While the ICJ will make the final determination, it is now apparent that we have watched a genocide unfold, an "unequivocal conclusion" according to B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization.
Thank you for your letter and for acting on this critical situation in Gaza. I have felt so helpless and I hope you have put the wheels in motion to address this genocide. It has happened many years ago and we did nothing and today we have done nothing. The world hasn't learned.
We need more of your voice and that of all Canadians of all faiths. This needs to very front, loud and repeated often. The elimination of the Gazan population is the goal of the leaders of Isreal.
Why is the US still givning the country money and arms?
The Liberal government has already lied under Trudeau about its supposed arms embargo. Trudeau and several cabinet ministers called themselves Zionists. An ideology that is being exposed as racist, untruthful and fascist. The Liberal government would do well to be honest and recognize that Canada contributed, wittingly or unwittingly, to a genocide. History will make that clear enough in time. The party under its present leader would do well to be honest and make amends quickly, or history will not be kind to our nation and the Liberal Party.
Way too many Western officials/politicians, a.k.a. enablers, are basically taking directions from pro-Israel/-IDF lobbyists. And then there's the clearly-compromised heavily-corporatized Western news-media:
Particularly with Israel’s systematic mass slaughter and starvation of Gazan non-combatants young and old, that news-media have been, to put it mildly, editorially emasculated. Though it may be due to orders from ownership headquarters and therefore beyond their control, our (Canada's) news-media are serious offenders.
The most notable example is The National Post. One would really have to read it to believe it, especially since the initial (10/7) Hamas attack against Israel. It epitomizes an extreme example of an echo chamber promoting unconditional 110% support for the Israeli state, including its very-long-practiced cruelty towards the Palestinian people.
For example, shortly after that Hamas attack, a single-column story about a five-year-old American-Palestinian boy who was stabbed to death by the landlord of the residence in which he and his mother lived simply for being Palestinian was placed on page 5, while placed up high on the front page was a large photo (which accompanied a much larger story) with three Israeli teenage girls crying after their friends or family were kidnapped by Hamas gunmen.
More progressive outlets in Canada (e.g. The Globe and Mail) — progressive in regard to basically following “woke” ideology: that of race, sexuality, gender and gender-bending — may be considered more deceptive with their largely pro-Israel stance, especially since 10/7, while attempting to appear objective.
It’s the ethical/moral duty of Western journalists and editors to publicly expose the compromised news-media product and therefor its facilitator(s). By doing so, such brave journalists can at least then also proclaim they will no longer participate in its creation and/or dissemination.
Over decades, I’ve heard of too many cases of employees not standing up and doing what is necessary for the public and/or human(e) good, instead excusing themselves with something like: ‘I need this job — I have a family to support’. ... I have to say that — unless, of course, they were actually forced into coupling, copulating and procreating however many years before — such familial obligation status does not actually ethically or morally justify their willing involvement.
Quite frankly, journalists/editors with genuine integrity should and would tender their resignations and even publicly proclaim they can no longer help propagate their employer’s media product, whether it involves self-censored/missing coverage of a brutally lopsided foreign war or that of domestic corporate corruption that will harm the populace.
Thank you for your brave and just letter clearly outlining steps to stop the ongoing genocide and save the lives of these children being starved and bombed to death
When ICJ declared war criminal Bibi decides to speak to the U.S. congress he gets 96 standing ovations from both Democrats and Republicans. The Canadian government has supported Zionist ethnic cleansing for decades… they’ve just done it tacitly, more quietly than the Americans. We say we “support a two-state solution” but we only give one state (Israel) the support of our recognition.
Mr. Carney has finally been pressured to the point that he has signalled Canada MIGHT recognize a Palestinian state. Naturally he has done this in a way that the bombed and starved Gazans must jump through a near impossible array of hoops first. The Liberal government has claimed that Canada has ceased the shipment of military goods to Israel. And yet it turns out Canada is STILL shipping weapons to support Israel, including a shipment of bullets in the cargo hold of a civilian plane.
