The Israeli public loves violence. Many Canadian Jewish institutions seem to as well.
Jewish Israelis strongly oppose any pause in their country’s violence. There’s been an uproar about the ‘ceasefire’ they’ve been forced to accept with Lebanon. Many have protested, calling for greater genocide and ethnic cleansing in the south of that country.
Despite being directly impacted by the fighting, only a quarter of Jewish respondents felt some degree of relief at the announcement of the ceasefire between the US and Iran. Forty percent were unhappy. (70% of ‘Arab Israelis’ felt relieved about the ceasefire versus 12% who were somewhat unhappy.) A whopping 93% of Jewish Israelis immediately supported aggression against Iran (26% of “Arab Israelis” backed it). Incredibly, 73% of Jewish Israelis openly admitted to not caring about the suffering of Iranian civilians. Over a month into the aggression 92% of Jewish Israelis gave the country’s military high marks for its management of the war on Iran.
The New Yorker published “The Extremes of Israeli Public Opinion: Israeli voters are against a ceasefire with Iran, and think Benjamin Netanyahu has not gone far enough.” Israeli polling expert, Haaretz columnist and author of The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel, Dahlia Scheindlin notes in the interview, “It is almost as if Israelis don’t think or know about any other option besides war for how to achieve political or strategic security aims, because there has been a complete delegitimation and undermining of diplomacy to the point where most Israelis don’t even think that it exists.”
Speaking euphemistically about the supremacist state’s brutality, Scheindlin added “Israelis appreciate when they have a government that seems to take back the initiative on military and security-related things, and show the Middle East that it’s a strong country. There is a very widespread and extremely crude portrait of the Middle East as a place that only understands force. And, to survive in this metaphoric jungle, you have to show your strength.”
While the Jewish Israeli public seeks more blood of Palestinians, Lebanese, Iranians, etc., the bulk of the world is much less violent. Even contrasting Israeli opinion to those in the belly of the beast is illuminating. A poll found two thirds of Americans disapprove of how Donald Trump has handled the war in Iran while a third approve. Another recent poll found 35% supported the war on Iran while several other polls show most Americans to be against it.
Canadian opinion is substantially more critical of the war on Iran. And the public has turned decidedly unfavourable to Israel. A recent Leger poll commissioned by the hardline Zionist Postmedia found that 22% of Canadians have a favourable view of Israel while 61% have an unfavourable opinion of that country.
Still, Canada’s Jewish institutions largely back Israel no matter how much violence it commits. Not one of the major institutions has publicly expressed their support for the Iran ceasefire (officially) backed by Ottawa, London, Paris and Washington.
On Wednesday several thousand Montrealers rallied in support of Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians (Israeli Independence Day). About half the crowd were students bused in from the city’s 15 (heavily subsidized by the provincial government) Jewish schools.
Recently, Toronto, Winnipeg and other cities hosted “Triggered: The Ceaseless Tour”. IDF reservists spoke at the events organized by Students Supporting Israel.
In a similar event, Tafsik Organization and Stop Antizionism are organizing the World Symposium Against Antizionism in Toronto on May 17. Liberal media critic, turned raging Jewish supremacist Jesse Brown, will be speaking alongside Islamophobic bigots like Ben Shapiro and Gad Saad.
Two weeks ago the Israel office director for the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, the official advocacy agent of Canada’s Jewish federations, published another in a long line of violence promoting columns. In “After October 7, containment is dead: Israel must redraw its borders” David Weinberg noted, “Israel’s updated security posture and strategic doctrine also means that the ‘borders’ between it and its failed and/or hostile neighbors must change. What was between Israel and Gaza, Israel and Syria, and Israel and Lebanon, and Israel and the Palestinian Authority will be no more. Israel is asserting a forward defensive security zone on all four fronts, amounting to long-term military control of critical territories alongside diminution of hostile civilian populations. Security lines and defensive zones will necessarily be drawn and redrawn according to frontier needs.”
Weinberg highlights the relationship between genocidal Jewish supremacists in Israel and this country’s leading Jewish organization. There are innumerable others. In fact, Canada’s Jewish federations are formally tied to the lawless supremacist state through their ties to the parastatal Jewish Agency for Israel.
Most of Canada’s Jewish institutions overwhelming support the blood thirsty Israeli public. And most of these organizations are heavily subsidized by Canadian taxpayers. It’s outrageous.
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