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@make_theshift ; former UN Special Rapporteur Right to Housing; cohost Pushback Talks @PUSH_TheFilm IG: @leilanifar

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@leilanifarha
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10 months
@SaulStaniforth Oh the hypocrisy. Please tell her and them to stop.
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Germany set to propose a 3-year rent break across the country, as tenants struggle to cope with the soaring cost of housing. “We need to create breathing room — we need a rent freeze for the next 3 years” If Germany can do it, so can [insert country]
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Denying ppl born in Palestine the right to put that as their place of birth on a Canadian 🇨🇦 passport is anti-Palestinian racism. Rectify this erasure now. @JustinTrudeau @MClaude_Landry @CdnHumanRights @MarcMillerVM #TikTok
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@CdnHeritage It is offensive that Canadian Heritage would allow this video to be posted. Heritage is the home of Human Rights within govt. The speaker is wearing IDF dog tags - an army committing genocide on behalf of an apartheid State. This is completely offensive and inappropriate. Take
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Quiz: I'm a developer in ON. I've just saved 13% on building costs thanks to the HST waiver. I'm going to: A) pass those savings onto purchasers by lowering the price of my units below market rates B) Price the unit at or above market rates to maximize my profits
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Mayor @Claudiashein - I know you care about the right to housing + your human rights obligations. Dont let your city's/country's assets be exploited for tourists before you have secured affordable decent housing for your local popltn.
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Airbnb México
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El Co-Fundador de @Airbnb , @NathanBlec , en colaboración con @GobCDMX y @UNESCOMexico anunció la campaña para promover a la CDMX como un centro global para trabajadores remotos y como la capital del turismo creativo.
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@JustinTrudeau Double standard diplomacy is obscene. You've not uttered one word about the hospitals in Gaza that have become torture sites and death camps. Not one world about the ~20,000 Palestinian child orphans. Not one word about the amputees. Not one word about the bombing of schools.
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McGill injunction denied. Plaintiffs failed to show that protests were causing irreparable harm. "The court is of the opinion that the balance of inconveniences leans more toward the protesters, whose freedom of expression + to gather peacefully wld be affected significantly."
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Big news coming out of Montreal - the injunction made against the McGill encampment in an effort to get it removed has been rejected in court. A big win for the Palestine solidarity movement and students and the broader community protesting everywhere ✊
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Amazing what we are learning about whose rights and which rights count in 🇨🇦. A hot tub on the steps of parliament is apparently protected free expression/right to protest; a tent in a park for someone who has nowhere else to go is trespassing and criminal.
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My 89 yr old father just received an above guideline rent increase from 1 of the largest landlords in Canada - 4.5%. An extra $1,000 p/yr. He's on a fixed income. This developer/landlord will benefit from the HST rebate announced y/day while my father gets poorer as he ages.
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By stripping Sara Jama of her powers as an MPP for wearing a Palestinian scarf, Ted Arnott, Ontario's speaker of the Legislative Assembly, has behaved in a discriminatory manner. He must resign or be asked to do so by the Premier. Period.
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MPP Sarah Jama calls the keffiyeh ban in the Ontario legislature anti-Palestinian racism & refuses to take it off. We spoke with her & the speaker after he asked her to leave the chambers. Full story:
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@AstroLoay @GhassanAbuSitt1 @UNRWA WAR CRIME. Bombing civilian structures including schools is a war crime.
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It's arrived. I've been tracking this in US, Ireland + UK. Investors are (again) snatching up single-family homes + converting to $$ rental accommodation. It's the Blackstone model post '08. Govt must step-in. @TOAdamVaughan @HonAhmedHussen @RomyBowers
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@VintageVault8 Hey @adidas - tell us this isn't true! I just bought a new pair - don't make me toss 'em in the trash! Anti-Palestinian racism isn't cool. It's racism! You'll be on the wrong side of history and you're gonna lose money if you perish at with this way of thinking.
