Benjamin Netanyahu is openly throwing his weight behind Pierre Poilievre. But few are pushing back against this flagrant interference in Canada’s election.
On Friday the Israeli prime minister posted, “Canada has always sided with civilization. So should Mr. Carney. But instead of supporting Israel, a democracy that is fighting a just war with just means against the barbarians of Hamas, he attacks the one and only Jewish state. Mr. Carney, backtrack your irresponsible statement!”
Netanyahu’s post quoted Carney’s response to a recent heckler, who shouted that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. In seeming agreement with the heckler’s statement, Carney responded, “I’m aware, that’s why we have an arms embargo.”
It’s notable that Netanyahu’s post came after Carney had already partially walked back his comment.
Twenty-four hours after Netanyahu’s intervention into the election Poilievre took a further step toward aligning with the Netanyahu/Trump axis. The Conservative leader announced that he would copy the Trump administration, which at the behest of mega donor Miriam Adelson and other Zionist forces is deporting critics of Israel. “Anyone who is here on a visitor visa who carries out law-breaking will be deported from this country,” Poilievre told reporters Saturday in response to a question about Israel. “We will bring in tougher laws to target vandalism, hate marches that break laws [and] violent attacks based on ethnicity and religion.”
Netanyahu’s intervention is on top of various other forms of Israeli interventions into Canadian affairs. Israel’s diaspora ministry is spending millions and millions of dollars on online disinformation efforts targeting US and Canadian officials. They were caught last year promoting explicitly Islamophobic positions to deflect criticism of their holocaust in Gaza. (more...)
Why the double standard about Israel’s foreign interference?
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