CAEF Letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney Urges Reversal of Recognition of a Palestinian State

November 17, 2025

Prime Minister Mark Carney

Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand

Government of Canada

Ottawa, ON

Dear Prime Minister Carney and Minister Anand,

The Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation urges you to immediately revisit your position that Canada recognizes a State of Palestine now or in the near future. There is no leadership among the Palestinian Authority that seeks co-existence with Israel. There is no Canadian value that warrants supporting a racist regime, that if it existed under the Palestinian Authority (PA) has made it clear that no Jew or non Muslim would be allowed to safely visit, let alone live there. Why is Canada supporting Islamist apartheid?

The PA funds the murder of Jews, incentivizes and rewards such terror and is paying salaries to the barbarians who committed mass murder on October 7^th, 2023. If there is no intent to stop such payment, no demonstration of goodwill, how can you even conceive of supporting such blunderous, murderous practice that betrays Canadians values and puts the lives of Jews, both in Israel and in  Canada, at risk?

Below is some of the evidence that your position is dangerous and unacceptable. CAEF invites you to prove we are wrong.

Palestinian Media Watch has documented repeatedly that the Palestinian population embraces terror and that the Palestinian movements compete for popular support by arguing over who has committed more terror.

In a recent example, Mahmoud Abbas' senior advisor Mahmoud Al-Habbash bragged that the PLO/Fatah has been fighting Israel since 1964, whereas Hamas only "bore arms" in 1990.

The Al-Habbash admission must be read alongside recent statements by another top Fatah official, Jibril Rajoub, who has publicly urged that the PA unite with Hamas under the PLO framework. Rajoub said that the successor to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh should both "maintain the unity of Hamas" and have "a strategic vision to integrate Hamas within the national framework."

This pattern reveals several dangerous messages from the PA:

1.    Hypocrisy toward the international community: On the one hand, the PA seeks international legitimacy and aid, claiming it fights terror. In reality, the PA's senior officials publicly reaffirm and even boast of its terror history and a desire to ally with Hamas—the very organization the PA pretends to distance itself from in diplomatic settings. The statements by Al-Habbash and Rajoub together expose a dual strategy: feigning reform to cultivate international support while simultaneously supporting terror and strengthening ties with Hamas.

2.    Normalization of violence as statecraft: Al-Habbash's factual framing (PLO "bore arms" since 1964; Hamas only from 1990) is presented as a point of pride. Rajoub's public courting of Hamas – and his prediction that Israelis "will go to the trash can of history" – demonstrate that a long-term terror struggle plus the delegitimization of Israel are central to the PA's strategy, not deviations from it.

3.    A strategic alliance, not actual rivalry: Where Western audiences and donors may imagine a Fatah-Hamas rivalry that favors moderation, Rajoub's welcoming of Hamas shows that the PA does not really want to have Hamas destroyed. Rather, the PA seeks to have Hamas serve as a junior partner within the PLO as part of a Palestinian state that will fight to put Israel in said "trash can of history."

On October 15, 2025, Palestinian Media Watch released the latest list of Palestinian terrorist millionaires thanks to the pay-for-slay program. Many of those who received financial rewards were among the terrorists released by Israel in exchange for Israeli hostages. Read the list, verify for yourselves all the numbers, but do not avoid facing these facts. https://palwatch.org/page/41609

Mr. Mahmoud Abbas is playing a game of duplicity which you and other Western nation leaders have swallowed, despite decades of evidence that duplicity is how the PA operates, and that culturally it is acceptable to lie to infidels, ie non Muslims. You are demonstrating incredible naivety or wilful blindness and neither serves the interests of Canadians. PA schools celebrate October 7! This is part of the hate curriculum that has infected Arab children for decades and continues to promote murder  and martyrdom.

Here are examples: https://palwatch.org/page/41486 The Wall Steet Journal on September 7, 2025, saw fit to report on this barbaric curriculum while you avoid reading about it. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/mahmoud-abbas-palestine-state-france-hamas-gaza-oct-7-d28a1e17

If you proceed with the reckless idea of recognizing another terror state in the Middle East, sanctioning the Palestinian Arabs to continue to train killers, reward terrorists, celebrate violence, preach and teach Jew hatred, then please tell us how this is different from supporting Nazism?

Awaiting your response.

Sincerely,

Andria Spindel, Executive Director

cc. Hon. Pierre Poilievre, Leader of the Opposition

       Ms. Melissa Lantsman, Deputy Leader of the Opposition

      Anthony Housefather, MP

      Leslie Church, MP

      Vince Gasparro, M:

     Rob Roberts, Editor-in-Chief, National Post

     Noah Shack, CEO, CIJA