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How Can Those Who Profess to Be for Palestine Be Against Books?
(Toronto Sun-Canada) Warren Kinsella - A braying, spit-flecked mob gathered outside the doors to Toronto's Park Hyatt Hotel on Monday night - replete with signs accusing Israel of genocide, and hinting at a desired genocide of their own. Is the pro-Hamas cabal actually against books? The event at the Park Hyatt was about Canadian books, the annual award of the Giller Prize to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English, after an annual juried competition. Everyone there wanted to celebrate books generally, and Canadian books in particular. Who could be against that? Well, the Hamas fetishists could be, and are. Last year, some creeps disrupted the Giller ceremony. They jumped up on stage with signs that falsely accused the main sponsor, Scotiabank, of "funding genocide." At this year's gala there was more security present and no Hamasniks made it inside to cause trouble. Culturally, the people screaming on the sidewalk outside the Giller event are the new Taliban. Culture, to the Hamas apologists, is key to the establishment of a global caliphate. Their final solution is to wipe out the culture found in the West - books, music, art - and replace it with the dark, bigoted, monoculture they prefer. We can't let them.