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Positive responses in Canada to the ICJ ruling indicating it is plausible that Israeli is directing genocidal actions at Palestinians in Gaza

This one-hour video is a lively and thoughtful discussion of many of the implications for Canada of the International Court of Justices’ ruling. All participants in the video generally accept the merits of the South African case. More importantly, a large portion of decent people throughout the planet also agree. The vote of the 17 ICJ Judges was almost unanimous on many points.

The participants are Host, Azeerah Kanji, KarenRodman, HcShaik, Farida Dief, Bianca, Mugyeny, and Michael Lynk. The HostingOrganizations are Just Peace Advocates and the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute.

Shimon Koffler Fogel 

Fogel hates everything about the ICJ Ruling. Shimon Koffler Fogel is one of the harshest Zionist critics in Canada of the ICJ Ruling. Fogel has great influence with the Liberal and Conservative parties of Canada. Fogel and the network of registered Jewish charities (lobbies) he represents support the continuation of the Israeli military assault on Gaza. Fogel condemn the provisional measures the ICJ has ordered in light of the plausible genocide underway in Gaza.

As one can readily see with the poster below, that Fogel wants all Canadians to denounce ICJ.

The CIJA makes it look like Mélanie Joly and Justin Trudeau just got married? Why portray them as a couple?

Shimon Koffler Fogel figures prominently in the Facebook hoax and the Israel Lobby’s infiltration of the University of Lethbridge I describe in this essay.

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In response, the leaders of the J7, the Large Jewish Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism, issued the following joint statement: 

“We take note of the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) appropriate rejection of South Africa’s extreme demand for an Israeli ceasefire, which tacitly recognizes Israel’s right to self-defense against Hamas and others in Gaza, as well as the ICJ’s call for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages. We are, however, deeply disappointed by today’s decision by the ICJ to issue a series of provisional measures against Israel as they give weight to South Africa’s preposterous claims.

“Opponents of Israel are shamelessly politicizing the Genocide Convention, making a mockery of actual genocides, past, present, and future. It is part of a broader, morally obscene anti-Israel campaign, led by South Africa, with the backing of the Iranian regime and other governments hostile to the Jewish state. Their goal is to weaken Israel’s international standing, while bolstering the image of Hamas and other terrorist organizations committed to Israel’s violent destruction. It is unfortunate the ICJ, which is meant to serve as the ultimate standard-bearer for the international rule of law, has fallen victim, even if partially, to South Africa’s sinister ploy.

“It is important to note that the court’s provisional ruling – as repeatedly stated – is not a judgment on the merits of whether Israel’s actions amount to genocide, but rather aimed at “preserving” the state of affairs in preparation for a final ruling from the court, which could take months or years. We are confident that the evidence will show that Israel is indeed fully compliant with the Genocide Convention and that the charges brought by South Africa will be deemed baseless by the court.

“The Court’s provisional measures will now likely be misconstrued by some who will argue falsely that Israel is in fact committing acts of genocide in Gaza. This would be a lie. The legal definition, as laid out in the 1948 Genocide Convention, states that genocide constitutes “… acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group…” The fact remains there is no objective evidence that Israel is targeting the Palestinian people as a whole – in Gaza or elsewhere. As Israel has repeatedly stated, its conflict is with Hamas terrorists – who, on October 7, launched an unprovoked attack on Israel, torturing, raping, mutilating, and butchering 1,200 people, and kidnapping 240 others. It is not with the millions of Palestinian civilians living in Gaza.

“Indeed, during its military operations, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have gone to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties. These include giving advance warnings for civilians to evacuate targeted areas, creating humanitarian corridors for civilian safe passage, facilitating the delivery of truckloads of humanitarian aid into Gaza, and working with the United States and others to develop best practices for avoiding civilian casualties.

“Rather than recognizing Israeli efforts to minimize civilian casualties – as per its obligations under international humanitarian law, by which it fully abides – the ICJ has sent a confusing and convoluted message that grants legitimacy to Hamas, an actual genocidal group, whose founding charter calls for anti-Jewish violence and other forms of antisemitism and extremism. More urgently, the ruling will be used by anti-Israel activists to further malign Israel and its supporters and by antisemitic actors as “justification” for assaulting those advocating for the safety of the Jewish state and its citizens.

“We are grateful to Israel’s allies, including the US, Germany, the UK, France, Italy, Guatemala, Austria, and others, who have stood against South Africa’s false accusations and clearly rejected the genocide claim against Israel. We hope those governments and other like-minded states will similarly reject the ICJ’s interim ruling and continue to stand with Israel in defending itself against terrorism.”

About the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs 

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) is the advocacy agent of Jewish Federations of Canada-UIA, representing Jewish Federations across Canada. CIJA is a national, non-partisan, non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve and protect Jewish life in Canada through advocacy and to advance the public policy interests of Canada’s organized Jewish community.

About the J7, The Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism 

The J7, The Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism was formed by major Jewish organizations representing the world’s largest diaspora communities – the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Argentina, and Australia – in July 2023 in response to increasing rates of antisemitism around the world.

Modeled after similarly structured informal groupings to discuss coordinated responses to global crises, the J7 global task force aligns efforts to combat antisemitism and protect the quality of Jewish life around the world.