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@JustinTrudeau Perhaps you'd consider an arms embargo on Isra31 - the State to which you sent 28.5 million in military equipment Oct-Dec '23. The same State that has bombed all the hospitals in Gaz@ as well as ambulances, ki11ed and taken Drs hostage, sniped patients, and ki11ed + wounded
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Ottawa Police have moved in to remove peaceful pro-Palestinian protestors from in front of Parliament Hill. I asked an officer why they're arresting + removing- he said: "Because they're blocking the road. They've been here for hours". Pretty lmtd understanding of free speech!
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Apparently Canada will resume funding of @UNRWA . While this is the right thing to do, they get no applause. The suspension of funding was wrong + contributed to the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. 🇨🇦 constant kowtowing to Israel's lies is based in anti-Palestinian racism.
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@gazaheart And why shld Palestinians leave Gaza? The US cld single handedly stop Israel's bombing of Gaza, prevent killings + raids in the OPT, dismantle settlements + end the occupation. But no, Palestinians shld leave their lands, their possessions, their homes w/ no guarantee of return.
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@carolinemarcus @Qantas @AustralianJA Intimidated by that little pin of a flag? If it had been the Ukrainian flag would he have felt the same?
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@HonAhmedHussen Who made the allegations that UNRWA employees are Hamas fighters? Please indicate who made these allegations and the basis upon which the allegations were made. Otherwise, this just looks like another attempt to allow Isra31 to continue its genocida intentions. Cant let
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@NeriaKraus Agree completely. And looking forward to Ms. Clinton's video regarding the rape and sexual assault of boys/girls/women by the IDF that have occurred for many years now, and the need to hold the IDF accountable for crimes against humanity.
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Wow. This is rich. @selinarobinson successfully got a Langara College instructor fired for pro-Hamas statements in October. But having made racist, dehumanizing slurs against Palestinians she refuses to resign. Pol hypocrisy in 🇨🇦 is an art form!
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@PasternakTO @UWindsor Mr Pasternak, who exactly are you, to interfere with a negotiated agreement between two parties? And do you mean to say that the Ontario law prohibits divestment when that divestment is consistent with international law and is to ensure no complicity with genocide? Do you also
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@SZunes Canada right by their side. DISGUSTING. @BobRae48 @JustinTrudeau
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24 hrs later - I can't shake the trauma of seeing a group of extremely privileged, mostly educated + white people applaud and applaud and applaud the killing and torture of others. And applaud for more. Ghouls in suits.
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@melaniejoly I note the careful use of the term "strikes that killed" rather than Israeli strikes. Are you suggesting Ms. Joly that some other bomb dropping force did this?
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Contrary to #humanrights @cityoftoronto is clearing Trinity Bellwoods Park of ppl living in homelessness. They've cordoned off the area, brought in approx 40 police, 100 private security personnel + deployed drones + unmarked stingray tech. They're telling observers to leave.
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@sabreenaGS Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. More discrimination amidst the indoctrination. This is how structural zionism works.
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The @LCBO 's (a govt entity) dec'n to hide that Taybeh wine is made in #Palestine is not just incredible for its racism + discrimination. Taybeh is located in Area A - under the control of the Palestinian Authority. Is the @LCBO / @ONgov challenging international law?
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Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe is hosting an Isra3li flag raising event to mark its 76th year on 15 May - Nakba Day. This is outrageous for many reasons, deeply offensive + a crass insult to YOW's Palestinian, Muslim + Arab pop + many others. SHUT IT DOWN. Call Email etc
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WATCH THIS. Where have house prices risen the most since 2000? Remember: This happens not just under Govt watch - but as a result of govt fiscal and monetary policies. This is not about housing. It's about finance. @OECD_Stat Thx for sharing @front_urban
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This is how the @cityoftoronto has proceeded with the dismantling of Trinity Bellwoods Park. There are approximately 20 ppl who are homeless living there. #maketheshift #right2housing
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Note that it in this particular case the woman is 90 years old. Born pre 1948. 'Nuf said. Also note that Canada's position on this dovetails with Nakba denial.
