CanadaPolitics

1972 readers

16 users here now

Placeholder for any r/CanadaPolitics refugees

Rules

Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

lightrush

grte

‘Not business as usual’: Jewish peace activists occupy Parliament Hill (ricochet.media)

submitted 1 month ago by streetfestival to c/canadapolitics

1 comments fedilink hide all child comments

“I am here to push Canada to stop supplying Israel with weapons, and to make it clear that Jewish people do not want Canada to continue to provide weapons to Israel,” David Mivasair, a retired rabbi who served two different synagogues in Vancouver for about 23 years, told Ricochet. Mivasair’s message to the MPs was “not to listen to the Jewish organizations supporting Israel — they don’t speak for us.”

“When we survived the Holocaust, we learned that this should never again happen for anyone,” she said. “Never again means never again for anyone, and this is happening in our name.

So far, 47 MPs, including NDP Foreign Affairs critic Heather McPherson and Hamilton Centre MP Matthew Green, have agreed to endorse the government’s proposed full arms embargo, Small says.

“We have had some baby steps, but it is not enough, Wasser told Ricochet. “There are still at least 200 permits that have not been suspended for Canadian companies manufacturing weapons going to Israel.”

top 1 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm bothered in particular in that there is this loophole where Canadian companies can sell to the US - and then those arms end up going to Israel. Apparently, since the Canadian-US relationship is considered special, this isn't tracked or counted.