In the modern world, nothing is more predictable than the spectre of left-wing animosity to Israel. Many on the left – not that they’ll admit to it – clearly see the tiny nation as nothing more and nothing less than a country full of Jews who won’t own up to it, and we’re all familiar by now with the persistent, angry demands for more accountability: CUPE leader Sid Ryan, for example, in response to criticism of his support for a ban on any Israeli teaching in Ontario universities, clarified that he only wished to ban academics who refused to condemn Israeli military actions against Gaza.
On and on it goes. In a column in yesterday’s National Post, Naomi Lein vs. the “angry Jewish males”, angry woman – and Jew – Judy Rebick executes a stunning public act of moral inversion by portraying Naomi Klein and others who protested against the Toronto International Film Festival’s decision to focus on Israel as being the victims of an “hysterical response.”
Rebick feels “heartsick” on behalf of her fellow assailant:
Naomi Klein didn’t start the protest, but she used her contacts and her celebrity to make it more effective. The focus is on her because she is today one of the most prominent Jewish intellectuals in the world….I hope that the pile-on of angry Jewish males will not stop her or others of her generation from continuing to speak out…
In response to Rebick’s “hey, don’t blame her, she was just joining the crowd, plus she’s a woman” defense of Klein, Barbara Kay steps forward, in broad daylight, to mercifully hoist the sodden debate forcefully back onto it’s own two feet:
Rebick says “(Naomi Klein) is risking a lot to speak out so passionately on this subject.” Risking what? A testy editorial in the National Post? Israel-hating is about the safest occupation in the world today, in fact. Indeed, Klein is much loved by the people who actually do put honest intellectuals at risk. It isn’t Klein who needs a bodyguard when she speaks on campuses; it’s supporters of Israel like David Horowitz and Alan Dershowitz who take the risks and get the death threats.
Mrs. Kay precisely hits the Achilles heel of Rebick’s “victim” plaint: In the activist circles Naomi Klein inhabits, attacks on Israel are, far from being even nominally uncool, shortcuts to progressive credibility. In stark contrast, anyone who makes public expressions of support for Israel is sure to be mercilessly assailed at every appearance. Klein, in other words, is certainly not the victim.
Back to Rebick, though: how could it come to pass that a Jew could be so staggeringly blind to the eternal and storied hatred that lies at the core of the eternal force she diligently throws her support behind? Perhaps we should let Rebick herself provide the answer:
In my family, neither the pogroms, nor the Holocaust were ever discussed.
Well, sure, yes. Willful, diligent, muscularly applied excision of essential, real-world context, starting from an early age, should do the trick. What stands out, though – read her column – is that in relaying this ignorance, she’s bragging about it.
When I read that line, by Rebick,”In my family, neither the pogroms, nor the Holocaust were ever discussed.” That made me understand Rebicks hatred for the Jews. Rebicks family believed the Jews, their own people, were responsible for the holocaust. They brought it on themselves. When horrific events that effect a family are not discussed, it is because the family is ashamed of it, and they believe by their silence, they will make it go away. The Jewish Rebicks and Kleins of the world, would gladly watch the annihilation of Israel. They believe that would soothe the hatred towards the Jews. The Rebicks and Kleins would give up their own people to be truly accepted, perhaps loved, by the world wide national socialist.
SPIT!
Judy Rebick is a horse’s a$$ and a disgrace to women, Jews, and intellectuals.
The only good thing about her article is that it exposes her willful, nasty, unfounded, and mendacious views to Canadians.
But, good Lord, deliver us: She’s been given a soapbox for far too long. Enough, already.
Judy Rebick is a horse’s a$$ and a disgrace to women, Jews, and intellectuals.
The only good thing about her article is that it exposes her willful, nasty, unfounded, and mendacious views to Canadians.
But, good Lord, deliver us: She’s been given a soapbox for far too long. Enough, already.
Sorry for the double post — but what I said DOES bear being repeated! đ
Judy Rebick is delusional.
Canada takes a stand and will boycott Ahmidenijad’s speech at the UN today.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Canada+boycott+Iran+speech/2022648/story.html
Leftist-Judaism has mutated into a suicide cult.
Let me borrow the logic o a prominent leftard, Jimmy Carter.
Opposition to Obama’s beliefs and policies is racism.
Thus
Opposition to Israel’s beliefs and policies is anti-Semitism.
Well?
In other news….Canada is going to walk out on Iran at the UN!!! When did Canada grow a set?!!!
I am so proud of the gov on this. I am proud to be Canadian.
Jenn…thanks for that link! Best news to come out of anything ‘UN’.This couls tempt me to turn on the tube and watch the action!
Prime Minister Stephen Harper leads Canada with a backbone. Hope the sane world takes notice!
