Some of Canada’s largest newspapers and wealthiest companies saw their personalities take to Twitter on Boxing Day to decry what they saw as a major threat to the country: protesters outside a bookstore.
Demonstrators were trying to get shoppers to avoid Indigo over its CEO’s charity, the HESEG Foundation, which encourages foreigners to join the Israel Defense Forces through rewarding them with scholarships after they complete their service.
That’s the same military Amnesty International and a United Nations special committee concluded is committing a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
In fact, just days after a large chunk of Canada’s columnists were panicking about people opposing genocide and protesting a bookstore, Israel’s relentless attacks forced northern Gaza’s last major health facility to close.
Yet the columnists who were so vocal two days earlier were suddenly silent.
It’s a worrying pattern that so many powerful voices in Canadian media appear more concerned about those protesting genocide than about the genocide itself.
In this video, I break down the details.
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