"If (1) the killing of these thousands of people does not move other Canadians, then this is something for which they, not the protesters, need to answer; and (2) if you wish to claim that those moved by the mass killing are “toxic,” your details had better be sound."
To:
Editor, Niagara Independent
Chris George, Reporter, Niagara Independent
Dear Editor of the Niagara Independent and Chris George,
I am writing on behalf of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME, cjpme.org) to insist on immediate retraction of your false and inflammatory claim in, “There’s a lot to unpack with the Liberals’ immigration plans.”
In this article, you attribute “toxic beliefs” to immigrants to Canada by raising an alarm about “Hamas supporters calling to exterminate Israel and for a ‘Day of Jihad’ in Canada.” This is falsifying, distorting, inaccurate language; this did not happen.
Unless you can show good evidence to back up your inflammatory allegation, you must retract your false, loose-with-the-facts, anti-immigrant claim.
It is true, yes, that people from different parts of the world, including the Middle East, have been upset by Israeli attacks that over the past month alone killed more than nine thousand Palestinians, including more than 3,700 Palestinian children.
Of course people of conscience have protested this, and have done so with justifiable feeling. Those of us with deeper roots in Canada should understand and respect this.
If (1) the killing of these thousands of people does not move other Canadians, then this is something for which they, not the protesters, need to answer; and (2) if you wish to claim that those moved by the mass killing are “toxic,” your details had better be sound.
In the interests of decency and of fact, removal of your misleading claim is necessary.
Feel free to contact me at 438-380-5410 if you would like to discuss this matter further.
Sincerely yours,
Dan Freeman-Maloy
PhD, University of Exeter
Postdoc, Canada Research Chair in Québec and Canadian Studies
Director of Strategic Operations
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East/
Canadiens pour la Justice et la Paix au Moyen-Orient