Makow and Israel Apologist Michael Coren

The following are some comments from Mark Glenn's blog regarding the piece titled  Open Letter To Henry Makow, PhD

1. Helena October 25, 2010 at 4:01 pm

   Apologies to anyone if I am misspeaking here, as I could not read all these comments word-for-word at one sitting, and I already have a headache. But I did read the links provided per Makow’s defamation suit and appeal back in 2000, which all began when the Winnipeg Free Press published a pro-Makow piece by Michael Coren, regarding troubles Makow was having as a professor under contract to the University of Manitoba. Makow’s position was that rabid feminists at the university were trying to silence him. The classroom incidents cited, however, had nothing to do with feminism, unless someone wants to define feminism as objections to veiled sexually-charged statements, made from a chauvinistic perspective.

   Men who harbor sexually agressive impulses these days are often the first ones to label a woman who wants to protect her personal privacy and dignity as a ‘rabid feminist’ or ‘lesbian’. Makow has repeatedly advocated permanent liaisons with Third World women, who are more compliant and traditional than so-called rabid, feminist Western women, and less demanding overall. The young women in his first year English class at the University of Manitoba may just have objected to their studies being turned into some kind of salacious research project for their teacher’s amusement and/or benefit.

   The saga of the dispute unfolded, and an aggrieved Makow thought the whole thing significant enough to bring into a court of law.

   But in the court of public opinion, he had Michael Coren on his side. Now to be judged by the friends one keeps is sometimes unfair, as friends are ‘friends’ for various reasons. However, Michael Coren is an apologist for Israel… a high-profile ‘Christian’ commentator for many years in Toronto. And evidently, Coren thought it was a worthwhile project to be an apologist for Henry Makow some years back.

   Fast forward to June 2010. On his own television program this year, Coren was discussing the topic of the Gaza Flotilla and the ship The Rachel Corrie, named after the young woman crushed by an Israeli bulldozer while she and other protestors, plainly marked in bright orange jackets, were attempting to protect Palestinian homes from destruction.

    [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i2aOCtbya0]

2. Coren (quote): “… The Rachel Corrie is sailing now. There are all sorts of jokes that could be made. Um, other people will say – well, Rachel Corrie, she’s dead. Yeah, lots of people are dead. And um Rachel Corrie, I think, was a deeply disturbed young women and really brought that upon herself. However, the boat is sailing. How will Israel respond…”

   The fact that Michael Coren, who has been very prominent in Toronto media for 20 years, goes back with Henry Makow to 2000, when Makow was virtually unknown, is quite telling.

   Both Coren and Makow have mastered the art of doublespeak, but sometimes they give themselves away.

1. zannia October 24, 2010 at 4:54 am

   Makow’s attacks on feminism are mostly a lot of self-serving twaddle. While he rightly goes after the hostile gender feminists, he inevitably throws the baby out with the bathwater and does not discriminate between that version of feminism and the other, known as equity feminism (which got women the vote). The gender feminists are largely Jewish and mostly rose up during the 60′s. Their predecessors never got that extreme.

   Makow’s solution to male-female relations is to go back to the Judaic view, which Jesus rightly repudiated, both in words and deeds. If you have an issue with “feminism”, I suggest you read the very well-researched book, “Jesus was a Feminist” by Catholic scholar Leonard Swidler. Swidler shows in detail how Jesus rejected the Jewish view of women, and showed how women should be treated and respected.

   The following are two court cases from the Canadian legal archives at Canlii.org. The cases on file state that Makow was accused of talking to his classes at the University of Winnipeg about beating up his girlfriend and having “great makeup sex” afterward and also asking co-eds when they lost their “innocence”:

   http://www.canlii.org/eliisa/highlight.do?text=makow&language=en&searchTitle=Search+all+CanLII+Databases&path=/en/mb/mbqb/doc/2003/2003mbqb56/2003mbqb56.html

   http://www.canlii.org/eliisa/highlight.do?text=makow&language=en&searchTitle=Search+all+CanLII+Databases&path=/en/mb/mbca/doc/2004/2004mbca41/2004mbca41.html

   Apparently, Makow grew up in an era when male college teachers (and apparently, he never made “professor”) were able to extract a sexual liason out of the co-eds without too much trouble – otherwise known as the “A for a lay” method of grading. Times have changed, and this is not so easy pull off anymore, especially when there are “dykes” in academia running the Ombudsman’s Office.

   It looks to me that he didn’t have a problem with “feminism” prior to this (the gender feminists have also promoted “sexual freedom” and “sex work”, which a lot of men tend to have no argument with).

2. Below, Coren on Helen Thomas: [video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIhyVtvirqo]