This moment.
I have no words.
"Our encampment may be leaving this physical space, but our fight will continue in the hearts and minds of everyone who believes in human dignity and justice."
-Mohammad Yassin, Palestinian student speaking at
@occupyuoft
final press conference.
Thousands take to the streets in Toronto blocking Yonge/Bloor infront of the Israeli consulate, condemning Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing and genocide in Palestine.
#PalestineGenocide
#FreePalestine
#Toronto
THOUSANDS in
#Toronto
occupy downtown streets to condemn Canada's ongoing material support for Israel's genocidal assault on Rafah, where 1.4 million displaced Palestinians are forced to shelter & are being slaughtered.
#HandsOffRafah
🇵🇸
#RafahUnderAttack
I was just suspended from my job at
@tdsb
& put under investigation. This happened minutes after I called out
@CIJAinfo
for fabricating lies about students at
@MarcGarneauCI
& for the TDSB not publicly standing up for its students who received threats. I refuse to be complicit.
#Toronto
protests in solidarity with
#Palestine
see a heavy militarized police presence, intensified surveillance & threats of criminalization.
Policing is central to dispossession, displacement & containment in settler colonial Canada & Israel.
We will not be intimidated 🇵🇸
THOUSANDS in
#Toronto
take to the streets for the 25th weekend in a row demanding Canada STOP ARMING ISRAEL'S GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS & a real arms embargo enacted.
Canada has not committed to stopping the transport of arms permits previously approved.
#StopArmingIsrael
📷 pym
Courageous people with hearts shut down the Gardiner Expressway today to protest Israel's genocide & ethnic cleansing of Palestinians & Canada’s complicity.
14,532 Palestinians killed.
6,000 children.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
#FreePalestine
#ShutItDown4Palestine
#Toronto
NATIONAL MARCH ON OTTAWA
Parliament Hill 🇵🇸
DEMANDS:
▫️
#CeasefireNOW
▫️End complicity with Israel
▫️Lift the siege on
#Gaza
Israel has killed 15,000 Palestinians & the Canadian government refuses to call for a ceasefire all while selling weapons that enable Israel's genocide
#Toronto
still SHUTTING IT DOWN for 🇵🇸
No businesses as usual.
'Canada':
▫️Demand a
#CeasefireNOW
▫️Stop funding genocide
▫️Stop arming Israel
Other demands:
▫️End siege on
#Gaza
▫️End occupation
▫️End apartheid
▫️Land back
▫️Right of return
#FreePalestine
Video: @ T4P
HUNDREDS of University of Toronto students walk out on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People 🇵🇸
The demands have not changed:
▫️Immediate & Permanent
#CeasefireNOW
▫️End Canadian complicity with Israel
▫️Lift the siege on
#Gaza
#Toronto
Video: T4P
This is the 4th time I've been suspended by the TDSB for supporting Palestinian liberation. I've been investigated by their Human Rights Office, employee services, the Integrity Commissioner, the Ontario College of Teachers and Toronto Police and cleared each time.
I won't stop!
I was just suspended from my job at
@tdsb
& put under investigation. This happened minutes after I called out
@CIJAinfo
for fabricating lies about students at
@MarcGarneauCI
& for the TDSB not publicly standing up for its students who received threats. I refuse to be complicit.
THOUSANDS now gather at Yonge & Dundas in
#Toronto
chanting for
#Rafah
.
The masses have mobilized for 19 weeks in a row against Israel's genocide of Palestinians demanding a permanent ceasefire, an end to Canadian complicity & an end to the siege on
#Gaza
.
#RafahUnderAttack
🇵🇸
@syrusmarcusware
Some additional info:
-I didn't observe a single person without a mask at protest (unlike Bellwoods)
-Masks, sanitizer and other PPE were readily available and given to anyone that needed them
-Risk of superspeading event is significantly LOW outdoors and unlikely with masks
#Toronto
took to the streets AGAIN today for 🇵🇸
This might be the longest, largest, & most continuous movement many of us have seen in this city with protests & actions daily for 8 weeks
▫️Permanent
#CeasefireNOW
▫️End Canadian complicity with Israel
▫️Lift the siege on
#Gaza
I have been REINSTATED to my position of Student Equity Program Advisor at the Toronto District School Board WITHOUT DISCIPLINE. This is tremendous news and a huge step forward for anti-racist and anti-oppressive education. Please read my statement here:
THOUSANDS in
#Toronto
brave the freezing cold for the 15th weekend in a row.
