In the past century, all regimes obsessed with antisemitism and antizionism, which have consequently supported the Palestinian cause of no Jewish state, have found themselves in the dustbin of history: Nazi, Pan-Arabist, Soviet. The Ayatollah regime will meet the same fate. The
💭🧪Trying this again: Visit the Twitter timelines of prominent Canadian progressive / social justice accounts (activist orgs, student unions, MP/P, etc.)
Share their comments on
#MashaAmini
, the 22-year-old woman killed by Iran's morality police.
Also watch this:
This is the time! Sanction Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), National TV (IRIB)
& regime’s top perpetrators who have systemically violated Iranian people’s rights.
I testified before a special joint session of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the
#Canadian
Parliament.
The first image is of Yazan Falah, 19, who was murdered today in
#Hadera
. May his memory be a blessing.
The second is of Dr. Jalal Ashkar, Director of the Emergency Medicine Department at the Hospital in Hadera.
Both are Arab. Both are Israelis.
#BREAKING
: Hostage situation at Congregation Beth Israel Temple in Colleyville, Texas. The gunman apparently entered the synagogue during Shabbat services.
To those just tuning in, here's a taste of the materials distributed by a
@tdsb
equity advisor. These were called out by a Jewish Trustee.
Consequently, the equity advisor was reinstated without discipline, and the Jewish Trustee that called it out is now facing a censure vote.
Kindly F off.
You literally called on people to "Pay attention to the 'Zionist Synagogues'" last month, and I can only imagine the anti-Jewish animus running through your activism supporting
#AafiaSiddiqui
.
@CAIRNational
has no shame.
Bismillah. We strongly condemn the hostage-taking at Congregation Beth Israel in
#Colleyville
, Texas. This latest antisemitic attack on Jewish Americans worshipping at a synagogue is an act of pure evil. 1/2
'We have not killed any civilians.'
Head of Political and International Relations in Hamas, Dr Basem Naim, denies reports that 800 Israelis have been killed after Hamas attacked Israel over the weekend.
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BREAKING: The
@tdsb
Board of Trustees has voted to REJECT the recommendation to censure Trustee
@alexandralulka
by a vote of 10-7.
There will be no sanction.
The Palestine solidarity movement opposes IHRA but welcomes alternative tools like the Jerusalem Declaration. Why? Because IHRA has been used as a weapon to shut down our advocacy, while JD explicitly distinguishes b/w antisemitism and our political expression. This is the issue.
A quick google search would have revealed that Laith Marouf was banned from Concordia for a year after uttering death threats and an altercation in which two security guards were injured.
He took the university to court and lost. Of course, his costs were assumed by the s union.
@mrpdonaldson
@sjkelly1
@jonkay
@CdnHeritage
@HonAhmedHussen
Laith Marouf has an easily checked history going back to 2002 when he spayed anti-Israel graffiti on the walls at Concordia and attacked security.
Googling a potential employee is basic.
You should apologize for mocking without any due diligence.
19-year-old Noa Marciano lived in Modiin and was the oldest of three siblings.
Hamas has repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims Noa was killed by Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. The original footage demonstrates that she was murdered by cold blooded terrorists.
#HamasisISIS
The chutzpah of this essay — which labels anti-Zionist Jews "un-Jews" and compares them to collaborators with the Roman destruction of the Temple — ending on this kind of note
Unconfirmed, but
@AaronKatersky
&
@Liorfink
saying the gunman is the brother of
#AafiaSiddiqui
, a US-trained Pakistani neuroscientist named one of the FBI's most wanted terrorists, who is serving an 86 year sentence in a case that has prompted outrage in Pakistan.
At the military cemetery of Kisra-Sumei, a Druze village in the Galilee, Yazan's uncle spoke in Hebrew: Yazan, you left behind an entire army of friends.
Falah insisted on joining the Border Police despite being exempt from combat service as his mother’s only son.
📽️
@kh_lorena
Catherine McDonald is a brilliant journalist and a valued member of our Jewish Community.
