Shame on York – Anti-Galloway Protest in Toronto
November 17th, 2010 | 
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Students protest George Galloway's speech at York University
A remarkable protest against a speech by George Galloway took place last night at York University in Toronto.
The speech was sponsored by Muslim organizations and approved by the university administration. York University is known for tolerating Muslim fanaticism. There have been cases, where Jewish students and organizations have been harassed. It even hosts the Israeli Apartheid Week, which is an excuse for promoting anti-Semitism and distorting the reality in the Middle East.
This time, however, York University sank to a new low. Hosting George Galloway, and open supporter of Arab terrorism, is totally inexcusable.
He is a man, who doesn’t have the best taste in choosing clothes:
George Galloway is irresistible in this outfit
His behaviour often crosses beyond the borders of sanity:
His choice of friends talks loudly about his ideas and convictions:
George Galloway receives a Hamas passport
But above all, his maniacal hate for Israel and the desire to help those who want to destroy that country have put him in hot water on numerous occasions. It is hard to believe that such a person could have any following, but he does.
The Left must have totally lost its ways, if a person like Galloway can serve as its moral compass. Karl Marx said in one of his books that “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” After the scary tyranny of Lenin and Stalin, the left descended to worshipping Galloway the Clown.
This is Galloway’s second visit to Toronto. Last month he spoke at Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church and promised that he would be back. At the time, there were fewer protesters, however, this time the protest was better organized.
There was a large group of people (probably nearly 300) in the building where Galloway was scheduled to speak. The majority of them were students, but there were also concerned citizens and people from Jewish organizations, like the Jewish Defence League.
Message for Galloway: Terrorism is not Activism
Galloway supports terror
A large crowd
Meir Weinstein at the protest
JDL in action
Calling Galloway
The event was supposed to take place in secrecy, no cameras or recorders were allowed inside:
No recording? Are they that embarrassed of what Galloway has to say?
Despite the large protest, the event wasn’t cancelled. There was heavy security provided by both the university and the police. The protesters were surrounded from all sides. The police and the security guards were periodically taking pictures.
Keeping the dangerous Jews under control
We protect Galloway
Stay where you are or else...
The whole commotion reminded me how protective the authorities are when they are dealing with events organized by the Muslims and the Left.
If you remember, earlier this year, Ann Coulter’s speech at the University of Ottawa was cancelled, because there was a small group of disruptive protesters. The police claimed they couldn’t provide enough security. Earlier this week, a presentation by the respected journalist Christie Blatchford at the University of Waterloo was cancelled, because the authorities couldn’t deal with 4 (!) protesters.
Both women’s views are below trivial when compared with the monstrosity called George Galloway. Yet, despite the legitimate protests of hundreds of people the York University administration didn’t cancel the event.
Why that double standard? Is that some kind of a sharia principle: the opinions of 4 lefties weigh more than the opinions of several hundred Jews? Correct me, if I’m wrong, but I think we have seen this in history numerous times. It’s a shame that this attitude persists in modern Canada.
The protesters made sure that their opinions would be heard loud and clear by Galloway’s followers, chanting: “Shame on York!” “Galloway Go Away”.
Posters, banners, flags of Canada and Israel, songs – everything showed that Galloway is not wanted. A person who openly supports death and destruction doesn’t fit the definition of free speech.
Proud protesters
Go Away Galloway
Making a point...
Know where your $ is going?
We are here, listen to us...
There is no way Galloway is going to miss her message
From Galloway's Pockets to Hamas' Rockets
Waiting for Galloway's buddies
Shortly after the process started, one of the organizers announced that the police asked them to take the protest outside, so that not to disturb the event. That meant to move the crowd under the heavy rain that was pouring outside. And then he added something that you don’t hear often: that he and the other Jews are sick and tired of being told to shut up and sit back and wait for somebody to make the decisions for them.
The Jews are not going to shut up and sit back
The event proved that there are two issues we need to be aware of.
First, that there is a certain type of people who would go for any lie and deception to give some meaning to their empty lives. And that’s disturbing, because they can start following even such a sideshow personality like George Galloway.
