Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday denounced Prime Minister Mark Carney about his reaction to protesters’ comments against Gaza.
Kearney took the stage at a rally in Calgary Tuesday evening when protesters cried out, “Genocide is happening in Palestine!”
As the crowd jealously replied, the liberal leader replied: “I know, so we have an arms embargo.”
On Wednesday, Mr. Carney said he hadn’t heard clearly what the protesters said. On Thursday, he said he would leave it to the international court to determine whether what is happening in Gaza is equivalent to genocide, adding that he would never politicize the word.
The Israeli Prime Minister called on Mr Carney to withdraw what he called an irresponsible statement.
“Canada has always been ally of civilization, and so has Mr. Carney,” Netanyahu wrote in a post on social media platform X on Thursday.
“Instead of supporting Israel, a democracy that is fighting a fair war by means of the wild bars of Hamas, he will attack the only Jewish state.”
Prime Minister Netanyahu:
Canada has always been on its side. So did Mr. Carney. But instead of supporting Israel, democracy fighting a fair war with Hamas’s wild bars and standards attacks only Jewish state.
Mr. Carney, backtrack your irresponsible statement!– April 10, 2025, Israeli Prime Minister (@israelipm)
Palestinian protesters have disrupted all of Carney’s public events this week as they campaign in the April 28 federal election.
Israeli tally revealed that Israeli war in Gaza began in October 2023 when it killed 1,200 people and took over 250 hostages in southern Israel.
Since then, Israel’s military campaign has killed more than 50,800 Palestinians, reducing the majority of Gaza to abolished, according to the territorial health ministry.
In January 2024, Ottawa halted approval of a new permit for exporting military goods to Israel. Critics pointed out that existing arms licenses still allow the shipment of defence products.
However, in September, Foreign Minister Melanie Jolly announced that Ottawa had suspended 30 permits issued before January to ship military goods to Israel.
