East a couple of weeks ago, he spent a lot of time building up the whole “religion of peace” meme in the Muslim countries, only paying lip service to the evil of Ahmedinejad’s wish to wipe Israel off the map. The selfsame Israel that the US government now no longer wants to sell helicopters to, despite decades of reciprocal military trading between the two countries.

Is this all part of a vast conspiracy? No, of course not. It is more like a creeping acceptance in our societies of Judenhass - the hatred of Jews. Here in Canada, for example, if you utter a racial slur about anyone, you are usually fired from your position, especially if it’s a government position. However Sid Ryan, the far-left head of the Ontario branch of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) can call for the banning of Israelis on Ontario campuses, and all he gets are a few angry letters printed in the paper. He doesn’t lose his position. He isn’t asked by his members to step down. Of course not - they agree with him. Them Jews have no place here in Ontario! CUPE’s federal branch try to distance themselves from him, but they make no real effort to call for his resignation.

There is no full-scale call to eliminate the Jews in North America at this time. Yet. Instead, we’re creating a culture that says it’s ok to be anti-Semitic if you are Muslim. It’s ok to hate Israel and everything about it, so long as you say “it’s about Israel, not the Jews”. It’s totally fine to protest outside the shops and offices of high-profile Jews, provided you cloak your Judenhass in the guise of caring for the poor downtrodden Palestinians (who have been treated far worse by their Arabic brethren, but let’s not talk about that, ok?). It’s totally fine to call for anti-Israel demonstrations on campuses, with virulent Arabic anti-Semites frothing at the mouth about “them Jews”, so long as you always refer to Israel as an Apartheid state and say “some of my best friends are Jewish”.

Mr. Von Brunn might have gone off the deep end, but he did what he thought he could get away with in our culture. He attacked a source of Jewish pride - the museum - and killed a “nigger” in the process. Two for the price of one.

When the media is done with this, he will be a) a far-right conservative, b) he will have killed a black man, and c) did I mention he’d be a conservative? The pervasive Judenhass that is creeping its way through our culture like the black death of Passover will be attributed only to Von Brunn, not to the leader of the country, and not to that president’s spiritual leader. It won’t belong to the leftist professors of the universities where the elite left get their degrees. It will belong to James Von Brunn and conservative America. Through some tortured roundabout way this will be our fault. It always is, when the media is involved.

I was at Beth Shalom synagogue last night in Toronto, listening to Liberal MP Irwin Cotler speak and Liberal MP Carolyn Bennet stutter (Seriously, whatever her triumphs or faults, the woman is a terrible speaker. I wanted to claw out my own eyes and throw them at her. Get thee to a teleprompter, woman!) The subject was the rise of antisemitism, specifically on our campuses here in Toronto.

Cotler (we’ll focus on him, because he can speak) talked a good game about defeating this “new” antisemitism - Iran wanting to “excise the cancer” that is Israel, the UN passing resolution after resolution against Israel, kids at York university feeling threatened, etc. But during the Q&A at the end of the presentation, he kind of lost his cool.

A woman in the audience asked him how he could be such an advocate of Israel, and still be a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. After all, she pointed out, the immigrant voting block (i.e. Muslims) vote Liberal, so pandering must be done. Liberal MP Denis Coderre marched in Montreal in 2006 under the banner of Hezbollah. Michael Ignatieff himself is very critical of Israel, etc. So how could he reconcile having Mr. Harper’s unequivocal support of Israel and Canadian Jewry against the Liberal Party’s indifference to or outright bias against?

Mr. Cotler verbally punished the woman in the audience for even daring to say such a terrible thing. Told her that Denis Coderre had never marched beneath the Hezbollah flag in Montreal (he did). How dare this woman malign the Liberals, exposing such political polarization on such an important issue?!

One wonders if he was so strident in his opinions when he was asked the very same thing by his wife, Ariela:

I have been an active, involved and contributing member of
the Liberal party until yesterday, when I decided to give up my membership because of the statements from Michael Ignatieff, given in French to a Quebec radio station.