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Not surprising @_MarkSutcliffe 's acceptance speech put improving roads before life/death issues like addressing homelessness, and climate change - which he failed to mention. This man represents change? What kind of change? From white establishment to white establishment.
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@QudsNen Oh yes, please do reach out to Isr&el to ask them about the war crimes they are committing. Why not look at the evidence from the ground - from the remaining journalists that Is hasn't kil!ed yet. Oh, cuz you're racist. Right.
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@AHousefather Well perhaps those synagogues should not host events where war crimes are potentially being perpetrated. We're in a new era Sir. One where ppl in Canada now know that Israeli settlements are illegal. Israel is an occupying power and cannot move its population onto it
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Homelessness is growing everywhere. A reminder: homeless ppl are rights holders, their encampments are rights claims + their supporters are human rights defenders. As such - human rights law applies wrt all related laws, policies, procedures and resource allocation.
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I think it needs to be explained why the CP statement was perceived as hurtful by some ppl of the Jewish faith living in Ottawa. How did it cause harm? I'm confused by this. And even if some Jewish ppl feel uncomfortable with the statement - so what? The statement was not
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@QudsNen War crime.
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@amywestervelt Its just a script they cut and paste from. That was exactly - verbatim - what was in the MSM in October, November and ever since. Israel writes the script and politicians and MSM reprint it. Luckily the world sees through all of this sham.
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@melaniejoly @ABaerbock This is ridiculous. Do you think we don't see you? What feminist foreign policy are you talking about? The one you don't apply to Plaestini @n women? Shall I remind you that they have been suffering unprecedented killing (9,000 in 5 months, 30 mothers every day), women are giving
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Leilani Farha 🍉
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My final 4 days as UN Special Rapporteur - a flurry of activity as I try to end global homelessness, evictions, unaffordability, financialization + improve tenant prtctns, adequacy of informal settlements AND protect vs. #CV19 by Thurs. Stay tuned for opportunities to join me!
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@theJagmeetSingh It's not just wrong. It's racist and discriminatory and as a lawyer you know that. Time to deal in spades.
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@AssalRad @DPsaledakis @Olivia_Gazis Any country that provides Israel with arms should be precluded from being part of or overseeing negotiations between Hamas and Israel. Period. Especially a country that defends and supports an apartheid State, massacring Palestinian children, engaged in genocide + war crimes.
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Here is Capital Pride's statement: After 75+ years of silence, the narratives that enable the rights of Palestinians to be violated are being exposed and challenged. Capital Pride is demonstrating what it looks like when we implement the universality of
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"Our liberation is not the antithesis of someone else's. A success for Palestinians is not a defeat for Jewish people. A success for Palestinian human rights is a win for all human rights" -- Leila Obeid, @UWindsor student
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The Jewish community is "not a monolith... For me, being part of the Palestine solidarity movement is part of my Jewish identity." @jillianrogin , @UWindsor faculty of law and member of IJV.
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Blackstone is serving it up on a silver platter for us! Evictions will give their investors "confidence in cash flow growth". They're evicting 100s of tenants to bail themselves out. They're finally being honest - they don't care about their tenants or human rights.
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@yipengGe @CMA_Docs TY @yipengGe for ur courage + ur letter. This isn't a world I care for, where those standing for human rights + anti-oppression are forced out. But there's an ever-growing community exposing all the systems for what they are + who they benefit. We will eventually prevail. We must
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Hey @theJagmeetSingh let's clarify - the @CIJ_ICJ didn't just say settlement *expansion* is illegal. They said all settlements on occupied land are illegal and must be *dismantled*. They also said the law and systems in place upholding apartheid (which would include the
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Today, the ICJ's opinion reaffirmed that the occupation of Palestinian territories constitutes a clear violation of international law. Canada must take immediate and concrete action to enforce this ruling. Actions to stop Netanyahu's expansion of illegal settlements on
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@Arturmaks These acts by Israel were indiscriminate - injuring many many civilians. War crimes. Many UOttawa students and their families were placing frantic calls to family in Lebanon to ensure they were safe while you posted this. Take this hate fomenting message down. Completely
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@MacLeodLisa What are you talking about? Everyone knows the political party of Meloni has neo-fascist roots. She, along with Trudeau has supported genocide by Isra3l. You don't want us to protest fascists and genocide? That's bizarre.
