Trudeau the Dictator of Canada

I am sick to my stomach when I watch or listen to my prime minister. I always considered him to be an arrogant, fool who had no business leading a country. I was heart broken when my fellow Canadians voted for him a third time! But when arrogant, fools run a country they become dangerous. 

So here we are in 2022. Who would have predicted that Mr. Trudeau would go full dictator on us? 

To be sure, he was heading that way from the beginning. The trucker demonstration just gave him the excuse to push the gas pedal down harder. He has always intimated his love and respect for all things communist (read totalitarian). On numerous occasions he has publicly decreed his envy of Communist China, Cuba and Venezuela. And people continue to vote for him. He rewarded an Islamic terrorist who murdered a US soldier with millions of dollars and freedom to spread his bigotry in our fair country. There are far too many terrible things that he has done to list here. Some were just plain immoral (his bogus attacks on us while wearing black face on numerous occasions) but many others were serious breaches of our laws. 

                                            Trucker protest in Ottawa

Now we are at a crossroads. Do we continue to believe his lies and the lies of the mainstream media and of other bought and paid for politicians or do we finally wake up from our stupor?

For those who are on Facebook  (I don't advise you to join!) here is an excellent short clip about the other side's hypocrisy, especially during the recent Super Bowl from Ben Shapiro: 

https://www.facebook.com/officialbenshapiro/videos/485282663380438

This is a possible last stand. I consider the truckers heroes. They have tried their best to wake the rest of us up with a peaceful protest to demand freedom.  But under Trudeau and his acolytes, the truckers are not simply citizens with a different point of view. They are the enemy and must be crushed. And their supporters too must be punished.  Rather than meet with the truckers to hear their concerns, he'd rather throw our entire country into a totalitarian state. Recall that he was perfectly fine with not only listening to, but supporting the often violent and bigoted Black Lives Matter demonstrations. You might also recall his advice for PM Modi of India when they were in the throws of a farmer demonstration. He stood with the farmers and lectured Modi on the rites of citizens to peacefully protest and strike. We can add 'hypocrite' to his character description.

Please understand that Trudeau's response has little to do with covid mandates. This is all about grabbing power and not letting go. For this, any excuse will do.  

If you think that this does not concern you, you are in for a big surprise.

There is much that I could write here but I loved what I read in the following article by David Solway.

Here is the link: https://www.israpundit.org/the-canadian-dilemma-in-a-nutshell/

Or you can read it here:

From the perspective of freedom-loving citizens in this country, the trucker convoys and blockades protesting mask and vaccine mandates are a stirring spectacle of patriotism, civic responsibility, and true grit. They represent the offset to heavy-handed and arrogant government that is using everything in its power to suppress their efforts: threats, fines, police coercion, theft of property, and the manifestly illegal sequestering of funds donated to the truckers by private individuals. A conflict of this nature is often framed as the state versus the nation, the authorities versus the people. Whether it applies to the current situation, as we will see, is problematic.

The issue is the preservation, or restitution, of the government-violated Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms meant to guarantee common life in a democratic country—or, at any rate, a country now under the sway of an avowedly communist leader and several autocratic provincial premiers, a country that would appear well on the road to despotic control.

The problem is that fully two-thirds of the electorate rejects or is indifferent to the trucker revolt against unscrupulous and demagogic power. According to an Angus Reid poll, 54% of Canadians would like to see the COVID-19 mandates lifted, yet they are not interested in standing up for the Freedom Convoy that carries their banner. The trucker unions jealous of their perquisites and the bought-and-paid-for national press have also sided with the wielders of tyrannical authority.

Ironically, it is popular opposition to a popular uprising that will determine the future of the country. This explains why, despite the courage and the exhilarating display of patriotic fervor animating the trucker convoys, numbers of Canadians have left or are considering leaving the country. I know of many such. They are not defectors but long-suffering citizens who are convinced that they have read the writing on the wall.

The issue, then, is clear and the problem is obvious. The dilemma is that we may be witnessing the death of a nation. A supine and compliant majority population, even more than a corrupt and imperious governing elite, will determine whether the nation survives or not. The truckers are battling not only a prime minister who admires Communist China and Castroite Cuba, or a banausic troglodyte like Ontario premier Doug Ford, but a majority citizenry that cares little for democratic freedoms and wishes only to get on with things as they were, fully vaccinated and content to go about masked and docile like a Costco herd of narcotized zombies.

