The Canadian government has removed a plaque from a Holocaust memorial after it was found to be missing any reference to Jewish people.
The plaque, revealed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the opening of the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa last week, will be replaced with another that more accurately reflects “the horrors experienced by the Jewish people,” according to Heritage Minister Melanie Joly.
The omission escaped Trudeau, who was joined by Holocaust survivors as he toured the CA$8.95 million (US$7 million) memorial last Wednesday, but was picked up on by Conservative MP David Sweet.
Last year, the Toronto Sun, along with some right-wing US news sites, hit out at the politician for not mentioning the Jewish people in his statement to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
A later tweet did mention the need to fight anti-Semitism, however.
The pattern is obvious! Trudeau and MP Joly have an aversion to saying the word 'Jewish', or 'Jews' and will try to avoid doing so unless or until they are caught-out, whereupon they quickly 'fix' the 'inadvertent' omittal.
Liberals, like Trudeau and Joly are far more sensitive to the perceived attitudes of Muslims than Jews. They know, or think they know, that Muslims don't like it when attention is drawn to the victimization of Jews. Victimization belongs to Muslims even if they are mostly victimized by other Muslims.
But Trudeau and Joly would be surprised to find that most Muslims actually are not anti-Semitic. That's hard for some to believe but polls in Britain have verified that. So, the Liberal sensitivities are directed at the more virulent Muslims, those who sympathize with jihadists, those who are vulnerable to radicalization, those who promote Sharia and dislike Canadian values. Is it any wonder right-wing extremism is gaining ground in Canada?
But anti-Semitism is certainly increasing in Canada and elsewhere in the world and there is a correlation with the spectacular spread of Islam into western countries. That percentage (whatever it is) of virulent Muslims tend to become powerful and outspoken, and are very organized, especially in universities around the world. They have lots of money coming from the Gulf States and they greatly influence student politics and have for many years. Anti-Semitism is the main plank in their platform.
One-third of British Jews consider emigrating
amid growing anti-semitism - poll
A third of British Jews have considered emigrating in the past two years due to
recent shifts in the political climate and a perceived disinterest in tackling
anti-semitic hate crime.
A Holocaust Cabaret
A controversial theater sign “A Holocaust Cabaret” announcing a new play staged in the Ukrainian capital has provoked a storm of criticism from the local Jewish community and social media users.
The new play in a Kiev theater is based on Canadian Jonathan Garfinkel’s “The Trials of John Demjanjuk: A Holocaust Cabaret.” The play tells the story of John Demjanjuk, the bloodthirsty Nazi extermination camp Treblinka guard, who was brought to trial in Jerusalem in 1987.
The play managed to stir controversy even before the first night after Ukraine’s chief rabbi brought the provocative "Holocaust Cabaret" sign to the public's attention.
The timing of the event added fuel to the fire as the sign appeared on the theater's facade on April, 24 – Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day, which commemorates the nearly six million Jews killed in the Holocaust.
“This horrible thing (I can’t find any other words) was installed in central Kiev yesterday, on the Holocaust Remembrance Day, in the city where Babi Yar is located [a site of massacres carried out by Nazis], right in front of the central synagogue.
It's not the content of the play but the dropping of the first half of the title which makes the sign appear extremely provocative and, quite possibly, a trigger for PTSD sufferers still alive after surviving that most evil of times. The sign was eventually removed.
"How could the prime minister permit such a glaring omission of reference to anti-Semitism and the fact that the millions of men, women and children who were murdered were overwhelmingly Jewish?" said the opposition MP, as cited by CJN. "If we're going to stamp out hatred towards Jews, it's important to get history right."
Six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, by far the largest group to be persecuted by the Nazis.
A picture of the plaque was tweeted by Conservative Senator Linda Frum Tuesday.
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