Open Letter: Justin Trudeau and the BDS movement
Canada to formally Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, giving his speech apologizing for 1939 decision to turn away ship of Jewish refugees. Source.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
House of Commons
Parliament of Canada
[email protected]
Prime Minister,
History is repeating itself.
You have dishonourably exploited your apology for Canada’s historical rejection of Jewish refugees during World War II to falsely conflate antisemitism with and callously reject Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) efforts to protect the human rights of generations of Palestinian refugees ‘chased out of their homes’ and ‘Persecuted, robbed, jailed and killed because of who they were.’ Furthermore the Jewish state ‘had denied them their citizenship and their fundamental rights.’
“Anti-Semitism is far too present. Jewish students still feel unwelcomed and uncomfortable on some of our colleges and university campuses because of BDS-related intimidation.
And out of our entire community of nations, it is Israel whose right to exist is most widely and wrongly questioned.”
Wrongly questioned??? For the informed and integrity-minded it is ‘impossible to ignore the challenges and injustices still facing’ Palestinian families today under the illegal Israeli occupation of their land.
Your ambassador to the United Nations says,
Since coming to office, Prime Minister Trudeau and the Government of Canada have been clear about the importance of the United Nations and multilateral engagement. Canada recognizes that a collective effort is needed of all Member States and all stakeholders if we are to find solutions to the many challenges before us.”
However your and the Harper governments, unmoved by the plight of these [Palestinian] refugees, and indifferent to their suffering, have turned their backs on multiple UN resolutions condemning the alarming rate of Israel’s apartheid policies, illegal settlement expansion and daily crimes against humanity and war crimes according to the Fourth Geneva Conventions.
Thus, Canada continues to turn its back on these innocent victims of the Jewish state’s brutal regime and by collaborating shares the immoral responsibility to doom Palestinian families to the horrors of the West Bank and Gaza ghettos.
In your apology you make reference to the tragic massacre ‘at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, killing 11 people and wounding six others’. You say, ‘Places of worship are sacred, and they should be sanctuaries for all faith communities.’ Does ‘all’ include the despicable act of the 29 Palestinians ‘murdered in their sanctuary’ of the Ibrahim Mosque plus the 100 injured by Israeli doctor, Baruch Goldstein?
Surely, you would agree that one’s home and nation is also a sanctuary. But there are the massacres perpetrated today by Zionist snipers slaughtering unarmed non-violent refugees, abled and disabled Palestinian children and youth, who daily bravely demand, at the walls and fences of their humanitarian crisis, for their right of return to their homes under international law. Like the Jewish refugees on the MS St Louis, Canada deems the Palestinian refugees, innocent victims of the Zionist regime, unworthy of a home, and undeserving of your help.
As a member state of the UN, under obligation to uphold political and human rights of the people of Palestine, Canada has failed miserably and the bounds of its humanity is morally and gravely limited thanks to your servile prostration to Israel and the USA.
It was unacceptable that Canada turned its back on the Jews of Europe, and it is unacceptable now that Canada is failing to stop the discrimination, hate-motivated crimes, violence and threat of Zionism against the vulnerable Palestinian people.
More than 70 years ago, Canada turned its back on Palestine by voting for the UN Partition Plan for which the UN had no legal mandate to divide up foreign territory. Certainly, ‘time has by no means absolved Canada of its guilt or lessened the weight of its shame.’ In fact, you have augmented both guilt and shame with your indifference, lack of political courage and legitimisation of Zionist atrocities.
It is time that the ongoing dishonourable chapters of Canada’s abusive history of the Palestinian people end and that its lessons are never forgotten by Canada’s ‘children and grandchildren’.
Palestine does not need you to apologise. Rather, Canadians must unwaveringly ‘pledge, now and forever, never again’ to violate the respect for Palestine’s humanity enshrined in the UN Charter and pledge to take part in the ‘social struggles for fairness, justice and human rights,’ ‘for democracy and the rule of law, for equality and liberty’ that is the spirit and agency of BDS.
Nor should the international community pit a Palestinian state against a Jewish state. It is our ‘collective responsibility’ to support a one-nation solution in which Palestinians and Jews live together in equality and peace.
