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Thought Control Forces Lose One: Professor Tony Hall Returns to U of Lethbridge

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Thought Control Forces Lose One: Professor Tony Hall Returns to U of Lethbridge

On November 22, we got good news. Professor Tony Hall of the University of Lethbridge was back in the classroom. Changes in provincial law — yes, Rachel Notley has managed to do one thing right — forced the university to cancel its suspension and  BANNING from, campus of Professor Hall. He had criticized Zionism and insisted that there should be open debate on the holocaust. B’nai Brith, one of Canada’s most strident anti-free speech group, howled and Tony Hall, a tenured professor, was banned from campus last year and faces charges before the Alberta Human Rights Commission. CAFE wrote a number of letters supporting him and I know many of you did too.

The Canadian Press (November 22, 2017) reported: “A professor accused of espousing anti-Semitic views has been reinstated at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta. The university confirmed in an e-mail Thursday that Anthony Hall is no longer suspended, but wouldn’t comment further. … Hall, a tenured professor who has taught Native American studies, liberal education and globalization over his 26 years at the university, was suspended in October 2016 following comments he made in online articles and videos suggesting there was a Zionist connection to the 9/11 attacks and that the events of the Holocaust should be up for debate. He maintains the issue is academic freedom and that he should be allowed to promote his work as he sees fit.”

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B’nai Brith threw a hissy fit in an extravagant press release: ” B’nai Brith Canada is outraged that Professor Anthony Hall has returned to work at the University of Lethbridge, after he was suspended for promoting antisemitism in October of 2016. Hall’s return was facilitated by Alberta Premier Rachel Notley’s NDP Government, which passed two bills in mid-2017 that strengthened the position of Hall’s faculty association. In August, the Government even took the rare step of launching a direct legal intervention that aided Hall, and eventually prompted a labour arbitrator to order him back to work in November. …

‘Premier Notley and her Government bear direct responsibility for placing a discredited conspiracy theorist back in a university classroom,’ said Michael Mostyn, Chief Executive Officer of B’nai Brith Canada. “We repeatedly warned the Government of the likely outcome of its actions, but they sadly chose to ignore our warnings and expose Alberta university students to antisemitism and discrimination instead. … Hall came under fire for teaching students that Israel was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and for producing Holocaust denial videos with German-Canadian …  Alfred Schaefer.

Hall became the centre of a national controversy after his Facebook friend posted an image calling to “KILL ALL JEWS NOW!” on his Facebook wall.” [The outrageous posting was actually posted on Professor Hall’s Facebook by an American Jewish hacker and, in no way, reflects the longtime schilar’s opinions.]

 
Paul Fromm
Director
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION

University of Lethbridge Rats Out Prof. Hall to Alberta Human Rights Commission & Suspends Him With Pay On January 11

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University of Lethbridge Rats Out Prof. Hall to Alberta Human Rights Commission & Suspends Him With Pay

 

On January 11, dissident University of Lethbridge professor, Tony Hall, who had been suspended without pay since early October, for his views critical of Israel widely circulated on the Internet, has now been suspended with pay, but his own university is filing a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission — a mortal enemy of free speech. If found guilty by a body with loosey-goosey rules of evidence or threshholds for guilt, Prof. Hall could then, in the university’s view be legitimately fired, thus doing an end-run around academic freedom.

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Professor Hall reports: “”This new communication is dated Dec. 19 but it was delivered to my door yesterday[ Is the mail really THAT slow? PF]
 
One of the agendas of Dr. Mahon and those behind them is to overthrow the authority of the collective agreement between faculty and administration (Handbook) by seeming to leave it to the Alberta Human Rights Board to justify my suspension outside the Handbook provisions. A quick way to describe the plan would be to identify it with the objective of union busting.
 
