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Canadians supporting Palestine face job loss, condemnation

MEMO | December 22, 2023

Expressing support for Palestinians in the ongoing conflict in Gaza risks Canadians being fired, suspended from their jobs and calls not to be hired, the country’s public broadcaster reported on Friday, reports Anadolu Agency.

It is a development in other countries, including the US and Europe, and affects various employment fields, such as the service sector, education, health care, the law and media. “I can tell you personally, in the last month and a half, I’ve probably spoken with someone at least once a day [about this],” Jackie Esmonde, a labour lawyer at the Toronto-based firm Cavalluzzo Law, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). “They’re not always cases that we take on, but we do have eight to 10 cases that we’re actively working on at the moment.”

She said these are not cases of hate speech or support for terrorism.

In November, the University of Ottawa suspended Dr Yipeng Ge after a social media post that said: “From the River to the sea, Palestine will be free.” The university interpreted this to mean the “ethnic cleansing of Jewish people from Israel.”

Others have suffered job suspensions for posts that featured the words “genocide” and “apartheid” to describe Israel’s actions.

In November, 650 lawyers, law students and professors from across Canada published an open letter that says there has been a “chilling effect” on freedom of expression since the start of the Israeli-Hamas conflict on October 7.

Meanwhile, lawyers interviewed by the CBC said they were not aware of anyone facing consequences for social media posts supporting Israel.

And two employees at the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies – a non-profit human rights organization that fosters antisemitism education – told the CBC that teachers at the centre have been told to report students who make statements critical of Israel.

December 23, 2023 - Posted by | Civil Liberties, Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, Full Spectrum Dominance | , ,

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  1. “Meanwhile, lawyers interviewed by the CBC said they were not aware of anyone facing consequences for social media posts supporting Israel.” the lying buzzards.
    Oh wait, they are lawyers, that explains it.

    “We are owned by propagandists against the Arabs. There’s no question about that. Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street are owned by the Zionists. No question in my opinion. They put their money where their mouth is . . . We’re being pushed into a wrong direction in every way.”
    Helen Thomas (1920-2013), journalist and author of Front Row at the White House.

    “You cannot criticise Israel in this country (USA) and survive.”
    Helen Thomas

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    peterjohnarnold's avatar Comment by peterjohnarnold | December 24, 2023 | Reply

  2. “She said these are not cases of hate speech or support for terrorism.”

    There is no such thing as “hate speech” – it is a Jewish invention, brought into existence entirely by the Jewish owned media, and nothing else. Repeated every day, over and over, by the Jewish media, until governments enact laws against ‘hate speech’, which means ‘anything the Jews don’t want you to hear’.

    We should always refer to it in quotes, as “so-called “hate speech” “, denying it any validity, and showing that WE do not agree to the existence of such a thing. Stop playing your oppressors’ game!

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    Steve Jones's avatar Comment by Steve Jones | December 24, 2023 | Reply


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