Sincerely
Dr Vacy Vlazna
Coordinator
Justice for Palestine Matters
www.palestinematters.com
Sydney, Guringai, Australia
Dr. Vacy Vlazna is Coordinator of Justice for Palestine Matters and editor of a volume of Palestinian poetry, I remember my name. She was Human Rights Advisor to the GAM team in the second round of the Acheh peace talks, Helsinki, February 2005 then withdrew on principle. Vacy was convenor of Australia East Timor Association and coordinator of the East Timor Justice Lobby as well as serving in East Timor with UNAMET and UNTAET from 1999-2001.
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attn Dr Vacy Vlazna:
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Wrongly questioned??? For the informed and integrity-minded it is ‘impossible to ignore the challenges and injustices still facing’ Palestinian families today under the illegal Israeli occupation of their land.
Canada turned its back on Palestine by voting for the UN Partition Plan for which the UN had no legal mandate to divide up foreign territory
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Nor should the international community pit a Palestinian state against a Jewish state. It is our ‘collective responsibility’ to support a one-nation solution in which Palestinians and Jews live together in equality and peace.
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There. Fixed up some of the typography for you. No charge.
The real story is that Hitler let the British army depart because he was a “British” (i.e. Illuminati Zionist) agent.
Back to this universe: before 1940 he wrote Mein Kampf and after he had the Holocaust organized: some Zionist!
I read cannabis was recently legalized in Canada but didn’t know about the UK.
You have misinterpreted a dodgy quote: it says our Adolph was a “Zionist agent” — not “a Zionist”. But actually, both interpretations are true. In a small way Hitler was a Zionist because he would rather have the German Jews in Palestine than in Germany. The Nazis actually agreed with prewar Zionazi terrorists to send 60,000 “Jewish intruders” to Palestine; and these ZioNazis were in perfect agreement with German Nazis: that Racial Purity is the Foundation of a People. see WikiPedia link by GrandStand on that agreement. But the major role of Hitler was not as _a minor Zionist_; Hitler’s main role as _the major Anglo Zio Capitalist _Agent_, “our bulwark against Communism”. In assigning to Hitler the task of destroying the Soviet Union with weapons supplied by F UK U$A, the Leaders in London, Paris, Washington (and Warsaw) were in perfect agreement with the Fuhrer in Berlin. It was… Read more »
Actually, as Livingstone stated, the German Zionazis co-operated with the German Nazi regime through the 30s, to transfer German Jews to Palestine, in preparation for seizing the territory and murdering or expelling (or perpetually imprisoning, as now) the indigenous people. As Ben-Gurion stated, he would prefer half the German Jewish children saved by being sent to Palestine, than saving them all if they had to go to England.
Ben Gurion’s remark, stenographically recorded, made at a Mapai (Ben Gurion’s socialist political party) central committee meeting on 12 December 1938, was, in full:
If you don’t know the context of the final sentence (which he did not, at that time, expand on, though others at the meeting did)–and either you don’t or you are purposely suppressing it–then you don’t know nut’n’honey.
I watched first 2 episodes of ‘The Lobby’ couple days ago on another site. What utter slimebags. What these Zionist operatives do in defending a brutal, murderous Apartheid regime. Straight out bullying, intimidating, and smearing of those who dare stand up for Palestine, and who speak the truth on what Israel does. And what got me is the lengths these people go too to silence the truth tellers. I believe the fear of being labelled anti semitic and a ‘jew hater’ is what keeps a lot of people silent. Here in Australia, I have had the misfortune of coming across one such zealot who has repeatedly smeared me as a ‘jew hater’, ‘anti semitic’, a ‘hamas lover’ a ‘supporter of terrorists’ etc etc. Straight out bullying to get me to shut up. I Refuse to ‘shut up’ because I have a conscience. My conscience won’t let me look the other… Read more »
The phony ‘antisemitism’ canard is the most perfect example of pathopsychological projection imaginable. No-one on Earth hates like a Zionazi, a hatred born of three thousand years of ‘religious’ fear and hatred of the Other, the European settler colonists’ hatred of the Indigenous (and all who dare support them) who must be expelled or exterminated so that the Western Herrenvolk can seize their required lebensraum, and the quite understandable (if self-destructive) hatred of the ‘Jew-hating world’ that arose from the horror of the Nazi Judeocide. It is a hatred that has been poisoning Jewry, and the Western stooge states that Zionazi elite money has bought up, for decades and is growing ever more virulent and destructive. But that is the fare of humanity, everywhere, as its self-destruction nears a climax.
