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Canada: Independent Jewish Voices co-founder promotes the “legacy” of the Ayatollah Khomeini

Mar 8, 2019 12:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Ken Stone is a founding member of a Leftist Jewish pro-Palestinian group, Independent Jewish Voices. Stone was introduced in a recent speech as a man “who lost many family members in Poland and Russia during the reign of Hitler,” and as a man who “vowed to always stand up against racism and against Israel positioning itself as a representative of Jewish people.” Here, Stone is referring to Israel as a racist nation that does not represent the Jewish people or identity. This same belief is enshrined in the Palestinian Liberation Organization Charter, which states that the PLO’s purpose is to liquidate Israel.

Something is gravely wrong with Ken Stone and others when they ignore the Muslim states surrounding Israel that have sought to obliterate it from the day of its birth. They also fail to recognize the role of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in the Holocaust, and the significance of that role. Ken Stone et al are likewise blind to the racism, supremacism, and bloodlust of the Palestinian jihad against Israel.

Ken Stone offers his own interpretation of what the Ayatollah Khomeini meant by his statement that “the regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the pages of time,” words that are repeated continuously by the Iranian regime as it forces its people to cry “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.” Stone believes that he can be the mouthpiece of the highest religious authorities in Iran, who also command jihadist proxies including Hizballah. The Holocaust was made possible by means of lies and indoctrination which stripped Jews of their identity and personhood. Today, just as  there were blacks who helped sell other blacks into slavery, there are Jews who are being used to validate and perpetuate the worst antisemitism and incitement. The fact that Ken Stone and others get away with this is an indicator of the success level of the antisemitic movement to strip away Jewish identity, malign Jews from within, and ultimately eradicate Zionism, in accordance with the PLO mandate and longstanding jihadist aspirations.

The madness that has gripped far too many Westerners highlights the necessity to up the ante in the fight for freedom, justice and equality, if Western civilization is to be saved from the advancing jihad.

“Pro-Palestinian Canadian Jewish Activist’s Speech on the Legacy of Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini,” by Jonathan Halevi, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, March 6, 2019:

Ken Stone is a founding member of Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), IJV-Hamilton member, Hamilton Mountain NDP (New Democratic Party) member and the treasurer of the Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War. Stone was a speaker in al-Quds Day rallies held in Toronto in 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013 and 2012.

On May 13, 2016, Ken Stone was a keynote speaker at an event, organized by the Islamic Society of York Region, commemorating the 27th anniversary of Imam Khomeini’s death. The event was entitled “Imam Khomeini – Liberator and Reformer of the Masses.”

Excerpts from Ken Stone’s speech , May 13, 2016.
Moderator: “Our keynote speaker for today is a champion of human rights who stood up against racism and Zionism for over four decades. As someone who lost many family members in Poland and Russia during the reign of Hitler, Ken Stone vowed to always stand up against racism and against Israel positioning itself as a representative of Jewish people. I would like to request Mr. Ken Stone to please come on the stage to share his thoughts.”

Ken Stone: “Good evening brothers and sisters. It’s a great pleasure to have been invited here to the Islamic Society of York region and to add my voice to all those voices raised in appreciation of the legacy of the Ayatollah Khomeini.

“I have four things to say. The first one is I appreciate his contribution to the support of the Palestinian people. Ayatollah Khomeini strongly condemned Zionism, and he strongly supported the rights of the Palestinian people.

“He made a famous statement and I quote: ‘The regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the pages of time. This statement was mistranslated purposely by the Zionists and the Western media to say that Iran believes that all the Jewish immigrants to Palestine should be thrown in the sea, that this Israel should be wiped off the map. All those statements were lies. All those statements were lies, brothers and sisters.’

“What the Ayatollah meant, and correctly meant, was that the criminal regime, the criminal Zionist regime in Jerusalem had to be disposed in the same way that the criminal apartheid regime in Johannesburg had to be disposed of, and it was done so in South Africa without any bloodshed. The regime and the Soviet Union disappeared from the pages of time, again without bloodshed, and so what the Ayatollah Khomeini was saying was that the government, that the apartheid system, that the Zionist colonial project in Palestine had to end and he was absolutely right in doing so.

“Not only did he say that, but he changed, his revolution changed Iranian foreign policy. He turned it on its head. Previously the Shah of Iran was an American stooge. He was an ally of the Zionist state, the state of Israel. In fact, Iran was one of the three pillars of American foreign policy, of the empire in the Middle East: Iran, the state of Israel, Saudi Arabia. The Ayatollah Khomeini changed all that. He changed the way that even the religion is practiced around the world of Islam.

“I look around the room here today, and I see friendly faces. I see in the summer every year the third Saturday I think it is of Ramadan. I see Zafar [Bangash]. I see Munir, Siraj, a lot of friendly faces that I meet behind Queen’s Park every year when we march on Al-Quds Day. And I understand people march now in 60 or 70 cities around the world. This is a legacy of the Ayatollah Khomeini.

