Author: Hon. Joe Volpe

Impatience with Israel grows among Western nations

TORONTO – Tomorrow, Canada’s House of Commons will debate an Opposition Day motion, presented by NDP Leader, Jagmeet Singh (https://www.ourcommons.ca/en/  House Agenda, March 18: you can read it also at the end of this article). It is a clinical condemnation of political-military responses by the Israeli government against Gaza for the October 7, 2023 incursions, killings and kidnappings. 

CORRIERE CANADESE / Problemi del Medio Oriente in casa nostra

TORONTO – L’ultimo appello all’azione lanciato dal Centro per Israele e gli Affari Ebraici (CIJA) (“Questa mozione deve essere fermata” This Week in Canadian Jewish Advocacy, www.cija.ca) è un altro segnale che Israele sta perdendo la guerra delle pubbliche relazioni in Gaza, e che la diaspora ebraica potrebbe esserne la vittima più significativa. Con poche eccezioni isolate, prima dell’8 ottobre 2023, la diaspora poteva contare sul sostegno praticamente incondizionato della società occidentale allo Stato di Israele in quanto Stato ebraico. Da allora gli eventi hanno messo alla prova quel “legame”… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

Turmoil of the Middle East in our backyard

TORONTO – The latest pleas for action by (CIJA) the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (“This motion must be stopped” This Week in Canadian Jewish Advocacy, www.cija.ca) is yet another signal that Israel is losing the public relations war in Gaza, and that the Jewish Diaspora may be its most significant victim. With few isolated exceptions, before October 8, 2023, the Diaspora could count on Western society’s virtually unconditional support for the State of Israel as a Jewish state. The events since then have been testing that “bond”.