The happy YSF President leaves after his talk with the police
Muslim students try to start a fight at the door
The invasion of the hijabs
A Galloway supporter confronts us (with police protection)
On the other hand, there are still some rational people in Canada, who can spot hatred and deception and have the courage to confront them.
Let’s hope that one day the second group will prevail.
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Kudos and accolades to all the students who showed up to protest Galloway’s epic (barf) speech!! Good job and way to go!
I just wanted to add that Galloway’s (hate) speech was supposed to begin at 7. We were disruptive enough that the speech only began at 8. Additionally, security actually got almost friendly as the evening went on. because they saw that we were very rational, albeit noisy people. One of the Toronto Police officers actually commented jokingly to my friend that, in his opinion, “we weren’t loud enough”.
The individual in the photo with caption “A Galloway supporter confronts us (with police protection)” isn’t just a Galloway supporter. He is the president of the YFS, the york student union. He is the one that created the event.
Thank you for the correction. Another picture of the individual added.
Is there a way I can sort through your pictures. I am specifically interested when the galloway supporters tried to enter and provoke a fight. One of the instigators being the president of the York Federation of Students!
Please email me. thank you.
Good work Blogwrath.
Amazing pictures. I am so proud of everyone who stood up and confronted the blatant hatred that Galloway represents.
what happened to the galloway ban?
this man openly supported the hussein regime and has ties to terrorists
Does anyone know what Galloway said? When you read the letters which York admin sent to people who complained in advance of the event, the university said that they would prosecute to the fullest after. However, if they were not present and if the event was not taped this will not happen. Any thoughts?
I congratulate York University and the thousands of Canadians who allowed George Galloway to speak…free speech is a constitutional right in Canada is still alive no matter what defamation Jason Kenney & Co. throw at this beloved Scotsman. Loved the Galloway quote when he said he was not and never has been a supporter of Hamas and personally thanked secular Jewish supporters – who were among the staunchest defenders of traditional liberal values – for their help in freeing South Africans from apartheid…paralleling the support of brave Israel and international human rights activists today who are putting pressure on their governments to talk with Palestinians using domestic and international boycotts against Israel…echoing what many Canadians and even former Israeli Prime Minister’s Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barack believe:”As long as in this territory west of the Jordan river there is only one political entity called Israel it is going to be either non-Jewish, or non-democratic…If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/03/barak-apartheid-palestine-peace
Then don’t you find strange that the “constitutional right” to free speech was denied to Ann Coulter and Christy Blatchford? Are they less worthy to express publicly their opinions than Galloway?
The “beloved Scotsman” not only supports Hamas, but he also raised money for them and personally handed it over to the Hamas leadership. That’s what got him into trouble in the first place. His argument that Hamas is an elected government doesn’t hold water at all – Hitler was also elected. It’s a pity that the Left has fallen so low that they look up to somebody like Galloway. Have you run out of Che Guevaras?
It’s strange that you quote Ehud Barak, because he presided over the worst peace fiasco in the Israeli history. He was ready to hand over Israel to Arafat on a plate. Yet Arafat refused because of stupidity or greed, or both.
Message from Benjamin Davis
WOW!!Thank you Independent Jewish Voices and the Defend Free Speech Campaign. Former British MP George Galloway completed his 12-day, 11-city pan-Canadian speaking tour on Saturday with a stop in Ottawa where he addressed a capacity crowd of 1000 people. Following his Ottawa speech, Mr. Galloway joined several hundred participants who marched to Parliament Hill to oppose the Conservative government’s plans (with the help of war-mongering Liberals) to extend the Canadian mission in Afghanistan.”As any bookseller will tell you, the book you try to ban always ends up on the bestseller list,” said Mr. Galloway in Ottawa. “Thanks to Jason Kenney’s attempt to ban me, I have drawn thousands to my speaking events all across Canada.” During his speaking tour, Mr. Galloway addressed sold-out crowds totaling over 7,000 people in 11 cities in 12 days. In Calgary, Jason Kenney’s constituency, over 800 people attended Mr. Galloway’s speech at the University of Calgary. The biggest event was in Vancouver, which attracted over 1,200 people. Not only did it break Jason Kenney’s ban, it also managed to reach far more people than could have possibly imagined before the banning of the fiesty Scot…and brought dialogue into the Canadian presses and academia It is a huge victory for free speech in Canada. In March 2009, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenney attempted to ban Mr. Galloway from Canada, an act that was condemned in a 60-page ruling by the Federal Court of Canada. The Court’s ruling on September 27 cleared the way for Mr. Galloway to return to Canada. On October 3, he addressed over 800 people at a church in downtown Toronto. On November 16, he commenced his pan-Canadian tour called, “Free Afghanistan. Free Palestine. Free Speech.” Mr. Galloway’s tour was organized by several peace groups,Canadian Boat to Gaza,Independent Jewish Voices, & Defend Free Speech Campaign.
