Canada’s Jewish federations are demanding the government further suppress our rights and Mark Carney’s genocide enabling “antisemitism” speech has put a fascist wind at their sails.
Friday, Canada’s Jewish federations and their official advocacy agent, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, sent a letter to the prime minister demanding more repression. In “Joint Letter Responding to the Prime Minister’s Speech on Antisemitism” they state explicitly that they consider opposition to genocide, apartheid and Israeli killing “antisemitism”. Signed by the heads of the Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, London, Windsor, Atlantic, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver federations, as well as B’nai Brith, CIJA, Hillel Ontario and Honest Reporting Canada, the letter states:
“Antisemitism in Canada is being driven in significant part by anti-Israel and antizionist hatred. Too often, extremists hide behind the language of ‘criticizing Israel,’ using it as cover for conduct that would never be tolerated against any other community. Canada’s foreign policy impacts domestic safety. Disproportionate condemnation of Israel confers social license to antizionist extremists in Canada who are targeting Jewish Canadians. Jewish Canadians have a strong connection to Israel, their ancestral and spiritual homeland. Demonizing or targeting them because of that connection is unacceptable.”
The letter calls the upcoming Canadian Museum of Human Rights exhibit “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present” and the Canada Revenue Agency applying its rules to Jewish charities “government funded hate”. It notes, “End government-funded hate. The federal government must review programs across all departments and agencies to ensure public funds do not support organizations or initiatives that promote hatred against the Jewish community. This must include addressing the weaponization of national institutions, including the Canada Revenue Agency and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.”
Alongside their push to drive Palestinian history from official public life, the letter calls for a national policing and political crackdown on opposition to genocide. It demands “a consistent national approach to law enforcement, prosecution, sentencing, and removal. The federal government should urgently convene provincial and territorial attorneys general, along with law enforcement agencies, to establish clear principles, guidelines, and action plans so that those who break the law are held accountable.”
As part of their suppressive push, the letter calls for “bail reform” to keep people locked up and for the intelligence agencies to explicitly target “antizionism”. It notes, “Canada must ensure that terrorist organizations, their proxies, and their adherents cannot operate here. This requires action against the promotion, recruitment, and financing of terrorism, as well as the radicalization that fuels violence. The government should also advance further bail reform that reflects new hate-crime laws and direct CSIS and the RCMP to treat antizionism as a serious driver of extremism, as they already do for Islamist extremism.”
Despite a new poll confirming public hostility towards Israel, there’s almost no political institution or politician willing to challenge the Zionists’ antisemitism frenzy. Even when Mark Carney stands next to an Israeli flag to speechify to an audience of “Israel lovers” about “antisemitism”, no Canadian politician or left institution calls out his racist genocide promotion. As such, Canada’s Jewish federations and their allies have a free hand to push ever more aggressively against our Charter right to oppose support for genocide. If we don’t defang these organizations, they will eliminate our rights.
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