The CTV commemoration of the Holocaust, filmed in Poland, begins at 8:30. See video HERE. CTV’s Lisa Leflamme states: “The ignorance that led to their dehumanizing treatment and persecution still festers today.” But it wasn’t “ignorance,” it was a calculated hatred of Jews that led to their persecution, and that hatred persists today. We see it demonstrated in drives to obliterate the State of Israel under the guise of a Palestinian freedom movement that brands the Jewish state as “racist” and claims that it practices “apartheid,” and which continues in increments to delegitimize Israel and strip Jews of their national identity. Chants to obliterate Israel, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free,” are trivialized by the Left, yet it was this same goal to erase Jewish identity that drove the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem to advise Hitler and work alongside him to murder Jews in the Holocaust. And who could really forget that during this past summer, when some 6,000 Palestinians gathered along the Gaza border fence each Friday, “holding the weekly March of Return demonstrations”, “a Swastika was raised along with a Palestine flag on the fence”?
At 12:40 in the CTV report, Omar Sachedina enters with his delivery of “The Politics of Prejudice.” Torturous and gut-wrenching scenes from Auschwitz are displayed, and Holocaust survivor David Marks is featured. Marks warns that “it could happen” again. He states that it happens in small steps and “one day you wake up and its too late.” He’s right.
Then the scene immediately changes back to Omar Sachedina. He begins: “Right-wing nationalist rallies are happening in cities all across Europe and the tide is rising.” By now it’s obvious what Sachedina is doing: he begins the politicization of the Holocaust in his report, which continues on to slam “populists” who are accused of promoting “xenophobic and racist ideas.” But what about Islamic antisemitism and Islamic persecution of Christians and other minorities? And black slavery, which is still going on in countries including Algeria, Sudan, Mauritania? What about the relentless drive to obliterate the State of Israel since 1948, right after the Holocaust to boot? None of that matters; the focal point of the CTV report is right-wing “populism.” The report continues with an assertion that this once-marginalized group of “populists” has made its way into the mainstream. Then, at 14:00, the despicable smearing of individuals begins. Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders are presented as exhibits of the condemned populist “evil.” These populists are presented as antisemitic boogeymen whom we must resist at all costs to prevent another Holocaust; they are the faces presented as the new Nazis. But contrary to Sachedina’s presentation of Geert Wilders:
Wilders, who in his youth lived for two years on an Israeli moshav in the Jordan Valley, has called Israel “a place where I feel home” and said it was “close to his heart.” He has also called Israel a “canary in the coal mine” and “the West’s first line of defense against Islam.” He has repeatedly said he is arguing for “Judeo-Christian values,” which he says are threatened by Islam in the Netherlands and elsewhere.
Meanwhile, Wilders’ opposition — the Socialist Party — “is distrusted by many Dutch Jews for its support of Palestinian causes.” Socialists and the Islamic supremacists who are anti-Jewish do not support the existence of a Jewish state, and will not support the right of Israel to defend itself from jihadist foes. Nor do they even condemn those foes. Leftist antisemitism is blatant in the UK’s Labour Party, beginning with its leader Jeremy Corbyn who openly embraces his “friends” Hizballah and Hamas. In the US, Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib have also shamelessly displayed their antisemitism. And in “a sudden switch” in Canada, the Justin Trudeau government now backs the anti-Israel Resolution: “The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination.” Yet the Charters which rule and influence the principal groups in the Palestinian territories all call for the obliteration of the Jewish state, including the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s original manifesto, which calls for the “liquidation” of Israel.
The President of the Confederation of Jews in France once declared that “in a few decades, there will be no Jews in France” because of antisemitism. Although Sachedina mentions the exodus of Jews out of Europe on his CTV report, it is featured as if it were exclusively the fault of “racist,” right-wing “populists” such as Wilders and Le Pen. Jews are leaving Europe in droves to return to Israel because of antisemitism, and a significant number of the perpetrators of antisemitic attacks are Muslims, but this fact is omitted in the CTV report.