It is the 100th day of Israel's genocidal campaign on
#Gaza
with 100,000 Palestinians killed, missing, or wounded.
We demand Canada end its political & material support to Israel.
#StopGazaGenocide
🇵🇸
A couple dozen high school students march through Parkdale,
#Toronto
, this morning chanting for an immediate ceasefire, an arms embargo, an end to Israel's genocide & Canadian complicity.
Someone called TPS & 5 police cruisers showed up for a few kids.
#FreePalestine
#DefundTPS
@NPR
FACT: on-ramp blocked by police
FACT: driver drove wrong-way through barricade
FACT: protesters had parked cars as a protective barricade
FACT: driver swerved around, into crowd, killed one person, sped off
FACT: police blame protestors, describe driver as "reserved and sullen"
THOUSANDS in
#Toronto
take to the streets for the 16th weekend in a row to demand an immediate ceasefire, an end Canadian complicity in Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and an end to the siege on
#Gaza
.
An Ontario teacher calls out the president and CEO of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP) at last night's AGM for refusing to confirm known investments in weapons manufacturers selling jets, bombs & missiles to Israel used to slaughter thousands of Palestinians.
#Onted
#BDS
This week alone, FIVE teachers in Ontario contacted me about their suspensions related to social media posts condemning the genocide of Palestinians & demanding a ceasefire.
How many teachers have been suspended for supporting Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians?
#onted
Hundreds of protestors march through Union Station in
#Toronto
after occupying Canada’s busiest transportation hub to demand a ceasefire & an end to the siege on
#Gaza
.
Today is the start of
#ShutItDown4Palestine
: daily actions worldwide until demands are met.
Video: Raisa Ally
VICTORY!
After hundreds protested in front of 52 DIVISION for hours to demand the release of a community member who was brutally assaulted & arrested by
#Toronto
police at a
#HumanRightsDay
rally for 🇵🇸, THEY HAVE BEEN RELEASED!
WE KEEP US SAFE!
#PalestineWillBeFree
Video T4P
Shocking admission from staff at Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre, a TDSB partner:
Staff must "report students... critical of Israel," including "referencing genocide or occupation," to the Centre.
"If you're not pro-Israel, then you're antisemitic."
Last night in
#Toronto
THOUSANDS took to the streets to condemn Israel for bombing the most densely populated area on Earth after forcing 1.5 million Palestinians to shelter there for "safety."
This is genocide. Do not look away.
#RafahUnderAttack
#RafahMassacre
📷 seifelyouss
At a protest for 🇵🇸 today, this kid had a message for
#TDSB
:
"Stop your silence.
I want my school to stop lying about what is happening and acting like everything is fine. Things are not fine...
You are letting us kids down."
#CeasefireForGazaNOW
#FreePalestineNow
#Toronto
As Council resumes, the crowd BOOS John Tory.
The Speaker says any disruption will result in removal by security.
<silence>
As John Tory begins speaking the crowd chants again:
HOUSE THE HOMELESS
FEED THE POOR
KICK JOHN TORY OUT THE DOOR!
Another recess is called.
#TOpoli
Thousands gather in front of Union Station
#Toronto
at the "2024 - Genocide No More" rally.
Over 100 journalists have been targeted & killed in cold blood as well as 30,000 Palestinians killed by Israel’s genocidal campaign that continues with Canadian complicity.
📷 pymtoronto
#Toronto
brought it again today for the 9th weekend in a row 🇵🇸
There have been daily, continuous, sustained actions worldwide for 56 days.
A PAUSE IS NOT A CEASEFIRE!
Demands:
▫️
#PermanentCeaseFireNow
▫️End Cdn complicity with Israel
▫️Lift the siege on
#Gaza
Video: T4P
I am suing pro-Israel lobby group B'NAI BRITH CANADA under the Libel & Slander Act for defamation.
Educators must be able to take a stand for
#Palestinian
liberation without fear.
For details:
Our legal action continues today.
