National Post uses biased poll to push for deportations of Palestine liberation supporters
Written by: Marthad Umucyaba
The National Post is using biased, exclusionary Leger and Postmedia polls to justify the call for a policy of deportation for supporters of Hamas, in particular, and Palestinian resistance in general.
The National Post also wants to ensure children are indoctrinated throughout the Canadian school system to support capitalism, Canada as a British colony, and the ‘rules based’ white supremacist order. Loyalty tests should also be administered on new migrants, according to The National Post, thus ending the charade of their supposed support for ‘universal free speech’, ‘freedom of expression’, and ‘freedom of association’.
The latest set of writers calling for these overtly fascist policies include:
Frank Stronach, the Founder and Honorary Chair of Magna International, a company with over $38 billion CAD in sales.
Terry Glavin, who was awarded a colonial Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence in 2009.
Tristin Hopper, a 38-year-old veteran colonialist journalist comfortable in mainstream pro-colonial press (as a side note, also a failed Senate applicant).
Michael Higgins, a 22 year veteran at the National Post and Former Politics Editor and Senior Editor.
Tasha Kheiriddin, a 26 year veteran commentator, who characterises anti-colonial struggle as an ‘authoritarian’ attack on democracy in an infamous essay on substack justifying the ‘democratic genocide’.
The fiction behind the October 7th uproar and the politics of ‘Terrorism’
Many ‘mainstream’ journalists have revealed themselves to be shameless liars and propagandists serving the settler colonial ambitions of NATO in Palestine. One mainstream journalist (though no supporter of Palestine liberation), Owen Jones, was courageous enough to reveal what actually happened during the November 23, 2023, screening from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). He exposed the fact that there was no actual rape footage (15:01-15:51). He also exposed the fact that there was no footage of massacres at all, simply dead body showcases, effectively debunking all of the fiction justifying the current actions of genocide by Israel.
It should also be noted that bodies were stolen from Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza by the IDF prior to the viewing, shortly after the hospital was bombed. Just before the screening was aired, the bodies were returned to the hospital. So, in essence, the IDF used bodies from the Hospitals to showcase the ‘crimes’ to these so-called journalists.
And, of course, while the anti-Hamas atrocity propaganda is baseless, the terrorist designation against the Palestinian Resistance factions is also a malicious NATO construct as well.
The terrorist designation for Hamas, the Popular Front for The Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other large Palestinian resistance factions throughout NATO, including Canada, is simply a way to enhance the blockade on Gaza and make the situation more untenable for Palestinians forced to live in the concentration camp.
The designation makes it harder for Hamas, the government in Gaza, to procure key services and products from companies doing business in NATO countries. When leaders in NATO say “we make sure it [aid] never gets in the hands of Hamas”, that’s what it actually means.
There’s a guaranteed right under the UN for Palestine to resist occupation, codified in UN Resolution 2625. However, the one doing the occupying is Israel, and Israel is supported by NATO. Hence, the designation makes the saying “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” ring true.
The National Post calls for deportation
Tasha Keiriddun, Terry Glavin, and Tristin Hopper all used a poll from Leger and Postmedia, meaning they relied on viewers reading articles from a largely right-wing Postmedia network. That’s why the demographic spread of the poll is heavily weighted in favour of white representation, at 78 per cent, as opposed to a white population in Canada of 69 per cent.
This is a similar tactic to what major networks like CNN and Fox News engage in. They spread nonsense on their networks, then ask their viewers to make up their minds in a poll based on fabrications that they aired earlier.
Naturally, the results of the biased poll saw a majority call for the deportation of temporary residents in universities if they “expressed racist views or supported an organisation listed as a terrorist organisation by Canada”. Tasha Keiriddin “concluded” that this is what “Canadians as a whole” really want. Terry Glavin used this poll to declare that Canada is trending towards the anti-Islamic movements in Europe, but also used another biased World Values Survey poll to show how Canada is one of the least racist countries in the world, along with those same Nordic countries railing against Islam and African immigrants. This poll was based on the notion that societies which emphasize the importance of a traditional family unit of a mom, dad, and children would be more nationalistic and racist (so it condemns most of the non-white planet).
