<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><br><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 1.35em; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Justin Trudeau come on board!</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 1.35em; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Despite professed belief in the value of free speech, despite the legal codes that protect speech, <a href="https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/hate-speech-legal" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; --tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-pan-x: ; --tw-pan-y: ; --tw-pinch-zoom: ; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-gradient-from-position: ; --tw-gradient-via-position: ; --tw-gradient-to-position: ; --tw-ordinal: ; --tw-slashed-zero: ; --tw-numeric-figure: ; --tw-numeric-spacing: ; --tw-numeric-fraction: ; --tw-ring-inset: ; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-blur: ; --tw-brightness: ; --tw-contrast: ; --tw-grayscale: ; --tw-hue-rotate: ; --tw-invert: ; --tw-saturate: ; --tw-sepia: ; --tw-drop-shadow: ; --tw-backdrop-blur: ; --tw-backdrop-brightness: ; --tw-backdrop-contrast: ; --tw-backdrop-grayscale: ; --tw-backdrop-hue-rotate: ; --tw-backdrop-invert: ; --tw-backdrop-opacity: ; --tw-backdrop-saturate: ; --tw-backdrop-sepia: ; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">including speech that greatly disturbs</a>, we have failed to protect it in a crucial policy arena. This failure to live up to our ideals has a name: the <a href="https://palestinelegal.org/the-palestine-exception" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; --tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-pan-x: ; --tw-pan-y: ; --tw-pinch-zoom: ; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-gradient-from-position: ; --tw-gradient-via-position: ; --tw-gradient-to-position: ; --tw-ordinal: ; --tw-slashed-zero: ; --tw-numeric-figure: ; --tw-numeric-spacing: ; --tw-numeric-fraction: ; --tw-ring-inset: ; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-blur: ; --tw-brightness: ; --tw-contrast: ; --tw-grayscale: ; --tw-hue-rotate: ; --tw-invert: ; --tw-saturate: ; --tw-sepia: ; --tw-drop-shadow: ; --tw-backdrop-blur: ; --tw-backdrop-brightness: ; --tw-backdrop-contrast: ; --tw-backdrop-grayscale: ; --tw-backdrop-hue-rotate: ; --tw-backdrop-invert: ; --tw-backdrop-opacity: ; --tw-backdrop-saturate: ; --tw-backdrop-sepia: ; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Palestine exception</a>. In this arena, as events of the past year have dramatically illustrated, it is as if we have regressed to the mindlessness of love it or leave it, and birthed a shameful <a href="https://progressive.org/latest/suppressing-pro-palestinian-speech-is-the-new-mccarthyism-kalet-mitchell-20240502/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; --tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-pan-x: ; --tw-pan-y: ; --tw-pinch-zoom: ; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-gradient-from-position: ; --tw-gradient-via-position: ; --tw-gradient-to-position: ; --tw-ordinal: ; --tw-slashed-zero: ; --tw-numeric-figure: ; --tw-numeric-spacing: ; --tw-numeric-fraction: ; --tw-ring-inset: ; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-blur: ; --tw-brightness: ; --tw-contrast: ; --tw-grayscale: ; --tw-hue-rotate: ; --tw-invert: ; --tw-saturate: ; --tw-sepia: ; --tw-drop-shadow: ; --tw-backdrop-blur: ; --tw-backdrop-brightness: ; --tw-backdrop-contrast: ; --tw-backdrop-grayscale: ; --tw-backdrop-hue-rotate: ; --tw-backdrop-invert: ; --tw-backdrop-opacity: ; --tw-backdrop-saturate: ; --tw-backdrop-sepia: ; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">new McCarthyism</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 1.35em; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The Palestine exception refers to the prohibition of speech critical of Israel, especially of its founding ideology, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/1/9/the-zionist-fallacy-of-jewish-supremacy" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; --tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-pan-x: ; --tw-pan-y: ; --tw-pinch-zoom: ; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-gradient-from-position: ; --tw-gradient-via-position: ; --tw-gradient-to-position: ; --tw-ordinal: ; --tw-slashed-zero: ; --tw-numeric-figure: ; --tw-numeric-spacing: ; --tw-numeric-fraction: ; --tw-ring-inset: ; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-blur: ; --tw-brightness: ; --tw-contrast: ; --tw-grayscale: ; --tw-hue-rotate: ; --tw-invert: ; --tw-saturate: ; --tw-sepia: ; --tw-drop-shadow: ; --tw-backdrop-blur: ; --tw-backdrop-brightness: ; --tw-backdrop-contrast: ; --tw-backdrop-grayscale: ; --tw-backdrop-hue-rotate: ; --tw-backdrop-invert: ; --tw-backdrop-opacity: ; --tw-backdrop-saturate: ; --tw-backdrop-sepia: ; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Zionism</a>, and its ongoing oppression of the Palestinian people. The behaviors, guiding doctrines, and politics of other countries are fair game for criticism. So is the U.S. government and whatever administration is currently in power. Under the First Amendment it is the right of everyone <a href="https://www.freedomforum.org/non-citizens-protected-first-amendment/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; --tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-pan-x: ; --tw-pan-y: ; --tw-pinch-zoom: ; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-gradient-from-position: ; --tw-gradient-via-position: ; --tw-gradient-to-position: ; --tw-ordinal: ; --tw-slashed-zero: ; --tw-numeric-figure: ; --tw-numeric-spacing: ; --tw-numeric-fraction: ; --tw-ring-inset: ; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-blur: ; --tw-brightness: ; --tw-contrast: ; --tw-grayscale: ; --tw-hue-rotate: ; --tw-invert: ; --tw-saturate: ; --tw-sepia: ; --tw-drop-shadow: ; --tw-backdrop-blur: ; --tw-backdrop-brightness: ; --tw-backdrop-contrast: ; --tw-backdrop-grayscale: ; --tw-backdrop-hue-rotate: ; --tw-backdrop-invert: ; --tw-backdrop-opacity: ; --tw-backdrop-saturate: ; --tw-backdrop-sepia: ; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">present legally in the U.S.