Is there still hope that two-thirds of the country will emerge from its stupor? Sites like No More Lockdowns Canada remain confident, thanks largely to the truckers. The editors write: “As we enter the third week of Freedom Convoy protests across Canada, thousands upon thousands of Canadians are uniting behind this movement which is becoming unstoppable. While Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford escalate their rhetoric by declaring states of emergency and attempting to vilify the peaceful demonstrators, Canadians are spontaneously rising to the occasion and participating in these historic events.”

My wife and I endorse that hope, doing what we can, writing and speaking on behalf of the truckers and, like many Canadians, digging into our savings to support their movement. But will that be enough? I confess that I am not sure. When the preponderance of a nation has wilfully surrendered to demagogic authority and heedlessly behaves as instructed, is that nation really worth saving? Can it be saved?

We might say that the truckers and their supporters are the vestiges of the old Canada, but they are an endangered species, a threatened minority. The mass of the country — the non-Canada in the traditional sense, Justin Trudeau’s Canada, Doug Ford’s Canada, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh’s Canada — is not behind them. Is a tragedy in the making? Does the fate of Canada hang in the balance? Must we prepare for the sequel, in whatever way is possible for us?

I think of Hamlet: I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.

Whoopi Goldberg, The Holocaust is Not Simply White on White Crime

After watching Whoopi Goldberg's speech on the TV show, The View, a number of times (how could I not- it was replayed over and over on MSM) I disliked it more and more, each time I watched it. 

It wasn't her insistence of Jews being a race. After all, there is much debate about that within our own faith. It was her comment about the Holocaust being nothing more than 'white on white crime'.  Sure on the surface, it might seem innocuous because the Nazi's were mostly white and most of the Jews in Europe were also white. An obvious exception was the evil Amin al-Husseini who was the leading Arab leader at the time. He helped Hitler by leading Muslim troops in Bosnia. I doubt that she even knows who he is. Or maybe she considered him white. But what does skin colour have to do with the Holocaust?

I and many others found it offensive. Why? Because the vile murder and attempt to exterminate an entire people (let's leave race out of it), the Jews of Europe, was not some minor incident. It wasn't 2 white guys fighting. To try to label it simply white on white crime is to insult the deaths of 6 million Jews. 

So why did she say it? Especially during Holocaust Memorial Week? What was the point she was trying to make? So what if it was white on white crime? If it was, that was certainly the least important aspect of the Holocaust. No doubt that one cannot find that description of the Holocaust in any of the tens of thousands of Holocaust books written to date. 

I think because it moved the focus away from her constant love affair with being a black victim (albeit temporarily). People like her, and there are many, have a need to constantly point out the injustices they face. Yes of course, there is obviously black discrimination in the world. But they are not the only ones being discriminated against or attacked. The statistics in practically every country in the world show that Jews have the highest rate of racist incidents committed against them. And unlike blacks, ours is trending upward. We are also a tiny fraction compared to the black population. The Jewish homeland, Israel, has been facing existential threats from her modern statehood, not to mention horrific terrorists acts committed on her Jewish citizens daily! The tiny Jewish population has been persecuted for thousands of years. 

This is not a competition for who suffers the most. To me it sounded like that was her beef. If so,  her point is somewhat nefarious. She has every right to stand up for her people and so she should and does. But she has no right to diminish the memory of the most abhorrent stain in humanity that happened to our people (my parents) in even the slightest way in order to try to make her point. 

If she said it out of ignorance I could forgive her easily. But she is not ignorant. She and her mother knew that giving her a Jewish sounding name might help her succeed in show business. Not sure if it did or didn't. But the point is she 'knows' who we are or at least thinks that she does. She even claimed to be Jewish at one point. Not that I approve of her lying about it but her general comments she makes remind me of the common rebuttal to an antisemite being called an antisemite 'Some of my best friends are Jewish'. 

