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Writer; Member of Canada Palestine Association; Former Cohost of Voice of Palestine, Canada.
Now history repeats itself in Gaza, except with more brutality and a longer timeline.
Each new atrocity in Gaza brought forth performative and useless expressions of concern from Western leaders and most Arab regimes, often coined as a “global outcry”.
Canadian activists celebrate small victories in the fight against funding Israeli war crimes, as Scotiabank gradually reduces investments in arms manufacturer Elbit Systems and the Jewish National Fund loses its charity status.
It is an insult to play word games with us over whether Palestinians are really being murdered en masse at the altar of Israeli-US hegemony and dominance.
For years, the chair of the Canada Palestine Association has noted that the brutal and arrogant behaviour of the Zionist regime will bring it to a miserable end... “their end will be ugly”.
Anyone just waking up to the Palestinian reality in the last two months should know Palestinians have been carrying this burden of telling and re-telling their story for decades, with minimal global response.
despite Israeli officials being clear about their intentions to carpet bomb Gaza into extinction (or surrender), Western leaders are still vocal in their support of this campaign.
War is good business, death and destruction of a vulnerable population is good business, and continuing chaos and conflict is good business.
The pro-"Israel" lobby is frantic about the clear anti-colonial and anti-Zionist basis of recent Palestine solidarity organizing, especially amongst students and youth.
Normalizing ties with "Israel" is the official cementing of Israeli apartheid with despotic and reactionary Arab regimes, all in the name of furthering crude economic gains and regressive political ambitions.
