A prominent pro-Israel organization is formally urging the Canadian government to reverse its position on recognizing a Palestinian state, arguing that the Palestinian Authority actively promotes and rewards terrorist activities.
Formal Demand to Canadian Leadership
The Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation (CAEF) sent a detailed letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand on November 17, 2025, calling for a complete reassessment of Canada's stance. The correspondence, obtained by National Post, presents a stark condemnation of Palestinian leadership.
Andrea Spindel, executive director of CAEF, authored the letter asserting that the Palestinian Authority lacks any genuine commitment to peaceful coexistence with Israel. She describes the PA as a murderous regime that systematically incentivizes and rewards terrorist activity.
Evidence of Terror Support
Spindel's letter points to what she calls concrete evidence of the PA's support for violence. She specifically references the pay-for-slay program, alleging that the Palestinian Authority pays salaries to terrorists who committed mass murder during the October 7th attacks.
The foundation cites documentation from Palestinian Media Watch showing that Palestinian movements compete for popular support by arguing over which group has committed more acts of terror. This pattern, Spindel argues, reveals the PA's true nature despite its diplomatic efforts to appear moderate to international donors.
Dangerous Alliances and Duplicity
Perhaps most concerning, according to the letter, are recent statements from senior Palestinian officials. Spindel highlights comments from Jibril Rajoub, secretary general of the Fatah Central Committee, who has publicly urged unification between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas under the Palestinian Liberation Organization framework.
This reveals dangerous hypocrisy, Spindel contends. While the PA seeks international legitimacy and financial aid by claiming to fight terror, its senior officials simultaneously boast about their terror history and desire to ally with Hamas the very organization they pretend to distance from in diplomatic settings.
Spindel further asserts that Western audiences often misunderstand the Fatah-Hamas dynamic, assuming rivalry leads to moderation. Instead, she says, Rajoub's welcoming of Hamas demonstrates that the PA does not genuinely want Hamas destroyed.
Educational System Promoting Hate
The letter also condemns what Spindel describes as a hate curriculum in PA schools. She claims these institutions celebrate the October 7 attacks, continuing what she calls decades of promoting murder and martyrdom among Arab children.
Spindel directly challenges Prime Minister Carney's support for a two-state solution, which he expressed during the 80th session of the UN General Assembly in late September 2025. She accuses Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian National Authority since 2005, of playing a game of duplicity that Western leaders have swallowed despite decades of evidence.
The CAEF executive director concludes that continuing to recognize a Palestinian state demonstrates either incredible naivety or willful blindness neither of which serves Canadian interests.
