Reisman should not get tax credit for funding Israel's army

 

A central part of Jiu Jitsu is channeling your enemy’s power to your advantage. The left should learn from that. 

The Israel lobby’s panic over posters on an Indigo store should be thrown in their face by emphasizing Canada’s most important contribution to Palestinian dispossession. 

On November 10 some individuals put posters and fake blood on an Indigo bookstore in Toronto to denounce CEO Heather Reisman’s assistance for non-Israelis to join its military. The posters were a satirical book cover stamped “Heather’s pick” entitled “Funding Genocide”. Reisman is named “Chief Occupation Lover” and quoted saying “I’m happy to use profits from your purchases to fund the Israeli army and bomb civilians.” 

The Israel lobby panicked and the media hyped their outrage over purported “antisemitism”. Ten days later the Toronto police organized a pre-dawn raid of the residences of seven individuals allegedly involved in this “crime”. York University followed suit by suspending three employees accused of involvement in the vandalism. 

But the brouhaha is entirely about political posters and water-soluble paint, which was easily removed. It may be vandalism, but if there’s no lasting effect on the store window, that charge may not even stick. 

In fact, police bursting into your home early in the morning, cuffing everyone and detaining individuals for hours is a greater punishment than a standard postering or graffiti offence. But the Israel lobby/media/police/York University abuse isn’t the main outrage in this affair. It is that the public has given around $40 million in tax credits to Reisman and her husband for the $100+ million they have donated to a registered charity they established to assist the Israeli occupation force even though Canada Revenue Agency rules preclude supporting another country’s military.  (more...)

Reisman should not get tax credit for funding Israel's army