Dividing Canadians : The Liberal Legacy

"Make Palestine unavoidable this federal election."

"We are turning up the pressure and making it clear: Palestine must be at the forefront."

"Free Palestine National Day of Action."

"The resistance [Hamas] has set a new precedent for the Palestinian struggle."

Palestinian Youth Movement

 

"While Jewish Canadians live in fear, terror groups like Samidoun are free to fundraise and support organizations like Hamas and the [Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine] who seek to kill innocent Jews."

"We've seen what happens when these groups aren't taken seriously."

"The Jewish community feels understandably under siege as these hate marches and antisemitic outbursts have become an unfortunate part of Canadian life."

"Frankly, the Liberals have encouraged these divisions. We see what they do. They say one thing to one group, and then exactly the opposite to another group."

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre

Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre speaks during his election campaign tour, in British Columbia, April 6, 2025  (photo credit: REUTERS/JENNIFER GAUTHIER)

"Canada has always sided with civilization. So should Mr. Carney."

"But instead of supporting Israel, a democracy that is fighting a just war with just means against the barbarians of Hamas, he attacks the one and only Jewish state."

"Mr. Carney, backtrack your irresponsible statement!"

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

 

"If they [the Liberal government] took action, they would have listed them already."

"So, if burning a Canadian flag, if calling for the death of Canadians, if fomenting hate in this country, and most of all being a front for an already-listed terrorist organization is not enough to put them on the list, then what the hell is it going to take for them to ban them?"

Thornhill Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman

Saturday’s pro-Palestinian protest included a march through Ottawa’s ByWard Market. Photo by Spencer Colby /Postmedia

During this federal election culminating in an April 28 vote to determine the next prime minister of Canada, Palestinian groups have been busy honing their public relations skills, lobbying federal politicians, insisting that the issue of Israel in Gaza, following the unforgettable Palestinian Hamas terrorist invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023, must become a primary issue. Not the savagery of Palestinian terrorists slaughtering Israeli civilians in an infamous day of sadistic mass rape, torture, and immolation of entire families in their homes, and the hostage-taking of innocents. 

Canada has undergone a steady infiltration of hostile Muslim immigrants, refugees and migrants over the past decade. Palestinian students at Canadian universities have entirely politicized Canadian academia, slandered a Canadian ally, threatened Jewish-Canadian students, damaged Canada's international reputation, destroyed university property, arranged for mass Muslim prayer sessions on major city roads and intersections, harassed and threatened Canadians in major Jewish city enclaves, and called for the destruction of Israel.

 

The Liberal-led government of Justin Trudeau invited and welcomed this infiltration as a humanitarian gesture. Canada's communities that have always been tolerant of one another and shared the experiences of Canadian culture, heritage, values, laws and neighbourliness will never be the same again. This is the legacy of the Trudeau government, alongside a decade of economic stagnation, unaffordability of housing and food, the degradation of the Canadian universal health system, all of which has led to distrust of government, as the provinces themselves cope with federal interference in provincial jurisdictions.

 

In the final days of the 2025 general election, it has been revealed that 300 federal candidates have signed on to an initiative with direct links to a radical anti-Israel group; to be anti-Israel in Canada is directly related to support for Hamas as a legitimate government whose role is to defy Israeli 'oppression' of Palestinians. It must be understood that by Israel defending itself against Palestinian deadly attacks against Israeli citizens, Israel is defined as an 'oppressor' of Palestinian self-realization.

 

In Canada the VotePalestine.ca website lists over 330 federal election candidates expressing their full endorsement of the "Palestinian Platform". A platform that demands Canada recognize Palestinian statehood under Hamas's continued governance. Canada, it demands, must sanction anything connected to Israel, including "cultural and academic exchanges". Canada must increase foreign aid to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, which has been linked to Palestinian terrorism.

 

The Palestinian Youth Movement is one of the central organizers of anti-Israel blockades and street demonstrations that began throughout Canada on October 8, 2023 and has flourished ever since, making a hellscape of Canadian city streets, with no intervention from the federal government. Celebration of the October 7 terrorist attacks against Israel is one of the hallmarks of PYM values. 'Victory' rallies were organized by PYM in a number of Canadian cities even as the attack was ongoing.

Saturday’s protest included marching along Wellington Street in front of Parliament Hill. Photo by Spencer Colby /Postmedia

Predictably, VotePalestine's supporters have been drawn primarily from candidates for the NDP and Green party. Along with these numbers some 18 Liberal candidates also signed on. Sitting Liberals listed by VotePalestine include Patrick Weiler, Chris Bittle, Shafqat Ali, Alexandra Mendes, Sameer Zuberi, Sean Casey, Salma Zahid and Adam van Koeverden. Salma Zahid is chair of the Canada-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship Group which hosts extremists at Parliament Hill gatherings.

 

Nazih Khatatba, publisher of an Arabic-language newspaper that refers to the Holocaust as a 'hoax" was a featured speaker at one of the Canada-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship Group's 2022 events. An event that was attended by Mahmoud Khalil, Montreal activist whose reaction to the October 7 attacks saw him publicly declare allegiance to Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif at an Ottawa rally.

 

In a mosque appearance in April, van Koeverden accused Israel of committing genocide, pledging to "make sure that Palestinian voices are heard in Ottawa by our leaders". Should he be re-elected he has made it clear that he intends to prioritize Palestinian issues. While Conservatives gave this issue wide berth, in recognition of its betrayal of Canadian values and system of justice, Nabila Ben Youssef of the Bloc Quebecois signed on. 

A keffiyeh'ed demonstrator lights off a smoke bomb during a rally in Vancouver celebrating the one-year anniversary of the October 7 massacres. Photo by Ethan Cairns /The Canadian Press