Liberal MPs ask universities if calling for genocide of Jews violates school codes
Liberal MPs ask universities if calling for genocide of Jews violates school codes
Five Liberal members of Parliament are asking 25 Canadian university presidents to say whether calling for a genocide against Jewish people or the elimination of Israel violates their school policies.
Five Liberal members of Parliament are asking 25 Canadian university presidents to say whether calling for a genocide against Jewish people or the elimination of Israel violates their school policies.
Calling for genocide is illegal in Canada so why is it necessary to cover it in school policies? I wouldn't expect murder to be included in school policies either.
How about we don’t call for the genocide of any group you fucking cunts. We can’t call for the genocide of Jews (rightfully so) but calling for the genocide of Palestinians is fine I guess. Why is the question framed the way that it is (spoiler: we all know the answer)? Shouldn’t Palestinians feel safe on campus as well?
Also CTV can get fucked with their reporting on Palestine and Israel: https://breachmedia.ca/ctv-bell-media-forbids-palestine-suppresses-criticism-israel/
How about if we also agree that saying "bombing hospitals is bad" is not antisemitism?
There are two entities that embrace "from the river to the sea" politics and that employ war tactics that kill innocent civilians : (a) Hamas and (b) Israel.
So I don't know what the fuck these MPs are going on about. If we want to condemn genocidal and eliminationist rhetoric and war crimes, this Israeli government is guilty and so is Hamas.
The only legitimately moderate party in this conflict is the Palestinian Authority, which stands firmly on the Two State Solution position.
Edit: TL;DR: context matters.
For examples:
"I don't like them Jews; fuck them, their space lasers, and the state of Israel" always bad.
"I'm Palestinian and I would very much like my people to stop being genocided; I think removal of the state of Israel is the only feasible way" correct or incorrect, a geo-political statement, not necessarily a genocideal one, but could be with context.
"TL;DR" implies a summary of the article, but you just seem to be stating a position which I guess is your own view.
I mean, that was my understanding of the article.
There's also the question of how to deal with groups using "McGill" in their name; but that seemed unresolved.
Just FYI, some quotation marks here would clear up what is your summary of the article, vs. your personal opinion. As it stands, it comes across as an actual antisemitic post which I don't think was your intent.
Hope that edit is more clear.
Frankly, most people come to this issue with such blinders one way or another I don't think it matters.
The problematic part starts when you ask what should happen to all the Israelis. Maybe they want a one-state solution, which is fine, but quite often they want a genocide or ethnic cleansing of Jews in order to make space.
Both the actual antisemites (of both white and Arab flavours) and the Zionists want to blur the fact that there's two ways that could be meant. It's really amazing how well people who hate each other can end up coordinating. See also Netanyahu and Hamas.
See also Netanyahu and Hamas.
I wish everyone knew about this, and that it was widely reported. Netanyahu has been supporting Hamas (insane terrorists) for decades, and ignoring the PA who want a negotiated peace. He has been deliberately stoking the fires on both sides of the conflict, so he can commit genocide in retaliation.
The Jewish history definately complicates the conflict.
We don't have the same discussions about Shai/Sunni conflict in Yemen, or Russia/Ukrainian conflict in Ukraine, or all the ethnic groups in Myanmar, or the Ethiopian-Tigray conflict, or non-arabs in Dafur/Sudan, or the host ongoing Al-Qaeda/ISIS conflicts.
Get help.
Get help about?
I'm not saying either of those positions are correct.
I'm saying one is anti-Semitic, and the other is a geo-political position.
It obviously does.
Yes, I think the real contention is whether the phrase "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" is a call for genocide. The answer is: to some chanters in Canada it might be, but I think that it is a vanishingly small percentage, however for a significant percentage ofJewish Canadians hearing the phrase, it IS. Which makes it a difficult issue to address, how do you balance the right to political protest against the right to feel secure against genocide.