“Many, many Jews in Canada oppose what Israel is doing! Never again stands for everyone, I learned! Everyone! …I never imagined a genocide like this would happen by Jewish people in what they call a Jewish State!…We want Canada to support peace, nor war!”
– Judy Rebick, at the December 3 occupation of Parliament Hill. [1]
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While the U.S.A may take the top prize for supporting Israel come hell or high water (even to the extreme of consistently vetoing UN Security Council Resolutions pointing against the Middle East State), Canada too is “unwavering” in its own support for Israel.
As writer and Canadian foreign policy critic Yves Engler spelled out in a February 22 article, imperial politics, settler solidarity, and Christian Zionism are at the root of Canada’s pro-Israel position. Some of these Christian Zionists included revered figures in history including famous NDP/CCF leaders Tommy Douglas and Stanley Knowles, and the former External Afffairs Minister and Prime Minister Lester Pearson. [2]
This cunning network, to say nothing of prominent media figures in tow, Yves notes that a number of Jewish organizations campaigning for Israel and no one else are well-resourced and organized, and they work in tandem with Israeli nationalist organizations like StandWithUs Canada, CAMERA, Allied Voices for Israel, Israel on Campus, and Honest Reporting Canada. This may help explain why from one side of the House of Commons to another, each of the prominent figure heads make some statement genuflecting to “the only democracy in the Middle East.” [3]
But over the past 13 months something amazing happened. In spite of threats from academic institutions of expulsion, in spite of being gas-lit and (falsely) labelled “anti-semitic” and other smears from personalities from on high, growing numbers of students, workers, and community people are refusing to stay silent as a genocide is taking place with the support of Canada. It seems one would have to go back to the Vietnam War era in the 1960s to find any similar instances of a mass movement to stop the weapons with a taxpayer’s signature on it from killing children by the thousands! [4]
This episode of the Global Research News Hour pays tribute to tens of thousands of Canadians who continue to be a thorn in the side of a prime minister renowned for making excuses for Israel’s crimes while seeking to bring the hammer down on Russia for its supposedly genocidal war (instigated by the U.S. and NATO) on Ukraine.
Our first guest, Professor Miles Howe, talks about a report he co-wrote called “Under the Guise of Charity Canadian Funding for War Crimes in Occupied Palestine.” It reveals how millions of dollars received as charitable donations end up inflicting more suffering on Palestinians. This is followed by a brief interview with above mentioned foreign policy critic Yves Engler who comments on the action in Montreal advertised on this program two weeks ago, and counters the claims in government and much of the press that it was an act of hatefulness, violence and anti-semitism. Finally, activist Rachel Small talks about the non-violent occupation by over 100 Jews and their allies demanding an arms embargo to stop the genocide in Gaza.
Dr. Miles Howe is an Assistant Professor of Critical Criminology at Brock University. He earned his BA (Honours) and MA in Sociology at the University of Ottawa and his PhD at Queen’s University. He is co-author of a paper, “Under the Guise of Charity Canadian Funding for War Crimes in Occupied Palestine.”
Yves Engler is one of Canada’s foremost Canadian foreign policy critics and dissidents. He is the author of ten books on Canadian foreign policy including Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy (with Owen Schalk) (2024) and Stand on Guard for Whom?: A People’s History of the Canadian Military (2021). His articles have appeared at globalresearch.ca, rabble.ca, canadiandimension.com, and on his own site yvesengler.com.
Rachel Small is a spokesperson for World Beyond War Canada.
(Global Research News Hour Episode 452)
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Notes:
- https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDHpm81uTwG/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D
- https://yvesengler.com/2024/02/22/what-explains-canadas-unwavering-support-for-israel/
- ibid;
- https://news-pravda.com/world/2024/04/19/449777.html
