Green Leader Elizabeth May to help raise funds for group that encourages terrorism against Israelis

Following accusations by Canada's Green Party leader, and sole Member of Parliament Elizabeth May, that The Jewish Tribune published an article attributing "misleading statements" to her, that news outlet released an audio tape and transcript of the entire interview.

The tape bears out that the disputed article, by reporter Joanne Hill, was accurate and in her statement of "clarification," it turns out Elizabeth May lied, or as the Jewish Tribune more delicately put it, was "factually incorrect."

The issue that caused the controversy was May's agreeing to be the featured speaker at a fundraiser for a fanatically anti-Israel organization that goes by the deceptive name of "Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East." (CJPME)

Ms. May's policies on the Israeli-Palestinian dispute are not unreasonable. They are certainly more balanced than the unhinged and uninformed statements from the Libby Davies wing of the New Democratic Party. May's bear more resemblance to that of the Liberals. But the Green Party leader, who was seen as a political outsider, has evidently adopted the tactic of telling different tales to different groups, based on what she thinks they want to hear, in order to curry favor with them.

Worse still, the group for whom her appearance is designed to garner funds is one that has put on events in which terrorism against Israelis has been encouraged.

Last year, CJPME sponsored a talk by a histrionic anti-Israel activist by the name of Eva Bartlett,  who is a member of the terror-enabling organization International Solidarity Movement.

Among the other depraved assertions made by Bartlett during her talk to a small gathering of grubby anti-Israel zealots, she stated, "violent resistance is legitimate” while making continual reference to Palestinian “martyrs." The Palestinian  'violent resistance' to which Bartlett refers has included the launching of rockets at Israeli kindergartens and suicide bombings in which children were intentionally murdered. 

While correctly identifying CJPME's stance as "anti-Israel" which she later denied having said despite proof to the contrary, and despite her claim that she "is not going to pander" to them, May's tacit approbation of the group is disturbing and irresponsible.

May is correct in her belief that one should not only speak to those with whom one agrees, but by agreeing to be part of an event designed to, and effectively assisting in raising funds for a pro-terror group is of itself a reprehensible form of pandering.

May said in the interview, which she later implicitly denied in her "clarification," that she "never considered that it was a fundraiser as opposed to just yet another speaking invitation that I was accepting. So, mea culpa ."

Though it's increasingly difficult to determine when Elizabeth May is telling the truth, ff she was honest about what she said in her interview, then May will do the right thing and cancel her participation in the upcoming CJPME fundraiser on December 5. 

To do otherwise will demonstrate more of where Elizabeth May truly stands than anything she says. Because clearly May's words are less meaningful than her actions.

al Starzeera publishes orchestrated response by rogues' gallery of anti-Israel lunatics

In response to a column in al Starzeera News (The Toronto Star) by Dow Marmur urging the United Church of Canada should reject a proposed boycott of Israeli settlement products, it published a collection of letters supporting the anti-Israel position.

That article was part of an orchestrated response by a deceitfully named pro Iranian organization called Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East.

Among the array of names on the less-than-distinguished list of letter writers were two bastions of local anti-Israel lunacy. One was Sheryl Nestel, an Ontario Institute for Studies in Education instructor who has managed to distinguish herself as the thesis adviser for an anti-Semitic paper that managed to humiliate the institute, bring its academic standards into disrepute and embarrass the University of Toronto as a whole, as well as being the go-to adviser for some other crackpot theses.

The other is a fringe conspiracy theorist named Karin Brothers, a fixture at anti-Israel gatherings, whose performance at a hate rally last year caused even the anti-Zionist United Church of Canada to disassociate itself from her.

One might think al Starzeera might do a little research before presenting such people as representative readers. Then again, given what that newspaper stands for, they may indeed be totally and accurately representative of what they are about.

But one does have to credit the United Church about one aspect to all of this. For a denomination whose average member is old enough to collect Social Security, and whose questioning of basic Christian tenets   has rendered itself completely irrelevant to anything, they must be pleased about the rare attention they have garnered.

Anti-Israel Group launches co-ordinated "Letters to Editor" campaigns to vilify Israel

Does it seem that whenever a story about Israel gets printed in a major publication, a group of the same online posters combined with usual suspect letters-to-the-editor writers get a control message to go into action and use a familiar litany of spurious talking points to malign the middle east's only democracy?

Ever wonder why they all sound so similar?

There's a reason for that.

The so-called "Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East," (CJPME) an anti-Israel group whose board includes Canadians Osama Abu-Shihab and Louay Jabry, wants you to be on stand-by to join their team of "media responders". Your job is to badmouth Israel and you don't even have to have a command of the facts that you're going to claim to find objectionable.

Can't think of what to write, or what to say? Incapable of thinking for yourself? No problem!  The CJPME will do that for you. In the words of their own promotional videos below, their Media Centre will allow you to "respond effectively without even having to locate a newspaper or magazine." Talk about convenient! Any semi-literate half-wit could participate (and from the looks of things, quite a few do).

These people are also sponsoring ex-professor and admirer of mass murderer Mao Zedong, Norman Finkelstein, on a speaking tour of Canada this week. Finkelstein is a seemingly anti-Semitic Jew, so expect a coordinated letter campaign saying what a "heroic" figure we have in that slimy supporter of terror-organization Hezbollah.