Reprinted from Yves Engler’s website.
The prosecution may need to drop the charges brought against me for purportedly harassing Dahlia Kurtz. They can’t possibly want the Zionist fanatic to testify.
Two months ago, the police charged me for “harassing” Kurtz. The case is absurd. I’ve never met Kurtz. Nor have I messaged or emailed or phoned her. Nor have I threatened her. I don’t even follow her on X.
My only interaction with Kurtz was responding to her racist, violent, anti-Palestinian posts on X. And in an article, I once I mentioned that a major paper profiled Kurtz.
Last summer Kurtz went to the police to seek charges against me. They investigated Kurtz’s claims but the prosecutor decided there wasn’t sufficient evidence to press charges so the file was closed. But when lawyer and Conservative Party candidate Neil Oberman sent a legal letter to the police on Kurtz’s behalf in mid-December the file was reopened. (In a bit of good news Oberman lost in Monday’s election and the Superior Court of Quebec recently dismissed his bid to scuttle the McGill student union’s non-Zionist antisemitism policy).
The prosecutor likely isn’t going to want Kurtz to testify against me. She seems more unhinged than ever. In response to the initial signs of a Liberal election victory she posted “COMING SOON: The Islamic Republic of Canada.” Subsequently, Kurtz posted that she was moving to Florida due to Mark Carney’s win. “It’s official”, she wrote. “I’m moving to Florida. I am not safe in Canada. And this is how Florida appreciates Jews — and humanity. I am meeting with immigration lawyers tomorrow.
“I am not kidding. Also – this will make my fight for Western civilization stronger than ever.”
Kurtz has also claimed Monday’s election was rigged. “Who thinks Canada’s election was rigged?”, she posted next to a hands up emoji.
I spent five days in jail to defeat conditions the Crown sought to impose on me restricting my ability to mention Kurtz’s name. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be allowed to mention any of this.
I’m not a lawyer but how could a judge find me guilty of “harassing” Kurtz without her testifying. Yet the prosecution can’t possibly want to put the genocidal Jewish supremacist on the stand where her claims and views could be interrogated.
Part of me doesn’t want the prosecution to drop the charges. I’d like the opportunity to watch Kurtz explain herself in court. And I’m sure there are many others who would also want to witness the spectacle.
A month ago, Birju Dattani launched a defamation suit against Kurtz. Dattani was appointed Chief Commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission but Kurtz and others smeared him as anti-Jewish without any evidence.
On Friday my court date for purportedly “harassing” Kurtz and a Montreal police officer was postponed until July 14. At that point a date should be set for a trial unless the prosecution comes to its senses and drops the absurd charges.
Rather than doing the dirty work of an unhinged genocide supporter the police and prosecutors should be looking into Montrealers who’ve committed crimes in Gaza.
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Yves Engler is the author of Stand on Guard for Whom? A People’s History of the Canadian Military and twelve other books.
