Page 6-The Canadian Jewish News, Thursday, Do^ember 2, 1993
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By RON CSILLAG
TORONTO - Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin should resign because he. no longer has the moral authority to govern, says the son of the late Rabbi Meir.Kahane.
Rabin "is a big liar and everyone knows it. He'll give everything away" to Arabs. Binyamin Ze'ev Ka-hane told The CJN'm an interview the day after addressing a packed hall at the Toronto Zionist Council.
Recent polls indiciating more Israelis oppose the peace deal with the PLC than support it mean Rabin should step down and call elections, Kahane, 27. said.
But neither is Kahane a fan of the Likud opposition.
He says there's "no difference" between Likud and Labor, pointing out that it was Likud governments which returned the Sinai to Egypt and began the Madrid round of peace ■talks.
Rabin has misled Israelis because he promised prior to his election that he would not negotiate with the PLC and not negotiate the status of the Golan Heights.
"Nobtxly would have voied for him" had Rabin said he would enter talks with the PLC. Kahane said.
And the prime minister "is in a big hurry" to implement terms of the accord because he knows he'll.be turfed out of office in 1996, Kahane added.
Kahane is hoping for a "Jewish intifada" in the territories because he feels a violent uprising by Jewish .settlers would topple the Labor govemmetit.
■ ■ . Eyen if the Sept. 13 agreement is not ripped up. there will be violent days ahead because "the Arabs will want more [than the pact stipulates]. . They want everything. They won't give up."
Kahane was thrust into his late father's role when Rabbi Meir Kahane. leader of the far-right Kach party and founder of the militant Jewish Defence League.. was $hot to death by an Arab-American while giving a speech in New York in, 1.990,
The alleged assassin was acquitted of the murder but convicted of a less-
Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane
er weapons charge.
Rabbi Kahane held a Knesset seat from 1984 to 1988, the year he was barred frorti seeking re-election on the grounds that Kach incited racial hatred.
Last year, the same rule was used to bar Binyahiih Kahane from running for the Knesset for his renamed Kahane Chai-Koach party.
Kahane has not abandoned his father's most controversial — and for millions of Jews, unacceptable — belief that the "only solution" to the Mideast conflict is the forcible "transfer" Of all Arabs from Israel, as well as Judea, Samaria and Gaza. "Let's send them to the 22 Arab countries," he offers.
Is it feasible to throw two million Arabs from their homes?
"It's not feasible to leave the Arabs there! The only way is separation."
As for world opinion of such a radical move, "who cares what the powers say? If they don't like it, it's their problem. America should take care of its own problems. , ;
"As long as the Arabs stay, there .will be trouble." •
Kahane's Toronto visit was a stop on a North America-wide speaking tour to urge.JeNvs to contribute financially to. the settlement movement.
"It's time for Jews to wake, up and give money to the real. Jewish causes."
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TORONTO — The Toronto Zionist Council (TZC) is participating in an international effort to raise funds for the settlement movement in the West Bank and Gaza.
The TZC "is concerned about the settlers," said Helen Smolack, president of the organization, which has about 400 active members in the Toronto area. "We're concerned that the settlers have been abandoned and put to the mercies of the PLO."
TZC is unaffiliated with the Canadian Zionist Federation or other mainstream Jewish groups. Smolack said it is not a political organization and it has not taken a stand on the Israel-PLO accord.
Smolack said Jewish settlers in Judea. Samaria and Gaza have been "cut off from [Israeli] government funding and services and we are appealing to people to provide funds for services there.'.'
The money goes into a general fund and is used for a variety of humanitar-
ian purposes, Smolack said. .
Smolack said money donated in Canada is sent to the Yesha Heartland Campaign, which is lobsely affiliated with the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. One of its main spokesmen is Yechiel Leiter.
Smolack, along with Yehuda Poch of the Jewish Action Initiative, which describes itself as a "think tank • groiip,".<:riticized Canadian Jewish Congress president Irving Abella for comments attributed to him in Tlie Toronto Star. The newspaper quoted him as saying neither he nor most Canadian Jews had heard of Leiter and that Leiter's organization was "unimportant."
But Abella told The aN he had been misquoted. He said he had called The Star lo voice concerns over the front page treatment of a story which described the settlement movement's efforts to raise money and its call on Jews in Canada and the United States to oppose the peace accord. The settlement movement had always
opposed the peace agreement, he said, so he was puzzled why it was considered front page news at this point.
Had a major figure like Abba Eban expressed the positions taken by the settlement movement, then Abella said he could understand it being given such prominent coverage. But Leiter was not as prominent and his views were not new.
Abella said he objected to The Star's "insensitivity" in running the .story with a "blazing headline [Fight peace deal, world's Jews urged]" after it "barely covered" Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's address to the Council of Jewish Federation's General Assembly and after Congress' meetings yvith Toronto Arab groups was given minor coverage.
Abella said "Leiter and his group are legitimate with legitimate aims-to protect the settlements and to slow down the peace process." Congress, he continued, "stands behind the democratically-elected government of Israel." "
'. MB professor a defender of Ross
TORONTO — Matin Yaqzan. the Fredericton mathematics professor who got into hot water over a column he wrote on date rape, has come under fire for other literary efforts that Canadian Jewish Congress says attack Jews.
Congress is adding its voice to the chorus of women's groups and some University of New Brunswick (UNB) students who are calling on the university to review Matin Yaqzan's teaching and writings.
