"From a country whose politicians are prone to lecture others on human rights, it is fascinating, indeed horrifying, to see how far they will go to protect an ethnic nationalist state where all are by law not equal, the antithesis of Canada’s touted multicultural values."
Dear Hamilton Spectator newsroom,
Thanks for publishing Paul Weinberg’s excellent piece outlining the stakes and fallout for proposed “bubble zone” legislation in Hamilton. Although a ban would have implications for a range of activism in the city, Rabbi David Mivasair is correct to identify its core aim to impede protests against Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza. That the world’s leading bodies of international law and human rights have found Israel to have committed illegal occupation, illegal settlement, apartheid and now genocide, has not weakened support among Canada’s ruling elite. From a country whose politicians are prone to lecture others on human rights, it is fascinating, indeed horrifying, to see how far they will go to protect an ethnic nationalist state where all are by law not equal, the antithesis of Canada’s touted multicultural values.
Richard Fung