"Dirt Jew List" Persecutes Pro-Peace Jewish Intellectuals

Shilter's List of "Dirt"(critical thinking) Jewish Intellectuals



My friend, Sara* a Canadian Israeli reporter based in Toronto, informed me that she was on the "Jewish Shit List". I almost laughed. Then she send me a link and it wasn't a joke! What I saw has profoundly disturbed me beyond words. I was born in Russia, where my family survived under the horrors of Stalin. I was so distressed to see my friend, also of Slavic heritage, to be reliving the pogroms and persecutions of communism that I almost cried, but was I was too shocked. I still tremble at the thought the implications. Its worse than a hit list of bad Jews. Its more Stalinist in nature.

The website contains a "dirt list", of "shit" Jews (as it calls it), which is in of itself disturbing. Individuals are listed by name, and tsometimes there is a libellous quote. Usually, the listed are academics, students, intellectuals. To my horror, I found a former classmate of mine from Arthur Kroger College at Carleton University, who is on the Dean's List, added to this list for comments he made at a university lecture! On the website, it stated he said in class, "there seemed to be unquestioning support and an endless supply of justifications [of Israel]." For that, comment in class, some little informant put him on the list! I thought informants in university classes only existed in the Soviet Union.

If you are Jewish, a student and say something out of line with the official story in class, one informant will tell another, and it will be online before you know it. Another student was listed on the same page, for taking women's studies courses at Boston University, in Cambridge M.A., USA. Another was a co-chair of People of the Peace, Justice, and Environment Network of X county, in Delaware. Then there is a professor and "his significant other." Then "Teaches at Reed College". This is followed by a Fulbright scholar at Columbia university and volunteer at International Women's Peace Service.

A common pattern of those listed, is they are either students, teachers, academics, and/or are involved in a "peace" organization, or linked to a Women's studies department. It scares me, because Herman Goering, Hilter's Reich Marshall's famous quote during the Nurember tribunals comes to mind, when thinking of this collection of individuals on this "dirt Jew" list.

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country." Nazi Propagandist, Herman Goering, at Nuremberg.


The "Dirt" Jew list to me resembles more of a listing the brightest academics and their institutions, as well women's rights activists. My two friends are both brilliant free thinking Jewish intellectuals, so they fit the DIRT-list profile perfectly. In Russia, to support the war, Stalin took extraordinary measures. Chris Hedges opens War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning with the most accurate description of Stalin's measures. It is the most accurate account of the Russian purges of intellectuals. The fact that it is happening to Jewish intellectuals and university students how saddens and frightens me.

Before conflicts begin, the first people silenced-often with violence- are not the nationalist leaders of the opposing ethnic group....[the silence are] those voices within the ethnic group or nation that question the state's lust and need for war are targeted. These dissidents are the most dangerous.

They give us an alternative language, one that refuses to define the other as "barbarian" or "evil", one that recognizes the humanity of the enemy, one that does not condone violence as a form of communication.

I thought of brining this up as a hate crime to the RCMP, because it's a self-described hate list, (H in SHIT stands for hate), but it is a self-hate list. I do not know what to do. But I do know this: because my Jewish friends ask questions, think critically, and are Jewish, they are being persecuted. This persecution of Jewish intellectuals in Canada has to end!
http://www.masada2000.org/list-L.html
*Names have been changed.