Curious that after being elected premier in 2018, in a province where homelessness had just experienced a crisis level surge over the previous five years, one of Premier Doug Ford's first promises was a total ban on a pro-Palestine Al-Quds Day protest.
Re: "Al Quds Committee sends cease-and-desist letter to Doug Ford”
Dear editor,
Ontario Premier Doug Ford took time away from his controversial spa and parking lot project to express his disgust at Torontonians lawfully gathering to march in solidarity with the oppressed peoples of the Middle East and protesting Israel’s war crimes.
Millions of people from many different backgrounds, including anti-Zionist Jews, took to the streets of major North American cities such as Toronto during International Al-Quds Day rallies on March 13.
Ford’s public record seems to include selling of our public institutions to make money for private interests in Canada and abroad, and increasingly parroting Israeli imperial talking points in support of genocide in Palestine.
Curious that after being elected premier in 2018, in a province where homelessness had just experienced a crisis level surge over the previous five years, one of Premier Doug Ford's first promises was a total ban on a pro-Palestine Al-Quds Day protest.
Like me, I’m sure the majority of Ontarians had never heard of Al-Quds Day at that point and would certainly not have ranked it as a priority for our provincial government to focus on. It makes me wonder who Doug Ford works for, and who sets his agenda at Queen’s Park, because it appears as though it is not the people of Ontario.
To paint these rallies as a “celebration of terrorism” and a “breeding ground for hate and antisemitism” establishes a willingness by Ford’s government to shield Israeli war crimes.