Democracy, though imperfect, is the best form of government for the simple reason that it gives the public the opportunity to constrain the activities of those who seek power. Power seekers tend to be amoral, narcissistic psychopaths, which is why Nate I am so ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED by your inspiring moral stance on this issue! At a time when politicians and “journalists” so obviously serve power… it is truly inspiring to see someone stand up for what is OBVIOUSLY right… irrespective of the very real possibility of meaningful costs to their personal career. BRAVO!
Ms Dcruz is an idiot. Zionist ethnic cleansing and ‘mowing the grass’ has been almost incessant since 1948.
Mr Erskine-Smith is the ONLY MP who has the courage to call out our PM, who wants to virtue-signal and do nothing for as long as he can. The idea that ‘recognizing the state of Palestine’ is simple horseshit; what exactly is there to recognize? Rubble? Childrens’ graves?? Instead we’ll ingratiate ourselves with Canada’s few (but admittedly influential) zionists. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Mr. Carney and Ms. Anand were instead people of genuine character and principle?
Good thoughts, Nate. Thank you. Please build an alliance with like-minded Liberal MPs and put pressure on Carney and his Cabinet. What they are doing is shameful.
Thank you, Nate, for saying what must be said so clearly regarding suffering of Palestinians at the the hands of the genocidal Netanyahu regime now becoming propped up, financed and supplied with bombs killing innocent Palestinians. Having read profusely on the history of their struggles since 1947 with Israel, it has become clear to me that Netanyahu deliberately supported Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007 after Israeli occupation ended. Furthermore, he was made fully aware of what Hamas was planning to execute on October 7, 2023 and did nothing to stop the massacre and kidnapping of his own citizens along with those from other countries either visiting or working there. He has done all this because he needs to remain in power especially since staying in power keeps him from going to jail for corruption. He relies on far right extremists in his cabinet to keep in power one of whom himself has an illegal settlement in the West Bank on land stolen from Palestinians. Smotrich and Ben-Gvir fully intend to expel all Palestinians from Gaza, The West Bank and East Jerusalem. They want all the land from the sea to the Jordan River for Israel maintaining the land belongs to Israel based on ancient writings from the Torah or Hebrew Bible. They will stop at nothing to achieve their evil and misguided ways. Our government needs to wake up to these facts. You are perfectly correct that our country will never be at peace from protests and counter protests until we do and take the meaningful actions you have outlined to stop this ethnic cleansing/genocide. We should not be worrying about offending a corrupt US administration under Trump and his gangster pals for fear of more trade retaliations. We should not be throwing our moral values away like Judas for “a few pieces of silver”. The Canada where I was born and was once proud to have grown up in is so much better than that. Thank you again, Nate.
There is another diplomatic element to this crisis that is not mentioned. Why have Western governments, Canada included, not directly pressured Hamas’ financial and political sponsor Qatar to force an end to the hostage situation? The Qataris have far more leverage than Canada.
You really don't get it, do you? Canada is arming Israel, making us all complicit in genocide. As long as we do that, plus continue to trade with Israel, including buying its arms and military technology, we are supporting it to continue killing Palestinians. As such strong supporters of Israel, we are in no position to "pressure" Qatar to intervene with Hamas. If Canada cares about peace, Canada will sanction the aggressor, the perpetrator of genocide, the occupier of Palestinian land.
The most frightful example of the philosophical justification ‘the end justifies the means’ is the pogrom, the primary implementers of which know they’re committing mass murder yet still genuinely perceive it all as part of an ultimately greater good. In this case, it's in Israel's ethnic-/religious-purity and material/land/natural-resource interests.
In one scene of an astonishingly disturbing (Feb 24, 2025) episode of Breezy Politics on YouTube, there are tourists, as well as Israeli school children on a field trip, of course all from a safe distance from the unfolding hell, taking turns looking through a coin-operated telescope focused on a smoky Gaza as Palestinian non-combatants — mostly Palestinian children — are being deliberately starved to death via Israeli blockades of foreign food aid. Or they’re being blasted by the frequent IDF bombing runs courtesy of unconditional-use U.S.-taxpayer-supplied top-tech weaponry. (What comes next? Celebratory barbeques?)
In another scene, a conservatively-dressed young Jewish woman shockingly casually calmly says to the interviewer: “I just think we need to kill them. Every one of them. And that’s it. … The least we [Jews] can do is kill them.”
