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Dave Gray-Donald

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6 months

Yesterday, media reported on four students who testified to a HoC committee on "antisemitism and Jewish safety", saying Jewish students are "terrified" and "don't feel safe." They failed to mention three of them hold or previously held positions in pro-Israel advocacy orgs...🧵

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The "Hands Off Rafah" rally in Toronto on Monday has become national news, denounced by politicians at all levels over a few moments outside Mount Sinai Hospital during the hours-long protest. But what really happened? My in-depth look.

What happened outside Mount Sinai Hospital as a pro-Palestine rally passed by?

A 21-second clip from a nearly four-hour rally became national news. Here we piece together what happened at the rally and afterwards.

www.thegrindmag.ca

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9 months

The person dressed as Spiderman waving the Palestinian flag during the march in Toronto last night went on many elevated platforms for a few mins at a time, e.g. construction platforms, entrance to Eaton Centre, hospital entrance overhangs. I didn't see evidence of targeting.

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8 months

Pro-Palestine potest outside the AGO in Toronto, where PM Trudeau is holding a reception for fascist-friendly Italian PM Malone. MP Marco Mendicino already got an earful while entering.

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7 months

Happening now: University of Toronto Occupy for Palestine occupying the office of U of T president Gertler demanding the university divest from Israeli companies and cut ties with Israeli universities. occupyuoft on Instagram.

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5 years

Now in Regina, Treaty 4. #ClimateStrike #FridaysForFuture

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6 months

At Hot Docs tonight at the Canadian premiere of Union, which is a great film about the first successful unionization of Amazon workers, director Brett Story commented on what's happening in Gaza and called out out festival sponsor Scotiabank for financing Israeli weapons. 1/2

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10 months

Will this be on the front page of the National Post?

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10 months

Lovely pro-Israeli counter protester makes throat-slitting gesture to a pro-Palestinian in #Toronto #TOpoli @TPSOperations @CBCToronto @CP24 @CTVToronto @CarymaRules

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1 year

If you're wondering what CIJA (Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs) is and how it was formed, here is a little summary and some articles with more info...

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3 years

My partner was followed, tackled, and wrongfully arrested by plainclothes police after attending an anti-homelessness press conference a couple weeks ago. Recovery has been challenging, but she very bravely wrote this account of what happened. #topoli

I went to protest Toronto’s violent encampment removals. I was profiled, frisked and wrongfully...

While the city’s ombudsman has said that they’ll be investigating the encampment removals, this doesn’t include the police. This doesn’t include other cases of a gross abuse of power, Cha-nese Ila...

www.thestar.com

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1 year

Rick Mercer was just interrupted hosting the Scotiabank Giller Prize live broadcast by protesters calling out Scotiabank for funding genocide in Palestine. They also called for a ceasefire. Camera went off the stage, music started playing. Then Rick thanked Scotiabank.

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10 months

This was sung as a call for peace, justice and a ceasefire in #Palestine . This was shortly after Eaton Centre security then police pushed and knocked people over trying to arrest and remove them for singing. You can hear the song here as people were walking to the mall exit.

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11 months

The coalition Jews Say No to Genocide held a press conference this morning. Behind the speakers people held signs saying "Jews say: postering Indigo is not antisemitism" and the same poster put up earlier this month, "Heather's Pick: Funding Genocide."

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Dave Gray-Donald

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3 years

Please stop taking Trudeau's "cap on oil and gas sector emissions" as serious climate action. The cap is: - three decades away - won't necessarily limit oil and gas production - doesn't apply to most emissions in the product lifecycle Thread. 1/7

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8 months

Mulroney brought Canada into the neoliberal era, privatizing industries, deregulating, cutting taxes, attacking labour and overseeing an incredible transfer of wealth to the rich. Many wealthy people liked Mulroney, so they're going to celebrate him and rehabilitate his image.

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Dave Gray-Donald

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2 years

There isn't a housing crisis in Canada, @ricardo_tranjan argues in this provocative 110-page book. More accurately, we have "a poorly regulated market that extracts income from working-class people and channels it to higher-income segments of Canadian society." Out May 2nd.

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6 months

Nati Pressmann was a Campus Fellow for the pro-Israel media advocacy org @HonestRepCanada . She testified as founder of the "Canadian Union of Jewish Students," which only launched a week ago. That org doesn't have a website but its launch was profiled by @nationalpost .