I was hoping that with his background as a professor of human rights, Mr. Ignatieff would be able to make the distinction between the attackers and the attacked. I would remind Mr. Ignatieff that it was a Liberal government that placed Hezbollah on the international terrorist organizations list.

Must be rather tense in the Cotler household, no?

As an aside, Cotler was very open in denouncing “Ahmadinejad’s Iran” as the root of many of today’s problems with antisemitism. Possibly due to the aforementioned Islamic voting block, Mr. Cotler was unwilling to point to Islam itself as the political/religious force behind the rise in Jew hatred around the world today. It was only “Iran, Iran, Iran.” Which I found hilarious as he went on and on about how people are cloaking their antisemitism in the guise of Anti-Zionism and dislike for Israel.

Pot? It’s Kettle on the line.

Either come right out and say what everyone in the room already knows you’re thinking, or just let the subject drop altogether. The people marching in the streets of Toronto, New York, Islamabad, London, Beirut, Dearborn and other cities are not Iranian. They are from a “broad strata” (if you’ll forgive me) of Islamic society. Yes, Iran has been the only state to come out and specifically call for the obliteration of Israel, but they are not the be-all and end-all of Islamic antisemitism, any more than Israel itself is the be-all and end-all of Judaism.

Mr. Cotler, I respectfully request that you either put up or shut up.

In other news, Cotler attended Durbin II. Need we say more?

If you are a Jew in this world today, chances are someone in your family - someone still living today - was a Survivor. The murder of Jews in Europe was so all-encompassing that there was blight in every family. Survivors ran to America and Canada, knowing they were no longer safe in Europe. Some eventually settled in Israel, once it came into being. As a little shiksa girl, I had the honor to shake three hands above which there were numbers on the forearm - real numbers, not Kate McMillan’s bike registration number. Even at 8 years old, you just know that those numbers are important.

The parents and grandparents of my Jewish friends - those parents and grandparents that got the hell out of Dodge as soon as they could, and settled down the block from where I would one day be born - are not long for this world. The war ended more than 60 years ago. Nobody lives forever. Their children and even grandchildren will have been raised with an inherent knowing of what happened Over There™, and will go about their daily lives with that specter on their shoulders at all times.

But for the grandchildren and great-grandchildren, the specter will not be as terrifying. They weren’t there. They didn’t see it. They never knew of grandma’s anguished screams, waking from her nightmares, safe in her American bed. They only know what they’ve been taught by rote, by those who were there. And those teachers are dying. Thankfully they have seen fit to leave us with a wealth of knowledge and history that would otherwise have been lost to us - as they themselves very nearly were.

As those who suffer the nightmares and who cannot forget eventually leave us, the focus will - and should - shift away from fighting a battle that ended 60 years ago. The grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be freed from the horrors that came before them, and will be better able to focus on the current threats to society. The living relics of a time long past are still fighting the Nazis, and we can’t begrudge them for it. We shout and rail against them for being blind to a new enemy while focused on one that no longer exists, but to them there is only the one threat: Hitler. There will only ever be Hitler.

It isn’t up to Bernie Farber and the people he represents in Official Jewdom to fight the Islamist hordes. It’s up to their grandchildren. Because Farber and those in similar positions do not take their orders - or their paychecks - from the grandchildren. They take them from the Survivors and their children. Farber & Co. cannot stop fighting the Nazis so long as Nazi Survivors draw breath - they need to know the Nazis are still being kept at bay. Even though there are no Nazis anymore. Jews under 45 should stop looking to Bernie Farber for strength in the face of Islamization of culture. They shouldn’t be looking to Bernie to protect them from Israeli Anti Apartheid Week or hostage takings at York University. Bernie Farber can’t even recognize IAAW, because he’s fixated on some 24 year old with a “cool” swastika tattoo.

I think younger Jews should stop complaining about Farber & Co as being so useless in today’s society, and allow them the hard-won privilege of living in the past. It’s up to you now. It’s time to fight a new enemy while your parents and grandparents retreat into memory.

