The most radicalizing force in the world, by far, is impunity.
It is the height of Western racism and inhumanity to expect racialized people to watch other racialized people, including their own kin, be massacred each day for months on end and do nothing about.
Fuck you all.
You have no idea - and I really mean no clue - of how far the wretched of the earth are being pushed. The violence of the US empire and its Israeli outpost has set the tone of engagement. Don’t come crying when chickens come home to roost. You did this. With your silence and
Yesterday, the Mount Sinai Hospital was targeted because of its ties to the Jewish community in Toronto.
This is not okay.
Hospitals are a place for healing - not a target for protests.
This fucking doofus hasn't tweeted a single time about the systematic destruction of every single hospital in Gaza. Got on the radio for this bullshit, though.
These people are fucking shameless.
Yesterday, I spoke with
@KevinVuongMP
about South Africa's submission to the ICJ. I asked him to justify his position that the trial is a disrespectful farce. (He couldn't). Here's what I learned. (Thread)
The problem is that people of European heritage don't typically think colonialism and the enslavement of Africans were bad. They can not or will not imagine the world any other way than this, but they can and do imagine the Holocaust not happening.
Anyway, the point is…stop looking at genocide as *the worst crime*. It’s a crime just as many other crimes against humanity are & they are all just as evil & bad. Stop comparing different acts of violence & evil. Start understanding the Holocaust was industrialised & widespread.
First,
@KevinVuongMP
is deeply, deeply unserious. He does not have meaningful thoughts about the world, and his expressed opinions are utterly incoherent. He cannot answer specific questions other than with vapid talking points. He dismissed the case without even reading it.
I also believe
@KevinVuongMP
is deeply racist. He impugned the motives of South Africa while implicitly suggesting that the US, UK, France, and Germany (who sell Israel arms) bear wholly pure motivations. So, in Vuong's mind, white countries good, brown or Black countries bad.
Vuong denied that Israel is an apartheid state, refused to answer if he believed it is acting within international law. He could not explain how destroying or severely damaging every single hospital and university in Gaza is not criminal, but takes the position anyway.
I read multiple statements of genocidal intent from Israeli officials. Vuong argued that the statements of the president, prime minister, defense minister, and multiple other ministers and prominent officials within the Israeli government are not representative. Ludicrous.
In my opinion,
@KevinVuongMP
is not led by anything other than craven self-interest. That he has a position in federal politics displays the pathetic vulgarity that is Canada's electoral system. Nobody supports him. He does not represent anyone. He is an obtuse troll.
It is utterly fucking deranged to keep bringing up Oct. 7 while Israel is *literally setting records* for war crimes, crimes against humanity, murdering children, and using famine as a weapon of war. Utterly fucking deranged.
White House can’t even name why Muslim Democrats are mad. “We understand that the events of 10/7 that took more than 1,200 souls in Israel. Hamas…as we know, took hostage more than 200 people, and what that led to, that war led to, is incredibly painful.”
For having basic information about this situation,
@KevinVuongMP
repeatedly said that I was "clearly passionate about this." While I do despise colonizers and genocidal racists, that position doesn't require passion - just basic humanity. So, why does it appear to elude Vuong?
Vuong opposes the ICJ case against Israel, but won't engage with the multiple findings about Israel's crimes against Palestinians. With increasing reports about IOF soldiers massacring civilians in executions, Vuong's pinned tweet is "release the hostages."
Those hostages are being killed by Israel. Surely
@KevinVuongMP
recalls that IOF soldiers literally shot Israeli hostages to death. How could that happen the way it did unless they are intentionally killing unarmed people? In addition to the indiscriminate bombing and shelling.
My MP
@KevinVuongMP
voted against the ceasefire motion today, meaning he voted explicitly in favour of genocide.
Kevin did this because he is a vile wretch, imho; a vile wretch who can look at the slaughter of Palestinians and see only the money to be made denying genocide.
It is somewhat grating to hear this line of questioning from a senator who nonetheless campaigns and votes against regulatory agencies and for corporate impunity.
Boeing CEO David Calhoun is being raked over the coals by the Senate right now.
He's making $32.8 million this year. Josh Hawley asks him "What is it you get paid to do exactly?"
