Richard is from Quebec City and converted to Judaism a few years ago. He now proclaims he is from Jerusalem and celebrates the removal of Palestinians.
There is a difference between peaceful protest and hateful intimidation.
It is unconscionable to glorify the antisemitic violence and murder perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th. This rhetoric has no place in Canada. None.
Disturbed by reports that the
#Maduro
regime has detained freelance journalist
@coweddle
and his assistant Carlos Camacho. Attacks against journalists are attacks on democracy.
My message to universities:
Protect free speech and academic freedom to keep federal grants.
I will appoint a Free Speech Guardian, a retired judge, to ensure academic freedom is defended.
They also spoke about concerns regarding their right to advocate, without fear of reprisal, for Palestinians to live in peace and security. Canadians have the right to assemble peacefully and express themselves freely – and we discussed the importance of that right.
At
@UJAFederation
’s Walk for Israel, you don’t see:
- violence
- hate speech
- masked people
- riots
You see:
- peace
- families
- no one hiding behind masks to spew hate
There *is* a way to signal support for a cause peacefully. This is the way to do things.
Melanie is enjoying her vacation "with Gaza visible in the distance".
Children are being starved while she heads from meal to meal in boutique hotels. Utterly despicable.
We came to bear witness. With Gaza visible in the distance, the kibbutz Kfar Aza was one of the first brutally attacked by Hamas on October 7th. Ayelet’s son Netta, a Canadian, was killed here protecting his fiancé— may his memory be for a blessing.
@YaaraSaks
Richard is a former member of Canadian parliament from Quebec City.
He converted to Judaism in 2004.
Now he says he’s indigenous to the levant and flaunts his privilege a few kilometres from the Gaza ghetto.
Now you know why Zionism is racism.
Shabbat shalom from Tel Aviv!
And to all the haters out there: You can hate. The Jews, as the indigenous people of the Land of Israel, are back in their ancestral homeland to stay.
And I’ll keep smiling —& jogging in Jerusalem, in Tel Aviv and everywhere.
Oh Look, Israel's former ambassador to Canada mocking millions of starving civilians and referring to them as "Pally".
Zionism is racism in case you didn't know yet.
@PalestineTurtl
I love your name playing creativity while hiding behind the anonymity of a coward.
Just like your pally friends hiding in their tunnels... good for you!
As a McGill alum, I expect the administration to do everything in its power to protect the safety of its Jewish students & faculty and ensure they’re not subjected to the antisemitic rhetoric & intimidation that’s been a hallmark of these encampments on campuses across the US.
Mayor
@oliviachow
and Minister
@YaaraSaks
are attending an event lead by Islamophobic and antipalestinian groups. The JNF has just had its CRA status revoked for funding the Israeli military. Let's look at what CAEF stands for 🧵
Olivia Chow lectured Palestinians who protested their genocide about racism then attends an event with the leader of a hate group.
We see you
@oliviachow
.
Amidst rising antisemitism, it is so important to hear these words from
@JustinTrudeau
:
"In a country like Canada, it should be and it must be, safe to declare oneself a Zionist - Jewish or not.”
Canada's envoy to the UN is not only an anti-Palestinian bigot, but also a WW2 historical revisionist.
He is changing history to justify parliament's celebration of a Nazi and the endless funnelling of money into the NATO war chest.
#NaziCanada
Hey
@Jeopardy
- the Church of Nativity is in Bethlehem, which is located in the West Bank which - under international law - is occupied by Israel.
The occupied land is also known, under international law, as the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
For anyone following, Richard was also an MP for the Bloc Quebecois. Prior to leaving Parliament, in 2005 he celebrated how Canada is not a religious state and called it its "finest achievement". He now lobbies for a Jewish ethno-state to retire in
Today, Minister Ng and Ofir Akunis, Israel’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, discussed how the 2 countries are working together to strengthen their vibrant research and innovation partnerships to build the knowledge economy of the
#future
. 🇨🇦🇮🇱
It's unsettling to know that road signs in the city of Montreal can be hacked, and even more so when they are hacked to promote hate and antisemitism.
#polqc
Thank you
@JustinTrudeau
for speaking out strongly against hate and intimidation on our campuses.
There is no question: “Right now, right across the country, Jewish students do not feel safe. That’s not right.”
