This isn’t a case against criminalization. It’s just a recognition that if it’s the suppression of antisemitism we’re going for here, criminalization isn’t…
It’s an observation the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs reiterated last September in an effort to persuade the federal government to be mindful of the concerns of Canada’s Jewish community, specifically to the purpose of CIJA’s advocacy on behalf of the proposition that Canada should criminalize Holocaust denial as an indictable offence in federal law.
The federal budget contained a variety of measures that CIJA was hoping for that all of us should find favour with, including a $20-million contribution to the relocation and expansion of the Montreal Holocaust Museum, $5.6 million allocated over five years to the office of the special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combating antisemitism, a contribution to the Vancouver Jewish community centre’s redevelopment project and so on. All to the good.
The new law appears to be, in its intent at least, a replication of a private member’s bill that Saskatoon—Grasswood Conservative MP Kevin Waugh introduced in the House in February. Antisemitism tends to attribute a dark and occult sort of power to the Jews, and it manifests not only in what the author Ben Cohen calls “bierkeller” antisemitism — the persistent 20th century antisemitism of the lout and the yob — but in the “bistro” antisemitism of the 21st century, which is routinely incubated in the discourse of “anti-Zionism.
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