Enough with the gaslighting. Enough with the defensiveness. Justice minded Canadians need to embrace protesting genocide-promoting Jewish institutions.
Recently, Liberal MP Ben Carr complained that people protested an Israel soldier’s talk at Winnipeg’s Asper Jewish Community Campus. Concurrently the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver, Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver and Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) jointly condemned a protest in that city against a planned visit by the Israeli consul to Vancouver’s JCC. Irrespective of whether there was an Israeli soldier or diplomat at these institutions they should be protested. And anti-genocide forces need to stop cowering to Zionist gaslighting, suggesting these are simply innocent community institutions, not enablers of Palestinian dispossession.
In his statement calling for “bubble legislation” that would suppress Canadians’ Charter enshrined right to assembly Carr bemoaned that a “Jewish school with minors and toddlers” was housed inside the building where the Winnipeg protests was held. But a brief search of Gray Academy’s website and Instagram makes clear the kindergarten to Grade 12 school engages in racist indoctrination. Its website has a section devoted to “Our Commitment to Israel”, which notes how “Gray Academy stands unequivocally and wholeheartedly with Israel. This is one of our key commitments.” Every day the youngsters sing Israel’s national anthem, do a Zionist prayer and view Israeli flags. Their Instagram account promoted a February “Support & Solidarity for Israel Rally” and an event to “honour Israel’s fallen soldiers.”
Of course all humanitarian Winnipeggers should be rallying to call for Gray Academy’s charitable foundation to lose its tax deduction status and for the school to end its genocidal indoctrination. (more...)
All Israel-promoting institutions are fair targets for protest
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