The Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA) ran the following short blurb in its "News At A Glance" column a few days ago:
"B'nai Brith Canada asked the country's Liberal Party to identify the individuals in the opposition party it has referred to as "Holocaust deniers, racists and bigots" in their campaign for prime minister.
"The heated race between Prime Minister Jean Chretien, of the Liberal Party and Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day prompted the Jewish organization to ask the parties to expel all members who are involved in "anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism."
Whereupon Ernst Zündel and I shared a sweet, ironic moment because I said to him:
"See? Now the Liberals of Canada NEED revisionists as bogeymen so as to hold on to their power with white knuckles. They ought to ***pay*** you to endorse Stockwell Day."
How far Revisionism has come! The Liberals are now signaling to all and sundry what Ernst calls the "Bannfluch" - the Medieval Curse directed by church authorities on men like the Reformer Martin Luther. That "Bannfluch" is, of course, the Dire Disapproval that Will Befall the Wicked of they Dare Think a Revisionist Thought.
The Leuchter Report is written all over the Canadian election. And all thanks to Sabina Citron of the Canadian Holocaust Remembrance Association who could not keep her hatred of Ernst Zündel to herself - and thanks to Elinor Caplan who thinks that she can ride to victory in her electoral campaign on smear words such as "Holocaust Denier', "Racist" and "Bigot"!
More light can be shed on what is going on in Canada these days by an analysis a Canadian correspondent shipped to me last night.
Dear Dr. Rimland:
An article entitled "Shame on you, Elinor and Doris -- er, Stockwell" by Peter Gzowski in the November 18 edition of the Toronto Globe and Mail begins this way:
"All those people who told us the federal election campaign was going to get nasty didn't know the half of it.
"The Canadian Alliance is full of Holocaust deniers? Elinor Caplan, the Immigration Minister who is running for re-election in Toronto, ought to be ashamed of herself for suggesting it.
"Of course there are some creepy people who'll vote for the Alliance -- and the other parties too. But it's false logic to attack a political party because some of the people who support it are kooks..."
With this as backdrop, I will add these thoughts to your November 18 Z-gram, containing the commentary from the November Power Letter Ernst Zündel is sending his "friends around the world."
The above (telltale) excerpt was, as I said, written by Peter Gzowski, the Walter Cronkite of Canadian broadcasting, and published in Canada's newspaper of record, the Toronto Globe and Mail, in this weekend's edition.
First off, please note that Gzowski is very much the personification of social democratic PC values.
For example, during the 1990s his popular CBC weekday morning radio show dramatized a scene from a memoir of sexual abuse, where a teenage girl was compelled by parents to pose for a child pornographer in lewd and suggestive ways. An utterly harrowing stomach-turner!
But the same radio show found Victor Ostrovsky's "By Way of Deception" way too hot to handle and, so, gave it a miss, even though it topped our bestseller list. When asked why Gzowski's radio-show "Morningside" had done an end-run around Ostrovsky's Mossad memoir, a "Morningside" producer red-flagged a requirement that their program be "SENSITIVE" (nudge, wink...) to all their listeners' "FEELINGS" (ahem...).
Gzowski, you'll note, begins his 2nd paragraph with a question: "The Canadian Alliance is full of Holocaust deniers?"
Now the accusation against the Canadian Alliance Party -- which, incidentally, advertises itself as a true friend to Israel -- was that it has proved to be a magnet for "Holocaust deniers, racists and bigots." But Gzowski seems content to focus on "Holocaust deniers" only -- overlooking the accusation made by Canada's Immigration Minister, the portly Jewess, Elinor Caplan -- that the right-of-centre CA Party was home to a motley collection of "racists" and "bigots" as well.
Moreover, Gzowski does not condemn these so-called "Holocaust deniers" as an incarnation of abject evil. Not at all! They are dismissed as "creepy people" and "kooks." Not Hitler wannabes, but simply misfits and oddballs. One pictures a few oafs in mismatched hand-me-downs, not straight-arrow SS officers in trim uniforms. An interesting touch of nuance there, what?
Also "interesting" (to say the least) is that personalities like Ernst Zündel and Doug Christie, Marc Lemire and Jim Keegstra, Paul Fromm and Malcolm Ross have all become "issues" in our Canadian federal election campaign.
Doug Christie, for example, has organized a series of meetings for this weekend in Alberta's capital, Edmonton. Such a noise and nuisance was made of this that it couldn't have gotten more uproarious had it been bruited about that Leni Riefenstahl herself was flying up to Canada to videotape the event!
Not since 1985, and the monumental splash caused by the first great Zündel "Holocaust trial," has Canada's Jewish community been this divided.
What does it tell us when a prominent Toronto academic writes the National Post [November 17], rival to the Globe and Mail, to introduce himself as a "Holocaust survivor" and, in the next breath, compare Elinor Caplan, a cabinet minister who's been very cozy with Organized Jewry for decades (mentioned above by Peter Gzowski) to (Yes!) Dr. Joseph Goebbels?
In fact, here are the startling words Professor John J. Furedy used:
"As a Holocaust survivor (when I was four, Eichmann did not have enough trains to take my mother and me from the Budapest ghetto to the concentration camps), I'll tell you what Elinor Caplan's and the Liberal party's guilt-by-association accusation of Holocaust denial against Day and the Canadian Alliance reminds me of: Goebbels and the Nazi technique of the Big Lie. It remains to be seen whether the Goebbels technique of spreading lies about the Alliance party just before the election will persuade enough voters to make their decision on the basis of unjustified emotional smears, or of more factual and rational considerations."
To put all this in an American context, imagine Senator Lieberman attacking (George W. Bush's) Republican Party for being the party of choice for Fred Leuchter, Michael Hoffman, Mark Weber and Ingrid Rimland and other alleged racists and bigots, and then himself being as viciously attacked by Elie Wiesel for trivializing the Holocaust.
It's no wonder that B'nai Brith Canada has begged for a time-out by all sides in what has turned into the nastiest election campaign in a generation. Our pols, anxious to prove how much they hate hate, have themselves engaged in blatant, wholesale hate-mongering.
What "creepy people" they are, to borrow Peter Gzowski's phrase.
It's all a bit confusing, I know - but what it means is that the Liberals of Canada have just about run out of credence because they've been found out. They need new bogeymen. They have lied for too long to too many. Even the Jews are, en masse, jumping ship - which leaves the tattered Liberals of yesterday to run around and shriek, like banshees about to be castrated.
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"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
-Henry Brooks Adams
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