Barbara Kay
Toronto Sun, Dec. 21, 2023
“One of their specious dogmas insists that the only good Jew is the Jew who loathes Israel. Thus, leftist Jews scramble pathetically to please their ideological masters with precious burnt offerings like their dead grandmothers.”
I hope, after I have shuffled off this mortal coil, that none of my granddaughters will turn into useful idiots for a rotten political movement riddled with anti-Semitism. If they do, they are hereby warned not to “pull a Peto” on me.
Jenny Peto is the 29-year old student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE) who wrote a controversial master’s thesis entitled The Victimhood of the Powerful: White Jews, Zionism and the Racism of Hegemonic Holocaust Education
. Peto dedicated it to her grandmother, Jolan Peto: “If she were alive today, she would be right there with me protesting against Israeli apartheid.”
Jolan Peto — according to Jenny’s brother David, who recently wrote a letter to the National Post — saved children from the Nazis, experienced the brutality of Communism, and “was also an ardent supporter of the state of Israel.” A survivor of these evil regimes is hardly likely to agree that commemorative tours of Auschwitz for Jewish teens are a symbol of “hegemonic” manipulation or “white privilege.” Her name was taken in vain.
Jenny Peto’s actual thesis has been shredded by credible academics. Middle East Politics professor Brent Sasley panned its scholarship as “very poor” and Peto’s definition of apartheid as “weak, underdeveloped and not well applied”; human rights activist Karen Mock said: “Such rhetoric and shoddy research have no place in the University of Toronto.” … [To read the full article, click here]
