In a July 31, 2025, op-ed in the Globe and Mail, Mark Kersten, an assistant professor in criminal justice at the University of the Fraser Valley, conflates the war in Gaza between Hamas and Israel with various global genocides. Unbelievably, he also ties Canada’s Indian Residential School (IRS) history to a claim of genocide, using it as the anvil to hammer out his theme that genocide is a process and not an event. I say ‘unbelievably’ because this is a disgusting conflation, but since Canada’s House of Commons compliantly adopted a motion by ‘unanimous consent’* to recognize Indian Residential Schools as genocide on Oct. 27, 2022, without a shred of evidence or debate, nor any due process, maybe it’s now par for the course to exploit the word ‘genocide’ for any activist cause.
A must read. Please do. @fancypants_s https://t.co/0x4kMWbNke
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) August 6, 2025
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