This is just to say. . .
It's Kanye-level stuff. It's in the air they breathe. Stay tuned for a weekend special.
I’d mentioned in previous newsletters that there was a Real Story Special coming this week. It’s delayed by the necessity of accumulating unreported background on that bizarre Canada-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship Group jamboree in Ottawa. The one with the grotesque Meshwar Media publisher Nazih (what’s with the “h”?) Khatatba, whose presence has proved so embarrassing.
Securing Ottawa’s reputation as a radical-chic student council at a posh high school masquerading as the government of a G7 country, the event has caused everyone in attendance to scurry for exits and excuses. This is owing to Khatatba’s newspaper al-Meshwar being well known for claiming that Jewish bankers financed Adolf Hitler, and Jews invented the “Holohoax” to justify the Zionist movement that established the State of Israel. Among other things.
But that’s not the half of it.
It’s mostly done, but it’s Friday afternoon. There’s some fact-checking to do on late-arriving material. Because it’s of particular concern to the Jews among the Real Story’s subscribers & some are old-school, I’ll get the newsletter out after the Sabbath, first thing Sunday.
Here’s Elizabeth May. We used to be friends. It’s from Nazih Khatatba’s Facebook page.
This is Aryeh Shechopek. Canadian kid. He was 16, a student at a small yeshiva in Moshav Beit Meir, in Jerusalem. He was murdered at a bus stop.
Thank you for the update, Terry. My sincere condolences to the family and friends of Aryeh Shechopek.
It is difficult to understand the rampant antisemitism coming from the left, and why the left supports Islamist zealotry. Perhaps they think that Islamist zealotry is caused by Western imperialism and is some type of resistance to it. An ideology of the oppressed, a strange version of leftist politics. America (the Great Satan) and Israel are seen as the targets of hatred from both the left and the Islamists. My enemy’s enemy is my friend.
Let’s be clear. Islamist terror is not a battle of the poor against the rich, or the Third World against the West, or oppressed people against capitalism. It is not a justifiable response that can be intellectually or ethically supported by leftist progressives. The main target of Islamist terror is democratic opposition in their own countries. Opposition to imposing a theocracy that controls all aspects of society in the name of Islam. Look at Iran. When fundamentalists come to power, they silence people; they murder dissidents, and they oppress women and minorities. It never ends well.