Thursday, November 28, 2024

Israel supporters’ push for fascism hits bump in Toronto suburb

 

Canada Toronto Mississauga Israel lobby politics Palestine solidarity dissent repression human rights

The Mayor of Mississauga’s defence of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms bucks an authoritarian slide. Zionist forces are seeking a return to a time when anti-war voices were violently suppressed.

Recently, genocide lobbyist stirred up a storm over a planned vigil in Mississauga to commemorate “resistance leaders” “fighting for Palestinian freedom”. The poster for the Canadian Defenders 4 Human Rights event had an image of deceased Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

Genocide lobbyists demanded Toronto’s most populous suburb suppress the planned rally. In response to the pressure, Mayor Carolyn Parrish said she wouldn’t shutter Charter protected speech. Parrish added, “I just want to point out, and I’m not being facetious, Nelson Mandela was declared a terrorist by the United States of America until the year 2008. Your terrorist and somebody else’s terrorist may be two different things.”

Those promoting Benjamin Netanyahu’s holocaust in Gaza lost it. How dare Parrish compare the Hamas leader to Nelson Mandela. But Mandla Mandela, Nelson’s grandson and sitting member of South Africa’s legislature, has made similar comparisons.  (more...)

Israel supporters’ push for fascism hits bump in Toronto suburb


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