“What we, what you, are experiencing is not normal. Antisemites singing the praises of Hamas and Hezbollah while waving their flags in the streets of our cities is not normal,” Trudeau told the National Forum on Combating Antisemitism, a one-day summit organized by the federal Liberals on March 6.
“The term Zionist increasingly being tossed around as a pejorative, in spite of the fact that it simply means believing in the right of Jewish people, like all people, to determine their own future, is not normal,” Trudeau continued. “No one in Canada should ever be afraid to call themselves a Zionist. I am a Zionist,” he said to applause from the audience.
That’s not what zionism means, Trudeau. Presumably Palestinians are included in that, “Like all people,” and yet don’t seem to have the same right to self-determination in the face of the very concrete Israeli state that’s set up on their land.
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That’s not what zionism means, Trudeau. Presumably Palestinians are included in that, “Like all people,” and yet don’t seem to have the same right to self-determination in the face of the very concrete Israeli state that’s set up on their land.