This message was passed to the executives of the Canadian student movement Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights by Laith Marouf. It in turn has been passed onto SPHR’s affiliates, which includes the University of Waterloo based Students for Palestinian Rights, which is how it was then passed onto me (I am an active member of SFPR and one of the administrators of the group’s website).
The document details efforts going on at the moment by pro-Zionist organizations in Canada, including McGill Professor Gil Troy, to undermine the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel, which was the major focus of last week and this week’s world wide Israeli Apartheid Week events. It also details the desire by the apologists of Zionism to criminalize perhaps the most potent description of the Israeli regime, the apartheid analogy. These latest moves show just how desperate the Zionist movement in Canada has become as they feel that they can no longer simply argue over the facts and must now move to criminalizing the opposition.
Most importantly the document deals with plans to undermine the BDS and Palestinian Solidarity movements by re-branding them, especially by framing them as the tools of a kind of primordial antisemitism (a common tactic of the Zionist movement, which seeks to distract serious discussion away from meaningful criticism of Israel and its policies by accusing all critics, from soft ones to hard ones, of being Naziesque antisemites) and Islamist’s, who according to the document have a “strategy to undermine the West.”
Those of us in Canada whose hearts beat for the people of Palestine must organize to defeat this latest, especially the continuing efforts to paint us as enemies of the Jewish people, or the new efforts to portray as a beachhead for radical Islamist forces. To be forewarned is to be forearmed.