</a> to express such critical views, even if others are made uncomfortable.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 1.35em; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">But criticize Israel in similar ways and the pushback will be aggressive and institutional. Efforts to stifle this criticism will come not only from predictable quarters—pro-Israel lobbying groups, such as the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/15/adl-lobby-antisemitism-definition" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; --tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-pan-x: ; --tw-pan-y: ; --tw-pinch-zoom: ; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-gradient-from-position: ; --tw-gradient-via-position: ; --tw-gradient-to-position: ; --tw-ordinal: ; --tw-slashed-zero: ; --tw-numeric-figure: ; --tw-numeric-spacing: ; --tw-numeric-fraction: ; --tw-ring-inset: ; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-blur: ; --tw-brightness: ; --tw-contrast: ; --tw-grayscale: ; --tw-hue-rotate: ; --tw-invert: ; --tw-saturate: ; --tw-sepia: ; --tw-drop-shadow: ; --tw-backdrop-blur: ; --tw-backdrop-brightness: ; --tw-backdrop-contrast: ; --tw-backdrop-grayscale: ; --tw-backdrop-hue-rotate: ; --tw-backdrop-invert: ; --tw-backdrop-opacity: ; --tw-backdrop-saturate: ; --tw-backdrop-sepia: ; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Anti-Defamation League</a>—but also from institutions that are supposed to protect freedom of speech: universities and branches of government. It is as if a forcefield capable of neutralizing the First Amendment has been erected around Israel. Since October 2023 this virtual forcefield, the Palestine exception, has gained strength and is now getting a further boost from the Trump administration.</p><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 8, 2025, at 10:20 PM, Arthur Blomme via Sundaycommunity <sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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a people who lost six million of its sons and daughters in the
Holocaust, we are particularly sensitive to the trivialisation of the
term ‘genocide’ - a trivialisation
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Criticizes Pope’s Call to Study 'Genocide' in Gaza</b></span></span></font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><b>By</b></span><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><b> </b></span><a href="https://sojo.net/biography/joshua-mcelwee-reuters" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="text-transform:uppercase;"><b>Joshua
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criticized Pope Francis on Friday for suggesting th</span></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">e
international community
should study whether Israel’s military offensive in
Gaza constitutes a genocide of the Palestinian people.</span></font></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">In an open letter
published by Italian newspaper <i>Il Foglio</i>,
Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli said the
pope’s remarks — made in excerpts published
last month from a forthcoming book month — amounted to a
“trivialisation” of the term genocide.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">“As a people who
lost six million of its sons and daughters in the
Holocaust, we are particularly sensitive to the
trivialisation of the term ‘genocide’ - a trivialisation
that comes dangerously close to Holocaust denial,”
Chikli wrote.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Chikli, who ended
the letter by calling Francis “a dear friend of the
Jewish people,” asked the pope “to clarify your position
regarding the new accusation of genocide
against the Jewish state.”</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">The Vatican did not
immediately respond to a request for comment on the
letter.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Israel says
accusations of genocide in Gaza are baseless and that it
is solely hunting down Hamas militants and other
Palestinian armed groups.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">The pope, as leader
of the 1.4-billion-member Roman Catholic Church, is
usually careful about taking sides in conflicts, but has
recently been more outspoken about
Israel’s military campaign against Palestinian militant
group Hamas. In the book excerpts published by Italian
daily <i>La Stampa</i>, the pontiff said some
international experts said that “what is happening in
Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide.”</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">“We should
investigate carefully to assess whether this fits into
the technical definition (of genocide) formulated by
international jurists and organisations,” the
pope said.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Authorities in the
Gaza Strip say more than 45,000 Palestinians have been
killed and more than 107,000 injured in Israel’s
offensive, and most of the enclave’s more
than 2 million people are homeless or displaced.</span></font></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom:5pt;"><font face="Lucida Console" size="3" color="#495057"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Joshua
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