Arif Virani is desperately running interference for this guy:
A coalition of human rights groups have voiced their support for Canada’s embattled incoming human rights chief after three Jewish groups called for his removal over reports of his past anti-Israel statements.
The group, which includes the National Union of Public and General Employees, the Canadian Association of Professional Employees, the Federation of Black Canadians and others, blamed racism for the response to Birju Dattani’s controversial comments.
“The attempts to have Mr. Dattani — the first Muslim and racialized person appointed to this position — vacate his seat without due process is deeply concerning,” the group said in an open letter sent to Justice Minister Arif Virani on Wednesday.
(Sidebar: yes, that must be it. What's a "racialised"?)
“While the allegations against Mr. Dattani are concerning, this campaign against him highlights the heightened level of scrutiny he, like many Canadians, faces because of his faith and ethnic background. Mr. Dattani has responded comprehensively to the media about allegations related to his academic activities as a student 12 years ago.”
(Sidebar: like churches being burned to the ground?)
Conservative Deputy Leader Melissa Lantsman said that Jewish communities across Canada are feeling vulnerable due to the normalization of antisemitism in the wake of October 7 and cannot trust Dattani to be impartial.
“If you have the arbiter of racism and human rights in this country, and people don’t feel like they’re going to get a fair hearing, then he’s the wrong guy for the job,” she said.
Dattani told National Post last week that he was confident that the investigation would “vindicate my longstanding commitment to human rights.”
The whole point of such a commissioner is to elevate people best suited to deflection and division on ethnic, racial and sectarian grounds.
This bug-eyed douche-tool knows that he will hang on to his position regardless of his anti-semitism, maybe even because of it.
Canada morphed into Nazi Germany so gradually that one scarcely noticed.
Vaguely related:
For months, Israel has refuted libelous claims of famine in Gaza, as international organizations -- especially the UN and the EU, the International Court of Justice and mainstream media alongside NGOs such as Human Rights Watch -- pushed the false, malicious narrative that Israel was causing famine in Gaza and even using it as a "weapon of war." Israel might have saved itself the effort. No one was listening.
In May, the World Food Programme (WFP) of the UN claimed, without a shred of evidence, that there was a "full blown famine" in Gaza.
Now, it turns out, it was all a big lie. There was no famine, there is no famine and Israel has not been using hunger as a "weapon of war." In its report published on June 4, the UN's IPC [Integrated Food Security Phase Classification] concluded that famine was no longer even "plausible" and had no "supporting evidence."
By comparison, more than three million children in Sudan are acutely malnourished, and a quarter of a million more are likely to die in the coming months. By the UN's own admission, the war in Sudan is "the war the world has either forgotten or ignored." The irony of that statement has clearly been lost on the UN, which is probably the main reason that Sudan – and other conflict spots – is ignored: the UN focuses almost all its resources on Israel and Gaza.
The "made-up" famine is just the latest in a long row of fabrications demonizing Israel's military operations in Gaza, which over the last months have been exposed as lies yet have received zero coverage in the media.
In early May, the UN effectively admitted that Hamas's casualty figures were untrustworthy...
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres led the incitement against Israel, as the UN almost always does.
Overall, 18 million people in Sudan face starvation.
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Open criticism of Hamas has been growing in Gaza, both on the streets and online.
Some have publicly criticised Hamas for hiding the hostages in apartments near a busy marketplace, or for firing rockets from civilian areas.
Residents have told the BBC that swearing and cursing against the Hamas leadership is now common in the markets, and that some drivers of donkey carts have even nicknamed their animals after the Hamas leader in Gaza - Yahya Sinwar - urging the donkeys forward with shouts of "Yallah, Sinwar!"
“People say things like, ‘Hamas has destroyed us’ or even call on God to take their lives,” one man said.
“They ask what the 7 October attacks were for - some say they were a gift to Israel.”
Some are even urging their leaders to agree a ceasefire with Israel.
There are still those in Gaza fiercely loyal to Hamas and after years of repressive control, it’s difficult to know how far the group is losing support, or how far existing opponents feel more able to speak their mind.
But a senior Hamas official privately acknowledged to the BBC, months ago, that they were losing support as a result of the war.
And even some on the group’s own payroll are wavering.
Payroll, huh?
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