Here’s the provision at issue from the Alberta Post-Secondary Learning Act, 2003
 
(3) Subject to any existing agreement, a president may, in the president’s discretion, suspend from duty and privileges any member of the academic staff at the university and shall forthwith report the president’s action and the reasons for it 2003 Section 23 Chapter P-19.5 POST-SECONDARY LEARNING ACT 21 (a) to the board, and (b) to the executive committee of the general faculties council. 2003 cP-19.5 s22;2008 c25 
 
To some it seems obvious that the “existing agreements” that the Handbook and tenure are “existing agreements” that limit presidential powers to “suspend from duty and privileges any member of the academic staff at the university.” 

The Canadian Press (January 16, 2017) reported: “The University of Lethbridge says it is lodging a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission about a

longtime professor accused of espousing anti-Semitic views.

Anthony Hall was suspended without pay in October following comments he made in online articles and videos suggesting there was a Zionist connection to the 9/11 attacks and that the events of the Holocaust should be up for debate.”

Thus, it’s quite clear that Prof. Hall’s crime is suggesting an Israeli connection to 9/11 and saying that the so-called holocaust should be debatable. And shouldn’t it?

The Canadian Press report continues: “‘From the findings of that assessment, the board has decided to proceed with a complaint to the Alberta Human Rights Commission against Dr. Hall for publishing statements, alone and in collaboration with others, that could be considered hateful, contemptuous and discriminatory,’ it said in a statement Monday.” Shockingly, the university assails academic freedom and seeks to get a kangaroo court to do its dirty work.

Prof. Hall is receiving some academic support: “Hall said the complaint is a way for administration to manoeuvre around its collective agreement with faculty.

‘It represents an enormous effort to change the landscape of higher education in Canada,’ he said. ‘I was ripped form the classroom mid-term in October and my students were deprived of the course they chose and the professor they chose.’

Both the University of Lethbridge Faculty Association and the Canadian Association of University Teachers criticized Hall’s suspension before any official finding of wrongdoing.”

Not surprisingly, the League for Human Rights (but not free speech) of B’nai Brith, Professor Hall’s chief tormenter, whose complaints led to his present persecution, is delighted: “Amanda Hohmann with B’nai Brith Canada said she’s pleased with how the university has handled the situation and says the reinstatement of Hall’s pay isn’t a vindication. Hohmann said Hall’s appearance earlier this month on a radio show posted on Stormfront — a white nationalist website that describes itself as a “community of racial realists and idealists” — shows the complaint is not an assault on the institution of tenure, as Hall argues, but a defence of human rights.

‘Instead of being repentant or apologizing for his behaviour, he’s doubled down and he’s gone even further down the rabbit hole of anti-Semitism,’ said Hohmann.”

So, silencing Professor Hall is “defending human rights”?

the censors have gone mad!

One wonders whether the Knights of Columbus could get a university to fire a professor who took issue with Catholic doctrine? Didn’t think so!

Paul Fromm

Director

CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION 

 

 

 

 

Anthony Hall, a University of Lethbridge professor, co-hosts a weekly YouTube show called False Flag Weekly News.

Anthony Hall, a University of Lethbridge professor, co-hosts a weekly YouTube show called False Flag Weekly News. (B’nai Brith/YouTube)

Don’t Suspend Prof. Tony Hall

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Don’t Suspend Prof. Tony Hall

Canadian Association for Free Expression

Box 332,

Rexdale, Ontario, M9W 5L3

Ph: 905-566-4455; FAX: 905-566-4820

Website: http://cafe.nfshost.com

Paul Fromm, B.Ed, M.A. Director

October 7, 2016

mike.mahon@uleth.ca

Mike Mahon,

President of the University of Lethbridge

Lethbridge, Alberta,

Canada

Re: Suspension Without Pay of Professor Anthony Hall

Dear Dr. Mahon:

The Canadian Association  for Free Expression (CAFE), founded in 1982,  is Canada`s most active free speech advocacy group.

I write to express our grave concerns about the recent suspension without pay of Professor Anthony Hall who teaches Globalization issues. This brutal measure, seemingly without a trial or hearing or opportunity for Professor Hall to explain his point of view, violates both academic freedom and due process and fairness.

