Now that Carney included Omar Alghabra in the Council for combating antisemitism, it is time for a quick resume:
Omar Alghabra was born in Saudi Arabia to a Syrian family, immigrated to Canada in the 1980s, but brought his virulent antisemitism with him as luggage. Upon his arrival, he worked for CAF (Canadian Arab Federation) – a group so antisemitic that their federal funding was taken away by the court.
For nearly 20 years Alghabra has been almost consistently elected to the Canadian Parliament. He held various positions, such as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade Diversification.
At the same time, he often stated that Hamas and Hezbollah are not terrorist organizations and should be removed from the Canadian terrorist entities list. He tried to censor Canadian journalists, who call Hamas a terrorist organization. Alghabra publicly mourned Yasser Arafat. In his Arabic interview he expressed disappointment that Canadian Muslims are insufficiently vocal in demanding Sharia law in Canada.
Alghabra called the Toronto officials to boycott Jewish charity events and opposed the collaboration between the Canadian police force and Israeli anti-terrorist units (obviously, if you don’t consider Hamas and Hezbollah – terrorists, no anti-terrorist work is required either).
Even following the October 7 massacre, even when directly questioned, Alghabra refused to condemn Hamas, but he uses every opportunity to label Israel “brutal and cruel.”
I wonder who the rest of the Council members are.
It might be just me, but appointing Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers to solve an anti-Semitism problem seems a bit strange - almost as though you do not want to solve the problem at all.
These two informed me that Melanie and I are”not on the list” to get into Carney’s anti-Semitism presser even though we RSVPed. So essentially all the Jew-hating media are being let in and not a Jew.
This is all performative, ridiculous and just plain BS.
@TheAthletic You’re pathetic. The man was acquitted becuase his accuser lied.
He didn’t get off for a technicality,
The judge literally found the accuser “neither credible nor reliable”.
Being accused of something doesn’t mean shit.
Liberal's Bill C-9 Combatting Hate Act gets an addition to it;
"Everyone who, by communicating statements other than in private conversation, willfully promotes hatred against Indigenous peoples by condoning, denying, or downplaying the Indian residential school system:
A) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; or
B) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction."
Canada will now criminalize speech based on political motivation and feelings.