Tainted money
' note approbation the stand taken by Jejiaecsp^^ and Reform
moVem^^ to Jews being involved
in corfu^ practices on Wall Street. . V
Rabbi Walter Wurzburger, the distinguished Orthodox spokesman, strongly condemned the latter Jh a statement issued to the Jewish Chronicle News Service of England.
In addition to deploring the recent fiasco involving Ivan Boesky, Rabbi Wurzburger along with Rabbi Wolfe Kelnian of the Rabbinical Assembly and Rabbi Alexander Schindler of the Reform movement, indicated that Jewish organizations should *'make less of a fetish of handing out honors and positions of leadership to people solely on account of their wealth and willingness to make large contributions to Jewish institutions.*^
Said Wurzberger: have a sense that ivhat has been going on involves the guilt of the entire Jewish community. We are too ready to accord all kinds of
honors and distinctions to people for no Other reason than that they have a lot of money and are willing to contribute to Jewish causes/*
The condemnation by the three rabbis representing a broad spectrum of North American Jewry is timely and prudent^ It was actuated not only by the Wall street scandal but also by the revelation that several Jews were involved in the New York City parking violations bureau.
Rabbi Wurzburger rightly stressed in his press statement that Jewish institutions **not worship power and money to the extent that they do at present."
The rabbits argument is one that will be shared by many in the Canadian Jewish community as well. All too often in our own community money has been used to launder reputations. It is fitting that this pernicious practice has been condemned by autho-ratative religious leaders from the three main Jewish: synagogue groups on this continent.
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Why Kahane should not be barred from Canada
By DAN NIMROD
Thisexpose is an attempt toset the record straight on both the reasoning and endorsement of the barring from entry into Canada, of an elected member of the Israeli parliament. Rabbi Meir Kahane.
Thecounter-argument(/H^iJJan; 8),compounded withdisin-' formation, can be synthesized into three main categories: -1V That Kahane*s case^conforms:'toi4he principle o£i>aTring from entry into Canada :by our Imniigration department of ^ anyone with a past criminal record.
2. That this policy aims to protect the freedom of Canadians ^ -from a criminal element who^would undermine those very freedoms*' with their "hatred and bigotry."
3, The responsibility of the media **for reporting the news, not making it.*"
Dan Nimrod lives arid writes in Montreaiwhere he ^ # editor and publisher of Dawn Books.
. - What is the evidence behind these contentions? Historically, a past criminal record has, in m6s$^cases,'dot been the reason for rejecting one's application by Canadian authorities, neither for ^visit^jior for permanent residence. The number of outlaws and ex-cohvicts^Who made their home in the past 200
years are legiok, beginning with renegades of the American Revolutionary War of Independence down to th^thousands of U.S. draft dodgers during the Vietnam War.
• Many refugees of totalitarian regimes, from the /?ig/r/and the Left, admitted into Canada have had a criminal record in their native lands, de facto and de jure.
• After World War II Canadian immigration authorities and Jaw enforcement agencies turned a blind eye to numerous war: criminals who were granted a safe haven here. '~
• More recently, a number of *wanted' IRA members have been visiting Canada with the purpose of procuring funds and weapons for their terrorist organization.
• Furthermore, Canada has been officially playing host for representatives of a criminal organization, such as the PLO, which is the hotbed of international terrorism and is bent on the physical destruction of a memberstate of the U.N., Israel, with which Canada has friendly relations. A PLO delegate was invited in 1984 to testify before the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs.
PLO spokesmen, all with criminal records (by their own admission of belonging to that terrorist organization) are free to enter Canada"Dn speakiiig^engagements before labor unions, university students, afid also enjoy the privilege of maintaining offices for their organization.
The mbst current evidence of Canada not barring individuals with a criminal and alleged criminal record from entry has been re^tered in two well-published^ses: the case of the Tamil refugees and the case of Dennis Goldberg, a leading member of the ANC, the outlawed African National Congress.
• At Imt oiie of the Tamil refugees, Uipapathisivan (Baby) Psirarajasi^ratt, has been accused by the. Sri LahkaniJiigh^ commissibn;ofbeing-aterroriklandthief^ who is partly separate network" to destabilize the Sri Lankan goveniinent (The Gazette, Sept. 23, \9S6). Moreover^ the Sri_Lankan- High Commissioner,TissaWeeratunga said that the Pararajase^ran is wanted on suspicion of murder in Sri Lanka, a country with which Canada has no extradition treaty.
There are a number of groups fighting for a separate Tamil state; Together, they have incurred more than 3000 deaths over
the past three years. One of those terrorist groups, the Eelam Revolutionary Organization (EROS) hasdose links with the PLO and Libya. Their leaflets and solidarity message **to the < struggling people of Palestine** is highlighted by :]^LO jargon denouncing the **blood thirsty ... iinperialist United States,**' *^Zionist terrorists'* and **Zionist-piauvinist-Iinperiali$t** or **racist U.S. puppets.** - - .
The admittance of Iannis Goldberg; for;afa^^ Canada^jlj^f^^)!, iiiispi^e q^iUji^x^yimip^^i^^ dence for those; who indulge in disrinforniiEiti^ speak for themselves.
