Why Is Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly Promoting Allegations Made By Anti-Semitic UN Officials?

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In their desperation to create a false equivalence between Israel and Hamas, the Liberal government is jumping on every opportunity to demonize Israel and pander to anti-Semites in Canada.

The Liberal government has established a clear pattern:

Allegations made by Israel – a democratic state with a free press and significant accountability mechanisms – are immediately cast into doubt, and only believed once much time has passed. For example, we saw how long it took Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly to denounce the incredibly well-documented and undeniable mass rapes and mutiliation of women perpetrated by Hamas.

Meanwhile, allegations made against Israel – including allegations made by terrorists groups like Hamas – are immediately believed and immediately platformed. The allegations are believed even though Hamas is genocidal terror organization that doesn’t allow free elections, doesn’t allow free speech, and doesn’t allow any accountability mechanisms.

In short, things are completely inverted.

Democracies are far more honest than authoritarian states and terror groups, because statements from political leaders can be challenged in real-time.

The Liberal government should default towards believing Israel, and disbelieving Hamas.

Yet they do the opposite.

And they’re doing it again.

Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly is now platforming accusations against Israel made by Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories.

As reported by the Times of Israel, Albanese has a long history making anti-Semitic comments:

“A review of her past social media posts, media appearances and talks with activist groups found that aside from inveighing against a “Jewish lobby,” she has also sympathized with terror organizations, dismissed Israeli security concerns, compared Israelis to Nazis and accused the Jewish state of potential war crimes.

Then, as now, she refers to Israel as a settler-colonial enterprise and to Jews in Israel and the pre-state British mandate as foreign interlopers subjugating an indigenous Palestinian population. In her first official report to the UN this year, she urged a rejection of the conflict paradigm, describing Israel solely as an oppressor and legitimizing Palestinian “resistance.” She rarely acknowledges Palestinian terrorism.

In 2014, in an open letter posted to her Facebook page, Albanese castigated the US and Europe for their conduct during Operation Protective Edge, a war between Israel and Gaza terror groups that year.

“America and Europe, one of them subjugated by the Jewish lobby, and the other by the sense of guilt about the Holocaust, remain on the sidelines and continue to condemn the oppressed — the Palestinians — who defend themselves with the only means they have (deranged missiles), instead of making Israel face its international law responsibilities,” Albanese wrote.”

Keep all of that in mind as you consider the fact that Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister is now uncritically repeating allegations made by that same UN official:

Israel had rapidly responded to those allegations, and others noted that Albanese was deeply involved in the report demonizing Israel:

“Israel forcefully rejects the despicable and unfounded claims published today by a group of so-called UN experts, including one who just days ago legitimised the massacre of October 7 in which more than 1,200 people were murdered, executed and raped, and another who publicly doubted the testimonies of Israeli victims of gender-based and sexual violence.

These mandate holders have remained silent on the horrific sexual violence and gender based violence perpetrated by Hamas on and since October 7. It is clear that the co-signatories are motivated not by the truth but by their hatred for Israel and its people.

The State of Israel will continue to abide by its obligations under international law. No complaint has been received by Israeli authorities but Israel remains ready to investigate any concrete claims of misconduct by its security forces when presented with credible allegations and evidence.”

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“Unfathomable levels of double standards. One of these “experts” has repeatedly expressed doubt that Hamas raped Israelis on 10/7 but takes these vicious lies as gospel”

“Jaw-dropping double standards: A group of UN officials — including @FranceskAlbs, who has cast doubt that Hamas raped Israelis on October 7th — now blindly endorses the spurious lie that the IDF is raping Palestinians in Gaza”

Again, it took Joly many weeks to finally condemn Hamas’ mass rape of Israeli women, but just two days to repeat claims put together by a biased group that includes anti-Semites.

Further, Joly – unlike many of Canada’s counterparts – has not denounced Albanese:

And Joly isn’t stopping there.

She recently met with the Egyptian Foreign Minister, and put out a statement criticizing the idea of Israel entering Rafah, and notably failed to mention the need for the hostages to be released:

“I sat down with my Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Shoukry, at the @g20org. We discussed the rapidly declining humanitarian crisis in Gaza and our deep concern for the impacts of an Israeli military operation in Rafah.”

Pandering at its worst

So, what is going on here?

The sad reality is that the Liberals have made the decision to pander to anti-Semitism.

They are scared of upsetting those who would demonize Israel no matter what Israel does, and thus they are desperate to create the impression that Israel and Hamas are somehow equivalent.

Since Hamas went on a mass campaign of rape, Israel must be somehow accused of the same thing, or the Liberal government must at least be able to muddy the waters enough that the average person will think ‘both sides are equally bad.’

This would then allow the Liberals to pretend to be an ‘honest broker.’

But when the fight is between a democratic nation and a genocidal terrorist group, the only honest position is to stand with the democratic nation.

Israel does not commit mass rapes.

Hamas does.

Israel is not a genocidal state.

Hamas is a genocidal terrorist organization.

The Liberals know this, but they refuse to act in accordance with that knowledge.

By doing so, they are undermining Canadian values, incentivizing more anti-Semitism, and throwing the Jewish community under the bus.

This is completely unacceptable, and it is a profound betrayal of what Canada is supposed to stand for.

Spencer Fernando

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