UPDATE: Scaramouche, who has Jewish cred that I do not, disagrees:

My issue with Farber is that his obsession with being “the son of a Holocaust survivor” has tended to distort his percerptions about who are the Jews’ enemies today, and how to best deal with them. We can’t deal with them, for example, by calling for state censorship via HRCs and expecting that ingratiating yourself–or at least making the effort to ingratiate yourself–with the likes of the the CIC, the CAF, and, my absolute fave, Syed Soharwardy’s Islamic SUPREME Council, is going to pay off for Canadian Jews. It hasn’t; it won’t; it never will. (Besides, Islamists love it when you grovel–it’s the posture they expect of “dhimmis”.) In light of angry mobs of Hamas fans screaming things like “Death to the Jews!” and “Jews to the ovens!” in downtown Toronto, I think–or rather, I hope–Bernie’s beginning to figure that out.

Ever since I started working from home, I have celebrated No-Pants Friday. Try that at the office, you cubicle whores!

I have a few things on my plate today, like an 11th hour re-write for Brass Balls Radio, which will record this evening. So in the meantime, check out all this other fabulousness on offer:

My latest at Today.com on the California Tax Revolt. This is priceless - I am so proud of these counties for standing up to the state.

Round-Eye Kinsella wants to sue another little blogger and thereby make him famous. I ought to hire Warren as my agent, too!

While Warren “Nazi Hunter” Kinsella runs around taking pictures in the little boys’ room at the local hockey arena (Larry Craig was arrested for less than that, remember), actual violent anti-Semites attack a university Jewish organization in broad daylight, trapping its members inside for what must have felt like an eternity.

Another anti-Semitic incident took place in a Canadian university Thursday when over 100 anti-Israel activists surrounded a campus building belonging to the Jewish student club ‘Hillel’ at York University, Toronto. The activists pounded on office doors while yelling out racial slurs.

Campus security was forced to alert police to restore order and the latter demanded that the offices be shut down.

An anti-Israel march is also scheduled for Friday, and ‘Hillel’ leaders have called on Jewish students to arrive with Israeli flags in order to show support for the country.

Perhaps we should call on CUPE Ontario’s Sid Ryan to once more tell us how we shouldn’t allow Israeli profs on Ontario campuses, and then tell us how his remarks had nothing to do with Hillel being attacked. Of course, the Province of Ontario is too busy chasing down bogeymen like Mark Steyn to bother with the likes of Sid Ryan, and Canada’s Jewish groups (CJC, B’nai Brith etc) are too busy sucking the dicks of the local imams to complain.

Despite actual violence and the fact that - surprise! - I was right all along about anti-Semitism in this country, I am going to sit this one out. Ontario’s Jews need to stand up for themselves for once, instead of ever relying on this shiksa to wave their flag for them while they have brunch or go shopping. Put down the fucking brisket and support your own community. I’ll be at Starbucks if you need me.

Kathy Shaidle appeared on TVO’s Agenda with Steve Paikin last night, and shockingly, the world did not end. The sun still rose this morning over Toronto, and with the exception of what is most likely a terrible hangover, Warren Kinsella is still alive. Who woulda thunk it?

In response to yesterday’s plea of desperation from the Kinsella/Ignatieff camp, Kathy tells you all to go fuck yourselves:

If rejecting the language of appeasment during this conflict makes me a “racist, white supremacist whatever-the-word-is-this-week”, I will wear those appellations and others with pride.

“Racist” is the new “commie.”

I will continue to express my views, not only about belligerent, disloyal Muslims, but about everything that constitutes a threat to national security, be it the welfare state, radical ecology, the division of society into various arbitrary “victim” “communities, or official multiculturalism, “tolerance” and “diversity”.

(I also support the right to any other person, left or right, to post annoying, rude, ill-informed, provocative writing on their blog. That they don’t often extend me the same courtesy is unfortunate but I’m powerless to do much about that.)

This stance has, and will, cost me dearly. However, to do anything less would violate my conscience.

Sid Ryan is a Phase III Jew-Hater.

Bravo to Mindy Alter.

Burny Farber finally noticed that Palestinian supporters aren’t big fans of Jews. Congratulations to Burny for catching on - better late than stuffed in an oven, right?

