It's An Unremittingly Harsh World for Jews

The clearest takeaway from this study is that public opinion on Canada and Israel is not one-dimensional. Canadians may be broadly negative toward Israel overall, but that does not translate into wholesale rejection of Israel’s right to exist or defend itself.

Three quarters of Canadians, 75%, agree that Israel has a right to defend itself when threatened by other countries. Two thirds, 66%, agree that Israel has a right to exist. A majority, 57%, also say Israel faces a uniquely difficult situation in a hostile region.

At the same time, many Canadians are critical of Israel’s behaviour and intentions. Just over half, 52%, agree that Israel is its own worst enemy because it makes no effort to live peacefully with its neighbours. Only 33% believe Israel is actively seeking peace with neighbours willing to stop threatening it. In other words, many Canadians still recognize Israel’s security concerns, but they are far less convinced by the country’s current political and military posture.

Israel’s overall standing is weak across the country. Favourable opinion sits at 22% nationally, and falls to 17% in Quebec. It is also notably lower among women than men, 17% versus 27%. By voting intention, perceptions differ sharply. Conservative voters are far more likely to view Israel favourably, at 38%, while favourable opinion drops to 17% among Liberal voters and 12% among NDP voters.

Canadians who rely mainly on family and friends for Middle East news are more likely to hold a favourable impression of Israel, at 38%, than those who rely on Canadian mainstream media, at 20%. More broadly, mainstream Canadian news outlets remain the dominant source of information on Middle East issues, cited by 57% of respondents, followed by social media at 25% and mainstream international media at 20%.

Asked about the Government of Canada’s response to rising antisemitic incidents since October 7 and the subsequent Middle East conflict, 39% say Ottawa needs to do more. Only 29% say the government is doing enough, and just 7% say it is doing too much.

Canadians are clearly more negative toward Israel than they were three years ago. That shift likely reflects the cumulative effect of war, regional escalation, humanitarian devastation, and the increasingly visible costs of prolonged military action. But Canadians have not moved to a simplistic all-or-nothing position. They still affirm Israel’s right to exist. They still affirm its right to defend itself. And they also affirm homeland rights for Palestinians, almost to the same degree. 

Perception of Israel; Survey of Canadians, Leger Poll

Photo by John Mahoney/MONTREAL GAZETTE

 

The recently-published Leger poll that looked into Canadians' support for Israel has concluded that support has dropped to quite a degree since the October 7, 2023 invasion of southern Israel by thousands of Palestinians, led by the terrorist group Hamas, with a clear plan laid out to punish Jews for living on their own ancestral land, that Palestinians claimed as their own, having chosen to reject the United Nations Partition Plan that divided that historically Judean landscape to share between Jews and Palestinians. That punishment took the form of mass rape, torture, sadistic savagery on a scale unimaginable by most sane minds, to rampage through farming communities, slaughtering children, the elderly, men and women.

 

There is always a reaction of sympathy in the immediacy of Jewish tragedy revealed, and it lasts as long as it takes Jews to amass  resources to respond to their deadly persecutors. So when Israel dispatched the Israeli Defense Forces into Gaza to hunt down the mass murderers who have always used the strategy of concealing themselves behind Palestinian civilians, using schools, mosques, community centres and hospitals as headquarters, weapons storage and communications centres amidst a civilian population, the stage is set for triumphant propaganda to persuade foreign news services and governments that Israel is attacking the human rights of defenseless people.

 

That 'public relations' ploy has been perfected against a background of fairly universal, and most frequently underground hatred of Jews and they come together  with a ferocity of awakened antisemitism justifying itself on the basis of 'recognizing' ancient Jewish stereotypes and caricatures of Jews as shrewd manipulators whose goal is to rule the world for their own malign purposes. Accused of controlling world banking, news media, and governments, despite all real events pointing to the obvious opposite, a snarling global media faults Israel for 'indiscriminate' and 'disproportionate' responses to atrocities it suffers when it responds to protect its population.

 

Notionally and nominally viewed as a Western ally, a solid democracy living in a hostile environment of Middle Eastern potentates, theocracies, kingdoms and oil sheikdoms where oil resources exploited by its neighbours have earned great favour in those same Western democracies, Israel's friendships and reliance on erstwhile allies is put to the test, and particularly in these last three years, that test has failed. In the IDF's campaign to destroy the terrorist group with a covenant to destroy Israel from Gaza, other similar groups in Lebanon and Yemen, controlled by the Islamic Republic all sought to pounce in unity, and all have been put back on their heels by the tiny nation that appears as a discrete spot on the globe.

 

Countries in the Jewish diaspora where Jews have lived for centuries and sometimes millennia have latterly become unsafe for continued Jewish existence, from Germany to France, Britain to Ireland, Spain to Greece, Australia to Canada. A massive influx of Muslims has infiltrated the West through a process of immigration, refuge and migration, bringing with them their ancient scriptures demanding jihad against non-believers, beginning with Jews, and since that jihad  takes many forms, the faithful are obliged to their duty, which translates to making life unbearable for Jews wherever they live, beginning with the state of Israel.

 

Governments which commit to equality for all their citizens, suddenly find it difficult to extend that equality to their Jewish populations in view of much larger demographics of Muslim populations. News media obligingly play the role of transmitting subtle, then not-so-subtle portrayals of the Jewish state's questionable responses to threats when forced by violence to respond in kind in a geography that recognizes no other kind of reactions than militancy to be respected and anything approaching diplomacy is a byzantine puzzle to unravel.  

 

In Canada, as in much of Europe, a flood of 'progressive'-left, Critical Race Theory, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion imperatives have refashioned society through their governments' commitments to empathetic action in reaction to charges of 'colonialism' and exploitation of less-developed nations and societies during past imperialistic eras. Conflating Israel, an indigenous people to the Middle East, with 'colonialism' in lock-step with Palestinian propaganda has succeeded in isolating Israel as a holdover from a now-despised age, completely perverting history and reality.

 

The incoherent and confused Canadian reaction to the recent Leger poll reflects to a great degree that condition now prevailing where Israel has become an outcast among democratic nations, through a successful campaign of delegitimization portraying the Jewish state, and Jews in general everywhere as illegal occupiers to be shunned and condemned. That Israel's scientific and technological and agricultural advances have been admired, acclaimed and shared, doesn't spare it one iota, nor the number of Jewish Nobel Laureates, out of proportion to their global population numbers. 

