May 10, 2008

CTV News - Israel ambassador's comments 'unjustified': critics

"Israeli Ambassador to Canada Alan Baker on Thursday defended comments he made to a national newspaper regarding Canada's Muslim population.

Alan Baker told The Globe and Mail he is concerned Canada's burgeoning Muslim population is shifting this country's policies in the Middle East. The Globe interview appears on the same day Israel celebrates its 60th year of independence.

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Enough is enough.  Once again Israel Ambassador Alan Baker is telling Canadians how to run our country.  Baker should be asked to leave Canada!  Who cares what Israel thinks about our immigration  policy?   Israel is in no position to give Canada any advise on any subject.  Israel is an expansionist apartheid state that is engaged in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.  Israel 's values are not Canada's values. Baker should be sent home immediately.

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Not only are Mr. Baker's racist comments completely out of line (no foreign ambassador has the right to comment on Canada's immigration policies), but he simply is unwilling to face the fact that many of those who criticize him during his speeches are non-Muslim Canadians, includig many Jews, who simply know racism, massive injustice, war crimes and infringement of international human rights and humanitarian laws when they see them, and are unwilling to collude through silence. Israel's brutal
policies are facing more and more opposition world-wide, and Mr. Baker and others simply want to deny this and find scapegoats to blame.

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Dear Editor:

We categorically reject the bigotry expressed by Mr. Alan Baker, Israel's ambassador to Canada. ( Israeli envoy fears policy shift. ) Fortunately, there is an enormous gulf between Mr. Baker's comments and prevailing Canadian values.

Imagine the outcry there would be in this country if an ambassador from another country were to tell Canadians they should beware of voting for Jewish politicians and expressing concern about the number of Jews who are being allowed immigrate. There should be a similar expression of outrage in this case, when Muslims and Arabs are the target.

Mr. Baker's effort to tell Canadians who we should vote for and who we should welcome as immigrants is entirely outside his mandate as the ambassador of a foreign country. The Prime Minister as well as the leaders of Canada's other political parties should spell this out to him in no uncertain terms.

Sid Shniad
Member of the National Steering Committee
Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians
Surrey, BC

 

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