I blame it on Canada’s dark legacy of colonialism in the Middle East and Africa
December 3, 2009 Education, Immigration, Jewish Community
I don’t doubt that our Zionist and social Liberal friends can explain this one away as well. They always have an excuse.
Meet Miriam. Miriam is a teacher. Or rather, Miriam was a teacher. And as a “descendant of Holocaust survivors,” Miriam is very opposed to racism.
But her Muslim students and their parents had a different (but equally valid, of course) perspective on these things.
“Miriam” had taught in French language schools in the 1970s and 1980s in schools with large Lebanese Christian populations without incurring any anti-Semitism. In her current career she works amicably with Muslims. A child of Holocaust survivors, Miriam is demonstrably neither racist nor anti-Muslim.
In 2001 Miriam started teaching at a school largely populated by children of refugees, mainly from Djibouti and Eritrea, countries where there are no Jews but where hatred of Jews is deeply entrenched in the culture.
During the academic year of 2002-2003 Miriam started to encounter anti-Semitic taunts from students, such as “Does someone see a Jew here, someone smell a Jew? It stinks here.” When she reported this and similar insults to the principal, the principal did not follow up. Indeed, the principal seemed more concerned about the students’ sensibilities than hers.
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The crisis of this story occurred when Miriam admonished a student for wearing a Walkman in class. The student screamed at her: “I don’t have to listen to you; you are not a person, you are nothing, you do not exist as a person.” When Miriam demanded he accompany her to the principal’s office, the student followed her down the hall yelling, “Don’t speak to me, don’t look at me, you are not human, you are a Jew.”Although the student was ultimately suspended for 10 days, his parents expressed puzzlement about the punishment since, they patiently explained, the teacher was after all Jewish. They complained about the severity of the punishment to the school board.
I can’t believe we’re having this problem. Who would think that immigrants from African Muslim nations would be so hateful towards Jews?
Don’t they understand that we are fellow people of color? We should band together and fight our common enemy! The white Canadians. The colonialist, brutal, white Canadians.
Why don’t they see that we are on the same side? Why, oh, why?
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I think you have things a little confused. When did anybody at Jewlicious ever condone this type of behavior?
Hi TM.
Certainly, no one at Jewlicious “condoned” this behavior. However, a certain younger writer at Jewlicious refuses to acknowledge disproportionate patterns of behavior from certain populations.
I consider that a form of Islamicism Denial. And The Zionists should know better.
I think you’re reaching…
But thanks for this story. It’s very disturbing.
My Muslim students respect me wholeheartedly. I wish I could say that much about all the “indigenous” students as well.
This is a very disturbing article. However, I see not a word about Canada in there. Yes I am thoroughly disgusted and embarrassed by how my country it is behaving now, but I have no idea why we are pulled into this one too.
Sarah/froylein,
Where are they from, and do they know you are Jewish?
Noor al Haqiqa wrote,
Yes I am thoroughly disgusted and embarrassed by how my country it is behaving now, but I have no idea why we are pulled into this one too.
You have no idea? That’s interesting, because judging by a cursory glance at your site, it would seem you would have a very good idea about how Canada is pulled into it.
A rather typical racial-Marxist one that masks your own hyper-nationalism.
And that is precisely Canada’s problem. Taking in large amounts of immigrants from a culture that are innately hostile to the West generally, and then blaming their hostility on “racism,” white hegemony, foreign policy, “Zionism,” etc.
They are from Turkey, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Morocco, the Cosovo etc.
They pretty much know everything not intimate about me, and I’ve got no problems wearing star-pendant to class.
Okay, well, it sounds like very different populations than in the story, actually.
I thought you’d previously made it out to be a Muslim thing?
Middle Eastern Muslims are often more careful and sophisticated enough to thinly veil their contempt with the term “Zionists.”
You are the only one who has so far labelled me a Zionist (by association, that is).
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