Family Lawyer | JD
@UCalgaryLaw
| Poli Sci B.A.
@UBC
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@rachaiello
Killing children = okay.
Standing up against it = not.
The centre’s failures elevates the right. Shame on
@liberal_party
for their moral cowardice.
In BC, there was more outrage last week about protesting genocide at a women’s softball tournament than there is about an act of genocide at soccer game. Disgusting.
I like
@Dave_Eby
. I don’t think he seriously believes the “pro-Pal activism is antisemitic” rhetoric, but I bet he’s facing pressure.
They were playing for the State of Israel, not the Religion of Judaism.
The state is committing genocide.
Protesting them is legitimate.
Kids should feel safe and be able to watch a sports game. Instead of bringing people together, a group targeted Jewish kids and their parents last night because of who they are. This is unacceptable. Hate has no place in our province.
100 x this.
@melaniejoly
isn’t even feigning shock, horror, or condemnation anymore.
She simply doesn’t acknowledge Israeli atrocities against Palestinians, or even Palestinians themselves.
Travesty of leadership and humanity from a purported centrist.
The past 2 weeks have been among the most barbaric of 🇮🇱’s genocide. 6 schools, a mosque, tents & homes were targeted, slaughtering & maiming sheltering families.
@melaniejoly
’s been silent but had time to meet w/ 🇮🇱’s “not a drop of water” genocidaire counterpart & post about it
@CanadianFSWC
@MaritStiles
The levels organizations like this (propped up by Canadian tax exemptions) go to deny Palestinian existence and re-write history is a whole new level of gaslighting.
Particularly while Palestinians in Palestine and Canada experience *actual* harm.
@CJPME
@UWindsor
And we urge
@JustinTrudeau
to loudly condemn and actually discipline this MP for his clear and inappropriate attempt to intervene with this institution.
@melaniejoly
What a humiliating post to share while this government has turned a blind eye to Israeli apartheid, land theft, arbitrary detention, and genocide for decades.
Eye witnesses to genocide call for Canada to finally take meaningful action to end their complicity.
What they’ve seen is only a fraction of the mass atrocities.
Politicians can engage in double speak and gaslight dissidents all day, but the facts don’t change.
Today, as a collective, 19 physicians and healthcare workers based in Canada who have worked in Gaza during this ongoing genocide have written to
@JustinTrudeau
to demand that Canada must do what is within its power to protect Palestinian people in Gaza. This genocide must end.
Suddenly boycotting is not divisive and hate driven but for saftey and rights - so long as it’s for 🇮🇱 and directed at Capital Pride.
The landslide of AntiPalestinian
#racism
being demonstrated right now is truly shocking.
@liberal_party
@LegalishCA
How people are still platforming her is beyond comprehension.
@SMohyeddin
called her a jargonist early on - there is no better term. Many words, little truth, all dangerously nonsensical.
@globeandmail
Resigns after incessant pressure from bad faith actors trying to uphold a rogue regime committing genocide by knowingly conflating legitimate criticism with antisemitism***
This is McCarthyism.
We’re all worse off for it.
I’m sorry, Birju.
@melaniejoly
@Israel_katz
This statement is a mockery.
Nothing about displacement, destruction of civilian infrastructure, widespread famine, or targeted hospitals OR UN schools. Nothing about 186,000+ killed and thousands injured.
Devastated that such inhumanity could come from a purported centrist.
@IndJewishVoices
@AHousefather
@UWindsor
Incredible. A sitting MP admitting that he’s trying to undermine an agreement reached (in good faith) between
@UWindsor
and its students. Screen shot this. He’ll probably need to delete it soon.
Great time for anti-immigration rhetoric from police. That could have no consequences. 🙄
“Immigration, he added, has brought in some people from parts of the world where the use of violence is an “acceptable vehicle for social change,” but he didn't name the countries.”
Thank you
@Saadia_Sediq
for lending your award, your voice, and your platform to Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip experiencing unthinkable cruelty.
You and others like you (
@yipengGe
) are what many of us hope for in the future of healthcare -
@CMA_Docs
: take notes.
It is with mixed feelings that I receive the Young Leaders Award from
@CMA_Docs
. I am appreciative of this recognition. I am grateful to my nominators, which include mentors and learners. To be nominated in the first place by these wonderful people has meant the world to me. /1
@CanadianPM
Dystopian to read this meaningless text while watching Palestinian children ripped apart daily.
I don’t get it. If you can’t take action for humanity, why not do it for ego? Polls might turn if you even tried to stand for something!
@JustinTrudeau
@CanadianPM
@DallasDuncan_
@MaritStiles
@OntarioNDP
Agree.
75+ years of oppression and tens and possibly hundreds of Palestinians killed and injured in <10 months…this erasure of culture and identity salts open wounds for Palestinians at home and abroad.
Don’t bow to this genocidal pressure.
