Israel Baiters, Jew Haters -- They Are Legion

"Resisting Israeli occupation and apartheid is a right. Unconditional support for the Palestinian resistance movement until full liberation!" [Oct 8 2023] 

"Palestinian resistance mov't has demonstrated 2day that Israeli settler colonialism & occupation will not last. Unity of the resistance forces & solidarity is needed now more than ever as a new stage in the war of liberation has begun."

"[The] struggle in Palestine isn't a humanitarian one one, as liberals and some leftists like to think. It is a national liberation struggle with all that entails. This includes not questioning the tools used by the oppressed to achieve their liberation."

Hassan Husseini, national negotiator, Public Service Alliance of Canada

"I do not feel that he [Husseini] would be able to properly represent me, a Jew and a Zionist."

"I continue to feel  unrepresented by PSAC as they ostracized many Jewish members and created  space in which we do not all feel safe."

PSAC member Chelsea (surname withheld on request)

"Since October 7, the union has taken an antisemitic path, which has undermined the diversity of its members. They have already organized anti-Israeli webinars and meetings."

"They did nothing to stop the rising antisemitism; rather, they instigated it by taking sides in foreign political matters."

Valerya Shneider, PSAC member

@JoeTruzman

Demonstrators in Toronto, Canada, celebrate following the Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel.

 

 

 

Academia in Canada, along with unions, have been expressing their opinions about the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza from the perspective of a viral propaganda campaign launched by Islamists and supporters of Palestinian 'resisters' of the Israeli 'occupation' of the West Bank and Gaza. That Israel is forced to maintain its overseer status is similar to the work of a zookeeper maintaining the enclosures of wild animals. 

 

Without that Israeli function of military supervision, Palestinian terrorists would enjoy free reign to attack Jews, whether those in authority, in the military, in security of law and order or civilians.

The administrators of the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority under President Mahmoud Abbas, and that of Hamas governing Gaza, incite their public to hatred and violence against Israel and Jews relentlessly. Both governments of the Palestinian Territories have never bothered to focus on establishing civilian governing infrastructure that would lead to the state status they so fervently speak of to the West. 

 

Israel's oversight is an existential requirement to ensure the safety and security of Israeli citizens, including the two million Palestinians who live in Israel as state-entitled citizens.

In Canada, the current government which prides itself on its progressive credentials which ensure quality of life and security for all Canadian citizens and residents, and cites equality of all, has experienced some value judgement equivocations in attempting to balance a fine line in reflection of its population of both Jews and Muslims, by giving as much credence to statements expressed by Hamas as it does those of official Israel. 

 

There has been no solid condemnation followed up by restraining actions by governments in Canada in response to vicious slanders, threats, violence, or criminal actions perpetrated by pro-Hamas groups in Canada against Canadian Jews and their institutions, much less Canadian public and private institutions.

On the very day of the barbaric invasion by Palestinian terrorists led by Hamas into southern Israel to carry out a pre-programmed slaughter of Jews, mass rapes, mutilations, and abductions of children, women and the elderly, the national negotiator for Canada's largest public service union responded to a social media post by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs denouncing Canadians celebrating the atrocities, when he responded: "It is called liberation of stolen land, stupid!!!"

The logic of labelling ancestral heritage geography as stolen land aside, this kind of bald-faced libelous slander would never see the light of day if Islamists knew they would be held responsible under Canada's criminal law code for promulgating and promoting hatred of an identifiable minority. Under this government of Justin Trudeau's Liberals, that has not happened, nor will it happen. 

 

This government's eye is fixated on numbers; the large number of Muslims who now populate Canada, as opposed to the much smaller number of Canadian Jews.

Even as the scale of the massacre by Islamist terrorists in Israel was being clarified as new information was released, the barrage of celebratory 'protests' in support of Palestinian terror was unprecedented as an expression of sheer, unadulterated hatred. Choruses of 'final solution', 'intifada' and 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!' rang out on the streets of Canadian cities in well-orchestrated campaigns of intimidation of Jews in Canada and the furtherance of support among antisemitic fundamentalists in Canada. To which politicians tut-tutted, but made no move to respond to.

