Will The National Post Defend Free Speech This Time?

Where are the principled supporters of free speech now?

Let’s see, CHRC used by Jewish groups to prosecute people for their opinions for years and no-one cares.

Then a Muslim group does the same thing when they don’t like what a Jewish writer wrote, and there is a national uproar and outcry, from the National Post to Wreck Smurfy.

The inescapable conclusion is that Canadian reporters are deeply concerned with and committed to freedom of speech –when it is safe, and the ‘offended’ party is not a major Zionofascist Jewish group.

from readers’ letters at http://www.whatreallyhappened.com

READER: NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JANUARY 7, 2008

LEAGUE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS OF B’NAI BRITH CANADA alleges RadicalPress.com
owner guilty of “Hate Crimes” toward Jews and citizens of Israel.

QUESNEL, B.C. - Harry Abrams, B.C. representative for the League for
Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada has filed a complaint with the
Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) alleging that Arthur Topham,
Owner, Publisher & Editor of RadicalPress.com is promoting “hatred
toward Jews and citizens of Israel” because of articles on his website
that are critical of Zionism and the Jewish state of Israel.

Topham, who has publishing both a hard copy newspaper and an online
new site since 1998, said he received the complaint from the CHRC in
an unmarked, unregistered envelope November 20, 2008. Contained within
was an assortment of documents including a 3-page complaint from
Abrams and B’nai Brith and a directive from the CHRC to respond to the
Commission by an arranged date.

In a hard-hitting, detailed, and thoroughly documented 13-page
Response http://www.radicalpress.com/?p=629 sent to CHRC “hate-team”
investigator Sandy Kozak sandy.kozak@chrc-ccdp.ca on January 3, 2008
the RadicalPress.com publisher stated categorically, “Harry Abrams and
his partner in this complaint, the League for Human Rights of B’nai
Brith Canada are exploiting and abusing the intent of the Canadian
Human Rights Act for their own narrow, partisan, ideological purposes”
- ones which Topham strongly feels “are not designed to promote and
ensure the freedom of expression that the vast majority of Canadians
demand and expect but rather are meant to buttress and support the
political aims of a foreign state (Israel) of which these
organizations are but political extensions.”

Topham further emphasized the fact that there has been a dramatic
increase in these types of complaints to the CHRC by both the B’nai
Brith and the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) since September 11, 2001
when the attack on the World Trade Center In New York city resulting
in the loss of 3,000 lives. In the aftermath of that horrid event
Canada brought in its new Anti-terrorism Act, c.41 on December 18th,
2001 and along with it came changes to Sec. 13 (1) of the Canadian
Human Rights Act which specifically deals with “hate messages”. It is
Topham’s contention that both the B’nai Brith and the CJC played a
significant role in defining the new “Interpretation” of Sec. 13 (1) -
one that now allows both of these partisan groups to lay “hate crimes”
complaints against any Internet user or website owner who criticizes
Israel’s Zionist ideology and its racist policies toward the
Palestinian people.

“It is nothing but a last ditch attempt by these Israeli front
organizations to take control of the Internet in Canada and censor all
dissenting opinions that don’t support Israel or its Zionist
policies,” Topham said. “It is something the vast majority of
Canadians are adamantly opposed to yet these groups are becoming
bolder by the minute and are now even riding roughshod over Christian
organizations, mainstream magazines like MacLeans and alternative
media outlets such as the Radical Press.

Topham feels that “It is definitely time a thorough and impartial
investigation was carried out to determine the extent of their
influence upon our judiciary and our institutions in general. No
individual group should be manipulating Canada’s legal system for
their own personal gain. Even CBC’s Rex Murphy is taking a strong
stand against quasi-judicial bodies like the CHRC and seriously
questioning their purpose and legitimacy as they become more and more
susceptible to the type of manipulation and abuse that we’re now
seeing spreading across the country.”

Topham is firm in his intention to fight what he feels are spurious
charges designed to silence debate on issues vital to both national
and global peace. “If we cannot express our thoughts and ideas openly
and freely,” he said, “then the democratic principles upon which
Canada was founded become meaningless and dead and we might as well
accept the fact that we are living in a communist dictatorship rather
than a true democracy”.

CONTACT: Arthur Topham
Email: radical@radicalpress.com
Website: http://www.radicalpress.com

Zionist Supremacist group wants Outremont Liberal pulled from byelection

Is this how “Jewish groups” acted in pre-Nazi Germany? Just wondering.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/07/23/qc-coulon0723.html

Jewish group wants Outremont Liberal pulled from byelection

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 | 12:03 AM ET

CBC News

B’nai Brith Canada has asked Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion to remove new star candidate Jocelyn Coulon from an upcoming byelection in Montreal’s Outremont riding because of his past stance on Israel.

The Jewish organization says Coulon, a political scientist and former journalist, has a “well-documented anti-Israel bias,” including sympathy for Hamas, that is “out of step with current Liberal policy,” according to a statement released by the group.

Coulon, who was officially declared the Liberal candidate in Outremont last week, is vigorously defending his past articles, arguing he’s a proponent of healthy debate, not of anti-Israel sentiment.

He has been a frequent commentator on international affairs, penning opinion pieces in various Montreal newspapers since he left journalism for an academic position at the Université de Montréal.

Coulon’s analysis of Hamas’s rise to power in the Palestinian Territories 18 months ago is what concerns B’Nai Brith Canada, said Moïse Moghrabi, a lawyer for the organization.

In one opinion piece, dated Feb. 22, 2006, Coulon writes that Hamas isn’t just a terrorist organization, but a social and political movement that won the Palestinian elections because of its commitment to fight corruption and help people — and the international community should not isolate it.

That opinion reflects anti-Israel sentiment and violates Liberal policy in the Middle East, Moghrabi told CBC News.Coulon should not represent the federal Liberals, Moghrabi said, because he “doesn’t see [Hamas] as a terrorist organization with whom we should not be talking to, as established by the previous government.”

The B’nai Brith lawyer said Coulon’s nomination in Outremont — a Liberal stronghold — could mean he will eventually bring his opinions to the federal Liberal caucus, and possibly influence Grit foreign policy.

Coulon said he has no anti-Israel bias, but strongly believes in criticism and debate. “I am a true ally of Israel,” he said on Monday. “Sometimes I’m very critical, that’s for sure, but I think that makes good allies.”

B’nai Brith hopes Coulon’s documented position on Israel will disqualify him from the byelection.

The Liberal party defended Coulon, saying it is proud to have him as a candidate.

“He has consistently asserted Israel’s right to defend itself,” said Yves Lemire, who spoke on behalf of the party. “Mr. Coulon supports the Liberal party policy, which calls for a permament two-state solution in the Middle East.”

Outremont is a multi-ethnic riding nestled along Mont Royal’s northern slope, and is home to a significant Jewish population, including a large portion of Montreal’s Hasidic community.

A byelection in the riding is expected this fall, though the federal Conservative government has not yet picked a date.

It is widely seen as a two-way race between the Liberals and the NDP, who recruited the popular Thomas Mulcair, a lawyer and former environment minister under Quebec Premier Jean Charest.