Mulga finally comes out of THE closet: he is a Jew! Must be because his hate is as strong as “them”….
Pepe comments on the Paris Summit in today’s Saker. Here are clips re Latest Existential Threat to Israel: “Iran as the new [WW1] Serbia? Putin might be able to impress on Trump that just as Serbia 1914 catalyzed a chain of events that led great powers to “sleepwalk” [??] into World War I, the same could happen with Iran leading to the terrifying prospect of World War III. Team Trump’s [ie, Ivanka’s & Jared’s ie, Israel’s] obsession on strangling Iran into economic submission is a no-go. Russia-China strategic partnership simply won’t allow reckless games to be played against a crucial node of Eurasia integration. [But just in case the AZC wants us to fight another war for Greater Israel] The Avangard [Russia’s hypersonic deterrent] simply cannot be intercepted by any existing system on the planet – and the US knows it. Here is General John Hyten, head of US Strategic Command: “We… Read more »
@ Antonym, GrandStand. So the Nazis were playing both sides to destabilize the British Oil Empire. On the one hand (Antonym) offering to help the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem expel “Jewish intruders”; on the other hand (Grandstand) collaborating with Zionists to send 60,000 more “Jewish intruders” to Palestine.
European powers boiling up a fine stew of ethnic poison that is still bubbling to this day — both in Palestine and in the Ukraina — with Ottawa helping London to stir the pot. From my 1967 Encyclopaedia Brittannica, the British Army was still trying to put down riots in Iraq when Rommel Landed in Libya to claim Germany’s share of ME oil.
Toronto Sun: Feds talking with Pakistan about bringing Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy to Canada
https://torontosun.com/news/world/feds-talking-with-pakistan-about-bringing-christian-woman-acquitted-of-blasphemy-to-canada/wcm/9128f4bc-cfc0-4660-907e-d15207b3763e
Is Justin Trudeau doing something good for once?
Doing something good? No doing something cheap and inconsequential to the national interest and the banksters.
Money talks.
Politicians line up like sheep.
Alfred Lillienthal’s book “What Price Israel” explains why more Jewish refugees did not go to the US (and by extension Canada). Here is a good article on it by Ronald Bleier:
http://thedailyjournalist.com/the-historian/fdr-and-the-jews-gruber-et-al-vs-lilienthal/
From GrandStand’s Link: “Lilienthal rebuts popular view of FDR –- Points to Zionists “I believed Gruber’s story and repeated it often to friends. Only later did I learn that the very opposite was the truth. The real FDR was very much aware of and troubled by the plight of the wartime refugees and he proposed a World Plan to save half a million or more. He envisioned an agreement with the UK, Canada, Australia, and others, with the U.S. and the U.K. leading the way. Both countries would shelter some 150,000 “displaced persons” as they were then called. FDR’s emissary for this plan managed to get agreement in principle from the British but in the end the plan was vetoed by the Zionists. Alfred Lilienthal tells this story in his important and effectively buried book What Price Israel. http://www.alfredlilienthal.com/what_price_israel_2.htm President Roosevelt was deeply concerned with the plight of the European… Read more »
Thank you for posting the truth of the matter.Many could have been saved but for the zionist movement that stopped it all .This information has been historically preserved but who knows about it.
This seems all politically motivated. Rampant anti-semitism, always on the rise according to the JDL, has prevented Jews from succeeding, so much so that they have no wealth or influence, just like the Palestinians? They win no prizes, get no promotions, are not represented in the mainstream media, own no professional sports teams and never appear on lists of the world’s richest or most powerful people. Of course none have been identified by the #metoo movement as rapists and exploiters. They must feel excluded!
Erm, Harvey Weinstein has a Polish Jewish background. But he may well end up as the token Big Fish victim of a movement that increasingly concentrates on middle-level and minnow offenders for easy pickings to stay in the public eye.
Irony, Jen, irony.
And, in the West, they NEVER buy politicians and demand TOTAL subservience, nor use their money and media power to destroy ANYONE who dares to defy them or treat the Palestinians as human beings, contrary to Talmudic doctrine.
