{"id":98396,"date":"2016-06-08T11:57:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T19:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=98396"},"modified":"2016-06-08T11:57:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T19:57:30","slug":"jewish-groups-laud-canada-post-decision-to-stop-delivery-of-pro-nazi-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=98396","title":{"rendered":"JEWISH GROUPS LAUD CANADA POST DECISION TO STOP DELIVERY OF PRO-NAZI PAPER"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Canadian Jewish News<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Jewish groups are pleased with the decision by Canada Post to stop delivering an east-end Toronto publication that has been slammed as anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi and homophobic.<\/p>\n

Judy Foote, the federal minister responsible for Canada Post, issued an order on June 6 against the delivery of Your Ward News, a free, low-budget newspaper devoted to smashing \u201ccultural Marxism.\u201d<\/p>\n

The publication has for years been the subject of complaints in its delivery area, roughly the Beaches and East York. It regularly rails against Zionists, feminism, and welfare recipients, and mocks the Holocaust. It has defended itself as satire.<\/p>\n

The newsletter says it has been \u201cAboriginal owned and operated since 2007.\u201d<\/p>\n

As of June 7, its website said the paper is delivered by Canada Post to 305,000 homes, business and apartments, \u201cwith a readership of over one million.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the past year, B\u2019nai Brith Canada has \u201creceived literally hundreds of phone calls and emails from people who have felt victimized by the content in this publication,\u201d Amanda Hohmann, national director of BBC\u2019s League for Human Rights, told The CJN. \u201cWe are pleased to see that the government has taken appropriate steps to protect Canadians from this kind of hate propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hohmann denied Your Ward News is satirical \u201cand this is not about free speech. This is about protecting the rights of people, such as Holocaust survivors, from receiving unsolicited hate in their mailboxes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) also hailed Canada Post\u2019s move.<\/p>\n

\u201cFreedom of speech \u2013 a core Canadian value \u2013 is cheapened and corroded when it is cynically used by extremists to justify the dissemination of hate,\u201d said CEO Shimon Koffler Fogel. \u201cThe fact that the Canadian Union of Postal Workers has supported efforts to ban the delivery of Your Ward News reflects a broad consensus about the nature of the racist propaganda featured in this newsletter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fogel also applauded Ottawa lawyer and human rights advocate Richard Warman, who filed a human rights complaint against Your Ward News in April, calling it \u201cmisogynist, racist, anti-Jewish, anti-Muslim and homophobic hate propaganda\u201d that Canada Post and the federal government were \u201cregularly and knowingly delivering.\u201d<\/p>\n

The publication \u201chas long been a source of deep concern to members of the Toronto Jewish community,\u201d said Berl Nadler, co-chair of CIJA Toronto, noting that his organization has provided to police evidence of the paper\u2019s anti-Semitic content for possible hate speech charges.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been very discouraging to note that our hate speech\/hate crime laws have diminished in recent years, and that a paper promoting hatred has already been distributed to thousands of homes over a long period of time,\u201d said Avi Benlolo, president and CEO of Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, in a statement. \u201cThe paper typically exhibits provocative language and images that are offensive to Jews primarily, but also to other minority groups.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am pleased to see that our government has stepped in and stopped further distribution.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took a community to fight this hateful publication,\u201d noted Bernie Farber, former CEO of Canadian Jewish Congress, now executive director of the Mosaic institute and one of the founders of Standing Together Against Mailing Prejudice (STAMP). \u201cFaith leaders, human rights advocates, labour leaders and many more\u2026all played a role. Minister Foote heard us and took action. That\u2019s how good advocacy works.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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