After averting its eyes for a week, the Canadian Jewish Congress has grudgingly acknowledged that there is anti-Semitism in Canada that is not perpetrated by ageing Indian chiefs or teenagers on Internet chat sites. They’ve called a press conference for Wednesday to talk about the bigoted pro-Hamas rallies that have been raging across Canada.

Stay tuned for a “strongly worded letter” or “plea for peace”.

I got very bad frostbite yesterday, and lost my voice, but the cause was well worth it.

The typical terrorists - Che Marxist, Palestinian Hamas supporters and Hezbollah murderers - marched by the thousands to decry Israel’s defense of its civilians.

On our side of the street, maybe 150 people. It was Shabbas, the Jewish day of rest. There were as many WASPs and Catholics as there were Jews braving the cold in defense of Israel. There were also the Hindus, still reeling from the horrific attacks in Mumbai at the end of November.

Between us, a thin line of bike cops.

Dundas Square was brimming with hatred the likes of which my non-city readers will never have seen before, unless they’ve been in the military. A nicely placed IDF mortar would have been useful, but then again, there were too many women and children. Israel never would have risked it.

I lost my voice screaming Infidels for Israel and God Bless the IDF. Two teenage girls who had just come to Canada from Israel stood in front of me, on the brink of tears when they saw the Hezbollah flag flying in the streets of a country where Hezbollah is ostensibly an illegal terrorist organization. I hugged them. I wanted to apologize for what they were seeing. They kept asking me “Why? Why are they doing this?” and I couldn’t answer.

I don’t know why.

As usual most of the world shows such a blatant double standard with respect to Israel and frankly, everyone else that we tend not to even notice it and on occasion, like Hitler’s ‘big lie’ tend to think there must be something to it for so many to buy into it. In a way I suppose there is. Oil money and fear of terrorism by immigrants to western nations. But here are a few links which offer some clear as day thought on the matter. Of course, when the UN passed a resolution against Israel as the worlds worst actor in terms of women’s rights it was so laughable that most ignored it. But now we are down to the existential.

First, from www.thereligionofpeace.com 9 questions that should be answered before anyone can criticize the Israeli actions in Gaza. I could add quite a few myself but this is a nice list.

Next an op ed from the National Post on same subject. Pithy and spot on. It’s not that this is profound or hugely insightful. It’s that a Canadian national newspaper has the courage to make a clear moral stand. I wonder if we could find this in a British major paper or any other European one. It is worth reading even if most of us already know these facts.

As an aside,
there was an attack on an American Jewish center. I doubt this will be an isolated event. Look for more in Montreal.

Meanwhile the religion of peace advances it’s cause for world domination while nobody much notices.

The Swat Valley in Pakistan has been pretty much taken over by Taliban/Al Queda. A close look at a map and some thinking about US Canadian operations in Afghanistan plus rapidly rising tensions between nuclear neighbors Pakistan and India will show why this story deserves attention. Pakistan is losing a lot of territory to the Islamists. They are moving troops away from the allied areas and re enforcing borders with India. This creates opportunity for Islamist expansion on that front. I recently spent close to a hundred dollars I really do not have to buy a decent world map. It may have been the worlds first sub prime map loan actually. Who knew in high school physical geography would actually matter.

Also Stratfor reports more deadly mortar attacks by Islamist forces in Somalia killing ten people today alone. The amusingly named MILF continues to attack bomb and spread hatred and fear in the Philippines and the western media either ignores it or claims its a separatist group. It is not. It is a group of Islamic supremacy.

This article about Russia’s approach to Islam is quite good as well. It explains the little known use by Russia of Islamic proxy’s. The US likely did this as well during the cold war. Chechen’s where most likely funded by the US to annoy and distract resources of the Soviets during the cold war and we all know about Afghanistan and the Mujahadeen proxies for the US. However what should be evident by now to all of us is that this backfires. Not just sometimes but all the time to most of the world. Even Pakistan and Iran have used Islam as the tie that binds disparate tribes to try and create a national identity. We see how well that works in both places. Well, I suppose in a way you can say it does.