Please support if able 🇵🇸
Today
@dimitrilascaris
& Stephen Ellis served B'nai Brith a Libel Notice to DEFEND MY REPUTATION and to ensure EVERYONE can affirm Palestinian Human Rights without fear 🇵🇸
Our struggles are interconnected.
Our liberation is interdependent.
PLEASE DONATE!
THOUSANDS took
#Toronto
streets last night in a SURPRISE ACTION to
#ShutItDown4Palestine
, disrupting NYE celebrations as Israel’s genocide of Palestinians continues.
NO CELEBRATION.
UNTIL LIBERATION.
▫️
#CeasefireNOW
▫️End Cdn complicity with Israel
▫️Lift the siege on
#Gaza
THOUSANDS in
#Toronto
protest in the GLOBAL MARCH FOR
#RAFAH
to demand an arms embargo on Israel.
Canada & Cdn companies continue to arm & profit from Israel's genocide of Palestinians.
#Scotiabank
has invested $500 million in Elbit Systems, Israeli weapons manufacturer.
#BDS
Despite being cleared by multiple investigations, I am facing new ones by the OCT and Toronto Police - initiated by B’nai Brith AFTER my reinstatement. This abuse of process and malicious smear campaign are designed to maximize harm.
HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE.
THOUSANDS from T4P protest leaving Dundas Sq & marching to join ILPS/PYM protestors who are now at 52 Division to demand the release of at least one community member who was arrested by
#Toronto
Police.
The two 🇵🇸 protests had different routes planned but are joining forces!
Three and a half hours into the night, young and old in the thousands continue to march the streets of
#Toronto
united in their support for Palestine and against Israel's genocidal campaign.
#RafahUnderAttack
NATIONAL MARCH ON OTTAWA
Parliament Hill 🇵🇸
DEMANDS:
▫️
#CeasefireNOW
▫️End complicity with Israel
▫️Lift the siege on
#Gaza
Israel has killed 15,000 Palestinians & the Canadian government refuses to call for a ceasefire all while selling weapons that enable Israel's genocide
3 days after being publicly attacked & slandered by
#CIJA
, hundreds of Marc Garneau students took to the streets to call out the
#TDSB
's silence & anti-Palestinian racism.
"Why isn't the TDSB standing up for us and challenging lies by one of its partners?"
#CeasefireInGazaNOW
Two cops are trying to stop Palestinians & supporters from flying flags & banners on the Roncesvalles bridge in Toronto for "safety reasons."
Banners & flags are flown & hung here all the time for other events & protests without police interference.
#FreePalestine
#Toronto
#APR
THOUSANDS outside
#Toronto
police Divisions 52 & 55 demand release of
#Palestine
solidarity protesters brutally assaulted & arrested by TPS for holding a Palestinian flag & demanding an end to Israel's genocide.
WE WILL NOT LEAVE UNTIL THEY ARE RELEASED!
📷 WBW
#WeKeepUsSafe
🇵🇸
Amnesty International Canada warns the University of Toronto against criminalizing
@occupyuoft
encampment.
"THE ADMINISTRATION MUST NOT CALL UPON LAW ENFORCEMENT"
"PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS"
DIE-IN HAPPENING NOW at Union Station in
#Toronto
🇵🇸
Since October 7, Israel has killed 3,648 Palestinian children & more than a thousand are missing under the remnants of destroyed buildings.
STOP THE BOMBING.
END THE GENOCIDE.
#CeaseFireInGaza
#GazaGenocide
#FreePalestine
In less than two hours
@PrideToronto
issued an apology for the "inconvenience" caused to corporate floats.
It took over five months to issue a statement on Palestine, without mention of Israel's genocide, Canadian complicity, or the violence by police against Toronto protestors.
Despite being publicly attacked by Canada’s largest pro-Israel lobby group which made false claims about students at Marc Garneau CI, calling them antisemitic & hateful, students took to the streets demanding a
#CeasefireNOW
& to protest
#TDSB
's &
#CIJA
's anti-Palestinian racism.
"Today represents the failure of the Toronto Police & Hate Crime Unit to bend the law to their will."
Gardner, 1 of 4 people who had their charges dropped after being arrested for protesting Indigo CEO's support for Israel's ongoing genocide, speaks at a press conference today.
THOUSANDS in
#Toronto
occupy & shut down UNION STATION, demanding an end to genocide & an arms embargo NOW.