Can you imagine what she would say if I said that slavery is nothing more than black on black crime? After all, the slave trade was mostly inspired and made possible by certain black tribes in Africa taking other blacks as slaves. One can argue that it was they who were the primary slave offenders. Had I been on the View and said that, you can bet that she would lose her mind over my comments as would the rest of the yentas there and I would not only be thrown off the show, but probably be charged with a hate crime. 

The next day she was interviewed by Colbert on the Late Show. She was trying to explain what she said earlier on the View. I'm paraphrasing: 'If I was walking along the street with a white friend and we ran into the KKK, I would have to run for my life but my white friend wouldn't.'

I wish I could have asked her: What if your white friend was wearing a kippah? Who would have to run away faster?

How myopic was her thinking?  I could also ask her what if I (a white Jewish male) was walking with my black friend) and we ran into a group of black thugs in Harlem? Chances are I'd have to run for my life and my black friend might not. But what are we to learn from any of these examples? Nothing!

Yet there are many things we can learn about her and others like her, from her statements and her digging in her heels via defensive 'apologies'. I am not calling her an antisemite because I don't think that she is one.  And even if she might be, her comments here don't prove that point. But I don't trust her to define what the Holocaust was.  Clearly she doesn't know.  Everyone needs to be very careful about the context used when discussing the Holocaust. Most people are. She wasn't.  At the very least, if you don't know what you are talking about, then stop talking. I sincerely hope that she used her 2 weeks off the show to learn about the Holocaust. Greenblatt from the ADL (not my favourite organization) should have offered to take her to the camps in Auschwitz and let her get an up close look at what the Holocaust was. Sadly I think she used her time off the show to get more PR for herself and make her case. She really is digging herself into a deeper hole. 

The real problem is that she has many fans. She is/was a famous actress and TV personality. Her fans (some at least) will no doubt buy into her ignorant statements that dangerously bordered on antisemitism. I'm glad that she was at least given a 2 week suspension. She deserved to face some sort of consequence for what she said. The Holocaust is sacrosanct.  How would she like a rule that people like her can't even say the word Holocaust just like many blacks have the rule that only they can use the N word?

A video is worth a million words!

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then certainly a video is worth a million. 

I'm going to share only 2 incredible videos with you (that adds up to 2 million words!) that perhaps you've never yet seen. Even if you have, these inspirational videos from some incredible people defending my Jewish homeland and the only democracy in the Middle East, are worth another look. I have watched them time and again and each time I am in awe of these people who spoke bravely and perfectly. They say that G-d provides the words to people when they sincerely need them. I believe it.

                                  PM Menachim Begin

The first video has made the rounds but proves that even plain looking people, with Polish accents can deliver a message across the world that needed to be heard loudly and clearly. I'm referring to Israel's Prime Minister, Menachem Begin when he admonished Germany's chancellor who was ordering (trying to order) Israel to give up Judea and Samaria (aka West Bank) to Arabs who wanted to create yet another Muslim state called Palestine. Doing so  would certainly have been suicide for Israel. I loved the way he just gave it to him as so many have failed to do, especially these days. The short speech was given in 1982 and so worth watching. He speaks Hebrew but there are English subtitles. 

Begin Defending his response to the German chancellor

There are so many incredible Jewish speakers from around the world who have delivered incredible speeches to those who needed to hear them.  I'm not talking about those in the sciences or medicine or the arts or culture although one can find them as well. I'm talking about those who inspired us at times when we most needed their inspiration. Men like Theodor Herzl who is considered by many as the modern day founder of Zionism and the man who helped push for the eventual founding of modern day Israel. He spoke before many disparate groups of people throughout the world to get them on board. From poor Russian Jews who were tired of the pogroms to world leaders in Switzerland who listened to him. Unfortunately those speeches took place before we had videos so in honour of him I'm including a photograph of him.

But I think that when non-Jews speak up for us, their words carry more weight. Since we Jews are such a small minority (we are a world wide population of about 15 million out of the world's population of about 8 billion) it is very important to hear their positive words. It's both heartwarming for us to hear them and it means more to the rest of the non-Jewish population. If they hear those words from a Jew they are often discounted as being biased. 

