Terry Glavin
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first heard Dec 2024
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But the other thing I think that's important to understand about antisemitism, it's not just like any other prejudice. It's not just another bigotry. It's a conspiracy theory. It's always been a conspiracy theory. And I think a lot of people who perhaps were once Marxists or are informed by the intellectual tradition in Marxism
can easily get that wrong, can easily imagine that, you know, the powerful hand of the international bourgeoisie has, you know, their names often end in Stein and Berg. And the next thing you know, you know, it's the Jews are being thrown down wells. And I think just to understand where we are in Canada particularly,
I think it's really necessary to understand the trajectory of the left over the last 25, 30 years. Well, go back a little further.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, right? Much of the Democratic left was perfectly content with this, was very happy about this.
Yes. Yes. Much of the democratic left was, or at least resigned to it and confused by it. And then during the 1990s, the primary iteration of left-wing activism and politics was anti-globalization, showing up with these massive demonstrations at the IMF and the World Bank and the World Economic Forum. And then came 9-1-1. And 9-1-1 was kind of like a blunt trauma wound to everybody's head.
Everybody went a little bit weird. It was such a shock. I mean, it was like out of a movie, some kind of a science fiction movie. And immediately what happened was, you know, the iteration of the international left and the activist milieu changed. was cloaked in anti-war activism, right? And it shouldn't have taken much effort on the part of the mass media.
Unfortunately, and I have to confess as a lifelong journalist, the media was not at all helpful in Failing to recognize that this phenomenon that was being presented on the nightly news and on the front pages of the paper as an anti-war movement, they were actually on the other side. They weren't against war. They were on the other side.
And at the core of it, at the very, very core of it, whatever you happen to think about Afghanistan or Iraq, at the core of it was anti-Zionism, this thing called anti-Zionism. And that had sort of percolated from the 1970s. A lot of it was informed by Soviet propaganda, but from the United Nations, you know, the Durban Conference, the proposition that Zionism is racism.
Now in Canada, the way Irwin Kotler put it to me, I think very well, who, he's kind of my lodestar, I confess. Tell everybody who he is. Well, he's a former Canadian justice minister. He founded the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights, and I'm a senior fellow with the Raoul Wallenberg Center.
And he's beloved of persecuted Democrats the world round, whether it's Hong Kong or Belarus or just about anywhere, Russia. Anyway, the way he put it to me was that in Canada, particularly, Canadians, the United Nations is kind of in our DNA. Right. You know, the way we understand our role in the world, our place in the world. I mean, we were there at the Foundation of Israel.
We were there in the crafting of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights. We were there in all of the protocols and conventions that arose from the ashes of the Shoah. This was a very Canadian thing and something to be proud of. But what we haven't really noticed over the years is the way the United Nations has been taken over by the Organization of the Islamic Congress.
It's been taken over by the police state bloc. The last time I looked, I think Beijing was basically in control of seven of the 11 major United Nations agencies. And then you get the United Nations Relief Works Agency, which is this strange agency.
strange organization that keeps alive the prospect that Israel is just a temporary aberration and that somehow the massively growing Palestinian refugee population, it's not really a refugee population, will somehow be sorted by the restoration of a Palestinian or an Arab sovereignty. in all the places where Israel currently exists.
So it's really hard for Canadians to sort of think, hmm, maybe the United Nations, maybe these, are we the baddies, you know?
The way I see those tangling together, if we can think of it in terms of the Liberal Party or the Trudeau Liberals, right? not the same as a lot of what a lot of people imagine the liberals to be, is that this kind of intellectual slovenliness that the sort of blind adherence to United Nations declarations and so on
and the entire panoply of its colonial settler state politics, its diversity, equity, and inclusion politics.
It's just there's no way that it can defend itself against a virulent, lurid, blood-curdling, anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist.
Okay, here's Trudeau. Here's Trudeau. Here's the thing about Trudeau. Yeah. There's really not much there. I hate to be uncharitable. I think it's time to be uncharitable. Okay. Well, there really isn't much there. I think you've been very interested in the phenomenon of narcissism. There you go. The world is a vanity mirror.
And you have to remember when he came along, it sort of parallels the rise of Trump in the United States, right? When he was first elected, just a few months from the election of Donald Trump. And Donald Trump, you know, said all these scary things about Muslims and then Justin Trudeau, you know, tweets, well, everybody's welcome to Canada. It doesn't matter. You can be a Muslim. We love you.
The next thing you know, he's on the front page of the Rolling Stone magazine. He's the toast of, you know, Vogue photo shoots. He's the leader of the free world.
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