Words
We could put together a "ten percenter" about a former Conservative leader appearing, long ago, onstage with a Saskatchewan Klansman - or, more recently, another Conservative leader's musings about the PLO. We could put one together about, even more recently, media reports detailing a Conservative ministerial aide threatening to pull the funding at a school for severely disabled Jewish children.
We could talk about these facts, pulled from one of my books and the public record:
• Holocaust denier Doug Collins, who called Schindler’s List “Swindler’s List” seeks a BC Reform Party nomination in 1988.
• In 1993, Ontario Reform candidate John Beck states that “predominantly Jewish people are running the country.”
• Reform MP Bob Ringma states in 1996 that “ethnics” need to be moved to “the back of the shop.”
• Werner Schmidt, a Reform MP, quotes Hitler in a householder – “what luck for leaders that men do not think.”
• Future Aryan Nations leader Terry Long, who would later call Jews “the spawn of Satan,” works in 1980 as an Edmonton-area Conservative Party director.
• In 1991, the Toronto Sun exposes the fact that Ku Klux Klan leader Wolgang Droege is a member of the Reform Party in Toronto, as are four other members of the neo-Nazi Heritage Front; two of the anti-Semites are on the executive of Beaches-Woodbine Reform Party executive.
But we don't.
We don't, because Israel is our ally - with whom we stand shoulder-to-shoulder, as Michael Ignatieff has said many times - and it is disgusting that a sitting government would use lies (not facts) to divide people over Israel, and anti-Semitism. It is a bloody disgrace.
Following last night's Power Play segments, some of you have asked me if Liberals could sue over that foul pamphlet. I don't know if someone is planning to do so, yet, but I have talked to enough lawyers to know that any card-carrying Liberal could almost certainly successfully sue Stephen Harper and his party for calling them "anti-Semitic." Will someone? I don't know. But it's sure being discussed.
All I do know is that people who live in glass houses - see the bullets above - shouldn't throw stones. They may get some thrown back.
POST-SCRIPT: I hear a certain B'nai Brith guy is trying to defend the pamphlet in the media. Would this be the same guy who was energetically interested in a Reform-Alliance nomination in 2000? Would this be the same B'nai Brith that was also at Durban I, right until the end?
We could talk about these facts, pulled from one of my books and the public record:
• Holocaust denier Doug Collins, who called Schindler’s List “Swindler’s List” seeks a BC Reform Party nomination in 1988.
• In 1993, Ontario Reform candidate John Beck states that “predominantly Jewish people are running the country.”
• Reform MP Bob Ringma states in 1996 that “ethnics” need to be moved to “the back of the shop.”
• Werner Schmidt, a Reform MP, quotes Hitler in a householder – “what luck for leaders that men do not think.”
• Future Aryan Nations leader Terry Long, who would later call Jews “the spawn of Satan,” works in 1980 as an Edmonton-area Conservative Party director.
• In 1991, the Toronto Sun exposes the fact that Ku Klux Klan leader Wolgang Droege is a member of the Reform Party in Toronto, as are four other members of the neo-Nazi Heritage Front; two of the anti-Semites are on the executive of Beaches-Woodbine Reform Party executive.
But we don't.
We don't, because Israel is our ally - with whom we stand shoulder-to-shoulder, as Michael Ignatieff has said many times - and it is disgusting that a sitting government would use lies (not facts) to divide people over Israel, and anti-Semitism. It is a bloody disgrace.
Following last night's Power Play segments, some of you have asked me if Liberals could sue over that foul pamphlet. I don't know if someone is planning to do so, yet, but I have talked to enough lawyers to know that any card-carrying Liberal could almost certainly successfully sue Stephen Harper and his party for calling them "anti-Semitic." Will someone? I don't know. But it's sure being discussed.
All I do know is that people who live in glass houses - see the bullets above - shouldn't throw stones. They may get some thrown back.
POST-SCRIPT: I hear a certain B'nai Brith guy is trying to defend the pamphlet in the media. Would this be the same guy who was energetically interested in a Reform-Alliance nomination in 2000? Would this be the same B'nai Brith that was also at Durban I, right until the end?