Skip to main content
Regional secretary with the National Education Union
The real face of Justin Trudeau: are Palestinians Canada’s new Jews?
Trudeau's 'human face of neoliberalism' is far more neoliberal than human, writes RAMZY BAROUD

HOW DOES one explain Canada’s contradictory foreign policy regarding Palestine and Israel?

On December 4, Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) secretary general  Saeb Erekat praised Canada’s commitment not to follow the footsteps of the US Donald Trump Administration by transferring its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

But there is little worth praising here. Respecting the internationally recognised status of Jerusalem is legally binding commitment to international law. The fact that the US chose to violate the law hardly makes the opposite act heroic in itself.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
More from this author
Israeli army vehicles moves in the Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel on July 6, 2025
Features / 8 July 2025
8 July 2025

RAMZY BAROUD highlights a new report by special rapporteur Francesca Albanese that unflinchingly names and shames the companies that have enabled Israel’s bloody massacre in Gaza

An Israeli Defense Forces tank is towed near the Israel-Gaza border, southern Israel, June 26, 2025
Features / 1 July 2025
1 July 2025

Israel’s genocide in Palestine and wars against its neighbours would be impossible without constant Western support — so we must amplify the brave voices demanding a halt, argues DR RAMZY BAROUD

Masked fans form a ‘Free Palestine’ sign during a Champions League match at Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund, October 1, 2024
Football / 11 June 2025
11 June 2025

Fifa must be held to account over its continued support for Israel, writes RAMZY BAROUD

Israeli troops move with APC, armored personnel carrier, near the border with Gaza, in southern Israel, May 8, 2025
Features / 15 May 2025
15 May 2025

RAMZY BAROUD on how Israel’s narrative collides with military failure

Similar stories
Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with media outsi
World / 6 January 2025
6 January 2025
EXPULSION: The expulsion of Palestinian women and children f
Features / 7 November 2024
7 November 2024
From Israel’s creation in 1948 to today, views on the nature of the Jewish state have passed through several stages – but what remains constant is the projection of imperial power in the region, which is the barrier to peace and Palestinian self-determination, writes NICK WRIGHT
Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Ottawa
Features / 18 October 2024
18 October 2024
CJ ATKINS exposes how over half the names on Ottawa’s disgraceful so-called Memorial to the Victims of Communism are Nazis, collaborators or linked fascist groups, the latest in a series of Nazi scandals for Trudeau
OPPRESSION: Palestine’s
apartheid wall in the West Bank
Features / 28 August 2024
28 August 2024
Israel has had a long and troubled history with the United Nations and other UN-linked institutions, writes RAMZY BAROUD