No matter how you feel about the story, comparing a news item to the real persecution of Jews in the Holocaust is a shameful exploitation of our history and the painful memory of survivors
You’re hunting Jews. You’re sniffing them out. You’re finding Jewish children and you’re calling the police on them. Sure you’re Jewish — just like the Judenrat was:
When I was 12 years old, I raised my voice at an Israeli soldier at the Erez military checkpoint. My mother scolded me for putting our lives in danger.
Today, the Palestinian resistance destroyed the Erez checkpoint.
Mission Accomplished 🇵🇸
"This complaint was made to silence me. I will not be silenced."
So much respect for
@alexandralulka
, who, for months, has carried the weight of this issue.
Glad to see Gov of 🇨🇦 unwavering on this 👇👇👇
Hon.
@MarcGarneau
: "I will simply say that the position of the Liberal government is extremely clear on the question of the 'apartheid' label. We reject it categorically. >>>
This is a good reminder that
@antihateca
does not really care about
#antisemitism
, and never has.
When it comes to hate targeting Cdn Jews,
@antihateca
will only speak up when it's politically convenient. Swastikas? All over it. Hate originating outside the far-right? 🔕Silence
A first glance at
@BarakRavid
's interview with Donald Trump for latest book: "Israel would have been annihilated without me. No one did more than I for Bibi. But the elections were stolen, and he ran to congratulate Biden. Terrible mistake. We haven't spoken since. Fuck him."
בלעדי: דונלד טראמפ אומר לי בראיון כי נתניהו היה כפוי טובה ולא נאמן: "לא דיברתי איתו מאז הבחירות - שילך להזדיין". קטעים ראשונים מספרי "השלום של טראמפ" הבוקר ב-
@YediotAhronot
. כדי לקרוא את הראיון המלא רכשו את הספר עכשיו בהנחה (קוד קופון 7272) בקישור:
⚠️A note about the pro-Hamas rallies in Ontario and across Canada.
In short, PYM->Samidoun->PFLP. Confusing but bear with me:
The rally organizer is "Palestinian Youth Movement", an extension of Samidoun, which is a registered not-for-profit in Canada with ties to the PFLP. >
This is the moral clarity we deserve.
No double standards, moral equivalency, or whataboutism when dealing with the massacre of innocent civilians.
It must be said -- it's Antisemitism on full display when your answer to murdered children is to offer justification. My God...
Apropos
#CanadaDay
and all
I've spent most of my childhood here and this has *never* happened when we were growing up. When folks wanted to protest, they'd rally outside the consulate. Somehow it became legitimate and normalized to haunt Jewish neighbourhoods. This isn't Canada.
Happening now: Protesters screaming free Palestine, yelling anti-Semitic slurs and intimidating Jews in
#Thornhill
outside a plaza of mainly kosher establishments. This is NOT anti Zionism —it’s a blatant act of
#antisemitic
hate which must be condemned by everyone.
#cdnpoli
Five people have been shot in a terrorist attack in
#Hadera
- two have been declared dead.
This is my hometown. I grew up a 5-minute walk from here. My uncle's baguette shop is down the street.
What this half-baked statement means:
1. Minimal impact in Israel, which has a massive local ice cream market.
2. The obsessed-with-Israel crowd will be incentivized to keep bullying
@benandjerrys
until they boycott Tel Aviv.
3. Happy owners at Rukab's Ice Cream in Ramallah.
There is no equivalence between a military operation intended to save lives and a massacre of worshippers by those who celebrate death.
⬅️⬅️⬅️#عملية_القدس
TL;DR: A couple of visible (Orthodox) Jews didn't comply with masks on a flight, so
@lufthansa
decided to ban anyone who looked Jewish from continuing on to their connecting flights. Dozens of masked Jews were blocked by armed guards.
👇"all forms of racism" statement:
Lufthansa regrets the circumstances surrounding the decision to exclude passengers from flight LH 1334 on May 4. Lufthansa sincerely apologizes. Please find our statement below:
This "activism" stopped being about Israel a long long time ago. It's why they dropped the Toronto consulate and instead march through Jewish neighbourhoods.
