B’nai Brith Leader Sentenced: 45 Days for Child Rape Videos

Time is to be served on weekends, plus 240 hours of community service.

BILL SURKIS says he downloaded close to nine hours of videos of men raping girls as young as 6 because he is curious by nature and likes to learn. (ILLUSTRATION: Bill Surkis, right, with attorney Slimovitch)

But the former Quebec regional director of B’nai Brith gave little thought to the fact his actions feed a booming child pornography industry that sexually exploits young girls and makes them victims on cyberspace forever, a crown prosecutor said yesterday.

Indeed, during his sentencing hearing yesterday, the 71-year-old . . . → Read More: B’nai Brith Leader Sentenced: 45 Days for Child Rape Videos

Pink Floyd “Anti-Semitic”?

PINK Floyd’s Roger Waters is under fire from the Anti-Defamation League for the use of a Jewish symbol in his new stage show. During each performance of “Goodbye Blue Sky,” Stars of David and dollar signs are among the symbols dropped like bombs from aeroplanes.

“Of course, Waters has every right to express his political views about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through his music and stagecraft,” said the League’s director, Abe Foxman. “However, the images he has chosen, when put together in the same sequence, cross a line into antisemitism … We wish Waters had chosen some other way to convey his political views without playing into and dredging up the worst age-old . . . → Read More: Pink Floyd “Anti-Semitic”?