For Shame, Canada!

"It is incomprehensible that failures of vetting like these continue to occur, completely ignoring the lessons that should have been learned in the wake of the Laith Marouf scandal."

"This sends a terrible message to the Canadian Jewish community, which can only be left to assume that condemning antisemitism is not a priority, and that we are not a priority."

". We once again urge enhanced oversight be applied in vetting across the board, whether it’s for government funding or events on Parliament Hill."

“The more we look into this gathering, the more disturbing it gets. What is it about the Canada-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship Group that attracts these types of individuals? This controversy cannot be allowed to be swept under the rug."

Shimon Koffler Fogel, CEO, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs

 

"It is disturbing that an individual with such a long history of promoting antisemitism could be invited to such an event,” said. “The rhetoric that Nazih Khatatba espouses makes our society a less safe place for Canadian Jews, and his presence on Parliament Hill, hobnobbing with Canadian political leaders, is reprehensible."

Dan Panneton, Director of Allyship and Community Engagement, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center

 

"Mr. Speaker, two days ago, Liberal members of Parliament and the Minister of Transport welcomed a dangerous anti-Semite, Holocaust denier and terrorist sympathizer to this place."

"Nazih Khatatba and Meshwar Media, which the government already gave tax dollars to, has referred to the Holocaust as a ‘Holohoax’ and ‘the biggest lie in history’. This newspaper called Judaism a terrorist religion."

"Worse yet, this man praised last week’s heinous murder of 16-year-old Canadian teenager by terrorists."

"Will the Minister of Transport [Omar Alghabra] denounce this man, his publication and apologize to Canadians?"

Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman  House of Commons

This image of Canadian MPs attending an International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People event on Parliament Hill on Nov. 29 was posted by Nazih Khatatba on his Facebook page. Source: Nazih Khatatba/Facebook

Canada, it seems increasingly obvious, is overrun with the presence of antisemites who prosecute wherever and whenever they make the opportunity, against the legitimacy of the state of Israel. Active on University campuses, nudging to action latent Jew-hate, they infuse student bodies and members of university faculty alike with the indignation of the Liberal-left against the victimhood that Palestinians claim to suffer from at the hands of Israeli authorities and the IDF. 

 

The invention of ever greater slanders to fuel the hatefest infecting Canada from the presence of 'Palestine-supporters' who will grasp any opportunity to attribute inhumane treatment suffered by Palestinians, portraying them as innocents who want nothing but the land they believe they inherited through posterity, land that in reality is an ancient Judean heritage when the only Palestinians referred to were indigenous Jews. The reality is that Palestinian leaders incite their people to violence against Jews.

 

The 'occupation' is a need imposed upon Israel to maintain a military presence to protect and secure its people from never-ending violence where Palestinians believe that murdering Jews will elevate them to martyrdom and celebrity status, an impression fostered by the Palestinian Authority that promises financial support to the families of such 'martyrs' in a theme that Israel recognizes as "pay-for-slay", urging the West to stop funding the lethal practise to no avail.

 

Canada's Liberal government has been unimpressed with a need for vigilance at the presence of active antisemitism being brought directly through successful infiltration into the House of Commons where elected parliamentarians from among Arab and Palestinian citizens brew up a deadly storm of racist threats and actions against Israel, slopping over to include Canadian Jews. Nov. 29, 1947, was the date on which the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution that in effect led to the declaration of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948.

 

Palestinians and their supporters celebrate November 29 annually as a 'Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People'. That represents the day in 1947 when the United Nations presented its Partition Plan which offered part of Israel's traditional geography to Israel, to re-establish its presence as an independent state, and another portion to the Palestinians to establish their own state. Israel accepted with gratitude, the Palestinians rejected the plan and preferred to consider themselves 'refugees', and the United Nations, through UNRWA, supported that decision.

 

On November 29 of this year on Parliament Hill, Liberal Member of Parliament Salma Zahid of the Canada-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship group, hosted a reception for the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, where Nazih Khatatba, editor of an Arabic newspaper based in Toronto was present.  The newspaper questions the Holocaust, supports terrorist action against Israel and Jews, and spews antisemitism. More latterly, it was revealed that other rabid antisemites, including the Canadian head of Fatah, a terrorist group behind the Palestinian Authority was also present at the event.

Now, yet another was revealed to have been present, Mahmoud Khalil with his own history of antisemitic social media posts. He has posted videos of himself delivering a speech at a Glory To Our Martyrs rally in Montreal, reciting a poem commemorating the late Ghassen Kanafani who spoke for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a group outlawed as a terrorist organization by Canada's government. The PFLP was responsible for the Lod Airport massacre in Tel Aviv where 26 people died, 80 injured, in 1972.

Zahid, Transport Minister Alghabra and Green Party leader Elizabeth May posed for a group photograph, all wearing scarves emblazoned with the Palestinian flag. The Green Party Leader said: "I take my marching orders from the permanent representative of Palestine to Canada". Nazih Khatatba's Meshwar Media referred to the Holocaust as the "Holohoax", and published articles in praise of terrorist attacks against Jews, last month's Jerusalem bombing that killed 16-year-old Canadian Israeli Aryeh Schupak, included.

Following the reception Meshwar Media's website bore the headline: "Reprsentatives in the Canadian Parliament stand in solidarity with Palestine and call on the Governmnt of Canada to support the Palestinian People." 

 

For shame, Canada!

 

NDP MP Niki Ashton, Liberal MP Salma Zahid, Green Leader Elizabeth May, and Liberal MP Omar Alghabra attend the Nov. 29 event hosted by Zahid. Photo by Twitter