• Goldberg served 22 years, in prison:as part of four life sentences handed doy/n by theSouth African Supreme Court following conviction for sabotage. At his trial it was proved that^ as an engineer, he was responsible for the nunufacture of bombs for use in a terror campaign. His releaise from prison 1 took place following his assurance that he would not promote or sub^ribe to violence against South Africa {Gazette, Sept. 30, 1986). -
Our Canadian authorities have not only ignored Goldberg*s past criminal record, but have also tolerated his current advocacy of violence and terrorism in his country. In an interview (Septi 29, 1985) on the CTV prograni Canada AM, he stated: ^Yes, I beUeve bombs must be usedwilbelieve that poUjce, soldier and ajgents of apartheid must be dealt with and collaborators with the regime must be dealt with.. .**
Terrorism seems to be the only option for social changeand the settling of disputes,, in any part of the globe; as far as visitor Goldberg is concerned. When he ^arrived in Israel upon his release from prison i|i 198S, he made the following statement:
**Every act of violence has two goals: (1) to recruit the oppressed public to join the battle; (2): to decrease the abiUty of :the regime.. .Terrorism niustbeeffective. The question is not one of morality. My struggle need not be any more moral than the oppression. The question is whether or not it*s effective. It is certainly a possibility that innocent people will be killed. That*s the price. Those are the results.**
It is therefore not surprising that thb seasoned terrorist by choicci and Marxist by conviction, would endorse terrorist criminal activity againstcivilians by his confederates of the PLO against the State and people of Israel. In an interview with the London Sunday Times, Goldberg made the following statement:
"I know that the Palestinians plant bombs on Israeli buses and I know that you object to the fact that these bombs result in the death of innocent people. Many of them are not innocent. They support the oppression of the Palestinians or they don't do what they should do to prevent the oppression of the Palestinians; including a violent struggle. If they are really innocent, well, what*s there to do? They happened to bie at the wrong place at the wrong time. That's the price.**
Yet, this active participant in and advocate of international terrorism was admitted into Canada, wherehe was extended all ^he cjoiirtesy and facility tO:promote^ prescriptions .to the ills oftiie^iwori^
tacit^pproval of the Canadian authorities!-- -' _ _ Rahane, on the other hand, has been kept out. Now, let us pause for a moment, for the benefit of those who argue against Kahane's entry here, and imagine a scale big enough to accommodate the criminal dossiers of both Kahane and Goldberg on each end; then watch in whose favor the scale would tip. Those who are deprived of any imagination could find their answer in acomparative honest assessment on which
< of the two individuals poses a greater danger to Canada and to the free world.
Now we move to those who, complain that Kahane, **in the name of Jewish survival. t.spewjs, forth hatred and bigotry.
If we assume, for argunientrs sake, that these allegations are true^. then we must also recp is directed at a people which, according to an opinionpoU of last fall, is supporting an organization that promises^to liquidate the Zionist entity.*' .
In a report from the C/wc<?gaTr/^M«e published in the Gazette (Sept. 13; 1986), the vast majority of Palestinian Arabs residing in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza district^ endorse the PLO and justify terrorist violence against civilians. These conclusions are based on an opinion poll sponsored by the Jerusalem-based Arab newspaper Al Fo/r, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. and the American newspaper Newsday.
Highlights of the poll include:^. , , .> -r, ■...<-
• 71.1 percent of Arab respondents preferred Arafat as their leader.
V • 78 percent said the solution to tlie Palestinm^ problem is . creation of a^Palestini^n S:^t& jn:.^ll of ^ .,fer?rJi;4hP,*:^.pslt,,¥^?l?|^*^,j^j|)q^^^
preferred a Palestinian State limited > to the West Bank and,
Gaza.
• 60.7 percent said **ani|ed struggle" is the most effective way. to solve the Palestinian problem.
• 60.5 percent supported the planting of bombs on the planes of Israefs El Al airline.
• 87.6 percent approved the PLO 1978 massacre of 38 Israeli civilians on a hijacked bus outside Tel Aviv.
• 81.2 percent approved the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine compound in Beirut, which killed 242 U.S. servicemen.
• 36.9 percent supported the Romeand Vienna airport massacres last December by Palestinian terrorists.'^ .
.The PLO has announced on **numerous occasions** their priine objective was to destroy tht Jewish st^te and to make western **Palestine7 Judenrein, with the exception of those Jews who lived. the;c, before 1917.vr..,..-7; • :^ rPerhapsKahane is indeed oyerreactiLn^^ince the PLO offer.is . by far moregeneroiis than thi?present neality in Eastern Pales-tinjB, 'known to Jews as Easterh^retzYisra^^ In this region of the Jewish homeland, presently under **Jordanian** Arab occu-patiori,iio Jew is allowed to take up residence, and the selling of land to Jews is a capital offence punishable by~death!
Whereas the Torah instructs us: **Thou shalt not hate thy brdther in thy heart" (l4?v. 19:17), it also commands us **Thou Shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven** (Deut. 25:19)—and^ by inference, of all those who are dedicated to IsraeFs destruction. Have Kahane's critics forgotten the specific command "Thou shalt not forget" (ibid)?
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