 

Do any of Israel's detractors in the West even note that when Jews mount protests they do so peacefully, holding not only the  flags of Israel aloft, but flags denoting their countries of  residence. 'Pro-Palestinian' protests, on the other hand, see people masked, shouting invective, threatening the local Jewish population, chanting for the destruction of Israel, wearing keffiyehs to signal Palestinian triumphs over adversity when a death-cult mentality identifies their target as genocidal. 'Palestine' is a useful symbol for those who use it  as a cudgel, nothing more, with which to demolish Israel's place in the world. 

 

People attend a rally outside Convocation Hall on the University of Toronto campus on Monday, May 27, 2024 as members of the Ontario Federation of Labour support the pro-Palestinian encampment at the university. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press)

 

 

 

 

 

Excoriating Israel for Genocidal Intent

"Since we can't hope for anything morally courageous from most of the faculty, the best hope we have is to seek to defund the universities, to call for the resignation of their weak-kneed presidents, and to fix the broken hiring system in which a single ideology [and not merit] determines who is in and who is out."

"We must find a better way forward, and not just on campus. As the pro-Hamas fores make blatant use of Jew-hatred, they are testing how far they can go in upending our liberal values."

"If we don't stop them now, this will only be the start of a forced march on the road to much, much worse."

"All of this has its source in an ideology that has gripped the minds of the vast majority of university professors, a neo-Marxist ideology that despises the values of liberal democratic society on which our freedoms are based." 

"We now have a choice. Do we allow the pro-Hamas mobs to take over our campuses? It is painful to observe the students in the encampments serving as 'useful idiots', to see the faculty largely become deluded supporters deceived by an ideology; and to discover that the administrators are weak appeasers. This is clear in their pathetic attempts to 'negotiate' with the campus occupiers by bribing them with faculty positions and student scholarships."

Kenneth Green, professor, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto

Pro-Hamas Encampment, University of Toronto, Globe & Mail

The new 'normal' that has arisen since October 7's Hamas atrocities in southern Israel is one that constitutes a nightmare for Jews in the diaspora where throughout Europe and North America, a tidal wave of antisemitism has surfaced that, in its bold authenticity has shocked and terrorized Jews everywhere. World Jewry since the Second World War sought comfort in the belief that their enormous sacrifice on the altar of Jew-hate would never, ever recur.

 

The world, in the face of the open secret of the death camps, the gas chambers and the ovens that incinerated Jewish corpses to ashes filtered through those giant belching chimneys to sprinkle human ash like fertilizer over the agricultural fields of Europe chose to do nothing, to remain oblivious to the death throes of European Jewry. A chastened world, shocked by the visual evidence of what they knew was occurring, offered a palliative in the UN's decision to permit a re-awakened State of Israel.

Now that same world has turned upon the Jewish State, repeating what a terrorist group has disseminated, that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians. Those Arab communities who named themselves Palestinians, the ancient Roman Occupation word to describe Judean lands administered by Rome, and whose agenda was to claim heritage Palestinian designation as a legitimate Arab-Palestinian state where Israel sits.

It is a narrative that has no basis in reality, one which documented history, ascribing ancestral heritage to Jews who originated in the Middle East as the authentic indigenous people of the region validates. Yet by identifying themselves as victims of Jewish aggression, while in actuality acting out as terrorists whose goal is to embark on never-ending deadly assaults against Jews and Israel, claiming them as oppressors and themselves as beleaguered threatened people of peace, the Western world's progressive left has taken up their cudgel to beat Israel.

Their appeal to the professional and trade unions of the West, eagerly grasping the narrative of 'occupier', 'settlers' and 'indigenous people', the struggle of the underdog against the capitalist threat of the 'colonialists' has led to the snarling references to Israeli 'genocide' against a powerless people deprived of their birthright, ventilating fullblown antisemitism under the canopy of human rights being defiled by a greedy colonialist entity depriving Palestinians of what is rightfully theirs.

Palestinian terrorists crossing the fence separating Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip from surrounding Israeli settlements on October 7, 2023. (Photo by Stringer/APA Images)

And so, there are school encampments throughout the West, demands that universities condemn the Israeli genocidaires, that academic cooperation with Israel be cancelled, that investments and collaboration be cancelled in the name of upholding human rights. The October 7 atrocities interpreted as a just and admirably courageous assertion of the Palestinian right of self-defence, not the sadistic savagery for which there is abundant visual evidence recorded by the Hamas murderers themselves. 

Despite that Palestinian terrorists in their thousands swarmed across the border from Gaza into southern Israel in a well-planned and -orchestrated bloodbath of dreadful proportions, accompanied by mass rapes, the murder of infants and children, burning alive of entire families in their torched homes, the deliberately exacting mutilation of girls and women before their execution after rapes, are all justified as the uprising of a people dominated by a military that refuses them a state of their own.

That would be the state that Palestinian leaders rejected in 1948 and consistently thereafter every time an attempt at negotiations took place between Israel and the Palestinians. Who, while piteously declaring to the West that all they want is their fair share in a two-state 'solution', continue to plan their brutal attacks on Israel and its people to achieve the real agenda of clearing the region of the Jewish State to declare it forthwith a sole Palestinian State.

Whereas Israel has given citizenship and equality to Palestinians within Israel representing 20 percent of its population, the Palestinian leadership, both the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas governing Gaza, have made it clear that not one Jew would remain alive in the Palestinian Territories. And it is to these antagonists of Israel to whom the West gives their unalloyed support while giving wan lip service to the right of Israel's existence as a sovereign state.

An elderly Palestinian man raises a national flag as youths shout slogans during a protest in the southern Gaza Strip. (AFP)

A terrorist group that has committed its version of a genocidal effort to complete what the Holocaust started can characterize Israel as a genocidal state planning to eliminate Palestinians in their entirety, and that assertion is accepted and echoed by Western academics both of Palestinian/Arab/Muslim derivation and non-Arab, Marxist-inspired faculty at universities, upholding the free speech entitlements of non-student organizers and university students to hold a school in ransom to their negative-Israel demands. 

