LEVY: Emperor Carney's synagogue charade exposed
Sue-Ann Levy writes, "Conservative media, particularly Jewish journalists (me), were informed they were 'not on the list.'"
Emperor Mark Carney made a cameo appearance Monday at a Liberal synagogue purportedly to announce measures to combat the rising tide of virulent anti-Semitism in Canada.
His appearance at Holy Blossom temple — chock full of moneyed Liberal donors (in other words, a friendly crowd) — had all the hallmarks of Vintage Carney.
Conservative media, particularly Jewish journalists (me), were informed they were “not on the list.”
My colleague Melanie Bennet and I had RSVPed, but as is the typical cat-and-mouse game played by Carney and Co., they don’t reply and when you turn up, they say you are “not on the list.”
Considering I have written non-stop about anti-Semitism and I am Jewish — and that the invite indicated it was open to all media — I got the hint before his entourage had even arrived that this was all simply performative, only reaffirmed when the Beta-male bouncer greeted reporters from the anti-Semitic Globe and Mail and the CBC with open arms.
I guess only government-approved media are entitled to hear the Emperor.
In fact, I suspect this was all and only a response to his big Liberal and Jewish donors telling him he’d better look like he’s concerned and doing something about the tsunami of anti-Semitism in Canada.
Carney, of course, has enabled this virulent anti-Semitism with his constant criticism of the Jewish state (while ignoring the evil atrocities of Hamas and Hezbollah), with his declaration that he’d arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he ever came to Canada and by announcing he supports a Palestinian state.
That is only the tip of the iceberg, but I would need 2,000 words to list all of his Jew-hating comments and actions.
And not that his hubris would permit him to admit anything close to that.
In fact, when I listened to his speech, he spoke like the true narcissist he is, as if someone (who I don’t know) was responsible for the state Canadian Jews find themselves in — but certainly not him.
It was all so tightly scripted, I knew that Carney was merely going through the motions — right down to inviting select Jews (Liberals) to a small space within Holy Blossom, only holding about 200 people. That way, his handlers and the associated bouncers could say the space was extremely tight.
He arrived 30 minutes late with an entourage of at least six gas-guzzling SUVs protected by a good 70 Toronto police officers and of course evading the media who might ask him hard questions
I remarked to my colleagues, also banned from the event, that there were more officers protecting Carney than those who protect my community in Toronto.
They even hopped to it, forming a phalanx around us scary journalists, a sharp contrast to their hands-off attitude when Jew haters like Firas Al Nijm harass Jewish seniors in front of their apartment building or people dressed as terrorists march repeatedly through Jewish neighbourhoods.
But the speech.
It was a whole lot of nothing.
At one point, he thanked TPS police chief Myron Demkiw for his excellent work protecting the city. OMG, surely he meant himself, the Emperor, because if anything, Demkiw has done a piss-poor job of protecting Jews in Toronto.
He lapsed into French five times, obviously not reading the room.
For the first 10 minutes, he spewed elitist Davos-gibberish to show how smart he really is, using phrases like “civic compact” and “Canada’s covenant.”
Elitist talk we don’t need. We don’t need more studies and research. We need action.
But what he offered was thin gruel indeed.
He announced a new ministerial advisory council on anti-Semitism with at least two anti-Semites on it — one being Omar Alghabra, the creepy former transport minister and now special envoy to Syria and the other being activist lawyer Avnish Nanda.
That alleged council on antisemitism will be chaired by Marc Miller, minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, who let in all the damn Gazans who hate us.
He not only let them in but also gave them huge grants to live and attack Jews on Canadian soil.
Is this a cruel joke?
But, for heaven’s sake, instead of a ridiculous advisory council, why not simply enforce the laws as if Muslims or black people were being harassed, not Jews?
Let’s start with admitting the contribution his government and other politicians have made to the cesspool of Jew hatred.
But the trained Liberal wood crickets who look for parasites to attack their brains (thank you, Gad Saad, for the term) clapped with zeal, giving the Emperor a standing ovation at the end.
He’d thrown them the crumbs they so desperately needed to maintain their Liberal pedigree and to feel as if they hadn’t been duped or that Canada is not losing Jewish professionals every week.
Taking a page from the president he hates — Donald Trump — he could have threatened to withdraw funding from organizations that spew Jew hatred (like the NCCM). Or called on his provincial counterparts to withhold funding to colleges and universities that allow Jew hatred on campus.
Or called out Hamas for 10/7 and all the atrocities since.
Or taken a spoonful of humility and admitted that the latest flotilla was a Jew hate fest and he spoke out of turn when he condemned Israel for arresting the flotilla’s participants.
Or close the borders to those who don’t accept Canadian values. (Oops, I forgot Muslim values are Canadian values).
Or offered to take his first visit to Israel and mend fences with PM Benjamin Netanyahu.
Or call out his official media operation, the CBC, for three long years of lies and rampant Jew hatred.
Or called for zero tolerance for protesters who hang Jewish leaders in effigy (as they did in Montreal) and parade through Jewish neighbourhoods (as they do in Toronto). In other words, enforce the damn hate laws that already exist.
But instead, he put the very minister, Marc Miller, who has been behind bringing in Gazan families who hate, in charge of his anti-Semitism council.
Instead, he turned up like an Emperor entering Rome, kept out any journalist who covers anti-Semitism religiously as well as Conservative politicians, and let in representatives of the anti-Semitic outlets, gave a nothing speech with no empathy or compassion, hid in his big honking SUV with the blacked out windows instead of answering media questions and assigned anti-Semites to his new council on anti-Semitism.
Oy vey!
It was such an absurd farce— such a monumental exercise in gaslighting — I’d laugh if I didn’t want to cry.
This from Unapologetically Jewish’s Matthew Taub must be watched to explain how real Jews are feeling, not liberal Jews who sat in that Holy Blossom room Monday waiting for a few crumbs:
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