If you promote Jewish supremacy, you can aggressively deny genocide and still counsel government on “rights, equality and inclusion”. The latest example of Jewish exceptionalism highlights left anti-Palestinianism.
On Monday, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East put out an action alert critical of Marc Gold’s membership on the government’s nine-member Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion. Last month the former senator signed an open letter calling it a “lie” that deserves “revulsion” and “contempt” to say Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, even though that is the conclusion of most major human rights organizations and genocide scholars. A former head of the Canada-Israel Committee and Montreal Jewish Federation, Gold endorsed a letter released by StandWithUs front group Creative Community for Peace stating:
“We reject this accusation with contempt.”
“We must unite in repudiating the lie of genocide.”
“We urge our fellow Jews and our non-Jewish friends to treat the accusation of genocide with revulsion – as the latest in a long history of lies about the Jewish people.”
The government’s Advisory Council is supposed to “build bridges between communities” and “combat all forms of racism and hate.” It is helping craft Canada’s Anti-Racism Strategy.
Yet Gold promotes a genocidal apartheid state that has slaughtered tens of thousands of Palestinians, Lebanese and Iranians. He has explicitly expressed “contempt” towards most Canadians, especially Arabs and Muslims, who believe Israel is committing genocide.
But don’t expect Gold to be censured since he represents the Jewish establishment on the council. (Alongside other leading Jewish Zionist figures, Gold attended a cocktail reception put on by the Israeli Consul-General in Montreal in August and spoke at a press conference that month to release a pro-genocide report on purported ‘antisemitism’ at Canadian universities.) In response to CJPME raising Gold’s “contempt” for opponents of genocide, the office of the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture Marc Miller, expressed “full confidence” in racist Marc.
Why wouldn’t the minister stand by his genocidal Jewish supremacist “equality” representative when even a self-declared “Marxist” “anti-Zionist” writing for a leftist publication defends Gold?
In June, York professor Jordy Cummings published an anti-Palestinian screed for The Breach headlined “The left’s opposition to antisemitism must be unconditional”. The commentary was linked to the establishment of the Advisory Council, yet Cummings failed to mention that his uncle, Gold, was appointed to the council (other members of Cumming’s family are major anti-Palestinian donors). When I wrote a critique of the article and its author, Cummings explicitly defended his uncle. In a rebuttal Cummings wrote that Gold was “well to the left of the mainstream Jewish leadership right now…. I have a lot of respect for my uncle, and I think he may be reasonable enough to be pushed to oppose the IHRA definition of antisemitism.” In another article Cummings stated, “seeing that my uncle, Marc Gold, was appointed is intriguing. Marc has led Jewish institutions, including Jewish Federations of Canada and the Canada Israel Committee. With this being said, I don’t think I am going out on a limb in making a point that he is no fan of the current government and its conduct in Gaza and beyond. In general, Marc and I do not see eye to eye on Palestine, but we respect one another, and he is a genuine, principled liberal.”
The “genuine, principled liberal” said liberal human rights organizations – from Amnesty International to Human Rights Watch – deserve “contempt” and “revulsion” for saying Israel is committing genocide. The apartheid lobbyist claims those labelling Gaza a “genocide” engage in “the latest in a long history of lies about the Jewish people.”
Marc Gold is not simply a nice liberal uncle who just seeks to defend oppressed Jews’, as Cummings presents him.
Instead of lecturing the left about “antisemitism’ the ‘anti-Zionist’ ought to be challenging his family’s genocidal Jewish supremacism. Unfortunately, Cummings is not an anomaly.
Three years into the horrors in Gaza, much of the left continues to exculpate Jewish supremacism. Is it a surprise then that a Liberal minister appoints a racist genocide advocate to craft its policy on “rights, equality and inclusion”?
Please send an email to Minister Marc Miller to demand he censure Marc Gold.
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