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I thought we were worried about affordability for tenants not developers! Average rents in Canada are now more than 2,000/mos. If the GST waiver is going to make a difference it must be conditional on building affordable units. Public value for public dollars.
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Student activism at its finest! @mcgillu students rename buildings⁦⁩ to remind us of Ga za - at a university that's made it v hard to protest gen0cide. Watch ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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I have heard that the Pride boycotts in Ottawa are actually not about fear (no one believed that anyway) but rather are about CP's support for BDS. Zionists have zero tolerance for BDS (as we've seen for years now) and thus came out in force and reeled in their sheep. I'll
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@AHousefather @UWindsor @DeborahLyonsSE @univcan @JillDunlop1 You cannot have it both ways Mr Housefather. You cant side w/ those who say Universities are private property + can thus evict encampments AND treat universities like they're engaged in public policy when they negotiate w/ students to divest from supporting a genocidal regime.
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I live in a city where the Mayor defends genocide, in a province where the Premiere supports anti-Palestinian racism, and in a ctry where the PM considers war criminal Netanyahu a friend and the foreign affairs minister sends weapons to Israel to help kill babies + kids. Grim.
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All you need to know about how wrong PM Trudeau's Zionism speech was is right here in the brilliant remarks of @NaomiAKlein . "[Zionism] is a false idol that has taken the transcendent idea of the promised land – a metaphor for human liberation that has traveled across multiple
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Developers in 🇨🇦 already benefit from low interest rate loans, preferential mortgage insurance terms, property tax exemptions, development fee waivers. And yet, strangely, the cost of housing is more expensive than ever. 🤔 Public subsidies for private gain. That's the system.
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Liberal staffers pull their support to help in by-election unless Trudeau changes govt position re: Israel. Wow. "No one wants to see a Canada where Pierre Poilievre is PM, but you cannot take advantage of our labour at home while perpetuating our dehumanization abroad."
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Liberal staffers pull support for party in Montreal byelection, citing government's stance on Gaza
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Student encampment @UWindsor wins big on disclosure+ divestment 👏🏼👏🏼 Take note @UofT @mcgillu @UCalgary @UAlberta you've been shown up! There is clearly another way - one that is non-violent + consistent w/ int'l law + responsible investing.
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Let it all hang out Canada.
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I'm often asked abt the connection between homelessness in affluent countries and the financialization of housing. Here: Economic systems whose functioning + growth is tied to the extraction of wealth and ppl of little means from housing can expect homelessness as an outcome.
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@melaniejoly @YaaraSaks What is your point about being in the visible distance? Who is the threat to whom? The greatest threat to Isra3l is its occup @tion of Palestin3. The longer you arm Isra3l to maintain their stranglehold, the more insecurity you help to create. I reject
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I never thought I'd have to tell a City - with thousands of empty hotel rooms - that providing parking spaces for homeless ppl to sleep on is NOT consistent with a #StayHomeSaveLives policy and is, in fact, a death sentence. This job has its low moments. #right2housing
@Manda_like_wine
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Nevada, a state in one of the richest countries in the world, has painted social-distancing boxes on a concrete parking lot for the homeless to sleep in.
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Incredible support for Ottawa Pride! It's a party, a celebration and total support for liberation! Nothing performative about it. Human rights for everyone NOW!
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@SunilSarwal Yep. This is what Israeli occupation looks like.
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TORONTO. There is another way to interact with ppl who are homeless. One that doesn't involve police w/ guns, private security forces that are unaccountable, fences and barriers, and an Us vs Them, top-down, colonial approach. #HumanRightsNotForce #Dignity #Dialogue
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Breaking: Another massive show of force by City Security staff and Police to evict encampment residents from Alexandra Park @ESN_TO @blogTO @nowtoronto @adequatehousing @leilanifarha @FredrikGertten @Push_TheFilm #encampment
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Are you kidding me @globeandmail ?
