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Data Indicates More Canadian Jews In IDF Than Canada’s Army (www.readthemaple.com)
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A comparison of active members found more than double may have been in the IDF.

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[+] -10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This article is just antisemitic fear mongering.

It's not framed as "Israeli Canadian dual nationals are participating in the idf and need to be investigated for war crimes" which would be accurate. We have laws directly applicable to this situation and they should be used. Participating in genocide as a Canadian should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

It's framed as "Jews have allegiance to the Jewish nation which compromises, and is stronger than their allegiance to Canada". This is just basic anti-Semitism.

This trash should be downvoted to the bottom of the all feed like any other form of bigotry.

I'm disappointed because the Maple has a lot of good articles against the genocide.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    It's framed as "Jews have allegiance to the Jewish nation which compromises, and is stronger than their allegiance to Canada". This is just basic anti-Semitism.

    That's not the framing. It just highlighted the 3 to 1 disparity and came to the conclusion that mainstream Jewish institutions effectively indoctrinate these Jews into joining the Israeli military.

    “The vast majority of Canadian Jews do not join the Israeli military. However, mainstream Jewish institutions in the country — synagogues, schools, camps, etc. — generally valorize the Israeli military, pass this framing of it on to youth and offer opportunities for them to immigrate to Israel, which almost always entails becoming a soldier. Those who join the military are not on the fringes of their community, but rather have taken the direction by mainstream institutions to serve Israel to its furthest extent.”

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Jewish Zionist institutions effectively indoctrinate these Jews into joining the Israeli military.

    This is exactly what I'm talking about. We all know that most Zionists are Jews, but it's not Judaism we're objecting to it's Zionism.

    It's not the fact these institutions are Jewish that's making them indoctrinate Jews into joining the Israeli military, it's the fact these Jewish institutions are ZIONIST.

    That's the whole problem.

    Muddying the waters on this point does exactly two things: it signals anti-Semites that it's safe for them to be here, and it makes it easy for Zionists to point and say "see, it's Jews they hate"

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 day ago*

    We all know that most Zionists are Jews, but it's not Judaism we're objecting to it's Zionism.

    It's a fair distinction, but it doesn't really apply here. From your first post you were talking about war crimes IOF commited, but this article is not about that.

    The point of the article is to compare Jewish Canadians military participation specifically and reveal the cause for why there is a big disaparity between them serving in Canadian armed forces vs Israeli. It's not painting all Jews with the same brush.

    If the article was about Chinese Canadians or Japanese Canadians or Arab Canadians or any other ethnic minority it wouldn't be because of hatred of those ethnic groups...

    And I agree with you that most Jewish institutions are Zionist. While Zionism is not a reflection of Judaism, these Jewish institutions exclusively target Jews. While you could call them Zionist it's not unfair to call them Jewish.

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