Members of the Jewish community “described their experiences and persistent fears” in the Parisian suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, “the former heart of the Jewish community in France.” One of the victims said: “I was viciously attacked with an individual by a machete because I’m Jewish.” Another said: “Radical Islamists stuck a knife in my chest. I’m very scared for my family and myself.” “Every day we are attacked. They enjoy it,” said a female member of the Jewish community. In another report from 2018, a rare admission came from Germany’s Angela Merkel in an interview with Israeli TV. Although Merkel has been “much-maligned for her open-door immigration policy, she declared: ‘We now have another phenomenon, as we have refugees or people of Arab origin who bring another form of anti-Semitism into the country.'”
The face of antisemitism has not changed today. It has merely rebranded itself. Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers Party allied with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini in perpetrating the Holocaust. Most of those who are deemed “populists” today are prudently opposed to reckless immigration, precisely because they advance equality, democracy, human rights and pluralism.
While hate, racism and antisemitism exist everywhere and on both sides of the political divide, the alliance between Leftists, socialists and Islamic supremacists (aka the red-green axis) poses the biggest threat to Jews and the State of Israel today, but it is being ignored. There is a whole industry which is focused on the comparably minuscule threat of “white supremacy.” This term is used broadly to defame individuals who are anything but white supremacist, as the Left spreads its own hate and fuels Antifa violence. They also aim to shut down the freedom of speech, just all totalitarians would. They also ignore the inconvenient truth that Leftist blacks are attacking Jews in New York City, and they refuse to identify and call out the Islamic antisemitism that is rooted in the Palestinian jihad against the State of Israel and that has now made its way into the Western mainstream, increasingly present on campuses and glaringly evident at al Quds day rallies.
It is disturbing to see the Holocaust being politicized by CTV in a cheap shot against “populists,” as the report drives home the premise of identity politics.
It’s worth recalling that it was Trump who declared Jerusalem as the eternal capital of the State of Israel, with full endorsement from his support base, all of whom are routinely ridiculed by the far Left as “populist,” “racist” and antisemitic. Karol Markowicz presented a thought-provoking point in Haaretz illustrating the consequences of willful blindness and political propaganda. She stated: “Trump hatred is blinding U.S. Jews to anti-Semitism from the Left. If it’s over for Jews in Europe, we American Jews should worry we aren’t far behind.” Likewise, CTV’s presentation about “The Politics of Prejudice” has ignored the antisemitism on the Left and from Muslim antisemites in its obsession about “white supremacy.” Ignoring this evil will only allow it to expand, until one day, it may be too late.
jca reid says
Ridiculous!! The Arab Muslims ACTIVELY SUPPORTED Hitler & the Nazis, before during & after WW2! With Muslims & the Supremacist ideology which they’ve been brainwashed & indoctrinated with for 1400years, they simply cannot comprehend why they’re not a “top dog.” Contributed absolutely NOTHING in the way of the Sciences etc. Scientific Nobel Laureates from a population of 1.5Billion = 3. Well, 2.33actually. The others were at American Universities. No way they would have attained these prestigious awards if they had been at a Muslim University. Number of Universities in Muslim World = 300approx. There are more than that in the USA alone! Jewish Laureates in the Sciences, up around 150, from a population of 14Million, tops. UN figures on Human IQ’s: average in the Western World, China, Japan, around 100. Hong Kong Chinese 101approx. average. There is a sect of Eastern European Jews, their average around 114-15. Muslim average IQ = 80. Under US Law that makes them “retarded”/mentally deficient. & they demand special treatment. They are the Racist Supremacists! In the UK over the past few weeks with the Memorial Services going on re. the Holocaust, they have deliberately tried to stop them as it “upsets them”. The world ought to know the collusion that went on between Arab Muslims & the Nazis. European Muslims formed an SS Division to serve in the Balkans & elsewhere. The Grand Mufti of Palestine, al-Husseini spent the ENTIRE war in Berlin! Initially the Nazis simply wanted to deport the Jews to Madagascar, as it was now under the control of VICHY France. It was al-Husseini that instigated the ‘Final Solution’. Around 1941, with the war going well for the Nazis, especially in the desert with Rommel racing eastwards to Egypt, in Damascus, Syria, Muslims rose up & murdered 1500Jews. It took British Troops 1-2days to restore order. Most Jews left then for Palestine. If Rommel had swept through to reach the Suez Canal & further, there would have been the complete extermination of the Jews in the Middle East. All Muslims are offering is hatred, resentment & jealousy of other Peoples’ achievements as their dingbat ideology has achieved nothing. Pre-Islamic Arabs were a different matter, but all of that was crushed by a paranoid schizophrenic, perverted “Leader”, & his doctrine of Islam.
