You have to love the Canadians (I’m not referring to you, Bryan Adams).
Canadian MP Peter Kent has schooled an Israel hater on Twitter, responding to each individual propaganda lie in turn.
Here’s how it went down:
Recommend reading as we commemorate the Armenian Genocide..(remember Libs voted against) @Genocide1915 pic.twitter.com/dPypg2a6F4
— Peter Kent (@ProsaicPKent) April 21, 2015
@KentThornhillMP @janewordsmith Politically using a 100 yr old atrocity. How about today?http://t.co/9L4PcOUZuj pic.twitter.com/Zcaxpu2AuZ
— Earnest B DeMille (@EarnestBDeMille) April 21, 2015
@EarnestBDeMille If you know your history..then + now..you know the difference!
— Peter Kent (@ProsaicPKent) April 21, 2015
@KentThornhillMP Political / corporate elite ignored #ArmenianGenocide until expedient. Today same elite ignoring #GazaGenocide. That's you.
— Earnest B DeMille (@EarnestBDeMille) April 21, 2015
@EarnestBDeMille Hamas responsible for Gaza tragedy: refusal to co-exist, sacrificing innocents
— Peter Kent (@ProsaicPKent) April 21, 2015
@KentThornhillMP Look at the facts of what's going on & not thru an ideological filter. http://t.co/Fk1AxGVFIh pic.twitter.com/Rl8Lv0UVvU
— Earnest B DeMille (@EarnestBDeMille) April 21, 2015
@EarnestBDeMille I suggest you read the Hamas Charter dedicated to destruction of Israel. #StopIslamicTerror
— Peter Kent (@ProsaicPKent) April 21, 2015
@KentThornhillMP I suggest u look into your heart & contemplate the horror perpetrated daily on the children of Gaza.http://t.co/ruArurbEWS
— Earnest B DeMille (@EarnestBDeMille) April 21, 2015
@KentThornhillMP pic.twitter.com/bujlo78X9A
— Earnest B DeMille (@EarnestBDeMille) April 21, 2015
@EarnestBDeMille No question Gaza innocents suffer: U shud direct ur fury @ those responsible #hamasterror
— Peter Kent (@ProsaicPKent) April 21, 2015
@KentThornhillMP I then take it you believe Israel blameless victims.
— Earnest B DeMille (@EarnestBDeMille) April 21, 2015
@EarnestBDeMille Right to defend against unrelenting missile attacks, mindless #hamasterror
— Peter Kent (@ProsaicPKent) April 21, 2015
@KentThornhillMP You feel the Israeli "defense" is proportionate? pic.twitter.com/WvQoN7EilJ
— Earnest B DeMille (@EarnestBDeMille) April 21, 2015
@EarnestBDeMille Hamas not only terror org..but cowards who sacrifice civs to win support like yours…
— Peter Kent (@ProsaicPKent) April 21, 2015
What makes Peter’s pro-Israel views even more impressive is the fact he never used to hold them, judging by his time as a journalist.
To overcome that kind of anti-Israel bias endemic in the mainstream media is truly impressive.