Liberal MPs, NDP Deputy Leader Amplify Hamas Blood Libel

Shlomo Sharer of Toronto went further:

“It promotes and propagates antisemetic tropes that are age-old and no less false and malicious today as they were in the Middle Ages. By now, you should already have been made aware that the real story is the Hamas has been inciting, as it has every Ramadan of the past years, Palestinians to gather on the Temple Mount to “protect” Al Aqsa from the “invading Jewish horde” that is conspiring to come and desecrate the Mosque.”

He explained to the MP, “The story that Hamas put out is that “the Jews “are setting out to make a sacrifice on the grounds of the mosque and that such sacrifice is a desecration of the mosque and a violation of a status quo agreement. It was implied by Hamas that the State of Israel is supporting such action, if not initiating it. That Hamas propaganda is an outright lie. It was a lie when it was used to instigate a war, last Ramadan. And it is a lie, today. This libel has been going on since the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem has promoted this idea and has new life breathed into the old lie in the propaganda machines if Iran and other Islamist states. Now, it is a lie and a libel that you are personally inflaming…  Your comment neglected to acknowledge and respect that truth and has caused a continuation of hate mongering. I urge you to take rapid, responsible and fair action to remediate the wrong.”

As for the NDP, partners in the Trudeau coalition agreement until 2025, NDP MP Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona) used her Twitter account to call the police response “The invasion of Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem” saying “(it is) an affront to the sanctity of religious spaces and must stop! I deeply condemn the violence that has led to more than 150 Palestinians and 3 Israeli officers injured and call for peace.” 

But she was not alone in paddling around in the pool of NDP caucus antisemitism. 

“On April 19, Alexandre Boulerice, Deputy Leader of the NDP, posted a message to his 29,000 Facebook followers in French”,  discovered Honest Reporting Canada.

Boulerice claimed in his message that: “Israeli forces were “attacking” innocent Muslims and the Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan, to rid “Jerusalem of its Muslim and Christian heritage” and to “clear space” for alleged Jewish extremist groups to move into what he regards as “Palestine,” but is actually sovereign Israeli territory and Israel’s capital city.”

The independent grass-roots organization went on to state that “the centuries-old lie that the Al-Aqsa Mosque is under attack is a modern blood libel that has the potential to fan the flames of antisemitism against Canada’s 400,000+ Jews. Please contact NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and call on him to issue an apology and to retract Deputy Leader Boulerice’s comments.”