Canadian Politics

Trudeau assures lobby there is an “all party consensus” in Ottawa on Israel. How do we deal with it?

Harper and Baird are so extreme on the Israel/Palestine question that it is relatively easy to get decent people angry or dismissive of them.

However, the uncomfortable reality is that there is an all-party consensus in Canada to support Israel, almost unconditionally.
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How to break the Canadian Jewish logjam with respect to Israel?

Canadian Jews are well known to be ‘liberal” in their political attitudes – except where Israel is concerned. There, they circle the wagons. However they might have criticisms of the current Israeli government, they will defend Israel resolutely when anyone outside criticizes it.

But as I see it, there is very little chance that we can effect any significant “rebalancing” of Canadian policy towards the Israel/Palestine issue until a significant number of Jews are willing to dissociate themselves from Israel or criticize it publicly.
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