One of the activists who pushed for Montreal to sever ties with Israel says he’s not surprised to hear of the meeting with Northrop Grumman.
“Time and time again, the mayor has chosen to align herself with the interests of the American empire and Israel,” said Ali Salman, a spokesperson for Palestinian Youth Movement Montreal. “Just a few months after saying it was not the city’s job to import conflicts, she welcomes the consul general of Israel and even honoured him by having him sign the Golden Book.
“So no, I must say I’m not surprised that she’s meeting with a company that supplies the IDF with weapons used to kill Palestinian children.”
Northrop Grumman does aeronautics, defense, missions, and space.
Montréal has the biggest aeronautics sector in Canada.
Montréal has the biggest space sector in Canada.
Montréal has a thriving and growing defense sector.
I don’t know what “missions” is.
(Greater) Montréal is starting the UxS DISH, defense and aeronautics.
This is a smart business decision.
And while I’m sure NG is part of the NG consortium, they didnt make the UN’s list on the latest report. https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/
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The hero photo makes her look similar to Danielle Smith 💀
She is not mayor of Palestine she’s mayor of Montreal. The Macklemore Mo Chara Rainbow Keffiyeh Mafia isn’t her constituency. She leads a city with a large Jewish population and a large Arab population. She has to live in both worlds. Northrop-Grumman isn’t some minor company they’re a massive multinational with interests everywhere including Canada and they’ve produced weaponry used in every conflict you can think of.
Like it or not Canada and Canadian jobs benefit from the défense industrial complex which is global. She can’t ignore that and expect to stay mayor for long. The economy will always win and the lesbian anarchist socialist solidarity revolution doesn’t prop up the economy. The Man does.
This same mayor was mad about her dark skinned husband getting treated like a second class citizen by her city’s police force.
She is very selective about what kind of racism and bigotry is bad vs the acceptable kind of bigotry, endorsed by the government of her country.
