Silly Little Country

Ezra on KAIROS

One of the things the Harper government has been doing right is de-funding repellent activist organizations; the latest is the 'Christian' group KAIROS, and its de-funding has provoked howls of outrage from the usual suspects.
Ezra Levant explains why this is a good thing. The key point is at the end:

There's nothing illegal about calling for an economic boycott of the Jews, or the Jewish state. In fact, it's a form of consumer activism and economic freedom, isn't it? As a libertarian -- and a free speechnik -- I'm all in favour of the right to say stupid things, even bigoted things, even anti-Semitic things.
I just don't think that the Canadian government should force taxpayers to prop up that kind of crap.
KAIROS should go raise their own money. It looks like that old socialist, Gerry Caplan, is willing to chip in a few shekels of his own. (Actually, to be accurate, he's asking for other Jews to do so.) To cover the remaining $6,999,999, I'd recommend KAIROS ask their friends at Hamas to put in a good word for them with the Saudis.

UPDATE: (Dec 24) Brian Lilley clarifies somewhat.

Labels: Anti-Semitism, Harper, KAIROS, NGOS

posted by Alan Adamson @ 6:03 PM