"Zionist think they own this area" -> Zero Israeli institutions at Bathurst and Sheppard. Lots of elderly Jews though.
Oh
@TerryGlavin
, this stuff is definitely noticed, and not just in
@CdnHeritage
- it's happening everywhere. But nothing gets done bc folks are either terrified of the backlash or don't see Jews as "people of the global majority" so it's deprioritized or ignored.
You don't need a neuroscientist to see how
@AjAqrabawi
has totally crossed the line into vile antisemitism. It must be abusive for fellow academics at
@mitbrainandcog
/
@MIT
.
@JustinTrudeau
@naftalibennett
@yairlapid
👏👏👏
"🇨🇦Canada and 🇮🇱Israel are close friends bound together by shared democratic values, a long history of cooperation, and vibrant people-to-people ties."
Yesterday,
@CANADALAND
's
@JesseBrown
hosted
@dalya_masri
to talk about
#cdnmedia
coverage of Israel-Palestine.
It took only *three minutes* for the first age-old antisemitic conspiracy theory to come up when Dalya accused Jewish Canadian organizations of buying off the media.
This week, the Vancouver city council adopted a definition of antisemitism that’s drawn criticism worldwide, including from progressive Jewish communities. I go into how it undermines both the Palestinian struggle + struggle against antisemitism.
This here is by far the most important takeaway of this scandal (🙏
@jonkay
for finding it):
@MaroufLaith
's stated goal was to "make sure that (((your oppressor))) does not even have one space that they can feel comfortable in."
>>>>
#BREAKING
looks like Blue&White has emerged with a significant lead over the incumbent Likkud party
#IsraelElections2019
. But what really matters is the coalition building which starts tonight.
In 2009, this exact scenario played out at
@YorkUniversity
. Rather than dispersing the rioters, police and admin asked the Jews to leave and escorted them out as they were shouted at.
The incident left a permanent stain on that institution. And the students...>>>
JUST IN: Jewish students at Cooper Union in New York were reportedly locked inside the library for their own safety as an angry pro-Palestinian mob surrounded them on the other side of the doors.
The students were later escorted out by police.
This is what happens when the
@RichardDawkins
Hebrew can help:
🔥Temperature hot = חם (χaam)
🥵Spicy hot = חריף (χareef)
🍂 Spiced = מתובל (Metubal)
χ* is nerd for "voiceless uvular fricative", the "Ch" sound in Chanukah.
Did
@MatthewGreenNDP
intentionally share Russian propaganda? Probably not, and that's the most worrying part.
For years, the worst global actors have poured millions into polished brands that appeal to young left-leaning North American activists.
The foreign ministers of 🇧🇭Bahrain, 🇪🇬Egypt, 🇲🇦Morocco, and 🇦🇪UAE - all in 🇮🇱Israel for the
#NegevSummit
- have condemned tonight's gruesome attack in
#Hadera
.
🇵🇸Hamas and PIJ have already released statements praising the attackers and the "heroic operation."
Five people have been shot in a terrorist attack in
#Hadera
- two have been declared dead.
This is my hometown. I grew up a 5-minute walk from here. My uncle's baguette shop is down the street.
Moving statement In today's
@nationalpost
:
Community leaders, elected officials, social media companies, and civil society groups unite in denouncing all forms of antisemitism.
#antisemitismsummit
. 🇨🇦
This is one of the videos documenting the PFLP's involvement in the invasion and killings. Note the red headbands matching the logo.
The PFLP is a registered terrorist entity in Canada. >>
@KarenFriedman
@DeborahBWal22
@tdsb
@trixiedoyle
@rchernoslin
Especially when, that same summer, a Muslim family in London, ON was obliterated because of domestic terrorism. The trustee’s tweet emboldened anti-Palestinian racism and put a literal target on the backs of Muslim students, educators, and families. We do not feel safe. /2
@blakeflayton
We moved in December. If you need any help with the bureaucracy or even someone to yell in Hebrew at the multitude of government agencies - feel free to reach out!
Why should
@Laith_Marouf
's statements come as a surprise when
@BhabhaFaisal
faced meagre condemnation for his comments on "Jewish supremacy?"
