Critical Race Theory

"Critical Race Theory simplistically erases the uniqueness of the Jewish experience and identifies Jews as 'white', CRT's oppressor class."

"In fact, CRT often considers Jews to be the epitome of white privilege and supremacy."

Israeli lawyer Russell A. Shalev

"[Racism against white people is non-existent since as principals of] Eurocentric cultural power [they cannot be oppressed. Traits such as] perfectionism [and] worship of the written word [are identified as markers of white supremacy]."

"For those residing in what we now call Canada, it is critical to know the work of ... Black Lives Matter Canada."

"[Jews have opted to] become white [in order to benefit from white supremacy]. Becoming white involves giving up parts of your original culture in order to get the advantages and privileges of belonging to the white group."

Global Affairs Canada document for federal  anti-racism workshop use

"Jews, just two percent of the population of Canada, have succeeded in White Christian society."

"They don't fit CRT theory. CRT theorists and anti-Semites have therefore included them in the class of White Christian oppressors."

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McMaster University associate professor Ameil Joseph wrote that "postcolonial anticolonial, and decolonial are not just words you heard in your DEI (Diversity, Equality and Inclusion) workshop." Diversity, Equity and Inclusion represents an ideology in support of anti-racism and decolonization in which the current Zeitgeist has seen Canadian academia swept up in its far left woke religion of victimhood finding its salvation through isolating all but the historical 'oppressed, exploited and colonialism-harmed' from being included in a new world order where the underdog has become the top dog.

It is an ideology that feels entirely justified in smirking over the deaths in Israel of the 'oppressors' and 'occupiers' of Palestinian patrimony. Of course history is dismissed in this new interpretation of indingeneity, as it must be, for to inconveniently point out that the land in question has been well recorded through the millennia as being ancestral Jewish land, and that there has never been an absent Jewish presence, is to diminish the neat little occupation theory the woke left is so reliant on.

A sign reading "Decolonization is not just a theory" was seen at a recent Ottawa rally in celebration of the October 7 barbarism perpetrated by Palestinian Hamas in border villages and kibbutzim in southern Israel when the terrorist group blew up the protective fence separating Israel from Gaza at dawn when groups of hundreds of terrorists entered Israel to conduct a bloodbath, killing Jews wherever they were; on the streets, in their cars, in their homes, sheltering in safe rooms.

A law professor at University of Toronto, Mohammad Fadel, circulated posts that cheered Hamas terrorists who had entered "into their colonizer's territory". Of course those freedom fighters politely asked Jewish civilians to exit their homes and their towns to make way for Palestinians to carry on living in areas they claim are historically theirs, and an orderly march of chastised Jews left their homes, their possessions and their future to accommodate the Hamas 'fighters' who wouldn't ever dream of massacring entire populations.

 

A book display with works on critical race theory. (Photo: CC BY 2.0 flickr.com/photos/collegelibrary)

 

Black Lives Matter Canada, endorsed by the federal government as a "racial equity" source, issued their own statement with no mention of the bloody massacres, asserting Israel to be an apartheid oppressor state guilty of the "torture and murder" of Palestinians. The Justin Trudeau government has committed over the past five years to a project to transit government branches through "anti-racism", to become a more just society. Reliant on the discipline courtesy of the U.S. of "critical race theory", anti-racism is separated from tolerance, multiculturalism and equal treatment once characterizing Canada's federal approach to race.

According to anti-racism theory, Canada's structures are irredeemably racist to the extent that it can be defeated only with "deliberate systems and supports" that favour marginalized groups. To that purpose Canada has a federal Anti-Racism Secretariat on which $45 million was showered for an official "Anti-Racism Strategy". "Anti-racism initiatives" proliferate now in every government department; every diplomat, judge, civil servant and soldier undergoes mandatory training to become familiar on how to treat their own "unearned privilege" working for a nation shot through with systemic oppression.

Anti-racism, alert Jewish groups have been pointing out for some time, appears to have a blind spot for Jews; they're omitted as though antisemitism doesn't exist, or they are identified as colonialist oppressors. Amply demonstrated more latterly as the bastions of "anti-racism", academia and unions in particular, now openly cheer terrorism while calling for Israel to be destroyed. 

Recently the Canadian Armed Forces adopted an "anti-racism lexicon" downplaying antisemitism where the military focuses on detailed definitions on "anti-Black", "anti-Indigenous and "anti-Asian" racism where Anti-Black racism is described as foundational to the very existence of the country; a structure that is "either functionally normalized or rendered invisible to the larger white society".

Antisemitism is addressed, in the glossary that describes it as "a certain perception of Jewish people, which may be expressed as  hatred or lame, stereotypes, myths ... and conspiracy theories". Over $500,000 was contracted with an anti-racism contractor with a history of virulently antisemitic comments; Laith Marouf whose racism thrived in an ecosystem where social media posts decried Israelis as "little castrated b---hes and "European garbage", accessible to anyone, and known to many, who merely overlooked it.

The workbook Dismantling Racism, a seminal work of the Critical Race Theory movement is cited heavily within Canadian anti-racism materials. Canadian DEI workshops end with a recommendation to read How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi who mentions that any group persevering within the current "systemically racist" system is of necessity a collaborator. "One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities", he writes.

 

Refugees aboard the St. Louis wait to hear whether they will be granted entry. June, 1939. National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD

Critical race theory was destined to blame Jews in time, since they don't happen to fit the narrative as victims of the Canadian system, irrespective of the fact that during the Second World War, it was the official government position that Canada would take in no Jewish refugees under the rubric that "one is too many", just as the German passenger liner the MS St.Louis with its passenger list of Jewish refugees hoping to escape death was refused entry to Canada.