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@OwenJones84 @UNRWA I just donated too. I hope many many more ppl do as well. As a Canadian I defy my government's complicity in plausible genocide.
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⚠️CONCERN ⚠️ The @bankofcanada has hired @blackrock - world's largest asset management firm managing 27 Trillion USD - to help set country's financial policy during/post #COVID19 . Whose interests will they represent? 🤔 Time for some #humanrights accountabilty + oversight -No?
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Here's what a "lack of supply" or "stock" looks like in Toronto. Let's be very clear - in some cities stuff IS being built. But maybe it's the wrong stuff for the wrong people. #Elxn44 #cdnpoli
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@broseph_stalin @ShoaibMKhan Agree. If only more journalists would do this, including with Western leaders. Go go go @marclamonthill
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I'm kinda tired of all these white men telling me (and others in my community) that I pose some kind of physical threat or real harm to anybody when I assert - through words and street protests and social media posts - that the State of Israel is committing genocide of
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@melaniejoly Oh my gawd. What exactly are you thinking by posting this? Do you really think Hamas is the obstruction here? And what of the US's vetoes? And when have you called on Israel to lay down their arms, stop the bombing including of homes and hospital, stop mass executions and graves,
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@SenatorHousakos @mcgillu What about this protest is antisemitic? The ICC is preparing to indict Netanyahu and his gang. What does that suggest to you about the war he's inflicted on Gaza? That's pretty relevant context for these student protests. Or do you not believe in international law?
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@jerlevi Why would you post this? Are you saying you don't believe in international law? The Charter? Did you mention that when you ran for public office? What other laws don't you believe in?
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Shocked that @JaimePalomera + 2 residents in Barcelona are being charged criminally + possibly sentenced to 3 yrs in prison for peacefully challenging an eviction. This constitutes reprisal vs. human rights defenders, and is an infringement of #humanrights . @SindicatLloguer
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It's #HumanRightsDay   FOCUS: #homelessness One of the most widespread yet least recognized human rights violations: 150 million ppl worldwide. Govts adopt policies contributing to it with impunity. We can make a shift. Read my op-ed with @JKaakinen
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@FareedZakaria Really? You seem not to remember that Palestine has always been a taboo subject on most US campuses. Even in the supposed days of robust speech and "community". Today's students are liberating/forcing the discussion as much as they are standing for Gaz.a and an end to
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You cannot rely on those who contributed to the housing crisis to solve the housing crisis - unless the ground rules that govern their behavior are radically altered.
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Leilani Farha 🍉
2 years
I don't normally endorse political candidates. But there's much at stake in this election. I agree w/ @cathmckenna ⬇️ @cmckenney is clearly the best candidate for Mayor. I work w/ Mayors from cities x the world - Catherine has what it takes to defend, lead + make us great.
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Catherine McKenna
2 years
We're lucky good people are running for Mayor. The choice is clear for me: I want someone who will invest to build a better city instead of making cuts. Who is committed to ambitious climate action. Who is experienced & will stand up for Ottawa. That's why I'm voting @cmckenney .
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Leilani Farha 🍉
2 months
@PhilGordon46 @AkshayaSays @VP Key words: "credible investigation". State sanctioned crimes cannot be investigated by that State.
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Leilani Farha 🍉
6 months
@RamAbdu @EuroMedHR It's convenient that the White House is DAYS behind the rest of the world wrt to their intel. It is clearrly a strategy so that they can query the veracity of the claim and then never answer the question in light of news cycles. Just another way to ensure Isra el's impunity.
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Leilani Farha 🍉
6 months
@melaniejoly An investigation by whom Ms Joly? The perpetrators? By a party that sends arms to Isra3l? Or by an international independent third party? Palestinians are being massacred on Israel's lies.
