"Hamas relies on a diverse web of international partners to expand its malign political influence, facilitate violent terrorist activity, and undermine international efforts to achieve lasting peace in Gaza."

"[The key backer of the flotilla, and previous iterations, is the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad [PCPA], an organization that] is clandestinely controlled [by Palestinian terrorists]."

"In reality, the PCPA was established with funding from Hamas's International Relations Bureau and Hamas directs its activity through the placement of Hamas officials throughout the organization."

"The PCPA does not only work with, and in support of, Hamas -- it operates at Hamas's behest." 

US. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) 

 

"I am both honoured and humbled to be a part of this year's mission to Gaza."

"The aid that we have isn't sufficient to the structural issues in a post 'ceasefire' Gaza [clearly not a 'humanitarian' mission."

"For me, as someone who, I think at this juncture in history, is very wedded to direct action, I feel like directly confronting the Israeli occupation forces at sea as we try to break this 20-year genocidal siege, to me is like a historic responsibility."

Flotilla activist Rosa Martinez 

Basque police officers detain members of the Global Sumud Flotilla upon their arrival at Bilbao Airport on May 23, 2026. (Idurre Etxaburu / AFP)

 

On Monday, Canada's prime minister Mark Carney held a telephone conversation with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, a summary of which was released for public viewing by the Prime Minister's Office. From that summary we learn that Mr. Carney 'underscored' Canada's support for a negotiated two-state 'solution', a solution that the Palestinian leadership has time and again rejected. As well, the imperative of regional de-escalation was 'underlined' by the prime minister who 'raised' the issue of the Gaza crisis, and 'expressed concern' for civilian displacement in Lebanon.

 

Gaza crisis? Hamas designed, directed and deployed. Civilian displacement in Lebanon? Hezbollah rockets fired incessantly into Israel leading to civilian displacement of Israeli citizens. Both crises caused by terrorists' actions meant to lead to the destruction of the Jewish state. Condemn Hamas and Hezbollah, and empathize with Israel under constant fire? Heaven forfend. 

 

"The Prime Minister reiterated that the appalling treatment of civilians, including Canadian citizens, aboard the Gaza-bound flotilla was unacceptable, and he called for an independent investigation." 

 

This, from a leader whose most grave homeland concerns are 'elbows  up' against a powerful neighbour who enjoys needling Canadian sovereignty and imposing ridiculous self-harming tariffs in vital resources to remind Canada just who leads throughout the global community. Contrasted with a national leadership forced to focus on military self-defense from a implacably violence-devoted neighbours who will go to any lengths to see that citizens of Israel pay the ultimate price for squatting as colonialists on their own singular indigenous ancestral land.

 

Israeli naval commandos intercept boats in the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Cyprus on May 18, 2026. (Global Sumud Flotilla)

 

If there was ever any doubt that Mark Carny is an unreconstructed Judeophobe, his complacency over Palestinian-led slanderous propaganda carousing through the cities and streets of Canada, threatening the security of Canadian Jews, leading a viral campaign of pure Jew-hate -- failing in his duty as the current executive administrator of Canada's commitment in law and social agreement to protect and provide equality of treatment to all of the country's various ethnic-cultural-religious groups -- sealed that apprehension comprehensively.

 

To which, in turn during the conversation, Israel's President responded in his own version of the lines spoken during their telephone call: 

"I expressed my deep alarm over the rise in antisemitic violence in Canada."

"I called on Prime Minister Carney and his government to address the fear and sense of abandonment felt by our sisters and brothers in the Canadian Jewish community before it's too late."

 

It is clear that Mark Carney has a special regard for Hamas which despite being on Canada's terrorist list, must obviously be doing something right in 'resisting the occupation' he so deplores. Israel, in its never-ending vigilance against new violence perpetrated against the Jewish state and its citizens on the other hand, offends Mr. Carney's sensibilities. In other words, a democratic Jewish state which far from intolerance, has absorbed Muslims, Christians, Druze, Kurds, Circassians, B'hai, and Bedouin among others into its citizenship, as far as Carney is concerned is violently intolerant, whereas Palestinian terrorism merely represents the frustration of 'occupation'.

 

Carney cannot be bothered with history, not when identities are clearly defined and give the lie to his contentious beliefs in Palestinian indigeneity and historical rights, when in fact they are part and parcel of the lie of Palestinian victimhood. Ismail Haniyeh who led the mass atrocity of October 7, 2023 when thousands of Palestinian terrorists streamed across the border from Gaza into southern Israel to wreak rape and murder, spoke of the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad as a strategy to "boost Hamas's international outreach".

 

Activists from the global Sumud flotilla in Italy May 21. Reuters

 

"This is the fourth flotilla organized for provocation rather than humanitarian concern."

"The flotillas have not been driven by legitimate humanitarian objectives, but by an orchestrated political campaign that serves the interests of Hamas."

Israeli Embassy, Canberra