The day prior to the Israel Defense Forces' ground operation in Gaza, Husseini wrote to his followers: "Good morning and f--k #Apartheid_Israel and anyone who defends it and attempts to whitewash its #WarCrimes and genocide". Husseini compared Israel to Nazi Germany while accusing Canadian media of spreading "Zionist propaganda" as he compared Hamas terrorists to Jews during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazi extermination machinery. 

 

Fred Hahn, a CUPE Ontario leader also praised the October 7 bloodbath.

 

"Unions should focus on their members' working conditions and benefits, not on divisive, amateurish, simplistic, one-sided, and toxic forays into foreign policy."

"It goes much further than simply Husseini. It is an organized campaign, led and inspired by people like Husseini and Fred Hahn and implemented by activists who are making Jewish union members unwelcome in organizations created to protect every one of their members."

"There are good reasons that some unions are being taken to human rights tribunals for anti-Jewish discrimination."

"This has to stop."

Richard Marceau, general counsel, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs

Fighting For Her Rights

 

Sylvie Deschamps, a 30-year PSAC employee, says the union has ignored an arbitrator’s ruling to reinstate her. Photograph by: Bruno Schlumberger, Ottawa Citizen

The forever self-righteous and sanctimonious Public Service Alliance of Canada which holds government to a high standard of irreproachable conduct toward the thousands of civil servants whom the country's largest federal union represents, is a force to be reckoned with. It portrays itself as a defender of the underdog. And it does not merely represent working relationships and the interests of federal civil servants, but it goes much, much further afield, presenting itself as a champion for the welfare of what it deems to be "occupied" populations in the Middle East.

It has a large agenda and it takes its activities seriously indeed.

So seriously that it fired one of its long-term employees who had the misfortune to get on the wrong side of former national president Daryl Bean. Sylvie Deschamps, living in Rockland, began her service with PSAC in 1983 and worked her way up to quite a few fairly high-ranking positions. Including secretarial position with Mr. Bean. During a grievance hearing she offended the sensibilities of PSAC president John Gordon.

Who took it upon himself to order that she undergo an independent medical evaluation. Doubting her mental fitness to continue working. She was suspended without pay when she refused that order. What resulted then was an avalanche of documents, emails, memoranda and exchanges of documents related to a number of filed grievances by Ms. Deschamps. Eventually an arbitrator was called in, and this resulted in a 72-page decision.

Michel Picher examined all those documents and memoranda, and he concluded that what he had read represented "the unfortunate account of how an exemplary employee came into conflict with her supervisor and, ultimately, with the then-national president of the Alliance." He decided to dismiss grievances of harassment by Deschamps by one of her supervisors, and that PSAC had failed to accommodate a diagnosed stress condition making it difficult for her to accept a position in the finance department of the Alliance.

It was, she claimed, a "toxic work environment". On the other hand, Mr. Picher felt that Mr. Gordon violated the woman's rights through his "excessive and unjustified" demand she submit to an independent medical examination. PSAC had, in addition, improperly placed her on an unpaid leave of absence and was ordered to reinstate Ms. Deschamps, to pay her $42,594 in lost wages and benefits and to adjust her pension benefits accordingly.

The union responded by firing Sylvie Deschamps 'for cause' the very day she received Mr. Picher's binding remedy order. She was accused by the union of 'disloyalty', for appealing for assistance from Ken Georgetti, president of the Canadian Labour Congress, and for posting derogatorily harmful comments on her blog about PSAC. PSAC's director of human resources claimed her dismissal to have been provoked by "actions that led to damaging the relationship with the employer. In our view it was irreparable and justified termination for cause."

Before her 2008 suspension, Ms. Deschamps pointed out that she had "nothing but glowing reviews from everybody I worked with. I never had any complaints. My file was perfect." She was quite simply practising what the PSAC urges its members to do; file grievances, vigorously pursue them. "They say, 'fight for your rights'. That's what I did. But I get fired."