Academics, Jewish and non-Jewish risk being labelled as 'Islamophobic' and 'racist' by asserting the right of Israel to exist, by declaring Palestinian terrorist groups be recognized for what they are, by demanding the disassembling of the university campus encampments with their antisemitic themes, threats and verbal and physical intimidation against any and all who fail to agree with their messaging. That government at any level, and school administrators are too cowardly or in agreement with the pro-Hamas protests to shut them down, is a condemnation of those who have abandoned the democratic values of their own heritage and culture.

GAZA GENOCIDE!

"Is wartime sexual violence a horrific crime? YES, with no mistake."

"But sex exceptionalism is also traditionally used to whip up support for entire military campaigns."

"We see Israel and the  United States doing this now to justify a prolonged disproportionate air and ground war."

Heidi Matthews, Law Professor, York University 

"There is no actual evidence of these rapes and the babies with their heads cut off -- all these things are pieces of misinformation."

"So I think it shows the strength of the Zionist lobby here in Canada."

Ontario MPP Sara Jama (former NDP)

Hamas terrorists stormed the Nova festival on 7 October and killed hundreds  BBC/Nick Millard

 

There is scant sympathy for the truth in many corridors of Palestinian support among unions, academics, even government officials in Canada. And it doesn't seem to take much to convince people to come out en masse with Palestinian flags -- even some Hamas flags -- and keffiyahs, to protest against the Israel Defense Forces' invasion of Gaza after Hamas terrorists flooded through the border  into Israel on October 7 to surprise towns and kibbutz residents as they woke early Sabbath morning to find themselves in the crosshairs of terrorists.

As they march through the streets, blocking traffic, shouting their defiance of Israel and celebrating the great victory of Hamas -- a listed terrorist group in Canada -- calling for the dismantling of Israel, the gassing of Jews, and labelling Israel a genocidal state intent on destroying the lives of Palestinians, neither local authorities nor provincial or federal government agencies bat an eyelash. Muslims who have established themselves as Canadian citizens, bringing their racist hatred with them from the homelands they've rejected.

Accusations of genocide are flung carelessly about. The Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas whose academic dissertation at the Patrice Lamumba University in Moscow questioned the Holocaust, warns the world that Israel is planning a genocide against his people. This is genocide: In 1939 a global population of 16.7 million Jews existed. By 1945 that number was reduced to 11 million. It has taken almost 80 years for the Jewish population to finally reach its 1939 level. 

 

Contrast that with the plight of the Palestinians whom the United Nations has given permanent refugee status to, because no Arab state is willing to absorb those that left Israel in 1948 as refugees, for resettlement as permanent residents with citizenship status. The UN will only surrender their 'refugee' status when they 'return' to the land Israel now sits on, when 'the river to the sea' is accomplished. An estimated 850,000 original refugees has miraculously, despite the threat of genocide, ballooned at the present time to 5.3 million.

 

Accusations of evil Israeli systematic elimination of Palestinians appears to have gone off the rails. While Palestinians in the West Bank (under the Palestinian Authority and Mahmoud Abbas) and Gaza (under the terrorist group Hamas) have not materially prospered because their leaders have been too engrossed in their plans to destroy Israel and retake what they believe is their entitled land which is in fact ancestral Judaean heritage, adequate state infrastructure has stagnated. Palestinians continue to languish in 'refugee camps' resembling concrete jungles of Soviet-era communal-living high rises.

While the West looks upon Hamas with a degree of tolerance even as a terrorist group, its charter unequivocally calls for the annihilation of the State of Israel and the accompanying destruction of Jewish life. That is genocide. As for the West Bank and the Palestinian Authority (Fatah/PLO/PLFP), their transparent ploy is a call for a two-state 'solution' to solve their victimhood grievances, yet this is not their real agenda, a plan that is simply described as "from the river (Jordan) to the sea (Mediterranean)". That is genocide.

"The most voluminous evidence is of bodily mutilation of sexual organs by bullet, knife or even scissors, according to an NBC News analysis of the evidence currently available. “They had a thing with sexual organs, both in women and men,” a first responder told police in videotaped testimony."

"A woman whose job it was to open the body bags of women and prepare their bodies for burial told NBC News in an interview Monday that she saw multiple female corpses that had been mutilated. “They were shot in the vagina, they were shot in the breast,” she said. “And this seemed like a systematic attempt at genital mutilation.”

Pictures of victims of the Nova music festival attack are displayed at the site near Kibbutz Re'im and Israel's border with Gaza on Nov. 28.  Spencer Platt / Getty Images

Victimized Palestinian Refugees

"[The spike in terrorism  happens] in part because of, over $6 billion in U.S., Canada, and European Union aid given to the Palestinian Authority [PA] and the United Nations Relief Works Agency [UNRWA] since 2008."

"The PA invests a substantial share of its budget, and hence of this foreign aid, on inciting terrorism, on glorifying terrorism and on financially rewarding terrorism."

Henry Kopel, (retired) U.S. Federal Prosecutor

"[We believe that] the unfortunate but glaring reality here is this: Decades of negotiations, agreements, promises, warnings, moral appeals, and temporary aid suspensions all have done nothing to reduce or prevent the Palestinian Authority's relentless commitment to inciting, glorifying, and financially rewarding acts of terrorism committed against innocent Israelis."

The Abraham Accord Peace Initiative

Terror attack in a synagogue in Jerusalem: This evening at around 8:30pm local time, a terrorist arrived at a synagogue in the Neve Ya'akov boulevard in Jerusalem and proceeded to shoot at a number of people in the area   Israeli Police Photo

 

Spontaneous, erratic, random terrorist attacks can take place anywhere, at any time in Israel, incited by a Palesltinian leadership commitment to convincing Palestinians that they are victims of Israeli aggression. It is a message that has a much wider audience as well, through a clever institutionalized program of 'public relations' propaganda painting Israel and Jews who support Israel, as illegal 'occupiers' of their own Biblical-era ancestral geography in the Middle East. 

The hugely aggressive and highly successful strategy used by the Palestinian Authority in what is called the West Bank (of the Jordan River) and their sectarian counterparts, Hamas in Gaza, a Western-acknowledged terrorist group has had little difficulty initiating a Western-popularized sanctions regimen popularly called the BDS Movement, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions isolationist move against Israel. 

 

Unions and Academic institutions in particular have taken to the BDS program with great enthusiasm, all too willing to endorse the slander that Israel is actively engaged in blocking a peace agreement that would lead the way to a formally internationally recognized Palestinian state. The PA and its cohorts smear Israel with refusing to negotiate in good faith for a peace agreement, while in reality at the negotiating table Israel has time and again offered all the conditions demanded by the PA only to have them back away.

