The timing could not be better for a charity called Canadians for the Rule of Law (CFTRL), which is hosting a full-day “National Teach-in” in Toronto on March 17, entitled, “The New Taboo: Respect for the Rule of Law in Canada.” It was planned long before the present political brouhaha, and isn’t concerned with corporate corruption, but it’s a nice marketing coincidence all the same.
I can’t tell you where the conference is taking place, because the original locale, a large Toronto synagogue, withdrew its invitation when it was “doxxed” (with a photo of the building) in a column by Michael Coren in Now Toronto, fomenting security concerns. As is becoming the norm for groups mounting events that deal with conservative ideas or politically incorrect topics, locales are being kept secret until the last minute to avoid potential violence from Antifa-style activists, for whom Coren’s column was, in my opinion, a dog whistle.
Coren’s and Farber’s righteous indignation would arouse less cynicism if they were not casting these stones from glass houses. In a previous spiritual incarnation, Coren was happy to have platforms to speak his (then) truth on gay marriage (against it), and would not have reacted well to threats of mobbing by those with opposing views. Farber can only see danger to Jews and democracy on the right. He finds it difficult to admit that anti-Semitism is, for some of us, a greater problem when it comes from the anti-Zionist left and its complicity with political Islam. Farber showed amazing restraint, for example, dealing with an imam captured in a video, crying “O Allah! Purify Al-Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the Jews,” advocating publicly for sympathy on his behalf.
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