Israel continues to slaughter displaced Palestinians seeking refuge in makeshift tents in
#Rafah
.
8 months of genocide with Canadian complicity. ENOUGH!
📷 pymtoronto
HAPPENING NOW!
Hundreds of Jews & allies OCCUPY UNION STATION
#Toronto
to demand a ceasefire, an end to arming Israel, an end to the occupation, the siege on Gaza & Israeli apartheid.
NO BUSINESS AS USUAL WHILE CANADA SUPPORTS GENOCIDE!
#ShutItDown4Palestine
#FreePalestine
Students in FOUR Ajax-Pickering high schools walked out today in an unprecedented act of solidarity with
#Palestine
and to protest anti-Palestinian racism and anti-Muslim hate in schools.
They chanted "Free Palestine" and held banners that read "End the Genocide of Palestinians"
#Toronto
marches for the 14th weekend in a row to protest Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians.
Immediate demands are for a ceasefire, an arms embargo & end to all aid to Israel including Canadian complicity, and an end to the siege on
#Gaza
.
#FreePalestine
📷 pymtoronto
THOUSANDS of students from 37 GTA schools walked out in support of Palestine & to protest Israel's genocide. They demand a ceasefire & end to the occupation. Students called out anti-Palestinian racism in their schools.
MORE TO COME!
#Onted
#FreePalestine
#CeasefireForGazaNOW
HUNDREDS of students from at least 12 TDSB schools walked out today to condemn Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians and to protest anti-Palestinian racism in the TDSB.
Students wrote a collective statement.
"IT HAS TAKEN COURAGE..."
#FreePalestine
#StopTheGenocide
#Onted
HAPPENING NOW in
#TORONTO
Hundreds of Palestine solidarity activists have shut down the rails demanding an immediate two-way arms embargo on Israel and an end to the genocide of Palestinians in
#Gaza
THOUSANDS in
#Toronto
take to the streets for the 27th weekend in a row to demand an end to the Western-backed Israeli genocide of Palestinians, a two-way arms embargo, an end to the siege on Gaza, sanctions on Israel & an end to the occupation.
#AlQudsDay
#Gaza
#FreePalestine
Intentionally distorting words of
@TDSB
students clearly saying "Trudeau, Trudeau you can't hide," a chant said at every 🇵🇸 solidarity protest across Canada, & falsely calling them antisemitic & hateful is blatant anti-Palestinian racism & threatens student safety.
SHAME ON YOU!
Solidarity protest outside UofT student encampment still going strong.
Students have made three clear demands:
1. Disclose all investments
2. Divest from Israeli apartheid, occupation, illegal settlements & genocide
3. Terminate partnerships with Israeli academic institutions
"[Fred Hahn] is a solid supporter of the Palestinian resistance to Israeli genocide & every other human rights issue. Supporting him is essential to supporting the fight for a more just society."
By
@judyrebick
, a Jewish CUPE member, writer & activist.
MPP SARAH JAMA SERVES PREMIER DOUG FORD WITH A LIBEL NOTICE!
After MPP Jama called for a ceasefire and de-escalation of violence, Premier Ford posted a malicious and defamatory statement saying that she is "publically supporting the rape and murder of innocent Jewish people."
Audrey Macklin, Professor in Human Rights Law at University of Toronto, explains clearly why the protests at Indigo are not hate-motivated or antisemitic, but motivated by long-standing political opposition to Indigo owner's material support for the IDF responsible for war crimes
Audrey Macklin, a University of Toronto law professor, explains how charges levied on Indigo protesters are more dangerous because they're being falsely regarded as hate-motivated. The motivation allows for harsher punishment. Politically motivated protest is more protected.
REFUSE TO BE SILENCED ON PALESTINE 🇵🇸
"It took getting suspended to realize I have more power than I realize and that many people are actually in that situation too that WHEN WE ALL SPEAK UP, WHEN WE ALL STAND FOR...HUMAN RIGHTS we're actually ALL SAFER."
“To remain silent and to feel isolated and to feel afraid does so much more harm to a movement for a free Palestine.”
Canadian Doctor Yipeng Ge talks about the suspension from his medical residency and why he decided not to continue his education there.