Click: Galloway visits Kenney’s Calgary constituency office: http://bit.ly/epskaH
peace~ben
Thank you, Benjamin, that’s a nice piece of propaganda.
You know, during World War II there was a bunch of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, who collaborated with the Nazis. They were known as Group 13 or the Jewish Gestapo. Supposedly, their task was to keep the place in order, but the group was involved in racketeering and promising to help people escape for money (which they couldn’t deliver). They controlled the horse transportation in the Ghetto and even ran a brothel. Despite the fact that the group was doing their dirty work, the Nazis despised them just as much as they despised the other Warsaw Jews. Eventually the Germans killed all members of Group 13, but on the bright side, they lived few months longer than those who didn’t collaborate.
Of course, this has nothing to do with the issue we are discussing.
Message from Benjamin Davis
“…Of course, this has nothing to do with the issue we are discussing.” ~ Or it might have something to do with preserving dialogue and historical fact… protecting sacred tenets like freedom of speech so that communities are not pitted against each other but against fascists who believe any kind of resistance to the status quo is violently suppressed, particularly any criticism of states.As David Ben-Gurion aptly declared ,”The test of any democracy is freedom of criticism.”
I am sure Julian Assange’s efforts to expose war crimes attests to the high price one has to pay to educate the public about the crimes their governments commit (and hide) in the name of “democracy.” But then your “blog wrath” – nurturing dissent and critical thought- has everything to do with the issues being discussed on our university campus. And on the so-called bias that your blog sees coming out of universities, Jewish intellectual and human rights campaigner Noam Chomsky is highly critical of official double-speak when he asks:“what do you mean by bias?” Chomsky says there are very simple tests to detect bias but that are never undertaken because everybody knows what the answer will be.
On whether you are you biased against Israel, Chomsky posits a simple test-question when unpacking the meaning of ‘bias’:
“Do you think that Israel should have the same rights as any state in the international system? No more, no less. That’s neutral [question]. That’s what it means not to be biased against, say, Luxembourg. Well, nobody asks that, because the answer’s going to be 100 percent agreement in the Middle East departments of the universities and the media and so on, so therefore that’s not a good answer. What lies behind it is the belief that Israel, the U.S. offshoot in the Middle East, should have rights far beyond those of any state in the international system. That’s called unbiased. And that’s what mainstream opinion is: Israel should have what’s called the abstract “right to exist.” No state has a right to exist, and no one demands such a right. For example, the United States has no such right. Mexico doesn’t respect the right of the United States to exist, sitting on half of Mexico, which was conquered in war. They do grant the U.S. rights in the international system, but not the legitimacy of those rights. This concept “right to exist” was in fact invented, as far as I can tell, in the 1970s when there was general international agreement, including the Arab states and the PLO, that Israel should have the rights of every state in the international system. And therefore, in an effort to prevent negotiations and a diplomatic settlement, the U.S. and Israel insisted on raising the barrier to something that nobody’s going to accept. Certainly, the Palestinians can’t accept it. They’re not going to accept Israel’s existence but also the legitimacy of its existence and the legitimacy of their dispossession. Why should they accept that? Why should anyone accept it? But that’s what’s called “neutrality” and being “unbiased.” It shows in all sorts of other ways. So what they mean by unbiased is approximately what they would have meant in the Kremlin. Yes, that’s very dangerous and the fact that that’s even contemplated is outrageous, and the attacks against the universities as well. These really reflect a totalitarian instinct, in my opinion, and of course they’re dressed up under the name [of] academic freedom and so on, but anyone who’s read Orwell knows what that means.” [Click:http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/200506–.htm
peace~ben
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