Canada

This is so gross. Canada can decide for itself how to protect the liberties and safety of people in Canada. We all know that history has been far from perfect, but taking advice from a genocidal government that uses ethnicity as a cudgel is the the 100% wrong direction for how to make things better.

I am opposed to antisemitism, I've seen people spewing some vile shit, and we don't need to tolerate hate speech, especially that which is amplified on Twitter.

But we don't need to conflate criticism of Israel or the violent settler colonialism with anti-semitism, and we don't need to pretend it's something other than what it is. If we did, what would that say about our own commitment to truth and reconciliation?

OTTAWA — Israel is pursuing a sweeping diplomatic and public relations campaign to convince Canada to change the way it tackles acts of antisemitism.

From the office of Israel’s president down to its ambassador in Ottawa, the message is the same: Canada must do more to curb threats against Jews.

But while the country’s ambassador is suggesting Ottawa should limit certain “freedoms” in order to deal with threats his government links to Iran, he hasn’t said which freedoms should be limited.

“We have a very clear objective this year, and that is to create a significant change in the way antisemitism is being dealt with here in Canada,” Israeli Ambassador Iddo Moed told a virtual forum last week.

“It is hard for a liberal person to think that we have to limit other people’s freedoms, so that our freedom will be protected. But that’s where we are right now.”

1. Holy shit and,
2. Rewrite this paragraph by replacing Israel with Russia or US, or China and see how it reads.

On the bright side, I don't think this would create a positive effect with most Canadians which is what he needs. I think it would be the opposite, more and more people would see Israel as a foreign influence actor that is posing a threat towards Canadian civil liberties and is fostering racism towards certain parts of our population.