Here is an article albeit an older one from Jeff Jacoby at the Boston Globe on UN hypocrisy with respect to Israel. Lots of links as well and a good read. Perhaps the fact that this was written before even rumors of a retaliatory strike on Gaza makes it more meaningful.

This to paraphrase Dr. Wafa Sultan, is not a war of civilizations. Civilizations compete. This is a war of civilization against barbarism.

James Cohen for Girl on the right.

December 17, 2008 | Khaled Abu Toameh
PA Tortures Journalists

“This is not Israel, where you are allowed to see a lawyer.”

Over the past two years Palestinian journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been subjected to a systematic campaign of intimidation that has resulted in the death of some and the detention of others.

The campaign, which is being waged by both Hamas and Fatah, has received almost no attention from human rights groups and advocates of the freedom of expression throughout the world.

By contrast, when a Palestinian journalist is accidentally wounded by Israeli gunfire during clashes with Palestinians, the incident makes headlines in major media outlets in the US and EU.

What is most disturbing about the campaign of intimidation is the fact that it’s being spearheaded by the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank. This is the same authority that is receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from American and European taxpayers’ money every month to build a proper judicial system and promote democracy and transparency among the Palestinians.

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This is a more difficult post to write than the last one. This one means a wake up for me and many others who so far have managed to treat world events as academic. The realm of debate and moral and ethical games.

Israel has retaliated against Gaza by air strikes against military targets and limiting civilian damage to the best of its capabilities. Many posts will argue the rights and wrongs of it so no need for more of that here. I’m sure the vast vast majority have already made up their minds as to who is right and wrong and why.

I am writing on another aspect. Strategy and outcome.

So far, Islamist forces world wide (and Gaza is no exception) have overwhelmingly chosen to go after the softest targets possible and the ones which would garner the most outrage and horror. It is not at all unusual for example, for a Palestinian receiving free and excellent medical care in Israel to return to the hospital wrapped in explosives with hopes of murdering the very doctors nurses and destruction of the facilities which had treated her. We also have seen attacks going back decades in Argentina, France, and recently Bombay targeting Jews with no strategic value whatsoever but because they are Jews. More recently, The UK, Germany Scandinavia and frankly much of Europe where Muslims are moving in large numbers in the past year has seen anti semitic violent attacks grow.

Hamas will ‘retaliate’ (I put retaliate of course in quotes as the Israeli action was in fact retaliation for over 800 rockets fired at Israeli civilians over the past few years most of which was during an agreed ‘cease fire’) as will Hizbolah, Al Queda/Taliban and any number of Islamic groups which as usual will create a new name for themselves for each attack by targeting easy to access unsuspecting targets of Jews. It could as easily be Ottawa as Bombay or Pembrook Ontario as London England or Ipswich Mass. as easily as Madrid Spain. The only thing these attacks will have in common, will be that it is against Jewish people.

If you live as a Jew in most western nations, it is against the law to arm yourself. not just for jews of course but for all. The police or more likely politicians would prefer you get killed cleanly and quickly then get the police and ambulance to the scene so City councils can show how efficient they are. Outside of small pockets of the USA where there is still some sense of individual right to life and self defense this is the norm. However given the history of Islamic terrorist movements and the ascendancy of same, the moral relativism of the modern left who dominate the civil service of most western nations and the consequent ethical ambiguousness which has made terrorists the victims and victims the aggressors, Jewish people may want to start thinking about their own security. Predicting the future at some levels is imposable. At others is as easy as looking at the past.

Let’s have a look at what the official reaction has been from various bodies in order to better understand how officialdom may react to the deaths of Jews by Muslim attackers in their own cities and nations.

Here I borrow heavily from the excellent site, The Gates of Vienna…

Spokesman For Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General

“The secretary general is deeply alarmed by today’s heavy violence and bloodshed in Gaza, and the continuation of violence in southern Israel.

“[He] appeals for an immediate halt to all violence [and reiterates] previous calls for humanitarian supplies to be allowed into Gaza to aid the distressed civilian population.”

Gordon Johndroe, White House Spokesman

“Hamas’ continued rocket attacks into Israel must cease if the violence is to stop. Hamas must end its terrorist activities if it wishes to play a role in the future of the Palestinian people.

