Harper exposes the Jew haters

By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN:

Jews around the world are currently marking a period of reflection in their religious lives. It’s the time between Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, when the Almighty opens the Book of Life to decide who will live and who will die in the coming year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, when that book will be sealed.

One of the things I’m reflecting upon is how lucky I am to live in a country which believes in religious freedom and whose prime minister, Stephen Harper, is arguably the most outspoken national leader on Earth when it comes to denouncing “Judenhass.”

It means “Jew hatred” — that ancient, malignant disease that has lasted for thousands of years, constantly mutating from century to century, from generation to generation. No, not “anti-Semitism” — another word derived from the German, but imprecise and inaccurate, because Arabs can be Semites and not all Jews are Semitic.

Rather it’s “Judenhass” that best describes not the obsessive hatred of “Semites” or for that matter of “Israel,” or “Zionists,” but rather, of Jews.

A hatred that, even in an enlightened country like our own, results in more and more synagogues these days hiring off-duty police officers to watch over their congregations during the Jewish High Holidays — just to be safe.

In that context, Canada’s boycott yesterday of the UN General Assembly as it was being addressed by one of the world’s leading practitioners of Judenhass — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — is something every Canadian Jew, or at least every Jew free from the disease of self-loathing, should applaud.

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