Richard Falk served as the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. The idea that a 95-year-old scholar, "one of the world's most respected experts on humanitarian law," constitutes a threat to Canada's national security is absurd on its face. But Falk's real "offense" is clear enough: He has spent much of his career holding Israel to account under international law.

Although Canada PM Mark Carney finally recognized the State of Palestine earlier this year, his government prohibited the popular Irish music group Kneecap from entering Canada because they champion Palestinian rights.

Canada has its own Israeli lobbying group, but it is not nearly as powerful as AIPAC. One of the pro-Zionist Canadians is MP Anthony Housefather who visited Israel in 2024 in support of the Gaza genocide. MP Anthony Housefather, House Republican Randy "The Hebrew Ham Sandwich" Fine (R-FL), oligarch Michael Bloomberg, and Laura Loomer must have all cheered reading the news that a 95-year-old scholar was callously detained by the CBSA for four useless hours.

Since 7 Oct 2023, Israel's retribution pogrom against the Palestinians in Gaza have resulted in 69,756 Muslims killed, the majority of them children and women; 170,946 have been injured or maimed. Ethnic cleansing continues unabated in the West Bank. Israel even evicted several Bedouins whose people for generations have enlisted in the IDF as part of their desert patrol.

An international arrest warrant issued by the ICC for war crimes remains active for Benjamin Netanyahu and ex-DM Yoav Gallant. The Istanbul Public Prosecutor in Turkiye issued nationwide arrest warrants for these two suspects, as well as 31 other Israelis accused of crimes against humanity. An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of a law.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on elder abuse:

"The abuse of older people, also known as elder abuse, is a single or repeated act, or lack of appropriate action, occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust, which causes harm or distress to an older person. This type of violence constitutes a violation of human rights and includes physical, sexual, psychological and emotional abuse; financial and material abuse; abandonment; neglect; and serious loss of dignity and respect."

The Irish people know a wee bit about ethnic persecution and genocide, don't they? Ask the members from NYC's Black 47, who named their Celtic band after the terrible potato famine of 1847.

Sidenote: Two years ago a young UN Peacekeeper from Ireland was separated from his convoy at night. He ended up in a small Lebanese village that mistook him for the Israelis and so the mob began stoning his vehicle. Then a Lebanese villager opened fire with an assault rifle on the Irishman, killing him. The Irish government realized this attack must have been a mistake and was patient in their public response.

Sure enough, Lebanese Hezbollah (LH) immediately conducted an investigation, found the suspect, and turned him over to Lebanese Army G2 on the charge of murder.

The CBSA/CSIS/RCMP databases have ZERO Credible Derogatory Information (CDI) on Mr. Richard Falk, a former high official in the UN.

And these CBSA officers all have Smartphones, who doesn't? Anyone of them could have looked up the nonagenarian and see that he was a legal scholar.

Interrogating Mr. Falk for four torturous hours was spiteful Islamophobia-- and he's Jewish.

I hope Canada's Parliament or the Federal Ombudsman looks into this harassment.

Hi Scotty:

Good for you. Like you, my Canadian friends in Ontario and Quebec avoid the US like the plague. So, my wife and I visit them, although we meet outside Toronto because the traffic there is a huge mess. Downtown Montreal is starting to look like Manhattan.

The CBSA officers have been kind to my wife and I for years, but like anywhere, there are going to be Officer Tackleberries.

US Customs inspectors gave you a reason for the 12 hour detention. I wonder what reason the CBSA officers gave the 95-year-old scholar?

Mohammed Ibrahim (16), a Palestinian-American teen from Florida held without charge by Israeli security services for nine months, is finally getting a day in court. Meanwhile, US Ambassador Mike Huckabee is making money shilling sleep supplements and ethnic cleansing continues unabated in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

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Americans are rightly outraged by human rights abuses here at home by ICE or local police, or by the Russians brutalizing the Ukrainians, except for when it comes to US "ally" Israel, which brutalizes Palestinians day in and day out in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

Israel receives hardworking American taxpayer funds every single year.

Why?

Wealthy, nuclear-armed Israel has a top ten universal healthcare system for all its residents, a social security system ranked at "B+" compared to America which is ranked at "C+", and Israeli GNI is $52,940. This is almost exactly on par with Germany (Europe's largest economy) whose GNI is $54,960.

Unlike NYC, LA, Boston, Houston, Miami, or Topeka, the term "medical bankruptcy" does not come up in Haifa, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, or Eilat.

So, why are we Americans supporting a wealthy, brutal police state who the Global Happiness Index (GHI) reports has happier citizens than us?