Ignatieff Grovels to Please The Lobby
Throughout our history, Canadians have strived to understand each other across the solitudes that have broken other countries to pieces. Our common national purpose has been built on our diversity.[BUT NOW ONE GROUP IS PRACTICING OPINION TERROR AGAINST THE REST]
We respect differences — of opinion, nationality, race and creed. We abandon that respect at our peril.
“Israel Apartheid Week” (IAW), now underway on university campuses across Canada, betrays the values of mutual respect that Canada has always promoted.
International law defines “apartheid” as a crime against humanity. Labelling Israel as an “apartheid” state is a deliberate attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the Jewish state itself.
Criticism of Israel is legitimate. Attempting to describe its very existence as a crime against humanity is not.
IAW is part of a global campaign of proclamations, boycotts and calls for divestment, which originated in the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance held in Durban, South Africa, in 2001. Like “Durban I,” IAW singles out one state, its citizens and its supporters for condemnation and exclusion, and it targets institutions and individuals because of what and who they are — Israeli and Jewish.
IAW goes beyond reasonable criticism into demonization. It leaves Jewish and Israeli students wary of expressing their opinions, for fear of intimidation.
No Canadian should ever have to fear for their safety in a public space because of who they are or what they believe. All Canadians should condemn any attempt to intimidate anyone in the legitimate affirmation of their beliefs and identity.
The Ontario wing of the Canadian Union of Public Employees has joined the chorus of denunciations of Israel on our campuses. The CUPE Ontario resolution passed last week to boycott Israeli academics is an unacceptable violation of academic freedom.
Canada enjoys strong academic, economic and cultural ties with Israel and Israeli institutions, and these relationships benefit both our countries. Collaborative research between Canadian and Israeli academics is mutually rewarding, and should be encouraged. The CUPE resolution is an attack on the free exchange that is at the heart of our university system.
The Liberal Party of Canada condemns the CUPE resolution in the strongest possible terms. I salute the others who have spoken out against the resolution, including my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in the House of Commons, and CUPE’s national president, Paul Moist, who has refused to support the resolution. I encourage all CUPE members, and all Canadians, to follow their example.
Israel Apartheid Week and CUPE Ontario’s anti-Israel posturing exploit academic freedom, and they should be condemned by all who value civil and respectful debate about the tragic conflict in the Middle East.
Political leaders should also take care not to deepen the distrust between Canadian communities over the Middle East. Politicians who use the ongoing conflict in the Middle East as a wedge to divide Canadians for their own political gain can succeed only in accentuating acrimony and deepening tensions.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict evokes passionate disagreement. It should not damage academic freedom and it should not divide Canadian communities. We can move forward if we work together to promote the common objective of Canadian policy ever since 1948 — a secure Israel living side-by-side in peace with an independent Palestine.
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Michael Ignatieff is the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and MP for the riding of Etobicoke-Lakeshore in Toronto.
Senseless Horrors like D-Day are Celebrated as Necessary
And what would one expect from a good J-wish Liberal politician. Just another Zio hiding himself in the sheep’s clothing of the Liberal party in order to become Canada’s first J-wish PM.
I wouldn’t doubt it, but I thought Harper already took that honour! Need to do some geneology research on both those fellows.
Canada and America were great nations before Israel put a choke-hold not only on the banks/finance, but now on FREE SPEECH.
Any item in history DESERVES to be re-examined when so many embellishments have been uncovered. To think citizens can be threatened with being locked up by the their own government (now J-ws) for sharing an opinion is just too much for rational people to accept.
Change is already here.
This news is hot off the press. These J-ws think they can do anything, with no consequences:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ayzkH6E4A8b8
They also recommend Olmert be charged with corruption. Goyim keep seeing these crimes by Israel’s top “leadership”, and the TRUTH is spreading.
Isr-el is the prime sex slave drop-off site in the world. The girls are lured with promises of jobs, then have their passports stolen, and live a life servicing the Shloschmucks. Rape is just something the Isr-elis regard with a wink and a chuckle, unless it is a J-wish girl.
First visit here. Great site Anarchore. Glad to know there are informed patriots that can help us identify where the cockroaches are lurking. Thanks to you and other concerned members of humanity.
Righton Steve! Have you read Kenny’s Sideshow blog, also from Tennessee? http://kennysideshow.blogspot.com/