Poilievre blames Liberals for rising antisemitism in remarks at Oct. 7 commemoration ceremony.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-poilievre-oct-7-ceremony-1.7345615

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  1. From the guy who has a commercial out that unironically uses the phrase “woke nonsense”.

  2. Poilievre, here’s a guy who has never worked a job not in government. What a joke.

  3. yeah, that seems to be his primary strategy

    hopefully more people will catch on to this stuff

  4. It’s not antisemitism when the denouncing of Zionism is coming out of the mouths of fellow Jews. Not all Jews are in line with Netanyahu’s nationalist/zionist agenda:
    [20,000 Jews denounce Zionism](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s5o0QJ3xYVg)
    During an Orthodox Jewish Rally in 2017, in a Brooklyn baskeball court pledging to oppose forced conscription by the Zionist army, an articulate rabbi denounces the anti-semitism inherent in Zionism from its inception.

    Canadas part in the war:

    February 10, 2024 – “To date, Israel’s bombing campaign has killed nearly 28,000 Palestinians, including at least 10,000 children, and caused a humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip. ”
    [Trudeau Government Authorized $28.5 Million Of New Military Exports To Israel Since October](https://www.readthemaple.com/trudeau-government-authorized-28-million-of-new-military-exports-to-israel-since-october/)

    [How Canada’s ‘off-the-record’ arms exports end up in Israel](https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/8/15/how-canadas-off-the-record-arms-exports-end-up-in-israel)

    [Global Affairs Canada 2023 Exports of Military goods and technology](https://www.international.gc.ca/transparency-transparence/assets/pdfs/controls-controles/reports-rapports/military-goods-2023-marchandises-militaires-en-v2.pdf)
    Page 17.

    “Canada is aiding some of the world’s most repressive governments with military goods. According to Global Affairs Canada’s (GAC) recently released 2023 Exports of Military Goods and Technology report, Canada continues to transfer massive quantities of weapons to antidemocratic governments and states accused of war crimes.

    This data contradicts Canada’s self-promotion as a defender of peace and democratic values on the world’s stage and is further evidence of an ongoing trend of Canadian arms flowing into the stockpiles of human rights abusers. The GAC report shows that last year Canada exported military goods valued at CAD $2.143 billion to non-US destinations. Although the United States is typically the largest consumer of Canadian-made weapons, Canada neither regulates nor reports most of its arms exports to its southern neighbor. Including these figures would dramatically increase the total reported value associated with the Canadian arms trade.

    According to Freedom House, nearly half of Canada’s reported weapons transfers in 2023 — valued at $1.04 billion, or 49 percent of the total — were destined for authoritarian states, such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar.“
    [Canada Is Arming the World’s Bullies](https://jacobin.com/2024/07/canada-arms-defense-industry-authoritarianism)

    “Canada’s disregard for its international obligations under the [ATT (Arms Trade Treaty)](https://thearmstradetreaty.org/hyper-images/file/ATT_English/ATT_English.pdf?templateId=137253) constitutes a breach of international law while sending a troubling message to some of the world’s most repressive governments: human rights violations and antidemocratic practices will not be condemned but rewarded. And as global military spending reaches all-time highs, including amongst those repressive governments, the world’s bullies have surely taken note that Canada is open for business.”

    [More women and children killed in Gaza by Israeli military than any other recent conflict in a single year](https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/more-women-and-children-killed-gaza-israeli-military-any-other-recent-conflict)
    September 2024- “Conservative figures show that more than 6,000 women and 11,000 children were killed in Gaza by the Israeli military over the last 12 months. Data from 2004-2021 on direct conflict deaths from the Small Arms Survey, estimates that the highest number of women killed in a single year was over 2,600 in Iraq in 2016.

    “‘For children, the trauma is equally profound. Over 25,000 children have either lost a parent or become orphans, leaving them in deep emotional distress. Most children are grappling with anxiety and severe physical injuries, with many having lost limbs.’”

    The record number of women and children killed in Gaza does not include those among nearly 20,000 people who are either unidentified, missing or entombed beneath rubble. Earlier this year, a study published in The Lancet estimated the true number of deaths in Gaza could be over 186,000, taking indirect deaths – for example, due to starvation and lack of health care – into consideration.“

    [Journalist Chris Hedges writes:](https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-death-of-israel)

    Hatred is a dangerous political commodity. Once finished with one enemy, those who stoke hatred go in search of another. The Palestinian “human animals,” when eradicated or subdued, will be replaced by Jewish apostates and traitors. The demonized group can never be redeemed or cured. A politics of hatred creates a permanent instability that is exploited by those seeking the destruction of civil society.

    Israel was far down this road on Oct. 7 when it promulgated a series of [discriminatory laws](https://www.adalah.org/en/content/view/7771) against non-Jews that resemble the racist Nuremberg Laws that disenfranchised Jews in Nazi Germany. The Communities Acceptance Law [permits](https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-745546) exclusively Jewish settlements to bar applicants for residency on the basis of “suitability to the community’s fundamental outlook.”

    Many of Israel’s best educated and young have left the country to places like Canada, Australia and the U.K., with as many as [one million moving](https://www.newsweek.com/2018/05/18/israel-brain-drain-technology-startup-nation-religion-palestinians-economy-919477.html) to the United States. Even [Germany](https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/life/israelis-in-germany-interview-about-migration) has seen an influx of around 20,000 Israelis in the first two decades of this century. Around 470,000 Israelis [have left he country since](https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/nearly-half-a-million-israelis-left-occupied-palestine-since) Oct. 7. Within Israel, human rights campaigners, intellectuals and journalists — Israeli and Palestinian — are attacked as traitors in government-sponsored smear campaigns, placed under state surveillance and subjected to arbitrary arrests. The Israeli educational system is an [indoctrination machine](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pWKPRC-_oSg) for the military.

    The Israeli scholar [Yeshayahu Leibowitz](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hMLxjZ4ZUPI) warned that if Israel did not separate church and state and end its occupation of the Palestinians, it would give rise to a corrupt Rabbinate that would warp Judaism into a fascistic cult. “Israel,” he said, “would not deserve to exist, and it will not be worthwhile to preserve it.”

  5. Crazy how similar their tactics are to the Republicans south of the border. Like their kissing cousins.

  6. Conscious_Candle2598 on

    Buddy you’re already hugely in the lead. 

    You can stop saying stupid shit now….