“THE TIME has come the walrus said, to. speak of many things, of seals and ships and sealing wax, and.cabbages — and kings.” And anti-Semitism, he might have added. Regular readers will know that a” Jewish professor by thé name of Werner Cohn has lodged a com- “plaint against me with the Press . - Council, Iticoncerns ‘the column in which ¥ said that major media outlets had bowed to Jewish: pressure in:ignoring or otherwise |, playing down the second: Zundel ; “trial coe ae Bo, Cohn also wrote ‘to say that my ‘‘utterances and writings have “been clearly anti-Semitic.” Some time later he pointed out thal = = . hadn't replied to his letter. 1 said 1 “had no intention'of doing so. It * would be:a.bootless. endeavor. He could think what he liked. He. is miffed that [ would link ¢ Jewish pressure to the miniscule ... “reporting of the Zundel trial. My, “a “opinion remains my opinion, : ‘however, and Pam not likely to Ls : “ ~ found guilty of selling hundreds of .. thousands of top-secret in- * telligence documents to Isracl. : They were given life without > parole, Rightly so, since theirs was “one of the greatest betrayals in. change it for hime on. “The best definition ‘of: ‘anti : _Semitigea” is:'*a person who is. a hostile’ to Jews: simply because .. But: am sometimes critical of the: political activities ‘of Jews and”. . . Jewish organizations.“And: why) © - not?:What | exempts them from; "The. “anti- Semitic" label i is held... y handy, for practically anyone who. < dares to speak: out. Is Israel: * slaughtering ‘and beating Pal “nlans and boasting about it?, ‘The: “Tesponse, of Rabbi W. Gunther : -Plaut-to media co : PERENNIALS & HEATHER wanna ratte ae A ‘They. bloom: yea fter ear 1. 19 ea. or. ~ When Vancouver Sun’ cartoonist Roy Peterson drew a cartoon ‘2 showing Isracli Prime Minister -Yitzak Shamir and Austrian Presi- dent Kurt Waldheim grinning in.» * unison, a letter to the editor com- “pared it to what used to appear in the Nazi newspaper Der. Stuermer. ‘It'was a ‘deliberate and malicious - statement of ugly anti-Semitism or was based'on sheer. ignorance.” : In the United States, where ‘Jews wield an influence out of all” proportion to their numbers, it-is a brave politician who takes them on, A few have tried, believing that American interests should . take precedence over Israel's. ; Most have bitten the dust: But to” . say this is to be. “anti-Semitic... . The smear knows few bounds. Jonathan and Anne Pollard, both American Jews, were recently ». American history.: |<: ‘Pollard himself. is unrepentant, : believing’ that Israel's interests’: come first..But that made no dif-’ “2 ference to Rabbi Avraham Weiss, who was quoted in the Jewish Western Bulletin, as saying: “The “sentence clearly reflects strong - ciements of anti- Semitism in the ao Pentagon."! 6. «Here in Caneda, Jewish. 7 pressure has made serious inroads on freedom of speech. 1¢ began in - the 1960s when the antics of a few ‘. plmply-faced. Nazis led tothe -. ° hsome “hate. ~Jaws."* (And don’t tell me I'm "following. a “which a one-year-old child was is, hospitalized for several days after “contracting salmonellosis. wrong, professor. 1 covered all that.) . Our wimpish politicians now plan to make those laws even , tougher. In New Brunswick, where Jewish groups are hounding a teacher who has written books they object to, Attorney General - James E. Lockyer supports them and has stated: ‘*] feel there is no place i in our society for the pro- motion of wicked thoughts against minority groups...."* Not all Jews think the same _ way. Perhaps most of them don’t. In Winnipeg, when the city’s. z Jewish leaders tried to stop public debate on the Gaza and, West Bank situations, Winnipeg lawyer Fagie Fainman and other Jews spoke out against those leaders. And [recently had lunch with a Jewish acquaintance who is just as angry about what i is going on as 1. am. . ‘As fur the pressure on the ‘media in the Zundel affair, two things are cardinal, One, there was a large-scale Jewish campaign to play down the trial; two, it has been played down @ sa VARIETIES TO “CHOOSE FROM . Mor , MON: SAT, SUNDAYS. REC. PRICE" off for 13" 9- Sunday, April 3, 1988 .. North Shore News | Turtle sales examined after salmonella case THE NORTH Shore Health Department (NSHP) is currently reviewing the policy of permitting turtle sales on the North Shore, recent incident in " The illness was traced to the “child's small pet turtle. North Shore senior public health officer Rick Kwan said the same salmoncila pomona bacteria found in stool samples taken from the child was found in the aquarium water used by the turtle.: The case, according to* ‘a NSHD" press release, underlines the ‘dangers inherent in keeping turtles improperly, © . In order to reduce the risk: of salmonella bacteria transmission to turtle handlers, . the NSHD advises: ©. *Keep aquarium water as clean as possible and change the water. fre- quently *DBo not feed raw meat such: as hamburger to turtles. The practice introduces . and encourages” the growth of bacteria. 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