Quebec TV Host Says Israel Doesn’t Deserve to Exist
January 2, 2012 15:43 by Simon PloskerThis article is republished courtesy of HonestReporting Canada.
Stephane Gendron
Lacking an official reprimand from his superiors at V Television and perhaps feeling emboldened, Mayor and Quebec TV show host Stéphane Gendron, in a December 27 broadcast of Face a Face, lamented that “unfortunately, Israel has not yet collapsed” and that Israel “does not deserve to exist”.
Here are his shocking comments in full:
I want to pay tribute to him (Amir Khadr) for his boycott of the boutique Le Marcheur on Saint Denis Street. ‘Palestinian and Jewish Unity’ led the boycott and Amir Khadr supported it. They boycotted the boutique Le Marcheur… There were boycotts of South Africa, there were ad campaigns saying ’there is organized apartheid, we will stop buying products made in South Africa’. It was a long process, the regime collapsed.
Unfortunately, Israel has not yet collapsed but I support the boycott, and Amir Khadr had the courage to do so because products made ??in Israel on land stolen from the Palestinians that is walled in, in an apartheid regime where they are cut off, it’s very serious. And a country like that does not deserve to exist. Bravo, Amir Khadr.
To watch this clip online please click here or see below.
HR Canada previously alerted you to Gendron’s offensive comments where he shockingly claimed Israel indiscriminately murders innocent Palestinians with bulldozers. Gendron declared the following on the November 2 broadcast of Face à Face on V Television:
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, John Baird, decided not to make further contributions to UNESCO, why? Because the U.S. decided to cut its funding, why? Because Palestine dared to be admitted to UNESCO. This is appalling! It is an affront to peace! Do you know what Israel did? In revenge for the admission of Palestine to UNESCO, they decided to build 2000 homes in areas that do not belong to them, the occupied territories, so they are going to bulldoze people, kill people, they will give them 5 minutes to get out and then they’ll run people down with bulldozers. And Canada supports this.
More than 150 HRC members responded to our call to action by registering complaints with V Television network. Furthermore, our YouTube clip of Gendron’s comments was viewed over 23,000 times. The National Post also weighed in, publishing an editorial entitled “Bulldozing the facts” that shone the spotlight on Gendron by declaring that his statements had constituted “a vicious libel”.
In response, V Television management issued the following weak and evasive reply to complainants: “In order to avoid repeating a similar occurrence in the future, we have reiterated the need for the program to adhere to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council’s guidelines“.
Instead of reprimanding Gendron for his inflammatory libel, V Television’s actions to merely “reiterate” guidelines to “production staff” didn’t even come off as a slap on the wrist for this habitual offender. As we noted in a follow-up media action alert, such actions do not in “any way constitute a satisfactory remedy for the libel and the resultant damage done. Without redress, Face à Face’s TV viewers may still be under the impression that Israel is planning to ‘bulldoze and kill people, giving them 5 minutes to leave before they run them down with bulldozers’, since no retraction or remedy has been offered by V.”
Setting aside Gendron’s disgraceful support for boycott campaigns against Israel and his ignorant charge that Israel practices “apartheid,” Gendron has now graduated to the ranks of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hamas’ senior leaders who publically hope for Israel’s demise.
While the opinions expressed on this program may be those of the host and may not necessarily reflect the views of the V network or its management, V is responsible for the information it broadcasts.
V continues to allow itself to be a platform for the dissemination of Gendron’s vicious libels and in this instance, his desire that Israel cease existence and collapse. Had V Television properly dealt with this situation in the first place, this matter would never have taken place. In failing to do so, V has tarnished its standing as a reputable television network.
Having already filed a complaint, we are currently seeking the assistance of the Canadian Broadcast Standard’s Council to rectify this situation in a manner befitting broadcast standards. We reiterate our call for a public apology from V Television and for Stéphane Gendron to be immediately terminated as TV host of Face à Face.
We encourage you to send letters to V Television to protest its employment of Stéphane Gendron as host. Please refer to Gendron’s December 27 declaration on Face à Face that Israel “does not deserve to exist” and please send letters to V-Television’s CEO, Maxime Remillard: mremillard@vtele.ca
Update: Canadian Network Disapproves of TV Host’s Anti-Israel and Anti-Jewish Remarks
mariusz
2:44 am
Jan 22, 2012
below a letter of support for Stéphane Gendron You can send to mremillard@vtele.ca
I would like to thank You for allowing independent journalists to voice their opinion about Israel and I hope that freedom of speech will be stronger than jewish lobby trying to supress truth. Any punitive action against Mr. Stéphane Gendron will clearly show that the first is dramatically compromised.