“The United States urges Israel to avoid civilian casualties as it targets Hamas in Gaza.”

Spokesman For Javier Solana, EU Foreign Policy Chief

“We are very concerned at the events in Gaza. We call for an immediate ceasefire and urge everybody to exert maximum restraint.”

British Foreign Office Statement

“The only way to achieve lasting peace in Gaza is through peaceful means. Whilst we understand the Israeli government’s obligation to protect its population we urge maximum restraint to avoid further civilian casualties.

“We also call on militants in the Gaza Strip to immediately cease all rocket attacks on Israel.”

Russian Foreign Ministry Statement

“Moscow considers it necessary to stop large-scale military action against Gaza, which has already led to major casualties and suffering among the civilian Palestinian population.

“At the same time, we call on the Hamas leadership to stop shelling Israeli territory.”

Amr Moussa, Arab League Secretary General

“We are facing a continuing spectacle which has been carefully planned. So we have to expect that there will be many casualties. We face a major humanitarian catastrophe.”

Syrian Foreign Ministry Statement

“Syria is following with great anxiety the barbaric Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza… a horrific crime and terrorist act.

[…]

“Syria as president of the Arab League calls on Arab leaders to hold an emergency summit to assess the dangerous situation in Gaza.”

Hasan Qashqavi, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman

“Iran strongly condemns the Zionist regime’s wide-ranging attacks against the civilians in Gaza.

“The raids against innocent people are unforgivable and unacceptable.”

And the most useless and mealy-mouthed reaction of all comes from — surprise! — the Vatican:

Rev Federico Lombardi, Vatican Spokesman

“Hamas is a prisoner to a logic of hate, Israel to a logic of faith in force as the best response to hate.

“One must continue to search for a different way out, even if that may seem impossible.”

So from this we get a fairly clear idea how our leaders will react to terrorist attacks against Jewish targets. A few words careful not to offend Islamic terrorists. Hence the responsibility ends where it should begin. In the hands of each individual Jewish person to decide how exactly they should protect themselves. The state will not be able to do it nor has the will.

Perhaps the radical sounding words of the founder of the JDL, Rabbi Meir David Kahane don’t sound so radical now. “Every Jew a .22″.

Frankly, I think a .45 would make a lot more sense.

I have been planning this post since Wendy pointed me at the story. It has taken me all day to manage to format it my head in such a manner that I can get it down. I feel this aspect, this slice of time in terms of the events in Bombay India reveals such malice and horror, not just of deed but of agenda and thought that it requires me to once again desensitize myself beyond even what someone who writes daily on the atrocities of Muslims in the name of Islam do around the world on a daily basis.

Let’s start with what we all know. A group of well trained and well equipped Muslim terrorists from a few nations launched an operation out of Pakistan with the intention of murdering five thousand people. They fell short of that mark but that was the plan. They had prepared for this for some time in advance using a plan loosely based on a shelved one intended for use in New York called ‘Landmarks’, an Al Queada plan intended to wreak havoc and based on a design by Ramsey Yussef, the man who was the central figure of the first attack on New York’s WTC. (For more on Landmark’s, its specifics and details please click here)

We also all know that a Jewish community center was one of the targets of this operation. The idea was to kill jews. It should be noted that this building had no markings of a Jewish center. That it was far away from the other targets and that it had little or no strategic value but did require a significant percentage of the total resources available to the terrorist group to be used for this purpose. Had they not done this, and remember this was a very carefully planned and rehearsed operation, they would have inflicted a great deal more death and misery on the people of Bombay. Many of us, myself included perhaps may try and mitigate this as being some kind of act based on the existence of Israel or some kind of show of Palestinian sympathy. For a few reasons this is nonsense of course. Hatred and killing of Jews go back to Mohamed and these kinds of acts predate the existence of Israel by centuries.

What makes this so difficult to write, is the facts of how the Jews in that building where treated before they where killed. A couple of weeks ago I read an interview with the coroner who did the autopsies on these people and are the state coroners for terrorist attacks in India. From that page,

Asked specifically if he was talking of torture marks, he said: “It was apparent that most of the dead were tortured. What shocked me were the telltale signs showing clearly how the hostages were executed in cold blood,” one doctor said.