mortimer says
The Globalist-neo-Marxists of today want to bring in huge numbers of unassimilatable foreigners in order to destroy national identities. They see any opposition to open borders and the destruction of national identities as ‘right-wing’ and ‘racist’. But such nationalism would be tolerated by them if it appeared in Third-World countries. They are inconsistent, therefore, we see that they are actually unconcerned per se with nationalism. They are promoting a new form of Marxism in fact. It is a POST-Marxist Marxism that combines socialism for the masses and plutocracy for billionaires who support the post-Marxist elites and keep them in power.
A similar sort of system was invented by Benito Mussolini. It combined plutocracy with a form of socialism, but it’s real aim was to lower wages by creating a desperate underclass. This is what the Globalist-post-Marxists want to do, but they do not say so.
The open-borders ploy they espouse in the name of fighting racism is actually a manipulation. They couldn’t care less about racism, because it’s a class war against the bourgeoisie. They want a two-tier society consisting of bosses and commissars and an underclass of desperate worker ants who are manipulated and exploited by the commissars.
The Globalist-neo-Marxists are not much different from Mussolini save in the one detail of favoring open borders.
mortimer says
Thanks to Christine Douglass-Williams for this much-needed report. The sickening propaganda distortions read by Lisa Laflamme and Omar Sachedina are truly sickening falsehoods worthy of Joseph Goebbels. I find the greatest supporters of Israel are conservative and nationalistic people who love their countries and find Israel a necessary member of the community of nation-states. What about Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Macedonia, Catalonia, small countries with distinct identities? What’s the Leftist plans for them? Should they all become Arabized and Islamized? Do the native peoples have any say? Do voters have no say if the Globalists have a plan that those people don’t want? Apparently not.
The Globalists believe so much in their infallibility, that they are now the most intolerant people on earth.
Or Else! says
Which is why they side with Islam.
Or Else! says
More to the point: why they’re so easily manipulated/fooled by Islam.
E T says
This is Trudeau’s Canada, lie, distort history, Canadians need to feel guilt for everything that does not fit his plans. I.e. Watch what he is doing to Ezra Levant. History does repeat itself. I remember watching old film clips of Hitler arriving in Austria, the people waving and cheering, and thinking my God how could they have been so stupid. Canada today resembles the 1930s, the trained seals are eager to call anyone out who speaks up about migration. It makes me sick to hear people say we must not deny the border crossers look at history, while totally ignoring the innalition of Christians worldwide.
The recent election in Canada, had Liberal Warren Kinsella, a man who rose over the years as a political organizer, saying “I have been researching, writing about and opposing racism for more than 3 decades, Maxime Bernier and his People’s Party are indisputably racists. They are bigots. They have anti-Semitic and homophobic members. He went on to say opposing organized bigotry is always appropriate and right.
I voted for Maxime Bernier, I am not a racist, a bigot, anti-Semitic, homophobic. Kinsella, also described, People’s Party supporters as “intolerant”. As I grow older, I must admit I have less tolerance for bullies, liars, promoters of Evil.
I do have a fear of the way the world is trending, the supporters of Communism, Marx, and Islam infiltrating the West is and should discussed in a civil manner by everyone who cares about freedom.
I have not watched CTV or CBC for fifteen years.
ToBeFrank says
CTV News has joined the ranks of FAKE NEWS. I do hope HonestReporting Canada takes CTV News to task.
ntesdorf says
The anti-semitism to be read in the Qur’an, the Haddith and Sunna of Mohammed dwarf in intensity and extent any anti-semitism to be found in Mein Kasmpf. The Arab Muslims actively supported Hitler & the Nazis, and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem visited Hitler and advised Hitler about the ‘Final Solution’.
gravenimage says
Canada: CTV likens European populists to Hitler, opposition to jihad violence to Jew-hatred that led to Holocaust
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Grotesque false moral equivalence.
