*JDL* Parsha & Weekly Update – Week of January 22-28, 2012

Parshah Bo – Exodus 10:1-13:16
Torah Reading for Week of January 22-28, 2012 – Tevet 27-Shvat 4, 5772

Please read Nachman Kahana on Parashat Bo 5772

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The Jewish Defence League did travel to Huntingdon Quebec to confront the antisemitic Mayor Stephane Gendron.  We were joined by supporters from Montreal.  The protest lasted one hour.   Many residents of the town welcomed us with coffee and warmth.  They want us to come back until Gendron is out of office.  We will continue to work with our supporters in Montreal on many projects.  One such project will be to apply preasure on V Tele, the television station that allows Gendron to speak to thousands of viewers.  We will contact advertisors and ask that they refraim from doing bussiness with enablers of antisemitism.  The following is some of our media coverage:

Protesters target Huntingdon mayor’s views on Israel

Quebec mayor under fire for anti-Israel remarks

Gendron fanning flames of anti-Jewish sentiment

Mayor under fire in Quebec for anti-Israel remarks; says Israel …‎

Global News | Mayor under fire in Quebec for anti-Israel remarks …

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The Jewish Defence League  wishes Moshe Feiglin the best of success in his candidacy for head of the Likud. All updates will now be hosted on Moshe Feiglin’s political website, www.mflikud.com until after the campaign. B’hatzlachah!

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The following information was obtained from an anti Israel web site:

 11. A Rabbi advocates for Solidarity and Palestinian Human Rights with Rabbi Lynn
Gottlieb

Saturday, January 28, 7:30 p.m. @ Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham Street (south of Bloor,
at Bathurst subway, take Markham Street exit)

About the Speaker
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb is currently Project Coordinator of The Community of Living
Traditions, a multi-faith residential community committed to the study and practice
of religious and strategic nonviolence. She leads arts delegations to Palestine with
the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Her book: Trail Guide to the Torah of Nonviolence
will be available in March 2012. Lynn is a percussionist, klezmer dancer,
storyteller, and poet.
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, formerly with the Danforth Jewish Circle and presently living
and training in Stony Point, New York, is working to create a community devoted to
waging Nonviolence in a multifaith, multiracial and intergenerational context. She
calls the community, “The Community of Living Traditions”. She is also working to
establish a “Shomer Shalom Network for Jewish Nonviolence”.

It is from this vantage point that she addresses the Israel/Palestinian conflict

About the Sponsors
The Holy Land Awareness and Action Task Group relates to the South West Presbytery
of the Toronto Conference of the United Church of Canada. Please visit,
www.occupiedwithpeace.org

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19. Eyes in Gaza – Mads Gilbert speaks at Ryerson

Friday, February 3rd, 6:00 p.m. @ Ryerson University (Room SCC 115 – Students Centre)
Sponsored by Students for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR), Ryerson

Dr. Mads Gilbert is an internationally acclaimed doctor and is Head of the
Department of Emergency at the University of North Norway.

Dr. Gilbert was one of only two foreign doctors allowed into Gaza during the
2008-2009 Israeli incursion. Along with his colleague, Dr. …Erik Fosse, he
co-authored a book titled Eyes in Gaza in which he recounts the horrific scenes he
witnessed in Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital during the deadly 22-day Israeli attack on the
civilian population of Gaza.

Long before ‘Operation Cast Lead’ Israel had imposed a severe blockade on Gaza which
included but was not limited to the movement of goods, medical aid, and people. At
the onset of the incursion, Israel banned all media from entering the strip and soon
Dr. Mads Gilbert became an unofficial spokesperson for the atrocities that were
taking place against the civilian population. He appeared on Al Jazeera, BBC, CBS,
ABC, CNN and other news networks to tell the story of the Palestinians in the winter
of 2008-2009.