 

Palestinians celebrate a Jerusalem terror attack that killed seven Israelis near a synagogue, in Gaza City, January 27, 2023. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

 

Israel has been forced by Palestinian Authority intransigence over negotiations and the PA's institutionalized teaching of young Palestinians from grade school forward through school curricula, social media, television and news networks that Jews are their enemies and there is no finer future for an aspiring Palestinian hero than to conspire to murder Jews. Through such achievements as delivering death to Jews, the perpetrators receive celebrity status, their families are given generous financial pensions..

 

These acts of terrorism are excused by Western allies of both the PA and Israel as inevitable, a people victimized and frustrated, fighting for their human rights. The murder of Jewish Israelis, from young children to adults to elders to soldiers and police fail to impact the conscience of the world community which has grown comfortable viewing Jews and Israelis as having the upper hand, convincing them that their sympathy is rightfully placed with the Palestinian 'victims' of Israeli 'apartheid'.

 

Should Jews venture by misadventure into a West Bank village or city (cities called 'refugee camps'), their lives are immediately endangered. No Jews may live among Arabs in the West Bank, whereas several million Arabs live in Israel as citizens with equal rights to Jews. Palestinian Arabs sit in the Israeli Knesset (parliament), are appointed judges, their youth attend Israeli universities, medical practitioners practise out of Israeli hospitals.

 

In the Jewish apartheid state, Druze, Bedouin, Arabs, Christian, Baha'i and a host of other non-Jews have citizenship with all the rights associated with that status. Most non-Jewish Israeli citizens, including Palestinians have no wish to live under PA rule, preferring to remain in Israel which speaks volumes about the assurances of justice and security guaranteed to all. Still, among those living in the West Bank, in Gaza and in Israel itself, Palestinians are readily convinced by their leaders that their finest calling is as a martyr in the 'struggle' against the 'oppressor'.

 

While the Palestinian Authority continues to reward terrorism; Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has said outright that nothing could induce him or the PA to stop what is called 'pay-for-slay', which says all that is needed to fully understand how much of a 'partner-for-peace' Israel has in the current Palestinian administration -- and it has never been any different under any previous leader. In effect, every Western power that sanctimoniously helps fund the PA in the assumption they are helping the Palestinians is complicit in their terrorist actions and the death of Jews. 

This is no secret. The evidence is blatantly available, even boasted of. Media in the West play deliberately into the hands of the PA media machine. Headlines never fail to emphasize the latest news from the canted perspective of the 'Palestinian cause'. When Israel Defence Forces defensively cause the death of an armed terrorist who has just killed Israelis, news headlines blare: the IDF kills a Palestinian overlooking the cause and effect.

The world -- certainly not the United Nations, and much less so, the UNRWA arm of the UN specific to the Palestinian 'situation' has no interest in removing the identification of 'refugees' from a people who left the territory in favour of returning once assembled Arab armies destroyed the nascent Israeli state after refusing the UN Partition plan for side-by-side states, Israeli and Palestinian. Remaining refugees consolidates their victimhood status.

There is no expectation that the Palestinians will be civilized, will develop the core infrastructure of a responsible state, will be capable and amenable of administering itself in a manner expected of a sovereign state with full employment for its population and a standard of living that would not include international handouts in pity of a marginalized population. 

 

The time has long passed for Palestinians to be proud of themselves as responsible, independent people. It's never too late but that time won't come as long as they're being coddled with no expectations of civilized behaviour, encouraging their victimhood.

Israeli forces, paramedic reach the site of terror attack, image via Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/ Getty Images

Antisemitism at University of Toronto Medical School

"Personal experiences as a faculty member and as a clinician [including antisemitism that I personally witnessed or experienced] led to the writing of this report]."

"There are those who do not only cross over the line to anti-Jewish hatred but who do so proudly and perhaps sometimes as the primary goal, hiding behind the Palestinian cause all the while."

"I personally experienced many instances of antisemitism, including being told that all Jews are liars, that Jews lie to control the university or the faculty or the world, to oppress or hurt others, and/or for other forms of gain; and that antisemitism can't exist because everything Jews say are lies, including any claims to have experienced discrimination."

Dr. Ayelet Kuper, associate professor, department of medicine, University of oronto

 Thee was a time in Canada -- and Toronto -- in the 1930s when signs were erected reading: "No Jews, Blacks of Dogs Allowed". It was a time when entry to universities was difficult for Jews with strictly limited enforced quotas. When universities adopted a rigid system of exclusion, just as private clubs did. Public parks and beaches were also off limits to Jews. Antisemitism ran rampant, so deeply entrenched that when Jews were desperate to escape Germany and certain death few countries saw their way clear to accepting these refugees, certainly not Canada. 

 

Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Incidents of antisemitism have once again crept out of the dank, dark sewers that once quietly hosted them, to again find free expression in places where Jews once felt comfortably that they were finally accepted and the miserable days of active Jew-hate was firmly and permanently relegated to the past. A contrite world post-Holocaust made it socially unacceptable for people to utter racist comments in public. People who harboured rank beliefs in Jewish plots to control the world kept their own counsel.

And then, over a gradual period, with the rebirth of the Jewish state of Israel, conflict between Arabs living in the area that was historically Judean, named as a province of 'Palestine' -- where indigenous Jews traditionally lived -- by the Roman occupation a the time of the Roman empire, was contested by Arabs throughout the Middle East as Arab/Muslim land, not Judean. The first reaction to the establishment of Israel reborn, was military violence which failed to reach its goal.

 

Until the Arab population of 'Palestine' took for themselves the identification of Palestinians as well as the historical presence that was Judaean in character, claiming themselves to be the legitimate authentic indigenous population, Jews mere colonialists. Palestinians draped themselves in victimhood and the world responded with concern. Not concern over Palestinian Arab violence extinguishing the lives of Jews, but the public relations campaign launched to slander the very existence of Israel as illegitimate.

It was a campaign that couldn't fail to resonate with closet antisemites until they become sufficiently emboldened to air their anti-Jewish slurs in the light of day, portraying themselves as sympathetic to the Palestinian 'cause' against invading, oppressive Jews. Hiding behind the noxious vision of a Jewish state bent on wresting control of territory from its original inhabitants as Palestinian Arabs claimed themselves to be, the campaign of disentitlement and delegitimization spread in lock step with visible antisemitism.