Or after the
@TDSB
reinstated
@XjusticeXpeace
who refers to the majority of Jews on this planet as colonizers?
This month alone 11 innocent Israelis were murdered - and dozens more injured - as part of a terror wave not seen in years.
As I follow the news cycle I can't help but remember last year's crowds chanting
#intifada
across
@CBC
in
#Toronto
. This is what they called for.
#cdnpoli
The
@TDSB
's Indp. Investigator maintained that analysis on discrimination "must focus on the *effects*" of the Trustee's twitter statement, and not her intent, or even her understanding of the materials (i.e. links to the PFLP).
Does
@morganmsim
's logic apply to her own tweets?
I walk by this place all the time. I tried explaining to the owner
@covidrevolution
why these messages and signs are hurtful, but was called a "Nazi genocide supporter" and asked to leave.
Zionism is by definition a desire to liberate the Jewish people from millennia of oppression. It is no wonder that the vast majority of Jewish Canadians identify as Zionists.
>>>
💭🧪Join me in a little experiment: Visit the Twitter timeline of the most prominent Canadian anti-racist / social justice account you can think of. It can be an activist, an org, a student union, MP/P, etc.
Share their comments on
#LaithMarouf
here.
When speaking about the wave of Arab terrorism in Israel, remember: Arabs are victims, Arabs are doctors and nurses who treat the wounded, Arabs are soldiers and police officers, Arabs are the source of intelligence that leads to arrests. Be careful with your words and your tone.
@mohamadfakih8
Tell us what happened to Pearson's peacekeepers, Mohamad. Tell us who ordered them to leave in order to amass 100,000 troops in the Sinai.
Tell us who was responsible for the naval blockade that triggered the war.
It's a never ending cycle:
1️⃣ Government participates in/funds a Palestinian program
2️⃣ Program platforms an antisemite, or features something terribly anti-Jewish, or promotes violence
3️⃣ People, usually Jews, call it out
4️⃣"The Jews are silencing us again!"™
It's a brilliant strategy: Activists are always the loudest people in the room, so it's a good investment to divert attention away from the world's most heinous human rights abusers. Here are some examples:
This is a good reminder that
@antihateca
does not really care about
#antisemitism
, and never has.
When it comes to hate targeting Cdn Jews,
@antihateca
will only speak up when it's politically convenient. Swastikas? All over it. Hate originating outside the far-right? 🔕Silence
"I don't hate the Jews. I just love their enemies:" every serpentine, moralizing anti-Semitic leftist. "I don't hate the Jews. I'm just telling the truth about their insidious conspiratorial influence:" every two-bit right-wing tinfoil-hatted envy-inspired troll demon.
Live from the
@YRDSB
Board Meeting, Trustee
@JuanitaNathan
claims to know more than Jews about antisemitism, while Trustee Sinclair says she "googled it" and proceeds to regurgitate anti-IHRA fallacies. 🤦
"It is not acceptable to impose political tests on the recognition of Jewish student groups on any of the University of Toronto campuses. It is unacceptable to impose political tests on suppliers of Kosher or any other type of food.
@UofT
will be following up with the
@SCSUuoft
"
#UofT
opposes all forms of discrimination & is committed to freedom of speech & academic freedom. The University was alarmed to learn about 2 motions passed at the Scarborough Campus Students’ Union AGM on Wednesday.
View the President’s statement:
To be clear, Sunrise DC’s statement and actions are not in line with our values. Singling out Jewish organizations for removal from a coalition, despite others holding similar views, is antisemitic and unacceptable.
Omg
@"The agent brought up MAiD unprompted in a conversation with the veteran, who was seeking treatment for PTSD & TBI, repeatedly and even after the veteran asked the service agent to stop.
The veteran said he felt pressured as a result."
Does anyone care to explain how the
@tdsb
's paid equity staff can continue to teach content that directly contradicts the values of the Province of Ontario?
The Ministry of Education (i.e.
@Sflecce
) is, or at least should be, responsible for setting the provincial curriculum.