Canada: A Haven for Gazans, a Threat for Jews

"[The government is going to be granting three-year temporary resident visas for extended family members of Canadian citizens and permanent residents] so they can come to Canada and be reunited with their family members residing here."

"Israelis and Palestinians already in Canada who feel unsafe returning home at this time will also be eligible for the fee-exempt study or open work permits."

"The ongoing war between Israel and Hamas has created a humanitarian catastrophe of an unprecedented scale in Gaza."

"If you extrapolate from the number of people that we have brought out, and look at perhaps what their family relations are, it looks like it could be in the hundreds but we don't have a clear precise sense at this time."

"We will continue to work with our partners in the region to facilitate the exit of Canadian citizens, permanent residents and eligible family members."

Immigration Minister Marc Miller  

Protesters hold Palestinian flags outside the United States consulate, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada November 4, 2023. Photo by Kyaw Soe Oo/REUTERS

Palestinians living in Canada feel perfectly safe, Muslims living in Canada now vastly outnumber the the total Jewish population. While there has been a slight uptick of hostility from some sources against the Muslim population, antisemitic attacks and violence has skyrocketed in Canada, in lock step with the growing numbers of Muslims immigrating to Canada from all majority-Muslim countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Jews are finding it increasingly fear-inducing in their introduction to the new viral antisemitism. Yet it is mostly the Muslim population that shrieks 'Islamophobia'. 

 

It seems the Trudeau government feels Canada hasn't had enough just yet of the insufferable protests by admirers of Hamas terrorism posing as 'pro-Palestinian' supporters upsetting life for ordinary Canadians not linked to, affiliated with, or admirers of the psychopathic terrorist group that committed a horrific mass slaughter in southern Israel on October 7, and the population is yearning for greater numbers to come out and disrupt Canadian cities, blocking roads, shouting their genocidal threats to Israel. 

 

Amazing enough that a democratic country that has made a sharp turn to autocratic rule where loyal Canadians lawfully protest against government COVID mandates imposed upon the population, found themselves classified as 'racists' for calling out Justin Trudeau's totalitarian approach to unity, having federal, provincial and municipal police brought out to crack down on their 'illegal' protest of the Truckers' Convoy that settled into central Ottawa last winter. 

 

The pro-Palestinian raucous, disruptive, illegal and racist bigotry demonstrated in full view of police, however, mounted by Hamas supporters, with Hamas flags partnering with those of the Palestinian Authority brings out no governmental outrage, much less a crackdown on their presence, not only in public spaces, but private ones as well, where criminal behaviour disrupting Christmas markets take place and no moves are made by police to apprehend and arrest those responsible.

 

Instead, the Trudeau virtuous humanitarian reaction has gone into overdrive, amending current immigration law to extend a welcome to extended Palestinian family members in the Gaza Strip, to bring them to 'safety'. This, of course, is the same government that took over a month to make public note of condemnation at the rape and mutilation of Jewish women in Israel. The very government that berated Israel for bombing a Gazan hospital, taking the word of Hamas over that of Israel.

Everyone deplores the loss of life, and in Gaza now, there is a reflection of the shellshock that has overtaken Israel in the wake of the Hamas atrocities where terrorists were followed across the border into Israel after both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, by ordinary Palestinian citizens, some of whom had benefited from having work permits for construction and farm work in Israel. Both the terrorists and the citizens attacked border villages and kibbutzim, slaughtering over 1,200 people, raping girls and women, abducting children and the elderly, and looting and destroying the towns and Kibbutzim.

Israel's campaign in response to the atrocities is meant to eradicate Hamas and Islamic Jihad completely from the region. The Israel Defense Forces have attacked the vast tunnel networks built by Hamas under Gaza's towns and cities and 'refugee' camps. Where weapons storage, command posts and terror operatives find shelter in the crowded enclave, and where rocket launchers are deliberately placed near mosques, hospitals, schools and apartment blocks to ensure maximum deaths occur when Israel responds to rockets launched across the border.

The greater the number of civilian deaths and particularly those of children, the more the terrorist publicity campaigns accusing Israel of genocide can resonate in empathetic compassion from the West, to apply pressure on Israel to stand down from its mission, despite the Hamas mission to eradicate the Jewish state. When civilians are used as human shields, when children are taught from primary school onward the glories of violence and tutored in the use of weapons while being infused with a martyrdom complex, the world is silent.

But Canada's government has now committed to absorbing as a humanitarian gesture in sympathy with the plight of Palestinians suffering the blowback of what their leaders inflicted on Israel, a temporary visa program operational by January 9. Where applications will be accepted for people with extended family connections to Canada, which will include parents, grandparents, siblings and grandchildren; categories ordinarily outside the framework of Canada's legal family unification program.

In addition to which spouses and children of Canadian citizens and permanent residents already in Canada since leaving Gaza in the aftermath of October 7 can also apply for a free study or an open work permit, courtesy of the Canadian government. The warped psychopathy of hatred for Jews prevalent among Palestinians who have been steeped in racist hatred all their lives will be imported along with those being brought to Canada. Where the rise in antisemitism is threatening the future of Jews in the country they have lived in for over 300 years.