The other doctor, who had also conducted the post-mortem of the victims, said: “Of all the bodies, the Israeli victims bore the maximum torture marks. It was clear that they were killed on the 26th itself. It was obvious that they were tied up and tortured before they were killed. It was so bad that I do not want to go over the details even in my head again,” he said.

I read this at the time and kind of dismissed it. Yes there was some shock value in the idea that a seasoned coroner who routinely (that itself is unfortunate) autopsied the bodies of terror victims found this particular incident and victims too horrifying to think about or describe. He objected to discussing it as that would make him have to think of it and he wasn’t prepared to do that.

Then today a photo of the victims with some description of what had been done to them was released. a blurred out one which itself is alarming in as much as today we are all so used to seeing image of violence that would have never made mass media in say, the 1980s or before. This one was so awful that they blurred most of it out. That the Jewish victims, preselected as such with great planning and expense, had been sexually tortured mutilated and humiliated.

Whats my point? That they felt the cost of this action was justified. This wasn’t a few guys on a private plan but this WAS the official plan. This was the intended effect. No politics, no demands, no leverage or bargaining but the sheer desire to torture humiliate and kill jews in ways that would defy the healthy imagination. Below I include that fuzzy picture and a link to some of the descriptions.

I suppose at this point I should advocate for something. An appeal to gods or a demand for state action. I do think any Jew alive today who does not own or have access to a firearm is self deluded but even that won’t help much.

Mumbai Jewish center

If you can manage it, go to the link for the description of what happened to these people.

link one

Link two

James Cohen for Girl on the Right

The mind reels, yet it shouldn’t. I grew up in a post-Trudeaupian Canada, so stuff like this shouldn’t shock me. After all, I went to public school, where your common sense is dimmed by a barrage of unionized sycophants to the nanny state.

In Canada, Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant - both successful, suspiciously Jewish (or Jewish sounding) men - get accused of hate crimes and dragged through a high-cost, no-win situation. People like Rev. Stephen Boisson, who quote Leviticus because it’s their fucking job to do so get persecuted and finally forced to renounce their faith, because they committed a hate crime according to the Marsupial Magistrates. They spend hundreds of thousands of dollars they may not have to defend themselves against Orwellian thought crimes.

But when a Jihadi-humping Muslim bombs a Jewish school in the name of Allah in Canada, he doesn’t get hit with a hate crime. No, he gets a measly four years in prison, cut down to 10 months thanks to our absurd “time served” laws. Even though the judge admitted it was an act of “terrorism” he gets just four years.

I assume that was all negotiated by a taxpayer funded public defender, unlike what those accused of Section 13 thought crimes get.

So remember kids - if you bomb a Jewish school in the name of Allah, you get 4 years and a public defender. But if you write about people who bomb Jewish schools in the name of Allah, you commit a hate crime and will be destroyed by the Marsupials.

Welcome to Canada. Have you anything to declare?

Jewish worshippers returning to Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs after Muslims were given exclusive access to the holy site at the weekend reported that the cabinet containing their Torah scrolls had been urinated on.

Such fine people. So tolerant of other faiths. So respectful.

Before you consider that it may have merely been a couple of yobs on a dare,

Another Jewish resident of Hebron said that some damage to Jewish religious articles or the Jewish side of the site is found every time the Muslims take over.

Charming.

Canada has walked away from one of the most farcical UN conferences, calling it a “gong show”.

Canada has withdrawn its support for a UN anti-racism conference slated to take place in South Africa next year, the federal government announced Wednesday.

The so-called Durban II conference “has gone completely off the rails” and Canada wants no part of it, said Jason Kenney, secretary of state for multiculturalism and Canadian identity.

“Canada is interested in combatting racism, not promoting it,” Mr. Kenney told The Canadian Press. “We’ll attend any conference that is opposed to racism and intolerance, not those that actually promote racism and intolerance.