Surveys show this isn’t just a fringe opinion. One study revealed that, while only 8 percent thought it’s been too much slaughter of and suffering by Palestinian non-combatants, 99 percent of Jewish Israeli society felt it’s been either not enough or the appropriate amount of killing, maiming and/or starving of Palestinians, including so many children. Of that 99 percent, almost 60 percent felt it’s been too little suffered by the Palestinians, while 36.6 percent thought it’s been the right amount.
Meanwhile, there are many Jews/Semites who are vocally against Israel's/IDF's onslaught against Palestinian non-combatants via blatant mass murder, systemic starvation and even ethnic cleansing. It indeed must be difficult for decent Jews/Semites with such a strong conscience when they publicly denounce Israel’s atrocities and are then denounced and referred to as “self-hating” by the extreme-Zionism powers, likely in large part to try shaming them into self-censoring.
As a non-Jew/-Semite, I can only try to imagine how I would act if in their position — if I could be as conscientiously strong-willed and brave.
I've long been, and still am, vocally critical of the clear decades-long maltreatment (to put it mildly) of the general Palestinian populace by the Israeli government and security/defense agencies — and, with few exceptions, the Western mainstream news-media’s seemingly intentional tokenistic (non)coverage of it.
But I was pleasantly surprised at reading the cutline below the large photo accompanying a June 26 story (headlined “UK’s largest Jewish group punishes members who broke silence on Gaza genocide”) posted on the Middle East Monitor’s website:
“A young Charedi Orthodox Jew holds a placard during the demonstration. Orthodox Charedi Jews joined many thousands of pro-Palestinian protestors outside Downing Street accusing Israel and Zionists of genocide in Gaza.”
Their vocal humanity-first convictions were/are to me beautiful and encouraging. Apparently applying a stereotype that Orthodox Jews would be the last to demonstrate with pro-Palestinian protestors and (seemingly, at least) support their cause, I must admit I had negatively prejudged them.
Thanks for your moral clarity. We need to do better than issue empty statements; we need courageous leadership, and you have shown this is possible.
Thank you your advocacy, clarity and initiative. I hope Minister Anand hears your message.
Thank you for your letter and for acting on this critical situation in Gaza. I have felt so helpless and I hope you have put the wheels in motion to address this genocide. It has happened many years ago and we did nothing and today we have done nothing. The world hasn't learned.
We need more of your voice and that of all Canadians of all faiths. This needs to very front, loud and repeated often. The elimination of the Gazan population is the goal of the leaders of Isreal.
Why is the US still givning the country money and arms?
Nate thanks for your advocacy. As a regular citizen it's hard to know what action to take that could actually be beneficial.
The Liberal government has already lied under Trudeau about its supposed arms embargo. Trudeau and several cabinet ministers called themselves Zionists. An ideology that is being exposed as racist, untruthful and fascist. The Liberal government would do well to be honest and recognize that Canada contributed, wittingly or unwittingly, to a genocide. History will make that clear enough in time. The party under its present leader would do well to be honest and make amends quickly, or history will not be kind to our nation and the Liberal Party.
Way too many Western officials/politicians, a.k.a. enablers, are basically taking directions from pro-Israel/-IDF lobbyists. And then there's the clearly-compromised heavily-corporatized Western news-media:
Particularly with Israel’s systematic mass slaughter and starvation of Gazan non-combatants young and old, that news-media have been, to put it mildly, editorially emasculated. Though it may be due to orders from ownership headquarters and therefore beyond their control, our (Canada's) news-media are serious offenders.
The most notable example is The National Post. One would really have to read it to believe it, especially since the initial (10/7) Hamas attack against Israel. It epitomizes an extreme example of an echo chamber promoting unconditional 110% support for the Israeli state, including its very-long-practiced cruelty towards the Palestinian people.
For example, shortly after that Hamas attack, a single-column story about a five-year-old American-Palestinian boy who was stabbed to death by the landlord of the residence in which he and his mother lived simply for being Palestinian was placed on page 5, while placed up high on the front page was a large photo (which accompanied a much larger story) with three Israeli teenage girls crying after their friends or family were kidnapped by Hamas gunmen.