@mgeist
The notion that people advocating for Palestinian life and liberty amounts to hate is so tired. As in, we are all so tired of it. Palestinians deserve life and liberty. If you don’t agree, then it’s a good time to talk about hate.
As a poli sci undergrad student
@UBC
, I understood the left-right divide to be predominantly economic.
I *thought* human rights were universal.
In Canada, human rights have become THE left-right divide and
@NDP
MPs are the only ones who have shown consistent moral clarity.
20 more civilians murdered in Gaza by the Israeli military.
What we have learned in watching this horrific genocide is that to western leaders some lives count and many others don't.
But war crimes are war crimes.
And those culpable are still war criminals.
Amidst deafening silence from the legal community, including
@CBA_News
, it’s refreshing to see legal scholars like
@JoshuaSealy
stand up for students protesting genocide & against the genocide itself. (Also on the list:
@Heidi__Matthews
@MarkKersten
@ 🙏🏼 )
Solidarity w/ students in 🇨🇦 who are pressuring their cowardly/complicit administrations 2 divest from Israel’s occupation/apartheid/genocide in 🇵🇸 & who are enduring horrific police violence & academic reprisal 4 their courage & bravery🍉🪧
#BlockTheBarricadeUntilPalestineIsFree
@tparsi
This broke me. Even in death, this father shows his beloved son such tenderness. These are the men that are framed as violent, as terrorists, as sub-human. It is the greatest travesty of our time and this is where it has led us.
@Heidi__Matthews
@JustinTrudeau
Public denunciation then swift action.
-Arms embargo.
-Diplomatic sanctions.
-Economic sanctions,
-Investigate CDNs serving in IDF.
-Revoke status of CDN charities sending $ to Israel.
“States & UN are obliged not to recognize or aid continued illegal Israeli occupation…”
What has been obvious to many laid bare.
Sanctions, divestment, and ending Canadian tax exemptions propping up this occupying regime.
@mclaudebibeau
🧵On ICJ ruling on Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territory. The Court finds it has jurisdiction over the issue & rejects arguments made by a handful of states to the contrary & considers arguments that it would negatively impact negotiations as theoretical. 1/
186,000 innocent people murdered in Gaza by Israel.
THis is a staggering number put together by
@TheLancet
It is genocide.
A crime against humanity.
The EU, the US, Canada, the UK are complicit in these war crimes.
History is watching.
@Heidi__Matthews
Why doesn’t
@CDNMinHealth
@markhollandlib
have ANYTHING to say about the appearance of polio in Gaza? It puts children the world over at risk.
There seems to be no end to
@liberal_party
apathy to Palestinian suffering and support for Israel’s crimes.
I have been profoundly disturbed by the relative silence of the legal community in the face of grave violations of international law, so it is all the more refreshing to see organizations like
@WestCoast_LEAF
now lend their voice against injustices. Thank you.
West Coast LEAF stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people in the face of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. As we bear witness to this genocide with horror, rage, and heartbreak, we cannot remain silent. Read the full statement: (1/3)
@AssalRad
Potentially with weapons components from
@Canada
.
As in the US, CDN progressives cannot accept that this is the lesser of 2 evils. What greater evil could there be?
Nothing less than an arms embargo, sweeping sanctions, and investigating CDNs serving in IDF will do.
@AidanSimardone
Love discovering more lawyers and legal scholars standing up to génocidaires and supporting international law.
It’s almost like it’s part of our duty…🤔
It’s also the antidote to disappointment for months of silence from the profession.
I join
@pivotlegal
and
@bccla
in condemning
@VancouverPD
for their conduct at the rail protests. No one, let alone peace advocates who have worked tirelessly for months advocating for an end to Canada-endorsed genocide, should be treated this way in our society.
We join our friends at
@bccla
and the broader legal community in denouncing the vpd and the other police departments that engaged in this violent mass arrest and interference of peoples' charter protected rights to peaceful assembly.
All charges must be dropped!
The only party demonstrating a shred of moral decency are the
@NDP
Human rights weren’t always a left-right issue. Now they seem to be THE left-right issue.
The
@liberal_party
, already unpopular with right-of-centre have now lost anyone left-of-centre or who has a conscience.
Enough waiting.
Not one cent of Canadian tax dollars should be funding genocide.
Canada must investigate and shut down all organizations responsible.
The Liberals must take a stand for peace, security, and justice in Palestine/Israel.
@telfordk
What good is constantly bashing the conservatives when
@liberal_party
has so severely isolated their base by supporting genocide?
R they taking nothing from the uncommitted movement in US?
Show some global leadership and watch how the polls turn.
@JustinTrudeau
@yipengGe
@CMA_Docs
@DrKathleenRoss1
The pressure is real and the consequences are devastating. What will it take for us all to choose bravery over cowardice? How could the stakes be any higher?
@melaniejoly
This comment is an insult to the Cdn electorate’s intelligence.
