The far left is exposing its moral inconsistencies

Whatever your politics, the time has come to start calling out this B.S.

Not to date myself, but the woke movement may have just Jumped the Shark.

How else can one judge the moment in time when a school administrator asked Veterans and active-duty members of the military to not wear their uniforms on the one(!) day our nation has set aside to honour those we’ve lost in battle? I give the kids at Columbia University credit, however, for drawing our collective attention last Fall to the moral bankruptcy that too many within the overlapping Far Left and woke movements have come to represent.

I’ve posted the first half of this week’s Toronto Star column below. If you want to see how it ends, buy a print copy, use your Apple News, or subscribe to The Star online via my special discount code: www.thestar.com/informed:

I get the strong sense that Donald Trump’s political rebirth has prompted panic within the overlapping “woke” and Far Left movements. Dubious? Just look at the cacophony of “wokesplosions” over the past three weeks:

We had the Ottawa high school Principal who chose a “Palestinian Resistance” song to commemorate Remembrance Day, only to be outflanked by the Halifax elementary administrator that asked Veterans to avoid wearing their uniforms to ensure that “students at the school who come from conflict zones” would be “comfortable.”

Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish topped them both by offering that “your terrorist and somebody else’s terrorist may be two different things” when she declined to block her city hall grounds from being used to honour Yahya Sinwar, the late Hamas murderer.

97 Israeli hostages are still held by Hamas, but that didn’t give Regina’s city hall staff cause for pause when permission was sought to raise the Palestinian flag to commemorate the date on which the Palestine Liberation Organization declared independence in 1988.

Time will tell if October 7, 2023 will one day be remembered as this generation’s “Day of Infamy,” as the attack on Pearl Harbour was to my grandparents and September 11^th is to me.

The ostensibly “pro-Palestinian” protests that followed Hamas’ unprovoked attack on innocent Israeli citizens – and the entirely predictable war that followed – have served to flagrantly expose the Far Left’s moral inconsistency.

A year ago, I asked those who were marching against both Israel and “Zionism” to help we “non-aligned Canadians” understand why they were stopping to protest outside Jewish-owned businesses or Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital? I wondered aloud why Israel was being held to a different standard than, say, Saudi Arabia vis-a-vis its military intervention in Yemen?

Why weren’t these caring global citizens demanding that CPPIB divest from China, given the arbitrary detention on more than one million Muslim Uyghurs, concurrent with the UofT Grad Students’ Union’s formal request that their school’s endowment exit all Israeli investments? Why was there no “cease-fire” vigil in front of Vancouver’s Honorary Consulate of Syria, as more than 20,000 children were dying at the hands of the Syrian regime and Iranian militias?

Fair-minded Canadians may certainly wish these were all just a series of unfortunate coincidences, and some will accuse me of “whataboutism.”

It reeks of a double standard to me.

To read the rest of the piece, hit the link.

MRM

(this post is an Opinion Piece)