“As I said he changed foreign policy. One of the things that I personally experienced in the changing of the Iranian foreign policy is that I attended the Fifth International Parliamentary Conference on the Palestinian Intifada. I was the only Canadian who went, and when I arrived in the hall, which I believe was the former parliament building, there were just as there is here in this mosque today, a big portrait of Ayatollah Khamenei on one side, and the other side a big portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini.

“To open the conference, Ayatollah Khamenei took the stand, and I want to read you just a few words of what he had to say that day about Palestine.

“He said:

‘Among all the issues that deserve to be discussed by religious and political figures from across the world of Islam, the issue of Palestine enjoys special prominence. Palestine is the primary issue among all common issues of Islamic countries. This issue has unique characteristics.

‘The first characteristic is that a Muslim country has been taken away from its people and entrusted to foreigners who have come together from different countries to form a fake and Mosaic society. The second characteristic is that this historically unprecedented event has been accompanied by constant killings, crimes, oppression, and humiliation. The third characteristic is that the Muslims first Qibla [direction of prayer] and many respected religious centers which exist in that country have been threatened with destruction sacrilege and decline. The fourth characteristic is that the most sensitive spot of the world of Islam, this fake government and society has played the role of a military security and political base for the arrogant states.’…..

 

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  1. Sam says

    Mar 8, 2019 at 12:55 pm

    Disgusting!

    • mortimer says

      Mar 8, 2019 at 4:39 pm

      Ken Stone is demanding Jews commit collective suicide by cooperating in their own subjugation and annihilation by Islam. He is a perfect example of the mental illness of Leftardation.

      • Noel says

        Mar 9, 2019 at 9:36 pm

        Karl Marx was an anti-semitic Jew, so there’s nothing new here. One can only wonder where his head is at.

  2. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Mar 8, 2019 at 1:20 pm

    “Muslims Riot For 4th Night Running in Grenoble, France/
    Hurl molotov cocktails at police, set cars on fire”

    https://www.newswars.com/muslims-riot-for-4th-night-running-in-grenoble-france/

  3. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Mar 8, 2019 at 1:22 pm

    “‘Muslim for German chancellor? Why not?’ Remark by senior MP in Merkel’s party triggers backlash”

    https://www.rt.com/news/453318-germany-muslim-chancellor-reaction/

  4. FYI says

    Mar 8, 2019 at 1:24 pm

    Perhaps Mr Ken Stone is unfamiliar with{or would prefer not to know about}

    SAHIH MUSLIM #6985

    islam’s call for a Genocidal war against the Jews.

    Typical naive Dhimmiwit Leftard Jew who doesn’t get IRONY.Look who he is defending…

    • mortimer says

      Mar 8, 2019 at 4:43 pm

      Perhaps Ken Stone is FAMILIAR with the PERSECUTION OF JEWS BY KHOMEINI …

      In the first two to three years of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), about one-third of Iran’s 80,000 Jews left for Israel, Europe, and the U.S. IRI broke its relations with Israel. The regime adapted a pro-Palestinian policy declaring that Israel and Zionism must be destroyed. IRI also encouraged the foundation of Hezbollah in Lebanon by supporting it with money, arms, and military advisers. Any tie with Israel was considered war against Islam. Though upon his return from Paris Khomeini met with the heads of the Jewish community, declaring that Jews were to be protected by Islamic law, some 200 Jews were arrested and jailed. During his rule, about 20 Jews were executed by the Revolutionary Courts, among them the former head of the Jewish Organization, the industrialist millionaire Habib Elghanaian (May 9, 1979). Many were deprived of their administrative, university, and high business positions. Jewish property on a large scale, amounting to more than one billion dollars, was confiscated by the regime.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 8, 2019 at 1:36 pm

    The actual legacy of Ayatollah Khomeini is the of violence and war. To be more specific Islamic violence and war.
    Strangely, there are many young people and strangely many older people, who are Westerns who in the United States as well other countries of the West are, no doubt sincere but very misinformed ,as in misled, therefore say ,because they believe it, that “Islam is a peaceful and non-violent religion .” To those people the first and supreme Ayatollah Khomeini , who was the very head this current Islamic regime of Iran knows better stated about how he feels about those naïve Westerns .For he declared “Islam grew with blood….Islam is a religion of blood for the infidels” He also said “Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war….I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.” [1]
    So, in other words Ayatollah Khomenei felt nothing but arrogant contempt for those people who say that his religion “Is a peaceful religion” and understand that they in ignorant and uninformed.
    Therefore the West needs to wake up to the reality of the truth about the actual violent essence of this religion.

    [1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM, pages 336,339.

