What Do Canadians Think About the M/E Conflict?
survey results from a survey by Ledger polling and a survey by the association for canadian studies
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I’ll make this one quick, because it’s not rocket science. Canadians aren’t that bright when it comes to understanding the origin of Israel and the conflict in the Middle East. It won’t take me that long to show you the evidence of a problem about which many of us already knew.
We have two new polls on Canadians and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Ledger survey on opinions of Canadians
ACS survey on level of knowledge of Canadians
Fun fact: Canada played a big role in the partition of the region governed by the British mandate for Palestine. Ivan Rand led an 11 man international team to create a blueprint for the partition which saw the birth of Israel and creation of a Palestinian territory.
If you try and do a Google search on that story you’ll come across all manner of brain rot that says horsesh1t about Canada contributing to the “colonisation of Palestine,” a boldfaced lie. That’s evidence of the problem we face — those with the power and social status to make their voice known lie about Israel and Palestinianism, they have shaped the narrative they promote to fit their personal views, views coloured by their deep seated antisemitism.
Highlights
We think we have a slightly better understanding than we did a year and a half ago.
However it seems we don’t know what we don’t know! We have a poor understanding of the origin of and issues involving the conflict Israel experiences with Palestinians.
We don’t understand what the fcuk is the point of the pro Palestinians protests. 40% of Conservative respondents think they’re aimed at delegitimising Israel and intimidating Canada’s Jewish population.
We think Canada’s foreign affairs position makes fcuk all difference in the grand scheme of things.
We think Jews and Muslims face more bigotry and that they can still live safely in Canada.
We wrongly think that Canada welcomed Jewish refugees after WW2.
We don’t know that Jews and Muslims didn’t live peacefully before the birth of the state of Israel.
We didn’t know that Canada supported the birth of the state of Israel.
We don’t know whether Israel occupied Judea Samaria aka West Bank in the period 1948-1967, and a 2:1 ratio of Canadians wrongly thinks Israel did.
We don’t know whether Canada supported the 1975 UN resolution that said Zionism is racism, and a 2:1 ratio wrongly think Canada did.
We think Canada cares too much about this conflict. “Canada supports the Palestinian position too much” has a sharper upward trend.
We lukewarm agree with recognition of Palestinian statehood — half of respondents somewhat agree + somewhat oppose the decision. One quarter didn’t know.
Half of respondents had no idea whether Palestinians had opportunities to create their own state.
I have questions, after examining these surveys. What the fcuk do we pay the fcuking media for in this country? What the fcuk do we pay educators for in this country? Surely it’s not unreasonable to expect that they accurately inform and educate Canadians on this issue?
We outright pay for the bloated mass of rotting garbage called the CBC, which has taken a wokifada position on the October 7th massacre of Israelis by Palestinians and the war that followed. We subsidise other corporate mainstream media, which has routinely lied to Canadians, promoting Hamas narratives, blood libelling Israel and vilifying Jewry, downplaying the October 7th atrocities, and ignored the hostage survivors and families.
We have a heavily funded public education system and we have heavily publicly funded universities across Canada. What are these useless fecal institutions doing, exactly? Yes, pedagogy in Canada has become fecal, and we need to flush that sh1t down the toilet and begin again from a clean pedagogical slate.
Canadians need information and education and not propaganda and indoctrination. We need facts and not demented opinion from the ruling wokifada class of bourgeoisie.
It’s clear the wokifada has colonised our media and also had captured our education system.
“…those who have strong opinions on it generally also lack accurate knowledge about the history…the broader issue in all this is the effort to shape the narrative and offer a version of history in support of one’s take on the current situation.” — Jack Jedwab
Holy crap! You are on a roll with this piece. Sadly - as a Jewish Canadian - I would have to say I agree. The history that has been shared was woefully one sided on all counts. True confession, I grew up with only Israel's side of the story. I knew nothing about the Palestinian experience until the last two years. I made an effort to seek out to try and understand their experience. And to be fair, finding history that is not shared in a blatantly biased way is challenging. I now better understand the ME, which also includes an understanding as to why peace is so elusive. Many want to identify the good guy and the bad guy in these situations. Sadly, like in most human experiences, there is a little of both on all sides. More important than the history is promoting the capacity for critical thinking and a fulsome understanding of the importance of nuance in almost every situation.