ELECTION DAY GUIDE: WHERE PARTY'S STAND ON GAZA

 

Here is a handy chart that gives you an idea of where the top five federal parties stand with respect to Gaza and Israel's genocidal actions against the Palestinian people. In my riding, it looks like only the NDP candidate, Gabriela Trujillo, has signed on to the entire five-point platform:

 

👉Two-way arms embargo on Israel

👉Ending Canadian support for settlements

👉Combat anti-Palestinian racism and protect pro-Palestine speech

👉Recognizing the state of Palestine

👉Funding Gaza relief efforts, including UNRWA

 

I GUESS she’s got my vote. The NDP may be shifting from its strident support for Israel and that’s good. But Canadian politicians could be doing so much more to address and challenge Israel, including “third party” use of Canadian munitions (that are sold to the United States, then shipped/sold to Israel).

 

FUN FACT:

“A report co-authored by Independent Jewish Voices Canada revealed that between 2018 and 2022, over $1 billion in Canadian charitable donations—which are tax-deductible—were sent to recipients in Israel. Balsam says that a portion of those funds ended up in the hands of ‘some of the most right-wing fascist settler groups in the country.’” (CCPA)

 

Do Canadians want their tax dollars going to Jewish NGOs that subsidize genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza? By allowing registered charity status to non-profits like “Friends of the IDF-Canada” or “The Association for the Soldiers of Israel-Canada” these organizations and others like them are able to collect tax-deductible donations in Canada and send the money directly to the IDF (Israeli Defense Force). Canadian taxpayer money is indirectly sponsoring a foreign military that is carrying out genocide and ethnic cleansing. In voting in our federal elections, Canadians should choose candidates and the party most aligned with stopping Israel’s mass murder sprees in Occupied Palestine and Israeli military adventures in the Levant (including its bat-shit crazy desire for a war with Iran).

What’s more important than voting against a genocide in which Canada is directly and indirectly complicit—through its munitions ending up in Israel and by providing tax refunds to organizations and individuals contributing money in support of Israeli war crimes?

 

Cheers, Jake.