Written by: Marthad Umucyaba

A billionaire-funded pro-Israel think-tank’s young sellouts program is being used by the Canadian MSM to spread Zionist propaganda. The first ‘success’ of Honest Reporting Canada’s program, is an op-ed from student Zara Nybo in The National Post, which rails about the “blatant antisemitism” rising on post-secondary campuses.

The pro-colonial bribery program

Honest Reporting Canada (HRC) is a pro-Israel think tank founded in Canada in 2003. HRC’s main focus is trying to create, in Executive Director Mike Fegelman’s own words, “...a digital army for Israel”. Unsurprisingly, it's financed by the pro-Israeli and Pro-Colonial ruling class of Canada, including the billion dollar Azrieli Foundation. The Azrieli Foundation is run by billionaires Sharon and Naomi Azrieli.

“Canadian Campus Media Fellows”, launched by Honest Reporting Canada in the face of newfound pro-Palestine activism on campuses, bribes young university students into filing complaints against any student or campus publication honestly documenting the Israeli genocide against Palestine. They’ll also be giving negative reviews of those publications, and writing “rebuttal” articles. The propaganda mercenaries will be compensated $1000 CAD upon completion of their ‘fellowship’.

Students who have sold their soul and participated in this program are also being highlighted and centred to be the future voices of the “mainstream” pro-colonial press of the future. Their names were highlighted as recipients of the ill-gotten bounty, just as they were for the 2022-23 edition of this fellowship, and will be the faces of the pro-colonial press throughout Canada in the future. Zara Nybo, after her piece of work on The National Post, for example, can already add a contribution to The National Post on her resume.

Being a “Jew who supports Israel”

Selina Robertson, despite her shameless racism, is highlighted as a protagonist in Nybo’s National Post article. Robinson blurted out the common white supremacist trope used to justify colonialism, ethnic cleansing and genocide, claiming that Israel “before the Jews came” was a “crappy piece of land with nothing on it”. Naturally, unable to cover for her racism, the British Columbia NDP was forced to remove her from her Education Minister position unceremoniously, thus prompting her to resign from the party with a “broken heart”.

This event in the article was spun as an indication of a more “dangerous and toxic” environment for “Jews who support Israel”. The Jews who actually oppose Zionism as an ideology or oppose the existence of the state of Israel notwithstanding, pro-colonial Jews have to be seen as a “protected class” according to media mercenary, Zara Nybo.

Meanwhile, other pro-colonial elements of the West act as military mercenaries for the Israeli killing spree on Palestinians in Gaza. Canada is under investigation by Hameed Law - with the Legal Centre for Palestine (LCP)’s assistance - for allowing mercenaries to join the IDF, and for sending JTF-2 to Gaza. But this is far from the full extent of the reactionary character, or the full extent of the fascistic nature of military mercenaries who fight in this murderous campaign. These mercenaries come from all walks of far-right criminality, including Nazism, Iranian monarchism, African Colonialism, and Ukrainian ultra-nationalism.

The “Jews who support Israel”, that media mercenary Zara Nybo is paid to defend, are in fact Jewish white supremacists and Nazis.

“We consider the Zionists different from the Jews. Zionists have no religion.”

- Ayatollah Khomenei, founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran

In the context of a pro-Palestinian majority of the planet, existing against the wishes of NATO in unleashing the Gaza and West Bank ethnic cleansing plan under the cover of “Israeli self-defence”, NATO has suffered such a tremendous defeat in the media that the US was forced to abstain on, instead of veto, a ceasefire resolution at the UN.

Even Israel has temporarily delayed the Final Solution against Rafah (5:57 - 6:17), and has delayed an assault on Lebanon, although Israeli war crimes and atrocities are frequent and persistent (8:44-9:15). NATO is trying to reclaim the narrative that they have lost, and mass repression in the universities will be a key focal point attempting to realise its criminal objectives in the Middle East. Creating a perception of support for repression with collaborators has become the new play.

The fraud of “Anti-Hate” speech law in a highly racist Canada

It should be no coincidence to anyone that the new “Online Harms” laws were enacted by Justin Trudeau after the release of news concerning a lawsuit against the Canadian government for arming Israel. The elite, politicians, and pundits advocating for the ruling class of Canada are now preparing to use the full power of the state to protect their fundamental interests, including colonialism and its justification.

When repression by a state is amplified, the recruitment of collaborators is also amplified, so that there is a voice in the target of oppression supporting the actions of the reactionary state. The “Canadian Campus Media Fellows” program, and The National Post’s spreading of a paid Zionist collaborator’s op-ed, are just a snippet of things to come on Canadian campuses.

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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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