Stephen Harper calls out left's anti-semitism

[Anonymous]

Stephen Harper has become a real statesman since leaving office.



By Lorrie Goldstein of Sun News Media



In an era when Liberal MP Iqra Khalid, mover of the Liberals' "anti-islamophobia" motion, had to belatedly apologize for giving an award to an alleged anti-semite, the moral clarity of former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper is timely and important.



We saw this in Harper's Wednesday Sun Media column, "Corbyn's anti-semitism is a threat to all of us", co-authored with David Trimbel, first minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002, which originally appeared in The Telegraph.



In three, short introductory paragraphs, they accurately summed up the state of Jew-hatred in the world today. As they wrote:



"The rise in anti-semitism across Europe should be alarming to all of us, and not just for moral reasons. History shows that the mindset which embraces anti-semitism rarely restricts its hatred to the Jewish minority.



"Today's threats against Europe's Jewish populations are both different and more diverse than those in the past. Far-right extremism is still with us, but now represents only one slice of the problem. Radical, jihadist Islam is now the much larger threat. However, the far-left has also become a substantial source of anti-semitism.



"Today's hard-left exhibits a particularly pernicious form of anti-semitism – one couched in anti-racism rhetoric to make it socially acceptable in polite company. It is not the Jews, they claim, who are uniquely evil among the nations. It just happens to be Israel, the Jewish state, that is the source of such malevolence."



Harper and Trimbel described UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, a potential prime minister, as "a man who lays wreaths at the graves of anti-semitic terrorists, and then thinly papers over his actions with nonsensical hair-splitting" adding, "Mr. Corbyn's comfort in the company of anti-semites and other extremists whom he calls 'friends' speaks for itself."



Their accurate observation that the far left has become as infected by Jew hatred as the far right goes back a long way.



Three prominent Canadian leftists, Philip Berger, Jeff Rose and Clayton Ruby, identified the same concern in a courageous column, "No more double standard", in the Globe and Mail in 2002.



As they wrote: "The singularity of focus on Israel, which is increasingly common within the Canadian left (for example, equating Israel with apartheid South Africa), raises our fears that anti-semitism has emerged as a powerful force in the polemic ...



"Despite Israel's functioning democracy and independent judiciary ... despite its freedom of elections, religion, speech and press and the protection of labour, homosexual and women's rights, Israel has been cast as one of the world's most evil nations. Meanwhile, vicious anti-semitic propaganda and widespread detention of peaceful political opponents remain a hallmark of most of Israel's neighbours ...



"We reject as anti-semitic the shameful double standard applied to the only Jewish state. We call on the Canadian left as a whole to reject this double standard as well."



Finally, the left's use of Israel to attack Jews is nothing new.



In one infamous example, the liberal Toronto Star published an editorial in 1988 criticizing Jewish supporters of Israel, as, it said, "a necessary reminder to members of the Jewish community in Canada that they are citizens of Canada, not Israel."



That invoked the ancient anti-semitic canard that Jews have "dual loyalties", common in Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union.



Demonstrating, again, how the extreme left and right end up in the same place — hating Jews.

[Anonymous]

Stephen Harper has become a real statesman since leaving office.



By Lorrie Goldstein of Sun News Media



In an era when Liberal MP Iqra Khalid, mover of the Liberals' "anti-islamophobia" motion, had to belatedly apologize for giving an award to an alleged anti-semite, the moral clarity of former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper is timely and important.



We saw this in Harper's Wednesday Sun Media column, "Corbyn's anti-semitism is a threat to all of us", co-authored with David Trimbel, first minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002, which originally appeared in The Telegraph.



In three, short introductory paragraphs, they accurately summed up the state of Jew-hatred in the world today. As they wrote:



"The rise in anti-semitism across Europe should be alarming to all of us, and not just for moral reasons. History shows that the mindset which embraces anti-semitism rarely restricts its hatred to the Jewish minority.



"Today's threats against Europe's Jewish populations are both different and more diverse than those in the past. Far-right extremism is still with us, but now represents only one slice of the problem. Radical, jihadist Islam is now the much larger threat. However, the far-left has also become a substantial source of anti-semitism.



"Today's hard-left exhibits a particularly pernicious form of anti-semitism – one couched in anti-racism rhetoric to make it socially acceptable in polite company. It is not the Jews, they claim, who are uniquely evil among the nations. It just happens to be Israel, the Jewish state, that is the source of such malevolence."



Harper and Trimbel described UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, a potential prime minister, as "a man who lays wreaths at the graves of anti-semitic terrorists, and then thinly papers over his actions with nonsensical hair-splitting" adding, "Mr. Corbyn's comfort in the company of anti-semites and other extremists whom he calls 'friends' speaks for itself."



Their accurate observation that the far left has become as infected by Jew hatred as the far right goes back a long way.



Three prominent Canadian leftists, Philip Berger, Jeff Rose and Clayton Ruby, identified the same concern in a courageous column, "No more double standard", in the Globe and Mail in 2002.



As they wrote: "The singularity of focus on Israel, which is increasingly common within the Canadian left (for example, equating Israel with apartheid South Africa), raises our fears that anti-semitism has emerged as a powerful force in the polemic ...



