Let the blame go where it may but the reason why Canadians feel unaffected by tragedies and ignorance is because they themselves do not care.
Yes, the education system should do a better and very, very thorough job of teaching the Holocaust - from the murder of the disabled (which Canada does IN SPADES) to Kristallnacht to the Final Solution and to war - but where are the parents in this? Are there no books in the house?
Why the perfunctory obeisance to Remembrance Day? Did Canada really want a Nazi to eventually be applauded in the House of Commons? Is that what men bled the fields of Europe for?
Would Canadians sit idly by and let their families and friends be butchered by the ever-resentful rag-tag groups that not even other Arab nations want?
Well, it's not like we can defend ourselves or depend on the military or the police to defend us:
The Leger poll was conducted the week of Sept. 25, just over a month before the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, a pogrom carried out overnight from Nov. 9 to Nov. 10 in 1938. Tens of thousands of Jewish men were incarcerated, nearly 300 synagogues were destroyed and thousands of Jewish businesses and homes were vandalized across Nazi Germany and its occupied territories.
When asked what first comes to mind, Canadians in every province except Quebec primarily identified the Holocaust with the word “genocide.” In Quebec, 32 per cent identified the Holocaust, while 36 per cent identified the Rwandan genocide, where as many as 800,000 members of the Tutsi ethnic minority were killed by Hutu militias in 1994.
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Again, are there no parents and no books?
I was able to pick up a book and read. What is everyone else's excuse?:
Last week, the Ontario government announced it is expanding Holocaust education in the province’s schools to combat antisemitism. It’s a good idea, but more must be done to fight the rising tide of hate. Night after night this week, Canadians have been treated to firebombed synagogues, anti-Jewish violence on university campuses and anti-Jewish hate speech in our streets. These crimes reveal a disturbing, but inevitable, reality: no matter how much we say “never again,” if you don’t know something to begin with, you are doomed not to remember it.
Today, many young people do not know about the Holocaust, and if they do, in many cases their knowledge is tainted by disinformation. A poll of Canadian youth taken in 2019 found that one in five was not sure what took place during the Holocaust. A 2020 survey of Americans aged 18-39 found that two-thirds did not know that six-million Jews were killed, and more than one in 10 believe Jews were to blame for the Holocaust. Almost a quarter said they believed the Holocaust was a myth, or had been exaggerated, or they were unsure.
People are shocked by this. But they shouldn’t be. Think back to your youth. If, like me, you were born in 1970, did you talk about conflicts that were 75 years old? Did you know the details of the Boer War of 1899-1902 between the British and the Dutch Boers in South Africa? Did you know that the British built over 100 concentration camps where they interned 115,000 civilians, of whom 28,000 died of disease, including 22,000 children?
No, neither did I until I read “Stones for my Father,” a 2011 book by Trilby Kent. I never learned about the Boer War in school, no one talked about it at the dinner table and it didn’t spawn any cultural touchstones, such as movies or television programs.
In an age of pop culture, we cannot underestimate the importance of such media in memorializing and shaping historical narratives. The Second World War lived on in reruns of “Hogan’s Heroes,” the PBS mini-series “Brideshead Revisited” and Gabrielle Roy’s iconic novel, “The Tin Flute.” The Holocaust was remembered through books and films, like “The Diary of Anne Frank,” “Sophie’s Choice” and “Schindler’s List.”
But “Schindler’s List” was made in 1993. That’s 30 years ago, well before any gen-Z child was born. It’s not that they’ve forgotten about the Holocaust, they never learned about it the way we did, as part of our everyday experience. We saw its stories on the big and small screen, we heard it discussed on the news and in documentaries. Even as young adults, it followed us and informed our worldview.
I recall travelling to Berlin when I turned 30, sitting in a darkened theatre watching a play about the Holocaust, hearing people sobbing in the audience. I visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, which has been turned into a Holocaust memorial full of school groups learning about history. The images and sounds left an emotional imprint, the evil remained a living, breathing thing.
