Don’t vote for the joooo…..
Sources close to Rae say that his wife, Arlene Perly Rae, was approached during last weekend’s convention by a delegate who didn’t realize she was the candidate’s wife. The delegate told her not to vote for Rae “because his wife is Jewish.”
Perly Rae stonily informed the delegate that she was the wife in question. The delegate beat a hasty retreat.
The incident might have been shrugged off if it had been an isolated event. But Rae team insiders contend it was part of a larger pattern of anti-Semitic smears on Rae, who finished third.
A flyer was circulated electronically among convention delegates denouncing Rae for having once delivered a speech to the Jewish National Fund, a group the flyer said was complicit in “war crimes and ethnic cleansing.”
“Rae’s wife is a vice-president of the CJC (Canadian Jewish Congress), a lobby group which supports Israeli apartheid,” said the flyer in bold letters superimposed over a close-up of Rae’s face.
“Bob Rae supports Israeli apartheid. Don’t elect a leader who supports apartheid.”
The Canadian Jewish Congress has condemned the flyer and blamed Khaled Mouammar, president of the Canadian Arab Federation for circulating it. The federation has, in turn, accused the CJC of making “a pitiful attempt to discredit” it and has denied producing or distributing the flyer.
Nevertheless, in a release Thursday, the federation supported the content of the flyer.
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On another website, operated by a Montreal-based pro-Palestinian group, Liberals were urged about a week before the leadership vote: “Do not vote for Bob Rae, we’re not looking or another Zionist PM.”
The group recommended that delegates vote for Gerard Kennedy, the fourth-place contender whose dramatic decision to throw his support to Stephane Dion after the second ballot clinched the victory for Dion. It said that “voting for Bob Rae is a vote for the daily massacre in Palestine (and) . . . for a new Zionist PM in Canada.”
Rae could not be reached for comment Thursday but insiders say he was aghast and hurt by the attacks.
The smears have raised broader questions about the role that blocs of ethnic delegates played at the convention in securing a stunning, come-from-behind victory for Dion.
Update Stephen Taylor has a copy of the flyer.
Does this really shock anyone? We are talking about the Liberals remember. They will stoop to anything to get exactly what they want. You can change the leader but you sure can’t change the controllers behind the scene. They always get their man.(JC and fishing trips with Dion).
Nice to see anti-Semitism alive and well in the Party of Inclusivity.
Ethnic block voting is an important issue in all political parties. Take a look at the jockeying for the East Indian vote in Surrey and Delta, B.C.
Soooo…I wonder why terrorists are supporting the Liberal party?? The same reason convicts and criminals support the Liberals I suppose. It appears that the Libranos are willing to appease any criminal organization (including their own). During the American midterms we had terrorists cheering the victory of the Democrats, then…Howard Dean gives the keynote speech for the Liberal leadership race. Kind of makes you wonder if terrorist organizations are working behind the scenes to influence elections in “Democratic” countries.
Painting Liberals generally with this nonsense is like painting the Conservatives generally with outbursts by individual members. The Liberals generally have been shameless and immoral in scaremongering for political gain. Lets hope conservatives do not descend to the level of Liberals here. There is a problem here, but I suspect the Liberals feel it as a problem just as much and lets hope hey do something about it.
Wasn’t it the columnist George Weston who reported that the Martin govt. lost the “Hells Angels” vote.
Gee, even the Hell Angels criticizing the LIEberals as “@#$#%#$%##$@*(*& hypocrites!”.
Must be pretty bad when even the Hells Angels criticize the government.
So Satan’s minions won’t vote LIEberal?
Anti-semitism at the LIEberal party, that is about right. During the WWII the then Liberals were the party of “none is one too many” when it came to Jewish immigration. Looks like they are going back to their roots.
Cultural ethno centrism alive and well in the multicultural LIEberal party.
Maybe the new Liberal commercial could be “Nine out of ten terrorist organizations support the Liberal Party.” The TV commercial would have pictures of Jiihadists with their face covered and suicide belts on proclaiming..”I am a Liberal!! Alleuah Akbahr Mohammed!!”
Murray,
If this were an isolated incident then one could safely write it off as a couple of nutbars….every party has them.
But this isnt isolated….there were numerous incidents at the convention, there were all of the blog comments from midlevel party functionaries….plus other circumstantial evidence from appearing at Hezbollah rallies.
