Well Ezra Le Rant the Zionist apologist and right wing mouthpiece,publisher of the Western Standard has taken his hatred of all things Arab to its logical extreme. Weeks after the controversy is over, like the opportunist he is , Ezra has decided from the safety of Calgary to publish some of the controversial anti-Mohammed cartoons.
That this is reprehensible goes without saying, that it is NOT freedom of speech goes without saying as well. Why? Because Ezra and his pathetic palagarized rag; the Western Standard are claiming they are doing it cause it's a news story. And they love to fabricate news.
Sorry Ezra the story is over and has been for almost two weeks. Had you published them then, perhaps you could have ecked out a modicum of press sympathy. Publishing them today just proves you are a provocatuer and an idiot. Publisher defends decision to reprint cartoons
And predictably the Blogging Tories one and all are cheering Ezra, well even idiots have friends. Other idiots.
And he is only doing it after another Zionist publication in Calgary the Jewish Free Press also deliberately published them as a provocation. Beating him to the punch.
On February 9, Jewish Free Press reprinted three of the drawings, considered blasphemous under Islam.But the Jewish Council of Calgary immediately slammed the move, dissociating itself from the newspaper and denying any type of support to such hateful publication
Friday 10 February 2006
Ezra Levant takes Canadian Foreign Minister to task for statement on Mohammed cartoonsIn an op-ed column published today, Ezra Levant, editor-in-chief of the Western Standard takes newly-appointed Conservative Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay to task for a statement released this week, his first as Minister, on the Mohammed cartoons controversy stating "Freedom of expression is a legally enshrined principle in Canada, but it must be exercised responsibly. We commend those Canadians who have acted appropriately."
Hey Ezra since you are now publishing stale dated controversial material perhaps in the name of freedom of speech you will serialize Mein Kamph since Helen Reisman the owner of Coles/Chapters/Indigo Books has banned that book from her stores as insulting to Jews. And that was done years ago, but still it is an outrage against the Freedom to Read.
Canadian magazine publishes cartoons
CALGARY, Alberta, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- A Canadian magazine published the controversial cartoons of Mohammed Monday, even though the editor called them "boring" and "bland."
Ezra Levant, editor of the Western Standard, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. that publishing the cartoons is "completely normal" because the cartoons are at the center of the major news story of the day.
The cartoons originally commissioned and published by the Danish newspaper Jyllens Posten have sparked huge demonstrations throughout the Muslim world. Most of the cartoons show Mohammed with the most controversial giving him a bomb for a turban.
"We're not publishing them for their editorial merits. They're boring cartoons, they're bland," Levant said.
Mohamed Elmasry, head of the Canadian Islamic Council, told the Toronto Globe and Mail that he wants Levant prosecuted under Canadian laws making hate speech illegal.
Mon, February 13, 2006
More than meets eye in failure to show cartoons
By Ezra Levant
Canadian Muslims press for charges over cartoons
Reuters Canada, Canada -3 hours ago
... The Islamic Supreme Council of Canada, based in Calgary, said on Monday it filed a complaint against the Western Standard, a right-wing weekly newsmagazine ...
Muslims may sue over cartoonsCanada.com
Calgary magazine reprinting cartoonsGlobe and Mail
Calgary Muslims uneasy after controversial cartoons republishedCBC Calgary Global National -CTV.ca -all 25 related »
And while we are at it let's remember that Ezra and his right wing demagouge pal Rob Anders were forced to apologize to Senator Ron Ghitter for their outrageous statements made in a fund raising letter.
Ezra likes to talk about self hating Jews but he had no problem picking on fellow Jewish Calgarian; Senator Ron Ghitter who had been the Human Rights advocate in Alberta and then was appointed to the Senate. Of course Senator Ghitter was a well known liberal being a Red Tory. It was Conservative PM Brian Mulroney that appointed him to the Senate.
Ezra Levant, a pepper pot of the first order with enthusiasm spilling out of his shirtsleeves, leaves far more Alliance members – including Harper – angry at him than laughing at his antics. Certainly Alberta Tory Jewish Senator Ron Ghitter, a Mulroney appointee, was not amused when Levant, in a fundraising letter sent to 31,000 Albertans, accused Ghitter of being “lazy and un-Albertan.” Levant had to apologize.
