Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly trivialized the atrocities of October 7 in a post on X by making an obscene moral equivalence between the calculated, savage attacks on Israeli citizens and accusations that have sprung up against Israelis:
We believe Palestinian women.
Allegations on sexual and gender-based violence against them must be investigated and Palestinian women must be supported. Today, I announced in the West Bank that Canada will commit $1M to support this important work.
— Mélanie Joly (@melaniejoly) March 12, 2024
The backlash has been swift and will likely continue:
Canadian tax $ supporting blood libel inversion of fact & law – in response to genocidal 10/7 massacre in 🇮🇱 – that raped, burned, mutilated, murdered & abducted; met w/silence, denial, justification, false moral equivalence…that fuel rising antisemitism in 🇨🇦.
Shame.
— מיכל קוטלר-וונש | Michal Cotler-Wunsh (@CotlerWunsh) March 12, 2024
Joly also posted a photo of herself holding hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during her visit to the region, and posted her sympathies for Palestinians in Judea and Samaria:
We visited Al Mazra’a Al Qibilya in the West Bank to hear from Palestinians about impacts of the expansion of Israeli settlements and the rise of extremist settler violence. pic.twitter.com/Bb0LyBveWd
— Mélanie Joly (@melaniejoly) March 13, 2024
“Mélanie Joly visits Israel only to trivialize Hamas’s sexual violence,” by Rahim Mohamed, National Post, March 15, 2024:
Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, in Israel for a three-day visit this week, found time on Tuesday to deeply offend her hosts, announcing during a stopover in the West Bank that Canada would be putting up $1 million toward investigating allegations of sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinian women.
“We believe Palestinian women,” Joly wrote in a tweet reiterating the funding pledge.
Joly’s statement on sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinian women came just a day after she announced a matching $1 million for survivors of sexual violence committed by Hamas Oct. 7, tweeting on Monday, “We believe Israeli women. And we stand by them in their fight for justice.”
The near-identical language Joly chose to use in each statement wasn’t lost on Israel’s Special Envoy for Combatting Antisemitism, Michal Cotler-Wunsh, who slammed the Canadian foreign minister on X for perpetuating a “false moral equivalence” between Hamas’s coordinated use of sexual torture on Oct. 7 and allegations of sexual misconduct levied against individual Israelis…..
ed says
So. what you are saying what the right hand possesses works both ways?
jaime says
The easy way to win an election in Canada is appeasing the voters in Vancouver -Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal and most lean very left.This in part is why youu see the Liberals go pro islamic.
CraigAustin says
Those cities are Canada’s 4 rectums, no organism needs more than 1. We pay dearly for the extra orifices.
40 rounds says
I’m betting most Israelis, who aspire to be clean, wouldn’t touch those lying, filthy creatures.
Pray Hard says
Too stupid to realize that the allegations against the Izzies are lies.
abu taleb says
Funny, even in my country which is supporting Palestine 100%, I don’t hear many allegations about sexual violence by the Israelis. As far as I remember, there is none. Israel is accused of stealing land, killing and torturing Palestinians. war crime etc, but not sexual violence.
The Canada government under Trudeau may be worse than the Islamists on occasion.
Rick Olsha says
As always fake news.
AM ISRAEL CHAI !!!!!
jerry glenn says
Canada surges in the international Islamopandering derby.
Canuckguy NB says
You got that so right. I am embarrassed to be a Canadian.
James Lincoln says
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly has that “smug / superior intelligence” look on her face.
I actually contemplated using the “c word” to describe her.
OLD GUY says
Makes me wonder who is buttering her bread under the table.
Major Tom says
I’ll bet that woman couldn’t bake a cake!