The Canadian Nazi Party -- a party of one

My debate with the Canadian Jewish Congress, about their role in propping up fake "Nazi" organizations, continues.

Here is my latest letter to the editor in Saturday's Ottawa Citizen, under the headline "CJC eager to trump up Nazi spectre:

Re: CJC helped stop Canadian Nazis, May 4.

In a Citizen opinion article, Ellen Scheinberg asks readers to "understand the context," and refers to Frank Bialystok's book, Delayed Impact, to refute my claims that the Canadian Jewish Congress helped organize the Canadian Nazi Party in the 1960s.

I've read that book, and I'm not sure if Scheinberg should be citing it if she's trying to make the CJC look good. On page 121, Bialystok calls the Canadian Nazis of the 1960s a "tiny group of misfits who posed little threat to law and order" and on page 133 he tells the hilarious story of how John Beattie, the unemployed, 24-year-old Nazi "leader," was acquitted of the charge of unlawful assembly because he was the only person at his own rally. Seriously: the Canadian Nazi Party was often a party of one.

So why did the CJC spend thousands of dollars hiring an ex-cop to join Beattie as his bodyguard and membership boss? Why did the Jews even arrange for Beattie to have an apartment to meet in (page 128)? At some meetings of the Nazis, half the people in the room were there on behalf of the Jews.

In my book, Shakedown, I argue that the CJC has always been eager to trump up the laughable spectre of Nazis in Canada as a pretext to get censorship laws. Bialystok's book confirms this on page 130, quoting Ben Kayfetz, the CJC's executive director in the 1960s, who admitted their Nazi scheme was part of an "intensive campaign for [such] laws."

As Bialystok noted, the CJC had other motives, too. At least three other Jewish groups had emerged as political competition to the CJC, so the CJC needed a dramatic PR win. Even the Canadian Jewish News condemned the CJC's Nazi antics, calling the CJC "ghetto police" who had pitted Jews against each other.

I stand by my factual assertion that the CJC, and other groups, used Jewish donations to prop up Nazis in the 1960s. The history book Scheinberg cites confirms that, and leads to many more embarrassing questions for the CJC.

Ezra Levant, Calgary

By the way, you can read Delayed Impact -- or at least the relevant chapter of it -- online at Google Books, here. The chapter is only about 30 pages, and it's a pretty embarrassing story of Jewish anti-Nazi rioting in Toronto and Jewish political infighting as a result. The cloak and dagger amateur spying -- not just on the Nazis, but on other Jews -- was so shameful that even the Canadian Jewish News condemned it. Unfortunately, it seems that the rioting itself was given some sort of political pass, not just by Jewish organizations but by Toronto's police chief at the time, and the bulk of city council.

As Bialystok noted, the whole thing was as much about the CJC maintaining its political hegemony in the Jewish community as it was about fighting one clownish kid dressing up in a Nazi Halloween costume.

Besides the CJC bankrolling the Canadian Nazi Party in the 1960s, they gave their moral support to CSIS's scheme in the 1980s to build up the racist Heritage Front into a national force, and to this day the CJC maintains a bizarre relationship with Richard Warman, the so-called human rights activist who was condemned in March by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal for joining Nazi groups and spreading anti-Semitic propaganda on the Internet. The CJC has yet to renounce Warman or strip him of their human rights medal -- apparently they're not as concerned about anti-Semitic filth as the secular CHRT is.

I really didn't spend a lot of time on this subject until the CJC lied about it in their two letters to the editor. I had based most of my book's comments on the tell-all by the CJC's agent in the Nazi Party, which appeared in Maclean's Magazine in 1966. You can see that here. Since then, though, I've read about 100 news items in the Toronto Star from 1965 to 1967 about John Beattie, and it's been a fascinating eye-opener.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with all of this research; it's been such an education to me about so many things, from free speech to policing to Toronto politics to the politics of Jewish advocacy groups and more. I might try to cobble together a big newspaper or magazine article, or even a quick book on the subject. The fact that the CJC has tried so hard to deny everything tells me that they still believe in their Nazi scheme, but they just don't want the publicity. That's unhealthy and, given the CJC's support for the Heritage Front and Richard Warman, they are obviously still supporting up false flag Nazi groups. They just hate being called on it.

Let me close with a typical news story about Beattie that appeared in the Star in 1965. It's the breathless reports from two super-secret spies for a Jewish group, called N3, who had "infiltrated" Beattie's "party". Their report was that he had "from nine to 17 followers." (I've pasted a jpeg of the story at left.)

That's it. That was the menace. And given that there were three other Jewish groups (including the CJC) that had "infiltrated" Beattie's "party" -- and that's not counting any police -- one has to wonder if there were any real members other than Beattie at all.

It's sort of like when Richard Warman was on the Nazi website Stormfront in one of his Internet personas, spewing his anti-Semitic bigotry, and he came across another member of Stormfront who just happened to be Officer Stephen Camp of the Edmonton Police Service, himself spewing Nazi filth online.

That's why the CJC's conduct in the 1960s is relevant. They were so eager to trump up the Nazi threat for their own political purposes they became blind to the fact that they themselves had become the great purveyors of Nazism in Canada -- just like CSIS did in the 1980s, and just like the Canadian Human Rights Commission is today.