La Vie Juif En Rose
Federally-funded Palestine House "youts" may jiggle their zippers and hurl coins at the Jews; every day brings new immigrants streaming into the land who imbibed Judenhass/Zionhass back in their home countries and who have brought it here; and despite promises to "streamline the process" (whatever that means) there's no indication that authorities intend to do much of anything about a vocal immigrant from Bangladesh who openly calls for a genocide of the Jews. And yet, all in all, Ceej honcho, the non-gay Bernie Farber, thinks things are pretty terrific for Jews here in Pierre's Trudeaupia, as he tells the National Post:
Hate crimes increased 35% between 2007 and 2008, according to a report from Statistics Canada released on Monday, with Jewish and black people the most targeted groups for attacks. The data shows hate crimes are on the rise in each motivation grouping: race and ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation.
Canadian police services reported 1,036 hate crimes in 2008, with 55% of those reported motivated by race or ethnicity.
Of all race-based attacks, blacks were targeted four out of 10 times; Jews were the subject of 165 attacks, or about two-thirds of all religious hate crimes.
Bernie Farber, CEO of the Canadian Jewish Congress, said that while the numbers are “disturbing,” he can pinpoint the political factors contributing to spikes in hate-crime incidents against Jews. “When there is a situation that has developed in the Middle East, dealing with the Jewish state of Israel, it is a truism to say hate crimes against Jews rise,” he said. “In the timeline that you’ve seen this increase, we’ve had the Lebanese incursion and the Gaza war. It’s a tense time when these things happen, and people’s most base and hateful qualities come out."
Mr. Farber says he thinks the spike can also be attributed to more victims reporting hate crimes in the last five years. “There’s also good news here. While there’s been a spike, the number of crimes is still not huge. It’s still correct to say that Canada is one of the safest places for Jews to live anywhere in the world,” he said. “We work very closely with the police to ensure that hate crimes are reported.”...
Well, as long as every last grafitti of doom is logged by police, I'm sure everything's okay.
3 comments:
It’s a tense time when these things happen, and people’s most base and hateful qualities come out."
Burnies' never seen that evil in person while protecting the largest symbol for Israel in his home city. I've never seen him in front of the Israeli consulate, has anyone else?
Interesting that both Jonathan Kay and bernie farber seem to agree on the safety of Jews in Canada.
http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/05/12/jonathan-kay-on-b-nai-b-rith.aspx
MWH: Bernie sees the evil in Nazis. That's his preferred bailiwick.
Lakish: They're both mistaken, but for different reasons. Jon, correctly, notes that old-fashioned anti-Semitism is passe, but fails to mention the Zionhass, which is busting out all over (and that does represent a clear and present danger to Jewry). Farber, as mentioned, is searching for Nazis under the bed, is heavily invested in Canada's "human rights" ethos and all the puffery and nonsense that entails, and isn't one to rock any boats, at least not too heartily.
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