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More guests at Parliament Palestinian 'solidarity' event linked to antisemitic, pro-terrorist views
Jewish organizations looking into the Canada-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship Group event call it 'disturbing'
Yet another guest at a Palestinian “solidarity” event held on Parliament Hill allegedly made controversial comments online about the Holocaust and publicly praised a Palestinian terrorist group leader.
On Wednesday, B’nai Brith revealed that Montreal’s Mahmoud Khalil was also in attendance at a reception held November 29 to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. The event was hosted by Toronto-area Liberal MP Salma Zahid, chair of the Canada-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship Group.
This follows
revelations that the event also include a publisher of newspaper known for Holocaust denial and another figure known for praising terrorist attacks against Israelis. The event was attended by Liberal cabinet minister Omar Alghabra and Green Party leader Elizabeth May, as well as NDP, Bloc and Conservative MPs.
Khalil, B’nai Brith alleges, has a history of antisemitic social media posts, including one Instagram post mocking Marvel superhero Sabra, whose fictional biography revealed her to be an Israeli woman born in a kibbutz near Jerusalem and worked as both a police officer and Mossad agent.
“Let’s have a German superhero named Auschwitz, how bout that?” Khalil allegedly wrote on an undated Instagram story provided by B’nai Brith.
The story, featuring an image of Sabra gracing the cover of “The Incredible Hulk” issue no. 256, also included claims Marvel named her after the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the 1982 killing of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians in a refugee camp in Beirut. However, Sabra is
a long-standing term for Jews born in British Mandate Palestine or Israel. It is derived from the Hebrew word for prickly pears found on cactuses, known as thorny on the outside but sweet and soft on the inside.
Khalil also posted videos of himself, overlaid with dramatic music, giving a speech at a “Glory To Our Martyrs” rally in Montreal, as well as reciting a poem commemorating the late Ghassan Kanafani, a spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP.)
The PFLP, listed as a terrorist organization by the Canadian government, was responsible for the
May 1972 Lod Airport massacre in Tel Aviv that killed 26 people and injured 80, including a Canadian citizen.
This news comes just days after the Twitter account Documenting Antisemitism alleged Nabil Nassar, the head of the Fatah Movement in Canada, had also attended the reception on Parliament Hill. Nassar has also
publicly praised terrorist actions that have killed Israelis.
In a statement last week to National Post, Zahid said invitations to the reception were “circulated widely” and it was attended by nearly 150 people, and said her staff didn’t “research the history of every attendee that responded.”
While MPs from all parties attended the reception, a group photo consisting of a number of parliamentarians — including organizer Zahid, Alghabra and May — posed for a group photo wearing scarves emblazoned with the Palestinian flag. May, the Green Party leader,
said at the event, “I take my marching orders from the permanent representative of Palestine to Canada.”
Also in attendance was Meshwar Media owner Nazih Khatatba, who publishes a newspaper where articles have alleged that the Holocaust was a Jewish plot and referred to it as the “Holohoax.” The newspaper has also published articles praising terrorist attacks against Jews,
including last month’s bombing in Jerusalem that killed 16-year-old Canadian-Israeli Aryeh Schupak.
An article posted to Meshwar Media’s website shortly after the reception bore the headline “Representatives in the Canadian Parliament stand in solidarity with Palestine and call on the Government of Canada to support the Palestinian people.”
“The more we look into this gathering, the more disturbing it gets,” said B’nai Brith Canada CEO Michael Mostyn in a statement.
“What is it about the Canada-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship Group that attracts these types of individuals? This controversy cannot be allowed to be swept under the rug.”
More guests at Ottawa Palestinian event linked to antisemitism | Windsor Star
