Canada’s Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs Is on the Wrong Side of History. Bill C-63, “The Online Hams Act”

 

The CIJA Supports the Israeli Genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank; The CIJA Supports Life Sentences for Those Violating Its Idea of Thought Crimes and Speech Crimes

The CIJA’s effort has been to try to persuade the Canadian people to make the Canadian government more complicit in genocide than it already is by licensing arms sales to Israel. This kind of lobbying for a foreign power does not seem like the appropriate business for a registered Canadian charity.

The CIJA has been promoting outright contempt of the ICJ ruling by calling it “a morally obscene anti-Israel campaign led by South Africa.” Who is being morally obscene here? How is it a crime to interpret what we see with our own eyes as “making a mockery of actual genocides past, present and future.”...

How can the CIJA’s assertion be taken seriously when it asserts that “the IDF has gone to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties;” that “Israel is fully compliant with the Genocide Convention.” This Convention declares that the Convention is being violated when

“the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such [through] (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group”

At the very peak of this tumult over Israel, genocide and the ICJ ruling, the Canadian government is appeasing the Israel Lobby by pressing forward Bill C-63, the so-called Online Harms Act. 

To me, even tabling this absurd and menacing enactment represents nothing short of a treasonous move on the part of the Bill C-63’s protagonists. Commentator Bob Metz explains it well when he asserts

“The proposals contained in Bill C-63 are so bizarre and outrageous that most would dismiss them outright. Like something out of a science-fiction horror fantasy, the bill allows the government to convict, fine, and imprison ‘for life’ people who have not committed any speech offence, but who may do so in the future.”  (more...)

Canada’s Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs Is on the Wrong Side of History. Bill C-63, “The Online Hams Act”