Coalition of 10 Muslim, Jewish & Palestinian groups demand an investigation into surveillance of Ontario students by Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center & an audit into their biased trainings which falsely claim criticism of Israel is antisemitic.
#Onted
#TDSB
#AltTextPalestine
Our letter from a coalition of 10 Muslim, Jewish and Palestinian groups to Ontario school board officials demanding they investigate claims that Friends of Wiesenthal directs their trainers to report students who express anti Israel sentiments.
Throngs of militarized cops intended to intimidate, silence, criminalize & enact violence on anti-genocide protesters:
This is the brand of "safety"
@MayorOliviaChow
chooses to spend billions of dollars on rather than reallocate resources to life-affirming services & supports.
.
@TPSOperations
A bit much for peaceful protesters, eh? No need to waste our tax money on those exercising their protected Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Redirect it to combat homelessness and the rise of anti-Palestinian racism.
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@ShopprsDrugMart
25 mins ago at your 728 Yonge St store in
#Toronto
I witnessed a man violently assault and threaten to kill a cashier using racist, anti-immigrant language for 20 mins. Security stood by watching and let the person pay while the cashier stayed silent.
WHY I RESIGNED FROM PRIDE TORONTO by
@GaryWKinsman
one of Toronto Pride's originators in 1981.
@PrideToronto
has refused to condemn or cut ties with main sponsor TD bank, invested in arms manufacturer General Dynamics, profiting from genocide
@TheGrindTO
HAPPENING NOW! 🇵🇸
Protest outside of YUK YUK'S TO Comedy Club, which is hosting a fundraiser for Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), carrying out the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.
#Toronto
Police on hand to escort supporters of genocide into the club.
GENOCIDE IS NO JOKE.
#BDS
Last night, while thousands in Toronto disrupted NYE celebrations to protest Israel's ongoing genocide, even the CN Tower said: "Free Palestine!" 🇵🇸
#ShutItDown4Palestine
#Toronto
TTC fare inspector on streetcar to youth who didn't have enough money and says can pay later: "Say I own a store. You come in, take a steak and say you'll pay later. You think that's ok?"
I interjected loudly, "I'm fine with that!"
Taken aback he didn't write a ticket and left.
#TORONTO
🇵🇸
ALL OUT FOR GAZA!
WHEN: Sat. November 18 @ 1PM
WHERE: US Consulate,
360 University Ave
NO BUSINESS AS USUAL
while Canada continues to be complicit in the genocide of Palestinians.
▫️
#CeasefireNOW
▫️End siege on
#Gaza
▫️End aid to Israel
#FreePalestine
#Genocide
Yesterday, I lost my dearest friend and brother, Moonga Chiimba. Both his dad and sister died recently, months apart.
Thursday night he was in distress and sought care at a Toronto hospital. He was told to come back in the morning. He never made it back.
I love you Moonga ❤
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After the violent person left, I spoke with the cashier who was visibly shaking. I asked that he be allowed to take a break and go home. He was very concerned with his employment duties.
@ShopprsDrugMart
what will you do to meaningfully support and protect this person?
Last week my legal team filed notice of a 3rd
@OntHumanRights
complaint against TDSB for reprisal for standing up for Palestinian rights & against the use of suspensions & investigations to silence, punish & control Palestine advocacy.
SHARE & SUPPORT! 🇵🇸
There was a scuffle at Yorkdale Mall today between two teenagers. Some pushing & shoving, but no weapons, thankfully. Education workers deal with this often.
Toronto Police sent in two dozen cops & ETF with sub-machine guns.
Someone's trying real hard to justify their budget.
WHY are hundreds of thousands of people of all races, ethnicities, faiths, ages & backgrounds marching every weekend across Canada in solidarity with
#Gaza
& Palestinians?
WATCH & SHARE this film by
@EnviroZach
of
@ricochet_en
& LISTEN to what individual marchers have to say.
This wasn't the surprise I was hoping for on my birthday, but getting suspended by TDSB for calling out CIJA & taking meaningful action to support racialized students protesting genocide & anti-Palestinian racism means I must be doing something right.
Jordan Neely's murder is a result of policies like encampment clearings & increased police budgets that make Black, Indigenous, unhoused & mentally ill people disposable. NYPD's identification with & protection of the killer emphasize the urgency to confront & abolish the police.