"Despite Israel's functioning democracy and independent judiciary ... despite its freedom of elections, religion, speech and press and the protection of labour, homosexual and women's rights, Israel has been cast as one of the world's most evil nations. Meanwhile, vicious anti-semitic propaganda and widespread detention of peaceful political opponents remain a hallmark of most of Israel's neighbours ...



"We reject as anti-semitic the shameful double standard applied to the only Jewish state. We call on the Canadian left as a whole to reject this double standard as well."



Finally, the left's use of Israel to attack Jews is nothing new.



In one infamous example, the liberal Toronto Star published an editorial in 1988 criticizing Jewish supporters of Israel, as, it said, "a necessary reminder to members of the Jewish community in Canada that they are citizens of Canada, not Israel."



That invoked the ancient anti-semitic canard that Jews have "dual loyalties", common in Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union.



Demonstrating, again, how the extreme left and right end up in the same place — hating Jews.

Former prime minister Harper kept a low profile for the first year or so after he lost the last election, but that has really changed in the last twelve months.

[Thiel]

Stephen Harper has become a real statesman since leaving office.



By Lorrie Goldstein of Sun News Media



In an era when Liberal MP Iqra Khalid, mover of the Liberals' "anti-islamophobia" motion, had to belatedly apologize for giving an award to an alleged anti-semite, the moral clarity of former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper is timely and important.



We saw this in Harper's Wednesday Sun Media column, "Corbyn's anti-semitism is a threat to all of us", co-authored with David Trimbel, first minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2002, which originally appeared in The Telegraph.



In three, short introductory paragraphs, they accurately summed up the state of Jew-hatred in the world today. As they wrote:



"The rise in anti-semitism across Europe should be alarming to all of us, and not just for moral reasons. History shows that the mindset which embraces anti-semitism rarely restricts its hatred to the Jewish minority.



"Today's threats against Europe's Jewish populations are both different and more diverse than those in the past. Far-right extremism is still with us, but now represents only one slice of the problem. Radical, jihadist Islam is now the much larger threat. However, the far-left has also become a substantial source of anti-semitism.



"Today's hard-left exhibits a particularly pernicious form of anti-semitism – one couched in anti-racism rhetoric to make it socially acceptable in polite company. It is not the Jews, they claim, who are uniquely evil among the nations. It just happens to be Israel, the Jewish state, that is the source of such malevolence."



Harper and Trimbel described UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, a potential prime minister, as "a man who lays wreaths at the graves of anti-semitic terrorists, and then thinly papers over his actions with nonsensical hair-splitting" adding, "Mr. Corbyn's comfort in the company of anti-semites and other extremists whom he calls 'friends' speaks for itself."



Their accurate observation that the far left has become as infected by Jew hatred as the far right goes back a long way.



Three prominent Canadian leftists, Philip Berger, Jeff Rose and Clayton Ruby, identified the same concern in a courageous column, "No more double standard", in the Globe and Mail in 2002.



As they wrote: "The singularity of focus on Israel, which is increasingly common within the Canadian left (for example, equating Israel with apartheid South Africa), raises our fears that anti-semitism has emerged as a powerful force in the polemic ...



"Despite Israel's functioning democracy and independent judiciary ... despite its freedom of elections, religion, speech and press and the protection of labour, homosexual and women's rights, Israel has been cast as one of the world's most evil nations. Meanwhile, vicious anti-semitic propaganda and widespread detention of peaceful political opponents remain a hallmark of most of Israel's neighbours ...



"We reject as anti-semitic the shameful double standard applied to the only Jewish state. We call on the Canadian left as a whole to reject this double standard as well."



Finally, the left's use of Israel to attack Jews is nothing new.



In one infamous example, the liberal Toronto Star published an editorial in 1988 criticizing Jewish supporters of Israel, as, it said, "a necessary reminder to members of the Jewish community in Canada that they are citizens of Canada, not Israel."



That invoked the ancient anti-semitic canard that Jews have "dual loyalties", common in Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union.



Demonstrating, again, how the extreme left and right end up in the same place — hating Jews.

The UK Labour Party has exorcised any remnants of Tony Blair's centrism.

[JOE]

Many, including those in his own party, didnt like Harper's iron fisted approach. I read somewhere that some Conservatives described Harper as 'Stalinist '. However, with the likes of Maxim Bernier threatening to tear the Conservative Party apart, perhaps that was what was needed to keep them  together.



Maybe Andrew Scheer like Trudeau, is too young, inexperienced and soft for the job as a party leader?

[Thiel]

Many, including those in his own party, didnt like Harper's iron fisted approach. I read somewhere that some Conservatives described Harper as 'Stalinist '. However, with the likes of Maxim Bernier threatening to tear the Conservative Party apart, perhaps that was what was needed to keep them  together.



Maybe Andrew Scheer like Trudeau, is too young, inexperienced and soft for the job as a party leader?

Trudeau tolerates no criticism of his inept leadership which is why he surrounds himself with toadies. John Nunziata described Chretien as a dictator.



But, what does your post have to do with Harper calling out leftist anti-semites?

[cc]

But, what does your post have to do with Harper calling out leftist anti-semites?

Absolutely nothing ..... but  it's Joe, eh?