How long until I pull my children from the
@tdsb
or do we stay and fight from within?
As a mom, can I send my kids to school each day wondering if this is the day they will be called to the office for simply being Jewish and Israeli?
Believe me, this will keep me up tonight.
@vcmancinelli
@ryanlpainter
Thank you Victoria. I would hope that if more people understood how necessary it is for our allies to speak out, as you do and how much meaning and solace your allyship provides, then perhaps more people would come forward.
@wickdchiq
@AHousefather
@marcomendicino
Standing up for the Jews or - heaven for fend - being Jewish does not make one inherently racist. That in itself is obviously a racist argument. This weaponization of anti-racist language will not stand. Your straw man will crumble.
The
#Jews
are the canaries in the coal mine. "Globalize the intifada" means they are coming for liberal
#democracy
next.
And when you come for our allies, you come for us all. We stand with Kevin and Elizabeth.
@KevinVuongMP
@davidmdraiman
How wonderful it would be to be surrounded by outspoken activists and allies but instead we find solace amongst our own - since the dawn of history we have had to trust in our love for each other, our community, our people, our ethic, our belief in the sanctity of life.
@HMcPhersonMP
I would love to see your letter about the Uyghurs in China, or the Yazidi, or the Sudanese. Where's your letter on the crisis of Christians at the hands of the Boko Haram? You mean you didn't write one? Nothing to blame on the Jews or the Israelis? Colour me not surprised.
@MayorOliviaChow
Your continued moral equivalency, permissiveness and mainstreaming of antisemitic tropes is DIVISIVE and your city is reaping the fruits of violence you have sown.
Breaking: The motion to include anti-Israeli racism to the
@tdsb
Anti-Racism Strategy has failed in a tie.
The
@tdsb
have shown their bias and it is not with Jewish students.
@TheTrueLHC
@davidmdraiman
If the allies had wanted to aid the Jews during WWII, they would have a. Let in Jewish refugees rather than sending the boats back to Europe - please Google "the St. Louis" and "None is Too Many" and b. they would have bombed the gas chambers at the death camps.
The
@tdsb
has now voted in hypocrisy, polarisation, politicisation and is dangerous for Israeli children.
The board has shown a clear bias against Jewish and Israeli students and no amount of advocacy from
@alexandralulka
@shelleylaskin
could help.
It's your turn
@ToddSmithPC
"Long live the Intifada" right now at Bathurst and Wilson. Standing the middle of a Jewish neighborhood calling for violence and war against
#Jews
,
#Israel
and Western
#democracy
. Wake up
#Toronto
! Today the Jews, tomorrow...?
@kinsellawarren
They are discussing the motion on whether to receive the report. An Asian trustee Weidong Pei is highlighting the lack of support for Asian students and is admirably discrediting the report. I feel he is an ally.
@KevinVuongMP
: Silence is not an option, allies must speak up | Toronto Sun - this is what real allyship looks like. Thank you, friend!!
#antisemitism
@KevinVuongMP
@TorontoPolice
@tdsb
I will admit, my friend, that it is very hard not to feel completely disappointed, despondent and abandoned this morning but the work must continue. Our children are counting on us.
Pro-
#Hamas
agitators started at the bridge at Avenue and the 401 and are marching along Wilson to Bathurst right now. Their only objective could be the intimidation of the Jewish community. This is
#antisemitism
without a doubt and pure Jew-hatred. What's next?
@DahliaKurtz
@tdsb
I sat through the meeting with my TDSB son and hoped for the proverbial light to go on at this board, which is so stacked against us. Kudos to
@alexandralulka
for her incredible courage and
@DrPeiTO
for his allyship. But the glee from the Chair as she cleared the room was gross.
@Mivasair
I believe, Rabbi, that you are the one in the alternate universe. I would never have imagined pro-Hamas encampments, shootings at Jewish schools, firebombs at synagogues, or the legitimisation of rape as resistance. This is how it has always begun and we have seen how it ends.
