The city of Ottawa handed Canada’s Jew-haters a propaganda victory this week when it announced it is cancelling an annual ceremony scheduled for May 14, marking the founding of the state of Israel in 1948.
Why? Presumably because Ottawa’s municipal officialdom is afraid that Jew-haters might disrupt it and become violent.
Of course, the city didn’t put it that way in a statement on Tuesday announcing its decision.
After all, an appeaser — famously described by Winston Churchill as “one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last” — seldom says what he or she actually means.
The city of Ottawa, in explaining its decision, said: “After consulting with the Ottawa Police Service and stakeholders (?), the City is following recommendations based on safety and security considerations to not hold a public ceremony this year. This decision is based on recent intelligence that suggests hosting a public ceremony poses a substantial risk to public safety.
“The City must prioritize the safety of its residents, visitors, and employees. Therefore, this year’s commemoration will occur without the customary ceremony. The decision reflects a commitment to safeguarding the welfare of all Ottawa residents, while upholding principles of inclusivity and respect for diplomatic relations.”
Normally the city, according to its statement, “celebrates national holidays and independence days and holds flag-raising events and activities, in collaboration with Global Affairs Canada, for more than 190 federally-recognized countries.”
But now, Israel will be the lone exception.
The city of Ottawa handed Canada’s Jew-haters a propaganda victory this week when it announced it is cancelling an annual ceremony scheduled for May 14, marking the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. Why? Presumably because Ottawa’s municipal officialdom is afraid that Jew-haters might...
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The Ottawa mayor said he is “very disappointed that the flag-raising ceremony to commemorate Israel’s Independence Day has been cancelled, for the first time ever, for safety and security reasons” adding “it will be another blow to the Jewish community that the customary ceremony will not take place because of escalating threats and hostility.
Today, a simple question for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Does he agree with his anti-Islamophobia adviser, Amira Elghawaby, that the only problem with what we’ll laughably call a “pro-Palestinian” demonstration in Ottawa last weekend was that, as she put it on ‘X’, “a few individual protesters engaged in problematic speech?”
She added “this is unacceptable and contrary to our shared values” before warming up to her main argument which was that: “What is also concerning are deliberate efforts to smear all protesters with one brush, suggesting that anyone calling on Canada to uphold and protect international humanitarian law is aligned with terrorism. This is a patently false and harmful insinuation.”
In the demonstration Elghawaby referred to, the marchers cheered as one of their number, equipped with a microphone, shouted this praise for Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel:
“Our resistance attacks are proof that we are almost free! Oct. 7 is proof that we are almost free! Long live Oct. 7! Long live the resistance. Long live the intifada! Long live every form of resistance.”
In other words, long live murder, rape, torture and kidnapping by terrorists.
Today, a simple question for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Does he agree with his anti-Islamophobia adviser, Amira Elghawaby, that the only problem with what we’ll laughably call a “pro-Palestinian” demonstration in Ottawa last weekend was that, as she put it on ‘X’, “a few individual...
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One “assumes” (ass/u/me) Trudeau believes this incident was more “problematic” than Elghawaby, given that he said on ‘X’: “There is a difference between peaceful protest and hateful intimidation. It is unconscionable to glorify the antisemitic violence and murder perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th. This rhetoric has no place in Canada. None.”
What happened in Ottawa over the weekend is far more than “problematic” in the context of the reality that for months Jewish gathering places have been firebombed, Jewish day schools shot at, Jewish-owned businesses torched and vandalized, Swastikas painted on synagogues and homes, Jewish university students threatened and Jewish communities, described as “Zionist-infested” areas, targeted.
The Liberals know this but they’re politically paralyzed when it comes to countering it.
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