|
Original Article here Author: Marc Lemire Last week, B’nai Brith Canada issued their 2009 “Audit of Antisemitic Incidents”. As usual B’nai Brith claims that Anti-Semitism "is on the rise." On February 25 2010, The National Post took B’nai Brith to task over their annual audit / fundraising campaign. But the National Post are not the only people in town to call into question the legitimacy of B’nai Briths annual reports.
According to the National Post’s Feb 25, 2010 article: Like a lot of groups, B'nai Brith spends a lot of ink promoting itself and seeking donations. In this spirit, it boasts that Statistics Canada and other "authoritative sources around the world" view its audit as "the single most credible study of the phenomenon of anti-Semitism and patterns of prejudice in Canada."
Who knows what Statistics Canada really thinks, but the Canadian Human Rights Commission has spoken out on B’nai Briths audits!
Internal memorandums and reports, released under the Access to Information Act, show that the Canadian Human Rights Commission laugh and dismiss the supposedly “credible” audits released yearly by B’nai Brith Canada The internal Canadian Human Rights Commission documents show them calling the B’nai Brith annual ‘Audit of Antisemitic Incidents’: · “of dubious scientific validity...”
· “As a barometer of racist activity the audits are of dubious validity…”
· “Despite its questionable validity, the Audit received a considerable amount of media attention.”
Harvey Goldberg, CHRC
Most of the reports were written by Harvey Goldberg, who is the main policy analyst of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, and is the man behind the CHRC’s main censorship tool – Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. Next time the B’nai Brith claims that “anti-Semitism” is on the rise, and Canada is some intolerant Jew-hating country … take it with a grain of salt! As according to the CHRC it is of “dubious scientific validity.”!
|
