Rally For Gaza!

Thu, 2018-05-10 16:32

#2

NDPP

bumped.

Fri, 2018-05-11 04:09

#3

NDPP

Again.

Fri, 2018-05-11 10:16

#4

Mobo2000

Thanks for posting this, NDPP!

Fri, 2018-05-11 15:26

#5

NDPP

Gaza Suicide Crisis:

https://youtu.be/63GQbvVTW70

"We're dead already..."

"Good briefing for Ambassador today by Security Cabinet member Minister Naftali Bennett...Canada agrees Israeli security and defence are paramount."

https://twitter.com/CANdiplomat/status/994588521624

'Canada agrees'/Canada supports - Let's compare how many Torontonians show up FOR Gaza vs how many FOR Israel, 'Walk With Israel' , May 27, so we can begin to face realities and dispel illusions about the true nature of things here...Get your ass to this important protest!

"I already killed lots of Arabs in my life and have absolutely no problem with that." N Bennett

Fuck Israel!

Free Palestine!

Fri, 2018-05-11 23:34

#6

NDPP

The NAKBA At 70 - National Committee For Commemoration of NAKBA - Canada

Invites you to participate in the commemoration of the Palestinian NAKBA 70 protest against Trump's decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, and to support the return march to end the siege on Gaza.

Sat, May 12 at 1:30 PM

180 Bloor St. West, Toronto

Tue, 2018-05-15 19:25

#7

lagatta4

I wish we could change the thread title a bit to broaden it. It is important to rally people, not only in Toronto. There was a rally here in Montréal and my friends and I were uninformed of it, though we are veteran activists, many of us involved with this very cause. I guess they assume everyone is on Facebook.

Amir on the day: https://twitter.com/amirkhadir

Tue, 2018-05-15 19:43

#8

NDPP

It has been my experience that coordinated information on such things is haphazard and hit and miss at the best of times. I only found out about the rally for Gaza in Toronto from the JDL site organizing a counter-rally. And I consider myself reasonably well connected. One of the developmental tasks of Canadian activism is to try and get serious about such things. The results of not being so, are obvious all around us.

Tue, 2018-05-15 19:46

(Reply to #8) #9

Badriya

lagatta4 wrote:

I wish we could change the thread title a bit to broaden it. It is important to rally people, not only in Toronto. There was a rally here in Montréal and my friends and I were uninformed of it, though we are veteran activists, many of us involved with this very cause. I guess they assume everyone is on Facebook.

Amir on the day: https://twitter.com/amirkhadir

Good point lagatta. I missed a demo in Ottawa, even though I try to follow everything that is happening and am connected to a number of pro-Palestinian organizations.

Thu, 2018-05-17 14:38

#10

lagatta4

Yes, it is important to keep up the pressure. I've been involved in this for long time, and was heavily involved with the last Canadian boat to Gaza (on the press committee, writing and translating) but due to circumstances a little less recently. Ideally we should have some kind of site similar to manifencours (about demos and other actions here, for many causes) devoted to this issue, as I fear things will only get worse. The violence is so over the top that Jewish and to some extent Israel-identified media (such as Haaretz, and Forward in the US) are expressing unqualified outrage.

We must also remember that a new (or revived) factor is the heightened presence of neo-Nazis and other white supremacists, with the tacit support of Trump. They hate all "Semites", whether Jews or Arabs, and love the idea of a death trap for all of them.

Ottawa, like here, has large Middle Eastern communities. Not all are progressive, but I sense a general feeling of disgust about what is going on now.

Thu, 2018-05-17 14:09

(Reply to #10) #11

Unionist

lagatta4 wrote:

The violence is so over the top that even so-called progressive Zionist media (such as Haaretz, and Forward in the US) are showing serious signs of outrage.

Wow, I stopped reading when I got to that.

"So-called progressive Zionist media"? Why do say "so-called"? and why do you call them "Zionist"? You will never find in any of our mainstream media the scathing analysis and criticism of the Israeli regime that you'll find in Haaretz for example - which is a daily newspaper in Israel. Are you suggesting they weren't showing "serious signs of outrage" before the recent events? And you say "even" Haaretz and Forward are showing those signs?

Maybe I misunderstood what you're getting at. But those two organs (especially Haaretz) are a far better source for exposure of Zionism and Israeli outrages than any media in Canada - including the non-MSM variety. You should have come to see Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy when he spoke at Concordia in November 2014. Nothing "so-called" about that courageous individual, excoriated by Zionists everywhere, child of Holocaust survivors, one of my personal heroes.

Thu, 2018-05-17 14:39

#12

lagatta4

I'll change that if you wish. My intention was not to put down Haaretz, especially with their sterling articles and comments this week.

Edited. Hope the new version is acceptable.

Thu, 2018-05-17 14:44

#13

Unionist

Thanks, lagatta. I was really just astonished and was pretty sure I wasn't understanding your meaning - knowing where you stand on these issues. It's more than clear now!