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Friday, 07 August 2009

“F” is for “frivolous”--and “feckless": B’nai Brith Canada is distressed because some Jew-haters are availing themselves of our “human rights” apparatus:
TORONTO, August 7, 2009 – B’nai Brith Canada strongly condemns the Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) - Carleton University for following in the footsteps of other anti-Israel entities in abusing Canada’s Human Rights Tribunals and Commissions with another frivolous complaint.  The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario recently agreed to mediate between the SAIA chapter and Carleton University over events that took place earlier this year, when the University used its good judgment to insist on the removal of an offensive antisemitic poster.  The poster, which the SAIA group had put up as advertisement for Israel Apartheid Week, modernized the medieval blood libel accusing the Jews of murdering innocent children. 
“The poster that this SAIA chapter put up was an affront and an offense to every person of goodwill,” said Frank Dimant, Executive Vice President of B’nai Brith Canada. “The university was truly justified in using its good judgment to ensure the poster’s removal.
“It is obvious that this maneuver to involve the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario is part of a new strategy being employed by those who wish to create a ‘legal chill.’  This new strategy is being propagated by those groups that cross the line from legitimate criticism of a democratic Israel to promoting propaganda against the Jewish State and, by extension, the Jewish people.
“We have recently seen other cases here in Canada which exemplify this new strategy of intimidation through ‘legal chill’: there was an attempt to muzzle Maclean’s magazine, the Western Standard and Ezra Levant were dragged through tribunal hearings, and B’nai Brith Canada, for a period of five years, had to defend itself against a frivolous charge lodged with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission.  In all of these cases, the charges were either withdrawn or the defendants won, but only after an enormous cost in terms of dollars and human resources. 
“Serious reform is necessary to ensure the viability of our Human Rights Tribunals and Commissions.  Canadians who believe in standing up for human rights should really be concerned that these types of frivolous complaints keep wasting valuable resources that could otherwise be spent fighting genuine human rights violations.”
See, it wasn’t supposed to work that way. The way it was supposed to work was that Jews would be able to lodge complaints about “Nazis,” but Jew-haters wouldn’t be to be able to gripe about Jews--in other words, censorship for me, not thee. Not in their wildest dreams did the Official Jews ever imagine that the very system they worked so hard to set up and in which they placed so much stock would end up being used against them by their enemies. And, further, that in Pierre’s Trudeaupia the state wouldn’t lift a finger to defend them against these particular Jew-haters, since they belong to one of Canada’s designated victim groups, and, apart from that, our timourous authorities don't want to mess with them.
Had the O.J.s resolved to toughen up and back free speech instead of state censorship way back when, these “rights” tribunals wouldn’t be fielding such complaints today. The fact that, despite everything that’s happened, the B’nai Brith still believes the system can be tweaked such that the Islamists’ “frivolous” complaints will be ignored while the Jews’ "valid" complaints will be entertained shows how out absurdly of touch with reality--dare one call it a type of derangement?--Frank Dimant and his posse really are.

Update: This one came to me in my sleep:

Among the Official Jews’ shibboleths
Is that only its gripes aren’t “frivolous.”
The all seem to agree,
“Censorship’s just for me”--
A thought apt to make free-speechers bibulous.

Posted by: scaramouche at 23:41 | link | comments (4)


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#1  08 August 2009 - 03:11
 
Read this bit of OHRC history: http://www.sphr.org/uwo/article-americanarab.pdf
Anonymous
#2  08 August 2009 - 11:20
 
You remain so busy attacking decent groups like Bnai Brith and CJC you don't have time for the real work. Thankfully these groups pay no attention to you and do what has to be done.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/united-church-resolution-is-anti-semitic-cjc-says/article1245748/
Anonymous
#3  09 August 2009 - 05:38
 
Oh the world is not fair to Frank nor Burny either.

They wander/stumble from crisis to crisis often of their own making.

At least they still have CBC - as I posted a comment similar but far briefer than yours and SURPRISE - imust still be in the pre-moderation quewue?
Anonymous
#4  09 August 2009 - 22:19
 
What Ezra Levant calls "the Official Jews" have had it their own way with the HRC's since the 60's with themselves or other client groups their leftish selves approve like gays as the eternal complainants and overwhelmingly white males as the defendants, exclusively Christian if religion is involved. 

Why wouldn't they think that the novelty of Jews as defendants is a glitch in "their" system that can be ironed out by invoking more of the Double Standard that is the modus operandi of the Left?

Their sole miscalculation lies in thinking that Jews could permanently hang on to title of Underdog in a movement that foments class warfare and has now added a hierarchy of cultural grievances where Muslims presently occupy the pole position and are allowed to "out-victim" Jews based on Palestine and Israel though Muslim history is rife with handing out holocausts to others to spread Islam, not suffering them themselves.
Anonymous
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