Klein, a tool for the Palestinian Authority, continues to attack the only liberal democracy in the Middle East. Talk about an example of arrested development. This woman still believes the same garbage she spouted at 19; most people mature and evolve.
The following is a preface to the editorial below:
In the space of two weeks, anti-globalization activist and best-selling author Naomi Klein, the preeminent figure of the radical left, published a lengthy essay justifying the U.N.’s disastrous Durban II racism conference, and helped organize a boycott of this week’s Toronto International Film Festival — for the crime of showing Israeli films. The New York Times reports that celebrities who signed Klein’s boycott letter include Harry Belafonte, Viggo Mortensen and Julie Christie. However, Jerry Seinfeld, Natalie Portman, Sacha Baron Cohen, Lisa Kudrow, Patricia Heaton and Lenny Kravtiz countered with an ad supporting inclusion of Israeli films, and opposing blacklists. While Jane Fonda initially joined Klein’s boycott, she has now apologized for endorsing its “inflammatory” words.
The following editorial by UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer, in today’s National Post of Canada, exposes Naomi Klein’s irrational rage — and reveals an ugly episode from her past that she has been carefully hiding.
Read Mr. Neuer’s entire editiorial here: The strange, enduring rage of Naomi Klein.
And also read Naomi Klein’s op-ed piece, written as a 19-year-old college student (which she still believes today): Victim to Victimizer, What Israel has become: Racism and misogyny at the core of its being.
Here’s an excerpt:
By far the most disturbing development in Israeli men’s misogyny towards Israeli women is something known to Israeli women as “Holocaust pornography” where images of emaciated women near ovens, shower heads, cattle cars, and the like are used to sell clothing and other products: “Jewish women are sexualized as Holocaust victims for Israeli men to masturbate over… the themes are fire, gas, trains, emaciation, and death,” writes Andrea Dworkin in October 1990 Ms. Magazine.
And what was the response to her hate propaganda piece?
Klein’s mythological account:
As the anti-globalization activist tells it, she wrote a normal article that in turn was met with a lunatic response. The truth is the opposite.
In her various accounts, Klein describes a simple op-ed that urged Israel to “end the occupation not only for the Palestinians, but also for its own people, especially its women.” An odd use of metaphor and silly charge, perhaps, but nothing that should provoke extraordinary hurt and outrage.
And in response to this non-event, as she tells it, “the Jewish community in Toronto just decided to lynch me.” To discuss a response, she claims, no less than 500 Jewish students gathered for a “lynch mob” meeting. However, she showed up herself, unrecognized, and stood up and told them off.
And now for the reality:
She tells of confronting a lynch mob, at a meeting organized by the Jewish Student Union. There were 500 people packed in the room and there was just dead silence.” But is that what really happened?
The Canadian Jewish News reported a December 5th meeting between 50 Jewish students and the Varsity editors, noting Klein’s attendance. It says nothing about her supposed dramatic intervention. Others present don’t recall any.
For further reading, see the following:
Jonathan Kay on TIFF: Are Naomi Klein et al being used as Palestinian Authority sock puppets?
Lumpy, Grumpy and Frumpy has these great pics from the peaceful protest of the Israeli-hating mob in Toronto:
The bashers’ bash 1
The bashers’ bash 2
The bashers’ bash 3
The bashers’ bash 4 — a great write-up of the protest (excerpt below)
The JDL had a good turn-out and the protest was quiet and well-behaved. The presence of the protesters and their Canadian and Israeli flags was obviously irritating to some of the bashers’ bash attendees. I am certain I heard one Jewish member of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid wish the protesters, “Mazel Tov!” in a loud, angry voice; at another point, one very tall Arab-looking guy who seemed to be experiencing a huge adrenaline rush raised his fist and shouted, “Viva Palestina!” all the way in.
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….that new t-shirt Naomi is wearing , “Kill me I’m Jewish” is about as dumb as that twat can get, methinks. What can you expect from a woman name after pan of squares though.
Thanks for the links and your kind words! I hope to have some video up today.
No problem, ma’am! Sorry I’m a little slow about it — yesterday was busy. I will link to the video too when it’s up.
And thank-you for being there to photograph and film it all!
She is a stupid woman, with zero credibility. Everything that comes out of her mouth is lie.
It just strikes me that she has the same mental and emotional maturity level as she did at 19. I grew up and evolved; I certainly don’t think the same way I did when I was 19.
I’ll admit: I used to wear all the stupid feminazzi t-shirts — eg. “When God created man, she was only joking” and “The best man for the job is woman”. I used to spout all kinds of things at 19, but I’ve since grown up and smartened up.
But does she really believe the nonsense that she spouts? She tells outright lies (the story of the “lynch mob” meeting) and expects us to take anything she says seriously — pathetic!
Regarding the Lewis family, well, her hubby Avi Lewis is pretty much cut from the same cloth as Naomi. His interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali is deconstructed here: Flaggman’s Canada. Lewis talks down to her, but she’s got his number: You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom, because you don’t know what it is not to have freedom.
Well, I can’t stand the man-hating feminists like Rebick. Klein and her husband Avi Lewis irritate me, as do all the other useful idiots — tools for terrorists. They, and their kind, are what Pat Condell calls Apologists for Evil.
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