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3 years

Economists becoming go-to climate experts has been a disaster. Oil & gas industry is loving it, because these economists push slow, market mechanisms over regulations directly targeting industry. This has been used to justify not making transformative changes for like 15 years.

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10 months

A big problem with this article is non-disclosure of potential conflicts of interest between CIJA, Hillel York and Heather Reisman. Reisman co-founded CIJA and is a major donor to Hillel Ontario and maybe CIJA. This is not disclosed when quoting CIJA and Hillel spokespeople.

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5 years

The Supreme Court just last year decided companies need to pay for this cleanup, even in bankruptcy. This is a bailout, a subsidy, plain and simple, and a legally and economically unnecessary one.

Vassy Kapelos

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NEW: PM announces $1.7 billion for orphan well cleanup

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5 years

Trudeau really went from "no relationship is more important" to, basically, "two weeks of some rail delays and no effort on my part is all the patience than I have for this." #Tyendinaga #Wetsuweten

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6 months

Michael Eshayek is VP External Affairs of Concordia's StartUpNation, which promotes Israel as a tech hub. In March, they co-hosted an event that invited IDF reservists to talk about the "fight against the delegitimization of Israel." They're on Insta:

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7 months

@MelissaLantsman @JustinTrudeau These are canisters for colored smoke, which are used at many protests. Why would you assume or accuse that this a suicide bomber costume?? Just because this is a Palestine solidarity rally?

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3 years

Great to see journos calling for the release of Amber Bracken and Michael Toledano, arrested yesterday covering the RCMP raid on Wet'suwet'en territory! Would be great if journalists also call for release of the other 13ish people arrested in RCMP's act of colonial theft/war.

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6 months

Nicole Nashen was the president of Hillel Concordia from 2021-22. Hillel seems to be housed within Federation CJA and works with CIJA (Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs), both pro-Israel orgs. Nashen's testimony called out "anti-Israel activists" and pro-Palestine encampments.

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10 months

Every national politics journalist in Canada is asking the federal government why it took part in bombing cities in Yemen last night, right? Right?!

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6 months

It's a media failure that the reporting depicted those who spoke at this committee as the authority on Jewish student experience, didn't note their org affiliations, and didn't mention or quote the many Jewish students participating in the pro-Palestine campus encampments.

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1 year

I was curious, why would people call for a boycott of Cafe Landwer? Is it about the political actions of the business (e.g. is it a Zionist business, as protesters said on Saturday), or is was it targeted simply for being Jewish-owned? Here's what I found.

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9 months

The person dressed as Spiderman during the rally climbed on at least eight structures along the protest route. these included:

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9 months

From my recollection of being there and from researching afterwards, I can find no evidence that people were prevented from entering or exiting the Mount Sinai Hospital building, a claim which has been made or insinuated by many.

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6 months

The directors of Yintah (amazing film about Wet'suwet'en resistance to the Coastal Gaslight pipeline) today called out Hot Docs' sponsor Scotiabank for financing the company that built the pipeline, TC Energy, and also Israeli weapons maker Elbit Systems. #HotDocs24

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9 months

Based on seeing them over the course of a couple hours, it looked like they identified the highest places they could climb to, went up there, waved the flag, then came down to rejoin the rally and then found a next spot and repeated.

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11 months

Remember those 2021 arrests in Toronto around the Lamport encampment eviction & after, when cops put out "wanted" photos? Here's a thread 🧵 on what happened since. Might be relevant to the wave of 15-ish arrests in Toronto this month related to Palestinian solidarity actions.

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2 years

Canadian oil & gas companies have been announcing their Q2 (April - June) financial results. Here are the profits of the big Cdn players🧵

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6 months

Two non-students also spoke to the committee. Yosh Tashish works for Hillel Ontario. His bio on Israel Policy Forum's website says "he currently serves as the lead professional for Queen’s University Hillel in Kingston, ON." Hillel Ontario does pro-Israel advocacy.

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7 months

Perfect Globe and Mail tweet. No notes.

The Globe and Mail

@globeandmail

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Consumers may grumble, but these oligopolies are great for investors

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6 years

Loblaws and its subsidiaries are so profitable that if it were a worker co-op all 200,000 employees could have had a $6,795 raise (pre-tax) in 2018. Most of that money instead went to shareholders, like the Weston family. Math in next tweet.

