scaramouche

Wednesday, 01 July 2009

Zerb sounds the alarm about “Zionists”: One of the things the Toronto Star’s anti-Zionist bloviator, Antonia Zerbesias, is proud of on this Canada Day is “free expression.” Trouble is some sneaky “Zionists” are conspiring to steal it away in the dark of night, those perfidious cads:

Freedom of Expression: Excuse me but since when did the interests of Zionist lobby groups determine who or what Canadians can see and hear?

In recent months, to list just three examples, there have been concerted campaigns against the staging of Caryl Churchill's controversial Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza and an academic conference at York University where the so-called "one-state solution'' was to be discussed. We also saw British MP George Galloway be denied entry to the country for a speaking tour, just because he brought aid to bombed-out Gaza.

Now comes word that the only way the respected Al-Jazeera English news service, currently applying for TV distribution in Canada, can win the support of these same Jewish groups is to have them become consultants.

Journalistically speaking, that is hardly kosher.

Get it? “Zionists”; kosher? Quel sparkling Dorothy Parkeresque wit! My response:

Newsflash for Antonia Zerbesias: “Zionist lobby groups,” as she calls them, do not determine “who or what Canadians can see or hear.” However, this being a free society, those who support Israel’s right to exist are free to voice their disgust whenever Israel-bashers spread falsehoods, smears and libels about the Jewish state.

You see, that’s how free expression works. Antonia Zerbesias, a vocal anti-Zionist, can write something that sounds an awful lot like that old anti-Semitic canard about “the Jews” conspiring to control everything, and I can counter by freely pointing out how ridiculous and hateful such assertions are.

Journalistically speaking, that’s called chutzpah--the linchpin of a free society.

If Antonia was truly concerned about free speech--free speech for everyone, I mean, not just for politically correct types who think exactly as she does--she would be criticizing the “human rights” system that spits on and makes a mockery of our most valuable right. Far easier to spit on the “Zionists,” eh? (I have to agree with her, though, about Official Jews acting as A-J "consultants"--really bad optics, guys.)

Update: As quoted in a piece by Don Feder on the FrontPage site, Obama’s former spiritual leader/replacement dad spews in the manner of the Star’s star Israel-despiser:

…Wright complained to a reporter that “them Jews” had denied him access to his disciple.

“Them Jews ain’t going to let him talk to me …. He’s got to do what politicians do. And the Jewish vote, the AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) vote that’s controlling him…that’s talking this craziness on Israel because they’re Zionists, they will not let him talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is. Ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza (I thought it was apartheid. Maybe it’s both.) – the ethnic cleansing of the Zionists is a sin and a crime against humanity.” The Zionists are in good company. As Rev. Michael Pfleger (another Obama bud) put it in a sermon at Wright’s church, “America is the great sin against God.” “God damn America!” the Rev. Jeremiah responds.

Wright later apologized for his “them Jews” comment, claiming he meant to say “the Zionists” not “the Jews.” Usually, anti-Semites say “Zionists” when they mean “Jews.” and not the reverse...

Watch your back, Zerb. The Rev. has the chops to replace you as a Star opiner.

Posted by: scaramouche at 10:20 | link | comments (3)

Comments:

#1 01 July 2009 - 11:22

There are only two certainties in Zerbi's life: slagging the <strike>Jooooos</strike> Zionists, and butting to the head of the buffet table.

There- it had to be said.

Anonymous

#2 01 July 2009 - 11:27

As has been said about another Pecksniffian Zion-basher, Judy Rebick: Bodacious and dainty--she ain'ty.