Outlawing Free Speech on Jewish Identity

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Canadian Hate Speech Trial Highlights Satirical Reversal of Jewish Proposal to Exterminate the German Nation

by Anthony James Hall

Arthur Topham was convicted of hate speech under the Criminal Code of Canada for a satire involving a pamphlet published by Theodore K. Kaufman in 1941. Kaufman’s text called for the extermination of the German nation. Kaufman advocated the sterilization of all 48,000,000 German males then under 60 years of age.

The aim was to “prevent the people of Germany from ever again reproducing their kind.” Kaufman proposed that 20,000 surgeons should be assigned to the project of exterminating the capacity of Germans to procreate. He promoted the option of “genetic sterilization” as the best way of eliminating the German component of the human race. Kaufman’s text, a best seller in the United States when it was first published, characterized the German people as “misfits, degenerates, the insane, and hereditary criminals.”

The Canadian B’nai Brith and the Canadian Jewish Congress persuaded the Attorney General of British Columbia to prosecute Topham for the content of his website, Radical Press.com. As discussed in considerable detail in the two and a half weeks of court proceedings before a 12-person jury in Quesnel BC, Topham satirically reversed the terms of Germany Must Perish by inserting “Israel” for Germany.

The main “expert witness” for the government was Len Rudner of the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC). It turned out that Mr. Rudner did not write the “expert report” he submitted to the court. It was written, rather, by Bernie Farber.

Farber and Rudner have been the subject of strong attacks from within the Jewish community. Jewish broadcaster Ezra Levant accused them of being “hacks” working for an outfit that is a “dumping ground” for failed politicians who couldn’t “cut it” in real professions. Wrote the Levant, “just so you know: Len Rudner and the other baffoons at the Canadian Jewish Congress don’t speak for me. They don’t speak for any of the Jews I know.”

The expert witness for the defense was Gilad Atzmon, an Israeli-born author, scholar, and jazz musician as well as a former member of the Israeli Defense Force. In his testimony, Atzmon distinguished religious and ethnic Judaism from political Judaism. According to Atzmon this political strain of identity can lead to the “cold-blooded murder of

Palestinian families or extensive Jewish Lobbying in the West. Such acts “deserve criticism,” explained the outspoken Israeli critic of Zionism, Jewish exceptionalism, and racialized Jewish exclusivity.

Arthur Topham is to be sentenced for his publications in 2011 and 2012 including his satirical reversal of Germany Must Perish. He was deemed by the jury to be “not guilty” for his publications in 2013. Some observers felt that the presiding Judge, Justice Bruce Butler, displayed throughout the trial an obvious bias toward the Crown prosecutor, Jennifer Johnson.

Mr. Topham wrote an article after the verdict entitled, “Locking Up Your Charter Right to Free Expression.” The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom is part of Canada’s “supreme law.” It includes words that supposedly protect freedom of speech and freedom of expression in a country that used to be widely respected as a defender of the principles of universal human rights. Topham observed that “the way is open” to making his case the basis of a Supreme Court challenge to the constitutionality of the offending hate speech provisions of Canada’s Criminal Code.

Anthony James Hall

Anthony Hall is a Professor of Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta Canada where he has taught for 25 years. Along with Kevin Barrett, Tony is co-host of False Flag Weekly News at No Lies Radio Network. Prof. Hall is also Editor In Chief of the American Herald Tribune. His recent books include The American Empire and the Fourth World as well as Earth into Property: Colonization, Decolonization and Capitalism. Both are peered reviewed academic texts published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. Prof. Hall is a contributor to both books edited by Dr. Barrett on the two false flag shootings in Paris in 2015.

PART I
The American Empire and the Fourth World: The Bowl with One Spoon, Part One (McGill-Queen’s Native and Northern)

PART II
Earth into Property: Colonization, Decolonization, and Capitalism: The Bowl with One Spoon (Mcgill-Queen’s Native and Northern Series)

Part II was selected by The Independent in the UK as one of the best books of 2010. The journal of the American Library Association called Earth into Property “a scholarly tour de force.”

One of the book’s features is to set 9/11 and the 9/11 Wars in the context of global history since 1492.