I have never felt more ashamed to be Canadian. In 2016, Canada had 220 thousand Lebanese-Canadians and 50 thousand Palestinian-Canadians. It feels like the complete alienation of the Arab community.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

And 282 thousand Jews as of 2021. 🤔

He's gotta dance on that tight rope. And if he loses balance, pipsqueak takes over and I'm sure you know how he feels about this issue.

[–] m13@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

There are plenty of anti-Zionist Jews who are opposed to the genocide and Israel.

[–] ClopClopMcFuckwad@lemmy.world -5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

How many Jews does Canada have, because if its more than 50,220, then I guess we know why Canada doesn't want to agree with the genocide claim.

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ml 21 points 8 months ago

Please don't conflate Jews with Zionism.

[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Are you implying that all Jews homogeneously support Netanyahu and the rabid zionists backing him?

That sounds quite anti-Semitic.

[–] ClopClopMcFuckwad@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Nope, not at all. I'm implying that which ever base has more potential votes for current politicians is how the government will react to world events.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

It's not the case, but it's very much how world governments are seeing it.

[–] nekandro@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Canada has been trying to expand Arab and Iranian immigration. There are currently also 200 thousand Iranian Canadians in the country.