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submitted 11 hours ago by HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca

Despite a snubbing by government officials unlike any she has seen, Francesca Albanese says she was “uplifted” by her visit to Canada.

Over the course of a week, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories attended several community events, and did not hold back from scathing criticisms of Israel’s 13-month assault on Gaza.

Albanese, an Italian academic and lawyer who has held the voluntary UN position since 2022, had been invited to meet with government officials, as well as make a scheduled appearance at a parliamentary foreign affairs committee. Both events were cancelled a week before her arrival.

But Albanese still spoke to large gatherings of workers, academics, and students in Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto. She identified Canada as part of a small group of countries who have “continued to allow and nurture the arrogance that is at the origins of Israeli behaviour today.”

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[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 hours ago

Meanwhile our PM:

"Zionism is not a bad word"

Gives out his sympathies to a bunch of Israeli soccer fans who chanted hate speeches, destroyed property, and assaulted locals in Amsterdam because the locals fought back against them to defend themselves.

What a fucking shameful government.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Unfortunately we're just like the US on this, we have a choice of which Zionist fellators to elect. One only takes the whole shaft, the other tries to lick the balls when he bottoms out.

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

What's Singh's position on this? I've barely heard anything in the news from them.

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