The CEO struggles to answer.
In my opinion, it isn't about anything being 'worse.' It's that one is acknowledged as a unique and unspeakable atrocity, while the others remain embedded in structure of the world - i.e., industrialized and widespread.
In spite of your juvenile ad hominem attacks, I met with you to listen to your opinion.
You are entitled to your opinion but not your own facts.
You may not hold our G7 allies in high regard, but I do & I guarantee you their jurists are better equipped to assess the ICJ case.
We all need to make the
@OntarioNDP
understand that this disgusting cowardice is unforgivable.
If you have a
#ONDP
MPP, contact them and respectfully voice your disapproval.
If you don't, email the party expressing support for
@SarahJama_
and condemning this.
#FreePalestine
Deeply concerned to see Donald Trump shot at during a rally in Pennsylvania.
No matter your politics, the attempted assassination of a former president and presidential candidate is horrific.
The people of British Columbia abhor political violence in all of its forms.
Pennsylvania police officer, Christopher Cordes, has been arrested for soliciting children on SnapChat, manufacturing and possessing child sexual abuse material & bestiality.
Somebody needs to do this for Canada. Dozens of elected officials and public employees have acted in service of this genocide. They *must* be held accountable.
We will not allow those that supported war crimes in Gaza to rewrite their roles.
We started our investigation on 9 October. We collected evidence of those in the UK that were complicit in Israeli suspected war crimes.
We will be holding politicians and commentators who are
Anyway, I am absolutely not a genocide scholar. I respect and appreciate
@Rrrrnessa
sharing her knowledge. My comment is not intended, in any way, to contest any of the information she shared.
So, I used to work at the Canadian Race-Relations Foundation. I did not last there long, for reasons that will become very clear.
Since October, I have been urging the
@CRRF
and its ED
@mohashim
to publicly oppose Canada's endorsement of Israel's genocide in Gaza.
My MP
@KevinVuongMP
is gleefully supporting genocide and seeking to profit from it.
Kevin was elected under false pretenses, lied to voters, was expelled from the party he campaigned for, has zero democratic support. Craven, depraved, disgusting.
There is no bottom for Vuong.
MP Kevin Vuong is being featured at an upcoming event for the FBI-listed terror group JDL rebranding as Israel Now. Are Canadian politicians open terrorists now?
David Frum is a war criminal. Frum was directly involved in the murder of millions of people, including tens or hundreds of thousands of children. The amount of blood on his hands would be measured weight, not volume.
Why does his grief deserve recognition and not theirs?
How do you put one foot in front of another after the loss of a child?
@davidfrum
opens up about the sudden loss of his daughter, Miranda. Tonight at 8/11pm on The Agenda. | Producers:
@spaikin
&
@PreetiBhuyan
The last time the word 'Gaza' appeared in one of Jesse's tweets was in 2018. 10,000 killed already, 4000 of them children.
I haven't seen many people downplaying anti-Semitism. I have seen countless people celebrate genocide in Gaza.
So, who is doing the denying?
@CANADALAND
I share this evidence of anti-Jew hatred because I know I have to, dreading to learn which people I know and respected will now rationalize, minimize or deny it.
Let it be remembered forever that the putrid fucking slop calling itself Andrew Coyne wholly endorses Israel's genocide in Palestine. This guy is an absolute piece of shit.
Ceasefire means:
- Hamas pays no price for murdering 1400 Israelis in a single day.
- Hamas remains in power in Gaza, free to attack again whenever it wishes.
- Ceasefire is presumably followed by “negotiations” — meaning Israel *rewards* Hamas for massacring its citizens.
In
@springmagca
, I wrote about
@SarahJama_
's courage,
@MaritStiles
' cowardice, and Canada's material support for Israel ethnically cleansing Palestine. Click the photo to read.
'Canada supports ethnic cleansing of Palestine: Sarah Jama does not'
Yesterday, I spoke with
@KevinVuongMP
about South Africa's submission to the ICJ. I asked him to justify his position that the trial is a disrespectful farce. (He couldn't). Here's what I learned. (Thread)
@msolurin
@IndigoMusic352
I mean, these are extremely wealthy people ignoring war crimes and crimes against humanity their government facilitates simply so they can continue being extremely wealthy in peace. I see that as indefensible, no matter who does it.