"We have called on the UNB to do a review to determine if he bias the appropriate credentials to be at the university," said Hal Joffee, national chair of community relations for Congress. ; }
Yaqzan had been temporarily suspended by the university to provide "a cooling off period" after he authored a column on date rape in the UNB student newspaper. Vie Brun-swickan. In the article, he suggested that "if a promiscuous girl becomes a victim of an unwanted .sexual experience, it would seem more reasonable for her to demand some monetary compensation for her inconvenience or discomfort, rather than express moral outrage.
Yaqzan Has been a longtime defender of Malcolm Ross, as well as an advocate for Victoria lawyer Doug Christie, so "his recent comments should not be a surpriser' Joffee said. "They're true to form."
Ross is the former Moncton teacher who was ordered out of the classroom for authoring books that alleged Jews
■ were involved in an international conspiracy to undermine Christianity. Christie has represented a variety of extremists who have attacked Jews in writing, as well as Imre Finta, a former Hungiarian gendarmerie captain tried and acquitted of war crimes.
Christie had been severely chastized by the Ontario Court of Appeal for his conduct in both the Ernst Zundel Holocaust-denial trial and in the Finta case. Formal complaints about his courtroom activities were submitted to the Law Society of Up- . per Canada (Ontario), which dismissed them while finding, that Christie had "made common cause with a small lunatic, anti-Semitic fringe element in bur society."
In an April 13. 1993 letter to Harvey Strosberg. chair of discipline for the Law Society. Yaqzan writes that "it.is my impression that some Jewish organizations are in the business of character asassination through the media. They'do it in an organized fashion, and 'legally'. Their work is like that of a legal Mafia. They poison the public mind through newscasts, news releases and public .statements."
Later, in commenting on the Law. , Society's critique of Christie's address to the jur>' in the Finta case, Yaqzan wrote: "Is it not true that it is mostly Jews who are after taking revenge? Is there no difference between Christians and the Jews? Only those who seek revenge should be ashamed of themselves, not those who are trying to stop it,"
Later, alter describing Christie's conduct as "exemplary." Yaqzan said, "few other lawyers seem to have the moral courage or stamina to stand the onslaught of the Mafia mentioned above. If Mr. Christie can be silenced there will be free sailing for the wicked and shameless."
Yaqzan's defence of Ross can be traced back several years. In a column that ran in the March 10. 1990 edition of The Times-Transcript i newspaper in Moncton, he called the Human Rights Commission inquiry into Ros.s's activities a "witch-hunt." ?
"The charge of .anti- , ] "Semitism. . ; is absurd and cruel. If Canadians are free to be anti-Communist. anti-Russian, anti-Gerrnan, anti-Japanese, anti-Arab; anti-Muslim, anti-Sikh. anti-Chinese and anti-Indian to varying degrees, why is it such a crime if a person is ■ anti-Jewish and why should he be blamed for the misfortunes of the Jews since the beginning of time? ■
Yaqzan then goes on to " 'cruelties of the present."
"While one cannot lump all Jews together and hold them responsible, the Israeli attack on Lebanon that killed 17.000 human beings compares well with Nazi brutalities."
Why does U.S. President George Bush close hi.s eyes to that, Yaqzan asks, "Is it not because of the powerful Jewish lobby in the United States?. .Is Ross that wrong in saying that a small number of Jews exercise undue influence in worid affairs?" . — PL.
By FRANCES KRAFT
TORONTO-Sol Lederman, president of Canadian Friends of the Shalom Hartman Institute (SHI) as well as of its international board, died recently at hi.s. home in Toronto at the age of 74.
Lederman, a Montrealer who moved to Toronto in the 1980s, was co-founder of the Jerusalem-based institute together with its director. Rabbi David Hartman. two decades ago. The institute includes an experimental high school as well as a beit midrash program where students learn Talmud, philosophy, theology and ethics.
This year the Sol and Edie Lederman Institute for Talmudic Research and Contemporary Halacha wa.s established at SHI to train educators and focus on the meaning of-Halachah in the modem Jewish _world._
Rabbi-Hartman remembers Lederman as "a dec-ply spiritual person who loved to study, whose life of prayer was done with great devotion and seriousness, and who lived a lifcof chcssed. of overflowing kindness. ,
He is an exa:niple of how one individual. with
total dedication and single-minded conviction, can make a difference in Jewish history."
Lederman's leadership positions included president. United Israel Appeal of Canada; member of the board of governors, Jewish Agency for Israel; member of the board of trustees. Institute for Jewish Learning; vice-president. Canada-Israel Chamber of Commerce; associate chair. Combined Jewish Appeal in Montreal; and chair of the Montreal Negev Dinner.
Lederman was chairman of the board of the Coiriamatic Group, a company he co-founded in 1946. CoinamatiC is a Canadian company operating throughout Canada and in Israel., placing coin-operated washers and dryers in apartment buildings. —■
: He is survived by his wifc~of 48 years. Edie. and by their threechildi'cnJo.shua.and Daniel, of l\ironto. and Sar>' Manor. ofTeru.saieivL-
Lederman's funeral Kxik place..ln Jerusalem. .^ memorial service will be held on Dec.. 12 itt noon at Shaarei Shomayini Congregation. 470 Glencairn Ave., Toronto." -