Lord Balfour of the Balfour Declaration fame was a great defender of the Jews as he felt we suffered more than enough and deserved to have our own country. PM Winston Churchill was another great friend to the Jews despite being surrounded with so many nasty antisemites at the time. Churchill was another great orator and his one liners are probably some of the most quoted in the world today. Again both of these great (non Jewish) men and many others came before the video camera's invention. 

                            Douglas Murray

So I've saved what I think is the best for last. This incredible speech (really an argument) was given by Douglas Murray of England back in 2012, I think at Cambridge university. He is definitely not Jewish but he is super bright and well read in so many areas. Here they are debating what to do about a Nuclear Iran. We need a million more Douglas Murray's! 

Enjoy!

Douglas Murray Best Speech Ever!

Finally the 'massacre' at Deir Yassin is repudiated

Mr. Tauber published his well researched book that finally puts an end to the myth promulgated by Arabs over decades, that Jews massacred arabs in Deir Yassin in 1948.

Although many people, even some Israelis believed it, I never did. Because Jews don’t behave that way. In 4000 years they’ve never behaved that way. 

Arabs have been consistent in publishing fake stories and videos on how the world has mistreated them. Their more recent Pallywood video clips are disturbing to any who views them. Here is just one of many where you can watch their makeup artists and Arab actors smiling for the cameras:

Pallywood

I certainly know that Mr. Tauber’s book won’t put an end to their lies about this but hopefully it will stop others from believing this lie.

 

This is just one of so many. More recently in 2002 we witnessed the hoax of the ‘Jenin Massacre’ whereby the Arabs put out a another fake story that the IDF carpet bombed an entire village called Jenin. The whole world bought this story immediately without any investigation! I remember it clearly. Every station on TV showed Arab women crying about how their entire village was wiped out by the Israelis. I happen to work with a lovely, young Arab woman who was crying at work the next day, asking me: 'Why Leon, why?" 

Of course once the Israelis showed the world that it was a fabrication, it was too late. Any retractions posted in the back pages of newspapers weeks later were missed entirely. If you look up this non-event on the internet today, you will still find plenty of sites that still think it happened. 

Back in 2000 there is the infamous al Dura affair whereby Arabs tried to blame the IDF for shooting a young Arab boy and killing him. There are many photographs that made it around the world of his father holding his dead son. Once again it turned out that he was shot, most likely accidentally, by his fellow Arab terrorists in Israel during a shoot out with the IDF. This photograph taken minutes before the child was shot went around the world:

There are far too many incidents like these to mention here but many believe that it was the Deir Yassin hoax that started this type of PR for the Arabs as they received such excellent press over it for so many years. I doubt that even they thought they would get the mileage out of this as they did way back then.

Winston Churchill said it best: ' A lie gets half way across the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on’.

The book is titled ’The Massacre That Never Was’ by Eliezer Tauber and is available on Amazon (hopefully elsewhere too). I can’t wait to read it.

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On April 9, 1948, forces of the Etzel and Lehi Jewish underground military organizations attacked the Arab village of Deir Yassin west of Jerusalem. The nature of this attack became one of the most controversial issues in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Professor Eliezer Tauber’s serious and in-depth research sheds light on this event, as we discover what really happened at Deir Yassin. In The Massacre That Never Was, a work of engrossing narrative and exhaustive research, Professor Eliezer Tauber proves that no massacre of Palestinians took place in the village of Deir Yassin in 1948, exploding a myth that has been the cornerstone of the Palestinian narrative for seven decades. Reconstructing a fierce ten-hour battle through a meticulous analysis of Arab and Jewish testimony and documents from 1948 that are still closed to the public, Professor Tauber persuasively demonstrates that the massacre narrative was a myth intentionally invented by the Arab leadership of 1948 in Jerusalem. Furthermore, the subsequent false rumors surrounding the event exacerbated the mass exodus of Arabs from Palestine, thus creating the refugee crisis and fueling propaganda against Israel, which has shaped the world’s understanding of the affair to this day. A timely work of historical reappraisal, The Massacre That Never Was will have a major impact on how we understand Israeli and Palestinian history. 

Antisemitism on Campus

Thane you couldn't have done a better job explaining the issue! This short video should be mandatory for every college student (Jewish or not) and their parents!