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Jayson Rex
12:39 pm
Jan 25, 2012
Freedom of speech should not be mistaken for ‘freedom to promoted racial or religious hate’. This, as you yourself know only too well, is the usual “cover” antisemites use to attack Jews, often under the guise of attacking Israel. In fact, the “Jewish Lobby” is their obsession, just like the Protocols used to be.
The funny part is that by siding with the Arabs/Muslims, Catholic antisemites are giving help and support to those that – through Holy Jihad – want to eliminate ALL Christians from this planet. In other words, antisemites are not only funny but also quite stupid – and it shows.
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Jayson Rex
12:28 pm
Jan 25, 2012
As it happens, Quebec is not only the sole Francophone in a sea of Anglophone provinces, one that always depended on the rest of Canada for survival, but also the most Catholic one. As such, Quebecois are the most antisemitic Christians of all Canadians – for historical reasons.
Humanity owes Catholic religion a number of unique creations: the ghetto, the pogrom, the holocaust, etc. and etc. This easily explains why the Quebecois are what they are. Since the Criminal Code is a federal legislation, it is imperative to have Stephane Gendron, the funny looking TV show commentator, prosecuted without delay and to the full extent of the law.
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Christian B
11:59 pm
Jan 27, 2012
Talk about falsely reporting the comments of Gendron. When he says “Israel has not collapsed yet”, he’s referring to the Apartheid State of Israel – which is very similar to the South African one that existed. No where does he say he is against a normal Israeli state like the current South African one.
This website is biased garbage that looks a lot like Fox News and its kind.
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Jayson Rex
12:45 am
Jan 28, 2012
In the past it used to be the notorious “Protocols”; now it is the “Apartheid State of Israel”. These two falsifications have a common aim: to disqualify the Jewish State – the most advanced nation in the entire Middle East, Africa and most other regions of this planet – including Quebec but not the rest of Canada.
If you don’t like this website, ChristianB, you are under no obligation to visit it. But then, humans are very strange animals.
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GERALD KERBIS
5:55 pm
Jan 28, 2012
SINCE THE PARTITION IN 1948 INWHICH THE ARABS WERE GIVEN THE LIONS SHARE OF THE BRITISH MANDATE OF PALESTINE,WHICH OF COURSE THE ARABS DID NOT ACCEPT,ALL THE ILLS IN WHICH THE “PALESTINIANS”SUFFERED WERE BROUGHT UPON BY THEMSELVES…FROM DAY ONE ISRAELS HAVE BEEN FIGHTING A DEFENSIVE BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL……I WILL NOT EVEN ENUMERATE THE NUMEROUSE SCHOOL,HOTEL,OR BUS BOMBINGS NOR THE AIRPLANE HIJACKINGS THAT WERE MURDERED IN THE NAME OF PALESTINIAN RIGHTS….EVERY ISRAELI ARAB HAS THE RIGHTS OF VOTING,OWNING PROPERTY,SITTING IN THE PARLIMENT,EVEN THE CABINET OF THE GOVERNMENT……AS FAR AS THE WEST BANK/GAZA ARABS ARE CONCERNED,WHEN THEY COME UP WITH A TRUE REPRESENTITIVE AND STOP LOBBING BOMBS INTO ISRAELI TOWNS,THEY WILL THEY ACHIEVE THEIR OWN COUNTRY…..THE WALL BETWEEN ISRAEL PROPER AND THE WEST BANK IS THERE TO KEEP TERRORISTS OUT ,NOT TO WALL IN THE DECENT FOLKS IN ,BUT THAT’S THE PRICE OF SUPPORTING MURDERERS….BY THE WAY,WHY DON’T THEY GO EAST TO JORDAN FOR THEIR NEEDS INSTEAD OF JERUSALEM….COULD IT BE THAT THEY’RE NOT WELCOME THERE ?
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Sydney
7:03 am
Feb 10, 2012
No one has the right to decide wether a Nation deserves to exist or not. This man is such a racist, I wonder why the network has not begun any punitive action against Mr. Gendron…..Birds of a feather…?
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Update: Canadian Network Disapproves of TV Host’s Anti-Israel and Anti-Jewish Remarks | The Conservative Papers
2:29 am
Feb 11, 2012
[...] We republished HonestReporting Canada’s call for action against Quebec TV show host Stéphane Gendron, who lamented that “unfortunately, Israel has not yet collapsed” and that Israel “does not deserve to exist”. Thanks to the many of you who responded, the V-Network was bombarded with complaints and the story was picked up by a number of Canadian media outlets. [...]
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