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The university’s complaints, in your recent letter to Professor Tony Hall are:

  1. “Virulent anti-semitic posts on Facebook.” These occurred during a time Professor Hall was travelling. Facebook removed them. Someone planted them or hacked his account. He completely repudiated them. It has since emerged that these scurrilous posts were the mischief  of a notorious provocateur one Joshua Goldberg.  Cartoonist Ben Garrison appeared in the rightly impugned post. He writes: “Unfortunately that Photoshopped image of me assaulting that Orthodox Jew man continues to circulate and be posted everywhere. Ironically,it was created by a 20 year-old Jewish kid named Joshua Goldberg. He was arrested by the FBI about a year ago for sending bomb making instructions to what he thought was a Muslim terrorist–instead it was an FBI undercover agent.Goldberg is now pleading mental illness, but for years he was allowed to stir up trouble from his parents` basement in Florida. For some reason he enjoyed targeting me and he’s the one who created that image as well as many other hate screeds.”

Ben Garrison had his life ruined by trolls like Goldberg, who vandalized Garrison’s cartoons to make it appear that Garrison was a rabid Jew-hater. Now Goldberg’s hate speech has damaged another man’s career and reputation: that of Professor Anthony Hall, Globalization Studies, University of Lethbridge. Mainstream media outlets including CBC and the Lethbridge Herald accepted B’nai Brith’s false narrative that Professor Hall was responsible for Goldberg’s planted image.

  1. Professor Hall has blamed Israel for 9-11.
  1. At a recent meeting between the provost and the dean at the University of Lethbridge, Professor Hall inquired whether either was Jewish. This was an entirely proper inquiry as to possible bias, as Professor Hall’s main tormenters are the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith.

According to the CBC (September 30, 2016), “A Jewish group is calling on the University of Lethbridge to fire a professor who it alleges is ‘well-known for using his academic credentials to deny the Holocaust and promote 9/11 conspiracy theories.’ Anthony Hall co-hosts a weekly YouTube show called False Flag Weekly News, which allegedly promotes the notion of a Zionist conspiracy to foster hatred of Muslims through ‘false flag’ terror events, beginning with 9/11. B’nai Brith alleges that Hall “is a proponent of what he refers to as an ‘open debate on the Holocaust,’ a supporter of Holocaust [skeptics] like Monika Schaefer, and has even accused Israel of ‘playing a key role’ in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.”

Clearly, it didn’t take the university long to hop to the order of B’nai Brith and betray your mission to protect scholarship and freedom of speech. Within days you sought to oust this tenured professor.

Over 60 years ago, the Catholic Church in Quebec exercised a heavy hand in censoring professors at French Canadian universities, even leading to the exclusion of future Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau for his leftish views. Recent events seem to point to the replacement of the Catholic Church by B`nai Brith as religious arbiters of what can be said and believed on campus.

I urge you to rethink the university`s position and reinstate Professor Hall with full pay. Canada needs more free speech, not less, and more divergent thinkers like Professor Hall, not fewer.

Paul Fromm

Director

CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION

Terrorist Troll Joshua Goldberg Behind Professor’s Suspension

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Those concerned about the B’nai Brith’s assault on Professor Anthony Hall can contact Lethbridge University President Mike Mahon. Email: mike.mahon@uleth.ca and cccontactmeliorist@gmail.com  program@ckxu.com  antoniusjameshall@gmail.com

Write, fax, or phone: Mike Mahon President & Vice-Chancellor A762 University Hall, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada  T1K 3M4. Phone: (403) 329 -2201. Fax: (403) 329-2097.

Terrorist Troll Joshua Goldberg Behind Professor’s Suspension

by Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today

October 5, 2016

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/10/05/goldberg-troll/

A Florida man named Joshua Goldberg – who has already been arrested for conspiring to commit false-flag “Islamic terror” – may soon be charged with yet another crime: The creation of a horrific “kill all Jews” image that is currently under investigation by Canadian police.

