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A word to the unwise: What’s the deal with CIJA Jews and their ongoing devotion to state censorship? Why do the likes of Tammy, Leo, Hershell and Frank (who, really, should know better) continue to hold onto their tattered security blankie, the one that has enabled them to “fight” the phantom menace of local “Nazis” via a genuine menace—our anti-Western, anti-democratic, anti-freedom totalitarian court system? Well, you could say it comes down to a matter of words—or, rather, a misunderstanding about words—and the role that words, “hate speech,” played in the genocide of Europe’s Jews. As far as these gentlemen are concerned, the “hate speech” came first and, as a direct result, the Holocaust followed hard on its heels.
Leo Adler explained how it worked to the Canadian Jewish News:
He said that every genocide, including the Holocaust, started with words. “We don’t want words that have the potential for causing these catastrophes.”
But in the same article, Ezra Levant spelled out the historically inaccuracy—and downright fallaciousness—of Adler’s assertion:
Levant, however, dismissed that line of argument. Hitler, he said, gathered strength in the Weimar Republic, which had legislation against hate speech.
“What killed Jews in the Holocaust was not hate speech.” As well, he noted, the Shoah was preceded by the Nuremberg Laws and the removal of Jewish rights to property, self defence and even life itself.
“We’re foolish if we think that controlling speech will protect us from real violence,” he said.
Why do we have censorship in Canada? In large part it’s because influential Jews like Mr. Adler have misread and misunderstood the historical record. I would direct these machers to Saul Friedlander’s masterful history of the Shoah, The Years of Extermination. It makes clear that the catastrophe didn’t “start with words.” It occurred because an ambitious, power-hungry, charismatic leader who had designs on the world and an irrational obsession with the Jews gained power over a powerful nation. This leader used hate propaganda—“words”—to help him fulfill his agenda of ridding the planet of the blight he thought threatened to destroy it, “the Jews.”
In other words, “words” didn’t cause the Holocaust. Hitler and those who got onside with his eliminationist agenda, caused it. And those good people who remained silent and impassive, thereby allowing evil to triumph, abetted it.
You can see the same sort of irrational obsession—and another eliminationist agenda; hello, Durban II—in operation today. Only now the obsession is not about the blight of the Jewish people and how it threatens to "contaminate" the world, but about the Jewish state and how its "immorality" and "racism" are "contaminating" the global scene, and why it must be extirpated before doing any more harm. And the agenda is being driven not by a totalitarian dictator with grandiose dreams, but by the international organization that arose from the ashes of a world devastated by war in order to prevent the recurrence of another catastrophe like the Holocaust; an organization that takes its marching orders from its largest voting bloc, which denies that the Holocaust happened and is obsessed—obsessed—with Israel.
Ironic, no?
So how does curtailing free speech in Canada translate to helping Jews and others put the brakes on what now seems inevitable—the elimination/destruction of the Jewish state by the world community on “moral grounds”? It doesn’t. It can’t. It won’t. All it has done is spark a backlash against Canadian Jews, since they are rightly perceived as being responsible for subverting our most valuable freedom. It has also led to a truly perilous situation: if we dare to speak out about the irrational obsession and the looming threat of Israel’s destruction (along with the threat to Western civilization as a whole) and end up “hurting” the feelings of those pushing the eliminationist agenda, we risk being silenced and punished by a powerful nomenklatura of useful idiots. Now, when more than ever, Jews and all freedom-loving Canadians need to be able to use their words, we aren’t allowed to—in no small measure because some well-meaning but misguided Jews continue to believe that “words” are the problem and censorship is the solution.
There's only one word for such people: fools!