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Leilani Farha 🍉
1 year
Student housing is being taken over by private equity + other financial firms. Is it for the good of students? Of course not! It's become a profit making asset class! Read my piece in the @guardian
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Leilani Farha 🍉
10 months
@itslaylas Yay for the guy with the safety vest and helmet, calling it out! Sheesh. Now imagine if the food cart guy was of a different religion .... and was being harassed as such ... 'Nuff said.
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Leilani Farha 🍉
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@HalaHanina We are all shadow banned! But those of us who believe in upholding international law and holding Isra3l accountable for violations of it, are out here!
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Leilani Farha 🍉
9 months
I'm also disappointed in the City of Ottawa. Charging people hefty fines for using a megaphone at a protest against genocide of Palestinians is a clear and literal attempt to silence. That's contrary to Canada's Charter of Rights. Mayor Sutcliffe - time to step in.
@yipengGe
Yipeng Ge 葛义朋
9 months
I’m so disappointed in the city of Ottawa. The right to peacefully protest is under threat in the nation’s capital city. $490 for using a megaphone? The silencing & intimidation to dissuade people for advocating for health & human rights for Palestine must stop. Shame on Ottawa.
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Leilani Farha 🍉
11 months
As I've asked before, @melaniejoly , please explain to the public how not calling for a ceasefire and how voting against the #UNGA resolution is consistent with 🇨🇦 "feminist foreign policy". Or does this policy only extend to certain women in certain countries?
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Haaretz.com
11 months
52,000 pregnant women and over 30,000 babies under six months of age are currently drinking brackish or contaminated water in Gaza, according to an internal U.S. State Department document's assessment
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Leilani Farha 🍉
5 months
@melaniejoly This is better. Better. But how about urging them to refrain from any operation in Gaza? And how about a two sided arms embargo now. You can't kill with one hand and save (supposedly) with the other.
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Leilani Farha 🍉
6 months
@JustinTrudeau Oh! Now we know why 🇨🇦 didn't condemn the bombing of the Embassy of Ir @n in Damascus by your friend Isra3l. Would be hard to then make Isra3l seem like a victim wouldn't it? And hard to blame Ir @n for destabilizing ME. Let's be clear as to which states have detailed peace in the
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Leilani Farha 🍉
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@laine_johnson1 I think it needs to be explained why the CP statement was perceived as hurtful by ppl of the Jewish faith living in Ottawa. How did it cause harm? I'm confused by this. And even if some Jewish ppl feel uncomfortable with the statement - so what? The statement was not
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Leilani Farha 🍉
5 months
I think the Mayor of Ottawa @_MarkSutcliffe needs to explain to the people of Ottawa why the City refused to fly Russia's flag on Russia day but will do so with Israel's on Nakba Day. Upon what basis are these decisions made?
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Leilani Farha 🍉
5 years
#COVID -19 requires a global ban on evictions. No evictions of anyone, anywhere, for any reason. Public housing, private market housing, informal settlements, indigenous lands. #StayHome = #NoEvictions via @YouTube
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Leilani Farha 🍉
10 months
@itslaylas Do you not have Hate Speech protections in criminal law in the USA? It is hate speech. and Harrassment!
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Leilani Farha 🍉
5 months
Dear Mayor Sutcliffe and Councillor Leiper, I am an international human rights lawyer, a former United Nations Special Rapporteur and I have worked in the occupied Palestinian territories and continue to do so. I am an Arab-Canadian and I live in Mr. Leiper’s ward. My father is
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Leilani Farha 🍉
1 month
I've talked to some 20-something's abt the boycotting of Pride in #YOW by the Mayor, CHEO, the Liberal Party et al. They're disgusted + unequivocal: Boycotting Pride is no-go. Under no circumstances do you sell-out LGBTQ2S+ This generation won't be silenced. And they vote.
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Leilani Farha 🍉
2 years
Tired of reading that "compassion" is needed wrt homeless encampments. What's needed is the upholding of human rights law and obligations by all orders of government. Forced eviction is a violation. Plain + simple. It costs nothing (in fact saves) to CEASE these violative acts.
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