 

Joshua Goldberg, arrested for trying to incite false flag “Islamic terror,” may be re-arrested for hate speech…alongside his accomplices at B’nai Brith?

The image was planted on Professor Anthony Hall’s Facebook page in late August. The Canadian B’nai Brith falsely blamed Hall, who had no knowledge of the image, and used the scandal to push for Hall’s dismissal from the University of Lethbridge. Today, caving in to the B’nai Brith’s libelous attack, University President Mike Mahon suspended Anthony Hall without pay. For Professor Hall’s reaction, see youtube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4JKdO1zW24 (Duration of video is 5 minutes 45 seconds).

The photoshopped image, manufactured by Goldberg, purports to depict political cartoonist Ben Garrison choking an Orthodox Jewish man.  Accompanying the image, in small print, is an unhinged “kill all Jews now” rant. In an article published here on September 16th, I speculated that rabid Zionists, rather than rabid Jew-haters, had manufactured the image. It turns out I was right.

The short answer is “yes.”

In an email to Arthur Topham, cartoonist Ben Garrison explained:

“Unfortunately that Photoshopped image of me assaulting that Orthodox Jew man continues to circulate and be posted everywhere. Ironically, it was created by a 20 year-old Jewish kid named Joshua Goldberg. He was arrested by the FBI about a year ago for sending bomb making instructions to what he thought was a Muslim terrorist–instead it was an FBI undercover agent. Goldberg is now pleading mental illness, but for years he was allowed to stir up trouble from his parent’s basement in Florida. For some reason he enjoyed targeting me and he’s the one who created that image as well as many other hate screeds.”

Ben Garrison had his life ruined by trolls like Goldberg, who vandalized Garrison’s cartoons to make it appear that Garrison was a rabid Jew-hater. Now Goldberg’s hate speech has damaged another man’s career and reputation: that of Professor Anthony Hall, Globalization Studies, University of Lethbridge.

Mainstream media outlets including CBC and the Lethbridge Herald accepted B’nai Brith’s false narrative that Professor Hall was responsible for Goldberg’s planted image. The scandal exploded into an all-out media assault on Professor Hall; but as the origin of Goldberg’s hate image came under suspicion, the B’nai Brith and the media shifted its attack to focus on Hall’s  “anti-Zionist propaganda.”

 

B’nai Brith’s ongoing witch-hunt targeting Anthony Hall broke into local media last June, focusing on his role at False Flag Weekly News

 

Following the Goldberg “kill all Jews” false flag attack on Hall, the Lethbridge Herald trumpeted Hall’s “anti-Zionist propaganda” and “conspiracy theories”

Here is my letter sent to Lethbridge University President Mike Mahon this morning before receiving news of the suspension without pay.

Dr. Mike Mahon
President, University of Lethbridge

Dear Dr. Mahon,

I’m writing in response to the ongoing orchestrated attack on Professor Anthony Hall. The smear campaign against Professor Hall is an attack on the entire academy. Its purpose is to terrorize academicians into remaining silent on controversial issues. If successful, the media lynching of Professor Hall would grossly undermine academic freedom, especially the institution of tenure.

The lynchpin (no pun intended) of the anti-Hall campaign is a horrific image that was planted on  Professor Hall’s Facebook page – unbeknownst to Professor Hall, who had absolutely nothing to do with that image. The grossly offensive image, which features a Jewish man being strangled alongside ultra-inflammatory text calling for the killing of “all Jews,” was in fact created by an allegedly self-employed propagandist named Joshua Goldberg, who was later arrested for his efforts to create incidents of so-called “Islamic terrorism.” Obviously Joshua Goldberg created his horrific “kill all Jews” image not because he himself is anti-Jewish, but rather as a way to manufacture false evidence of “anti-Semitism” that could later be used against people like Professor Hall. Goldberg appears to have created this awful image precisely to fit the definition of hate speech. It is a weaponized image. The weapon was used against Anthony Hall in precisely in the way its creator intended.

