{"id":1507846,"date":"2024-02-20T00:17:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T00:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=148195"},"modified":"2024-02-20T00:17:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T00:17:40","slug":"delete-the-smear-jagmeet-tell-truth-and-help-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/20\/delete-the-smear-jagmeet-tell-truth-and-help-palestinians\/","title":{"rendered":"Delete the Smear Jagmeet, Tell Truth and Help Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jagmeet Singh\u2019s refusal to delete a smear against internationalist, social justice, minded protesters encourages Israel\u2019s genocide. Over 6,000 individuals<\/a>\u00a0have requested the NDP leader remove his anti-Palestinian slander, but Singh seems too scared of the fascistic, supremacist, genocide lobby to do what is right.<\/p>\n

In a bid to deter Israel from slaughtering the 1.5 million Palestinians cloistered in Rafah thousands joined an emergency march in Toronto Monday evening. During the four-hour long march \u201cSpiderman for Palestine\u201d and another individual climbed atop scaffolding in front of a (closed) entrance to Mount Sinai Hospital to waive a Palestinian flag as they did at numerous other spots.<\/p>\n

In response Canada\u2019s genocide apparatus whipped up faux outrage that a public institution with Jewish roots was targeted. As he\u2019s done in the past, Singh followed the apartheid lobby in smearing justice minded activists, claiming the march \u201ctargeted<\/a>\u201d the Toronto institution \u201cbecause of its ties to the Jewish community.\u201d\u00a0But Singh\u2019s statement is baseless, as is detailed in this article<\/a>\u00a0and this interview<\/a>\u00a0with a member of the Jews Against Genocide coalition.<\/p>\n

Apparently, it doesn\u2019t matter how many Palestinian children Israel kills. Singh remains committed to taking his cues from Canadian groups promoting the slaughter. It doesn\u2019t matter how many Palestinian hospitals the apartheid lobby enables Israel to destroy. Singh acts like they are troubled by a Spider-Man costumed flag waiver outside a closed hospital entrance. Under the cover of opposing \u201cantisemitism\u201d, Singh continues to promote genocidal anti-Palestinianism.<\/p>\n

Singh\u2019s smear has, unsurprisingly, been cited by right wingers and Israeli nationalists to justify more racism and killing. In the National Post<\/i>\u00a0Chris Selley cited<\/a>\u00a0Singh\u2019s endorsement of the Mount Sinai libel. So did the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs after Canada\u2019s Special Representative on Combating Islamophobia Amira Elghawaby questioned the Mount Sinai hoax. In a post calling for her ouster, CIJA cited Singh\u2019s post echoing their baseless claim about the hospital. If CIJA\u2019s attacks on Elghawaby lead to a bout of Islamophobia Singh will be partly to blame. Singh\u2019s smear also contributed to an alleged hate crime<\/a>\u00a0with an individual calling the Toronto police to threaten to kill protesters for targeting the hospital.<\/p>\n

Singh\u2019s Mount Sinai libel illustrates the remarkable disconnect between the popular uprising and parliamentary social democracy. Over the past 20 weeks there have been hundreds of mass protests across the country yet I\u2019m only aware of one MP attending a Palestine protest. NDP MP Matthew Green spoke during a march in Toronto on November 12. (Conversely, the PM, Deputy PM, ministers and MPs have attended far smaller and less numerous pro-genocide rallies.)<\/p>\n

One reason MPs have not attended the demonstrations is out of a concern for being smeared (Green was forced to release a statement<\/a>\u00a0defending himself after speaking in Toronto). By besmirching Monday\u2019s anti-genocide march Singh is making it even more difficult for MPs to attend protests (presumably he has privately warned NDP MPs against attending). The dearth of political participation reduces media coverage and the impact of the protests. It also enables the increasing criminalization of the protests. It\u2019s no coincidence that after the remarkable smear against Monday\u2019s demonstration the Toronto police threatened $10 000 fines to anyone leading chants on the moving truck at the front of Saturday\u2019s march.<\/p>\n

In Vancouver the city\u2019s police department released a statement prior to Saturday\u2019s demonstration calling on protesters not to obstruct hospitals. In effect, the smear (somewhat contradictorily) is being broadened into the notion that the anti-genocide marches are \u201ctargeting\u201d hospitals.<\/p>\n

(A prominent genocide campaigner in Vancouver, Bob Mackin, posted the police statement with a note<\/a>\u00a0that the city\u2019s St Paul\u2019s hospital \u2014 which has Catholic roots but may have Jewish staff \u2014 is 1.3km from the announced starting point of the march. He followed that up with a post noting the protesters passed the central intersection of Burrard and Robson, meaning \u201cThe VPD<\/a>\u00a0request to avoid impeding routes used to access the hospital fell upon deaf ears.\u201d)<\/p>\n

According to social media company\u2019s data, 2.4 million viewed Singh\u2019s anti-genocide smear on X. That is far more interaction than his usual posts with the comments and quote tweets overwhelmingly hostile. In addition, as mentioned above, 6,000 individuals have emailed Singh requesting he delete his post.<\/p>\n

His lack of action demonstrates how much he, and other politicians, fear the apartheid lobby\u2019s reaction. Removing his post would draw into question their big \u201cantisemitism\u201d lie tactic. It would help disable the power of the lie to intimidate.<\/p>\n

Millions of Canadians oppose the smears based on lies and the justifications for genocide that go along with them and would cheer Singh deleting the post. He should embrace the truth and do what\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

Please take a minute to email Singh<\/a>\u00a0and all the NDP MPs to demand he remove his anti-Palestinian post.<\/i><\/p>The post Delete the Smear Jagmeet, Tell Truth and Help Palestinians<\/a> first appeared on Dissident Voice<\/a>.\n

This post was originally published on Dissident Voice<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jagmeet Singh\u2019s refusal to delete a smear against internationalist, social justice, minded protesters encourages Israel\u2019s genocide. Over 6,000 individuals\u00a0have requested the NDP leader remove his anti-Palestinian slander, but Singh seems too scared of the fascistic, supremacist, genocide lobby to do what is right. In a bid to deter Israel from slaughtering the 1.5 million Palestinians [\u2026]<\/p>\n

The post Delete the Smear Jagmeet, Tell Truth and Help Palestinians<\/a> first appeared on Dissident Voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74689,91,827,287,288,82,6668,473,583],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507884,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507846\/revisions\/1507884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}