Let’s watch the Obama admin thru this. His colours are showing.
Sorry Kate and EBD…I was off topic in my last post.
Ditto to what been around the block said.
And I think that news about Canada’s boycotting deserves a post of it’s own.
Spencer: “When did Canada grow a set?!!!”
When the Right Honourable Stephen Harper became Prime Minister!
Well thank goodness the IDF doesn’t listen to old lefty blowhards like Rebbick.
They believe in Si vis Pacem, para Bellum, which when you are surrounded by angry, delusional Arab nations, is a very good policy.
I am very proud to be a Canadian on this day that the Conservative government of Canada will walk out of the UN when Ahmidenijad speaks.
Honey Pot, ditto here.
batb, lets’ hear it one more time (all good things three times). This not so covert anti-Semitic thinking is spreading even among the so-called Christian churches.
Part of the indoctrination that left-wing folks seem to enjoy is the role of “True believer”.
It many ways it’s like campaigning for individual freedoms, then going out and joining the girl guides, boy scouts or any other identifiable group.
Have you ever seen the new union shop steward who felt they just had to appear to be the MOST militant?
Rebbick is no different; she just has to appear to be the Most left wing, the most anti-capitalist and the most anti-Israeli.
It’s not a question of her race, It is about running like hell to keep at the front of the pack of hungry coyotes she runs with?
They feed on each others arrogant bias!
Irshad Manji has the highest risk occupation. She supports Israel’s right to exist and human rights policies, she is a lesbian, a Muslim, and wrote a book called _The Trouble With Islam, a Wake Up Call for Honesty and Change_.
I’m proud that she is my friend.
bluetech said “And I think that news about Canada’s boycotting deserves a post of it’s own.”
I second that. After it happens though so we can see if Obama walks out as well. Could get interesting.
Here’s something about Israel that some of those “intellectuals” should be paying attention to:
“The Gaza report is a disaster for human rights and peace
How could Goldstone’s commission rely on such questionable testimony?”
Mark
Ottawa
“Well, sure, yes. Willful, diligent, muscularly applied excision of essential, real-world context, starting from an early age, should do the trick.”
Thus Rebick’s “rabble.ca”, which proudly boasts that it is “news for the rest of us”.
Just who exactly is “the rest of us”?
Why it’s that chattering coterie of the usual culprits: those self-proclaimed political “progressives” who inhabit an alternate universe not encumbered by reality and facts.
A casual trawl through rabble.ca on any given day will admirably confirm this.
Seems to me that Danial Pearl was, in some ways, a kindred spirit to Rebick & Klein. Ought not these two airheads realize they are Jews regardless of who they support & could very well meet the same fate as Pearl if the opportunity arose?
What I’d like to know is what qualifies one to be called an intellectual. Surely, thinking about things and expressing those thoughts is not qualification since people who are severely retarded do that every day, but no one calls them intellectuals.
Seems to me that we ought to pass a law that says if you want to claim to be an intellectual you have to back it up with certified IQ test scores. If we did that, the left would be pretty much silenced.
An associate—an officer in the IDF—made some progress to expalin the self-loathing jews.
For centuries—the european jews successfully tolerated the pograms—the soldiers mob came killed some jews—-tired of it and left–some jews survived…
He told an old jewish story which describes this insane practice—which failed so horribly during the HOLOCAUST.
The scene is the Pale of Russia circa 1890—-a pogram is under way.
Two jewish males are put before a wall before a firing squad…
The officer, snearing, enquires of the two unfortunates…
“any last request?”
1st Jew says
“A last cigarette would be nice.”
2nd Jews say to the first…
“shut up! Don’t make trouble.”
Only in Western “Progressives” could we find such contradictions. On one hand we are to worry about other’s sense of self-esteem. On the other, we elevate those that participate in self-hate if they are white or Jewish.
Perhaps Ms Klein and Rebick need to spend a little vacation or speaking tour in Saudi Arabia. There would be two benefits: one, they would get the respect they deserve (assuming they would be allowed entry, Judan verboten!); and two, they might gain some appreciation for what it feels like to be surrounded by seventh century Islamic fanatics appeased by Western idiots.
Kudos to Barb Kay’ reply to Rebbick
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/09/23/barbara-kay-judy-rebick-plays-the-quot-shmaltz-card-quot-and-throws-her-grandmother-under-the-bus.aspx
Barbara Kay: Judy Rebick plays the “shmaltz card” and throws her grandmother under the bus
Posted: September 23, 2009, 1:40 AM by Jonathan Kay
Barbara Kay
“Professional leftie Judy Rebick began her Post op ed today with the words, “My grandmother would have been so proud of Naomi Klein.” I wonder how many Jews read that and wanted to vomit. Count me in. I’m about the same age as Rebick, I had grandparents, they were also good, upright Jews and they would have been horrified at what Naomi Klein stands for. If her grandmother were alive, I doubt Rebick would have had the hutzpah to make such a claim.