He is currently a lobbyist for CIJA which is Canada's AIPAC & whose work is the same: cover up for crimes committed by Israel and slander critics of Israel. He is currently enjoying jogging near Sheik Jarrah where Palestinians are being cleansed to make Jerusalem more Jewish
While Norway and Ireland voted with the rest of the world to oppose Israeli settlements (a war crime under international law) Canada voted with Trump to support the occupation.
#NoUNSC4Canada
#cdnpoli
McGill students are blocking the James admin building to protest a poli sci course which includes two weeks in Israel. Israeli authorities apply brutal profiling rules on Muslims and Palestinians as well as anyone (including Jews) who criticize the state.
#manifencours
#cdnpoli
This is outrageous. Wake up, Whole Foods. In Canada we show respect to veterans and those thousands who made the ultimate sacrifice by wearing a poppy.
#PoppyAppeal
Israel’s minister of security who rules over West Bank was at a wedding where people danced with and stabbed a picture of a Palestinian baby that was murdered.
The Trudeau government &
@melaniejoly
congratulated this government for winning and celebrated their « shared values ».
Depraved!
#Israel
's Security Minister was partying with extremist settlers at a wedding in 2015 where they were stabbing & burning a picture of a Palestinian BABY & dancing with machine guns & Molotov cocktails!
That kid was burned to death by a settler whose lawyer was Ben Gvir
Canada's Alan Dershowitz continues to falsely claim that he somehow was involved in freeing in Nelson Mandela. This time on Canadian national TV he even spoke on behalf of the late anti-apartheid leader, claiming Mandela would oppose the genocide case against Israel. 1/
Irwin Cotler told CBC that Nelson Mandela wouldn’t support the genocide charge against Israel, and CBC positioned him as knowing that because he was a lawyer for Mandela. I exposed this claim last January, and I urge people to stop taking it at face value.
@richardmarceau
You’re a Bloc Québécois MP who converted to Judaism. You’re bragging about how you now get to replace Palestinians in their land. Zionism is racism.
We visited
@AlJazeera
offices in
#Ramallah
today, to learn more about threats to
#MediaFreedom
. Two years after the death of
#ShireenAbuAkleh
, it is more important than ever that journalists be able to work without threat.
This has been the story of Israel from day one. It was brutally obvious to Palestinians but liberal Zionists chose to believe some other fairy tale. This is the legacy of Zionism.
You work at the Center for Israel (and jewish affairs), defend every single Israeli government policy and your lobbyists openly meet with Israeli government officials.
Pinkwashing won't make up for the horrific anti-Palestinian policies your organisation promotes.
Imagine being brainwashed enough to believe that every Jewish organization is an Israeli government secret service outpost BUT simultaneously believing this alleged conspiracy group isn’t smart enough to respond to 3 antisemites chaotically screaming at queer and trans Jews lol.
Israeli media reported that 2 rockets were fired by accident and hit nothing. The IDF pounded Gaza anyways & Levitt used it to promote a racist anti-Palestinian system that denies them basic rights. The Liberal party should be ashamed of justifying of racism & violence.
#cdnpoli
Tonight my thoughts and prayers are with all Israelis, as Gaza militants target
#TelAviv
w/ rockets. I strongly condemn this escalation and reaffirm
#Israel
’s right to defend its citizens and borders against such acts of aggression.
#cdnpoli
@JesseBrown
You're going to start seing really right wing people commending your "courage" and not a single person of colour agreeing with you. You might want to look into why that is and start unlearning a lot of your racism.
Imagine being a high school student in Ontario taking a courageous stand in support of Palestinian prisoners and having a premier who hangs out with a Neo-Nazi supporter call you an anti-Semite. That’s where we are right now.
#onpoli
#cdnpoli
Did you know that your Canadian tax dollars are being used to support
#BDS
— even though the Trudeau government voted to accept a 2016 Conservative party motion (sponsored by
@MichelleRempel
) declaring
#BDS
unaligned with Canadian values?
Fatima, a Palestinian Canadian teenager trapped in Gaza, tells Al Jazeera that Canada’s gov't has failed its citizens trapped under Israeli bombardment by just providing ‘useless’ tips instead of a way to get out ⤵️
I met with members of Canadian Muslim and Arab communities to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Thank you for the opportunity to listen, discuss and share your viewpoints. I look forward to our continued engagement.
Fun fact: Irwin Cotler is a former advisor to Israeli defence minister Moshe Yaalon.
