Alex Paterson 🌲🖤

181 words, and not only does @CJPME hide that these Palestinians were in fact Hamas terrorists, but they call this terror attack a "gun battle", when in fact this was fully initiated by Palestinian terrorists. Israel responded as ANY sovereign nation would. Why don't you ever hold Palestinians and their terrorism responsible instead of trying to shift the blame to Israel?

Canadians are waking up to news of yet another deadly Palestinian terrorist attack against Israelis, leaving several wounded, some critically, and killing two people: Yonatan Roytman and Yuval Shai Svilem. May their memories be for a blessing. The Palestinian Authority has a responsibility to uphold security and protect innocent lives. The Canadian government must hold the PA accountable for the deterioration of the security situation and for its continued practice of rewarding terrorism through payments to terrorists and their families. Without holding the Palestinian Authority accountable, Canada is permitting the PA to violate both their specific commitments to Canada and their international obligations to end terrorism.

The only way for Canada to enforce the arrest warrant as Netanyahu flies through Canadian skies would be to scramble fighter jets to intercept it and force a landing on Canadian soil. This does appear to be what CBC’s Evan Dyer is advocating.

Representation matters. And IJV is the one-percenter. There has been overwhelming support for the new Government of Canada-commissioned study documenting systemic antisemitism on university campuses—and its clear finding that anti-Israel and antizionist ideologies are driving much of the hatred targeting Jewish Canadians. We agree with @CdnHeritage Minister @MarcMillerVM that this report should guide the government’s response to what the Prime Minister has rightly called Canada’s antisemitism crisis. That’s why it’s telling that one fringe group, which shares an office with a radical anti-Israel organization and has partnered with Canadian-listed terrorist entities, is so concerned. Their facade is crumbling. Just 1% of Jewish Canadians identify with IJV’s antizionist ideology. For perspective, there's a larger percentage of Canadians who believe the Earth is flat than Canadian Jews who share IJV's view. Let's keep the momentum going. Urge the government to continue to name the problem clearly: nothing justifies attacks against Canadian students or any Canadians.: actionhub.ca/alert/prime-min…

Honest question, Minister @EvanLSolomon: why does an intelligent, good guy like you, with a background in communications, repeat the absurd cliché that “antisemitism has no place… anywhere in Canada?” The opposite is obviously true. By every metric, antisemitism has a large and growing place in Canada. So can we please just drop that ridiculous bromide and start to confront the painful reality that we, as a society, have allowed history’s oldest and most pernicious hatred to metastasize in Canada? Of course this is not reducible to a partisan question, but surely some responsibility for the sickening growth in antisemitism falls to the national government that has been in office for over a decade. The government that, as a matter of policy, dropped the Harper government’s formal acknowledgement of the the uniquely pernicious and durable nature of antisemitism? The government that has funded vile antisemites through parodic “anti racism” programs. The government that rewarded the perpetrators of the deadliest pogrom of Jews since the Shoah with recognition of a non existant Palestinian “state.” The government that restored and increased funding to one of the greatest sources of violent antisemitism: UNWRA, which poisons the minds of Palestinian children with Jew hatred. A government that has done nothing to address the problem of rampant antisemitism in many of Canada’s universities, where scapegoating Israel as the “collective Jew” (to quote Irwin Cotler) has become commonplace. And a government whose naive approach to multiculturalism, immigration, and integration is willfully blind to the sad but undeniable reality that antisemitism is deeply embedded in certain cultures. To all of those in office: enough with the cliches every time there is a new outrage targeting the Jewish community. Real leadership is required, which means risking and spending political capital.

Israel condemns the ongoing violence against Jews in Canada. The continued shooting attacks against Jewish targets must stop. These incidents undermine prospects for peace, security and reconciliation. We call for the de-escalation and protection of civilians. The law must be respected, and all civilians must be able to live in safety and security.

So, let's get this straight... @MarkJCarney said that “lecturing” other countries from afar on human rights is an ineffective strategy, but that seems to apply to all countries except for Israel, the world’s only Jewish state. Quite the flagrant double standard by Canada’s Prime Minister. 👀

Earlier this month, while in Türkiye and Saudi Arabia—two countries with deeply troubling human rights records, including one that continues to detain a human rights activist whose family lives in Canada—Prime Minister Carney said Canadian foreign policy would no longer pursue the ineffective strategy of "lecturing countries from afar." Is there a double standard in which this new approach does not apply when it comes to Israel?

We call on the Iranian authorities to immediately end the use of the death penalty, and to uphold the human rights of Iranian citizens, in line with international law.

A UN official says Israel has squandered Canada's relief efforts and infrastructure in Gaza. He also describes the genocidal conditions Israel continues to impose on Palestinians.

My motion calling on Canada to examine its risk of complicity in grave violations of international law in Gaza was defeated 40-12. Here is the exchange that preceded the vote: