Terry Glavin
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Unfortunately, and I have to confess as a lifelong journalist, the media was not at all helpful in Failing to recognize that this phenomenon that was being presented on the nightly news and on the front pages of the paper as an anti-war movement, they were actually on the other side. They weren't against war. They were on the other side.
And at the core of it, at the very, very core of it, whatever you happen to think about Afghanistan or Iraq, at the core of it was anti-Zionism, this thing called anti-Zionism. And that had sort of percolated from the 1970s. A lot of it was informed by Soviet propaganda, but from the United Nations, you know, the Durban Conference, the proposition that Zionism is racism.
And at the core of it, at the very, very core of it, whatever you happen to think about Afghanistan or Iraq, at the core of it was anti-Zionism, this thing called anti-Zionism. And that had sort of percolated from the 1970s. A lot of it was informed by Soviet propaganda, but from the United Nations, you know, the Durban Conference, the proposition that Zionism is racism.
And at the core of it, at the very, very core of it, whatever you happen to think about Afghanistan or Iraq, at the core of it was anti-Zionism, this thing called anti-Zionism. And that had sort of percolated from the 1970s. A lot of it was informed by Soviet propaganda, but from the United Nations, you know, the Durban Conference, the proposition that Zionism is racism.
Now in Canada, the way Irwin Kotler put it to me, I think very well, who, he's kind of my lodestar, I confess. Tell everybody who he is. Well, he's a former Canadian justice minister. He founded the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights, and I'm a senior fellow with the Raoul Wallenberg Center.
Now in Canada, the way Irwin Kotler put it to me, I think very well, who, he's kind of my lodestar, I confess. Tell everybody who he is. Well, he's a former Canadian justice minister. He founded the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights, and I'm a senior fellow with the Raoul Wallenberg Center.
Now in Canada, the way Irwin Kotler put it to me, I think very well, who, he's kind of my lodestar, I confess. Tell everybody who he is. Well, he's a former Canadian justice minister. He founded the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights, and I'm a senior fellow with the Raoul Wallenberg Center.
And he's beloved of persecuted Democrats the world round, whether it's Hong Kong or Belarus or just about anywhere, Russia. Anyway, the way he put it to me was that in Canada, particularly, Canadians, the United Nations is kind of in our DNA. Right. You know, the way we understand our role in the world, our place in the world. I mean, we were there at the Foundation of Israel.
And he's beloved of persecuted Democrats the world round, whether it's Hong Kong or Belarus or just about anywhere, Russia. Anyway, the way he put it to me was that in Canada, particularly, Canadians, the United Nations is kind of in our DNA. Right. You know, the way we understand our role in the world, our place in the world. I mean, we were there at the Foundation of Israel.
And he's beloved of persecuted Democrats the world round, whether it's Hong Kong or Belarus or just about anywhere, Russia. Anyway, the way he put it to me was that in Canada, particularly, Canadians, the United Nations is kind of in our DNA. Right. You know, the way we understand our role in the world, our place in the world. I mean, we were there at the Foundation of Israel.
We were there in the crafting of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights. We were there in all of the protocols and conventions that arose from the ashes of the Shoah. This was a very Canadian thing and something to be proud of. But what we haven't really noticed over the years is the way the United Nations has been taken over by the Organization of the Islamic Congress.
We were there in the crafting of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights. We were there in all of the protocols and conventions that arose from the ashes of the Shoah. This was a very Canadian thing and something to be proud of. But what we haven't really noticed over the years is the way the United Nations has been taken over by the Organization of the Islamic Congress.
We were there in the crafting of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights. We were there in all of the protocols and conventions that arose from the ashes of the Shoah. This was a very Canadian thing and something to be proud of. But what we haven't really noticed over the years is the way the United Nations has been taken over by the Organization of the Islamic Congress.
It's been taken over by the police state bloc. The last time I looked, I think Beijing was basically in control of seven of the 11 major United Nations agencies. And then you get the United Nations Relief Works Agency, which is this strange agency.
It's been taken over by the police state bloc. The last time I looked, I think Beijing was basically in control of seven of the 11 major United Nations agencies. And then you get the United Nations Relief Works Agency, which is this strange agency.
It's been taken over by the police state bloc. The last time I looked, I think Beijing was basically in control of seven of the 11 major United Nations agencies. And then you get the United Nations Relief Works Agency, which is this strange agency.
strange organization that keeps alive the prospect that Israel is just a temporary aberration and that somehow the massively growing Palestinian refugee population, it's not really a refugee population, will somehow be sorted by the restoration of a Palestinian or an Arab sovereignty. in all the places where Israel currently exists.
strange organization that keeps alive the prospect that Israel is just a temporary aberration and that somehow the massively growing Palestinian refugee population, it's not really a refugee population, will somehow be sorted by the restoration of a Palestinian or an Arab sovereignty. in all the places where Israel currently exists.
strange organization that keeps alive the prospect that Israel is just a temporary aberration and that somehow the massively growing Palestinian refugee population, it's not really a refugee population, will somehow be sorted by the restoration of a Palestinian or an Arab sovereignty. in all the places where Israel currently exists.
So it's really hard for Canadians to sort of think, hmm, maybe the United Nations, maybe these, are we the baddies, you know?