More progressive outlets in Canada (e.g. The Globe and Mail) — progressive in regard to basically following “woke” ideology: that of race, sexuality, gender and gender-bending — may be considered more deceptive with their largely pro-Israel stance, especially since 10/7, while attempting to appear objective.
It’s the ethical/moral duty of Western journalists and editors to publicly expose the compromised news-media product and therefor its facilitator(s). By doing so, such brave journalists can at least then also proclaim they will no longer participate in its creation and/or dissemination.
Over decades, I’ve heard of too many cases of employees not standing up and doing what is necessary for the public and/or human(e) good, instead excusing themselves with something like: ‘I need this job — I have a family to support’. ... I have to say that — unless, of course, they were actually forced into coupling, copulating and procreating however many years before — such familial obligation status does not actually ethically or morally justify their willing involvement.
Quite frankly, journalists/editors with genuine integrity should and would tender their resignations and even publicly proclaim they can no longer help propagate their employer’s media product, whether it involves self-censored/missing coverage of a brutally lopsided foreign war or that of domestic corporate corruption that will harm the populace.
Thank you for your brave and just letter clearly outlining steps to stop the ongoing genocide and save the lives of these children being starved and bombed to death
When ICJ declared war criminal Bibi decides to speak to the U.S. congress he gets 96 standing ovations from both Democrats and Republicans. The Canadian government has supported Zionist ethnic cleansing for decades… they’ve just done it tacitly, more quietly than the Americans. We say we “support a two-state solution” but we only give one state (Israel) the support of our recognition.
Mr. Carney has finally been pressured to the point that he has signalled Canada MIGHT recognize a Palestinian state. Naturally he has done this in a way that the bombed and starved Gazans must jump through a near impossible array of hoops first. The Liberal government has claimed that Canada has ceased the shipment of military goods to Israel. And yet it turns out Canada is STILL shipping weapons to support Israel, including a shipment of bullets in the cargo hold of a civilian plane.
Democracy, though imperfect, is the best form of government for the simple reason that it gives the public the opportunity to constrain the activities of those who seek power. Power seekers tend to be amoral, narcissistic psychopaths, which is why Nate I am so ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED by your inspiring moral stance on this issue! At a time when politicians and “journalists” so obviously serve power… it is truly inspiring to see someone stand up for what is OBVIOUSLY right… irrespective of the very real possibility of meaningful costs to their personal career. BRAVO!
Thank-you, Nate.
Ms Dcruz is an idiot. Zionist ethnic cleansing and ‘mowing the grass’ has been almost incessant since 1948.
Mr Erskine-Smith is the ONLY MP who has the courage to call out our PM, who wants to virtue-signal and do nothing for as long as he can. The idea that ‘recognizing the state of Palestine’ is simple horseshit; what exactly is there to recognize? Rubble? Childrens’ graves?? Instead we’ll ingratiate ourselves with Canada’s few (but admittedly influential) zionists. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Mr. Carney and Ms. Anand were instead people of genuine character and principle?
Bravo! Nate leading again…still! Thank you.
Good thoughts, Nate. Thank you. Please build an alliance with like-minded Liberal MPs and put pressure on Carney and his Cabinet. What they are doing is shameful.
Thank you Nate. Absolutely what needs to be done. Can we start a parliamentary petition to this effect? Will you sponsor it?
Thank you, Nate, for saying what must be said so clearly regarding suffering of Palestinians at the the hands of the genocidal Netanyahu regime now becoming propped up, financed and supplied with bombs killing innocent Palestinians. Having read profusely on the history of their struggles since 1947 with Israel, it has become clear to me that Netanyahu deliberately supported Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007 after Israeli occupation ended. Furthermore, he was made fully aware of what Hamas was planning to execute on October 7, 2023 and did nothing to stop the massacre and kidnapping of his own citizens along with those from other countries either visiting or working there. He has done all this because he needs to remain in power especially since staying in power keeps him from going to jail for corruption. He relies on far right extremists in his cabinet to keep in power one of whom himself has an illegal settlement in the West Bank on land stolen from Palestinians. Smotrich and Ben-Gvir fully intend to expel all Palestinians from Gaza, The West Bank and East Jerusalem. They want all the land from the sea to the Jordan River for Israel maintaining the land belongs to Israel based on ancient writings from the Torah or Hebrew Bible. They will stop at nothing to achieve their evil and misguided ways. Our government needs to wake up to these facts. You are perfectly correct that our country will never be at peace from protests and counter protests until we do and take the meaningful actions you have outlined to stop this ethnic cleansing/genocide. We should not be worrying about offending a corrupt US administration under Trump and his gangster pals for fear of more trade retaliations. We should not be throwing our moral values away like Judas for “a few pieces of silver”. The Canada where I was born and was once proud to have grown up in is so much better than that. Thank you again, Nate.
