{"id":4974,"date":"2020-11-25T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4974"},"modified":"2020-11-25T11:00:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T16:00:54","slug":"the-minority-censors-get-what-they-want-3-more-years-of-gag-on-arthur-topham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4974","title":{"rendered":"The Minority Censors Get What They Want –3 More Years of Gag on Arthur Topham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

B.C. man faces strict conditions after breaching sentence for anti-Semitic hate crimes<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Judge prohibits Arthur Topham from publicly posting about Jewish people, the Talmud, Zionism and Israel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Betsy Trumpener<\/a> \u00b7 CBC News \u00b7 Posted: Nov 23, 2020 3:42 PM PT | Last Updated: November 23<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Arthur\n Topham enters the Quesnel, B.C., court house in 2015, where he was \nconvicted of willfully promoting hatred during a jury trial. (Betsy Trumpener\/CBC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A\n B.C. man convicted of an online hate crime is facing strict new rules \non his public expression after breaching his sentencing conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arthur\n Topham, who ran a publication from his rural home near the central \nInterior city of Quesnel, was convicted in 2015 of  communicating online\n statements that wilfully promoted hatred against Jewish people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As\n part of his sentence, Topham was forbidden from publishing or publicly \nposting information about “persons of Jewish religion or ethnic \norigin.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But In October, a provincial court judge ruled Topham had breached that condition by creating new posts throughout 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Late\n last week, the judge sentenced Topham to a 30-day conditional sentence \nand three years probation for the breach, placing strict new conditions \non Topham’s public posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Justice has been served,” the B’nai Brith’s Ran Ukashi. “There’s a price to pay for these kinds of actions. (B’nai Brith\/Contributed)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For\n the next three years, Topham is forbidden from  publishing or printing \npublicly any reference to or information about  the Talmud, Zionism, \nIsrael, and  the Jewish religion, ethnicity or people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Topham is also forbidden from publicly posting the names of people he knows to be of Jewish origin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According\n to court documents, he will still be allowed to publicly name his wife \nand her family, but not to mention their ethnicity or origin. During his\n original trial, Topham told the court his wife is Jewish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In \naddition to the terms of his three-year probation, Topham will serve \na 30-day conditional sentence, with a nightly curfew and a requirement \nto remain in B.C. He’s also prohibited from having weapons, liquor, or \nalcohol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n