Canada’s remarkable fidelity to an apartheid state committing genocide is driven by imperial geopolitics, settler solidarity, Christian Zionism and the Israel lobby in Canada, and the weaponization of antisemitism.
The Canadian tax code has long been used to subsidize projects in Israel and pro-apartheid groups have been the beneficiaries.
Leading pro-Israel organizations in the U.S. have criticized the Netanyahu government’s recent judicial reforms, while their counterparts in Canada have remained quiet. What explains the silence?
B’nai Brith is suing pro-Palestinian Rabbi David Mivasair and undermining the meaning of antisemitism by using it to describe any criticism of Israel, even rabbis who challenge their extremist view of who is a good Jew.
Recent attacks against Roger Waters are the latest example of false accusations of antisemitism being weaponized to defend Israeli apartheid.
A recent article purporting to expose antisemitism at the University of Toronto actually serves to highlight the anti-Palestinianism of Canada’s elite institutions.
The Israel lobby in Canada says that New Democratic Party support for Palestinian rights is “dangerous for Jews.”
Irwin Cotler, Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, has long been an aggressive proponent of Israeli apartheid. But an upcoming speech at Ariel University is igniting controversy and calls for him to withdraw.