A short note on the encampment that's now set up here in Toronto
@UofT
. I snuck into it today (I told them I was a fellow comrade who'd stepped out to get a cig - not exactly crack security). I think it's only fair to talk to the folks and see what's going on before judging. 1/x
Canada is deeply concerned by the dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. Unimpeded humanitarian access is essential to address the urgent needs of civilians. Canada calls for international law, including humanitarian and human rights law, to be respected.
When
@SarahJama_
spoke out against Israel's war crimes in Gaza, she was abandoned by
@MaritStiles
and
@gsdenton
. They did nothing to defend her against the disgusting attacks, accusations, and harassment.
Instead, they waited until the bombing of a hospital to say anything.
We can't look away from the situation in Israel & Palestine.
We call for a ceasefire. An end to the siege of Gaza. Urgent humanitarian aid. The release of all hostages.
I challenge my fellow MPPs to consider how we can help end the scourge of war & terror.
To fight for peace.
I wholly reject the notion that I should care more about the death of a "Canadian" than about the death of a Palestinian, or Yemeni, or Sudanese, or Congolese person. Not a fucking chance.
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
The Canadian government must cancel all contracts for Israeli weapons used in the targeted killing of a Canadian aid worker, including the $36M for a Hermes drone and $43M for Spike missiles. Canada must divest itself from these merchants of death.
If you cannot find hope, find righteous indignation. If that, too, eludes you, find rage toward oppressors and profiteers.
Find whatever fuel you need, for we cannot surrender the world these fiends. Their time is at an end, and ours has come.
I know I said I was feeling hopeless earlier this week but I’ve changed my mind again and I am back to being full of hope.
Hope keeps us going. Whatever the obstacles, I remain committed to the reality that things will get better and justice will be served one day.
I have had a similar experience to this. I lost a job due to my unwillingness to ignore war crimes and crimes against humanity, and have been unable to find secure employment since. This is also the longest period, by far, I have ever been unemployed.
I lost my job back in October b/c of my anti-genocide stance when it came to Palestine. I have been searching for a job for 7 months now and the job market is horrendous right now. It’s the longest I have ever been unemployed for. It’s the most difficult job hunting process ever.
@jessewente
@TerryGlavin
I value your support and even more so your opinion. But we may simply disagree. I don't see any old media holding reporters to account for pieces like this. As for platforming, you have my promise that there will be no genocide denial on Canadaland.
One of the quotes you won't see much of today:
“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and racism. The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.”
— MLK
"Ultimately, the NDP has shown that it is willing to stand by as genocide unfolds, saving its harshest actions for those fighting back. We believe the presence of such a party should not be welcomed in leftist spaces."
These are comrades.
EDITORIAL STATEMENT: NDP officials are no longer welcome at The Maple due to an absolute disgust from our editors with the party’s recent actions in the midst of a genocide in Gaza.
Click to learn more and find out what this will mean for us in practice.
This doctor, employed by
@CBCNews
, tells his 100k followers that Israel has "no choice but to eradicate the threat in Gaza." Fucking insane. This is a doctor calling for ethnic cleansing while employed by the state broadcaster.
According to
@theintercept
’s
@jeremyscahill
, only one infant was killed in the October 7 attacks on Israel, despite widespread stories of beheaded babies shared by top Israeli and U.S. officials.
Scahill describes a “propaganda campaign to sell…a scorched earth war," on Gaza.
@CRRF
I do not believe this conduct is defensible.
If you agree, I would ask that you express your own disapproval to the
@CRRF
.
Email: info
@crrf
-fcrr.ca
Phone: 416-441-1900
You cannot be anti-racist while ignoring your own complicity in genocide. Enough of this nonsense.
StateSpox was asked about UN Special Rapporteur
@FranceskAlbs
’s report on Gaza which said there’s reasonable ground that the threshold for genocide has been met.
Miller said they oppose mandate of this rapporteur, accused her of antisemitism and rejected allegations of genocide.
This tweet is one of just *two*
@JesseBrown
tweets in which the word 'Gaza' appears. The other is from 2018.
