Your Daily Nazi: JDL Canada And The EDL

 A piece from Al Jazeera, which features JDL-Canada Leader and occasional BCLSB commenter Meir Weinstein:

Extremist Jewish factions and far-right parties team up against "Islamisation" despite the latter's anti-Semitic past.

Right-wing movements previously associated with anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi ideologies are increasingly opting for a surprising tactic to garner legitimacy within mainstream politics: Forging alliances with extremist Jewish organisations under the banner of fighting "Islamisation".

"Far-right parties are professing a new found love of Israel as a way of escaping their past anti-Semitism and racism, and to justify their prejudice towards European Muslims as not being racist," Toby Archer, a researcher who studies far-right parties and the "counter-jihad blogosphere", explained to Al Jazeera. "Parties like the British National Party (BNP) in the UK, Vlaams Belang in Belgium, and the National Front in France are all coming out from a neo-fascist past."

These parties have stopped using anti-Semitic rhetoric, Archer said, which had prevented them from attracting support. It is important to distinguish between the traditional far-right, who are historically anti-Semitic, and the populist new-right, who have emerged in the last two decades and partake in an anti-Muslim discourse, he said.

The article doesn't quite get the differences between the various wings of the JDL, but whatever.  My question to Meir (and, tangentially, to the people at CIJA, who have been courting similar folk) is: how deep do you think the conversion among these far right groups runs?  I would suggest not very: consider the case of Lemire and the Fairness Fairy.  And are you willing to trade off support for Israel in exchange for giving Holocaust Denial, among other things, a pass?  Because that is what the stakes are.  The people who bash Muslims can, currently, in this country, bash them about as hard as they are capable of.  The day after Section 13 goes, the organized Jew Bashers in Canada will declare victory, toss off this nonsense about being supporters of free speech, and get back to job number one (and, Meir, I am not referring in this case to some lady in a Bhurka thinking dark thoughts about Israel).

PS.  Richard Warman debates Nathalie Des Rosiers re Free Speech and Section 13 at the George Ignatieff theatre in Toronto.  Meir will be there, asking Richard some "pointed" questions.  I might try and get there myself, esp. if the concession sells draft beer.