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6 months

Rachel Cook is the only student who who does not appear to have pro-Israel org affiliations. She previously said of the University of Alberta that “antisemitism and anti-Israel bias are institutional here.”

Jewish law student, who asked University of Alberta to ensure her safety, in limbo at final-exam...

“I’ve been raising concerns about antisemitism on campus since Oct. 7,” Rachel Cook told JNS.

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5 years

Really sad to see so many good journalists being laid off at the Globe & Mail. Just a reminder though that this is all about a supposed $10 million operating loss, and G&M owner the Thomson family is rich enough ($41 billion) to cover that loss every year for over 4,000 years.

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9 months

From my memory, the protest was in front of the hospital for around 15 minutes in its nearly four hour duration. Stopping this thread now and encouraging you to read the full article, which includes more about the rally and the denunciations.

What happened outside Mount Sinai Hospital as a pro-Palestine rally passed by?

A 21-second clip from a nearly four-hour rally became national news. Here we piece together what happened at the rally and afterwards.

www.thegrindmag.ca

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6 months

The other was was Neil G. Oberman, the lawyer who unsuccessfully sought an injunction on behalf of two McGill students to get the pro-Palestine encampment there cleared by police.

McGill asks police for help as pro-Palestinian protesters dig in on 4th day of encampment | CBC News

Despite rain, mud and the possibility of an injunction at the pro-Palestinian encampment on McGill University's downtown campus Tuesday afternoon, protesters say their spirits remain high.

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11 months

Isn't it ironic that tonight while a Progress Toronto fundraiser party happens celebrating "progressive" leaders, featuring a keynote from Mayor Olivia Chow, a few subway stops away Toronto city staff and police are conducting an encampment eviction, don't ya think?

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Hi @globeandmail , why did you not tell readers this contributor: - Had been a TransCanada director for approx 13 years, ending this spring? - Is advisor to an investment firm w large oil&gas holdings? - Is a former Conservative staffer who set up the Harper admin? ??? #cdnpoli

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6 months

As far as I can tell, there were no anti-Zionist Jews who spoke at the antisemitism committee nor at the press conference afterwards. I haven't seen any quoted in the media reports about the committee either.

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4 years

Seeing @WEMovement contracted by the Canadian government to deliver $900 million in programs reminds me: this organization denied me media access on six occasions to #WEday events to report for @briarpatchmag , including the most recent one in MTL with Sophie Trudeau. 1/

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1 year

Note: There's a dangerous antisemitic narrative about Jews plotting to unduly influence governments. That's not what is happening here; Canadian Jews are not acting as one to exert influence. One faction of the community effectively took control of this major institution.

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U of T is spending "close to a million dollars" on the injunction application process, according to an estimate by the Community Justice Collective, part of the legal team representing encampment participants. Source:

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6 months

All three additional students mentioned in that article work / worked for / held positions in pro-Israel organizations. That also isn't mentioned in the article.

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6 months

In the top news results about the committee hearing and press conference, reports only refer to "Jewish students" and did not specify how many were or had been involved in pro-Israel advocacy groups (at least six of seven students).

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5 months

A few thousand people out in downtown Toronto for a rally against health care privatization.

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6 months

Oberman also represented two unnamed students in taking legal action against McGill after a protest there in Feb.

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11 months

Looks like MP Housefather and others in Canada saw how successfully the media narrative in the US was shifted away from complicity in slaughter in Gaza and towards "culture war" terrain on university campuses, and they're trying to recreate that shift here.

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6 months

Of the MPs on the committee, several have been lobbied extensively by CIJA (Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs): Anthony Housefather Marco Mendicino Randall Garrison Melissa Lantsman Marty Morantz

Here Are The 10 MPs Most Lobbied By CIJA

Nearly 60 per cent of current MPs have been lobbied by CIJA, but these 10, from all three major parties, stand out.

www.readthemaple.com

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Dave Gray-Donald

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10 months

@marcusbgee You say there is no genocidal intent on the side of Israeli leadership, which begs the question: did you read the document?

Rania Khalek

@RaniaKhalek

10 months

In South Africa’s suit charging Israel with genocide there are 9 pages documenting expressions of genocidal intent from Israeli officials, including the most senior ones. It’s shocking to see it all in one place. I can’t even fit it all, but here’s a preview.

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In 2002, Netanyahu visited Concordia U and a riot broke out. Opinions of the Canadian public and government were shifting against Israel, and in recognition of Palestinians' plight. Heather Reisman (Indigo) and husband Jerry Schwartz (Onex) felt something needed to be done.

