Chow was criticized by pro-Israel Jewish groups, who said her comments were antisemitic and could encourage violent reprisals against the Jewish community.
“Antisemitic” is when you act against people because of their (jewish) faith. Pointing out crimes against humanity has nothing to do with this.
Her comments were not antisemitic and do not encourage violent reprisals against the Jewish community.
Her comments are just stupid for any politician. You can never give an opinion about Gaza without pissing off half the population. Who cares what the Mayor of a poorly run, overcrowded city thinks about the middle east anyway?
Silence is an opinion, might as well piss off the right half.
For what it’s worth, the Mayor doesn’t have to defend anything. She’s only being criticized for sharing what experts say.
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, already concluded genocide:
Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces committed four of the five genocidal acts defined by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, namely killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of the Palestinians in whole or in part, and imposing measures intended to prevent births.
I fear the Jewish community will one day regret using “antisemitic” as a cover for genocide or zionist colonialism. It does irreperable damage to protection from real hate crimes.
It’s not the Jewish community, but Zionists specifically. Their sole motivation is to protect the fascist Israeli government at all cost, and they will completely devalue the meaning of antisemitism to that end.
They don’t care about protecting Jews from hatred, and they completely ignore the views of countless Jewish people who oppose the genocide. Including Holocaust survivors and their descendants.
Exactly. Let’s refuse to reduce the Jewish community to the pro-israeli shills. The Zionists shouldn’t be handed out a monopoly on Jewishness. Prominent critics of Israeli crimes are themselves Jewish Canadians. In fact, soon we might have one of them, the unabashedly outspoken Avi Lewis, leading the federal NDP.
And I think the Israelis would throw Jewish diaspora communities under the bus if it gains them more support from other groups who may be antisemitic. Have a problem with atisemitism? Come to Israel.
Probably not a realistic problem in Canada for the foreseeable future but it’s much more plausible someplaces.
yeah. i don’t like how the word “Semitic” has been co-opted to mean what it currently does
What was her defence, gestures broadly? Maybe it’s just me.
