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?
The Israel lobby in Canada says that New Democratic Party support for Palestinian rights is “dangerous for Jews.”
Zionist lobby groups in Canada have been on an anti-Palestinian rampage in the last two weeks.
Canada’s pro-Israel lobby is pressuring New Democratic Party leadership to suppress debate around a resolutions that seeks to rebuke the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism.
When will Israeli nationalists in North America completely discredit themselves by overusing their power to crush those who defend Palestinians? Fortunately, every cancel and smear campaign it wages alienates some new people and opens others’ eyes.
The Trudeau government’s record of voting against 50 UN resolutions affirming Palestinian rights undercut its effort to get on to the UN Security Council, and the blowback may lessen the influence of the Israel lobby in Canada. Because the truth is that the Canadian public doesn’t want the government pursuing anti-Palestinian positions.