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Tom Oleson is to be commended for defending British MP George Galloway's efforts to enter Canada and speak publicly, despite Immigration Minister Jason Kenney's resistance to overturning the ban on Galloway's admission to Canada (Canada is bigger than this, March 25). However, I must protest Oleson's odious characterization of Galloway as a "Jew-hater" or, at least, someone who "walks and talks" like one. In 2004, Galloway argued against allowing right-wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen from entering Britain, in part owing to Le Pen's multiple convictions for Holocaust denial. Yes, this is ironic considering Galloway's present circumstances, but hardly the actions of an anti-Semite. After reading Tom Oleson's article about Canada's decision to ban British MP George Galloway from e...
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Like [Alexander Tilloch Galt], his fellow Father of Confederation Sir John A. Macdonald also had mixed motives. The prime minister was contemplating the immigration to western Canada of only a "sprinkling" of Russian Jews and praising Galt's efforts to establish a link with Jewish financiers and for having made what he called "a great strike by taking up the old clo' cry" -- part of the "rags, clothes, bottles" cry of Jewish peddlers -- "and going in for a Jew immigration [sic] into the Northwest... The Winnipeg newspaper The Daily Sun stated that the Russian Jews had "been driven forth for conscience sake," were "[i]noffensive and industrious," and would be "rewarded for their pains," because in Winnipeg "every man - Protestant and Catholic, Greek and Jew - may build his altar and his...
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Tamir Goodman has often been referred to as the Jewish Jordan. Yet, it is not really his basketball prowess that makes Goodman so unique, but rather his devotion to his faith. Goodman is a religious Jew who managed to observe the Sabbath, wear his yarmulke and observe kosher dietary laws while playing Division 1 college basketball in the United States. Sometimes we find our biggest blessings by overcoming our biggest challenges," Goodman said. "We must learn to work with the blessings that we have rather than always focus on what we don't have, and to know that one of the greatest things in the world is to figure out how you can help another person through your own talents. "It was crazy," Goodman was quoted at the time. "They got the entire league to change its schedule so one kid co...
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That dynamic is present, with a vengeance, in this Winnipeg Jewish Theatre season-ending production at the Warehouse Theatre. At its tragic centre is Phillip Gellburg (Nicholas Rice), a man who is vocally proud of being the "only Jew" at the WASP-run Brooklyn Guarantee & Trust. Gellburg -- given to correcting the pronunciation of his name ("Not Goldberg, Gellburg!") and emphasizing his Finnish roots -- is more proud of being the only Jew than he is proud of being a Jew. While he attempts to disconnect from his heritage, his fragile wife Sylvia (Miriam Smith) seems to be suddenly hyper-aware, and that may be a curse, given the time in history. Phillip consults his neighbourhood socialist doctor, Harry Hyman (Gordon Tanner), a man as vital and worldly as Gellburg is buttoned-down and...
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The movie, which opened Friday, features a "running of the Jew" segment back in Borat's home village in Kazakhstan that would be astonishingly offensive if it were not so ludicrously funny. On the Comedy Network's Da Ali G Show, Borat once took to the stage at a country-and-western bar in the southern United States and performed a song called Throw the Jew Down the Well as the rednecks sang along and cheered. Most Jews assume there's still anti-Semitism lurking everywhere -- even here in Hollywood -- but it may take a random traffic stop in Malibu for it to bubble to the surface. Borat has a secret identity -- [Sacha Baron Cohen], who we know is an observant Jew -- but then he changes into his Borat costume and completely transforms himself into a naively likable Jew-hater, flying arou...
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The mystery man is then tracked back to 37 AD, at which time the librarian reveals his quarry to be the eternally wandering Jew (not the plant) of legend, who shooed away the cross-carrying Jesus who was resting on his doorstep underneath his lintel (the horizontal building support at the top of an entrance) on his way to Calvary. "I will go, but you will tarry until I come again," responded Jesus. Ever since, the Jew has been condemned to wander the Earth, and apparently had need of a travel guide in 1873. [John D. HUSTON] is excellent, portraying his character as a small-minded eccentric armed with his raison d'etre, a date stamper he wears proudly on a chain attached to his drab cardigan sweater. As his story gains significance, Huston's librarian becomes enlivened with self-importan...
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I have no problem with the removal of "thy sons command" and replacing it with the original words. That being said, I think if anything should be changed or removed it should be "God keep our land glorious and free." No "God" kept us glorious and free -- the great soldiers and leaders from Canada did. Twenty five per cent of Canadians claim to have no religious affiliation, and this number is increasing year after year. Canada deservers an anthem that will unite our citizens, regardless of sex, religiosity, spoken language or place of birth. Even if Mossad were responsible, any comparison between the death of Mabhouh and the Holocaust is appalling. The millions of victims of the Nazi Holocaust, whether Jew, Roma, homosexual, or disabled, were innocents who were murdered not because of...
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Most of the assumptions in these demands are based on false premises. The so-called Occupied Territories, for example, were held by Israel after it was invaded or threatened by its neighbours. Arabs living in Israel have more rights and services than do those living elsewhere in the Middle East, which puts a lie to the claim that Israel is an apartheid state. Palestinians in the West Bank are certainly not equal under Israeli law, but then they are not Israelis, even though they are under Israeli control. They are victims of the Arab wars to destroy Israel and their future will only be settled when the Jew-haters of the region acknowledge Israel's right to exist. Israel is open to talks on the future of the occupied lands, but not until the threats and rockets and suicide-bombers subsid...
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[Nadia Makarenko] said she recalls being with her mother as a young child, but has little or no memory of her father until 1945 when they were all in a displaced person's camp in Germany. She thought she might have seen him before the war ended, but she wasn't sure. I suggested it was possible her father, as a Jew, had been in a Nazi concentration camp, or a forced labourer in Germany itself, maybe even a partisan. She said she really didn't know. It wasn't all they buried in South Carolina. Her parents also tried to hide their disabled daughter, who spent most of her life in an upstairs bedroom. Makarenko said her parents feared someone might take her away and kill her, "the way the Nazis did" to the handicapped under a broad policy to rid the world of people and races they regarded as...
