Political Class in Crisis in Light of Broad Support for Palestinian Resistance
Montreal, November 22
The media hype since the demonstration against NATO in Montreal on Friday, November 22 has raised a lot of questions and anger in Quebec. From the Mayor of Montreal, to Premier Legault, to the chief of police of Montreal and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, with one voice they blame the youth and the people of Quebec for the violence at the demonstration saying it was unacceptable, anti-Semitic, unprecedented and that it has no place in Quebec.
None have saluted the courage and determination of the youth and students of Quebec who stood up to organize strike days in support of the Palestinian people and their resistance, who stood up to say that Canada must withdraw from NATO, that NATO and NORAD must be dismantled and that the pro-war agenda of the Canadian government must be denounced and abandoned. On the contrary, this great elite, in lockstep with the U.S. State Department and the Zionist lobby, made sure to dissociate itself from positions in favour of the Palestinian people and international law. They passed over in silence what the participants of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly were plotting at their annual meeting in Montreal while labeling the demonstration of the youth anti-Semitic.
The big problem for the ruling class and their cronies is that they have no moral authority to convince anyone that the demonstration was anti-Semitic or to present the demonstrators as extremists. The demonstrations since October 8, 2023 and the many actions in support of the Palestinian resistance express the determination of the people to put an end to the massacres and the genocide. No elite can shake this determination, even if it desperately tries to deny the decisive role of these actions of the people of Quebec, alongside those of the peoples of Canada and the world, in the fight for justice to be served in Palestine. They have tried by all sorts of means to discredit the student encampments, like the one at McGill, and have totally failed.
A Reader in Montreal
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024
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