My Jewish identity informs my solidarity with Palestinians. I was taught about the Holocaust from early childhood. My takeaway from this education was not “always align yourself with Jews”, it was to recognize and oppose genocide, even when the perpetrators are from my tribe
This was one of the most painful things I've ever written, but these are things that have to be said.
We can no longer consider Jews who align themselves with the murderers of Jewish babies part of the Jewish people.
My latest
@Jerusalem_Post
column:
This is pretty much James Cameron saying “if I were piloting a submersible to the deepest part of the ocean I would simply return to the surface safely”
Young Canadians put a lot of their hard-earned money towards rent every month. We’re gonna make it so paying rent gets you PC Express points. Unlock your offers today
Canada is the best country in the world. And it’s up to all of us to work hard and make it even better. That is what we’re focused on – and that is what we’ll continue to do.
It’s not removed, but COME AND SEE is swiftly dropping in the IMDB rankings because people are review bombing Russian films. We wouldn’t want people to watch the most profoundly harrowing anti-war film ever made and develop a pro-Putin takeaway, you see
Rent is 2/3rds of your income. Gas costs 2x what it cost 3 years ago. Groceries are now Whole Foods prices everywhere. Interest rates continue to climb. Now is the perfect time for you to pay back those CERB payments we gave you when you weren’t working due to the global pandemic
Canadian Zionists: “I feel unsafe when you say Free Palestine. It’s antisemitic to boycott Chapters Indigo. When people chant Trudeau I hear Judah.”
Israeli Zionists: “We are doing Nakba 2. It’s Shoah time for Gaza”
Clinton: Give up East Jerusalem, 10% of the West Bank, and the Right of Return. In exchange you get a completely demilitarized state composed of a series of non-contiguous cantons, each surrounded by IDF and settler populations. This is just a verbal promise but trust us
Clinton: “I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that would have given them all of Gaza... between 96 and 97% of the West Bank, compensating land in Israel, you name it.”
The ‘free Palestine’ movement has never been about securing a
This is a common refrain from people whose own capacity for empathy is so non-existent that they assume everyone else must simply be faking their empathy
Nobody cares about Gaza. They just care about looking like they care. It makes them feel good to know that people think they care about Gaza. They're not losing sleep over Gaza. They are losing sleep over feeling unimportant and not part of what everyone else is doing.
This is entirely consistent with what she’s been saying and endorsing for months now. Imagine her saying this in an indigenous Canadian context. She should resign
NDP minister
@selinarobinson
justifying genocide by calling Palestine “a crappy piece of land with nothing on it”. Hateful, bigoted remarks that should result in her immediate resignation
@Dave_Eby
A Canada Day wish: May this coming year see an end to Canadian self-defamation, an end to the libeling of the builders of the country, an end to moral panics grounded upon false accusations.
@hilaryagro
Going through this myself really made me think about how hominids evolved over millions of years in familial groups where young and old without infants of their own probably helped daily, and now we’re all expected to live in small apartments close to our jobs
So all adults living/working in Whistler can now get the vaccine. After they were allowed to stay open all winter, while Vail Resorts stock price doubled. After they became the biggest P1 variant hotspot outside of Brazil. My kid’s daycare teachers still waiting though, it’s fine
I’m a lifelong NDP voter that voted
@TeamCurrieLJF
for Horgan’s old seat. 1) because
@SoniaFurstenau
is consistently the most on point MLA and her endorsement counts, 2) because of Currie’s health care activism, and 3) because the NDP have rejected my values at every opportunity
Why would a journalism prof, celebrated reporters, and a star columnist praise an anonymously written "exposé" that makes accusations against people who were never given a chance to reply? Maybe because it confirms their bias, which they seem to value over basic standards.
Based on what some of these American pundits are saying about the convoy, it really becomes clear that if they don’t understand what’s happening in the English-speaking country right next to them, then their takes on Venezuela or Afghanistan or wherever are worse than useless
Maybe BC Ferries should be a public entity, an extension of our Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure if you will, and fund it as needed instead of running it as a private company that will never be profitable. What’s that, it used to be that way? Which party ended that?
Reporting in from Horseshoe Bay! Yet again we're seeing
#BCFerries
chaos on a long weekend w/ cancellations drastically reducing capacity. After years of NDP meddling, including hand-picked Board & CEO appointments, things keep getting worse. People deserve better.
#BCpoli
Hi,
@Uber
!
Here's one of yours again.
The licence plate is just as visible as the driver's Jew-hate.
This is Toronto. And the SIXTH Jew-hate complaint I've given you. (The fourth was for the elderly Jewish woman refused pick-up.)
It's okay if you don't care, the many people
MUSK: I was tricked into giving puberty blockers to my son. These are sterilization drugs. My son Xavier is dead. They call it deadnaming for a reason. Killed by the woke mind virus. This is the reason I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus.
Larry David confronted Elon Musk over his GOP support: 'Do you want to murder kids in school?' via
@nypost
>><> Let's compare what
@elonmusk
has contributed to the world vrs. what Larry David has. Who has done more for humanity?
STANLEY KUBRICK: Keeps a filing cabinet full of meticulous note cards detailing where Napoleon was and what he was doing on every day of his life, abandons his film because the production won’t meet his standards
RIDLEY SCOTT:
Ridley Scott on shooting a sequence where Napoleon’s cannons fire at the Pyramids.
“I don’t know if he did that, but it was a fast way of saying he took Egypt.”
