Jewish organizations criticize Canada’s support of antisemitic UN resolution

Before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was elected in 2015, Israel could count on Canada to vote “No” to one sided anti-Israel resolutions at the UN. Those days are gone. The Trudeau government is the most anti-Israel government in Canadian history.

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SHAME: Canada’s Justin Trudeau government just joined the jackals at the U.N. by voting for a one-sided resolution singling out Israel, co-sponsored by Syria, Venezuela & North Korea. There will be 17 resolutions this year on Israel—and 7 on the rest of the world combined. pic.twitter.com/gcHm5G6Ih8

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) November 19, 2020

We join @CIJAinfo and @CanadianFSWC in expressing deep disappointment with the Canadian government’s vote for a UN resolution affirming Palestinian self-determination while failing to affirm Jewish self-determination in our indigenous ancestral homeland.https://t.co/7X27fyr8Es

— B’nai Brith Canada (@bnaibrithcanada) November 19, 2020

Jewish organizations criticize Canada’s support of biased UN resolution

By Israel National News, November 19, 2020

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), B’nai Brith Canada and Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) on Thursday expressed deep disappointment with the Canadian government’s decision to vote in favor of a UN General Assembly resolution that affirms Palestinian self-determination, while failing to affirm Jewish self-determination in the indigenous and ancestral homeland of the Jewish people and intentionally erasing historical Jewish connections to Jerusalem.

“In its Explanation of Vote (EOV), Canada detailed the many shortcomings of this resolution, and the unfair targeting of Israel – yet Canada then proceeded to vote in favor of the text. That decision is not only contradictory, it flies in the face of Canada’s principled opposition to other resolutions in the unbalanced Question of Palestine basket of resolutions that are tabled annually at the UN General Assembly. We must ask ourselves: does support for this resolution bring us any closer to a durable and sustaining peace?” observed Michael Mostyn, Chief Executive Officer of B’nai Brith Canada.

Michael Levitt, President and CEO of FSWC, said, “We are dismayed by Canada’s decision to undermine its longstanding policy of rejecting one-sided and prejudicial anti-Israel resolutions at the UN. By supporting this resolution, Canada is providing ammunition to those who seek to delegitimize and demonize the State of Israel, which ultimately sets back the prospects for peace in the region.”

Shimon Koffler Fogel, CIJA President and CEO, said, “The Government of Canada has now doubled down on its incomprehensible support for a resolution that simply expands the anti-Israel narrative within the United Nations system – an aberration in the voting pattern established and re-affirmed by successive Canadian governments for almost two decades until the Liberal government changed its vote last year. Notwithstanding other praiseworthy initiatives, including the Security Infrastructure Program and the renewal and expansion of the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement, this vote will undermine the Jewish community’s confidence in this Government – its willingness to stand by its principles as they relate to Israel, as well as its relationship with the Jewish community here in Canada.”