Anita Anand is Canada’s new foreign affairs minister. When she was defence minister Anand promoted a belligerent military posture and has backed Canada’s support for Israel’s holocaust in Gaza.
As President of the Treasury Board in November 2023 Anand criticized the head of the Canadian Association of Professional Employees, Camille Awada, condemnation of Zionism. During the past 19 months of genocide in Gaza Anand has refused to listen to constituents who’ve called, emailed, petitioned and protested in a bid to have her call for a two-way arms embargo on Israel. During the recent election campaign Anand refused to endorse the Vote Palestine pledge, suggesting it was antisemitic. In response, former supporter and financier Mohamad Fakih wrote, “I regret endorsing Anita Anand. She promised a letter on Palestine that never came—no courage to go public. Now she plays all sides, gaslights international law, and undermines Sima+Adam by framing Palestinian rights as fueling antisemitism. This is divisive. She doesn’t deserve your vote.”
On the NATO proxy war Anand was extremely hawkish. Immediately after Russia invaded Ukraine she may have violated Canada’s Foreign Enlistment Act by calling on “‘all foreigners willing to defend Ukraine and world order’ to contact the foreign diplomatic missions of Ukraine.” Anand made near weekly announcements about delivering arms to Ukraine. On one occasion she tweeted a video of tanks loaded onto military aircraft, noting “Battle tanks are on their way to help Ukraine. The first Canadian Leopard 2 is enroute. Canada’s support for Ukraine is unwavering.” (more...)
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