There is a specific disturbing undercurrent of anti semitism, or at best anti israeli (they are different) sentiment in the Liberal party and there is a definite concern about ethnic politics in the Liberal party.
The Tamil issue is the most egregious example.
I still wonder why Ahmed Khadr warrented attention from the prome minister but Bill Sampson, Ms Kazemei and Mahar Arar did not? Contributions and votes is the allegetion. It certainly is why the post Tsunami water filtration sideshow went to Tamil territory over the objections of the host government….talk about sovereignty issues….
There is something rotten in the Liberal party and it wont go away till it is cleaned out…..
I was appalled to hear of this. This is supposed to be the party for all Canadians. Apparently it is only the party of elitists and left wing agendaists (new word).
I guess being married to a Jew in the Liberal Party is akin to treason on some level.
It appears the the Liberal Party of Canada has changed its suit by electing Stephan Dion, but it is still filthy underneath and in need of a bath.
Nine out of ten terrorist organizations support the Liberals. Almost choked on my corn flakes. Good one….accurate too.
Can you imagine the hue and cry if this came out about a Conservative leadership convention; blocks of “ethnic” (read antiSemitic) delegates torpedoing a candidate because his wife is Jewish?
One can only hope this plays well for the CPC, as news filters through the Jewish community of the antiSemitism permeating the Liberal Party, the one-time default home of Canada’s Jewish community.
I wonder if there is some kind of fundamental change going on in the Liberal Party. To my knowledge, the Jewish vote in the large cities of Toronto, Montreal etc – is traditionally to the Liberal Party.
Is there a hard left shift in the Liberal Party, where they seem to be merging with the NDP, which is scrabbling to keep from being swallowed by the Liberals? And is this shift, which is the younger generation, made up of rabble.com type anti-Israeli views? It’s a common error to merge anti-Israel with anti-Jewish.
That is – is the Liberal Party changing its nature, from the grassroots up? Is the old guard aware that the Party is being changed from the bottom up, rather than by top-down decision making? The Liberals are now no different than the NDP in almost all issues.
Dion is a socialist type – with his empty rhetoric of a focus on ‘the environment, social justice and the economy’ – issues which ALL governments, no matter their political ideology, are involved in all over the world. But, his claim of private ownership is an attack against the NDP (and Bloc) which also claim them as their own.
But they call the CPC Nazis.
The usual apologists for the Libs in the MSM (G&M, CBC, Torstar) are burying this story, as per usual whenever the ugly side of the Liberal party surfaces. Only CTV, surprisingly, has run with it, as well as the story about Graham comparing the CPC with Nazis.
Somehow, the story of Harper kicking a chair at the CPC convention generated more news than this. Wonder why….
I noted on the convention weekend that the cameras panned the crowd and there sat Mohammed “All Israelis are targets” El Masry.
According to Tarek Fatah:
Two rookie MPs, Omar Alghabra, a Muslim, and, Navdeep Bains, a Sikh, held the strings of as many as 400 delegates in the Kennedy camp. When the time came, these delegates moved as a bloc to Mr. Dion.
How is it that two rookie MPs can hold the strings of anything?
odie441….this surprises you?Ummmmm…seems to me they did the same thing way back in WWII with a boatload of Jews.Guess they don’t teach history in school anymore.
I look forward to Warren K’s comments on this whole mess within the Liberal Party.
He would be horrified by these accusations. He has acted on them in the past, I suspect he will in the future.
Be interesting to know who that person was a delegate for. And be interesting to see the candidate denounce what was being done.
Without clear condemnations then the contiuing stench of anti semitism will linger within the Liberal Party of Canada.
The embers continue to smoulder, this issue isnt done yet, and the MSM are doing their favourite party no favours by not exposing it. If it is all backroom then the cockroaches will continue to multiply…..
Just thinkin is quite correct when he says this goes way back. In 1939 the gvt of Mackenzie King refused landing to the ss st louis and the ship returned to europe. Over 600 hundred souls perished in the holocaust because of the federal liberal government at the time. Other countries did the same, but that doesn’t make it right.
My worry has been that the Liberal party hides dirty linen under the carpet rather than clean it up. When anyone does that the problems keeps comming back and back.
Why can’t they clean their house openly and honestly?
What could be wrong in admitting a serious problem and then correcting it?
