Shameful Canadian politician of the Day - October 13

David Hill publicly called Pro-Palestinian protests ‘Jew hatred’.  Hill described people gathering to peacefully protest the genocide in Gaza as ‘the systematic dehumanizing of a Canadian minority’.  Even as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were slaughtered or horribly injured by a country whose leaders literally referred to Palestinians as ‘animals’ and non-human – Hill wants to focus on how Canadian citizens protesting those atrocities need to be arrested and prosecuted.  It is incredible that our political representatives – even at the municipal level – are still being allowed to use these kinds of cynical tactics to fuel their own political aspirations.

To use Pro-Palestinian protests against the genocide in Gaza as the pretext for providing more police funding is deeply, deeply cynical.  To suggest to the citizens of Ottawa that they will be able to sleep more soundly in their beds if we crackdown on people saying the names of murdered children of Gaza is worse than cynical – it is depraved. Not only does David Hill not have a single word for the people of Gaza – he wants to ensure that anybody who does say a word on their behalf is silenced.  By boot and baton, if necessary.

Hill’s deliberate attempt to confuse support for Palestinians and opposition to Israel with antisemitism does a disservice to the many Jewish Canadians who have stood with Palestine at the thousands of rallies held across the country over the last two years.  It also increases the danger posed to Jewish Canadians by true antisemitism. 

Every single person of conscience who has allowed the last two years to pass without raising their voice to protest should be ashamed.  Every single person of influence – especially our elected representatives – who has allowed the last two years to pass without protest against Israel,  bears some responsibility for the murder and maiming of Palestinians.  Every elected representative who attempts to still the voices speaking for the people of Palestine should have a special place reserved in hell.  David Hill among them.
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Residents of Ward 3 Barrhaven West – don’t let Hill get away with this.

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