Mainstream academia and media still refuse to define the Zionist project as a colonial, or as it is referred to more accurately a settler-colonial project. However, as Israel intensifies the colonisation of Palestine in the next year, that might prod more individuals and institutions to frame the reality in Palestine as colonial and the Palestinian struggle as anticolonial and dispense with tropes about terrorism and peace negotiations.

Israeli Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli says that Israel has every right to invade and seize southern Lebanon. He also believes neither Syria nor Iran counts as states, and so don’t merit protection for their status as sovereign nations. Chikli was one of several government ministers who recently urged the Israeli government to cut off all access to humanitarian aid to northern Gaza, and argued that the military should conduct operations to “cleanse” the region. The proposal prescribed similar cleansings of other areas.

Liberal MP Wayne Long and his administrative assistant Jeannette Arsenault were captured on video as they publicly intimidated pro-Palestinian protestors accusing them of “terrorism”, and issuing what were clearly racist comments.

The Liberal Party of Canada – especially under the leadership of Justin Trudeau – has been consistent in its anti-Palestinian racism whose formal policy of double standards on the Israeli-Palestinian issue is part of the complicity with the genocide in Gaza and the pogroms currently taking place in the occupied West Bank.