Naturally, Tasha Keiriddin jumped at the opportunity to declare that anti-colonial struggle and immigration, based on the Leger-Postmedia ‘poll’, was “tearing the country apart” and that “most newcomers came here to escape regimes that perpetuate far worse oppression than Canada ever did.”
As an added punchline to that declaration, let’s quote the first man to use “the Final Solution” in a genocidal context on April 12, 1910, White-Canadian Indian Affairs Superintendent Duncan Campbell Scott (D.C. Scott):
“It is readily acknowledged that Indian children lose their natural resistance to illness by habitating so closely in these schools, and that they die at a much higher rate than in their villages. But this alone does not justify a change in the policy of this Department, which is geared towards the final solution of our Indian Problem.”
(Department of Indian Affairs Superintendent D.C. Scott to B.C.
Indian Agent-General Major D. McKay, DIA Archives, RG 10 series). (Genocide page 6)
The National Post calls for indoctrinating the Youth and Loyalty oaths upon entry
In fairness to Frank Stronach, he has been calling for the indoctrination of the youth for over a year, well before the October 7, 2023, Al-Aqsa Flood operation launched by Hamas and the Palestinian resistance factions. However, his work was cited recently as an example of what needs to be done by Michael Higgins, in response to the ‘deplorable’ love for the Palestinian Resistance that many immigrants unfortunately shared.
According to Stronach, children are supposed to now learn about the trades. Higher education, where critical, independent thinking is necessary, has become a problem. Better they learn the basics to a high paying job during high school, go to trades, and not think further. And there, of course, should be no questioning the virtues of “free enterprise” and Canada’s “democracy”, no matter how strenuous those trades related jobs become, or where your place happens to be in the racial caste. It will be much easier when the indoctrinated youth get company shares and begin to build small businesses of their own. This is pure fantasy in a world where housing and healthy food is becoming a luxury.
The Reality
“Our Colleagues from the USA have literally, before our eyes, issued a death sentence to thousands, if not tens of thousands more civilians in Palestine and Israel including women and children and also UN staff that’s trying to help them. History will judge Washington’s actions. One can speak cynically with the nice, empty words about democracy, human rights, women, peace and security, rules, order, as much as you like. However, the real value of those [are what] we have just witnessed, when two members of the security council preferred to remain complicit to the merciless Israeli Bloodbath.
NATO is done with the democratic charade, and has decided to pull out the Nazi toolkit from their friends in German Intelligence (11:51-19:10). If the National Post is any indication, then the first step will be to use old, established propaganda tricks to convince the university students on temporary student visas that their compatriots side by side with them in the protests are actually against them, and support them being deported for their support of the Palestinian resistance. This will create a further chilling effect of trying to silence the international, temporary Visa students and even trying to discourage permanent residents or Canadian Citizens from actively standing side by side with the International Students.
Indoctrination will also start early (as seen in Ontario around the ‘Holodomor’ myth, thanks to both the Liberal and PC governments of the last decade) to seek ideological support for the failing capitalist system. The social conditions that will naturally deteriorate in Canada, as the rest of the globe wrests off neo-colonialism, do not factor into elite capitalist thinking. They simply want obedience, and do not want any ‘communist’ or ‘insurrectionary’ adventures.
Frank Stronach is shameless and speaks on his own behalf. However, the careerists Terry Glavin, Tristin Hopper, Michael Higgins, and Tasha Kheiriddin are speaking as representatives of a privileged section of the Canadian racial caste. Their call for ‘unity’ is a myth. They are simply comfortable where they are, and do not want the ‘inconvenient truths’ of NATO’s foreign policy to come home to roost. The ‘unity’ they actually seek is one where the imported colonial diaspora factions are dominant while anti-colonial diaspora factions do not fight back, and stay silent.
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Marthad Shingiro Umucyaba (formerly referred to as Christian Shingiro) is a Rwandan-born naturalized Canadian expat. He is known for his participation in Communist/anti-imperialist national and international politics and is the radio show host of The Socially Radical Guitarist.
He is also a freelance web developer in Hong Kong, China, striving to provide “Socially Radical Web Design at a socially reasonable price”.
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