But that was 23 years ago, before the internet and social media. Today, the horrors of the Holocaust have been crowded out by other issues clamouring for attention, such as climate change and gender issues. Worse yet, instead of knowledge, gen Z increasingly consumes disinformation. Fellow National Post writer Sabrina Maddeaux penned a chilling column about the generational divide over the attacks of Oct. 7.
“While nearly 80 per cent of Americans say they consider Hamas to be ‘terrorists,’ only 59 per cent of 18- to 24-year-olds do,” wrote Maddeaux. “More than half of that younger demographic also agrees that Hamas’s attacks ‘can be justified by the grievance of Palestinians,’ compared to less than a quarter of the overall population.”
Why? Maddeaux posits it’s because young people get their information on TikTok, which is rife with bot farms churning out anti-Israel and anti-western propaganda, bent on destabilizing democracies for the benefit of autocratic states like China. Add to that the rhetoric on anti-colonization, anti-oppression and anti-privilege that permeates the educational system, notably universities, and it’s no wonder that so many young people see Jews not as victims, but villains.
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No, it reflects a West unwilling to acknowledge God, to its great detriment:
Bélisle claims this new ban on religious prayers is required because of the “strict standard for religious neutrality” set by the Supreme Court of Canada in the 2015 case Mouvement laïque québécois v. Saguenay. This reflects a common misunderstanding of the right to freedom of religion in Canada and what Saguenay actually says. As the judges explained in that case, the Charter guarantee of freedom of religion prevents the state from favouring one religion or one set of spiritual beliefs over all others but it does not require pushing religion out of public space.**
It has now been 12 years since our country was at war, but where have all the proud Canadians gone? It feels like they’ve disappeared.Is it because a large portion of the public doesn’t know what our military is doing? Is it because senior members past and present have been highlighting our military’s deficiencies? Is it because the costs associated with adequately protecting our borders is now daunting? Is it because the media have been quick to highlight scandals associated with some members of the military? Is it because the emphasis seems less on being an effective fighting force and more on fostering an accommodating workplace environment? Is it because there seems to be no real direction for our military?Sadly, in my view, this lack of a long-term vision has stripped the military of its identity and diminished its value in the eyes of Canadians who want to feel proud and confident about the men and women who wear the uniform.
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What is the context needed for understanding the butchering of children?:
This week, more than 700 Canadian lawyers, law students, law professors and other academics signed their names to a petition saying that Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacres should be placed in their proper “context,” rather than condemned. “We reject the notion that it is antisemitic, hateful, or illegitimate to contextualize the October 7th, 2023 attack,” they wrote.
The signees add that Israel is a racist state committing genocide, and that Canada is now facing a “new McCarthyism” targeting anyone espousing such sentiments. As an example, the letter cites York University’s move to decertify the York Federation of Students after the group issued a statement celebrating the Oct. 7 massacres as a “strong act of resistance” that was “justified and necessary.”
The 700 signatories are not mere student activists. The list comprises a cross-section of influential professors and authors who have been championed by their universities, quoted as experts in the media and used to guide public policy.
This is particularly true in the realm of “anti-racism” – a legal theory now with its own federal secretariat which holds that all Canadian institutions are fundamentally white supremacist and require “deliberate systems and supports” to favour the “equity-seeking.” Given the violence visited upon women on Oct. 7, the list also notably includes no shortage of researchers in feminism and even gendered violence.
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Really:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling on the Israeli government to exercise “maximum restraint” in its military operations in Gaza and around the territory’s largest hospital.
Would this be the hospital used as a weapons dump?
Useless creature.
Hamas is adept at being awful, just like their fans:
Hamas’s plans for the Oct. 7 attacks also included detailed instructions on “which [terror] commander should rape which [Israeli] soldiers in different places,” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told The Washington Post on Sunday.
The report confirmed some of the worst atrocities committed by Hamas on Oct. 7, including one instance where terrorists in Kibbutz Be’eri “cut open the belly of a pregnant woman and dragged her fetus onto the ground.”
(Sidebar: in Canada, whoever did this would be given the Order of Canada.)
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“I could hear them. From behind the door, I could hear them breaking my house. Smashing and hitting. Shouting and screaming and shooting, a lot of gunshots, a lot of shooting. It’s unbelievable. For eight hours I hold the door shut.
“After the last message (from her son), my phone went black. I couldn’t get any messages anymore. I couldn’t charge it. It was dark because there was no electricity, no air conditioning. I was in the dark for eight hours. No water, no phone, no information.
“The army came and took me out and when I went outside, I was shocked. I look around, I can’t recognize my village. It was a peaceful place before, nice, green, quiet. And now? It’s all burned. They burned the cars, they burn the houses, they even shot dogs and cats.
“On this hell of a day, a dark day, my kibbutz was put through a massacre, a pogrom, a holocaust,” Calderon said.
“The terrorists came — an army of terrorists, not just a few, but an army, very well trained, very brutal and cruel. And they went through, house by house, and murdered and butchered, and then burned the houses.
“I couldn’t see my family. Five members from my family weren’t there. I was sure they had been murdered. I was terrified. And then we got the messages, that some of them had been kidnapped. I was happy.
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Someone skids on a “rainbow crosswalk” here and the Trudeau leadership gallops to protest the hate. Twelve hundred Jews slaughtered in a storm of real hate and you can taste the reluctance to publicly condemn Hamas, excoriate the hatefulness of some of the street demonstrations, and offer real succor. Flights to Ukraine have been almost a daily thing, Ukraine’s leader invited to our Parliament, frequent condemnations of Russia in the most explicit language. The pogrom of last month in Israel, by contrast, careful, exquisitely poised with simultaneous references to Islamophobia? A very curious yoking for this particular time.From Babylon to Berlin the storyline does not vary. And from Berlin to last month in Israel. What a world. Jews under fear and anxiety — again. “Keep the world clean” posters with the Star of David going into a garbage bin, Jews being preached at to hold back, be “proportionate” — as even from the fanatics of Hamas there are public promises to have another Oct. 7 and another, till the ultimate goal of Hamas is reached — no more Israel.Israel is the Job of nations. With this horrible difference. Job, after his immiseration, was restored. Those who hate Israel have a violently different end in mind.
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There it is:
🚨Hamas supporter in London says the quiet part out loud
— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) November 11, 2023
“Hitler knew how to deal with these people"
It always has been pure Jew-hatred under the guise of anti-Zionism.
Watch more from @ThevoiceAlexa on the ground at https://t.co/RP773XzDEP.
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Canada Revenue Agency auditors cited the “troubling” allegation as one of the reasons it felt there were grounds to revoke the charity status of the Muslim Association of Canada.
The March 2021 audit document, obtained by Global News, details the concerns the CRA charities branch raised about the federally-funded Muslim Association of Canada (MAC).
The 151-page report laid out the auditors’ preliminary concerns, before MAC had provided the CRA with its formal response. The concerns raised in the audit document have not been proven, and CRA’s final decision has not been made public.
MAC remains a registered charity in good standing. It has denied any wrongdoing and argues it is a victim of anti-Muslim bias. The auditors examined MAC’s records for the years 2012 to 2015.
Among the “areas of non-compliance” cited by the auditors were alleged ties to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and IRFAN-Canada, which Canada has designated a terrorist entity due to its support for Hamas.
It is no wonder that Israel cannot stop hammering Hamas now.
To even pause would be suicide.
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Why did you allow it all this time? Why not make immigrants acclimate to how things are done in the twenty-first century?:
Ontario's human rights commission recognized caste-based discrimination for the first time last week and while many advocates applaud the move, there are also hopes it will lead to further action at provincial and federal levels.
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Would anyone be so boorish and accusatory if there were no public funds?:
One of the feature exhibits at the Vancouver Art Gallery right now is installation framing “Whiteness” as a force of “cultural erasure,” and even includes an Aryan Recognition Tool in which visitors are invited to gauge their visual similarity to a Nazi leader.
The exhibit, called “Conceptions of White,” first opened at the gallery on Sept. 7 and, according to gallery literature, is intended to help visitors “grapple with contemporary configurations of White identity.”
Are the Liberals exhibited?
Perhaps we should discourage people from coming here, considering how horribly laden Canada is with "white privilege".
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