Recognising Palestine? The Peacock and the Pogrom: Canada’s Masquerade of Moral Vanity

When virtue is a performance, applause replaces principle, and feathers pass for wings

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Canada, that gaudy peacock of the moral stage, is once again strutting into history’s spotlight — feathers fanned, chest puffed, desperate to flaunt its plumage before an applauding crowd. The colours shimmer with familiar hues: compassion, justice, progress — at least the Instagram‑filtered varieties of them.

This time, the spectacle is over Palestinian statehood, a recognition pushed not after negotiation, not after disarmament, but in the blood‑smoke…