His wife was a parliamentary secretary for Menachem Begin who helped perpetrate the Nakba in 1948.
These are not good people.
Just as liberals willfully ignore the racism of the Canadian state towards indigenous peoples, so do they ignore Israel’s racism towards indigenous Palestinians.
Liberal party supporters are spreading racist trope that “Singh has ties to terrorists”.
This is what Arabs, Palestinians and Sikhs in Canada have had to deal with for decades.
#cdnpoli
CPC: Don’t care he’s an American!
NDP: Don’t care he has ties to terrorists!
Green: Don’t care she can’t win!
Bloc: Don’t care we’ll never hold power!
PPC: Don’t care about anything!
Liberals: I care about Canada! Economy is strong, we’re on a progressive path! 🇨🇦
#cdnpoli
Canada’s senate is holding a meeting to discuss Islamophobia in Canada this afternoon.
Who did they invite?
Right wing anti Palestinian and islamophobic group Bnai Brith Canada. Cc
@nccm
@nenshi
Richard is from Quebec City.
He converted to Judaism in 2004.
He now claims he is indigenous to Israel and brags about how he has more rights than Palestinians.
#ZionismisRacism
Shabbat shalom from Tel Aviv!
And to all the haters out there: You can hate. The Jews, as the indigenous people of the Land of Israel, are back in their ancestral homeland to stay.
And I’ll keep smiling —& jogging in Jerusalem, in Tel Aviv and everywhere.
SWAT teams across North America have been deployed to dismantle and arrest pro-Hamas demonstrators on university campuses. McGill has shown complete incompetence in handling or deescalating the situation. Montreal tactical teams should swiftly intervene at McGill, even if it
In response to the humanitarian crisis impacting Palestinian civilians in Gaza, and to make sure trusted organizations can deliver life-saving services to innocent people, we’re matching donations made to the
@HumCoalition
. Find out how you can help:
There are a lot of big feelings about media bias in Canada since Oct 7, but not a lot of facts.
One big "bias" exposé was written by a fictional CBC producer & included claims about CBC journalists who were never asked to comment. No verified facts.
But I have some facts..🧵
Canada sells Israel millions in weapons that it uses to murder Palestinians and also trades with illegal settlements. But hey, that’s ok if you provide a pittance in aid afterwards, right?
#cdnpoli
Cotler-Wunch is a former elected member of the Israeli Knesset that advocated for withholding covid vaccines for Gaza as a political bargaining chip.
Shoutout to these students who called out her complicity in war crimes.
My talk at
@ColumbiaLaw
about "Combatting Antisemitism w/
#HumanRights
& International Law" was welcomed w/protest.
Rather than engage rising
#Antisemitism
on
#YomHaShoah
, they used Palestinian flag, lie-filled flyers on map of
#Israel
, to ‘chill’ thought & participation. Shame.
The Israeli embassy in Canada is spewing ethnic cleansing justifications.
Palestinians have lived in those homes for generations and are being forcibly ejected to put supremacist Jewish settlers in them.
Palestinians families are not terror groups.
(1/2) The Palestinian Authority and Palestinian terror groups are regrettably manipulating a real-estate dispute between private parties, presenting it as a nationalistic cause in order to incite violence in
#Jerusalem
.
Canada’s diplomatic staff in Israel are repeatedly bragging on social media about the places they get to visit which most Palestinian are denied seeing by Israel in spite of international law.
The height of colonial privilege.
❗️
@JustinTrudeau
urges Israel to show “maximum restraint” in Gaza, and says “the killing of women and children … of babies … has to stop.” But he STILL refuses to withdraw Canada’s support for Israel’s murderous war! If he wants the killing to stop, demand a
#CeasefireNow
!
When a Palestinian is suspected of a crime, he is either killed on the spot or tried in a military court with 99% conviction rate and his family’s homes are bulldozed.
When an Israeli is suspected of a crime nothing happens.
#Apartheid
Apartheid!?!... How dare you?
Only ONE
#Israeli
settler was arrested & sentences to 4 DAYS of house arrest out of the 400 settlers that launched a pogrom on Huwara; lynched an aid worker; wounded 100s; burned down dozens of homes, cars, shops & danced jubilantly at the ruins!
Must be brutal to be a
@nationalpost
columnist right now because you are going to be asked to write a propaganda piece for a an apartheid state as part of a campaign to help detract from its openly fascist new government. Can’t wait to see who else will get tapped!