The 3-week incursion on Gaza cost 1400 civilian lives, in addition to severe damage
to the Gazan economy – by UN estimates, 85% of Gaza’s GDP was slashed by the end of
the attacks. Dr. Mads Gilbert will share with the Toronto community his eyewitness
accounts of the terror that was cast on the civilian population during those deadly
22 days.

On Friday February 3rd, in the SCC 115, at 6:00 PM come out to hear Dr. Gilbert’s
story – one which you will likely never forget.

TICKETS ARE SELLING FOR $10 (General admission for everyone).
WE ONLY HAVE A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS SO GET YOURS QUICK”

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The JDL is working hard to thwart the many anti Israel groups.  We need you to get involved and help us fight back.  We have many activities planned for Febuary and March.  Join with us now. 

 

With Love of Israel,

Meir Weinstein, National Director

Jewish Defence League of Canada

Three stages of JIHAD…

This video is an excellent video (24 minutes) which explains clearly the three stages of jihad that the globe faces. With a guest appearance of someone you know. It one of the most important videos you can watch to explain what you know is going on all around you. 

The U.S. and Canada is in stage one.

Parts of Europe, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia are in stage two.

The bulk of the Arab/Muslim world is in stage three.

Right below the video screen, you can click to print a free pamphlet on the three stages of jihad.

http://www.answeringmuslims.com/p/jihad.html

 

Stéphane Gendron is Mayor of Huntingdon PQ. Seriously. How did this guy get elected?

CTV, CBC, the Gazette, and regional newspapers arrived today and interviewed Meir Weinstein, Director of the Jewish Defence League and others. It was a tremendous success.

This picture was taken in front of Huntington’s city hall today. 

 

Jewish Defence League confronted

anti Israel Mayor Stephane Gendron

Thursday, January 26, 2012

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Office of the Mayor, 23, rue King , Huntingdon, Quebec

CBC exposed – James Cohen and Fred Litwin

The CBC’s Propaganda War -  January 26, 2012 - Posted by Bruce Bawer

FrontPage  http://frontpagemag.com/2012/01/26/the-cbcs-propaganda-war/

The only thing worse than having the biases of the mainstream media inflicted upon you on a daily basis is having to subsidize it.  For Americans, to be sure, the rip-off isn’t so terrible: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds PBS and NPR, gets $430 million a year from the federal government, which comes to only a couple of bucks per household.  In Britain, by contrast, the BBC license fee is now £145.50 ($226) annually per TV-owning family.  And in Canada, the CBC receives more than $1.5 billion a year from the Canadian government, which amounts to upwards of $100 per household.

And what, exactly, are Canadian taxpayers paying for?  That’s the question asked – and very illuminatingly answered – by a new documentary,This Hour Could Have 10,000 Minutes: The Biases of the CBC, produced by James Cohen and Fred Litwin.  (The title is a reference to “This Hour Has 22 Minutes,” a long-running CBC series specializing in political satire.)  Focusing on two main topics – anti-Israel bias and anti-conservative bias – the documentary consists almost entirely of CBC clips (most but not all of them from news programs) in which we can see these biases in action.  To judge by this compilation, the CBC is perhaps even more slanted than the infamously partial BBC – and, perhaps, even more brazen about it.

Take the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  In the documentary we see excerpts from a CBC report on the second Gaza “Freedom Flotilla” that consists entirely of interviews with flotilla participants – all of whom represent it as a virtuous and innocuous aid mission and condemn Israel’s actions against the previous flotilla as absolutely unjustified.  At no point does the CBC provide even a brief reminder that there is, in fact, another side to the story.  (As the documentary asks: “Is this reporting?  Or stenography?”)

In one report, the CBC describes the Jewish Defense League, untruthfully, as a terrorist group that’s banned in Canada.  In another report, on Hamas’s struggle with Fatah and takeover of Gaza, the CBC includes file footage of Israeli soldiers firing at terrorists – images that have nothing to do with the story in question.  In both cases, the CBC was compelled to issue on-air apologies. (This documentary, in fact, is packed with on-air apologies for this sort of thing.)