LARRY ZOLF:
Ezra Levant is no Oscar LevantSEE Magazine
Copyright © 1998. All Rights Reserved.
UGLY RUMORS
BY SEE STAFFFar Right savant and Reform Party Animal Ezra Levant is angry that Tory Senator Ron Ghitter has slapped the Reform Party of Canada, Levant et al with a million-dollar lawsuit for libel. The action was filed by Ghitter because of a nasty piece of Senate Reform propaganda Levant had a hand in. The mail-out made disparaging remarks about Senator Ron's attendance at Upper House functions.
But when Ron filed his lawsuit, Ezra began to whimper. Poor thing. Levant called Ghitter a big baby who goes crying to his lawyer just because he didn't like what someone said about him, in print.
Geez, it kinda reminds us of the time we wrote something about Ezra that he didn't like and he went crying to his lawyer.
SEE Magazine:Thursday, October 29th., 1998THE SENATE
Tuesday, April 11, 2000
The Senate met at 2:00 p.m., the Speaker in the Chair.
Prayers.
SENATORS' STATEMENTS
Apology to the Honourable Ron Ghitter
Statement in Response
Hon. John Lynch-Staunton (Leader of the Opposition): Honourable senators, as my statement, I should like to read part of a statement by our former colleague the Honourable Ron Ghitter, regarding the apology that he received from Mr. Ezra Levant and Mr. Rob Anders, which states as follows:...I have now received a complete and unequivocal apology from Mr. Levant and Mr. Anders...
In addition to the apology which will be published this week in The Calgary Herald, The Calgary Sun and The Edmonton Journal, the settlement also includes the full payment of all my legal costs and a substantial contribution to the Tom Baker Cancer Clinic and the Sheldon Chumir Foundation which will be made in equal sums.
The issue is not so much the attack on my integrity, which I found to be very hurtful, as much as it is the growing direction of politics in Canada where personal attacks are becoming more and more common. The issues involved are the very basic concerns of leadership, dignity and the fundamental responsibilities of those involved in public life to maintain an element of decorum, fairness and above all civility in their conduct.
To be clear, those of us in public life have an obligation to aggressively debate the issues, to question the policies of others, to engage in the cut and thrust of political dialogue and to advance our agendas and arguments in the most persuasive manner. However, to enter into unsavoury and mean-spirited tactics of character assassination, based on alleged facts that are false, and out of context interpretations, as a means to encourage campaign contributions is not only unacceptable, it is deplorable.
If such tactics are left unchallenged there will be a continuing growth of disrespect for our institutions and the dedicated men and women who choose to serve in them. The result will be that fewer and fewer talented Canadians will agree to serve in our Parliaments, our Legislatures and our City councils.
In this case the ultimate responsibility lies with Preston Manning.
Mr. Anders is a Reform M.P. and Mr. Levant was a close advisor to Preston Manning at the time he wrote and distributed the letter. They acted with Mr. Manning's authority, and the blessing of the Reform Party.
Mr. Manning had the following to say when I threatened a law suit.
There is nothing in the letter that is libelous, Ghitter has no grounds to sue.
With the things in that letter being on the streets of Alberta every day, what's Ron going to do, sue all the rest of Alberta? I mean he's an unaccounted, unelected Senator for whom Albertans have less and less respect.
This is the same Mr. Manning who previously is quoted as saying,
We will campaign on principles and specifics and avoid the simple bashing of opponents and the manipulation of symbols. I want to emphasize that we in the Reform Party are not interested in personal attacks on individuals or in bashing any group or region in Canada.
Mr. Ghitter ends his statement by saying:
I think it would be appropriate, and it is to be hoped that Mr. Manning would also publicly apologize for his support and encouragement of such deplorable conduct and defamatory statements by one of his M.P.s and a senior advisor in his office.
Hon. Senators: Hear, hear!
Who's in charge here: monarch or regents?
