WARMAN
HOBNOBS WITH ADL IN ATLANTA
& FOXMAN GETS FRENCH AWARD
Dear Free Speech Supporter:
The sworn enemies of free speech are gathering in Atlanta tomorrow. The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith is holding a national meeting. Silencing the Internet is very much on the agenda.
One of the guests on a Thursday morning panel entitled “Terrorists and Hate Groups on the Internet: What Should Be Done?” IS Canada’s own fervent censorship advocate Richard Warman, vaingloriously described as a “Canadian human rights lawyer.” That’s accurate as long as you don’t consider freedom of speech or expression or belief or freedom of the press to be human rights.
The title of the panel shows the perverse attitude of the enemies of free speech. Terrorists are mixed with “hate groups” on the Internet. If Warman is any model, it’s not terrorists that worry the ADL thought police, but free thinkers, anti-Zionists, immigration reformers, monetary critics, and supporters of free speech. By my count Warman has filed at least 20 Canadian Human Rights Commission Sec. 13.1 complaints. None have been aimed at “terrorists”. All have focused on non-violent dissent. It’s dissent, not “terrorists” who are the ADL and Warman’s targets.
Speaking of the ADL, Rev. Ted Pike has
written a powerful critique of a recent French decision to bestow its highest
civilian award, the Legion of Honour on ADL head Abe Foxman. Rev. Pike comments:
“Foxman heads an organization that is responsible for creating and establishing
dozens of "anti-hate" bureaucracies, which destroy freedom of speech (See, New
Federal 'Hate' Bill Means Funeral of Free Speech <<
http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/hatebillmeansfuneral.html >> ).
Thanks to the ADL, Christians in Canada have been fined thousands of
dollars and impoverished just for publishing passages from the Bible. In our own
Pennsylvania, eleven Christians were jailed in 2004 for peacefully evangelizing
at a homosexual parade. ADL board member Lynn Abraham authorized their arrest,
imprisonment, and the indictment that was later dropped.
Foxman's intolerance of Christians is on display in his book, Never Again: The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism. Foxman smears the Catholic church as "a cradle of hatred" and blames the New Testament for the death and suffering of countless Jews. Foxman denounces Christian evangelists as "anti-Semitic" merely for witnessing to Jews.”
Paul Fromm
Director
Canadian Association for Free Expression
ADL Holds National Meeting in Atlanta
Meeting Discusses Islamic Extremism, Terrorist on the Internet, Israeli-Palestinian Peace Prospects, Church-State Separation
10/24/2006 10:52:00 AM
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To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor
Contact: Through Oct. 25: Myrna Shinbaum, 212-885-7747 or Todd Gutnick, 212-885-7755 or adlmedia@adl.org, both of the Anti-Defamation League. Oct. 26-28: Westin Buckhead/Press Office: Tuxedo, 404-365-6420
News Advisory:
WHO: Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
WHAT: ADL National Commission Meeting
WHERE: Westin Buckhead Atlanta, 3391 Peachtree Road N.E.
WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 26 - Saturday, Oct. 28
ADL leaders from across the country will gather to hear from policymakers, journalists, government officials and experts on anti-Semitism, extremism, church-state separation and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during the Anti-Defamation League's 2006 National Commission Meeting in Atlanta, Ga.
The following events are open to the media:
Thursday, Oct. 26
9:30 a.m. -- The Story of Leo Frank: Keeping History Alive (Ballrooms A/B) Ben Loeterman and Mike DeWitt, producers, "The People v. Leo Frank;" Dale Schwartz, ADL National Commissioner
9:50 a.m. -- Challenges to Church-State Separation (Ballrooms A/B) K. Hollyn Hollman, General Counsel, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty
10:45 a.m. -- Terrorists and Hate Groups on the Internet: What Should Be Done? (Ballrooms A/B) Doug Isenberg, attorney and publisher of GigaLaw.com; Les Seagraves, Chief Privacy Officer, Earthlink Inc.; Richard Warman, Canadian human rights lawyer; Moderator: Christopher Wolf, Chair, ADL Internet Task Force and chair, International Network Against Cyber-Hate
11:30 a.m. -- Israel: Current Challenges for the Peace Process (Ballrooms A/B) Ambassador Arye Mekel, Consul General of Israel in New York
12:30 p.m. -- Learning Firsthand from Israel's Counterterrorism Experts (Ballrooms C/D/E) Jim McDonnell, Deputy Chief, Los Angeles Police Dept.
