Toronto Star: Faith Goldy should be ostracized because of Hitler

The Toronto Star ups the ante on the Faith Goldy saga. (She's currently set to sue one of Toronto's media outlets for breach of contract, by the way). The new tactic is to paint her as a neo-Nazi sympathizer. 

A Jewish writer for the Star trots out an NDP politician whose dairy-farming parents gave refuge to Jewish neighbours fleeing the National Socialist German Worker's Party (Nazis). Goldy is referred to as a "neo-Nazi", the evidence consisting of a paraphrase of what she might have said to a white nationalist group.

The great journalists at the Star apparently haven't dug into Goldy's support network. She routinely chums around with the Jewish Defence League (JDL), an outfit that has actually been classified as an ethnic-based terrorist group by the US government. Even left-wing Wikipedia refers to it as an extremist group. 

The JDL has carried out assassinations and other acts of terrorism. Their leader, Meir Kahane, was quite a nasty piece of work.

The facts are clear that she is closely connected to a far right terrorist group - a Jewish far right terrorist group.

She also lists her ethnicity as Greek and Ukrainian, and claims to be a Catholic Christian. However, history is replete with instances of Jews converting to Catholicism for less than soteriological purposes. Her facial structure also hints at possible Ashkenazi ancestry, which might fit with the 'Ukrainian' background.

In short, Faith Goldy is not only chummy with right-wing Jewish racial extremists, but there's a good possibility that she is Jewish herself. She's a very strange choice for a neo-Nazi.

The Star is too lazy to present arguments and evidence. I'm definitely not a fan of Goldy or the JDL, but I'm also not a fan of crappy opinion pieces that cherry pick the facts.

PS: The story about the NDP politician's parents sheltering their Jewish neighbors on a dairy farm is somewhat suspect, given that Jews tend to avoid agriculture and rural areas in general. As the Jewish joke goes, "the shortest book in the world is called famous Jewish farmers".