A Conservative MP said he supports killing and ethnically cleansing everyone in Gaza. But Canada’s uber Zionist media is uninterested.
Outside Parliament on Thursday Conservative MP Michael Cooper told me “I stand with Israel” after I asked his thoughts on Israel’s genocide and mentioned Amnesty International labelling it a “live streamed genocide”. Subsequently, I asked whether he’d “stand with Israel” if they ethnically cleansed or killed everyone in Gaza as well as asking about Israel starving Palestinian children. He repeated, “I stand with Israel and you can back off”.
Over 750 000 have watched the video on my TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and X accounts. Middle East Monitor, Palestine Pulse and TRT repurposed the video, which has been viewed by a half million more on various platforms.
But no Canadian media has demonstrated interest in Cooper’s incitement to genocide. If liberal media like the CBC or Toronto Star opposed Israel’s genocide they would be asking politicians similar questions.
They would also be asking where these attitudes come from. Cooper reflects the opinion of an average Jewish Israeli. A recent Pennsylvania University poll found that 47% of Israeli Jews want to kill everyone in Gaza and 82% want to ethnically cleanse the coastal strip of all non-Jews. But Canada’s dominant media studiously ignore Israeli racism.
Attitudes may be less genocidal in Canada’s Jewish community. But the community’s deep ties to Israel and the tens of thousands who recently took to the streets in support of Israel’s holocaust in Toronto suggests many share Israelis’ genocidal attitude. At least in part, this is due to the lack of a counter narrative in Canada’s mainstream media.
The chair of United Jewish Appeal Toronto’s 2025 Walk for Israel was Noah Godfrey. His father, Paul Godfrey, was publisher of the Toronto Sun for many years and established Canada’s largest media conglomerate when he was CEO of the National Post and a board member of CanWest. Godfrey was president or CEO of Postmedia for a decade and remained chairman of the newspaper chain’s board until 2023. Paul Godfrey has been honorary chair of Zionist fanatic Avi Benlolo’s Abraham Global Peace Initiative and was an honouree of a Jewish National Fund gala.
Godfrey created Postmedia out of the ashes of CanWest. After buying a dozen major dailies (Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, etc.) in 2000 Izzy Asper pushed the CanWest newspaper chain to adopt extremist pro-Israel positions. When Montréal Gazette publisher Michael Goldbloom suddenly resigned in 2001 the Globe and Mail reported “sources at The Gazette confirmed yesterday that senior editors at the paper were told earlier that month to run a strongly worded, pro-Israel editorial on a Saturday op-ed page”, which was written by the head office in Winnipeg and was accompanied by a no rebuttal order. The CanWest editorial demanded Ottawa support Israel even as Israeli government ministers called for the assassination of PLO head Yasser Arafat after 15 Israelis were killed. “Canada must recognize the incredible restraint shown by the Israeli government under the circumstances. … Howsoever the Israeli government chooses to respond to this barbaric atrocity should have the unequivocal support of the Canadian government without the usual hand-wringing criticism about ‘excessive force.’ Nothing is excessive in the face of an enemy sworn to your annihilation.”
In 2004 the CanWest head office was caught directing papers to edit Reuters stories to denigrate Palestinians. “The message that was passed down to the copy desk was to change ‘militant’ to ‘terrorist’ when talking about armed Palestinians,” Charles Shannon, a Montréal Gazette copy editor, told The Nation. “One definite edict that came down was that there should be no criticism of Israel.”
(One Reuters story was changed from “the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which has been involved in a four-year-old revolt against Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank” to “the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a terrorist group that has been involved in a four-year-old campaign of violence against Israel.”)
In a sign of the scope of the media conglomerate’s ties to Israel’s ongoing horrors, National Post editor-in-chief Rob Roberts recently published an article noting, “Our tour was sponsored and organized by the Exigent Foundation, founded by Toronto entrepreneur Larry Maher to advocate for the Israeli perspective.” The statement was inserted into a front-page article on Thursday justifying Israel’s destruction of Lebanon and ongoing attacks in that country. In October Roberts was honoured by the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation with an “Evening to Celebrate Integrity in Journalism and Media”.
In another example of Postmedia’s fanaticism, the Toronto Sun has interviewed the former head of Canada’s Jewish Defence League, Meir Weinstein, for 19 articles over the past year. While Weinstein led the JDL that group was repeatedly involved in violence and its sister organizations in Israel and the US were banned.
Canada’s media is deeply complicit in Israel’s holocaust.
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