“Our considered judgment, having participated in the preparatory meetings, was that we were set for a replay of Durban I. And Canada has no intention of lending its good name and resources to such a systematic promotion of hatred and bigotry.”

The 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban turned into “a circus of intolerance,” Mr. Kenney said.

One government official on Wednesday called the conference “a gong show.”

I’m proud of Canada. Durban I in 2001 was a Cinco de Mayo with Israel as the pinata. All the Muslim countries got together to blame the Jooooos for all the world’s ills. To have our current Conservative government stand up and tell the UN to shove their conference is something that I applaud.

Now if they would just turn their attention to the Human Rights Commissions…

A PRO-TERROR hate film that urges children to martyr themselves in Islam’s war on the West and calls Jews “pigs” has been rated PG by Australia’s censors.

Sheik Feiz Mohammed’s DVD box set, which also calls for the murder of non-believers, was initially seized by Federal anti-terror police.

But the Office of Film and Literature Classification has ruled that The Death Series is suitable to be bought and watched by children.

Remember kiddies, Muslims are just like us, and we have nothing to fear from them. They are a Religion of Peace…..

The films urge parents to make their children holy warriors and martyrs, and praises jihad as the pinnacle of Islam.

The radical sheik makes snorting noises on the films as he vilifies Jews as the “army of pigs”.

He blames a lack of courage for martyrdom on the battlefield for the “humiliation” of Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Guantanamo.

I have been trying to come to terms with a few things over the past few days. Ann Coulter’s “faggot” remark at CPAC is one of them. I was there last year when she made the “raghead” comment, and I remember the outrage of everyone in the room, myself included. But how can I revile her for her cheap shots when I take so many of my own?

Yesterday, the arch-fiend Robert McClelland made a hard-core anti-semetic remark in the comments section of his Blahg:

When the State starts rounding up my Jewish neighbours, I’ll speak up.

Not me. People like Klownsella, Chernyuk and Smeagol the Jew have taught me it’s not worth getting involved. When next they come for the Jews I doubt I’ll even be able to muster up a “what a shame”.

This caused both the left and right of the blogosphere to gasp in collective horror. Cherniak called for McClelland’s head on a pike, and it was handed to him by the NDP. As disgusted as I was with Robert, I couldn’t help but think of how last summer the Blogging Tories and the Conservative Party could have done the same to me. They didn’t, but they could have. My views of Islam may be similar to what others are thinking, but most of them will never say it.

Just the other day I was defending people’s rights to say whatever they please in the blogosphere. How could I condemn him? Yet, how could I not? So I emailed Kathy, who would prefer to give McCelland a soapbox to stand on while he proves what a filthy Jew-hater he is. Anti-semitism is rife on the left, and it needs to be exposed - so let Bobby Boy expose himself all over the place. Kathy was finally able to help me put into words the confusion I had been feeling over Coulter and McClelland:

They have a right to say anything they want and so do we. I wish she hadn’t
said it at CPAC, but I also think that being sent to rehab for saying
faggot is worse than saying faggot — and a leftist would think the
opposite of course.

My concern is that Jason the Hall Monitor and Co. on both sides are trying
to clean up the blogosphere and make it into something it isn’t. It isn’t a
newspaper or tv show. Swearing and nudity or whatever have their place (a
submarine, the walls of an art gallery) but aren’t appropriate everywhere
(church, the super bowl half time show). Blogging is its own space where
certain rules don’t apply. In my opinion as one of the pioneers who doesn’t
like to see blogging being professionalized and sanitized.

So Robert can say what he wants on his blog, but Coulter should have been
more circumspect at CPAC. Then we say so. What I sense is something far
more insidious that anything Robert or Coulter can say and that is the
stuck up little twerps like Jason and Kinsella and their faux outrage over
other people’s opinions and the not-far-off call for censorship.

A place for everything and everything in its place. I said something similar last year about Coulter. I thought that what people say in the privacy of their own homes with friends (or on their blogs) is one thing, but what they say to a room full of impressionable university students who will be leading us tomorrow (CPAC) is quite another.

So let McClelland spew his vitriol against the world’s most persecuted religion, and let me attack their attackers. In the meantime, let’s send Annie to finishing school.