In My Own Backyard

We often travel long distances looking for things that we could have found in our own backyards.

If you don't know by now, I am a strong, proud, Jewish activist! I have posted about various topics over the years but the main reason I blog, send emails, attend rallies, go to lectures, etc., is to counter the vicious antisemitism that sadly has attacked all corners of the world. So today I'm going back to my roots. 

Right here in my beautiful, internationally acclaimed city, the largest and most diverse city in Canada, Toronto, antisemitism has flourished! The oldest form of bigotry in the world, the hatred of Jews has been allowed to grow much like that little corner of your shower that might have a bit of mold a year ago or longer but has been ignored until finally today it has spread all over the shower walls. To the point that one can't shower any more until the mold is eradicated. 

In the past couple of weeks I have been forced to write numerous emails about antisemitic behaviour that is occurring right under my nose. Where exactly? In our schools. Arguably the worst place to let it grow. Because schools are where children learn. The education we give them determines their morals, ethics and views on so many things. If we teach them the wrong things, they will behave accordingly. If we teach them to hate blacks, odds are they will hate blacks. If we teach them to hate Jews, they mostly likely will. This isn't rocket science. 

So who's to blame? All of us. Of course the main culprits are the antisemites themselves. And boy, they are many! But regular citizens like you and me have failed. For the most part, we have buried our heads in the sand and are oblivious of the rampant antisemitism that has spread across our schools right here at home. Sure some of us might realize the obvious antisemitism that Israeli Jews face every day. They are in a constant existential fight with so many Muslims and others who not only hate them, but want them dead.  Sadly Israelis have been killed in large and small numbers since her modern day recreation in 1948. 

But many of us, whether we are Jewish or not, are not aware about the ongoings with our school system. The TDSB (Toronto District School Board) has been simmering for years with antisemitism. Meanwhile I would bet that this is not common knowledge. Like the mold in the shower analogy, we can't shower anymore. I mean, we can't send our kids to school anymore. Of course we can, but should we? One of my favourite mentors, Dennis Prager, had warned parents about sending their kids to university. He cited so many cases where parents paid tons of money to send their kids to college with high hopes that their kids would return as mature young adults loaded with the required education and skills to make a living in the careers of their choosing. But instead their kids came home loaded with Leftist ideology and antisemitism. Even Jewish students are brainwashed to hate Israel and to attribute  to Israel some of the most outrageous lies ever promulgated. Their educators, an oxymoron if I ever heard one, were themselves brainwashed and were on a mission to get the next generation of haters on their side. Jews are an easy people to hate. Because we are more or less peaceful. Whereas other minorities like Blacks have lately become associated with some nasty violent organizations like BLM. So many people, organizations and governments have bought their propaganda and refuse to even look at their astounding violent behaviour and threats. If even the smallest hint of anti-Black racism was discovered at the TDSB, there would be an immediate outcry and believe me, heads would role. 

Likewise if anti-Muslim racism was discovered at TDSB, all hell would break loose. And perhaps heads would role, literally. I will never forget how just this past summer, downtown Toronto was taken over by tens of thousands of radical Muslims and their supporters looking for trouble. A peaceful protest, it wasn't. And hardly anyone noticed it or wanted to. 

Us Jews are a very small minority in Toronto. There are pockets in the greater area that have a high percentage of Jews but overall, certainly compared to most other minorities, we are tiny. We can't expect others to speak up for our us. We are responsible for our own well being. Last I heard, we still live in a free, democratic, society. But if we do nothing, we'll lose that. Now is the time to speak out. As I've written ad nauseam, a simple email is so easy to do. And if we write enough of them and send them to the media, our politicians, the schools, organizations, companies and the individuals who need them, we can affect change. I wrote this email to our TDSB trustees the other day:

Subject: Please reject the unjust censure of Trustee Alexandra Lulka

Dear Toronto District School Board Trustees,

It has become obviously apparent to me that your board has a problem with Jews. There have been far too many issues recently that have highlighted this serious racist behaviour.
The latest  attempt by your board  to attack your fellow Jewish trustee, Alexandra Lulka and attempt to censure her for discriminating against Muslims and Palestinians is more proof of your very own antisemitism. 
Alexandra’s complaint was with TDSB Equity advisor Javier Davila for distributing antisemitic material (a claim that the commissioner agreed with). Because she did her job and identified a serious problem with a TDSB employee, she has been attacked by the board unfairly. BTW, he is neither Muslim or Palestinian (not that that should matter).

