Canada criticized for ‘unconditional’ Israel support

‘In a report published by online the Electronic Intifada on Friday, the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) said Canada is escalating its “disinformation campaign and repressive measures” against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

The BNC criticized a vow made by Canadian public safety minister, Steven Blaney, last month that Ottawa would continue to combat “anti-Semitism.”

“Rather than seeking to hold Israel to account for its war crimes during the recent military assault on Gaza and its intensified colonization of the occupied West Bank,” the Canadian government “is further deepening its collaboration with Israel’s occupation and launching a shameful, propagandistic attack on free speech in the process,” said Rafeef Ziadah, a member of the BNC secretariat.’

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