Statement by Liberal MP Joyce Murray Criticizing Israel Apartheid Week

For Immediate Release March 6, 2012 “As a former citizen of South Africa, I lived the harms and injuries caused to all the peoples of South Africa by the policies of Apartheid. Singling out the State of Israel through Israeli …

Statement by Liberal MP Joyce Murray regarding Israeli Apartheid Week

“This week on campuses across Canada and at the University of British Columbia in my own riding, Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is taking place.

Israel, like any other state, is responsible for any violations of human rights and humanitarian law.  Dissent and opposition to individual actions of the Israeli government are both legitimate and permitted both in Canada and in Israel; just as political dissent is permitted and encouraged with respect to any democratic nation.

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Madam Speaker, I agree. I call on the members opposite to make that apology.

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Madam Speaker, much of what we have heard from the other side of the House is not true. Much of it is hypocritical, and that is the exact point I have been making.

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Madam Speaker, I am sad and disappointed to be rising to speak to this issue. This regrettable set of ten percenters and this breach of privilege through misleading, false, pernicious, defamatory information targeting a religious community is so damaging in so many ways.