1:15 p.m. -- Presentation of the ADL America's Democratic Legacy Award to (Ballrooms C/D/E) Bernard Marcus, co-founder, The Home Depot Inc. by Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director
Friday, Oct. 27
8:45 a.m. -- Echoes & Reflections: A New Approach to Teaching the Holocaust (Ballrooms A/B) Lee Pope, history teacher, Grady High School, Atlanta
9:15 a.m. -- Presentation of the ADL Courage to Care Award to (Ballrooms A/B) Hiram Bingham IV (posthumous) by Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director; Accepting: Robert Kim Bingham, son of Hiram Bingham; Response: Ralph M. Hockley, Holocaust survivor saved by Hiram Bingham
9:30 a.m. -- Keynote Address (Ballrooms A/B) Islamic Extremism in Action: Undermining Democratic Freedoms; Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director
10:30 a.m. -- The Hamas-Hezbollah Dilemma: Israel's Two Front War (Ballrooms A/B) Jeffrey Goldberg, Washington Correspondent, The New Yorker and author of "Prisoners: A Muslim and A Jew Across the Middle East Divide"
11:15 a.m. -- The Chavez Regime: Implications for Venezuelan Jews (Ballrooms A/B) Freddy Pressner, Head of the Confederation of Jewish Associations of Venezuela
7:30 p.m. -- Shabbat Dinner Honoring Barbara B. Balser for (Ballroom B) Her Distinguished Service as ADL National Chair; Keynote Address: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, State of Georgia
EDITORS NOTE: Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, and ADL experts will be available for interviews by appointment. To obtain media schedule updates, reply to adlmedia@adl.org.
A National Prayer Network Special Report
FRANCE HONORS FOXMAN AND THE DEVIL DOES TOO
By Rev. Ted Pike
Apparently the only sense the French have was used on staying out of Iraq. In the last few weeks, they've set up a national Jewish court and awarded ADL head Abe Foxman with the French Legion of Honor, their highest civilian and military tribute, for his lifetime "battle against anti-Semitism."
French president Jacques Chirac praised Foxman, "Your life and your contribution to peace among men are exceptional." In reply, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith said he survived the Nazis so he could "build respect and fight hatred."
So how has Foxman contributed to peace among men? Let's count the ways.
Foxman heads an organization that is responsible for creating and establishing dozens of "anti-hate" bureaucracies, which destroy freedom of speech (See, New Federal 'Hate' Bill Means Funeral of Free Speech <<http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/hatebillmeansfuneral.html>> ). Thanks to the ADL, Christians in Canada have been fined thousands of dollars and impoverished just for publishing passages from the Bible. In our own Pennsylvania, eleven Christians were jailed in 2004 for peacefully evangelizing at a homosexual parade. ADL board member Lynn Abraham authorized their arrest, imprisonment, and the indictment that was later dropped.
Foxman's intolerance of Christians is on display in his book, Never Again: The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism. Foxman smears the Catholic church as "a cradle of hatred" and blames the New Testament for the death and suffering of countless Jews. Foxman denounces Christian evangelists as "anti-Semitic" merely for witnessing to Jews.
Foxman and the ADL have consistently exaggerated and falsely defined incidents of hatred or anti-Semitism in order to whitewash Israel's crimes, silence critics of Jewish behavior, and keep themselves in business. Foxman says, for instance, than it's anti-Semitic to claim AIPAC politically destroys the critics of Israel-even though AIPAC brags about this! To the ADL head's sensitive ears, it's anti-Semitic to criticize Israel, to say American Jews are most loyal to Israel, to give a Christian tract to a Jew, or to suggest that Hollywood's production of 175 Holocaust films since 1989 might indicate some kind of agenda.
Foxman could find anti-Semitism in the way you walk your dog. He needs to, if he wants to keep the hefty paycheck (half a million bucks a year) he makes off anti-Semitism. Racism pays so well, Foxman can't afford to promote peace and respect. This is probably the reason he expressed "disappointment" when a comprehensive 2002-03 report on anti-Semitism in Europe revealed not a single anti-Semitic homicide and only a handful of assaults. The report also revealed that immigrants were more likely to suffer from bias than Jews-bad news for Foxman's business.
Foxman's promotion of respect includes gross violations of American rights to freedom and privacy. He has overseen domestic spying operations in the United States, and even now the ADL maintains dossiers on thousands of politically conservative and dissident Americans.
Maybe Foxman earned France's highest honor with some of his other valorous actions, like helping billionaire criminal Marc Rich get a presidential pardon in the last few hours of Clinton's presidency.
Foxman says anti-Semitism is a mental disease, completely unrelated to the behavior of Israel or individual Jews. It is fundamentally irrational, he says.
Meanwhile, I guess honoring Foxman as a man of peace is just good common sense.
Some Sources:
Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History (2005, University of California Press) Norman G. Finkelstein
Never Again: the Threat of the New Antisemitism (2003, Harper Collins) Abraham H. Foxman
"ADL National Director Awarded French Legion of Honor," Oct. 16, www.adl.org << http://www.adl.org/ >>
"Is Abe Foxman a Hate Criminal?" April 2006, Rev. Ted Pike, www.truthtellers.org << http://www.truthtellers.org/ >>
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