Hymie Rubenstein

Will Denying Indigenous Genocide Soon Be Punished as Hate Speech?

On October 27, 2022, Leah Gazan, a New Democrat member of Canada’s federal parliament and the half-Indigenous daughter of a Holocaust survivor, succeeded in getting the following motion unanimously passed by the House of Commons without debate and without presenting any evidence to back it up:

“That, in the opinion of the House that the government must recognize what happened in Canada's Indian residential schools as genocide, as acknowledged by Pope Francis and in accordance with article II of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.”

Challenging the Claim that Canada is a Genocidal Nation

Over two and a half years have passed since the May 27, 2021 media release from a British Columbia Indian Reserve heard around the world announcing “ … the confirmation of the remains of 215 children who were students of the Kamloops Indian Residential School” that were secretly buried in a mass grave, some or all the alleged victims of a brutal act of genocide at this and other boarding schools across the land.

Dissecting Canada’s Indigenous Genocide and Mass Grave Libels

The claim that thousands of Indigenous children who attended Canada’s Indian Residential Schools between 1883 and 1996 are buried in “mass graves” across Canada, reputed victims of genocide, is being exposed as a hoax, albeit at a snail’s pace.

Such exposure is hardly unexpected given the claim’s lack of supporting historical or physical evidence.

Though the still widely held missing children and genocide claims have been bandied about for decades, their widespread promotion began on May 27, 2021, with a media release from a British Columbia Indian Reserve heard around the world:

Debunking Campus Falsehoods about Israel and the Palestinians

On Saturday, October 7, Gaza Strip terrorists conducted unspeakable horrors, blatant war crimes, and crimes against humanity against Israeli civilians.

The cold-blooded murder of over 1,400 Israelis, the wounding of some 3,000 non-combatants, the rape and torture of women, the desecration and parading of dead bodies, the beheading of infants, the violent hostage-taking of elderly people, women and children alike, and the horrific massacre of at least 260 young people at a music festival, much of it intentionally filmed by the perpetrators, cannot go unavenged.