Well said. Trudeau is virtue signaller of the highest order. Never mind his nazi-lite Ukrainian FM, Chrystia Freeland, whose ancesotrs were actual Nazi sympathisers..#awkward
https://vigile.quebec/articles/canada-s-new-foreign-minister-lying-about-family-s-ukrainian-nazi-past
‘Nazi sympathiser’ puts it very mildly. Her grandfather was an important functionary in the occupation of Poland. The managing editor of a newspaper whose proprietor was killed in a concentration camp.
Her offence is to continue to support the racist anti communist Bandera organisation whose fascist offspring the Canadian government, among others, arms and finances as they pursue their campaign to purge Ukraine of Russian culture and Ukrainian politics of socialists.
There is no reason (other than fear of a backlash) to call Freeland nazi-like. Her family backround is proud Nazi and she doesn’t denounce that, even if she tries to hide it.
Proud Zionist, proud Nazi … same horse different jockey.
2 sides of the same coin.
Nazi-lite, not nazi-like..lite because she doesn’t walk around with a swastika armband, and she’s often heard trying to convince people the Ukrainian gov aren’t the same thing and/or in bed with the Azov btn
It is time that the ongoing dishonourable chapters of Canada’s abusive history of the Palestinian people end
Good to see that humor is not yet dead amongst Palestinian Arabs.
Written by Dr Vacy Vlazna Coordinator Justice for Palestine Matters http://www.palestinematters.com Sydney, Guringai, Australia
So an Australian woman writes to the Canadian PM regarding rights of Palestinians? What is next?
Supreme hypocrisy here. Rightwing Jews, WORLDWIDE, agitate for the Zionazi terror, apartheid, regime, and against the Palestinians, Arabs and Moslems, resulting in millions of deaths, so far, yet they seek to ban decent human beings across the planet, agitating for the Palestinian’ human rights. Oh, I forgot-according to Talmudic dogma, Palestinans are not fully ‘human’. I get it.
Max Blumenthal’s tweet – “New Azov Battalion recruitment …
https://www.trendsmap.com/twitter/tweet/1061820611700424704
New Azov Battalion recruitment video uploaded by Ukrainian fascist leader Andrey Biletsky shows members training with Israeli Tavor rifles. More evidence that Israel has armed the world’s most potent neo-Nazi fighting force.
[Vexarb adds, re Trudeau’s FM: Canada was a major destination for Polish Nazis after the war, (and for some remnants of Polish Jewry) both groups being from the Galician part of Poland now known as West Ukraine. So the ancient ethnic Furies walk into the 21st Century, with their cry of “Blood, blood” like in ancient Greek tragedy.]
The reason Canada, and the US and Great Britain, would not admit fleeing Jews was at the behest of the Zionists. The German Jews had to go East, to the camps in Poland for onward shipment to Palestine, not West. Everybody was appeasing the Zionists, including the Germans. The Zionists gave the infamous IBM punched cards to the Gestapo to make sure every Jew in Germany was identified and sent to the holding (not extermination) camps.
which is pretty much what Ken Livingstone was saying, and what caused him to be suspended from the LP..that and the fact that Hitler had spoken to both the Zionists and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem about where to send people
@Yankob Livingstone was right in everything he ever said, but he had to be silenced. In point of fact, that should have been the impetus for everyone to begin researching for themselves, instead of relying on the MSM prestitutes. Today we have no clue what is going on in the Corporate/ Political arena. Back then they were even more in the dark. However, thanks to the massive egos of the prime players, and keeping journals of everything they did, some people have diligently unravelled the ball of string (lies). And the pattern is repeated over and over and over again. The articles below, cover all salient points and should encourage EVERYONE to look deep into the rabbit hole, and at the motives of Hodge and her friends the JL et al, who are ramping up the lies and hate against Corbyn, and wonder WHY? >>>>Early in 1932, Adolf Hitler received… Read more »
Anyone who believes the drivel in the post by “Maggie” needs their head read. Her/his/its post has four thumbs-up (and, at time of writing this reply, only 8 down). My faith in the sanity of some of the people who consult this site has taken a severe blow. In “Mein Kampf” (of which I have read an English translation), published some 10 years before he came to power, Hitler did express a desire to cooperate with Britain, but also expressed at very great length his heavily-racialised contempt, loathing and hatred for Jews, Slavs and the French. Quoting German authors published during the Nazi period, as “Maggie” does, is hardly authoritative, nor is anything by David Irving. “I managed to find the secret files of The Focus”. LOL. It is plausible, of course, that the Nazi government did have pre-WWII contacts with Zionist organisations in order to send Germany’s Jews to… Read more »
It is more than ‘plausible’ that the German Nazis and German Zionists co-operated to transfer German Jews to Palestine-it is an historical fact. It was the result of the Haavara Agreement signed by the parties on November 25, 1933. It facilitated the migration of 60,000 German Jews to Palestine between 1933-9. That is the historical fact that Zionazis today do not want the world to remember, hence the vicious fury of the lying and vilification directed at Ken Livingstone.