@CIJAinfo
@FederationCJA
@ecijaq
The SPHR advertisement is a clear glorification of guns and terrorism. As a parent, I wouldn't want my kids anywhere near this.
@mcgillu
needs to clean up their campus or mine won't be the only kids taking a pass on McGill in the future.
@DahliaKurtz
@tdsb
I sat through the meeting with my TDSB son and hoped for the proverbial light to go on at this board, which is so stacked against us. Kudos to
@alexandralulka
for her incredible courage and
@DrPeiTO
for his allyship. But the glee from the Chair as she cleared the room was gross.
🚨SHOTS FIRED: Another Jewish target on a boycott list. A Jewish-owned restaurant in Montreal.
Falafel Yoni in Mile End was hit with bullets. The owner NEVER made a political comment.
So, Justin Trudeau, tell us more about your efforts to double down on fighting Islamophobia.
@LekhtNaya
This is nuts - you would think that in this era of fetished identity politics, the teacher would have to accept the self-identification of the student - I guess not if you're a Jew of course
@DahliaKurtz
@tdsb
I'm sitting in the meeting and I don't have a good feeling. I feel like the forces against us are legion and while the voices for us are strong and courageous especially.
@alexandralulka
- I am most sure it is enough.
Do you believe students deserve to study & learn free from harassment, threats, and assaults?
Over 7,000 have signed our petition.
Send
@JustinTrudeau
a message. Help us get to 10,000 by signing & sharing our petition:
@DahliaKurtz
@tdsb
This "twistory" is used to erode the definition of antisemitism and weaponize it against Jewish kids. If you're a Zionist, you are de facto an anti-Palestinian racist. If you complain about antisemitism, APR. If you complain about anti-Zionism, big time APR. This is insidious AF.
..."And go back to Europe." Targeting Canadian Jews with the spectre of
#Nazi
Death Camps is pure intimidation and Jew-hatred. Bathurst and Wilson - the heart of the Jewish community - right now. There is nothing peaceful about this protest.
#antisemitism
@TorontoPolice
@MrBenjamin3333
@AvivaKlompas
How about we blame the criminal who poured gasoline on a synagogue and lit it on fire... or are you just someone who likes to pass the buck... are you going to blame someone else for your antisemitism or can you at least own that?
@DeborahLyonsSE
@UJAFederation
It was an extraordinary day - the sense of hope and optimism was palpable - the sense of determination and resolve was inspiring.
@DahliaKurtz
Tell me how many other countries are responsible for providing humanitarian aid to the force that invaded them. Does
@JustinTrudeau
realize that he is the pawn of propagandists?
@kinsellawarren
The motion to send the Anti-Racism Strategy report back to staff to be edited was defeated in a tie. We are now well mired in a debate of minutia on the motion on whether to receive the report.
@DahliaKurtz
Where are the nuisance charges? Pretty sure blocking the railroad is a nuisance. Start there and then maybe ask these idiots how preventing people from getting home helps the civilians in Gaza..
Jewish-owned business targeted by hateful vandalism. Miami mayor
@FrancisSuarez
and federal judge Roy Altman show up to help clean it up. Story on
@nbc6
starting at noon.
@DahliaKurtz
Regardless, what matters is that for all of Canada's talk of equity, diversity and inclusion - all we seem to be breeding is animosity, isolation and exclusion. Happy Father's Day!
@KevinVuongMP
If you are speaking up and speaking out, you're bound to get hate. Means you're going a good job. Doesn't make it right. Not by a long shot. Try to keep in mind that your friends have got your back and you have the gratitude of your allies.
@AvivaKlompas
As someone who has been to the placing of mine and my husband's family's stolpersteine, this is horrifying. The inversion of the purpose of these stumbling stones is deeply troubling.
@JustinTrudeau
With your thoughts, prayers, platitudes and $7, I can get a coffee at Starbucks.