(Source: )
“I was never going to Mastodon, kid” I say as I shove you into the escape pod and close the hatch. You pound the blast door, sobbing, as I climb onto the warhead and swivel the nose cone toward my neighbour’s Tesla
Matt Damon is one of the great actors of our time, because I believe him as both a cunning genius and a golden retriever-brained dipshit. And he also has the star-wattage to just do the movie star straight man version of himself when required. He’s underappreciated somehow.
Whenever big shot American pundits try to understand what’s happening in Canadian politics, it’s like someone looking up from their phone for the first time 90 minutes into a boring movie and making a completely wrong guess at an impending plot twist
No one actually believes that 500,000+ people would take to the streets to demonstrate how much they love terrorism. This type of shit isn’t going to work anymore
@hilaryagro
The challenges that have historically faced socialism/communism at nation-sized scales are largely the result of external pressures from capitalist countries, primarily the U.S. Smaller socialist projects succeed because they are innocuous enough to escape this external pressure
@JustinTrudeau
@jguaido
Weird coincidence, on Monday, I’ll meet with Nicolas Maduro, the actual President of Venezuela. We’ll talk about the importance of democracy & the need for a peaceful, Canadian-led transition toward me being the President of Canada as soon as possible.
MLA Selina Robinson receiving a huge ovation before speaking at Yom HaShoah event to members of the Jewish Community, elected officials and others at the Legislature. Robinson saying “the silencing of others” is happening again and it must stop.
#bcpoli
@CCanuck4
@covid_long
@Terrilltf
@jjhorgan
I’ll put “worrying about the physical structures of the institution that has raped thousands of children” at
#129
,675 on my list of things to worry about in this world, right behind “respecting Henry Kissinger”
@Wilkinson4BC
You looted ICBC for 1.2 billion dollars when you were in charge to make it look like you had a balanced budget, and ignored independent reports on the financial health of ICBC for years. The current situation is 100% your fault, and everyone knows that
@truecanadian867
There are homeless people in public spaces, you see. On a certain stretch of Pandora you will even see concentrated groups of them. The scary part is when you reflect on how your ideological beliefs impact the material conditions of their life
@covid_long
@Terrilltf
@jjhorgan
I don’t feel it’s my place to tell colonized people how best to respond to the oppression of their colonizers, although there is currently no evidence that indigenous people are responsible for these church burnings. The point of my reply was that John Horgan is himself a vandal.
BREAKING: Trudeau Government Authorized $28.5 Million Of New Military Exports To Israel Since October
The value of the new permits authorized over 2 months exceeds the 30-year annual record high of $26 million in 2021.
It’s not lost on me that our entire Parliament, who stood and gormlessly clapped for a Nazi two weeks ago, are now asserting their moral authority to rally behind a country that is dropping its entire munitions supply on a concentration camp inhabited by one million children
Zionists live in this insane moral fantasy land where they are allowed to be as violent or supportive of violence as they deem necessary for their “safety”, while any non-violent and/or defensive reaction to their attacks, even strictly rhetorical, makes them feel unsafe
Ahh yes. A surly 20-year-old server with face tattoos digging a fruit fly out of your wine with her finger. One straight edge line cook making eight vegan dinners on an electric coil range stove. Unknown Mortal Orchestra playing on the speakers. My wife and I loved this place lol
@JesseBrown
It’s possible to be both historically oppressed people seeking self preservation and ALSO oppressors, imperialists, colonialists, and even white supremacists. Perhaps try holding two thoughts in your head at the same time
Zionists are terrified to be treated the way thousands of advocates for Palestine have been treated for decades because one (1) person faced professional consequences for saying something obviously racist
How many NDP MLAs having dark thoughts right now realizing that it can end exactly the same way for them? Years of service. Well liked by everyone. Stupid mistake. Days of groveling apologies. You get cut loose anyway.
And the protesters laugh while you get left behind.
#bcpoli
I can’t quite articulate why it feels so significant to me that we got two news articles today in which a) Haaretz confirmed that many of the Israelis killed on Oct 7 were killed by Israel, and b) The Lancet estimated that the IDF body count in Gaza is nearly 200,000
The Camp David deal was full of poison pills that were designed as a “damned if you do/don’t” offer for Arafat. Had he accepted he would have been totally discredited, and Palestinians would have been left with an untenable “state”
I follow a handful of people on Letterboxd who are good writers but seem to actively hate 95% of all films, including (and especially?) films popular with both audiences and critics. I have no idea why you’d want to write film reviews if this was your perspective on the medium
@ZeroSuitCamus
The 90s were all about stylistic maximalism, and I think critics started to push back against the most gaudy culprits of the time (SHOWGIRLS another example), as if these movies didn’t accurately capture America at The End of History
It’s funny because she’s just regurgitating the old “we made the desert bloom” and “a land without people for a people without a land” lies, but doing so in ugly language. Strip the poetry of the language away and the sentiments behind it were always ugly.
You can watch the Zionist hasbara machine in real-time right now, openly lying about what Glazer said in his speech. They’re saying he said he “refutes his Jewishness”. He actually said he refutes his Jewishness *being hijacked* by the Israeli occupation. They are simply lying.
@eatinginmycar
Not me but I worked at a telecom call centre once where the benefits kicked in right away. This other guy in my training group stayed long enough to get thousands of dollars of dental work comped for him and his family, then split before he had to even take his first call
Tonight,
@melaniejoly
and I honoured the civilian victims of armed conflict, underscoring the critical importance of complying with international humanitarian law.