Ken Livingstone DID NOT say that German Jews were sent to ‘holding’ camps, not extermination camps. He merely mentioned the co-operation between German Zionists and the Nazis to transfer German Jews to Palestine, an historical FACT that the Zionazis still want purged from the historical record. For telling the Truth, Livingstone was smeared and vilified, then betrayed by Corbyn.
In rediscovered telegram, Himmler offers Jerusalem’s mufti help against ‘Jewish intruders’ https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-rediscovered-telegram-himmler-offers-jerusalems-mufti-help-against-jewish-intruders/
I am amazed that this still exists on Wikipedia but here it is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement
Perhaps the most vicious calumny against the Palestinians invented by Zionazi thugs (and a precursor to further massacres of the imprisoned Palestinians) is Nutty-yahoo’s vile assertion that the Palestinians were responsible for the Nazi Judeocide, through the person of the Grand Mufti. One of the vilest canards ever. ‘Rediscovered’ telegram-bog standard Zionazi hate-mongering.
http://www.palestinematters.com/articles/open-letter-to-uk-sharmi-chakrabarti-stop-inciting-censorship-of-zionist-crimes
The transfer agreement by edwin black agrees with you.
Maggie, interesting Link, the Daily Express declaring that “Judea” very sensibly declared War on Hitler, as soon as he came to power in 1933; and by 1936 they were funding Churchill to oppose him. From your clip it appears that the only Jews who exonerated the Nazis at this stage were the Zionists! ” However, note well that the Zionist Association of Germany put out a telegram on the 26th of March rejecting many of the allegations made against the National Socialists as “propaganda,” “mendacious” and “sensational.” In fact, the Zionist faction had every reason to ensure the permanence of National Socialist ideology in Germany. Klaus Polkehn, writing in the Journal of Palestine Studies (“The Secret Contacts: Zionism and Nazi Germany, 1933-1941″; JPS v. 3/4, spring/summer 1976), claims that the moderate attitude of the Zionists [toward Hitler} was due to their vested interest in seeing the financial victory of National… Read more »
Ken Livingstone? These days truth is no defensive. Against the ever-offended.
@Elentis
http://www.palestinematters.com/articles/open-letter-to-uk-sharmi-chakrabarti-stop-inciting-censorship-of-zionist-crimes
“The reason Canada, and the US and Great Britain, would not admit fleeing Jews was at the behest of the Zionists. ..” I know of no evidence for this: the Canadian Establishment was thoroughly anti-semitic. In the Depression years of the 1930s it was popularly believed that keeping out immigrants was a sensible way of dealing with mass unemployment. Any interventions from the Zionists would have had no effect. In fact most Canadian zionists favoured Jewish immigration in the short term. Had they not they could have gone to Palestine. This is not to say that the German Zionists did not play with fire and attempt to reach an agreement with the Nazis-there is no doubt that they did. It is a pity that the argument on this thread has descended, much to the satisfaction of Hasbara, no doubt, into the peculiar intellectual territory first charted by the authors of… Read more »
@bevin: Agreed. “What we should be talking about is the complete domination enjoyed by Zionists over the Canadian Houses of Parliament in which there is almost complete unanimity in the support for Likud fascism.. This is equally true of Parliamentary attitudes to the Ukrainian regime.”
With the peculiar character of Canadian society possessing a strong admixture of both Zio-Nazi and Uki-Nazi elements due to postwar immigration both of Jews and non-Jews from Poland’s Galicia (now Western Ukraine). This makes the present Trudeau-Freeland regime in Ottawa an odd microcosm of the present Jew-Hating-but-Jewish-Led Ukie regime in Kiev. The difference from before the war being that the ZioNazis and the UkiNazis are now in (temporary) political agreement.