This guy is just an asshole who evidently does not oppose genocide on principle. Absolutely disgusting.
Seems the security guard who firebombed & shot up Edmonton City Hall on Tuesday posted a video beforehand saying "this genocide that’s going on in Gaza and throughout the world... inshallah, we will rise against you guys." No mention of this in the Globe.
Active Canadian wildfires (and we're only mid-May). This is what the climate emergency looks like.
And good on
@CBCNews
for providing a climate dashboard that shows the impacts of climate change in Canada.
I contacted this restaurant once to ask about this comment. Since then, David has left me multiple insulting voicemail messages and harassed me with phone calls. Now this:
"Press that knee harder. Let him join George Floyd"
-- David Magazzinich, General Manager of The Chicken Nest, 3038 Bathurst St.
*Like* Meir Weinstein, guy that gives
@marcomendicino
and
@CIJAinfo
their pro-genocide talking points
Jesse is a shameless fucking liar. Palestinians are fighting against colonization and genocide. It has absolutely nothing to do with religious.
Also, he is uncritically sharing tweets from far-right Polish agitators.
@CANADALAND
is a fucking joke.
@CanadalandUnion
quit already.
This is psychotic.
In Israel, Muslims & Jews fight over land. What the hell do we have to fight over in L.A.? In Montreal or Toronto? What is there to be won or lost? Pure madness.
The entire population of Gaza is being held hostage. The fact that you don't see that is...a big problem.
@ryanjespersen
Also, you are justifying collective punishment - i.e., a war crime. Is that journalism now? Pressuring people w/ the talking points of an apartheid state?
I was describing how Israeli settlers & soldiers are increasingly attacking my family & other Palestinians right now, only to be interrupted by
@ryanjespersen
& asked whether I condemn the taking of Israeli hostages. He also slandered me as non-peaceful.
I sent emails, made phone calls, posted on social media, and wrote a letter of concern to be sent to the Board of Directors.
In response, the
@CRRF
blocked me on Twitter and Facebook, and ignored the great majority of my emails.
Regardless, my attempts continued.
Rather, what's juvenile is being more offended by bad words than war crimes.
The idea that it is better to speak politely in defense of inhumane policies than it is to speak crudely in desire of justice is just absurd.
Absolutely fake and planted story, imho. If Oliphant said these things it was to someone he trusts, who is thus unlikely to leak a story to hurt him.
This is the same bullshit as 'Biden called Netanyahu a bad name.' It's reputation management.
He is still complicit in genocide.
This is very poor journalism.
She met with one guy, and a week later an entirely different guy’s office asked a department to remove a statement.
That’s it. That’s the entire substance of their allegation that she did it.
Unless her being Jewish is to be considered evidence.
For having the courage and humanity to speak out against apartheid and ethnic cleansing,
@SarahJama_
has been removed from the
@OntarioNDP
Caucus by the spineless coward
@MaritStiles
. Absolute dogshit party.
@gsdenton
These people believe in nothing but their own careers.
#ONDP
(1939 twitter)
If you're a progressive and aren't actively and vocally working to deconstruct your own internalized anti German racism right now, please understand that the vast majority of Germans in your community are feeling deeply abandoned by you, and unsafe with you
@CRRF
Now, the
@CRRF
appears to have blocked my phone number, meaning I cannot even leave messages expresses my discontent with the actions of this public organization ostensibly dedicated to anti-racism.
Rather than publicly opposing genocide, they are hiding from serious questions.
@EvanDyerCBC
Evan, how would it be that Oliphant would openly defy party discipline to someone he doesn't trust? And if he did, would there not be swift consequences?
Isn't it much more likely that this story was planted as a PR tactic? Isn't it irresponsible for you not to consider that?
@lhfang
You're so right, Lee. All of the millions of people around the world who have been protesting in solidarity with Palestine for six months just want to be part of a scene.
Grow up, dude.
Everything Aaron Bushnell said here is exactly correct.
"There are no Israeli 'civilians' who have no part in the oppression of Palestine. That idea doesn't make any sense and betrays a lack of understanding of what the oppression of Palestine even is."
Colonizers always lie.