Now, on university campuses all over North America, and Canada in particular, Jewish students are harassed and subjected to the racist label of oppressors of victimized Palestinians. A front, in actual fact for the oldest hate in the world. It has become 'legitimate' to criticize Israel and arguing that to do so has nothing to do with antisemitism. In the process victimizing Canadian Jews as accessories to the Jewish state's unwillingness to allow itself to be destroyed. The upshot is that verbal, violent antisemitism has become a dominant creed once again.

Toronto's premier institute of higher education has tarnished itself by becoming an accessory to blatant lies about Israel and harming the lives of Jewish Canadians through the semi-institutionalization of antisemitism. A new academic paper published in the Canadian Medical Education Journal by a credible witness within the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at University of Toronto describes the situation, within a greater aura of disinterest in and unwillingness to do anything about the viral presence of antisemitism.

And while the Faculty of Medicine at the university issued a rote condemnation of antisemitism to the effect of stating that "it takes courage to step forward and shine a light on hate. We hear you. We see you and we are with you", nothing has followed that kindly sentiment.

• Being told that because she was born in Israel and refuses to denounce the Jewish state, she is “inherently racist, and therefore any discrimination I encounter as a Jew in Canada is therefore deserved.” 
• A faculty member [told her] that Jews mustn’t be allowed to speak on their own behalf about antisemitism and shouldn’t even be subject to the protection from discrimination as outlined in the Ontario Human Rights Code, on the grounds that what Jews call antisemitism isn’t real.
• “In the years before the war in Gaza, I overheard faculty colleagues complaining about ‘those Jews who think their Holocaust means they know something about oppression.’” 
• [I] heard about non-Jewish students who thought a Jewish classmate had the power to block their residency matches. 
• Non-Jewish students asked her why educational content about Jews was “being forced on the students by the Jew who bought the faculty.” 

Dr. Ayelet Kuper’s article in the Canadian Medical Education Journal.

Polish Paper Proudly Publishing Hateful Antisemitic Slanders

"To publish something like this in a Canadian newspaper, whether it's in English or non-English, is criminal. It's absolutely criminal to pursue this form of hatred."     "We feel very strongly that this is a case where charges should be laid ... "         "We know that hate speech provisions of the Criminal Code are not often used, but this does cross the threshold."                                                                                  Michael Mostyn, CEO, B'nai B'rith Canada

"The ongoing global pandemic has spurred a fast-spreading epidemic of hate speech and disinformation including conspiracy theories with a clear antisemitic motive."                                                                                                               "Data from the World Jewish Congress shows that in the first months of the pandemic, there was a 30 percent increase in antisemitic content on social media." UN agency UNESCO webinar

The front of the March 25 edition of Glos Polski, with the story headlined “Coronavirus, or fake pandemic.” Glos Polski

Blatantly outrageous racist conspiracy theories were published twice -- the first time in March, then again in April -- in a Polish-Canadian newspaper with firm links to a Polish community group. The tirade claimed that COVID-19 was created by "organized Jewry", and for those who weren't aware of the threat that the Jewish presence imposes on the world community, the emphasis was placed on the 'fact' that Jews are the cause of all that goes wrong in the world. Somewhat similar to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in intent.

The very same kind of racist propaganda favoured by Nazi Germany that was meant to influence how Jews were viewed by those who read it. To pave the way to complicit genocide. That this kind of hateful message remains current and is unpacked in Canada through the auspices of an ethnic community group in whose country of origin many of the most horrific excesses of the Holocaust took place is quite simply mind-numbing. 

 Turning gullible minds toward the acidic venom of attributing base motivations to another ethnic group is the lowest form of deliberately hateful incivility.

When the publication of the accusations came to the attention of the Jewish human-rights group B'nai B'rith it immediately called attention to the newspaper, alerting police to a public hate crime in violation of the law. In the March 25 edition of Glos Polski which is published in Toronto claiming a readership by Poles "around the globe", the headline read "Coronavirus or fake pandemic". The story was repeated in the weekly publication in a late April edition, with no identifying byline.

"Biological weapons are being worked on in the U.S. and Israel not by just any experts, but (under) the leadership of usually Jewish psychopaths", the story reads, in discussing the origins of COVID-19, suggesting "organized Jewry" can "laugh their heads off" at the COVID-19 crisis to which Jewish social media had used "Goebbelsian propaganda" to manipulate the world with. 

What malignant, base irony when poisonous slander with Goebbels-similarities defames Jews by charging Jewish infamy.

It goes on to claim that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant was manipulated by Jews, created to attack Gentiles and it is Israel that remains "the cause of all the world's woes", striving in the creation of an Judeo-Polonia state in Poland. Trotting out the tired old tropes of Jews controlling the stock markets of the world. And incredible as it may seem to any half-wit susceptible to Jew-hatred but still capable of distinguishing between fact and fiction, the claim that Vladimir Lenin, Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan were all closet Jews.

No comment could be elicited from the editor of the newspaper, Wieslaw Magiera. And on the polish-canadians.ca website a promotional page describes the rag as a "paper which searches for the Truth, protects the good name of Poles and reminds us of the Polish culture and history". Indeed, yesss! 

According to the same page, Glos Polski is "edited by" (approved by?) the Polish National Union of Canada, verified on its website by the Union describing the paper as its "press body", inextricably linked since the launch in 1951 of the newspaper.

The Polish National Union of Canada mission statement is faultless in its clarity: "A cultural and service organization, a member of the Canadian Polish Congress, whose aim is to promote Polish culture, language, traditions and knowledge of Polish history to the Polish community..." Nowhere does it state to the uninitiated eye that it also promotes anti-Semitism through its printed and online links, its "press body".

It does claim to be one of Canada's largest Polish organizations, however, its role to counter Communist agitation. Presumably while it agitates to promote anti-Semitism. Canada, needless to say, is a vast community of immigrants brought together to share a life in a country dedicated to equality and security for all its residents. Public funding goes out routinely to various ethnic groups through a spirit of formal and institutionalized multiculturalism. To the Union has gone out hundreds of thousands from provincial coffers. An award for good citizenship.

The same page says Glos Polski is “edited by” the Polish National Union of Canada. On its website, the Union itself describes the paper as its “press body” and says the two have been inextricably linked since Glos Polski’s launch in 1951.