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 8, 2019 at 1:42 pm

    The real legacy of Ayatollah Khomeini is deadly Islamic violence and war .He was the Imam who was so powerful that he played large role in the establishment of the current Islamic tyranny of Iran which has the official title of “ The Islamic Republic of Iran” Khomeini had declared “ Jihad or Holy War ,which is for the conquest of [other ] countries and kingdoms , becomes incumbent after the formation of the Islamic State in the presence of the Imam or in accordance with his command. Then Islam makes it incumbent on all males…to prepare themselves for the conquest of countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world… those who study Islamic Holy War will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world. The goal of this conquest would be to establish the hegemony of Islamic law.” [1]

    [1] THE HISTORY OF JIHAD by Robert Spencer , page 319.

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 8, 2019 at 1:42 pm

    The first Muslim cleric and tyrant of rule and head this current Islamic regime of Iran ,Ayatollah Khomeini did come right out and state the truth ,for once, he declared “Islam grew with blood…The great prophet of Islam on one hand carried the Koran and in the other a sword… Islam is a religion of blood for the infidels.” Later Khomeini also said “Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam is against war…Whenever good there is exist thanks to the sword and the shadow of the sword.” [1] Of course that is “good “as defined by this Ayatollah is Islam and things that are Islamic. As for his total endorsement of war for Islam on this subject he stands in opposition to the Person of Jesus Who taught “Blessed are the merciful: for they see God.” and “Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called children of God.” [2]

    Furthermore, Ayatollah Khomeini also taught the “death should not be feared but welcomed as a means to fight and Allah.” Khomeini likewise when speaking to his Brainwashed Muslim followers he “tried to convince them that death is to be coveted and life shunned “ he taught that “death offered purification and the exalted status as a martyr.” [1] Of this three things should be made clear. First. Khomeini died and old man in his bed and he didn’t die “martyr “fighting for the cause of Allah” he just convinced and mind programed other people to do so , he didn’t practice what he taught , that coward. Second is words reflects other Muslim clerics be they mullahs imams of other ayatollahs about the exalted status of a “martyr” The empty lying false and false words As “We will honor you “ and You will go to paradise “ and “We are doing this for Allah.” That’s sure some strange “We” For none of the Muslim clerics die by engaging in deadly jihad attacks, even though they claim to believe that doing so is such grand and wonderful thing to do. What hypocrites they are. Third, this further exposes Islam as a death cult. Such teaching by those Muslim clerics is in strong contradiction to the Words of Jesus. Who taught “I am come that they might have life have it more abundantly.” [2]

    [1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM BY Ibn Warraq, pages 336,339,347.
    [2] THE AUTHORIZED KING JAMES VERSION. Matthew 7: 7, 9. John 10:10.

  8. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Mar 8, 2019 at 1:47 pm

    “Katy Hopkins: Where Is The Homeland For Western Europeans?
    Migrant crisis has made Europe nearly unrecognizable for many”

    https://www.newswars.com/katy-hopkins-where-is-the-homeland-for-western-europeans/

  9. Wayne James says

    Mar 8, 2019 at 2:08 pm

    This guy must be a relative of Judas..

  10. duh swami says

    Mar 8, 2019 at 2:09 pm

    Khomeini,,,you not so magnificent bastard…I read your book…
    ‘The Little Green Book’…A real thriller…free om line…

    • Mac-101 says

      Mar 8, 2019 at 5:33 pm

      My favorite part is where he says if you git to know you Sheep, Goat or Donkey too well you can not kill it and eat it nor sell it to your village people. You must sell it to another village. LOL!

  11. CRUSADER says

    Mar 8, 2019 at 11:04 pm

    Another USEFUL IDIOT selling out the rest of us….and slitting his own throat in the process.

    Islam wouldn’t’ve spread so much by Jihad if the USEFUL IDIOTS and DHIMMIs didn’t cooperate.

    In France and Holland, collaborators with Nazis were singled out upon capture, by shaving their heads and denigrating them…..

  12. Ronen says

    Mar 9, 2019 at 1:08 am

    As a Jewish person I am ashamed of these people!

    May they see the truth and join the forces of good.

  13. James says

    Mar 9, 2019 at 4:15 am

    the man is foolish. What he says about the poor Palestinians is not unique, it is how Islam conquered most of the Muslim countries, taking it away from its original religion, culture, language, and making it Muslim. The leaders chosen by the Palestinian are generally inhumane and despicable. Why in the world would he think this way about Israel and the Palestinians.

  14. Giacomo Latta says

    Mar 9, 2019 at 9:31 am

    ”I see friendly faces”
    Rather you see smiling faces of those wondering where this idiot came from.

  15. Elizabeth Thorne says

    Mar 9, 2019 at 2:39 pm

    I SEE A BAD MOON RISING, I SEE TROUBLE ON THE WAY.

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