Edward Greenspon - EDWARD GREENSPON
Friday, May 18, 2001
Ezra Levant, private citizen, stood in front of the National Press Building at noon yesterday doing what he does best: sounding incredible rather than credible, huffing and puffing over legal action, digging into his mental thesaurus for powerful adjectives to hurl at his opponents, circling squares instead of squaring circles. In short, making a bad situation worse.
That the downfall of Stockwell Day's top communications adviser, after just 13 weeks in position, should come over a threatened lawsuit confirms that the master of the universe is a poet at heart. Mr. Levant, a lawyer by training, has proven himself to be something of an obsessive litigator in his short time in politics.
In addition to failing to get his boss to cut and run in a timely fashion in the infamous Goddard case, he actively aided and abetted Mr. Day in smearing the entire Canadian judiciary over the alleged bias of Quebec Superior Court Judge Joel Silcoff. Last year, Mr. Levant himself was forced to settle a defamation suit brought against him and Alliance MP Rob Anders for calling former Alberta Senator Ron Ghitter lazy and un-Albertan.
Mr. Levant apparently went a lawsuit too far in sending a letter Wednesday, along with three of his employees, threatening rebel MP Chuck Strahl with a defamation action unless he immediately and unconditionally apologized for remarks the group found offensive. In turning away from Mr. Day's leadership on Tuesday, Mr. Strahl had complained that "the current leadership has exercised consistently bad judgment, dishonest communications and lack of fidelity to our party's policies." Mr. Levant and his group took the words "dishonest communications" personally.
Although everyone referred to Mr. Levant's resignation yesterday as voluntary, they didn't hide that the letter had been the final straw. In disclosing that the Young Turk spokesman was out, Alliance House Leader John Reynolds stated that Mr. Levant's letter "was not cleared through the process." He also criticized Mr. Levant's leak of the letter to the media as unacceptable.
And so the self-described Stock-aholic vanished, albeit not without a trace.
Ezra hates Ghitter because his human rights commission investigated and made reccomendations around Religious and Minority Tolerance after James Keegstra was charged with promoting Anti-Semitic Hate speech and literature in his Social Studies classes.
Ezra defends Keegstra but denounces fellow Calgarian Ron Ghitter. And he denounces the Palestinan Student Association at the University of Calgary as more anti-Semitic than Keegstra. He also slandered another Jewish academic in his attack on the Palestinian Students Association.
And while attacking opponents of the State of Israel's illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories Ezra has no problem defending Anti-Semitism in the name of Free Speech. If it is of course coming from fundamentalist Christians who make up the Right he so loves. Like Mel Gibson.
And here is another example of Ezra's real politick's they aren't about Jewishness they are all about the Fundamentalist Right Wing. Like the Evangelical Chrisians defense of Israel is not about defending Jews but about the coming Rapture.
To its credit, the Asper's National Post is occasionally objective. On August 14, 2003 it published a defence of Mel Gibson by Ezra Levant, a practising Jew, entitled "Don't Criticize Mad Mel."
"The Book of Mathew reports an incontrovertible fact: a Jewish court condemned Jesus for blasphemy," Levant writes. "Of course they would have done so, he was leading a new religion. The lesson that most Christians take from the story, and certainly traditional Catholics like the Gibsons, is that Jesus did not die because of the Jews, but because of the sins of all mankind. He had to suffer to redeem everyone else from their sins...
Mel Gibson's attackers are not just labelling a movie as anti Semitic. They are calling the Bible anti Semitic... Their hysterical attacks reveal much more about their own tolerance than they do about Mr. Gibson's." (A-14)
Conservative magazine out of touch
Curiosity led me to the Western Standard web page, in particular the book review section, where publisher Ezra Levant reviews and recommends the latest books. Curious to know what’s listed? Black Rednecks and White Liberals, Help Me God: The Ten Commandments, Judicial Tyranny and the Battle for Religious Freedom, State of Fear, and The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America.
Ezra is a born again Zionist, who uses his Jewishness when it is convinient to justify his attacks on other Semites, which includes liberal Jews and Arabs. His real agenda is the Calgary agenda to promote an Evangelical Bible Based Republican style right wing political movement in Canada. What is laughable is that if you scratch away the veener these guys end up being the real Anti-Semites.
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