The Trudeau Government’s Fake Fight Against Antisemitism- Part 17

Equating Israel’s legitimate self-defence and P.A. terrorism

2017- Minister Dion, presumably speaking on behalf of the government, made it clear that Israel shares, if not bears, responsibility for the ills befalling it.

And, on the heels of two particularly horrifying stabbing attacks by Palestinian terrorists against two Israeli women-one slashed to death in front of her traumatised teenage daughter and the other wounded while pregnant, Dion issued Israel a heads up about a more harshly worded reprimand.

Dion further equated Palestinian incitement and violence with Israel’s self-defence measures, calling on “both sides” to return to the negotiating table when clearly the Palestinian side has shown no desire for peace and to this day still aims to  get rid of Israel and occupy all of the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean.  

BDS

2015-During the 2015 election campaign Trudeau ran an ad in the Canadian Jewish News which in part reads:

“The Liberal Part of Canada believes that…..we must oppose Boycott, Divest and Sanction campaigns in our communities and continue to speak out forcefully against them….I am opposed to the BDS movement. I think it’s an example of the new form of antisemitism in the world…an example of the three “D’s”: demonization of Israel, deligitimisation of Israel, and a double standard applied toward Israel.”

In another electoral pamphlet, Trudeau expressed his sympathies for the pain inflicted by the BDS movement on Jewish university students.

After he won the 2015 election, besides re-affirming his view of the BDS movement on a couple occasion, Trudeau failed to take any action to deal with the BDS on or off campus. 

2016– In response to the Conservative motion  condemning  the BDS  movement and asking the government to take appropriate action   against the movement, Minister Dion’s  on behalf of the Prime Minister  who chose not to show up for the debate,  voted for the motion while   running on both sides of his mouth.( Part 1, supra.)

2021– Im Tirtzu is an Israeli non-profit organization working to strengthen the values of Zionism in Israel as a Jewish and democratic state and whose mandate includes the observation of the actions of the U.N. It issued a report surveying 19 Palestinian NGO’s that receive funding from the U.N, nearly all of which support BDS. Eight of these organizations  have ties to Hamas or the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)  terror groups.

The report notes that the U.N. is not entirely transparent in its reporting, as it “often omits the ‘implementing partners’ that receive the funding to carry out their programs. This creates a situation in which millions of dollars in funding are unaccounted for. Jewish Press News Desk,   New Report: U.N Paid $40 million to Terror-Linked Palestinian NGOs, July 1, 2021

Here then is an organisation that finances BDS and terrorism against a member of good standing of the U.N.  What then has Canada, a self-proclaimed close friend and ally of Israel, done about this disgraceful scheme to protect its ally’s lands and people? 

There you have it. Over the seven years since Trudeau first addressed the issue during his 2015 election campaign, this is where his “talk but do not walk” campaign against BDS got.