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Could you point to any cases of threats, assaults or antisemitism last night, @marcomendicino ? Some attendees had "shame," "genocide supporter" etc yelled at them while trying to enter. I didn't see or hear of any physical violence (or threats of it) on them, no injuries.

Marco Mendicino

@marcomendicino

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Disgusting antisemitic protestors swarmed, threatened and assaulted members of the Italian-Canadian community at an official event last night at the AGO in downtown Toronto.

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Sydney Greenspoon: StandWithUs Emerson Fellow (current) Anastasia Zorchinsky: president of StartUpNation (current) Claire Frankel: Hillel McGill, Chai fellowship, Hasbara fellowship, Honest Reporting Canada Media fellowship, CJPAC (mix of past and current)

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Part two of the video. Also, I asked Hot Docs a few weeks ago if they had pressured Scotiabank to divest from Elbit, and Hot Docs did not respond. See:

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6 months

Several other students spoke at a press conference outside. Three are mentioned in @StephTaylorCP 's article (which I think incorrectly states that six students spoke on Parliament Hill - it was four in committee and then seven or more at the presser).

Jewish students say they don't feel safe, as MPs probe antisemitism at universities

Jewish students on major university campuses are being forced to hide their Jewish identity and fear for their safety, as they face a tide of antisemitism, which school administrators are failing to...

www.ctvnews.ca

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11 months

Notable statement today from Toronto police re the viral video from Zara/Eaton Centre. "It was our officers using their best judgement in de-escalating that situation, keeping somebody who was antagonistic to the protestors apart." First time they've said he was antagonistic.

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In 2015, Israel-based Cafe Landwer built a cafe in Jerusalem on top of a historic Islamic cemetery, part of a development that destroyed the cemetery where contemporaries of Muhammed may lie. Article: Cafe built over Jerusalem Islamic graves sparks anger

Cafe built over Jerusalem Islamic graves sparks anger

For centuries, the area has housed the Maaman Allah cemetery, the oldest and largest Muslim graveyard in the country.

www.aljazeera.com

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11 months

If there's an eviction, Saxe should get a lot of the blame, but don't forget Chow. We'd all be howling about Tory if this happened in his time. Chow has been in for over four months, and now large-scale forced evictions are about to happen again for the first time since 2021?!

Joanna Lavoie 🇨🇦🇺🇦

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11 months

MY LATEST: Toronto confirms plans to clear Kensington Market encampment on Friday morning

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CIJA doesn't have open elections, and it's difficult to get info about its internal workings. Commentators note the group is almost in lock-step with Israel's ruling conservative Likud party. It advocates, often successfully, for the Canadian government to be the same.

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CIJA, founded around 2004, was not always the most prominent org claiming to represent Jewish interests in Canada. The Canadian Jewish Congress, founded in 1919, long held that position, had internal elections, and rigorous debates on policy positions. It was a Zionist org.

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Several people in the Jewish community referred to this as a "hostile takeover." The CJC closed in 2011, having been absorbed by CIJA. CIJA focuses largely on pro-Israel, Zionist advocacy and lobbying. As Paul Weinberg writes, it acts "like a corporate public affairs firm."

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Six Toronto city councillors signed this, meaning 19 didn't or at least haven't yet, and neither has the mayor. Those who did/didn't pretty closely aligns with who did/didn't vote for the police budget increase amendment last month.

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Freedom of assembly and expression are protected rights under Sec. 2 of the Charter. The CCLA, OIPRD, and legal precedent have confirmed the absolute right to peaceful protest. These rights must be protected as part of our democratic system, especially in challenging times.

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2 years

No. This is dangerous nonsense. For at least four reasons: - Carbon capture technologies are unproven, incredibly risky bets - Industry is not significantly investing in decarbonization - Scope 3 emissions from BURNING FOSSIL FUELS - Emissions intensity has gone up! Short🧵

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Giller Prize gala interrupted again while winner being announced. Very notable that during a literary event there is no mention from official speakers about Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza, which is supported by Canada, and financed by sponsor Scotiabank.

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There are many opinions about CIJA in the Jewish community. Several Jews I know completely disavow it. Others, like Andrew Cohen in the article "Canadian Jews need to ask lobby group some tough questions," take issue with parts of it.

