“Canada is seen by many Palestinians as a U.S. lackey and will be painted by the same bloody brush.”
Palestinians gathered outside the Canadian representative office in the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank last week, expressing support for student protests being held at North American universities and calling on the Canadian government to impose a full arms embargo on Israel.
Rawan, a Palestinian-American who has lived in Ramallah since 2019, told The Maple that the April 30 protest included youth and student activists, community organizers, and “everyone we could convince to show out.”
“We decided to join this protest [...] because of the Canadian government’s political, material and diplomatic support of Israel, and its complicity in this genocide in Gaza through the continued allowance of military goods being sold to Israel,” Rawan explained.
She said the Canadian office was chosen because the United States, Israel’s leading international patron, does not have an embassy in the area, and Canada is widely regarded among Palestinians as being a “lackey” of the U.S.
Demonstrators carried signs that praised American and Canadian student protests, which have faced police crackdowns and violence by Zionist attackers in recent weeks. One sign read, in Arabic: “The student struggle leads the masses.”
Another sign held by a protester read: “KKKanada, where’s that arms embargo?” (more...)
From Ramallah To Ottawa: Palestinians Picket Canadian Government Office
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