{"id":2178,"date":"2019-07-19T06:08:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T06:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paju.org\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2019-07-19T11:09:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T11:09:06","slug":"end-of-occupation-no-962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paju.org\/fr\/end-of-occupation-no-962\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab End of Occupation \u00bb No 962"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada joins campaign to stifle criticism of Israel<\/a><\/h3>\n

by John Clarke<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"On June 25, Canada\u2019s Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism announced that the Trudeau government\u2019s new anti-racism strategy would include the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance\u2019s (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. The Co-Chair of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) proudly noted that<\/p>\n

“the IHRA definition also explicitly recognizes that anti-Zionism \u2013 that is the delegitimization and demonization of the Jewish state \u2013 is a clear and unequivocal expression of anti-Semitism<\/a>.”<\/em><\/p>\n

While the adoption of this definition is as yet only \u2018symbolic and declaratory,\u2019 it can form the basis for attacks on Palestinian solidarity at various levels. The funding of NGOs that are critical of Israel may be threatened. Public institutions will be pressured to deny meeting facilities for events that take the Palestinian side. It is also quite possible that this initiative could be taken further and the expression of anti-Zionist views actually be treated as a form of hate crime.<\/p>\n

Misuse of Anti-Semitism<\/strong><\/p>\n

This latest move is part of the Canadian component of a concerted international drive to weaponize the false allegation of anti-Semitism in the service of Israel. In 2009, the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism (CPCCA) was formed, comprised of former and sitting MPs from each party. It issued its report in 2011 and the focus was on combating the so called \u2018new anti-Semitism\u2019 of those who challenge Israel. Independent Jewish Voices (Canada) described the whole initiative as an \u2018attempt to attack free speech and silence criticism of the Israeli government\u2019s oppressive and illegal policies\u2019 and \u2018to label criticism of Israel and its behaviour, as well as organized efforts to change them, as anti-Semitic and to criminalize both<\/a>.\u2019<\/p>\n

Independent Jewish Voices (Canada) has produced an excellent report that shows how the IHRA definition is being used to further the attack on Palestinian solidarity, insufficient attention is paid to very real forms of anti-Semitic hate crime<\/a><\/u>. The Israeli government and its supporters are aggressively using this document as a key tool in their efforts to \u2018suppress \u2013 and even criminalize \u2013 criticism of Israel and support for Palestinian rights.\u2019<\/p>\n

If the effort to intimidate and suppress support for the Palestinians, especially when it is expressed as clear and forthright anti-Zionism, is being challenged with such escalating ferocity, this largely reflects a certain note of desperation on the part of Israel\u2019s apologists. The BDS Movement has made gains and the general mood has shifted against the Zionist state<\/a>. At the same time, Israel\u2019s political leadership is racing to the right with the support of the Trump Administration and dispensing with polite fictions about a peace process, as they move to brutally complete the colonial project.  The pretence of a liberal democracy seeking a just resolution is no longer viable.<\/p>\n

The accusation of anti-Semitism against international supporters of a free Palestine is really all that\u2019s left in the toolbox. So, while fascists in Eastern Europe pose a real threat to Jewish communities and US Nazis march through the streets chanting, \u2018Jews will not replace us<\/a><\/u>,\u2019 fire is focused on the left and life-long anti-racists, like Jeremy Corbyn, are labelled as hatemongers. Moreover, the goal of the attack is no longer merely character assassination. The IHRA definition is being put forward as one that should inform the work of police and prosecutors. They prepare the ground to arrest those they can\u2019t intimidate into silence.<\/p>\n

Though he was not the first Zionist politician to make this gesture, Israel\u2019s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, stood before the Security Council in April of this year and waved a bible in his hand as he declared that \u201cthis is our deed to our land.\u201d That anyone can suggest that an ancient religious text should be used to decide affairs of state and international relations in the 21st Century is quite astounding, yet no Western leader would even consider questioning these theatrics. If, however, Danon\u2019s bible promised, not a part of the Middle East, but a portion of Western Europe, the Zionist claim to self-determination would have gone nowhere. When Zionism emerged in the 19th<\/sup> Century, as an adjunct of European colonialism, no one spoke in code. Everyone understood that the plan was for a settler colony that would serve as a garrison of Western interests. It would be, as Theodor Herzl put it,<\/p>\n

“a sector of the wall of Europe against Asia, we shall serve as the outpost of civilization against barbarism<\/a>.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Herzl\u2019s wall is standing today. It was erected by ethnically cleansing the bulk of the Palestinian population, creating vast numbers of refugees and establishing an Apartheid regime for those who could not be removed.<\/p>\n

The nature and role of the State of Israel is such that we can\u2019t be content to be critical of its excesses and worst aspects. The seventh of the \u2018contemporary examples of anti-Semitism<\/a>\u2019 listed in the IHRA definition speaks of \u2018Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.\u2019 The dispossession of the Palestinians can\u2019t possibly be considered the exercise of a right to self-determination and Israel, a colonial settler state, is a fundamentally racist endeavour. Zionism is not a religion or an ethnicity but a political ideology and its propositions are questioned or rejected by many Jews, while they are supported by leaders of Western powers who are, for the most part, not Jewish.<\/p>\n

Adapted from:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.counterfire.org\/news\/20414-canada-joins-campaign-to-stifle-criticism-of-israel<\/a><\/p>\n

Distributed by PAJU (<\/strong>Palestinian and Jewish Unity<\/strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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