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Pro-Palestinian groups decry real estate events at synagogues over concerns occupied land being sold

www.cbc.ca /news/canada/toronto/real-estate-thornhill-event-1.7133251

On Sunday, dozens of people gathered near the Aish Hatorah synagogue in Thornhill, Ont., to protest an event that organizers say was aimed at helping people in the Toronto area buy property in Israel. They were met with pro-Israeli counterprotestors and Jewish leaders took issue with the Sunday protest taking place outside a synagogue.

But Pro-Palestinian protestors say companies associated with the event market property in the West Bank, where over two million Palestinians live under Israel's military occupation, according to the United Nations (UN).

The UN, alongside Canada, consider Israeli settlements in the occupied territories to be in violation of international convention, with the federal government saying they "constitute a serious obstacle to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace."

"There was no sales for anything in the West Bank, anything on disputed territory," she said, noting the projects on offer were being built on "existing" and "established" areas.

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“There was no sales for anything in the West Bank, anything on disputed territory,” she said, noting the projects on offer were being built on “existing” and “established” areas.
Just because they're illegally saying it's Israeli land, doesn't mean it is.
Their rationale seems to be if an Israeli illegally settles there, then it becomes Israeli land...
I wouldn't be surprised if some of the "settlers" just keep claiming land over and over again to push the border, and now selling it as "undisputed Israeli land".
There's zero reason to listen to far right religious extremists, because all their "logic" comes down to "trust me bro, God said I could do this".
- Yeah, note the phrasing 'existing or established areas'. If they wanted to be clear that it wasn't settlement, they'd say something like 'within the UN recognised borders' or whatever.
- You wouldn't be surprised because this is exactly what Israel has been doing for 50 years. The West Bank used to be a large continuous territory, now it's a Swiss cheese of infrastructure deprived pockets of discriminated people.
- We’re not doing ethnic cleansing!
  The current owners already cleansed it of the original Palestinian family.
  
  And whose bones did the Palestinian family build their home on top of?
  Go back and back and it's Jews for like almost 4,000 years.
Zionism is a mental illness
- Islam is a mental illness as well then
  
  You do realize those are two completely disparate things, right?
- From reading the article:
  "There was no sales for anything in the West Bank, anything on disputed territory," she said, noting the projects on offer were being built on "existing" and "established" areas.
  Could it be the actual mental illness is this sort of anti semetism that makes some people treat any legitimate thing Israeli people do as an evil conspiracy or war crime?
  
  Israel frequently claims settlements as “Israeli” land. There is no reason to trust them when they’ve lied consistently for decades.
  
  No, Israelis should stop taking from other semitic people. Thinking you're entitled to what your neighbors have is called kleptomania. Look it up. It's a mental illness.
Richard Robertson, B'nai Brith Canada's director of research and advocacy, said in a statement the group is concerned for members of the community near the synagogues at the upcoming events, and are calling on police to prevent similar protests from happening.
"Nothing justifies targeting a house of worship," said Robertson. "To target a shul is antisemitic and can never be tolerated in Canadian society."
Using a synagogue as a place to promote Genocide. Amazin'
I'm glad we still have
But Chelsey Lichtman, a member of advocacy group Jews Say No to Genocide, said it's "sacrilegious" to use synagogues as places to hold real estate events.

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