Cohen: Canadian Jews need to ask lobby group some tough questions

ottawacitizen.com

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ICYMI, the presidents of McGill, UBC, and Concordia all told the House of Commons justice committee today they support implementing the IHRA definition of antisemitism on their campuses, but U of Toronto pres Gertler rejected it as not meant for application at universities.

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5 months

Gertler (UofT): "Our working group looked at this issue and concluded that the IHRA definition was problematic for application in..." Is cut off by Housefather, "so the answer is no?" Gertler says the IHRA author Kenneth Stern was clear it isn't for university environment.

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Throwback to Jan 2019 with Quillette editor Jon Kay saying it's weird that @briarpatchmag & similar mags have lots of people working on fact-checking. Fastforward to yesterday when Quillette published a fully made up story, then had to retract it in its entirety hours later.

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According to Toronto Life, "Shocked into action, Schwartz and Reisman summoned a group of fellow philanthropists," and they convened the "Israel Emergency Cabinet." In @CDN_Dimension : "The New Israel Lobby in Action"

The new Israel lobby in action

This is not about Jews. It is not about race, ethnicity or religion. It is about power. The new Israel lobby in Canada—the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy (CIJA)—has enormous power,...

canadiandimension.com

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Correction: Rachel Cook also recently worked for a pro-Israel advocacy org, as chief of staff to Reut USA's president in 2022-23. So that's 4/4 students who were on the committee and 7/7 when including those at the press conference.

A Spectre is Haunting Canada

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@dgrdon According to her LinkedIn, Cook worked for the Reut Group, an Israeli think-tank and lobbying group heavily involved in anti-BDS work, so it's actually all four!

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Q3 profits of Canada's largest oil and gas companies have been reported: Suncor $2.565 billion* CNRL $2.814 billion Imperial Oil $2.03 billion Cenovus $1.609 billion Tourmaline $2.098 billion That adds up to over $11 billion. In Q3 of 2021, that figure was $5 billion.

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Packed house in Toronto for the launch of Harvesting Freedom. I believe it's the first memoir by someone working in Canada through the Temporary Foreign Worker program. The program was established in the 1960s and includes many farm workers, working with almost no rights.

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If anyone has inside info on what's happening with the Liberals and UNRWA funding, email The Grind at info[at[thegrindmag[dot]ca There was supposedly going to be an announcement yesterday on resumption of funding but that was cancelled. Trudeau deflected when asked today.

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Link to the HoC committee notes: Video:

JUST Meeting No. 104

Meeting No. 104 JUST - Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights

parlvu.parl.gc.ca

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Not in article but: - Liberal MP and parl sec of foreign affairs Rob Oliphant told a constituent defunding UNRWA was "political" and "opportunistic" - Minister Hussen got yelled ar about exactly this while unsuccessfully trying to get into that reception at the AGO on Sat

CBC News

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Ottawa is resuming funding to UNRWA, the UN relief agency for Palestinians, CBC News has learned. The government paused funding in January after Israel alleged that 12 employees of UNRWA were involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. .

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As Reg Whitaker writes: "During the first Gaza war in 2008, Reisman and Schwartz were so incensed by faint criticism of Israeli actions issuing from a few Liberals that the pair publicly decamped to take up residence with the Harperites."

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@GinellaMassa This led to a charge of "Assault a Peace Officer with a Weapon"

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I'll just leave a few more articles. First is Reg Whitaker's account from a few years ago of CIJA's formation, "The strange tale of Canada’s Israeli lobby." The conclusion is notable, copied below. READ:

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He writes "if CIJA’s hardline stance on Israel remains, urge the federation to allow its donors to opt out of funding CIJA. Let them designate funds to other charities. If CIJA wants to advocate for Netanyahu, let it do so as an independent agency, with its own resources."

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Reisman and Schwartz and others were close with Paul Martin (PM from 2003-2006) and successfully pressured him to get Canada to take stronger pro-Israel positions. Then...

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Cohen in 2018 noted that CIJA gets the bulk of its estimated $8 to $11 million of annual funding through Jewish Federations of Canada, and was of the opinion that donors to the Federation should be allowed to opt out of funding CIJA.

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CIJA is very different from the Canadian Jewish Congress. (The Congress was absorbed by CIJA and folded). Paul Weinberg wrote in 2015 that CIJA "discarded the CJC’s social justice themes." And...

