Canadian Election Interference for a Sinister Cause

"Vote Palestine is a non-partisan platform calling on candidates to commit to five demands: a two-way arms embargo; the end of Canadian involvement in Israeli settlements; addressing anti-Palestinian racism and protecting free expression on Palestine; recognizing the State of Palestine; and properly funding relief efforts in Gaza, including UNRWA."

"The thousands of people who have taken the Vote Palestine pledge are not only committing to consider a candidate’s position on Palestine, but are joining a movement of people organizing in their neighbourhoods to make Palestine unavoidable this election." 

Demands:

D1 - Two-way arms embargo on Israel

D2 - Ending Canadian support for settlements

D3 - Combat anti-Palestinian racism and protect pro-Palestine speech

D4 - Recognizing the state of Palestine

D5 - Funding Gaza relief efforts, including UNRWA

Palestinian Youth Movement

Members of the Palestinian Youth Movement hold a rally in Toronto in November 2023. Photo by Jack Boland/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network

The Palestinian Youth Movement has been busy in Canada creating a network of political support for its agenda of demonizing Israel, isolating the Jewish nation, and demanding of Canadian politicians that they stand firmly in support of Palestinian nationhood. Of course, that means the annihilation of Israel so that Palestinians can achieve their goal of 'From the river to the sea', claiming the entirety of the ancestral homeland of Judaism, the people who 'colonized' Judea in the 2nd millenium BCE, and who are now perched on Judean heritage geography that Arab 'Palestinians' claim as their own. 

Vote Palestine, a political movement by the Palestinian Youth Movement that emanated from the Palestinian BDS project, lauds its five-point Vote Palestine platform demanding among other issues a two-way arms embargo against Israel, a boycott of Israel-controlled territories and above all, recognition of Palestine as a state. Why bother with the unnecessary ritual of Palestinian leaders committing to a real effort at discussing with their Israeli counterparts critical issues such as recognition of Israel in exchange for recognition of 'Palestine'?

 

Successfully persuasive lobbying by PYM resulted in just about the entire caucus of the NDP, including their leader Jagmeet Singh, signing on in agreement with PYM's Vote Palestine, and with them members of the Green Party. Both parties did not fare particularly well in the April 28 general election, both losing official party status and Singh losing his own seat in Parliament. Their sacrifice was the Liberals' gain over the Conservative Party which foreign interference by President Trump brought to another 4-year mandate to govern.

"Islamists have been working overtime [to see] their favoured party [the Liberals, re-elected] so that the good times keep rolling for them for at least another four years."

Joe Adam George, researcher, Islamist Threats in Canada, Middle East Forum

 

"This is how foreign interference  happens."

"If a literal pro-terror group can get an MP's signature without difficulty, you think they're standing guard for thee against Iran or China?"

"Palestinian Youth Movement celebrated the October 7 massacres in Canadian streets while they were still underway. They've said Samidoun, Canada's newest terrorist group, did nothing wrong. And 19 Liberals just signed on with their "Vote Palestine" platform."

Tristan Hopper, journalist, National Post 

During the election campaign the Palestinian Youth Movement succeeded in persuading 28 Liberal candidates (19 of whom were elected) to sign their five-point, anti-Israel Vote Palestine platform. The candidates, through their endorsement served to help legitimize the demands of anti-Israel groups, totally ignoring their threatening values and actions, including their celebration of the Hamas October 7 pogrom, their championing of both terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah, and organizing student encampments at North American universities where Jewish students were terrorized by their threats.

 

The People's Conference for Palestine, featuring speakers linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, both given terrorist designations in Canada, and both involved along with Hamas in the October 7 massacre of Israelis in southern Israel was organized in May 2024 by the PYM group. Islamist terrorism is feature by PYM as a courageous response to Israeli 'colonization' of Judean heritage lands.

 

The promotion by Palestinian Youth Movement that Zionism is a racist ideology while glorifying the martyrdom of Hamas and calling for the elimination of Israel appears to have found favour in some sectors of Canada, and among some elected politicians who appear to find no fault with the reasoning of fervent Palestinians belabouring the West for its (past) support of Israel, a fellow democracy. 

 

Vote Palestine's agenda to "force Palestine onto the debate stage trough nationwide visibility" and in the process shame those political individuals who fail to endorse its platform, does not appear to give second thought to those who have signed on as supporters. According to one of its lead activists, "pressure is applied" by PYM operatives on non-endorsing candidates to "make it impossible to organize fundraising events ... impossible for those MPs to canvass without being met by someone from within the community asking, Why are you not supporting an arms embargo?"

 

PYM, this activists notes, has manoeuvered the Canadian political scene to "create a kind of crisis within the Canadian electoral system", succeeding in signing up 362 candidates to their cause. And while they swept the NDP and Green parties' candidates into their fold, and made some inroads with the Liberals, they failed abysmally to persuade a single Conservative candidate to uphold their pledge. 

 

Muslims in Canada now constitute some five percent of the population, at 1.8 million, with prospects for further growth ongoing. According to the Canadian Muslim Vote, Muslims hold significant influence in between 60 to 80 of Canada's 343 ridings. Politicians without scruples view the potential of drawing Muslim votes a greater good for their political ambitions than concern for Canada's traditional moral values, much less sinister interference in a fair election. 

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