Childhood acute malnutrition in Gaza has reached its “highest levels to date” due to the Israeli-imposed blockade on lifesaving aid.
Netanyahu has stated he now intends to illegally annex Gaza, betraying the true intentions behind more than 600 days of relentless genocidal attacks on Palestinians (which came after decades of occupation and apartheid).
For some people, it’s finally become difficult to deny what many have been saying throughout the last year and a half: that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Others, however, continue to deny it.
How did we get here?
Well, a new report is exposing the environment of anti-Palestinian racism and censorship that helped build social license for Canadian complicity in atrocity.
The report shows the scale of Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian racism and anti-Arab racism that has occurred in Canada since Oct. 7, 2023.
It’s a stark reminder of the degree of vitriol people faced for trying to draw attention to this issue, or for simply living as an Arab, Muslim and/or Palestinian person over the last 670 days.
I am worried that as the rubble settles and the words Omar El-Akkad predicted become reality, that as the “one day” that “everyone will have always been against this” arrives, people will allow themselves to forget what politicians, employers and peers did to people, especially to Palestinians, who really have always been against this.
If we forget that, will we forget how Canadian institutions built a social license for the genocide that is still underway today?
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