Why "Bubble Zones" Are a Toxic Threat to Democracy
Hasbara cedes to Shtika; a Backgrounder

http://socialistproject.ca/2026/01/why-bubble-zones-are-a-toxic-threat-to-democracy/
Date Written:  2026-01-18
Publisher:  Socialist Project
Year Published:  2026
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX25441

Over the past several years, a new method of bulldozing civil rights in Canada has emerged from the playbooks of die-hard Israel-supporting organizations. It is called “bubble zones.” A bubble zone is a police, judicial, or legislative action forbidding protests within a designated perimeter surrounding certain buildings or locations.

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Zionist organizations have been hosting members of parliament, police chiefs, top university administrators and the like with expenses-paid junkets to Israel for years. Do most of these come back as raving fans of Israel toeing the official line? No. Most of them come back – silent. Israel and its friends haven’t been able to buy outright support for some time. But they can buy or promote – silence, shtika, and compliance, and “look the other way.” When conscience calls upon you to speak out about Israeli transgression, self-shtika.

In fact, bubble zones are one aspect of a panoply of lawfare techniques openly admitted by lawyer mashtikim to shut down all opposition to Israel’s actions.

Bubble zones are just a new and highly potent modality of shtika. The innovation here is not the attempt to silence expression once it is uttered but rather to silence it before the fact. Not only are words themselves subject to censure and censor, the mere uttering of any words of protest within a geographic space by anyone in that space for a period of time is forbidden.