When planted evidence is used against a victim, it is the criminals who manufactured and planted the evidence, not the victim, who are at fault. Joshua Goldberg, B’nai Brith, and the individual or entity who planted this hate speech on Professor Hall’s Facebook page all ought to be investigated for their respective roles in this orchestrated smear campaign against Professor Hall.

The institution of tenure exists for one reason and one reason only: To ensure that even the most controversial avenues of research and interpretation are fully protected in our academy. Professor Hall is using his tenure properly. Are you? Is anyone else at the University of Lethbridge? If not, why not? How can you, or any other professor, justify holding tenure if you are not, in fact, making every possible effort to challenge the most sacrosanct public myths, and to pursue the most controversial avenues of research and interpretation?

Sincerely,

Dr. Kevin Barrett

B.C. man convicted of promoting hate on web challenges law in court. – Day 2 & B’nai Brith Instigated Suspension of Freethinking Prof.

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B.C. man convicted of promoting hate on web challenges law in court. – Day 2 & B’nai Brith 

Instigated Suspension of Freethinking Prof.

 
Paul Fromm and Monika Schaefer talk with Brian Ruhe on Oct. 5, 2016 regarding Arthur Topham’s constitutional challenge in Quesnel, British Columbia. Mr. Topham is challenging Canada’s notorious “hate law.”  Monika Schaefer reports on the B’nai Brith instigated suspension without pay of freethinking professor Anthony Hall at the University of Lethbridge. 
 
 
 
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Protest Today Suspension Without Pay of Freethinking Tenured Prof

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Protest Today Suspension Without Pay of Freethinking Tenured Prof

Professor Tony Hall is being pushed out of the University of Lethridge, Alberta by B’nai Brith. He is a professor of Globalization studies and they don’t like his views on history. On Monday, this freethinking tenured professor was informed that he was to attend a meeting Tuesday where he would be suspended WITHOUT pay. As a tenured professor this treatment is outrageous if not illegal.

 
As has happened in some many cases — Brian Ruhe among others — the thought police of B’nai Brith seek to suppress critics of Israel by having them fired, by impoverishing them.
 
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The university’s complaints against Professor Tony Hall are:
 
1. “Virulent anti-semitic posts on Facebook.” These occurred during a time Professor Hall was travelling. Facebook removed them. Someone planted them or hacked his account. He completely repudiated them.
 
2. Professor Hall has blamed Israel for 9-11.
 
3. At a recent meeting between the provost and the dean at the University of Lethbridge, Professor Hall inquired whether either was Jewish. This was an entirely proper inquiry as to possible bias, as Professor Hall’s main tormenters are the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith.
 
According to the CBC (September 30, 2016), “A Jewish group is calling on the University of Lethbridge to fire a professor who it alleges is ‘well-known for using his academic credentials to deny the Holocaust and promote 9/11 conspiracy theories.’

Anthony Hall co-hosts a weekly YouTube show called False Flag Weekly News, which allegedly promotes the notion of a Zionist conspiracy to foster hatred of Muslims through ‘false flag’ terror events, beginning with 9/11. B’nai Brith alleges that Hall “is a proponent of what he refers to as an ‘open debate on the Holocaust,’ a supporter of Holocaust [skeptics] like Monika Schaefer, and has even accused Israel of ‘playing a key role’ in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.”

Clearly, it didn’t take the university long to hop to the order of B’nai Brith and  betray their mission to protect scholarship and freedom of speech. Within days they are seeking to oust this tenured professor.

Freedom supporters, e-mail the university president today and insist that this taxpayer supported institution honour tenure and support freedom of speech and “diversity of opinion” and immediately rescind the suspension of Professor Hall.


Address of pres of university of Lethbridge mike.mahon@uleth.ca
And president@uleth.ca
Copy to newspapers
Copy to Tony at antoniusjameshall@gmail.com

Paul Fromm
Director
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION