Anonymous submission to MTL Counter-info
Last night, multiple autonomous groups responded to the call from the Palestinian Resistance to activate and escalate pressure on international political, media, and economic institutions in order to allow aid into Rafah. Thus, Montréal/Tiohtiá:ke, as crowds gathered to applaud the finale of the fireworks season, multiple groups mobilised to remind you that in Gaza, the sounds of explosions signal death and ethnic cleansing.
For almost 22 months the Zionist Entity has been bombarding, torturing, attacking, and starving Palestinians, all before our eyes, and with full complicity from our leaders. As our siblings in Gaza live a famine orchestrated by Zionist forces, it is our responsibility to denounce the structures in place at the core of our society, which enable this genocide by normalizing the attrocities of the army, by normalising Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian hate, by profiting financially from Zionist propaganda, and by favouring repression against activists fighting for Palestinian liberation.
Who would be better to represent this complicity than Pierre-Karl Péladeau and his Quebecor empire? With a hand in each sphere of the media and culture landscape, Péladeau has played a large role in forming Quebecois public opinion for decades. Through a diversity of media entities, editing houses, advertising companies, and cultural productions, Quebecor propagates infinite hatred towards all vulnerable and marginalized communities. Queer and trans folks, drug users, immigrants, houseless people, just to name a few examples, all suffer dehumanization by the hands of PKP’s cronies. We can not ignore the systemic role that the Quebecor empire takes in the flagrant rise of Islamophobia in recent years; an integral element to the desensitization and general normalization of the Palestinian genocide in the public discourse. Through a plateform unilaterally offered to Zionists such as the CIJA lapdog Julien Corona, combined with an explosion of hateful rhetoric from his demagogues in chief, Quebecor looks to render the 77 years of Zionist colonialism in Palestine acceptable and palatable. But the people have not been duped, they are not insensitive. Even as PKP massively invests his dirty money in private security firms such as SIRCO, which profiles and brutalizes pro-Palestine activists, he will never succeed in normalizing the unacceptable.
It’s not because you are brown-nosing Zionists to shop for more Hollywood contracts that you will be able to shut us up, Péladeau!
Fuck your empire!
Fuck your Zionist friends!
Fuck your racism, your transphobia and your misogyny!
The people will always be stronger than you!
