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Jamie Sarkonak
National Post. Aug. 25, 2022
“The whole point of CMAC’s grant was to convene social justice activists and academics to float anti-racist policy ideas requiring even more regulation of Canadian broadcasting.”
An anti-racism activist known for his dislike of “all those loud mouthed bags of human feces, aka the Jewish White Supremacists” has accrued far more influence in Canadian media than he deserves.
The activist is Laith Marouf, a senior consultant for the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC) and regular commentator for Russian-owned Sputnik News. CMAC was recently locked out of its $130,000 anti-racism grant by the Department of Canadian Heritage over the contents of Marouf’s now-suspended Twitter account.
Telecom consultant Mark Goldberg first raised the issue in a blog post last summer, where Marouf is shown referring to a representative of the First Nations Confederacy of Cultural Education Centres a “wacko Indigenous House-Slave.” Tweets preserved by Jonathan Kay of Quilette show Marouf frequently referring to “Jewish White Supremacists.” Marouf’s online activity points to a belief that Israel, the United States and the Commonwealth nations are apartheid colonies whose occupants must leave (His words: “Come get your garbage Europe!”).
Anti-racism is about levelling the playing field of privilege to achieve equity (rather than equality); it often justifies discrimination against people ranked high on the progressive identity hierarchy. It makes sense that an extreme anti-racist might discriminate against certain ethnicities in extreme ways, as seems to be the case here. SOURCE
