As B’nai Brith has reported, here, the Holocaust-denying, women-hating, racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic rag Your Ward News is again being distributed in parts of Toronto. Many of you have written to ask me why it’s still around. As seen here and here and elsewhere, the editor and publisher of this vile
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Bernie Farber On Ezra Levant And The Jewish Tradition
My favorite bit:All too often Levant cloaks himself in his Jewish heritage as a true defender of Jewish values, in contrast to those he refers to as the “official Jews,” or Jewish leadership.Make no mistake, Levant’s antics and intimidation tactics have nothing whatsoever to do with Judaism. Both Jewish law
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Centre For Israel And Jewish Affairs Censors Holocaust Survivers
Bernie Farber’s new column for the CJN is now on-line. Its about the crummy manner in which the Canadian government has treated the Pusemas, a family of Hungarian refugees which includes a six year old girl named Lulu. What I’m particularly interested in is this bit: Lets be clear: CIJA
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Farber Vs. Gwyn On John A.
From Bernie’s piece in The Star:The latest hullaballoo around renaming Toronto’s Union Station after Sir John A. Macdonald should have and could have been avoided from the start. It simply boggles the mind that Toronto Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong, a savvy municipal politician, would have suggested such a change without engaging
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Bernie Farber On Injustice And The Jewish Community
There is an ancient Jewish folktale which tells of a man visiting hell and being amazed to find its inhabitants all seated at long tables with fancy tablecloths, beautiful silverware and delicious food in front of them. Yet no one was eating. They were all wailing. On closer examination the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Fontaine And Farber On First Nations Genocide
Our conviction is that Canadian policy over more than 100 years can be defined as a genocide of First Nations under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention. Read it all if you can dodge the pay-wall. I have nothing particularly interesting to add except that under such circumstances it is generally
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Bernie Farber Has Advice
Now that Jason Kenney has left his position as Minister for Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Bernie makes some suggestions to his successor, Chris Alexander: Refugees – Remove Hungary and Mexico from the Designated Safe Country list. This can be done immediately and without legislative reform. These designations impact vulnerable communities
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: New Jewish Group Fills Gap Left By The CJC
…whose members include Stephen Lewis, Michele Landsberg and Bernie Farber, and whose mandate includes more than just Israel 24/7 (includes, for example,Hungarian, Slovak and Czech nationals of Roma heritage). Good luck to them. Hope to hear lots from them in the future.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Your Daily Nazi: U.S. Nazis Inherit Canuck Gold?
An odd story, this. A Canadian nutter has bequeathed $1,000,000 in ancient gold coins and other valuables to the National Alliance, an American hate/terror group. The Canadian government may be lobbied to stop the transfer. And a few familiar figures are involved. So: one to keep an eye on.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Bernie Farber
…poses with: Conservative Party organizer Georgeanne Burke, PCPO riding association president for Thornhill (MPP Peter Shurman’s riding) Gila Martow, and York U professor Merle Jacobs. Also in the picture is officer Ricky Veerappan, the fellow that got Pam Geller turfed from her Thornhill gig. Kathy Shaidle thinks there’s something scandalous going on here
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Remembering All Of The Victims
Yesterday, to mark both Holocaust Remembrance Day and International Roma Day, Bernie Farber and Gina Csanyi-Robah of the Toronto Roma Community Center penned this story about the Porajmos (Devouring), the genocide of Europe’s Roma population under the Nazis. It is not an easy thing to read, but remembrance is a duty we owe the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: A Little Perspective Please
An interesting thing about The Jewish Tribune’s story about the death of Doug Christie, lawyer to Canada’s far right, is that it isn’t really about the death of Doug Christie. Rather, it is about the reaction to Doug Christie’s death by ex-CJC head Bernie Farber. Anyone that knows Bernie knows
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Farber On Cdn Human Rights
With little fanfare, Canada was scolded earlier this year by both the United Nations and Amnesty International over its human rights record. Yes you read this correctly — Canada. The two areas that attracted the most attention by the UN/Amnesty International human rights experts were Canada’s record when it came
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Curious Case Of The Disappearing Quote
So, as I mentioned a couple of days ago, T.O. Sun reporter Kevin Connor wrote up a short piece re last week’s protest outside of the Israeli consulate on Bloor Street. Probably the most notable thing about it was the apology that soon a…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Another Sun Bung-Up
In a story about the weekend’s pro-Palestinian rally on Bloor St.:A version of this story that briefly appeared on torontosun.com contained quotes wrongly attributed to Bernie Farber, former CEO of the Canadian Jewish Congress. The Sun r…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Congrats Bernie
The president of Gemini Power Corporation, Dr. Michael Dan is pleased to announce the appointment of Bernie M. Farber as Senior Vice President for Government and External Relations. Mr Farber formerly the Chief Executive Officer of Canadian Jewish Congress brings to this new position over 30 years of experience in
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Update On Roma Vs. Kenney
Members of Toronto’s Roma Community Centre will disassociate itself from a number of other groups protesting a reception for Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney–who will be honoured by the Canadian Friends of Haifa University (CFHU) on Nov. 4 at the Fairmount Royal York hotel– to symbolically show that they are not anti-Israel, merely
Continue readingwRanter.com: Church settlement boycott becomes interfaith train wreck
Share this: This past August, the General Council of the United Church of Canada, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, adopted a motion urging its members to boycott goods produced in West Bank settlements. The proposal was part of a larger, rather one-sided report prepared by the church’s Working Group on Israel/Palestine
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Bernie Farber On The History Of Pride
Mostly an historical overview of the history of the LGBTQ movement in T.O.. But this little bit:Even the politics seemed more subdued. While this year a Disputes Resolutions panel agreed that QiAIA (Queers against Israeli Apartheid) could march in the parade, its numbers as reported by the Jewish Tribune were half that of
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Bernie Farber On Richard Warman
Two fellas I am proud to call friends. And I would just note that this fight is not yet over. To all you journos that teamed up with the CDN Neo-Nazi movement to effect the repeal of S13, I can’t speak for these two gentleman, but as for me
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