The most difficult thing to convey to young people who have come to political maturity in the last decade is that US politics used to be *normal*. People didn't have brain worms. They didn't shoot puppies. They didn't wave fascist conspiracy flags. Basic propriety was the norm.
It's tragic, but necessary for lasting peace. Israel must enter Rafah and neutralize the threat posed by Hamas. Otherwise, October 7 will not only be remembered as a day of mourning but as the genesis of a prolonged, dark chapter in history. Complete eradication of the Hamas
It simply cannot be said enough that taking up arms against the US, Israel, and their allies is one of the most courageous, honourable, and justice-seeking acts that are available in this world.
The United States will remain deeply committed to the security and self-defense of the State of Israel. Let me be clear: our support for Israel’s security remains unshakeable. And it always will be.
This is a gathering of genocidal racists and fascists in support of a country that invites and protects pedophiles and serial killers and is presently on trial for genocide.
That a bunch of white settlers support that country is neither revelatory nor meaningful.
Fuckin loser.
As hate crimes against Jews in Canada reach historic levels, the community made its own history - this was the largest gathering of Jews and supporters I've ever seen in Canada.
Neither the Toronto Star, CBC, or Globe and Mail sent a reporter to cover it.
"I don’t accept the excuse MPs have offered as to why they clapped, but no such excuse can even be attempted by Freeland unless she admits she is a fraud. She knew, or ought to have known, what sort of person was being paraded, and clapped anyway."
I’ve had enough of Chrystia Freeland’s bullshit. Either she knows far less about Ukraine than she purports to, or she’s an unabashed Nazi sympathizer. Either way, she needs to be held to account.
Everyone, and I mean everyone, should read
@anneapplebaum
’s Gulag and Red Famine. The horror of the Soviet Union is not a question of ideology it is a reminder of human cruelty at its most despicable. The history of the Holodomor, especially, is far too unknown.
@MaritStiles
How fucking dare you. *How fucking dare you.* You are a disgrace. You, too
@gsdenton
. Your cowardice helped enable this massacre by abandoning the first Canadian politician yo oppose Israel's genocidal violence. You owe
@SarahJama_
a public apology. Both of you.
@OntarioNDP
The countries that Vuong calls "our G7 partners" accrued wealth and power by way of imperialism, enslavement, and colonization. Their interests are maintaining that wealth and power. There is nothing laudable about that. The West is not the protagonist of the world.
Just received news that some of my relatives in Gaza were martyred today by Israel. This comes after I was tackled by security this morning trying to convince
@NDP
politicians to end their support for Israel. I'm now being threatened with charges by police. No words.
Again, this is not true.
It is true, however, that Israel is definitionally an ethnonationalist and ethnosupremacist state which has not adhered to international law for a single day of its existence. But sure, condemn the resistance group that came from decades of oppression.
Here is my former colleague Q Anthony Omene announcing that he hopes Hamas wins.
Hamas has called for the murder of all Jews, in and out of Israel.
How can he ever look a Jew in the eye again? 23/x
The federal party that
@KevinVuongMP
chose to run for holds government right now. That government has watched a country it sells weapons to murder 30,000+ people in 100 days without batting an eye. I do not respect *anyone* who accepts or approves of that.
This is what
@JustinTrudeau
,
@cafreeland
, and
@melaniejoly
are actively supporting.
This is what
@RosieBarton
calls Israel 'defending itself.'
This is what
@acoyne
calls 'making Hamas pay a price.'
Our politics and media are filled vile cowards, craven cynics, & racist trash.
@Martin_Lukacs
Oh I'm sorry to disturb you from kicking the Jew while she's down. But does your "solid piece of multi sourced journalism" have one source who even *claims* to know what was said in that meeting? Can you substantiate that the meeting "triggered" anything but you?
The horror of the Holocaust cannot be overstated. Though, it seems strange to definitively claim that it was 'more evil' than 500 years of European colonization, genocide, and chattel enslavement. 11 million people were taken from the continent, millions more born in bondage.
"...It must be noted that the information gathered by the mission team was in large part sourced from Israeli national institutions. This is due to the absence of UN entities operating in Israel, as well as a lack of cooperation by the state of Israel..."
This guy is shameless.