The Jewish blindspot to the horrors of the niqabTuesday October 31st, 2017
Sir Salman Rushdie spoke at Montreal’s Jewish Public Library last week. We were two of an estimated 700-strong (mostly Jewish) audience.
Rushdie’s insightful and entertaining address on “literature and politics in the modern world” was excellent, but the evening’s most noteworthy moment arrived with the Q&A, when, inevitably, his response was solicited regar...
I am Zioness, hear me roarThursday October 26th, 2017
What’s in a name? In identity politics, plenty.
It’s confusing, for example, to keep track of the evolving nomenclature for the people we used to call natives. Once they were Indians, then aboriginals, then First Nations. Now they are indigenous (except for the Métis, who prefer the term “Indian”).
Orientals became Asians. And blacks, of course, started out as cognitively neutral Negroes, self-...
on Bill 62 the Government has done right thingTuesday October 24th, 2017
On March 8, 1979, 100,000 Iranian women marched in protest against new laws that had just been passed which made the hijab compulsory for all women. In 1982 the law would be extended to girls as young as six. Before the Iranian revolution, women in Iran looked like women in the West. The hijab and the niqab are modern inventions conceived as the outward expression of an anti-West, fun...
Honouring Lord Balfour, who made Israel possibleTuesday October 24th, 2017
This coming November 2nd marks the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, which with its portentous words, “His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people…” may be the most consequential foreign-policy statement in modern history.
Theodore Herzl, founder of the Zionist movement, famously said, “If you will it...
The TDSB steps on another politically correct landmineTuesday October 17th, 2017
Out of desperation to claim title as the most politically correct institution in Canada, the Toronto District School Board has made itself a target for mockery twice in the last month.
Last week, the TDSB announced that, out of respect for Indigenous peoples, it was going to retire “chief” from its senior staff nomenclature, changing such honorifics as “chief of social work...
Opinion: Newer generation requires discipline, moral agency and maturityTuesday October 17th, 2017
Last August, two law professors, Amy Wax and Larry Alexander, wrote an op ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer arguing that the 1950s prescription for success – get an education before you marry; marry before you have children; try to stay married for the sake of your family – was still the best recipe for success.
As well, they said, young people should “work hard and avoid idleness,” and...
Ontario Law Society to Police “Thought Crimes” of its MembersTuesday October 10th, 2017
Quis custodiet ipsos custodies? Who watches the watchmen in our society? That is the case before the court of public opinion in Canada today.
The Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) regulates, licenses and disciplines Ontario’s more than 50,000 lawyers and 8,000 paralegals, in order “to maintain and advance the cause of justice and the rule of law, [and] to facilitate access to justice...
A look into Multiculturalism, Identity Politics, and TotalitarianismWednesday October 4th, 2017
“Where I am coming From”
I am delighted to submit this, my debut weekly column, to ThePostMillennial.com. I hope readers will indulge my taking this occasion to introduce “where I am coming from,” so to speak, in my choice of polemical subjects.
When I look back over the body of my columns in the National Post, since I began my tenure there as an opinion columnist in Septe...
Liberals left reeling by clear, rational criticisms of M-103Wednesday October 4th, 2017
With Parliament’s passage in late March of Motion 103, which condemned “Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination,” the Canadian Heritage Committee was tasked with a study to determine “what Canadians have to say” on the motion. Now underway, formal hearings are revealing what polls have already made clear: many Canadian...
Boycott Roger Waters, rock legend and rabid Israel haterTuesday September 26th, 2017
Art and political activism make awkward bedfellows. They become unethical bedfellows when activist artists bully politically neutral colleagues into complicity with their cause.
In 2013 lead Animals singer Eric Burdon cancelled an appearance in Israel, intimidated by the relentless anti-Israel “pro-peace” zealots of the Boycott/Divestment/Sanctions (BDS) camp...
Who Stole My Religion?Thursday September 21st, 2017
Revitalizing Judaism and applying Jewish values to help heal our imperiled planet
by Richard H. Schwartz with Rabbi Yonassan Gershom and Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz
Barbara Kay is a public affairs columnist for The National Post, of Toronto, Canada.