G&M comments re Dion and his French citizenship favor his keeping it. I wonder if Canada broke out in war, would Chirac pay for Dions evacuation. Now we see liberals are against the Jews, is that a surprise, with Iggy’s campaign manager supporting the Hezzies. Wasn’t it a liberal government that refused to let a boat full of jewish people disembark and sent them back to the ovens. Liberals have been anti-jewish forever. Maybe the Jewish population will finally realize this and change their vote. And for all those trying to defend Dion for his french citizenship, all the rest in the House with dual citizenship are not trying to be the PM. As for Ted Morton, he was not chosen so it is a non issue. Ezra is not the only one mentioning this, he is the first one to write about it. Regardless, Dion has waited too long, and got too emotional over it, for cdns to trust him. His stmt, if it becomes a problem I will give it up. Hey, it has become a problem, and when you give it up you are telling us Harper can win. That is what you told Manbridge last night.
funny how you always seem to find an undercurrent of anti-semitism running beneath the surface of the Left
“odie441….this surprises you?Ummmmm…seems to me they did the same thing way back in WWII with a boatload of Jews.Guess they don’t teach history in school anymore.”
Naw not really, I guess my feigned regret was a good performance.
As for history, that answer is NO. I am teaching my kids about Canada’s involvement in WW I, WW II, Korea etc. My youngests teacher called me and asked me to stop “opening up old wounds” as this knowledge was not conducive to a productive learning and nurturing environment. She also explained that this type of history leads to ill will between nationalities.
I told her to go to hell, and that my kids know and will continue to know of the sacrifices made by Canadians (of all colour and ethniticity) that fought in the name of freedom.
Ryan,
Well since Israel stopped voting Labour de-emphasizes its socialist roots that is correct.
It is a relatively recent phenomena, say last 20 years or so.
Bang on, Ryan!
Hilarious. I guess the dual citizenship thing didn’t have the legs we were hoping for.
Kudos to PMSH for killing the SSM debate at last.
Maybe it’s time for someone to say publicly that the Globe & Mail and the conglomerate who own them are basically a source of lefty bullshit and the enablers of decades of Liberal Government corruption in Canada.
A safe haven for the likes of Graham.
Peter Mackay – so it is said – made an insinuation that BS (his ex-lover) was a dog. It’s all over the news for 2 weeks. We are told by the Liberals that it is proof-positive there is a deep, underlying pathology in Conservatives that makes them despise all women – everywhere. It proves, so they say, that conservatives want women to be lower-class citizens; barefoot and pregnant in a kitchen. Somehow, the MSM does not protray this as a stretch.
The Liberals show time and time again that they are the very bigoted people that they claim Conservatives are. They show their contempt for people based on race, ethnicity, and (in this case), religion. As someone who has lived in the ridings of both Irwin Cotler and Paul Martin, I can tell you that anti-semitism is alive and well in Montreal (very large Muslim population that out-weighs the Jewish establishment). They don’t come out and say it…but they always support Muslim causes because it gets them more votes (which is the only reason Liberals exist). The concept of right and wrong be damned – I want my MP pension.
Codere protesting under a flag of Hezbollah – I don’t think it was even mentioned in the national news. A “Rae is evil because his wife is Jewish” campaign in Montreal – this will blow over because its the Liberals (and business as usual – at least in Montreal).
But, Mackay takes a shot at his ex-lover – that makes national headlines because hey…it shows what is hidden in the evil heart of every conservative…and that’s much more important than what Liberals wear on their sleeves.
The Liberals have been equivocating at the UN on Israel for years and lately in Lebanon regarding Hezbollah’s terrorism. There are intolerant forces in our society but spineless Liberals would never stand up to them. Some prominent Jewish Liberals have announced their conversion to the CPC .. .Gerry Schwartz , Heather Riesman. Many others have probably quietly done so.
Liberal multiculturalism uses political correctness as a weapon. This has resulted in our society be muzzled when we hear anti-Semitism or intolerance of various kinds. Liberals stand for nothing. They are reaping what they have sown.
If Bob Rae is truly sorry for the mess that he and his Dippers created in Ontario now would be a good time to declare his complete conversion to the principles of Conservatism. Conservative Foreign Policies of encouraging capitalism and democracy are the only long term solution to the intolerance that Arlene Rae experienced.
