A few dozen demonstrators gathered Saturday in front of the Montreal residence of Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, calling for “an end to Canada’s military and diplomatic support for the Israeli genocide.”
“Israel has now killed at least 23,469 Palestinians in Gaza since October 7, in its campaign of targeted violence. We are here to hold Joly personally accountable. She is the spokesperson for Canada. Without the support of Canada, the United States and Europe, Israel could not carry out this genocide,” argued one of the group’s spokespersons, Felix Chau Bradley, in a press release.
During the demonstration held on the Plateau-Mont-Royal, poems were read and music was played as a symbol of “Palestinian resistance against the Israeli death machine, supported by Canada”, according to what ‘says the group.
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Another protester, Chau Bradley, argued that Mme Joly “spoke on international law and Israel’s right to defend itself from terrorism while Canadian technologies help massacre children by the thousand and level homes. “We want [la ministre] understands that she supports these deaths. »
“Canada is a violent colonial state and it protects a violent colonial state. The lukewarm support for an ineffective resolution for a UN ceasefire is just hypocrisy,” argued El-Bechelany Lynch.
Several officers from the Montreal City Police Service (SPVM) were deployed on site, as a security measure, as the The Press. “There was no excess, no arrests. It was a peaceful demonstration,” said agent Véronique Dubuc, spokesperson for the police force, on Saturday.