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This article has so many examples it could be broken into like seven separate, significant articles. Article: 'Chilling effect': People expressing pro-Palestinian views censured, suspended from work and school By @brish_ti

'Chilling effect': People expressing pro-Palestinian views censured, suspended from work and school...

Some employees and students across Canada who have publicly stated their pro-Palestinian stance on the Israel-Hamas war have been fired, suspended or faced calls to not be hired based on those views.

www.cbc.ca

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Dave Gray-Donald

@dgrdon

3 years

If she hadn't called me and been on the phone when police jumped her, no one would have known for hours that police had kidnapped her off the street. As she writes, "This act by the Toronto police was terrifying, traumatizing and frankly, disgusting."

I went to protest Toronto’s violent encampment removals. I was profiled, frisked and wrongfully...

While the city’s ombudsman has said that they’ll be investigating the encampment removals, this doesn’t include the police. This doesn’t include other cases of a gross abuse of power, Cha-nese Ila...

www.thestar.com

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Dave Gray-Donald

@dgrdon

8 months

Freeland didn't show, cops said she isn't coming. Crowd slowly leaving the area.

The Grind

@TheGrindTO

8 months

Outside a Yorkville restaurant where Deputy Prime Minster @cafreeland and MP @YaaraSaks are scheduled to hold a dinner for supporters, protestors are standing at entrances and singing. A dozen or so cops on scene, at least six cruisers.

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Dave Gray-Donald

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1 year

Quoting from David Noble in @CDN_Dimension : Over the next year, "through the facilitation of the United Israel Appeal Federation, which funded both the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) and the Canada-Israel Committee (CIC)...

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Dave Gray-Donald

@dgrdon

1 year

... the Emergency Cabinet morphed into the CIJA. Chaired by Larry Tanenbaum, Brent Belzberg and Stephen Cummings, CIJA eventually brought both the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) and the Canada-Israel Committee (CIC) under its effective control."

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Dave Gray-Donald

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1 year

I'm not going to try to document all CIJA has done. Others have done that, including misquoting people in a couple recent videos, effectively whipping up their supporters, media, politicians, etc into a frenzy in taking aim at pro-Palestinian supporters.

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@dgrdon

1 year

Footage

Palestinian Youth Movement

@palyouthmvmt

1 year

BREAKING: Protestors disrupt @scotiabank ’s Giller Prize Ceremony this evening. Scotiabank is funding the genocide of the Palestinian people through its $500 million stake in Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer.

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Going to tweet while watching today's House of Commons hearing on antisemitism. There are two sets of speakers. This is the first hour's speakers:

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Dave Gray-Donald

@dgrdon

2 years

New report from InfluenceMap ranks the Canadian Association of Petroleum producers as the #5 most negative and influential industry association blocking climate policy, globally.

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Dave Gray-Donald

@dgrdon

3 years

Heard astronaut Chris Hadfield on CBC radio just now, turns out he has bad, billionaire-loving politics.

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Dave Gray-Donald

@dgrdon

6 months

One day sit-in currently happening outdoors on the Toronto Metropolitan University campus, calling for divestment from Israel. Talks and activities scheduled til 10 pm.

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Dave Gray-Donald

@dgrdon

1 year

Downtown Toronto today.

Michael DeForge

@michael_deforge

1 year

Scotiabank offices shut down, a bank that’s invested $500 million in Israel’s Elbit Systems. this makes it the largest foreign shareholder in the weapons contractor, directly profiting off of genocide and occupation

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@dgrdon

10 months

Trudeau on Global News on Tuesday: "The police need to be arresting people who are engaged in acts of violence or breaking the law, whether it is a sound ordinance or a trespassing." Ottawa police yesterday:

Sam Hersh

@SamHersh01

10 months

Palestinians and allies have been protesting for 11 weeks straight here in #Ottawa and have not once had issues when it came to "noise" but yesterday @OttawaPolice and @OttawaBylaw issued THREE separate tickets citing the noise bylaw for $490!! This suppression is unacceptable.

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Given this, and that on Sat the speaker called it an "Israeli Zionist" business, and I didn't see/hear anything about Judeaism in the clips, it seems the boycott call was political and aligns with BDS, and there isn't evidence it targeted a Jewish business for being Jewish.

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Dave Gray-Donald

@dgrdon

8 months

@DeborahLyonsSE Are you not happy that a leader who spreads antisemitic conspiracy theories was barred from entering one of Canada's preeminent cultural institutions?

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