Canada's Immoral/Political/Social Distancing from Israel

"The Canadian government made some important and timely statements but the actions it has taken have not been supportive."

"Doing that [putting in place an arms embargo on Israel] in the midst of a just war that Israel is prosecuting as it exerts its right to self-defence means rewarding Hamas. While it is not the intention, it ends up being the effect."

"I am under constant security protection. After October 7, my wife and I attended the March for Israel in Washington, D.C. When we flew back to Montreal, security asked us not to leave the airport. Security personnel spoke to me and informed me of what has been characterized as imminent and lethal threats." 

Irwin Cotler, Montreal Liberal, former Attorney General of Canada

In a still of a video posted online, protesters at a pro-Palestinian rally are seen burning a Canadian flag as some chant 'death to Canada, death to the United States and death to Israel.' (Jarryd Jäger/Western Standard)

 

"We are Hezbollah and we are Hamas!" was chanted in Vancouver on the first anniversary of the horrendous October 7, 2023 organized Palestinian terrorist attack in southern Israel that saw thousands of terrorists along with ordinary Palestinian citizens flood across the border from Gaza into Israel with the intention of mass slaughter. And mass slaughter is what occurred that day, with the savage killing of 1,200 mostly civilian Israelis, from infants to the elderly, alongside mass rape and mutilation of Israeli girls and women.

 

While normal people are aghast at the devastating human loss and anxious to have the Israeli girls, women, elderly men and others still in captivity as hostages in Gaza -- tormented, tortured and threatened with rape and death -- returned to Israel, in Canada, Palestinians, other Muslim-Canadians and their leftist 'progressive' champions are satisfied that these barbaric acts of vicious sadism merely represent the entirely forgivable acts of defiance of an oppressed people, shaking the bars of occupation. 

 

People write in chalk outside of a building during a pro-Palestine rally marking the anniversary of a Hamas attack on Israel in Vancouver, B.C., Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns

 

Mass 'protests' against Israel's very existence continue in the streets of Canadian cities. Harassment of Jewish neighbourhoods and persecution of Canadian Jews have become so normalized that it leads to the real potential of unstoppable violence. Unstoppable because no authorities appear to be the least bit concerned that by not taking action against violent speech those that engage in it are encouraged to go further in their unlawful pursuits of delegitimizing an entire people and the country representing their interests.

At the federal level -- which is where the crackdown on illegal marches closing off thoroughfares, taking over public arenas, creating totally hostile atmospheres and indulging in slanderous statements against Jewish Canadians, using the word 'Zionist' as a vile pejorative, inviting Jews to return to Europe where they purportedly belong, and not in their ancestral geography where their presence is an irritant to peace in the opinion of religious/social/ethnic bigots -- nothing is done to dissuade antisemitic hordes from their zealotry of Jew-hate.

 

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada’s goal right now ‘is to make sure there is no full-scale war in the Middle East.’ CBC

 

When the Conservative Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre judges Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs in the House of Commons of being a tool of Palestinian terrorism in her attitudinal declarations, he is accused by  Melanie Joly of being a Nazi. His charges of "pandering to Hamas supporters" by the Trudeau government are deemed out of line in Parliament, when he is merely pointing out the obvious.

The lack of reaction of the Liberal government to acts of social dysfunction on the part of pro-Hamas crowds has led to actual violence, as when for the second time a Jewish parochial school for girls was

shot up in Toronto several days ago.

From being a firm advocate for and supporter of the State of Israel under the Conservative leadership of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Canada has undergone a sea change of allegiances where the current Trudeau-led government of Canada now votes against Israel's interests at the United Nations, where the  government at home fails to protect a loyal ethnic minority against the verbal predations of a much larger ethnic/religious group whose numbers have multiplied in the last few years, leading to division and hostility.

Following the October 7, 2023 savage pogrom in southern Israel when farming communities were reduced to ashes after being pillaged, residents killed, wounded or taken hostage, survivors forced to flee for their lives, world leaders and those in the G7 of developed nations, travelled to Israel as a demonstration of their solidarity with a fellow democracy severely wounded. Heads of government of the United States, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, the United Kingdom, along with the head of the European Union and Japan travelled to Israel to commiserate with its misfortune. Canada's leader did not.

Israel now knows whom, on the world stage, of its fellow democracies can be relied upon. Canada is not alone in its distancing from Israel for there are others whose original support has slowly dissipated, but Canada stands alone in its loud and disturbing official position that has decided Canadian Jews can look after their own affairs in security and safety from the disequilibrium brought to them by a demographic of vile Jew-haters, among whom the majority of the Trudeau cabinet appear to fit comfortably within.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who spoke Wednesday to G7 leaders about the situation in the Middle East: 'As an international community we have to continue to do everything we can to call for peace and stability.' CBC

 

"We are engaged in a battle between democracies and tyrannies."

"Democracies should stand together. In that sense, Canada has not been sufficiently supportive [of Israel]."

Irwin Cotler

"Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has expressed concern about Israel’s policies, saying that he has no immediate plans to invite his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu to the country."

"Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Trudeau reiterated Canada’s opposition to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, which are illegal under international law."

“We recognize the violence going on right now. It is difficult for people across the region — both Israelis and Palestinians,” the Canadian prime minister said."

“We’re calling for de-escalation and peace and working through some of the flashpoints that are happening. Canada has a longstanding position that settlements and the settlement process is illegal. And we need to stand against that.”

"Trudeau added that, while Canada is a “steadfast” friend of Israel, the two countries have points of disagreement."

“We’re also very concerned about the judicial reforms that the Israeli government is determined to move forward with,” Trudeau said, adding that he will encourage Netanyahu to seek “greater consensus” for the plan."

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