Seems less about the IDF and Israel and more about general principles:

The poll found that 47 per cent of Canadians said they agree with making it illegal for citizens to fight for the military of any foreign government.

ISIP the Israeli state of Israel and Palestine now ISLIP the Israeli state of Lebanon Israel and Palestine. Featuring real ISIS members. How the fuck are you allowed to join the IDF that employs terrorists and is terrorizing people?

Too few to be honest. That said 19% didn't know so that's not 46% endorsement of the opposite.

Only 54%!!! what's wrong with people

We should imprison anyone who did serve with the IDF

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But I have little faith that'll happen.

It’s currently legal for Canadians to join the Israeli military, as the Foreign Enlistment Act only prohibits citizens from fighting for non-state forces, designated terrorist organizations and militaries of states at war with an ally.

That’s interesting. I have several citizenships - sadly not Canada - and the laws of all of them basically say you can’t serve in another country’s military or you lose your citizenship. The only sorts of exceptions I’m aware of are along the lines of, if NATO is attacked you can serve in another NATO member’s army in a defensive war, sort of thing.

I suspect this is one of those cases where something that looks like a simple solution to a moral dilemma actually opens up a big can of worms. I believe the current way of thinking is that we don't have any say over who another country allows to serve in their military. So a citizen who is eligible to join a foreign military just has to jump through the expected bureacratic hoops at the Canadian end for a long stay abroad.

We'd either have to bar all foreign military service by Canadians (which will cause some dual citizens to lose their foreign citizenship through no fault of their own), or somehow put Israel in a special category, which I don't see happening.

It might be possible to have people who have served in the IDF arrested and tried for war crimes upon return to Canada, but it would require some work to make the charges stick.