Zionist fascism on the march in Canada

 

Extreme nationalism and the worship of power, no matter your religion or ethnicity, leads to the same place.  

In their bid to defend the slaughter in Gaza, occupied Palestine, the Jewish Zionist establishment has deepened its ties to fascist groups and escalated its anti-democratic rhetoric. 

In recent weeks Israeli nationalists have repeatedly taken their cues from the former head of the thuggish and racist Jewish Defence League (JDL). The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), B’nai Brith, Honest Reporting Canada and Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center have all supported long-time JDL head Meir Weinstein’s harassment of anti-genocide protesters.  

Over the weekend Weinstein condemned protesters for holding Palestinian flags over Highway 401 in Toronto. All the establishment Israel lobby groups echoed Weinstein’s depiction of the protest and Canada’s special envoy on antisemitism, Deborah Lyons, joined the onslaught labelling the anti-genocide action “Antisemitism loud and clear”. Hyper Israeli nationalist Liberal MP Marco Mendocino even quote tweeted Weinstein and copied his claim that “Those who call the Avenue Rd & 401 a ‘Zionist Infested Area’ betray their clearly Antisemitic intent to incite hatred towards a Jewish neighbourhood. This is unacceptable.”  

In a similar incident two weeks ago the Jewish Zionist establishment and right-wing media aggressively promoted a video shared by Weinstein. In the video from a protest at the Eaton Centre, a Palestinian activist utters a death threat to someone off camera (video subsequently emerged of a provocateur who was likely the target, which the police effectively confirmed). 

At the start of last month, Conservative Party deputy leader and prominent Israeli nationalist voice, Melissa Lantsman, attended a JDL aligned protest. She was photographed with a JDL’er who became prominent when he was photographed brandishing a knife, during a fight he instigated at a 2021 Palestine solidarity rally.

On a number of occasions in recent weeks Weinstein and his associates have been videoed threatening violence. He organizes regular Krav Maga “Israeli combat system” trainings and on December 12 Weinstein organized a day long firearms course in Toronto under the slogan “Every Jew a .22”. 

The JDL has been involved in a slew of violent incidents and in 2020 Weinstein was banned from York University. His 2015 push to set up a chapter in Montréal was publicly denounced by CIJA Québec and Mayor Denis Coderre (the Toronto Israeli nationalist Jewish establishment quietly enabled the JDL). A sister Kahanist organization in Israel was outlawed and in 2001 the FBI labeled the US JDL a “right-wing terrorist group”.  (more...)

Zionist fascism on the march in Canada