Canadian government minister offers rare words of wisdom on Israel and the new anti-Semitism
It is so rare to see a western political leader displaying moral and intellectual clarity on modern-day hostility to Israel that when it happens it should not pass without applause. Israel’s (liberal-Left) Haaretz newspaper reports today on the words of Canada’s minister of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism, Jason Kenney, following a four-day trip to Israel which ended on Sunday.
The paper reported Kenney as saying that the daily existential threat faced by the Jewish state simultaneously represented a “threat to the broader Western civilization”. He argued that this new anti-Semitism was potentially more dangerous than the European anti-Semitism of old. And, he was quoted as saying:
“…so much of the criticism Israel faces is motivated by a dangerous form of anti-Semitism that tries to hide behind anti-Zionism and is represented by a coalition of the far left in the West with extreme currents of jihadi Islam that seek the destruction of the Jewish nation. They seem to believe that the Jewish people are the only people in the world that don’t have a right to a homeland.”
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1087973.html
Canada, it should not be forgotten, was at the forefront of a group of nations which boycotted the UN Durban Review Conference in Geneva last month due to concerns that it would turn into a re-run of the anti-Semitic hate-fest which was the first UN anti-racism conference in Durban South Africa in 2001. The conference in Geneva descended into farce right at the outset with an inaugural speech by none other than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Holocaust denying president of Iran.