If Rebick’s grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, could hear Naomi Klein in full frothing-at-the-mouth spate comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, and her own granddaughter defending such obscenity, I have to wonder exactly who between Naomi Klein and the “pile-on of angry Jewish males” would be welcome at her table.
Rebick’s outrageous assertion that those Jews of her parents’ generation would approve of the weird historical twist that has leftwing Jews standing shoulder to shoulder with the world’s vilest anti-Semites gives new depth of meaning to the expression, “she’d throw her grandmother under the bus.” Shame on her. Anyone who knows anything about Jewish history would know that Rebick’s grandmother’s generation would have been staunch defenders of Israel’s right to exist without fear of terrorism; would have recognized Arab Jew-hatred as the godchild of Nazi Germany it is; would have considered the left-Islamist alliance their granddaughter defends an abomination; and almost certainly, if they are the kind of Jews Rebick describes, they would have been shocked, shamed and disgusted by Naomi Klein, the poster child for betrayal of one’s peoplehood, and they would be right to feel that way.”
Rebbick’s kvetching can only induce retching.
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht-Commander in Chief
Army Group “True North”
1st St. Nicolaas Army
Kyla, awesome.
Please tell her she has a lot of fans out west.
bob c.: “What I’d like to know is what qualifies one to be called an intellectual.”
When I said that Judy Rebick was a disgrace to intellectuals, I should have put “intellectuals” in quotation marks or put a (sic) beside it.
She is a SELF-STYLED intellectual but there’s nothing savvy or smart about her thinking. She runs with the lib-left-fem-gay-etc. pack, which isn’t at all avant-garde any more and which practises group-think and Newsspeak, ad nauseum. They’re a dime a dozen.
I’m just glad none of my kids went to Ryerson.
It should be the duty of every Jewish parent to teach their children the truth. The best place to start is at:
Tell”>http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/”>Tell the Children the Truth
Jewish parents who thought they were shielding their offspring from the degradation of their past and the past of their forebears, have done a great disservice to the nation of Israel and to the Jewish people as a whole. Children of such parents are the grown up Jewish morons you see and hear from every day, vilifying their roots and everything Israel.
Uninformed sources tell us that Liberal HezCoderre, on behalf of his Chef Liberal Ignatieff, has launched a âDraft Emma for LaSalle-Emardâ campaign.
LaSalle-Emard is Liberal ex-PM PMJrâs former seat.
Slogan: Dump Lisa.
Website: Here*.
Emmaâs credentials:
1. Quote: âToday, Iâm ashamed to be Canadian.â Check.
2. Civil Lawyer from Oâs âLesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicagoâ. Check.
3. Jewish. Check.
4. Quote: âBut I also believe in the United Nations.â Check.
Sheâs my kind of gal, quotes Ig-LibChef. Bring it on.
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âWhy Canada Shouldnât Walk Out On Ahmadinejadâ
Emma Ruby-Sachs
Lawyerâ
(Warning: HuffPo)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/emma-rubysachs/why-canada-shouldnt-walk_b_296029.html
*lib.caca
Why is anyone, anywhere, giving either of these women news print?
Well, Osumashi Kinyobe, on the supposition your question isn’t merely rhetorical:
Judy Rebick’s an old-time radical feminist who’s been really good at sucking at the public teat and pushing herself to the front of the Canadian stage for a long, long time. She’s got influential friends in the toxic media/academia/NDP mix, where original thought has been banned, from years of schmoozing during the L/liberal/NDP ascendancy in our Dystopian, Deranged Dominion.
She’s sticking around like a bad smell.
And, don’t you know, Naomi Klein is married to Stephen Lewis’ and Michele Landsberg’s “illustrious” (know-nothing, ex-CBC) reporter, now working for al-jazeera, Avi Lewis? These guys oil their way around the floor — and jet first-class around the world, telling the rest of us peasants how we should live our lives, lower our carbon footprints (minuscule compared to theirs), and use condoms to solve the problem of AIDS in Africa, before repairing to their luxury suite for a massage and a martini.
Why, indeed, are these spoiled brats given a soapbox in our media?
Batb, I am- to my deepest regret- aware of who these harpies are. I just don’t know why someone would give them a platform on which to speak. If they hate themselves and Jews so much they are welcome to live in Gaza and take their chances.
Klein is a Nazi pig and an imbecile. rabble.ca is a meeting place for lobotomized freak bastards. End of story.