And more and more, we are seeing Muslims report these stories, as those in the West cede more and more of their culture to Muslim thugs.
Lydia Church says
“Canada: CTV likens European populists to Hitler, opposition to jihad violence to Jew-hatred that led to Holocaust”
The Orwellian propaganda, lies, and exact opposite of the truth ‘speech’ never ends!
How can opposing any violence, especially Jihad violence which is 100% unjustified, be compared to Jew hatred? Those who hated the Jews committed violence against them, and jihadists commit violence, so that would link support for jihad violence to Jew hatred in one way. In yet another way, the very koran itself advocates for Jew hatred BY jihad violence, so there is a link that is unbreakable as well! AND, the islamists who are true to their religion supported the Holocaust, and would love nothing more than to see it happen again, AND, have been calling for it again more loudly all the time, the latest example being calling for the death of Jews outside of the mosque in Jerusalem! They want to obliterate Israel altogether. Also, these muslims are the ones comparable to hitler, not the populists, but they want to malign European populists who stand against jihad violence, terror, and migrant invasion. Why? Because the populists are against what these muslims and globalists are for, the actions of hitler, ironically. It’s that same old adage; the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Hates Jews:
hitler
nazi’s
muslims who commit violence against them according to the koran
jihad terrorists
certain leftists
Helps Jews:
Anyone who is against those in the above group
So if you are against jihad violence, you are helping the Jews, unlike hitler and his Holocaust.
Their Orwellian lies are so obviously opposite of the truth that it is an insult to the intelligence of anyone with half a brain cell!
Lydia Church says
Oh and by the way, that sign in the background of this concentration camp reads:
“Arbeit macht frei” which is itself Orwellian in meaning and the translation is: “Work makes you free”
not much unlike ‘slavery gives you freedom’ and it was a labor camp, etc. The only freedom they saw was at their deaths or liberation after the war.
The globalists are programming the masses to digest the opposite of truth as ‘truth,’ and lash out in retaliation against anyone who tells the actual truth, this has been in progress for a long time.
Giacomo Latta says
Sachedina and his ilk, and the world, would be better served if they would interview those who are being attacked daily in Europe instead of taking turns asking each other as to who are attacking the Jews of Europe and for what reason or end purpose. Of course they won’t because they know the truth will be inconvenient for their pre-written propaganda.
gravenimage says
He’s a Muslim, Giacomo–why would he want to do that?
Dean says
The left not only get behind terrorists, they get behind and wish for another Holocaust.
They get behind Iran and a regime that has said it would destroy Israel with a step-wise Obama-Kerry plan to accept a nuclear Iran.
They bristle at Trumps’ peace plan just because it helps Israel as much as the Terrorstinians. For many decades Israel has been a target of the left and now the Dem “squad” – they take everything Trump must do to make the world better and more free and safe and reject it automatically because they hate Trump and want him replaced with their socialist dystopia nightmare.
Canadian media – the CBC, TorStar and CTV in particular – are willfully ignorant and filled with hate. The only qualification for top-level positions in these organizations is that you be bi-lingual and leftist. They are told of the mistakes they make over-and-over again but they continue to be one-sided, misinform and bring in the most hateful Jew haters and so-called experts who have their own anti-Israel agendas rooted in Islamist terror and others in promoting communism.
tgusa says
“The ignorance that led to their dehumanizing treatment and persecution still festers today.”
That’s right and CTV is at the forefront of the festering ignorance. They are so ignorant they have no idea just how ignorant they are. Incurable mental patients do not display that level of ignorance.
Hitler and the nazis reign of terror, 12 years . Muslims and islams reign of terror, 1400 years and still going and these ignorant fools are promoting that. It is as if the western left has had a large part of their brains rendered non-functional. It is that or they are just plain evil.
Also,
“In the Germanic nations there has never been anything else than equality of rights for women. Both sexes have their rights, their tasks, and these tasks were in the case of each equal in dignity and value, and therefore man and woman were on an equality.”
Adolph Hitler
Hmmm.
After several years living under islam I would wager that Lisa would be pining for the good old days of women in the third reich. Brainless twit, she is.