Canadian MP's are universally pissed-off that protesters rallying against Canada's support for Israel's genocide of the Palestinians went to Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly's home:
On Saturday 100 or so rallied in front of foreign affairs minister Melanie Joly’s home in the Plateau Mont Royal neighborhood of Montréal. Their promotional material declared “Mourn the Dead, and Fight Like Hell for the Living. End Canadian Support for Genocide”. They reportedly read poems, played music and shared food in what spokesperson Eli Tareq El-Bechelany Lynch called “an affirmation and honouring of Palestinian life, creativity, and resistance against the Canadian-backed Israeli death machine.”
Predictably, pro-genocide voices flew into a moralizing rage. They denounced it as “intimidation” and “harassment”. Uber Zionist Toronto MP Kevin Vuong proclaimed, “If you’re going to protest in front of the legislature or city hall, go ahead. If you’re going to protest our offices, have at it. But your right to peaceful assembly does not include protesting at Minister Melanie Joly’s home. Leave her family—and our families—out of it.”
How in the hell you can do something as loathsome as actively supporting a genocide and then actually expect people to conform to your self-serving definition of "civility" and "decency"! "Genocide" is the sundering of all the rules of decent, civilized behaviour.
This doesn't mean that protesters against genocide are justified in acts of barbarism themselves. But hearing chants against your despicable, inhuman behaviour outside your home shouldn't be unexpected if you sink as low as Canada's government has. Besides, it's not as if the protesters aren't already being condemned for their other actions elsewhere:
A week ago, the apartheid lobby claimed a rally in front of Vuong’s constituency office was intimidation. The same voices criticizing the protest at Joly’s home have spent weeks condemning rallies on an overpass over Highway 401 in Toronto. Before that they denounced anti-genocide rallies at the Eaton Centre and at municipal politician’s fundraiser. When university was in session, they were deploring protests on various campuses. They essentially believe all manifestations of opposition to Canada’s complicity in genocide is illegitimate.
Remember, if a Jewish student hears "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" at a campus rally against the genocidal policies of the Israeli state, that is supposed to be soul-destroying. But if a Palestinian student sees a pro-Israel rally, a rally for a state that is actively depopulating the West Bank and conducting an illegal siege of Gaza, that is to be accepted as the natural way of the world.
[Engler specifically mentions the bleatings of a few NDP MPs in defence of Joly's right to rest and relaxation following a hard day of serving brain-dead, inhuman imperialism. The NDP remains a flawed institution. But at least they and the Greens support South Africa's case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.]
Canadian police going to Israel to learn "crowd control" techniques from Israel isn't supposed to bother anyone. Fund-raising for Israel (which is tax-deductible) while Gaza is under siege is supposedly unobjectionable. Israel exporting products from the Occupied Territories as their own isn't offensive.
I don't know what else to say.
2 comments:
Trudeau is still cowering from being "bitch slapped" by Bibi over his last comments. They are all a bunch of incompetents and if they can't be got to at their offices or the legislature then let them suffer the humiliation in front of their homes. People have been afraid of the wrath of being labeled anti semite for merely pushing the BDS movement let alone full on genocide. It's time the world woke up to the faery tale perpetrated by the murderous Israeli blood cult
zoombats,
I cannot fathom the craven submission, now to Israel, earlier to Saudi Arabia when Freeland tweeted support for women's rights in Saudi Arabia. Neither of these countries are all that important to us economically.
Both Bibi and Clown Prince Bonesaw are fairly unpopular internationally.
I guess it's part of living in the Liberal Party bubble. A place where the economy is going great, capitalists are patriotic fellow citizens and monsters like Netanyahu and whatsisface are important statesmen.
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