High Alert for Canadian Jews in a Country Newly Steeped in Viral Antisemitism
"Within
hours of the butchery that killed 1,200 people in Israel last year,
protesters in Canada were taking to the streets in pro-Palestinian
rallies that openly celebrated the slaughter."
"Soon it was thought acceptable in Canada to tear down posters showing Israeli hostages."
"Large-scale
protests erupted on streets and university campuses and Jewish
businesses, synagogues and daycare centres were attacked."
"Meanwhile the Liberals added to this fetid atmosphere with a foreign policy that was as inept as it was foul."
Michael Higgins, columnist, National Post
Hamas terrorists stormed the Nova festival on 7 October and murdered hundreds BBC/Nik Millard |
Canada's
Liberal-led government of prime minister Justin Trudeau has led the way
in assuring Canadians of Middle Eastern descent and their surprising
number of supporters from among the always simmering-beneath-the-surface
sentiments of antisemitism in society that it would be perfectly within
the new social contract to criticize the state of Israel for provoking
Palestinians and their supporters to the point of their government in
Gaza, recognized by previous Canadian governments as terrorists,
enacting a modern-day pogrom of rape, torture and mass murder,
compelling the Jewish state to conduct protective counter-measures
during a state of existential threat.
Within
the period of a year that followed the October 7, 2023 atrocities
committed by Palestinian terrorists led by Hamas, the Trudeau government
and its cabinet ministers have made it clear, both by implication and
by overt statements and measures that in their considered opinion Israel
is over-reacting to a mere 'incident' of victim-rage enacted by a
captive population feeling itself oppressed, exploited and deprived of
their sovereign rights by an occupying apartheid imperialist
colonialism. Canada is not alone in this peculiar interpretation of a
fellow democracy violently assailed by Medieval brutality, but Canada's
level of complicity in finding fault with Israel, not the surrounding
threats to its existence is outstanding in its mendacity and complicity
with that violence.
Never
has this government extended itself beyond boilerplate antisemitic
condemnation. And never does Justin Trudeau mention antisemitism without
adding Islamophobia as an equal evil, despite that it is Muslims in the
majority with assistance from their non-Jewish left-leaning woke
Canadian demographic who are engrossed in the vile displays of
Israel-delegitimization while threatening the Canadian Jewish community
and committing violent acts of criminal action against that community.
In
the year that followed that mass atrocity of rape, mutilation, human
butchery, hostage-taking and the portrayals of terrorists as liberators
driven to express their frustration by committing unspeakable acts of
depravity, no sincere condemnation has assured Canadian Jews that their
government has their best interests in mind. Well demonstrated by the
lack of interest, much less any effort at controlling the hundreds of
anti-Israel, antisemitic, pro-Hamas rallies and demonstrations that have
choked major intersections in Canadian cities in sympathy with the
Palestinian drive to wrench Israel from the Middle East, its historical
homeland.
But
this Liberal government saw fit to support a UN General Assembly motion
for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, overturning Canada's traditional
balanced view of the historical details of the issue of Israel standing
its ground on its ancestral land, which the Palestinians claim as their
own, unwilling to recognize the authenticity and legitimacy of the
Jewish state, arguing that the land -- all of it, from the Jordan River
to the Mediterranean Sea, is theirs and theirs alone, in a total
re-write of history.
New
export permits for military equipment destined for Israel from Canadian
manufacturers were no longer to be issued, according to the Trudeau
Liberals, who disapprove of the Israel Defense Forces' response to the
Hamas atrocities in Gaza. Much less the need for Israel to put a halt to
a year's-worth of daily rocketry from Lebanon aimed by Hezbollah at
farming communities in northern Israel. And despite proof that UNRWA
employees in Gaza represented members of Hamas, some of whom have been
charged with taking part in the pogrom of October 7, Canada resumed its
funding of UNRWA.
One
of Hamas's top commanders was also an employee of UNRWA as a teacher,
using the UNRWA curricula that distinguishes them as anti-Israel
propaganda posing as school texts. This is the same United Nations
special refugee group for Gaza that keeps the Palestinians in
refugee-mode, along with the descendants of the original 700,000 who
fled or were forced out of Israel in 1948. Canada's minister of foreign
affairs reaffirmed "our support for UNRWA" at a meeting at the United Nations when she met with the Palestinian Authority prime minister Mohammad Mustafa.
Pro-Palestinian students at an anti-Israel encampment on the campus of McGill University in Montreal. (Photo by Alexis Aubin / AFP) |
It
is under the Trudeau Liberals with its generosity of cabinet and caucus
positions of Canadian Muslims that a decision to advance a
Parliamentary committee motion on the issue of Palestinian statehood
will be considered -- a motion that supports "the recognition of a viable and independent State of Palestine".
Rewarding Palestinian lethal violence, earning Hamas's gratitude. When
the reality is that the PA itself has no intention of recognizing the
State of Israel, and no intention of settling for a portion of the
geography that the United Nations in 1947 offered through their
Partition Plan, accepted by Israel, rejected by the Palestinian
leadership.
And
nor is this Liberal government the least bit interested in curtailing
the ongoing Palestinian protests throughout Canada that disrupts society
at every level, and continues to harass and threaten the Jewish
population in Canada's cities. There are criminal laws against inciting
to hatred, none of which have been put into action to stop the
Palestinian Youth Movement planning a one-year anniversary of October 7
-- honouring Hamas terrorists as 'martyrs' -- in Montreal at the Israeli
consulate.
In
Canada, the pro-Palestinian protests deny the realities of Palestinian
terrorists committing mass rape and sadistic torture of Israeli girls
and women. An investigation published in the New York Times described
breasts cut off, nails driven into thighs, women raped and knifed
simultaneously, severed heads of women used as trophies and footballs,
and the videos taken live by the terrorists themselves "talking,
giggling and shouting", raping women before "literally butchering them".
Women were found dead by medics and rescue personnel; naked, with hands
and feet tied.
The Nova festival was one of the sites of alleged sexual violence on 7 October EPA |
Labels: Hamas Butchery in Israel Israel Defense Forces in Gaza, Justin Trudeau's Disapproval, Liberal Canadian Government Inaction on Hate Crimes
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