NDP-Abgeordneter wegen Tragens einer Anstecknadel zur Unterstützung der Palästinenser im Unterhaus verwarnt
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/ndp-mp-cautioned-for-wearing-pin-supporting-palestinians-in-the-house-of-commons/article_20b979f4-a5f3-11ef-98e0-7bd537e26636.html?utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_source=Twitter
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If we can also ban those Canadian-Israel flag lapels while in the House then at least we’re being consistent. We shouldn’t have people representing or having loyalty to other countries from people within our government. It’s the reason why we’re making a register to track all of the foreign agents that are messing with our democracy. If it’s *just* for one side of the crisis, where they are in the process of being ethnically cleansed, then it’s just Islamophobia and Zionism.
By the way, not allowing “political props” into one of our few buildings devoted entirely to politics is a Beaverton article. They clearly aren’t saying what they’re actually thinking.
She then went on to compare it to wearing a Poppy.
And people wonder why the NDP are floundering despite all opportunity currently on the Canadian political landscape. Maybe if their MPs spent as much time, and had as much fervor about Canadian issues as they seem to about a 75+ year long conflict on the other side of the world they seem insistent on importing to Canada.
From the article:
> “Entire families have been decimated. Children are starving to death. When will the Liberals live up to their obligations?” McPherson said, calling for sanctions on the Israeli government and the implementation of an “actual arms embargo.”
> But before Rob Oliphant, the parliamentary secretary to the foreign affairs minister, could respond, House of Commons Speaker Greg Fergus interjected. “I just want to encourage all members, to remind members, to be very careful about what they wear in this House to ensure that it’s not considered a prop,” Fergus said.
> McPherson was wearing a beaded watermelon pin when she delivered her remarks. Watermelon imagery has long been used as a stand-in symbol for the Palestinian flag, which shares the same colours as the fruit.
I feel like I’m living in a fever dream where discussion of an issue like **children starved to death** by an extremist genocidal government of an apartheid country fully supported and backed by our government can be interrupted by discussion over a piece of jewelry worn by a person. To me this illustrates the sheer indifference our government has managed to exhibit towards the horrors upon horrors the Israeli military has perpetrated upon the Palestinian population. It disgusts me to the core.