Hamas Spurns Human Rights

"This is a Muslim flag. What people don't understand is, the colour green is a traditional colour for Islam and the inscription is just the first pillar of Islam, which is 'There is no God but Allah, and the prophet is the messenger'."
Adam John, 27, Ottawa mechanic

"I find it very disturbing the flag of a terrorist organization (Hamas) that has been identified as such by our government was on our streets of the nation's capital today."
Andrea Freedman, president, Jewish Federation of Ottawa

In 2002, Canada formally designed Hamas -- the Islamist jihadist group whose covenant calls for the destruction of Israel to fulfill their obligations to Islam and the Palestinian people from whom they claim the land upon which Israel rests was wrested from its rightful owners, Arab Palestinians -- a terrorist organization. That supporters of Hamas are rife within the Muslim community in Canada is no secret. Mr. John's 'explanation' is not amusing.

Adam John stands with a Hamas flag, which he says he was holding as a Muslim flag. It caused a social media stir after Tuesday's Palestinian protest in downtown Ottawa.  Samantha Wright Allen / Ottawa Citizen

In this instance, an organized 'pro-Palestinian' march and protest that took place in Ottawa near Parliament Hill on Tuesday, where a Hamas flag was hoisted and prominently flown, held over the shoulder of a protest participant, Adam John. His spurious hypocrisy as an enabler for Hamas represents a matter of grave concern to those who recognize terrorists for what they represent; threats to civilization.

Ottawa police officers were hard put to separate pro-Palestinian protesters who marched past a small group of Israeli supporters close to Parliament Hill on Tuesday. The number of Israeli supporters was small, a mere handful of people because the man who had planned a counter-protest had been persuaded by Ottawa police in the interests of public safety and security to call it off.

"Members of the Jewish community were telling me 'I don't want to be downtown on Wellington Street while this rally is happening because I'm fearful for my safety", explained Rabbi Michael Goldstein, warning of anti-Semitic violence, recognizing its emergence through similar pro-Palestinian protests around the country.

Yarah Qasem who belongs to the Ottawa Palestinian group organizing the march, stated that like many Palestinians she feels the need to speak out: "It's part of my identity". She is 18, from a Palestinian family that migrated to Canada. Her life is largely dedicated to activism, a reason she is studying international law at university. "I want to dedicate my career to this case."

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People take part in a protest and march in Ottawa on Tuesday July 22, 2014, calling for Canada to defend human rights in Palestine. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

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Protesters marched through Ottawa on Tuesday calling for the Canadian government to defend human rights in Palestine. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press

"It's not that we don't want (Israel) to exist, it's that we want to return to our homes. We want to be treated like human beings" she said. She appears not to have thought things through to a reasonable conclusion. Palestinians who remained where they were with the creation of the State of Israel live there still, as fully functioning, accredited members of Israeli society with their assured citizenship, able to send their own representations to the Israeli Knesset.

Her family, one of those that left, giving the assembled Arab States' militaries an opportunity to defeat the nascent state, leaving the Palestinians to return, can only now return in their inflated generational numbers with the result being precisely the non-existence of the State of Israel. This lack of clarity in a presumably healthy, functioning mind speaks of denial of reality