Speaker’s views hateful
I have recently seen a number of posters concerning a SAC-sponsored speech by notorious Holocaust trivializer Norman Finklestein. That this man-who has called the Holocaust an “ideological strategy by Jewish organizations to gain political support for Israel”-is being brought to this fine university by my supposed representatives is disgusting.
Mr. Finklestein, as you might recall, was also invited to speak at Concordia University last year just before the vicious Anti-Israel and Anti-Jewish Netanyahu riots took place. In a speech at the University of Waterloo, he compared a Jewish student who challenged his views to a Nazi thug. These are just a few examples of the hatred towards Jews and Judaism that this man espouses.
Michael Goldfarb
Chip off the old Bloc
Re: Toxic Shock, Oct 9.
I was puzzled to see Ian Ha refer to unqualified workers from “Eastern Bloc countries.” The last time I heard of the Eastern Bloc, abstracting from history class, was in 1989. I realize that the Varsity has some leftist sympathies but, nostalgia for the bygone glories of socialism aside; all former “Eastern Bloc” countries are now happily democratic. But then I suspect that this isn’t a question of political loyalties but simply a case of a lack of basic education. At any rate, as a citizen of a former “Eastern Bloc” country, I find your characterization of Eastern Europe patronizing and unacceptable.
Paul Brykczynski