With law enforcement, better legislation, political will and clear leadership, maybe we could do something about the antisemitic violence.
At least I have the coffee.
I am a proud Jewish ally and I will support and defend your right to be who you are, love who you love and stand with Israel, every day and every month of the year. Next year, may we dance together at Pride in Tel Aviv! Am Yisrael Chai! 🇮🇱🇨🇦🏳️🌈
@CIJAinfo
I can't label every crazy incident as cuckoo bananas, cause it gets silly. But this one is really cuckoo bananas. Are we supposed to be grateful that our hostages aren't more deeply wounded and traumatized than they clearly are? Are we to forget the rape, battery and slavery?
When
@TMU
law students express their solidarity with “all forms of
#Palestinian
resistance" it means Oct. 7, it means rape, murder, kidnapping. It is threatening and hateful and any judgement otherwise is incomprehensible.
@theJagmeetSingh
And
#Hamas
... and you'd sanction Hamas, right? You'd sanction the rape, murder and kidnapping of
#Israeli
civilians and the use of
#Gazans
as human shields. You just forgot that part...right?
Today at Justice Committee, Mark Sandler, a criminal law expert, said so far, there’ve been no disciplinary consequences in relation to university encampments for hate speech against Jewish students, including the denial of rape, torture & sexual violence towards women by Hamas.
This is our Shabbat miracle. The entire Jewish community is celebrating while mourning for the brave soldier hurt in the rescue operation. We dance through our tears, as we have through history.
@SalmaZahid15
@shafqatalimp
Peaceful protests?
"Long live Oct. 7th" "Death to all Zionists" "Globalize the intifada" "You should be raped"
God help us all if your protests get "violent"
Tell me how many other countries are responsible for providing
#humanitarian
aid to the force that invaded them and that is still holding their children
#hostage
. Does
@JustinTrudeau
realize that he is the pawn of propagandists?
Hi, Justin Trudeau!
Bravo on your hate-filled condemnation of Israel. Your misinformation was bang on.
So, does Hamas call you on a secret burner phone with these talking points?
Or do the terrorists simply email your government account like any ol’ democratic ally?
@ariellakimmel
@vcmancinelli
Especially when antisemitism has managed to become democratically entrenched in the largest school board in Canada. Evidently this is who we are and without an immediate course correction from Canada's leadership, so we will remain.
@sabreenaGS
Section 138 of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel
"The Commission has identified a pattern of sexual violence in the attacks on 7 October." And so on.
You are the liar who lies
@HilzFuld
@davidmdraiman
@HilzFuld
, recently you were here in Toronto and my husband and many of our grassroots leaders were able to come hear you speak and spend some time being inspired and informed. Can you please tell
@davidmdraiman
that it's his turn!!! G-d knows we need him. We need you both.
@thestustustudio
The loss of civil discourse will be the undoing of the west. Thinking that you can simply opt out, ignore, exclude and isolate will be the undoing of these kids. Opportunities will be ignored that will never come again.
Let me just fix this for you
@HMcPhersonMP
- The ICJ ruled this morning that Israel should abandon its daughters in the hands of murderous rapists and we stand by our allies as they fight an existential war against these terrorists before the war is visited on us.
#gaza
#hamas
The ICJ ruled this morning that Israel must immediately halt its military offensive in Gaza.
Canada must support this decision by increasing pressure on Israel now – with sanctions on war cabinet & on extremists like Ben Gvir & Smotrich, and a two–way arms embargo.
@DavidSaranga
It was published in English as "Ordinary Men" - a brilliant book that forced us to contemplate the humanity of the most evil - it is easy to demonize in order to rationalize how such evil can exist. Today the world seems to be making victims of the perpetrators in place of demons
@kinsellawarren
An interesting detail that just came up is that only 3 teachers actually completed the course on antisemitism. That's something like 1 in 5,000.