Don’t conflate Canadians’ views on Israel, Israeli government

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to reporters, alongside then-prime minister Stephen Harper in Ottawa in March 2012. Asking what Canadians think about Israel’s government should not be conflated with what Canadians think about Israel and Israelis, writes CIJA's Martin Sampson. It is conceivable that people would be more skeptical of a government—any government—than of the citizens of the country or the country itself.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

March 1, 2017

Re: “Canadians at odds with their government on Israel,” (The Hill Times, Feb. 20, p. 22). In a recent opinion piece, Murray Dobbin refers to a poll paid for by anti-Israel activists. When reviewing...

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