— Feature, Musings —01.06.2026 01:51 PM
The anti-Israel, pro-Hamas fringe become the anti-U.S., pro-Maduro fringe
It’s axiomatic: when you do something a lot, you get better at it. So, when you do lots of campaigns, you get better at campaigns.
Witness the variously pro-Palestine, anti-Israel, pro-Hamas, antisemitic Leftist fringe that magically transformed itself into the anti-U.S., anti-Trump, pro-Maduro Leftist fringe over the weekend. Within hours, with military precision. Here, in Canada, and around the world.
Says Canadian lawyer and expert Caryma Sa’d: “Since the US military intervention in Venezuela, I’ve covered [and] reviewed footage from Cambridge, Toronto, and Ottawa that suggests convergence between the anti-Israel and anti-American protesters…Everything is viewed through what they’d consider an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-oppression lens, from Land Back to Safe Supply to Free Palestine to Trans Rights, and now, Hands Off Venezuela.”
And, as I document in my Random House book The Hidden Hand, out next month, a worldwide propaganda campaign against Israel and the West commenced in the early hours of October 7, 2023, when Hamas murdered, raped and brutalized thousands of Jews in Israel.
The campaign had lots of money, organizers, protestors and tested messages mostly aimed at Gen Z and Millennials. It has been a massive success: the anti-Israel, antisemitic side has overwhelmed their targets by a factor of fifty to one.
And, by running so many protests for more than two years, the antisemites and the bigots have acquired undeniable skills. Their messaging and tactics have dwarfed the feeble pro-Israel, pro-Western effort.
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The no Kings crowd are now simping for the dictator I assume.
So, IMO, inarguably at least in Canada there is near-total dereliction of duty by governments to act on this.
Act, not talk.
Governments in Canada, be they Federal, Provincial or Municipal, do not need to launch useless & prolonged debates, or give pseudo-eloquent speaches decrying the situation, nor to pass any new legislation, or whatever.
Not at all. All the tools are there. Right Now.
Merely performative politics is for the lazy, the vain, the feckless: for those underserving to hold political office.
And, of course, is a delight for those who want to jam the system, so that a problem festers, and do so because they LIKE the problem.
If the Canadian Federal Government — and within 24-72 hours, no less — and use FINTRAC to identify and shut down almost all the funding for a bunch of people in Ottawa who (a few opportunistic Nazis aside) were mostly just unhappy citizens who were honking their truck horns rather over-much, and at annoying hours of the day and night …
… then the Canadian Federal Government — and within 24-72 hours, no less — can d@mn well get off their fat, complacent @$$3$ and use FINTRAC to identify and shut down all the funding from Qatar and Saudi (et al.) that’s paying for Jews to be punched in the face on the U. of T. University Campus (for being Jewish), for TDSB HS teachers to be “greeted” in class by deliberately intimidating, snickering Nazi salutes, and that’s paying for mezzuzahs to be pried off the door frames of apartments, condos and private homes, in North York, and no doubt many other cities (because Jewish) — things that ought to be of *rather* more concern to our Rockliffe Rhodesians than honking truck horns.
Peace, Order and Good Government, my fat butt.
Sad how the left has been poisoned by hate culture, when traditionally it’s the right. The Nazis were right wing so most of western hate since then comes from the right wing. Like is happening now with Trump. We have to stand up in our individual lives and defend Jews when the topic comes up. Sure we need big strategy to combat all the hate, but in a personal note in your own
Life standup for Jews as our equals in this society, just like everybody else.