Thursday, August 7, 2008
Canadian author Howard Rotberg (his blog is here) has found himself the latest victim of the Canadian jihad against free expression. Via Boker tov, Boulder comes the story as told at The Last Amazon. Rotberg was giving a lecture at a branch of the Canadian book store chain, Chapters. He was interrupted by some folks seeking to utilize the heckler's veto. Here's a snip of the story:
...they took turns talking -- and talking. It was apparent that they were not going to let me speak any more. They had decided to take over my lecture.
The Palestinian was shouting something about how the Israelis kill five Palestinians a day. Some audience members had heard enough.
"Be quiet and let the author continue with his lecture; he has the right to give his lecture," said one audience member.
"He has no right to lecture if he is going to say things in support of Israel," said the Palestinian. His words cut me like a knife.
Then the Iraqi started in. Again someone pleaded with him to be quiet so I could lecture. Then came the words that still ring in my ears: "He's a f****** Jew."...
It gets worse from there, and it won't come as any surprise to those who have followed the travails of Canada's Ezra Levant that the Canadian Jewish establishment has been less than helpful in what has now become a legal issue.
Blazing Cat Fur has a bit as well (that via the Flea).
At Rotberg's blog you can read a number of interesting posts, including this one which contains the revealing statement of 18 year old Raneem Al-Halimi, a part time employee at the Waterloo Chapters where the event took place. Summary: "I just know he's racist and hates me because I'm brown and wear hijab!"
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A Jewish family is considering putting their grandfather in a nursing home. All the Jewish facilities are completely full so they have to put him in a Catholic home. After a few weeks in the Catholic facility they come to visit grandpa.
"How do you like it here?" asks the grandson.
"It's wonderful. Everyone here is so courteous and respectful," says grandpa.
"We're so happy for you. We were worried that this was the wrong place for you."
"Let me tell you about how wonderfully they treat the residents here," grandpa says with a big smile.
"There's a musician here -- he's 85 years old. He hasn't played the violin in 20 years, and everyone still calls him 'Maestro'!"
"And there's a physician here -- 90 years old. He hasn't been practicing medicine for 25 years and everyone still call him 'Doctor'!"
"And me, I haven't had sex for 30 years and they still call me 'the Fucking Jew'."
Ha! Excellent.
It's a joke I heard a few years ago. I found a site that had a version that matched the one I heard.
One of my teachers is writing a thesis on Jewish writers and writings and literature in Canada for her Masters in International Literature at University of London. She is Polish - Dominika Stasiak DomiSta@poczta.fm. She has spent hundreds of hours writing her thesis which is being mentored by a well known academic in this field. I am just brushing up her Qs and Ts. If you have any valuable material which she may use please do email her.
I am a Hindu and am amazed that even with the passing of time we are still struggling with petty mudslinging. I come from a country with one of the oldest Jewish synagogues - Armenian Jews in Calcutta and elsewhere where they led prosperous lives, serving with distinction in the army, navy, and airforce and other services as well.
The Canadian Jewish community has a rich heritage, where the founders were inured to day to day victimisation and slurs, always keeping the bigger picture and goal in sight. And here are the third generation offsprings still mired in day to day controversy -- they simply need to grow up and grow out of this mental state of self-victimisation.
THE PEN IS ALWAYS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD - the honourable writer by keeping a diginified silence and writing about his experiences later would have won all round sympathy like his esteemed forebears who won all their battles with patience, fortitude, and guile.
I wonder whether Dominika is doing the right thing, writing about some piece of literary history she obviously likes because of Jewish connections in Poland, while the actual present day incumbents wallow in self deprecation.
lol , fuckin jew!!!! thats right.