I urge you all to please look at the facts alone and see what’s going on there. There exists a dark circle of people and ideas who wish to silence anyone who speaks out against antisemitism. And if one defies silence, then they are punished for opening their mouth. What kind of example do you want to set for our students and future generations right here in Toronto, one of the most diverse cities in the world?

I sent that email to all of the trustees as follows:

harpreet.gill@tdsb.on.ca, dan.maclean@tdsb.on.ca, patrick.nunziata@tdsb.on.ca, christopher.mammoliti@tdsb.on.ca, alexandra.lulka@tdsb.on.ca, chris.tonks@tdsb.on.ca, robin.pilkey@tdsb.on.ca, shelley.laskin@tdsb.on.ca, stephanie.donaldson@tdsb.on.ca, chris.moise@tdsb.on.ca, rachel.chernoslin@tdsb.on.ca, alexander.brown@tdsb.on.ca, james.li@tdsb.on.ca, trixie.doyle@tdsb.on.ca, jennifer.story@tdsb.on.ca, michelle.aarts@tdsb.on.ca, david.smith4@tdsb.on.ca, parthi.kandavel@tdsb.on.ca, zakir.patel@tdsb.on.ca, manna.wong@tdsb.on.ca, yalini.rajakulasingam@tdsb.on.ca, anu.sriskandarajah@tdsb.on.ca, chair@tdsb.on.ca 

BTW, the director of the TDSB is Colleen Russell-Rawlins.  She also deserves an email or two over this and so many other antisemitic incidents at TDSB. She was ok with a high school allowing a pro-Palestinian demonstration with chants 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free'. 

I challenge everyone who reads this blog to write an email to all of the trustees I listed. Start there. Hopefully this will lead you on to a strong path of defiance of antisemitism. Let's clean up our own backyard first and move on to other organizations and locations. 

Many Thanks !

Should Trump Run In 2024?

There has been a lot of speculation on this question. Here is my take on it.

Due to the disastrous Biden administration, many Democrats and their media sycophants are starting to say the things we are saying out loud. You know, things like 'ls creepy Joe really running the show?'  'ls he all there' 'The country is falling apart' or if you watch sports a common meme today is 'Let's go Brandon' (a euphemism for 'F Joe Biden'). 

Let's Go Brandon

On MSNBC, a far Left media channel as one can watch, l was shocked to hear them predict that if any Republican ran against Biden, they would win in a landslide! Of course they were quick to add that the only exception would be President Trump. If he were to run, he might just squeak by.

President Trump was the best president the US has ever had. Like you, I don't believe anything the Democrats say either. But Trump deserves a rest. He's a grandfather and he should spend time with his family. If he wants to run again, of course we should support him but he's given enough of himself. I wouldn't encourage him to run again especially when we have people like Governor De Santis who could also do a great job, has Trump's courage and would have an excellent chance at winning.

One of my all time favourite movies was Cool Hand Luke, starring one of my favourite actors, Paul Newman. He plays a prisoner down south in a state like Alabama. He tries to escape a few times but gets caught every time. He unwittingly becomes the prison hero. He competes in an egg eating competition and his prison mates are constantly pushing him to eat until he's sick. Of course they push him to keep trying to escape and take them along. At first he likes the attention. But he finally admonishes them to stop sucking off him. 

We can learn from that movie. We need to stop sucking off of President Trump. Those who encourage him to run are selfish. We sit in the comfort of our own homes and urge him to run without considering the pressure, stress, threats against his life and the lives of his family, constant law suits, all sorts of attacks, etc. that he faces daily. He's done far more than anyone to help save the USA and make the world a safer place. I would think that he has a permanent place in politics if he wants it, perhaps as an advisor behind the scenes. But I will not be one of the many Trump lovers who are encouraging him to run. 

Let's Go Brandon!