University administrations cannot silence dissenting voices on campus by relying on injunctions or requesting police intervention. Never mind, they can subcontract and hire a firm of tough guys to do the tough job.

Of course, there are street demonstrations by citizens that are tolerated because we are, after all, in a « democratic » society. They are all the more easily tolerated since after several months, only a few hundred are marching each week.

Then, whether through opportunism, indifference, calculated caution or disinterest in what is not immediately in their own interest, the intellectual community as a whole, including these research centers whose « expertise » is international politics, tends rather to confine itself to mind its own business.

Then the mainstream medias adopt editorial policies that seek to minimize statements deemed too vitriolic, and this has the effect of sanitizing the content of its Op Ed pages.

This is because they can no longer completely ignore government support for the proper functioning of their media, as well as the support of sponsors. A mainstream media worthy of the name therefore has the good reflex of checking its back. It « rightly » requires that articles conveying « disinformation », whether Russian or Chinese, be expurgated. They reserve the same fate for the pieces that convey « hateful » or « violence-inciting » statements. It thus targets those individuals who, claiming to defend the Palestinian people, have the audacity to support « terrorist groups » like Hamas. It does not matter if, from the point of view of international law, a people subject to illegal occupation has the right to defend itself through an armed resistance. And it does not matter if, outside the West, the rest of the international community also recognizes this right.

This is how dissenting voices on the left or the right within Anglosphere media are increasingly being repressed. Great Britain has dealt with Julian Assange, Sarah Wilkerson, Tony Greenstein, Richard Medhurst, Craig Murray and Asa Winstanley. In the United States, Mark Lamont Hill was fired from CNN. Mehdi Hasan was fired from MSNBC. Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox TV. Candace Owens was fired from The Daily Wire. Katie Halper and Briahna Joy Gray were fired from The Hill. Scott Ritter was raided at his home. Chris Hedges was asked to leave The Real News Network.

Those who live only on bread and circuses, when it is not on love and fresh water, and who watch in their cave the images scrolling on their small screen, may well wonder where I get all these names and all these facts. It is often a world that they are unaware of because it is made up of, hold on to your hats, people who dare to smuggle real information.

It is in this context that we must place ourselves to then assess the behavior of the political parties in the House of Commons or at the Congress. Even if some NDP members dared to raise their voices in the Canadian parlament, do not count on a vote concerning a resolution denouncing the genocide currently underway in Gaza. And yet, for the first time in world history, it is a genocide that we are all witnessing live!

Justin Trudeau and Mélanie Joly therefore have are free to take refuge in complete silence, as well as in American complacency and in maintaining arms deliveries to the genocidal Zionist entity.

The stunned citizens who see this horror and who have rage deep in their hearts feel powerless. They tell themselves that there is probably nothing that can be done to reverse the trend and change the order of things. Even if a vast majority in the United States wants a ceasefire and wishes the interruption of military aid, the American political authorities also know that they can move forward and continue their support to Israel. They only have to make people believe that they are working day and night for a ceasefire. The population will blindly believe them.

Bernie Sanders and the Squad have capitulated. The « uncommitted » did not want to commit themselves in favor of a third candidacy like Jill Stein. It is now too late to hope for a breakthrough. His running mate is a complete unknown. The eternal debate, typical within the Anglosphere, between Red and Blue political parties is back and it occupies, once again, the bulk of the debates within the media.

This makes it understandable why citizens are frustrated and bitter, with sadness stuck in their throats. Whether on campus or in the streets, in newspapers or on social media, in the House of Commons or at the Congress, citizens have no voice. They have the vote, but they do not have the voice.

This is how we finally succeed to normalize genocide.