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Dear Friends, Ref: First Nation trip to Israel (see press release below)
The Canadian Jewish Congress has organized a trip to Israel with leading members of Canada’s First Nation people.
Phil Fontaine, National Chief, Assembly of First Nations stated, “Indigenous people in Canada have much in common with the people of Israel, including a respect of the land…” Perhaps Mr. Fontaine and other native leaders are unaware of Israel’s well documented practices of polluting or stealing water from stolen Palestinian land, uprooting, destroying and stealing olive trees, destroying farmland and olive grows in the process of building Israel’s illegal wall on stolen Palestinian land and poisoning Bedouin land in Israel’s Negev. It should be additionally noted that unlike Canada, Israel’s native people (Arabs) do not share the same rights as the country’s Jewish majority. It is astounding and so sad to witness Canada’s own native people accepting to visit Israel, a country …