“A Culture of Religious Distortion” — Rabbi Korobkin of the Orthodox Congregation “The BAYT” – Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto

When one can justify terrorizing little girls in the name of “tznius” (modesty of dress), when what goes into one’s mouth is more important than what comes out of it, when we care more about preserving our own spirituality than ruining the spirituality of others, then we have distorted Judaism beyond recognition.

 

http://app.streamsend.com/private/6N4X/9Me/KxtH7oF/browse/15381553

 

 

“Are We Losing Our Constitutional Republic?” — By Janet Levy

Are We Losing Our Constitutional Republic?

By Janet Levy 

While pundits at opposite ends of the political spectrum seldom agree, many seem to have reached accord over recent Obama administration deviations from constitutional principles.  The conclusion on both sides: the United States is moving precariously away from its origins as a constitutional republic and toward repressive government control of many aspects of life.

These changes, sparked perhaps by 9/11, are nonetheless uncharacteristic of a free society.  In a free state, access to information is unrestricted, freedom of speech by individuals and the press is upheld, dissent is lawful, and the opinions and attitudes of citizens toward government and law enforcement do not spur investigations.  Further, surveillance and investigations are limited to planned or actual criminal activity, due process is honored, and unreasonable search and seizure by government agents is unacceptable absent probable cause. 

Yet, since Obama assumed the presidency in 2009, he has sought and/or instituted policies that consolidate power at the federal level, restrict the availability of information, extend the boundaries of protected speech, expand monitoring of American society and increase law enforcement’s role.  Just as policies that place limitations on government oversight advance the cause of freedom, the opposite is true: policies that expand the role of government stifle liberty and invite repression.  A sampling of some proposed and/or established policies of the Obama administration indicates a troubling move toward a more restrictive, autocratic government.

 

*Jewish Defence League* to confront anti Israel Mayor Stephane Gendron – Thursday, January 26, 2012

Jewish Defence League to confront

anti Israel Mayor Stephane Gendron

Thursday, January 26, 2012

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Office of the Mayor, 23, rue King , Huntingdon, Quebec   The recent public statements by Mr. Stephane Gendron the Mayor of Huntingdon, Quebec is a violation of the Charter of Rights of Canada and a threat to the security of the Jewish Community. He recently said Israel should not exist. In other words, the Six Million Jews in Israel should not exist. Video: Canadian Mayor:… Israel Has No Right to Exist As CTV reports, the rant wasn’t Gendron’s first offense; he had been removed in the past from the airwaves following complaints after comparing Israelis to Nazis in a newspaper interview. Read more: http://blogs.forward.com/the-shmooze/149309/#ixzz1j1KHuFhK   Quebec TV Host Claims Israel Indiscriminately Murders Innocent Palestinians With Bulldozers     Quebec TV Host Stephane Gendron Says Israel Doesn’t Deserve to Exist       The Jewish Defence League will picket outside the offices of Mayor Stephane Gendron and demand that is fired or steps down as Mayor. For additional information call 416-736-7000 www.jdl-canada.com

*JDL Action Alert* — Fwd: [NION-Toronto] Hassan Diab – Falsely Accused in Climate of Islamophobia

The information below is from an anti Israel gang:

FYI… ———- Forwarded message ———- From: <NION-Toronto-owner@yahoogroups.com> Date: Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:33 PM Subject: [NION-Toronto] Hassan Diab – Falsely Accused in Climate of Islamophobia To: NION-Toronto@yahoogroups.com   Join us for an evening of powerful dramatic readings from Hassan Diab, Emile Zola, and others who have broken the silence and spoken out about the injustices they face. Attorney Barbara Jackman will also speak at this event and Hassan Diab will read poems he has just written for J’Accuse. When: Friday February 3rd, 2012 at 7:30pm Where: Music Room, Hart House, University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, ON, M5S 3H3 In 1894 Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French soldier, was charged with treason. The accusation, based on fraudulent handwriting analysis, unleashed waves of anti-Semitism. Eminent French writer Emile Zola wrote J’Accuse to expose “the spectre of the innocent man who, far away, is suffering the most atrocious of tortures for a crime he did not commit — It is a crime to exploit patriotism for works of hate.” Right now, exactly repeating the past, France rests its case against Hassan Diab on the basis of fraudulent handwriting analysis. In this climate of Islamophobia, France has asked the Canadian government to comply and to extradite Hassan Diab where he faces an unfair trial that could land him in jail for life. He remains under house arrest in Canada. Visit http://www.justiceforhassandiab.org/ or Science for Peace http://www.scienceforpeace.ca/j-accuse for more information.

