![]() ![]() Motasem A Dalloul, in a recent article published in Middle East Monitor, succinctly notes what ultimately needs to be stressed: To go any further at this point in listing Israeli crimes is simply to repeat what’s already been public for long. Given that Israel is constantly demolishing Palestinian properties, opening live fire and killing Palestinian civilians, illegally raiding Palestinian homes, physically and mentally (as through its military) harassing Palestinians, detaining them without any charge whatsoever, and holding them indefinitely behind bars (often referred to more nicely as “administrative detention”)-just to name a few of its crimes and in addition to its periodic bombing of Gaza (a densely open-air prison where Palestinians are wholly defenseless)-it is hardly a farfetched a view that Israel is the “single greatest origin of violence in the Middle East.” There’s nothing wrong with this since, first, it’s no secret that Israel has absolutely no reservations about and is routinely breaking international law (as confirmed by the United Nations, Amnesty International, other major human rights organizations the world over) and, second, whether Israel is in fact “the single greatest origin of violence in the Middle East” is at worst only debatable. ![]() “If I were to name…the single greatest threat, the single greatest origin of violence in the Middle East, it is unquestionably the state of Israel and the way in which they feel absolutely no shame in defying international law, doing whatever they want.” Specifically, the apology was made in reference to this statement he made in the interview, in August 2021: You have my commitment that it won’t happen again and I will continue to work with Jewish leaders who can help me understand antisemitism.” I regret my choice of words and sincerely apologize to the Jewish community. I spoke in a way that perpetrated an antisemitic stereotype towards Jewish neighbours. “I would like to apologize unreservedly to the Jewish community for comments I made during an interview with the Ottawa Forum on Israel Palestine. This week Joel Harden, a Canadian member of Ontario’s provincial parliament, made this unnecessary apology:
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