J7 founding members are: Canada, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA); Argentina, Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas (DAIA); Australia, Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ); France, Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France (CRIF); Germany, Zentralrat de Juden in Deutschland (Central Council of Jews in Germany); United Kingdom, Board of Deputies of British Jews; United States, Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. 

Israel Seeks Desperately to Change the Issue Away from the Fact That World’s Top Court Has Imposed Strict Provisional Measures to Stop the Plausible Genocide Underway

Along with Australia, USA, Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Finland, Canada immediately stopped funding the United Nations Refugee and Works, Agency. UNRWA. All these governments adhered to Israel’s directive to block funding to UNRWA because 12 of 13,000 UNRWA workers in Gaza are said to have had some role in the events of October 7. The 12 individuals were immediately fired by the UN.

October 7, 10/7, is a mirky event like 9/11. Like 9/11, war was declared immediately before any formal investigation took place. Benjamin Netanyahu is one of the main suspects who may have done much to create the conditions conducive to this war time ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. For many years Netanyahu has had a very close working relationship with Hamas. This topic is the subject of many stories in Haaretz. It is perfectly possible that this close relationship between Netanyahu and Hamas was integral to what transpired on 10/7.

The Netanyahu government of Israel wants to see UNRWA destroyed altogether, perhaps because for many decades UNRWA has been a primary life line for the Palestinians of Gaza that the IDF are presently trying to starve, dehydrate, bomb and depopulate. UNRWA is disliked in Israel because in competes with the singular jurisdiction of Israel who keep more than two million Palestinian locked up in the small urban enclave of Gaza. Another mark against the UN agency is that much of the data provided in the South African accusations against Israel, came from reports by UNRWA.

Part of Israel’s genocidal strategy has been to kill Palestinians by bombing hospitals and killing medical workers. There has also been an onerous plan to kill humanitarian aid workers and to target many dozens of journalist to veil the full story of what the IDF has been up to in Gaza.

The diversion of putting a spotlight on UNRWA was a very transparent and provocative attempt to steal attention from the very serious immediate and long term implications of the ICJ ruling on genocide and Israel. George Galloway has pointed out that Canada is among the countries that is involved in making the genocide in Gaza worse by starving UNRWA of finances just at the peak of a humanitarian crisis that stems 100% the results of Israel’s intention to mass murder Palestinians.

So Canada, Britain, Germany and many other countries are digging themselves deeper into trouble by assisting and aiding Israel in a plausible genocide the ICJ has now identified and is monitoring. All the evidence is that the people and government of Canada are puzzled by what to make of the World Court’s decision of plausible Israeli genocide in Gaza.

The Liberal Party seems completely confused and noncommittal as some of its members, including the Prime Minister, think they can somehow split the difference and come down on both sides of the issue. Once again the gamer, Justin Trudeau, is totally out of his depth like he was when his government was giving standing ovations in Parliament to a Waffen SS soldier who joined in the Hitlerian assault on Russia and on its allies including Canada in WWII.

Some lawyers in Canada who represent clients in Gaza are pushing for an investigation of the alleged role of Joint Task Force-2 in assisting the IDF to commit plausible genocide.

All kinds of issues are arising, like whether it is appropriate for Canada to remain in the free trade agreement with Israel. Israel is a country that is now charged in the ICJ with violating the Genocide Convention and has already become the subject of provisional measures to correct the deaths and injuries inflicted from plausible genocide. In order to avoid the charge of “complicity in genocide” many countries will have to make significant alterations of their relations with Israel.

The leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Pierre Poilievre, has shown himself to be a servile stooge to the Israel Lobby and its Christian Zionist offshoots by trying to win the favour of the CIJA and the likes of Shimon Koffler Fogel. Poilievre tried to outdo Trudeau government in serving CIJA’s agenda of criminalizing UNRWA at the very moment when that organization is in the best position to lessen the famine as well as other aspects of the overwhelming humanitarian disaster underway now. So Poilievre is joining the group augmenting the ongoing genocide.

 

Canada’s formal position on Gaza, Israel and the position of the World Court is mushy minded. This mushiness is demonstrated below in the evasive position put forward by Global Affairs Minister, Melanie Joly. Canada is continuing Pro-Israel biases by continuing to view the world from the perspective of a fellow settler colony.

 

 

NEVER. FORGET. WHAT. TRUDEAU. DID. pic.twitter.com/8gFVqu3R1M

— Sheldoc (@Sheldoc4) January 23, 2024

Trudeau’s Crisis concerning the ruling of the ICJ is merging into the fact that he is facing one of the most serious charges from a court ever pointed against a sitting Canadian Prime Minister. Federal Court Justice Richard Mosely decided in a ruling that the Emergency Act lacked legal justification, force and credibility. In spite of all the Trudeau-appointed judges, the Charter of Rights has always been protecting us except when Canadian judges illegally declare it to be “moot.”

Emotions are running high as truckers and their allies remember the police violence they were subjected to after the Emergency Act. Now Trudeau seems to be moving towards the position where he is complicit in genocide even as he has become in the eyes of the many Canadians, an Emergency Act convict.