Articles written by: Diane Weber Bederman
It is not easy being a Conservative, especially a Conservative Jew.
It is the left-wing liberal Jews, Progressives, the Sarah Silverman’s of the world, who developed IfNotNow and Bend the Arc and Jewish Voice for Peace; and stand with Ilhan Omar. And the Jews who follow them are the weak ones, who align with the...
2019: Memories of the McCarthy Years:The return of blacklisting
Hedda Hopper Remember the blacklist of the McCarthy era? You couldn’t get a job in Hollywood if you had a whiff of communism around you. Let me take you back to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's...
Why are we having a “Day of Remembrance and Action Against Islamophobia”?
The province of Ontario has declared January 29 as a "Day of Remembrance and Action Against Islamophobia." This is the result of the horrific attack against Muslims praying in their mosque in Quebec.Thankfully, there has been only one such attack deadly against...
Exposed! George Clooney: a closet Islamophobe.
Wow! Who would have guessed that George Clooney is a closet Islamophobe? That’s a bombshell. Here he is calling for a mini- BDS of Brunei for implementing Sharia law: the morals and values and ethics that underpin Islam. “Brunei, a Muslim-majority former...
Hate incidents all start with words
Avi Benlolo, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, spoke at a Toronto Mosque honouring the Muslims murdered in Christchurch while attending services. He shared his concerns. He said: We ask ourselves, what is happening to us? What is happening to humanity?...
#FakeNews spreads like a virus when errors and omissions are not corrected
Mr. Dimitri Lascaris , lawyer, journalist and activist is very concerned about Islamophobia and those he concludes are Islamophobic. I reached out to Mr. Lascaris regarding comments he made about Lt. Col (Ret) Jonathan Halevi. Lascaris did not respond to my...
How do you spell censorship…I S L A M O P H O B I A
Not too long ago I sent a missive to the CBC, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and the National Post; four major mainstream media outlets in Canada, asking for their working definition of Islamophobia. After all how does one call another an Islamophobe if...
High school teacher bullied on Social Media: School admin caves
I have not met Aviva Polonsky nor Sebastian Gorka nor the people at Chat. Aviva Polonsky, a teacher at TanenbaumCHAT and the President of the Federation of Teachers in Hebrew Schools in Toronto, accompanied 14 students to the AIPAC conference. On March...
Why are we surprised that the Democratic Party in America supports discrimination?
UPDATE: I fear I have made a mistake in terminology. It is the Democrat Party; not Democratic! Thank you dear reader for contacting me! Today, the Democratic Party in America has refused to condemn Jew hatred from its members: particularly Muslim...
What happens to the weakest amongst us?
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks wrote:”non-Jews respect Jews who respect Judaism. They are embarrassed by Jews who are embarrassed by Judaism. Never be ambivalent about who and what you are.” I have spent years trying to understand why Jews join forces with those who call...
