In the following essay, a Canadian Jew calls out the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the organized Jewish community for using the Holocaust as a battering ram to force Canada to take in more Muslim immigrants.<\/p>\n
How many Jews and non-Jews in the West will be raped and killed because of this massive importation of Muslims? Will those Jewish leaders who advocated Muslim immigration be held accountable for the slaughter that results?<\/p>\n
Neil Flagg writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n Guilt-trip politics is rearing its ugly head this election season, as the searing trauma of the Holocaust is being used to try to turn Canadians – particularly, Canadian Jews – against Stephen Harper this election season.<\/p>\n Perhaps you are familiar with the phrase \u201cNone Is Too Many\u201d<\/a>.<\/strong><\/a> It was coined by Toronto History professors Hesh Troper and Irving Abella in their 1983 book, None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933-1948<\/a><\/strong> to describe the xenophobic attitude of the Canadian government in the William Lyon Mackenzie King era.<\/p>\n While Jews often attribute the quote to Mackenzie King himself, it is actually part of a second-hand anecdote reported to Troper and Abella, attributed to an anonymous immigration official in Ottawa. According to their unverified account of the incident, when asked how many Jews would be allowed to immigrate to Canada after the war, the unnamed immigration official apparently replied \u201cNone is too many\u201d.<\/p>\n Led by the lawyers who operate the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre, an organization that fights antisemitism in the name of the now-deceased Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, the Liberal Jewish community is using the loaded phrase and its emotional implications to turn the Syrian refugee crisis into a battering-ram against Stephen Harper.<\/p>\n Even before FSWC President Avi Benlolo released his statement<\/a><\/strong> last week calling on Canada to open the floodgates to Syrian refugees in the name of \u201cTikkun Olam\u201d (repairing the world) during this High Holiday season for Jews, I saw several liberal Jews in my circles using \u201cNone is Too Many\u201d in beating up the Prime Minister over refugees and immigration. It\u2019s become the knee-jerk reaction to any defense of the Conservative government\u2019s record and platform.<\/p>\n In the name of fairness, I\u2019d like to take apart this meme, and set the record straight for my fellow Jews being misled by this guilt-trip.<\/p>\n 1) \u201cNone is Too Many\u201d had nothing to do with the MS St. Louis, and the MS St. Louis had little to do with the Holocaust.<\/em><\/strong> Many in the Jewish community and elsewhere falsely believe that \u201cnone is too many\u201d was said in connection with Canada\u2019s refusal to accept the 900 German Jews on the St. Louis<\/em><\/a><\/strong> in May 1939, who were turned away from landing in Havana after a sudden change of refugee policy by Cuban President Bru.<\/p>\n Both the US Democratic President Roosevelt, and Canada\u2019s Liberal PM Mackenzie King, refused to let the boat dock at American or Canadian ports, and thus it was forced to return to Europe. Contrary to the mythological tale of the St. Louis that many repeat to this day, the passengers were not sent back across the sea to the German death camps. The St. Louis<\/em> docked back at Antwerp, Belgium on June 17, 1939 \u2013 three months before World War II began.<\/p>\n Not a single passenger was returned to Germany, where the Wansee Conference was still nearly three years away from convening. From Antwerp, all the refugees were accepted by free countries. The United Kingdom took 288 passengers, France took 224, Belgium 214, and the Netherlands 181. It is estimated that up to 254 former passengers from this journey did not survive the war years, certainly a tragedy, but hardly the \u201cCanada sent back Jews to the slaughter\u201d narrative that is usually implied.<\/p>\n