After years of treating the Jewish Defence League as if they were a rogueish but loveable younger brother, Canadian Jewish Congress supremo Bernie Farber has finally said something about the JDL that's stronger than "they're not my cup of tea" or that he's "disappointed" by them. Farber's epiphany, in the form of an opinion piece in the Toronto Sun, is a response to the JDL's rally last week in support of Britain's extremist English Defence League.
Andy Lehrer
Hypocrisy in action: The JDL and the Galloway ban
A federal Court judge has just upheld the ban on George Galloway entering Canada.
Regardless of which way the ruling goes his ideologically driven misuse of power in order to suppress the airing of a political opinion to which he has opposed has caused the questioning by commentators from across the political spectrum of Kenney's judgment and willingness to apply a torutured interpretation of section 34 of the Immigration Act and abuse post-9/11 security concerns for poltiical purposes.