*JDL* ALERT* – anti Israel events to take place in Toronto, January 28 and Friday, February 3rd

A RABBI (?) advocate for Solidarity and Palestinian Human Rights with Lynn
Gottlieb
Saturday, January 28, 7:30 p.m. @ Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham Street (south of Bloor,
at Bathurst subway, take Markham Street exit)

About the Speaker
RABBI (?) Lynn Gottlieb is currently Project Coordinator of The Community of Living
Traditions, a multi-faith residential community committed to the study and practice
of religious and strategic nonviolence. She leads arts delegations to Palestine with
the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Her book: Trail Guide to the Torah of Nonviolence
will be available in March 2012. Lynn is a percussionist, klezmer dancer,
storyteller, and poet.

RABBI (?) Lynn Gottlieb, formerly with the Danforth Jewish Circle and presently living
and training in Stony Point, New York, is working to create a community devoted to
waging Nonviolence in a multifaith, multiracial and intergenerational context. She
calls the community, “The Community of Living Traditions”. She is also working to
establish a “Shomer Shalom Network for Jewish Nonviolence”.

It is from this vantage point that she addresses the Israel/Palestinian conflict

About the Sponsors
The Holy Land Awareness and Action Task Group relates to the South West Presbytery
of the Toronto Conference of the United Church of Canada. Please visit,
www.occupiedwithpeace.org

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Eyes in Gaza – Mads Gilbert speaks at Ryerson

Friday, February 3rd, 6:00 p.m. @ Ryerson University (Room SCC 115 – Students Centre)
Sponsored by Students for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR), Ryerson
 
Mads Gilbert is an internationally acclaimed doctor and is Head of the
Department of Emergency at the University of North Norway.

Gilbert was one of only two foreign doctors allowed into Gaza during the
2008-2009 Israeli incursion. Along with his colleague, Erik Fosse, he
co-authored a book titled Eyes in Gaza in which he recounts the horrific scenes he
witnessed in Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital during the deadly 22-day Israeli attack on the
civilian population of Gaza.

Long before ‘Operation Cast Lead’ Israel had imposed a severe blockade on Gaza which
included but was not limited to the movement of goods, medical aid, and people. At
the onset of the incursion, Israel banned all media from entering the strip and soon
Mads Gilbert became an unofficial spokesperson for the atrocities that were
taking place against the civilian population. He appeared on Al Jazeera, BBC, CBS,
ABC, CNN and other news networks to tell the story of the Palestinians in the winter
of 2008-2009.

The 3-week incursion on Gaza cost 1400 civilian lives, in addition to severe damage
to the Gazan economy – by UN estimates, 85% of Gaza’s GDP was slashed by the end of
the attacks. Dr. Mads Gilbert will share with the Toronto community his eyewitness
accounts of the terror that was cast on the civilian population during those deadly
22 days.

On Friday February 3rd, in the SCC 115, at 6:00 PM come out to hear Gilbert’s
STORY– one which you will likely never forget.

TICKETS ARE SELLING FOR $10 (General admission for everyone).
WE ONLY HAVE A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS SO GET YOURS QUICK

 

 

What is hate speech? A movie about the Koran or koranic words?

Comment by Blog Administrator:

Warman, what is hate speech? A movie about the Koran or koranic words?