Several prominent NDPers are running cover for holocaust Israel.
On Thursday former NDP MP and Toronto mayor Olivia Chow voted to suppress protests against Canadian complicity in genocide. The wife of deceased former NDP leader Jack Layton backed “bubble zone” legislation that’s even worse than what city staff initially proposed and probably unconstitutional. The measure restricts protests within 50 metres of any school, daycare or religious site that applies to be declared a bubble zone.
The crazy thing about the bubble zone push is there’s been far too little protest at genocidal Jewish supremacist institutions. Toronto’s TanenbaumCHAT, for instance, hosts “IDF day” fundraisers without anyone ever protesting at Canada’s largest private high school.
On Sunday United Jewish Appeal of Toronto is beginning its Walk for Israel’s holocaust at Temple Sinai Congregation. It will then stop at the Jewish community’s Sherman Campus. These two institutions will both likely apply to be “bubble” protected, meaning rallies won’t be allowed within 50 metres of them.
Another concession to the holocaust enabling ethos in Canadian politics was many NDPers response to the recent killing of two Israeli diplomats in Washington, DC. Echoing a racist, nationalist, ‘respectability’ posturing, Rabble.ca columnist Karl Nerenberg described the diplomats’ killing as a “hate crime” in an article that failed to employ the word “genocide”, which even “Some pro-Israel advocates are now using” noted a Times of Israel headline (Nerenberg actually quoted Netanyahu referring to “the genocidal attack on Israel on October 7”). The more appropriate term, argues Kieran Kelly, is “holocaust”.
While aggressively genocidal diplomats working for state committing a holocaust are Nerenberg’s focus, the former CBC journalist ignored Israel’s medical assassinations this week to destroy the health care system in the northern Gaza. According to the director general of the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza Muneer Alboursh, Israel “has assassinated 12 of the most skilled nurses and medics in the Ministry of Health, particularly those working in intensive care units.”
Press secretary for the leader of the NDP, Nina Amrov, echoed Neremberg on Facebook. She labelled Elias Rodriguez a “psycho-antisemitic murderer”. She says the killings happened at a “Jewish Gala” but fails to mention the nation the “embassy workers” represented. Amrov was press secretary when Jagmeet Singh claimed spiderman for Palestine waiving a flag during a demonstration was “antisemitic”. She was press secretary when Singh condemned a cartoon mocking Netanyahu as anti-Jewish and when the NDP leader failed to attend a single demonstration against Canada’s complicity in a holocaust.
For her part, former NDP MP Libby Davies called the killings of two Israeli diplomats “senseless”. Did she read Rodriguez’s statement? Aside from the fact Rodriguez released a manifesto and chanted “free Palestine”, is killing diplomats of a country committing a holocaust “senseless”? You might not like it but would killing Nazi German diplomats be “senseless”?
Even if Israel wasn’t starving and slaughtering Gaza in a bid to cleanse it of non-Jews, Israel has no grounds to complain about its diplomats being assassinated internationally. Its leaders have operated an international assassination machine since before the state existed. Over the past 77 years Israel has assassinated Palestinians, Egyptians, Syrians, Germans, Lebanese, Iranians and others in a dozen countries. Mossad has also assassinated at least one Canadian, Gerald Bull, in Brussels, Belgium, in 1990.
Canada has a connection to a number of these assassinations. For many years Mossad agents used Canadian passports to carry out foreign assassinations, including a case of mistaken identity in Norway in 1973 and the botched poising of Khaled Meshaal in Jordan. As I detail here, Canadian officials turned a blind eye to the use of Canadian passports in these killings.
Two wrongs may not make a right. But give it a break with the racist, nationalist, ‘respectability’ posturing while Canada is enabling Israel’s ethnic cleansing.
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