The authoritarianism of the genocidal Jewish supremacist movement is stunning. According to Israel supporters it is antisemitic that Canada hasn’t criminalized a non-existent social justice group.
As Israel kills hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinians during ‘ceasefires’, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and B’nai Brith have launched a push for Palestine Action Canada to be listed a terrorist organization. Last week The Canadian Jewish News reported, “Canadian Jewish groups call on government to designate Palestine Action as ‘terrorist entity’ Palestine Action Canada published a ‘target map’ identifying numerous institutions in Canada, Europe and the United States for ‘direct action.’”
Except Palestine Action Canada doesn’t seem to exist. An online search found little and there’s no evidence the group has carried out any action in Canada. On a global Palestine Action site there’s a “target map” with information on several hundred arms firms in dozens of countries across the world. There are ten firms listed in Canada. This appears to be the basis for which CIJA and B’nai Brith are calling for state authorities to ban Palestine Action Canada. A terror listing is supposed to require a thorough assessment by relevant security agencies (in practice, listings are highly political).
In the UK, Palestine Action was listed a terror group last year. Activists with the non-violent organization spray-painted facilities, disrupted activities and destroyed equipment at numerous arms firms. The listing by the British government was highly controversial. Some 3,000 people have been arrested opposing the ban on Palestine Action. In February the High Court ruled the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful and disproportionate (but did not immediately lift the listing, giving the government the right to appeal or rescind it.)
Despite its listing being legally overturned in the country in which it has been labelled a terror group and little sign of any operations in Canada, CIJA, B’nai Brith and others are demanding the banning of Palestine Action Canada. A paid ‘consultant’ of the genocidal Jewish supremacist lobby, Warren Kinsella, published a recent Toronto Sun column that begins “Why is Palestine Action allowed to operate in Canada? Why? It’s an important question…. For reasons that have not been explained by anyone in authority, Palestine Action are not considered a terror group by our government.”
Posting Kinsella’s article, Veterans For The Conservative Party of Canada Facebook group noted, “Of all the things I dislike about Carney and his government … his antisemitism has to be near the top. I am completely ashamed of his inaction against ‘Palestine Action’. It needs to be designated a terrorist group and routed out of Canada before something terrible happens.”
So, it is antisemitic to not have banned a non-violent group that doesn’t exist? Zionist groups are so addicted to repression they willy nilly call to ban whatever social justice organization and suggest persecution if the government doesn’t follow through.
In the most egregious of innumerable examples of repression against opponents of genocide over the past two and a half years, Jewish supremacist groups convinced Ottawa to subvert Canadians’ civil liberties by listing the entirely non-violent grassroots Vancouver activist organization Samidoun Palestinian Prisoners Solidarity Network a terrorist organization. (In the first-ever Canadian based group listed, Mississauga-based Muslim charity International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy was listed in 2014 for supporting orphans and a hospital in Gaza through official (Hamas-controlled) channels.)
With the backing of CIJA and B’nai Brith, Bill C-9 passed third reading in the House of Commons and is now being looked at by the Senate. The legislation reinforces the terror list in service of Zionism by criminalizing the display of listed “terror” groups’ symbols in certain contexts. Bill C-9 would make it a crime to display Samidoun’s — or Palestine Action Canada if they were listed — logo in front of a religious institution hosting an Israeli general.
In addition to Palestine-focused Canadian groups, over 10 percent of Canada’s terror list is made up of organizations headquartered in a long-occupied land representing one-tenth of one percent of the world’s population. Representing much of Palestinian political life, eight of the oppressed nation’s organizations are listed.
Canada’s civil liberties destroying, anti-Palestinian, terror list should be abolished. It’s imperative to directly challenge the authoritarian Zionism sweeping political life.
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