Green Party nennt das Lob des Kandidaten für die israelische Botschaft „morde“ „entsetzlich“.

The comments for anyone who doesn’t want to read the article are this.

“100% justified. Just like Luigi and Rodney Hinton. Peaceful protest has failed, and the people need to start fighting back against those in positions of power”

I’m gonna take the risk of putting a little bit of nuance into this by actually presenting the quotes directly:

>100% Justified. Just like Luigi and Rodney Hinton. Peaceful protest has failed, and the people need to start fighting back, against those in positions of power.

I think it deserves to be said that this latter portion about how people no longer feel that peaceful means to express political discontent are working is a very common sentiment for people these days, and that these kinds of incidents are not isolated, as pointed out in the cases of Luigi Mangione and Rodney Hinton (who shot and killed a police officer after his son was wrongfully killed in a police shootout).

[Journalist Taylor Lorenz recently put out a great video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXrjlOE9e50) exploring this idea in the context of the „somebody should just do it“ meme in the US, and puts it in the wider societal context of how the institutions that are meant to represent the public and deliver social well-being are no longer doing so, and people no longer trust them to do so. It’s been decades, and in some cases people’s entire adult lives since they’ve had elected officials listen to their concerns on issues regarding healthcare, police violence, and the double standard that exists when it comes to Israel’s ability to engage in what is at best war crimes and crimes against humanity, and at worst a genocide.

I’m of the opinion that violence should never be used as a first resort in any disagreement or conflict, and that if both sides of a problem can come to a diplomatic agreement that it should be pursued frivolously. When that breaks down though, and when one party frequently inflicts violence against the other and pushes to normalize that violence, it’s only a matter of time before the other party responds with violence in kind. This is historically how human affairs have played out for millennia – if you push people to a breaking point, they break.

I’m gonna give this person the benefit of the doubt and suggest that maybe this is what they were trying to say – we have politicians in this country who are allowed to praise the Israeli government openly despite its crimes against humanity that everyone can see, and despite the fact that those crimes have killed Canadian citizens before. But when someone responds even in a fraction with violence in kind, it must be widely condemned and anyone who suggests that „hey, maybe we should have seen this coming?“ is condemned also.

If you can somehow rationalize Israel’s response to the attack on Oct 7th, then I really don’t understand how you can’t rationalize this – it is possible to be against violence and still rationalize it.

One commenter in this thread questions why this is news at all.

Meanwhile, most Canadians know why this is news: A Green Party of Alberta [Executive Council member](https://www.greenpartyofalberta.ca/your_executive_council) and candidate for [Calgary East](https://www.greenpartyofalberta.ca/calgary_east) considers the execution of two people on a Washington, DC (or anywhere) city street as „100% justified“.

Knowing that a party insider and party endorsed candidate holds these beliefs, antithetical to essential Canadian values and mores, is news.

It’s absolutely terrible that he made those comments…

But I just want to point out that the Toronto Star is throwing shade at him… „Failed“… I laughed out loud. [„Failed“ Green Party Candidate ](https://imgur.com/a/uELMsVG)