Reviewed by Barbara Kay
Richard Schwartz, principal author of Who Stole My Religion?, is a rather odd polemi...
This could destroy our civilization, but we don’t talk about itWednesday September 20th, 2017
Menace of war is the “hermit kingdom’s” stock in trade. For the first time, two weeks ago, North Korea threatened an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on North America that could cause disaster on a scale we can barely imagine—yet a disaster that, unlike an actual nuclear strike, would not directly kill a single human being.
In its sixth and most powerful nuclear...
An old truth packaged in a new study: fat is good for youTuesday September 12th, 2017
Humans die quickly if utterly deprived of fat. A high-fat, carb-free life produces lean, fit bodies
Healthy eating and weight management are both obsessions in my family. There are no food regimes known to man that have not been followed by one or more of us in our quest for the magic bullet that will keep us trim in perpetuity without catching the Grim Reaper’s eye prematurely.
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Quebec’s niqab ban is progressive. The NDP apparently isn’tTuesday August 29th, 2017
In their Sunday night French-language debate in Montreal, four NDP leadership aspirants gingerly navigated the minefield of Quebec’s Bill 62, nearing enactment, which will ban face coverings in the delivery and reception of publicly-funded services.
As good leftists one and all, Charlie Angus, Guy Caron, Jagmeet Singh and Niki Ashton oppose any such ban in their multicult...
Promoting “nanny dogs” is a threat to public healthTuesday August 15th, 2017
Very young children do not see animals as “other.” It seems natural to them that stories should feature animals who speak and wear clothing. There is no harm in that. Babar, Curious George, Paddington Bear: toddlers don’t actually get up close and personal with elephants, bears and monkeys before they have sorted out the difference between what is imaginary and ...
Fact check: Muslims are lying about being Israel’s “indigenous” peopleThursday July 27th, 2017
We hear a lot these days about fake news, but what about “fake heritage?”
In the battle for international hearts and minds, being “indigenous” is a hot ticket to leftist sympathy.
The Arabs haven’t been able to bludgeon Israel into physical submission, but in their lust for the indigenous status in Israel, they’re making great ...
France finally admits to its history of Jew hatred. What about the present?Tuesday July 25th, 2017
July 16 marked the 75th anniversary of the infamous 1942 mass roundup of French Jews in Paris’s Velodrome d’Hiver (“Vel d’Hiv”), when 13,152 Jews were deported to Nazi death camps. Benjamin Netanyahu’s motorcade arrival at the commemoration ceremony, his limousine sporting gold-fringed Israeli flags, was an electric moment for French Jews, representin...
Misandrist mother sure to damage her vulnerable sonsTuesday July 18th, 2017
Last week, motivated by a sense of duty, I took my nine-year old granddaughter to the film Despicable Me 3, my first exposure to this popular series. It turned out to be no chore at all; I laughed with a child’s abandon throughout.
Except, that is, for one sobering moment, at the hero Gru’s reunion with his long-unseen, toxic mother. She had pushed him into a life of crime (f...
Marin trivialized rights of accusedTuesday July 18th, 2017
Why Bill C-51 will likely lead to wrongful convictions for sexual assault
In his Toronto Sun column of July 9, (“Just some legal spring cleaning”) André Marin took strong exception to recent columns written in opposition to Bill C-51 by me and my National Post colleague Christie Blatchford.
He accused us of shilling for the views of “hysterical defence lawyer...
KAY VS. KAY: HAS CANADA BEEN GOOD FOR THE JEWS?Thursday July 13th, 2017
As Canada celebrates its 150th anniversary, it offers the opportunity for the Jewish community to evaluate its role within Canadian society, and how it has evolved since Confederation. Has Canada been good for the Jews? Has the anti-Semitism that previous generations faced after immigrating to this country largely disappeared? Or have many of the anti-Jewish sentiments th...
The Jewish blindspot to the horrors of the niqab
Tuesday October 31st, 2017
I am Zioness, hear me roar
Thursday October 26th, 2017
on Bill 62 the Government has done right thing
Tuesday October 24th, 2017
Who Stole My Religion?
Thursday September 21st, 2017
Fact check: Muslims are lying about being Israel’s “indigenous” people
Thursday July 27th, 2017