There is another diplomatic element to this crisis that is not mentioned. Why have Western governments, Canada included, not directly pressured Hamas’ financial and political sponsor Qatar to force an end to the hostage situation? The Qataris have far more leverage than Canada.
You really don't get it, do you? Canada is arming Israel, making us all complicit in genocide. As long as we do that, plus continue to trade with Israel, including buying its arms and military technology, we are supporting it to continue killing Palestinians. As such strong supporters of Israel, we are in no position to "pressure" Qatar to intervene with Hamas. If Canada cares about peace, Canada will sanction the aggressor, the perpetrator of genocide, the occupier of Palestinian land.
The most frightful example of the philosophical justification ‘the end justifies the means’ is the pogrom, the primary implementers of which know they’re committing mass murder yet still genuinely perceive it all as part of an ultimately greater good. In this case, it's in Israel's ethnic-/religious-purity and material/land/natural-resource interests.
In one scene of an astonishingly disturbing (Feb 24, 2025) episode of Breezy Politics on YouTube, there are tourists, as well as Israeli school children on a field trip, of course all from a safe distance from the unfolding hell, taking turns looking through a coin-operated telescope focused on a smoky Gaza as Palestinian non-combatants — mostly Palestinian children — are being deliberately starved to death via Israeli blockades of foreign food aid. Or they’re being blasted by the frequent IDF bombing runs courtesy of unconditional-use U.S.-taxpayer-supplied top-tech weaponry. (What comes next? Celebratory barbeques?)
In another scene, a conservatively-dressed young Jewish woman shockingly casually calmly says to the interviewer: “I just think we need to kill them. Every one of them. And that’s it. … The least we [Jews] can do is kill them.”
Surveys show this isn’t just a fringe opinion. One study revealed that, while only 8 percent thought it’s been too much slaughter of and suffering by Palestinian non-combatants, 99 percent of Jewish Israeli society felt it’s been either not enough or the appropriate amount of killing, maiming and/or starving of Palestinians, including so many children. Of that 99 percent, almost 60 percent felt it’s been too little suffered by the Palestinians, while 36.6 percent thought it’s been the right amount.
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1h5kshVfAM
Meanwhile, there are many Jews/Semites who are vocally against Israel's/IDF's onslaught against Palestinian non-combatants via blatant mass murder, systemic starvation and even ethnic cleansing. It indeed must be difficult for decent Jews/Semites with such a strong conscience when they publicly denounce Israel’s atrocities and are then denounced and referred to as “self-hating” by the extreme-Zionism powers, likely in large part to try shaming them into self-censoring.
As a non-Jew/-Semite, I can only try to imagine how I would act if in their position — if I could be as conscientiously strong-willed and brave.
I've long been, and still am, vocally critical of the clear decades-long maltreatment (to put it mildly) of the general Palestinian populace by the Israeli government and security/defense agencies — and, with few exceptions, the Western mainstream news-media’s seemingly intentional tokenistic (non)coverage of it.
But I was pleasantly surprised at reading the cutline below the large photo accompanying a June 26 story (headlined “UK’s largest Jewish group punishes members who broke silence on Gaza genocide”) posted on the Middle East Monitor’s website:
“A young Charedi Orthodox Jew holds a placard during the demonstration. Orthodox Charedi Jews joined many thousands of pro-Palestinian protestors outside Downing Street accusing Israel and Zionists of genocide in Gaza.”
Their vocal humanity-first convictions were/are to me beautiful and encouraging. Apparently applying a stereotype that Orthodox Jews would be the last to demonstrate with pro-Palestinian protestors and (seemingly, at least) support their cause, I must admit I had negatively prejudged them.