Hours after Iran and the U.S. reached a ceasefire deal, Israel launched one of its most devastating attacks on Lebanon to date.
Over a hundred strikes in ten minutes - carnage in Beirut, where hundreds of thousands of displaced people are sheltering.
Hundreds dead, entire neighbourhoods reduced to rubble. Reports of ethnic cleansing and open discussion of permanent military occupation.
Prime Minister Carney has rightly condemned the invasion as illegal, but words are not enough.
Canada must bring sanctions against Israel, cancel the Canada-Israel free trade agreement, implement a real two-way arms embargo, and use every diplomatic and economic tool at our disposal to rein in Israel.
US-Israeli impunity has shredded the international order: Canada should lead in rebuilding it.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-lebanon-military-campaign-ceasefire-9.7156168
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bout time the NDP had a leader like this. hopeful for them now.
Singh probably would have just had some LLM write this up for him cause that dude didn’t have a single original thought in his head.
Lol, the left can be so brutal.
Singh wasn’t anywhere near that bad :)
I swear the left are harder on singh than some of the racist right wingers I’ve met.
US-Israeli impunity has shredded the international order: Canada should lead in rebuilding it.
True words and wise.
Great post imo, and the PM really should do this.
People might say “oh it’s easy for him to say, he doesn’t have to deal with any consequences or fallout”, but Lewis is in fact saying this while a fuckton of disingenuous assholes try to do him dirty like they did with Corbyn, smearing him as “anti-semitic” simply because he is anti-Zionist and anti-genocide. Hopefully Canadians are wise to those tactics now, but who knows :(
Given how he responded to the first journalist who asked him about “antisemitism” at his first presser, I am eager to have more of them do this on TV. He’s gonna wipe the floor with them and teach Canadians a bit of history on Jewish bundism and why Jewish anti-Zionism tends to come not from “self-hatred” but extraordinary moral clarity.
Is there video or a transcript of that, because I would very much like to see it?
There you go: https://xcancel.com/sarobertsonca/status/2038676615048073584#m
AI transcript:
Speaker 1 00:00 At least one prominent Jewish group and few others have accused you harboring anti-israel sentiments that this group and others believe are harmful to the Jewish Community. I know you yourself are Jewish, and you have, of course, supported Palestine over the last few weeks. The last few months, um, and during this campaign as well.
00:16 I wonder, what do you have to say about that, that these Jewish groups are calling you anti-israel at this point. Well, I come from a
Speaker 2 00:24 Long tradition, uh, a multi-generation tradition of Jewish, uh, anti-zionalism. My great-grandfather was a leader in the Jewish labor Bund, which was founded in 1897, five weeks after the first meeting of the world Zionist Congress. So, as long as there’s been formal pro-israel Zionist organizations, there’s been a tradition that has disagreed with that within the Jewish Community.
00:47 I believe there’s a significant number of Canadian Jews who feel the way I do, and it’s been very welcome. To feel so at home in the NDP, a party which has expressed moral Clarity over the genocide in Gaza consistently as we express our outrage over the illegal attack on Iran, which is destabilizing our daily lives and geopolitics and the world economy, all at the same time, and this is part and parcel of being anti-war, pro-international law, and fundamental human rights.
01:17 And that’s my legacy. As a Jewish person, it’s part of my. As part of my culture, and it’s part of my jewishness, and not all people in the Jewish community in Canada agree, and those are more hard conversations and more hard debates, which we have in our own families, which we have in our community.
01:35 And they’re not going anywhere, but I’ve been clear and consistent in my position, and my position is pro-human life.
Awesome, thank you!