Canada, one of Israel’s staunchest allies, appears primed to use its new hate crime laws against groups advocating for the virulently anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. 

Their ultimate goal is a land “cleansed” of Palestinians (in German, that already sounds clichéd). There is a direct line between the events of today and the violent takeover of Palestinian lands and springs by settlers in the 1990s and early 2000s. Similarly, there is a connection between the apathy back then and the fatalism of today, as if the rioters are a biblical swarm of locusts and we are helpless against them.

There is no real difference between the craven hypocrisy, the self-serving opportunism and unseemly servility of a Mark Carney (like Justin Trudeau before him), a Pierre Poilievre or an Yves-François Blanchet when it comes to bowing before the altar of the Jewish Supremacist State of Israel. Perhaps the greatest hypocrite of all is Yves-François Blanchet who plays at being so much more ‘moral’ and ‘progressive’ than his political adversaries in the Liberal (Zionist) and Conservative parties of Canada.