Their Tempestuous Teapot

"There is a perception, right or wrong, true or untrue, that the Netanyahu administration and the Trump administration are working hand in glove."
"In our hyperpartisan world, the friend of my enemy is my enemy, and to the extent that Democrats look at Trump as the enemy, if they see Israel and the Netanyahu administration as operating hand in glove, that gives them real pause."
Mark Mellman, president, Democratic Majority for Israel

"What is the one mantra of the pro-Israel organizations for 30, 40 years?"
"It's congressional support. Presidents have their own views, but Congress is the core."
"So, to pick a fight with members of Congress, which is going to force half of Congress to rally to their defence is really foolish."
William Kristol, conservative Trump critic

"We respect all members of Congress. Our directive is to facilitate, on a regular and automatic basis, the entry of all members of Congress, Democratic and Republican. Just one week ago, I met with dozens of Democratic members of Congress."
"Ambassador Dermer enunciated this precise policy. There is only one exception and it is the BDS law that obligates us to evaluate the entry of people who support BDS."
"When Ambassador Dermer spoke, there was no specific request regarding these visits; neither was there an itinerary or a specific travel plan. As soon as these arrived, we checked it and reached the decision that we did. This was a principled, not a partisan, decision."
"We respect all political parties in the US equally; however, we also respect ourselves. Whoever comes to impose boycotts on us and to deny the legitimacy of the State of Israel, we will not allow them entry." 
"Several days ago, we received [Omar and Tlaib’s] trip itinerary which clarified that they planned a visit whose sole purpose was to support boycotts and deny Israel’s legitimacy. For example, they called their destination ‘Palestine’ and not ‘Israel,’ and unlike all Democratic and Republican members of Congress before them, they did not seek any meeting with any Israeli official, whether government or opposition."
"The itinerary of the two congresswomen reveals that their sole purpose is to harm Israel and increase incitement against it. In addition, the organization that is funding their trip is Miftah, which is an avid supporter of BDS, and among whose members are those who have expressed support for terrorism against Israel."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Reps. Rashida Tlaib, left, and Ilhan Omar, right. (AP/Andrew Harnik, File, Susan Walsh)

Many countries other than Israel make decisions not to permit entry to those whom they consider unwelcome. Most frequently guest speakers invited to address university audiences are refused entry to a country because of their right-wing or perceived racist views. Any country reserves the right to welcome or deny entry to those whose political agenda is questionable on its merits posing as proponents of ideologies contrary to a nation's values and laws. The two U.S. Congresswomen whose statements and positions with respect to Israel's legitimacy they frequently slander a case in point.

Which brings us to the question, why is it that Israel alone seems to attract condemnation for its decision-making to a degree never otherwise seen addressed to other nations? A country that the two Congresswomen describe as Apartheid despite having a 20 percent Arab citizenry, as opposed to all its neighbouring Arab countries where historically Jews lived and laboured but were expelled at the creation of the State of Israel. And certainly in stark contrast to the Palestinian Territories where a deadly prohibition against any Jewish presence is formalized.

Reps.Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota had one agenda only with their intention of travelling to the Middle East, and that was to bolster their credentials as virulent anti-Semites. Now, as matters tumbled from one exchange to another with the sanctimonious accusations of Apartheid and insults to the United States Congress because two notorious partisan helpmeets of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and associates of groups linked to terrorism claim themselves to have been victimized, it has become instantly fashionable to criticize Israel.

It was, in fact, Tlaib who, spurred on by her Palestinian family in Bei Ur Al-Fauqa, West Bank where they have been resident since 1974, declined the 'humanitarian' based exception to the 2017 Israeli law excluding entry to Israel by BDS supporters, although she had appealed for just such an exception, writing to the Israeli Interior Minister directly: "This would be my last opportunity to see her [grandmother]. I will respect any restrictions and will not promote boycotts against Israel during my visit", only to slam the very invitation she had requested as "insulting" to her values.

Back to the victimhood drawing board, and why not, since it works so spectacularly well; the first, middle and last resort of the sanctimonious hypocrites that love to rewrite history in their favour irrespective of how absurd their historical claims tend to be, revealing the pathological state of their intransigent hatred for the presence of a Jewish state in the Middle East; a humiliating wrench for Islamist sensibilities when land 'consecrated' by divine right of conquest to Islam is returned to its rightful inheritance.

Slander? Incite to Deadly Hatred? C'Mon, Y'all!

"Only a few days ago, we received their itinerary for their visit in Israel, which revealed that they planned a visit whose sole objective is to strengthen the boycott against us and deny Israel's legitimacy."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

"I would like to request admittance to Israel in order to visit my relatives, and specifically my grandmother, who is in her 90s and lives in Beit Ur al-Fouqa. This could be my last opportunity to see her."
"I will respect any restrictions and will not promote boycotts against Israel during my visit."

"Silencing me & treating me like a criminal is not what she [her grandmother] wants for me. It would kill a piece of me."
"I have decided that visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions stands against everything I believe in–fighting against racism, oppression & injustice."
U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib

US Congresswoman Rashia Tlaib of Michigan. Photo: Reuters/Rebecca Cook

"Last night, she sent me a letter asking to allow her to visit her 90-year-old grandmother 'because this could be my last chance to meet her'."
"I approved it on humanitarian grounds, but it turns out that it was a provocation to embarrass Israel. Her hatred for Israel overcomes her love for her grandmother."
Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri  

Israeli Interior Minister spokesman Barak Seri provided a copy of the letter submitted by Tlaib

"We reject the decision of the Israeli occupation to ban the entry of Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib. This highlights how Israel antagonizes every individual or organization that support the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and rejects every attempt at explaining the reality of the Palestinian life under occupation."
Grandmother,Muftiya Tliab, uncle Ghassan Tlaib

Muftiya Tlaib, the maternal grandmother of US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, outside her home in Beit Ur al-Fouqa on Thursday

Where is it written that it is the inalienable right of slanderers and those who consort with terrorists -- supporting the genocidal agendas of Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad to destroy the State of Israel, the very state that is the hapless recipient of unwanted attention from two American Congresswomen whose anti-Semitism is well known -- to be entitled to visit the very place they work so assiduously to destroy? The expense of the projected trip to Israel by Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and her equally heinous colleague Rep. Ilhan Omar was underwritten by a terrorist group.