Now we are beginning to see the fruits of the ‘Just’ multi-cultural society that the Liberals have been shoveling at us for years. If history teaches us anything it is the fact that multiculturalism doesn’t work and that assimilation needs approximately 200+ years to implement. If we are to learn anything from this latest incident we should remember a quote from a famous parliamentarian, “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
antenor…i disagree…if the libranos and moonbats did not artificially prop up cultures, they would assimilate within 2 to 3 generations…as did all new cultures b4 librano muli-culti crap came along….i know, my father could not speak a word of english(italian immigrant), yet all 8 of his children are anglo non-hyphenated canadians….including over 50 yrs service in the CF
Bob Rae ” aghast and hurt”
those are new emotions for a dipper.
usually its “shocked and dismayed”
or “disappointed and outraged”
or in the case of Jack Layton “entitled” which is now an emotion created in Canada.
They are only called the Liberal Party because the National Socialist Party was already taken.
Muslims vote and run Liberal/Democrat, because of shared values.
Israel is Dion’s stumbling block, lets put it in front of him as many times as possible.
Liberals are the diversity, multicultural, and inclusion party as much as ‘Islam is the religion of peace.’ Let’s crush the racists and bigots.
Whoever made the comments to Ms Rae and produced the hateful e-flyer must be identified and disciplined. I am sick of the one-sided approach of the left v.v. Israel. For God’s sake, Arab states and groups have made it clear they want Israel eradicated; Israel and Jews were attacked before statehood in 1947(?) and beyond, and “death to Israel” slogans are commonplace. Yet, if Israel lifts a finger to deal with these murderers, all we hear is how “disproportinate” they are being. Then I hear Stephane Dion characterizing the Canadians’ trememdous work in Afghanistan as “killing Taliban, that is all.” I wish to thank Mr Dion for moving his party to the left, essentially allying it with anti-Semitic forces. Unfortunately, this is not the tradition of the LPC, despite their shortcomings in other areas.
What does this say about Bob and Arlene Rae, that they would still continue to support the Liberals and act like everything is peachy keen?
Who is the scary political party?
Lie, Cheat, Slander, Steal
Liberals
Not my Canada
Did you guys not know that the CPC is behind this smear campaign? I have it from a very reliable source.
Don’t worry about Bob… he’s got that liberal juju now.
It’s a sombre rite of passage for aspirants to Liberal Party greatness… the dark moment when you sell your soul to the devil. “But it couldn’t have hurt that Rae defended Volpe’s honour, offering public praise Thursday for Volpe’s character and long service to the party.”
I hope it is dawning on American and Canadian Jews the reality that the Dems and Liberals are not their friends. 60 years after the Holocaust, “never again” means until next time.
It’s the vacuous and inept Dems/Libs that will give Iran time to get their Final Solution bomb completed. It’s the Dems/Libs chasing the rabidly anti-Semitic Muslim voters without serious repulsion at their anti-Semitic attitudes. It’s Jimmy Carter’s new book that’s pro-Palestinean, anti-Israel. It’s Hollywood that funds Borat and his anti-Semitic shtick as humor.
Why any American or Canadian Jew is still voting for or funding Dems/Libs I do not understand?
To Kingstonlad, I hope you thanked your Dad. The point I was making and you inferred in part to it was that people like your Dad came to Canada and gratefully accepted the standards that were entrenched here. He wanted to be a part of the country. I worked with a great many Europeans in Toronto and they brought a wide variety of cultural differences with them in the fifties and sixties, but they left the old animosities in the ‘Old Country’. Also they were too busy trying to make a better life for themselves and their families to worry about petty ‘tribal’ rivalries that existed in the ‘Old Country’. Also they didn’t demand their “Rights”, they came here and rolled up their sleeves and proved themselves worthy of having their “Rights”. Your Father, like mine, was not assimilated but he was integrated, and by integrating he proved his worth by his dilligence and labour. Your Dad and thousands like him have bestowed these rights to you. Unfortunately Liberal policies have diluted our “Rights” over the last fifty years. That is another story, this Rae-Jewish thing is only the tip of the iceberg. Once again be sure to thank your Dad and your Mother too.