- arms embargo
- diplomatic and economic sanctions
- investigate Cdns who serve in IDF for war crimes
- revoke status of charities sending $ to Israel
@BobRae48
Both-sideism at its clearest. ICJ ruling finds ISRAEL is plausibly committing genocide, not Hamas (& we don’t send arms to or even recognize Palestine anyway!)
You leave out that we are legally obligated to take decisive action to prevent genocide.
Arms embargo.
Sanctions.
@prem_thakker
I can’t help but wonder how many of these sweet kids are gone? How many have lost parents? Siblings? Grandparents? Neighbours? Friends?
We have failed them.
Nearly 1000 scholars support
@UWindsor
for engaging in good faith discussions with Palestinian solidarity activists.
Institutions across Canada, including my alma mater
@UBC
@ubcprez
@UCalgary
take note 📝 of what academic freedom, peaceful protest, and FOE are all about.
@UWindsor
should be falling over themselves thanking the students. How else could they have received the global support of nearly 1000 scholars including Robin DG Kelley,
@4noura
,
@NaomiAKlein
,
@ShereneRazack
, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, on and on...
These are the voices I have come to respect, to admire, to look to in the dark moments of the day when I see atrocities splashed across my phone screen wondering, “am I the only one who thinks this is the most important thing right now?”
Mississauga, go watch.
@MaritStiles
I’m sorry to say that this is what you fell for today. Palestinian erasure, including of Palestinian-Canadians whose hands you shook. It is them who you now owe an apology.
Gaza doesn't exist in the Israeli mainstream – not in the news, not in Israelis' daily conversations, not in cultural events, and not at the decision makers' table. This is one of the cruelest and harshest forms of dehumanization | Opinion |
@FalahSaab
Thousands gather here in Toronto for the Run for Palestine fundraiser!
As our politicians keep turning a blind eye, our community has stood strong- always coming out in huge numbers for Palestine 🇵🇸
@FareedZakaria
@billmaher
In my political science undergrad, I worshiped you
@FareedZakaria
; however, to platform this blatant Islamophobe and fail to push back on any of his hair-brained perspectives, is not journalism. It's giving a mouthpiece for racism.
In my first essay for
@CDN_Dimension
, I discuss student activism for 🇵🇸, the immense barriers these students are facing (& beating), the deceptive & anti-🇵🇸 IHRA definition of antisemitism, & the shift from “hate” to “civility” in censoring pro-🇵🇸 speech
@MuntherIsaac
Unconscionable. All denominations of Christianity around the world should be wringing their hands in horror and demanding their churches publicly and repeatedly condemn these monstrosities.
Real question: are people still paying
@nytimes
for subscriptions? I was probably in my mid-twenties when the veneer of prestige associated with reading that publication and
@TheEconomist
faded. The bias was as clear then as it is now.
“Palestinian lives are so cheap that American journalists will watch a limbless child die screaming on the filthy floor of a bombed-out hospital, and then talk about Joe Biden’s impressive foreign policy record.”
For
@lithub
, I wrote about Biden and Gaza.
Genocide. Ecocide.
Does
@s_guilbeault
care about damaging biodiversity?
Does
@BobRae48
care about destruction of UNESCO sites?
Does
@viraniarif
care that this is illegal under IL?
This is my family's village of Battir near Jerusalem, one of the most biodiverse places in Palestine, and a UNESCO world heritage site. Battir families have cared for this land for centuries. Now, "Israel" has announced new land theft and construction of Jewish-only colonies
We have failed Palestinian children, particularly in Gaza, again and again and again.
I am ashamed to live in a country where charities fund these atrocities and politicians engage in double-speak to avoid bringing the perpetrators to justice.
Enough is enough is enough.
#BREAKING
After Israeli military aircraft targeted a house belonging to the Al-Rai family in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, a large number of injured children were brought to Al-Aqsa Hospital.
@dimitrilascaris
Same with
@JoeBiden
, same with
@JustinTrudeau
- why do these centrists insist on pandering to those who will surely vote/support the right, while isolating *literally* everyone left of centre.
@haaretzcom
Let this be the first of many bans. In fact, given widespread atrocities, why not simply ban any non-US-citizen who has served since October 7 and investigate any US citizen that has for war crimes?
@JustinTrudeau
@BillBlair
@viraniarif
should do the same for Canadians.
@mohamadfakih8
It’s precisely because of privilege that we must speak out. The responsibility of speaking truth to power should not fall on the young and marginalized, who have far more to lose, alone.
Muhammed was 24 years old, he had Down syndrome. He didn’t die a ‘lonely death’ (shame on you BBC) he was brutalized. Muhammed was non-verbal + needed his mum for everything, her pain is impossible to comprehend.
#DownSyndrome
@melaniejoly
An investigation by who? Israel? If the past is an indicator of the future, we know the answer is yes and the results will obfuscate reality. Who needs subtlety when you have impunity?
#SanctionIsrael
#SanctionIsraelNow