Rashida Tlaib, left, and Ilhan Omar, right

For sheer blatant effrontery in the face of attempted conciliatory placation, by a nation that tries heroically to accommodate its detractors, leading Israel to reverse its decision to deny entry to the two women, the malicious turn-around by Congresswoman Tlaib to declare after all, despite her assurance that she would restrain her base vituperative tirades against Israel while visiting, that she had no intention of honouring that pledge once it had succeeded in persuading Israel to allow her entry.

Part of the two women's itinerary was to visit the Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount, the third holiest site in Islam, and the first most sacred site in Judaism. There, at the mosque, Muslims are permitted to pray on what Islam terms the Noble Sanctuary. Jews may 'visit' the site but are not permitted to pray there. Their very presence infuriates Muslims who react with violence. Should Jews be seen to be praying on such a visit an instant mob action materializes with stone-throwing and assaults.

So much for the claims of the two that Israel is an Apartheid State.

A Jewish state in fact where a considerable proportion of the population with citizenship is Muslim (21%), with Muslim legislators duly elected, and high office achieved. Other minorities within the greater population, from Druze to Christians and Baha'i, have all the rights of citizenship. Should, on the other hand, any Jew somehow find their way into a West Bank Palestinian town through an error of judgement they will be attacked, their very lives in danger.

There is an exclusionary law enacted in 2017 in Israel that supporters of BDS are not permitted entry to Israel. The BDS movement, after all, is meant to mount worldwide sanctions against trade with Israel, against academic exchanges, through boycott, divestment and sanctions. Some unions, some among the LGBTQ2 community, the international entertainment field, academic community and university student bodies actively support BDS. Its purpose is to delegitimize the State of Israel.

What country would absorb this kind of abuse in the name of human rights, when those for whom the destruction of Israel is meant to benefit, are in very fact, corrupt, tyrannical, undemocratic, misogynistic, violence-prone, refusing to accommodate themselves to the presence of Jews in a majority-Muslim landscape?

Misplaced Credibility

"[Carl] Beech caused unimaginable distress to the men he falsely accused and all the families caught up in his deception. Many of the accused were dead and unable to defend themselves."
"Beech's actions betray true victims, who should never be afraid of coming forward to reveal abuse."
Liz Reid, Crown Prosecution Service, Newcastle Crown Court, Britain, July 2019

"Nick [pseudonym of Carl Beech] has been spoken to by experienced officers from the child abuse team and from the murder investigation team and they and I believe what Nick is saying is credible and true."
Det.Supt.Kenney McDonald, Operation Midland, 2012

"[I have seen] clear intelligence suggesting a powerful pedophile network linked to Parliament and No.10 [Downing Street]."
M.P. Tom Watson, Labour, House of Commons, 2012

"At one stage during questioning, Lord Bramall, [age 92], who took part in the D-Day landings, was asked if he could swim, as if this might prove his involvement in a pool sex party, that was supposed to have taken place."
"The following day [August 2015], in a brave but risky move, Mr. Proctor [Harvey Proctor, M.P.] went public, and at an extraordinary news conference, held at a hotel opposite Scotland Yard, revealed exactly what he and the other VIPs had been accused of."
The Daily Telegraph

Carl Beech/Facebook

Operation Midland was launched in 2012 in Great Britain on the strength of shocking charges made by a man who divulged to detectives the purported abuse he had suffered as a child at military locations and apartments located close to Whitehall. A gang of pedophiles represented by trusted public figures in parliament had murdered three young boys in the 70s and 80s. This was a man whose name is Carl Beech, who named some of the people he accused of abusing him and other young people.

Edward Heath, a former Tory prime minister was among those named, along with Leon Brittan, a former Cabinet minister; former army chief Edwin Bramble; Maurice Oldfield, ex-head of MI6; Harvey Proctor M.P., along with other lawmakers and military figures of popular recognition. At the time that these accusations were being heard and recorded by police, they were given the stamp of believability, police speaking of them as "credible and true".

It might have been thought that the police would be somewhat less credulous at hearing pretty unbelievable narratives of child molestation by important public figures at the highest echelons of government and the military, but such was not the case. "He is a man who has done enormous damage to totally innocent people who have done him no harm at all. An evil man", said D-Day veteran, former general Hugh Beach, who was among those falsely accused.

Himself the son of a military family, he claimed his stepfather, a major, had repeatedly raped him. The claims extended to his step-father making him available to senior government and military figures to sexually abuse him as a boy. On military bases he along with other young boys suffered torture as well as sexual abuse, he claimed.

London's Metropolitan Police force evidently experienced no difficulty in giving their full support to the plethora of lies exuded by the man, launching the investigation that would ruin so many lives. Public figures held in admiration and trust suddenly found themselves considered demonic figures of child molestation, their reputations gone, their public positions evaporated, fighting for what they had so abruptly lost in the tide of public opinion led by the trusted police force.

Then it was discovered by detectives, years after he had engineered the chaotic shambles of respected men's lives, that this former pediatric nurse, school governor, hospital inspector was a hidden pedophile. He had claimed compensation of 22,000 pounds identifying himself as a child victim of the notorious Jimmy Savile the BBC entertainer who enjoyed years of predatory assaults on helpless children. Only after his death was it discovered that the popular, trusted and admired man had ruined vulnerable lives.

Beech's was not among them. Beech was a man who caused former cabinet minister Leon Brittan to die of cancer before it could be revealed that the charges against him were false. Even after his death in 2015 the investigation resulted in his home being raided. Eventually police were condemned for having immediately accepted the allegations against men of good repute that slandered them and shredded their reputations, giving credence where none was due.

Carl Beech was revealed to be a pedophile when child abuse images were discovered on his computer. He admitted to four counts of producing indecent images of children, one count of possessing indecent images, and one count of voyeurism. MP Harvey Proctor spoke of Operation Midland as "a truly disgraceful chapter in the history of British policing". The decision to rubber-stamp Beech's claims, to tarnish the reputations of leading politicians and military figures, to raid their homes, was indefensible.

Gloucestershire Police

It took five years to expose Beech now 51, as a shameless fantasist. Because of his blatant lies, 92-year-old Lord Bramall's home was raided by no fewer than twenty police officers. Once the head of the British army, the ignominy of child predator was pasted to his name, his home raided, his reputation raked through the muck of guilt and speculation.