“Why any American or Canadian Jew is still voting for or funding Dems/Libs I do not understand?”
my anecdotal evidence from observing my own family:
– Jews have swallowed the line that the Nazis were rightwing, therefore they personally could never be right of center/conservative
– liberal Jews are post-modern relativists who are basically against any notion that a Creator gave a specific plot of land to a specific nation
I had an epiphany on 9/11 and realized that anti-Jewism thrives on the polital left. My family can’t stand that I have abandoned the left. I succeeded in convincing my parents to vote Conservative but the rest of them are stuck in the 60s. Hopefully more Jews are waking up to reality
Water finds it’s own level.
ET,
I didn’t know that the NDP are playing a game of Scrabble with the Libs for votes. I hope they’re not cheating by looking in a dictionary…
As a fellow Toronto Jew, I can confirm that ex-liberal is exactly correct. The “Hitler was a right-winger” smear runs deep, as does the moral relativism encouraged by the Reform and Conservative branches of Judaism that dominate Canadian Jewry.
I don’t know if the Jewish community will make a serious move to the Conservative party. Part of the Schwartz-Reisman crowd’s change of allegiance undoubtedly has to do with who’s in power. But they will certainly stop giving money to the Liberals, which will cost the Dion-led leftys HUGE in the pocketbook.
This is OT but should be brought to everyones attention. CBC Calgary just commented on Arar’s stmt, with the wording saying perceived (maybe it was possible) wrongdoing by the RCMP. I thought by the coverage this last week it was absolute positive proof that Zac did do wrong along with many of members of the force. What happened, did the liberals and cbc wakeup to the fact that there are many bad secrets about the liberal that might come out in a tell all book. I expect that book to come out about a week before the next election, (I can wish). Was Holland silenced. Change of wording must have something to do with the lawsuit.
Seems to me that the NDP would be afraid of Bob Rae as Lib Leader too!
This is the funniest article I’ve read in a long time.
penny,
Sacha Ben Cohen, the actor who plays Borat is Jewish. I haven’t seen the movie, but the intent of the Ali G Show(where the character of Borat originated) was largely aimed at depicting Americans as stupid, bigoted cowboys(a sentiment I’m sure everyone on this board including myself agrees with – *sarcasm off).
As a few posters have noted, liberal Jews are attracted to multi-culti, global brothership-type, ‘anti-nationalist’ type movements like communism (Trotsky, Marx) because of course they fear nationalist movements(NSDAP) which have historically scapegoated Jews for centuries (think Crusades and German pogroms).
Israeli politics is quite interesting in that there are pacifists both on the extreme left and extreme right. The Socialist/’shetl’/kibbutz Jews who refuse to serve in the West Bank for international brotherhood reasons (similar to the John Yoder Christian Left), as well as Orthodox/Hasidics who believe Israel should surrender because it is a secular state ordained by gentiles, and not the Israel foretold by Divine Intervention in the Old Testament by God. The idea is: if I get along with my oppressor, he shall save me(Moses).
That being said, there are lots of good ‘conservative’ Jews as well: the Chicago school of economics, Kissinger, David Frum…
A priest, rabbi and a minister walk into a bar…
Seriously, I have yet to understand how Jews got to be so evil and detested, but then again I don’t see why any religion can dictate myths and lies as doctrine.
We have groups of muslims that say the koran tells them to wipe out the Jews. We have the Canadian jewish community against the CPC for some redneck reason. Must be Heddi’s burning crosses, I guess. There are “progressives” that think that the Christians are worse than the Jews and Islamists combined.
Life would be a lot easier if everyone just used their own head to make their minds up instead of blindly following their religious or political leaders.
Amen, pass the collection plate.
Just surfing dipperland and have been unable to find any discussions of the Bob Rae slurs.
I thought the NDP were the champions of the hard done by, inequality and all that kind of stuff?
Actually only found one Lib mention which was titled “This is not the Liberal Party” [except that it obviously is]
Texas Canuck, you must be from the Pat Buchanan-James Baker school of conservative moonbattery, where the world would be so much better if the Jews would just go away. Shame on you.
December 08, 2006
Shameful anti-Semitic slurs against Rae
Copy of anti-semitic flyer here:
http://www.stephentaylor.ca/archives/000751.html
Watching left-tards like Ti-Guy slithering in his usual vulgar fashion at safe blogs for other likeminded left-tards, while crying like babies because they were banned from certain blogs that won’t tolerate their childish behaviour always makes me smile.