Among the tools pro-Palestine activists need to employ against the Canadian government’s enabling of Israel’s genocide is a credible plan to punish the Liberal Party electorally. It won’t be easy because foreign policy seldom plays a significant role in elections, but there are reasons to believe it’s possible.
In the US there’s been significant discussion about the Democratic base withdrawing support for Genocide Joe Biden. With a large Arab population, the battleground state of Michigan is ground zero for the effort to punish Biden electorally. In Tuesday’s Democratic primary over 100 000 Michiganders voted “uncommitted” as part of a highly successful grassroots campaign to protest Biden’s Gaza policy.
On Thursday George Galloway won a byelection in the heavily Muslim and working-class town of Rochdale, near Manchester, England. Running on a pro-Palestinian plank, Galloway took the long-time Labour party stronghold by massive margin for the leftist Workers Party of Britain. After the victory Galloway told anti-Palestinian Labour leader “Keir Starmer, this is for Gaza.”
In Canada there’s been relatively little discussion about punishing the Liberals for enabling genocide. This is due to media bias in favour of Israel and that elections aren’t expected soon, which means the anger driving the unprecedented popular uprising might have subsided by the time the writ is dropped. That may prove to be the case, but the minority government could fall at any point and the Palestine solidarity movement has established a network across the country to target specific ridings. (more...)
Time to target Liberal ministers over Palestine
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