MP Harvey Proctor was forced to stand in the House of Commons to reveal he had been accused of pedophilia, torture and that he had strangled a 12-year-old boy to death. 

"[The case was] unlike any other I have seen in my career."
"He is not a fantasist, as some people have described him, nor is he a victim of abuse where there was insufficient evidence to prosecute."
"[He was a] very prolific and manipulative liar [who] thrived on being in the limelight.".
"He would quite happily have seen innocent men arrested and face the full weight of the law."
Jenny Hopkins, head, special crime and counter-terrorism, Crown Prosecution Service, London

Palestinian Entitlements

"France doesn't recognize Palestine as a state, but our mission there is called Diplomatic Mission of Palestine. Some European countries have given us full diplomatic missions -- Hungary, Russia, Austria, Bosnia, Turkey, Poland, Malta, Serbia, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Sweden and Montenegro -- and others [such as France, Spain, Ireland and Norway] don't recognize us as a state, but we have diplomatic representation there."
"It's symbolic and it's happening in Europe. Canada can do it, too. I can't talk politics with Canada if we're not seen as a political body."
"My mission is to promote Palestinian and Canadian relations. I want Global Affairs Canada to deal with [my mission] as a recognized political body."
Nabil Maarouf, representative of Palestinian General Delegation in Canada

Nabil Marouf, representative of the Palestinian General Delegation in Canada. Diplomatica

You bet he does. This man, representing the Palestinian Authority, not the State of Palestine, for there is no such state, wants to leap-frog the PA into the status of statehood by default, not by negotiations that will lead to the privilege of statehood. A privilege that the United Nations offered to both Palestinian Jews and Arabs in 1948 and which Jews gratefully accepted, while Arabs forcefully declined. So forcefully that they fled the area that represented the Jewish state, while protesting that all the land they unilaterally identify as Palestinian land should be theirs.

In fact, the geography that was meant to be returned to Jews in recognition of their ancient homeland and their ongoing presence as Palestinian Jews was instead splintered into three portions, the largest of which was underhandedly given by the British Mandate [despite its promise to Jews] to Transjordan's Bedouin Hussein dynasty when the Saudis took possession of land they originally lived in, to mollify them, establishing the Saudis in Arabia later to become Saudi Arabia and the Husseins in Transjordan.

Leaving a smaller portion to be divided equally between Jews and Arabs for their states. Instead, the combined Arab armies of the surrounding Muslim nations marched on newly-declared Israel to destroy it and return the land to Islam, a project that was repeated time and again with each time the Arab militaries seeing defeat at the determined hands of one tiny nation's military. Which is why the Palestinians, still agitating to recover all the land they declare theirs still have no state.

But this man, representing the purported interests of the Palestinians feels entitled to urge the Government of Canada to effect a 'simple' and 'unassuming' name change for his delegation from the currently named Palestinian General Delegation to the more authoritative General Delegation of Palestine. In fact, he represents Palestinian interests, certainly not the interests of 'Palestine', for there is, as yet, no designated 'Palestine' as a state to be given equal status as a state in Canada for diplomatic or any other purpose.

Palestinian Nabil Maarouf insists that Canada's refusal to effect the change he strives to persuade them of, represents a signal that Canada does not acknowledge the geographic region of Palestine. That's certainly one way of putting it. He complains that no official federal delegation has yet visited 'Palestine'. How can they? there is no 'Palestine', though they might, if so inclined, visit the West Bank and the Palestinian Authority. Where the same disingenuous arguments will be thrown at them.

All this man wants is for the minister of Foreign Affairs to "see the facts on the ground". Not recognition of the state of Palestine, "but what we want is a small promotion", he urges, citing the fact that many European countries while not recognizing Palestine as a state -- yet -- have agreed to accept diplomatic missions in their capitals. So why doesn't Canada? "Is it going to hurt Israel in any way?", he goads. In fact, what he and his like focus on is hurting Israel in any way they possibly can.

 While Canada provides indirect support for the Palestinians, their representative in Canada would like to see it increased, for Canada to contribute more funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA was established in 1948, at the creation of the State of Israel and the refusal of Palestinians to accept a state of their own on ground delegated to them. It is the longest-running 'refugee' funding racket the world has ever seen. The Palestinians have had over sixty years to demonstrate their capability to operate a nation, but prefer to exist on international hand-outs.

This is typical of the Palestinian Arab sense of entitlement, that nothing substantive is required of them to show the world that they are capable of becoming a country of self-pride in being able to fend for themselves as Israel has done. They chose instead to invest and indulge in violent backlash, in inciting their people to commit murderous crimes, and when that wasn't effective enough they went off on a public relations slander initiative of Israel to delegitimize it by labelling it as an Apartheid state, and an 'occupier'.

An 'occupation' resulting from the necessity of self-defence. Defending itself against one onslaught after another by combined Arab armies, and against the terrorist actions of Palestinians taught from childhood to adulthood to view Jews as cursed enemies that must be destroyed before 'Palestine' can be made whole again, as if 'Palestine' ever existed other than as a home for Jews before the Arab incursion and claims of ownership of name and geography.

This is a particular specialty of Muslims. To co-opt the principals and principles of another, ancient religion, as their very own, presenting it as the 'finished product', declared so by none other than Allah through the divine auspices of the Prophet Mohammad. The ancient symbols of Judaism, the heritage sites of particular note in the Old Testament, and the Jewish Prophets, including Christ, are adopted wholemeal into Islam with the note of pride that Abraham, Moses, Christ and the lesser prophets were all, in actual fact, Arab, not Jews.

"How can you [Canada] talk about your fight for refugees, but not give to UNRWA?" he goads righteously. Palestinian Arabs are no longer refugees except for international public relations conveying the image of having been ill-done-by, innocents held in violent thrall by an evil state which targets Palestinian children for death. When the truth is Palestinian children are trained and geared to attack Jews as a tribal, religious obligation to restore 'honour' to Islam which forbids land once consecrated to Islam to host vestiges of any other religion.

Canada sees all too well where so much of the international financial support provided through UNRWA goes, to celebrate and honour Palestinian 'martyrs' who surrender their lives with pride while in the process of slaughtering Jews fulfilling their obligations to the cause of 'resistance' and avoiding any hint of possible 'normalization' with Jews and the State of Israel.