The Trump Peace Plan already envisions a Palestinian state.
'O Israel, We Stand On Guard For Thee...'
Sun, 2020-02-16 23:23
#52
Wed, 2020-03-04 21:09
#53
JDL Boss Meir Weinsten Banned From York U Campus
https://twitter.com/dimitrilascaris/status/1235057428799959042
"With zero evidence to support the accusation, Justin Trudeau, Doug Ford and John Tory denounced pro-Palestinian protesters last November for allegedly hateful and violent conduct. Not one of these cheerleaders for Israeli apartheid criticized the far-right hatemongers of the JDL.
Can't imagine why...
Sat, 2020-03-07 06:42
#54
'42 Knees In One Day': Israeli Snipers Open Up About Shooting Gaza Protesters
https://twitter.com/justinpodur/status/1236059882727583744
"Here's a little reminder of what every single Western politician supports and what people like Jagmeet Singh can't find the words to denounce."
DON'T Walk With Apartheid and Genocide. DON'T Walk With Israel.
Sat, 2020-03-07 08:21
#55
Israel and Liberal International Criminal Court Hypocrisy
https://yvesengler.com/2020/03/05/israel-and-the-liberals-international-...
"Just when you think Canadian government hypocrisy could hit no greater heights, the Liberals unleash a double-standards rocket to the stars. The Trudeau government recently pressed the International Criminal Court to stop investigating Israeli warcrimes. Ottawa sent a letter to the ICC saying it didn't believe the court had jurisdiction over Palestine.
'Canada's longstanding position is that it does not recognize the accession of such a state to international treaties, including the Rome Statute. In the absence of a Palestinian state, it is Canada's view that the Court does not have jurisdiction in this matter,' a Global Affairs official told the Jerusalem Post. But it doesn't matter if Canada recognizes Palestine. The vast majority of UN member states recognized Palestine and it joined the ICC in 2015.
In response to Ottawa's letter to the ICC, PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat tweeted that Canada supported 'Israel's campaign for impunity'. Erekat added, 'it is not about jurisdiction. It is about war crimes. This is an encouragement to continue the war crimes."
'I came here to thank you for your support for Israel. Canada supports us because of you and their relations with you and because of your ability to make the case for the Zionist movement in the Land of Israel.' President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, April 5, 2019 (A Special Message to Toronto's Jewish Community - UJA Federation)
Stop Supporting Apartheid Israel!
Sun, 2020-03-08 11:28
#56
"Canada's unions express concern with Bill 168 as it risks shutting down legitimate criticism of Israel. We call on Premier Doug Ford to oppose it and stand up for the right to freedom of expression and legitimate protest as well as against hate and anti-Semitism."
https://twitter.com/CanadianLabour/status/1235992781635629057
Progressive Canadians and their labour movement must fight against Apartheid Israel and its powerful lobby, with the same vigour and solidarity as it opposed Apartheid South Africa. Denounce all complicit Canadian 'representatives.' Resist don't collaborate. Free Palestine!
Mon, 2020-03-16 12:45
#57
Looks like a change in government in Israel!
Mon, 2020-03-16 15:14
#58
Looks like a change in government in Israel!
It appears Netanyahu may finally be out, or partly out. How much actual difference this will make very much remains to be seen. We can assume it will do nothing to help the Palestinians, since Blue and White's position on the Occupation is for all practical purposes identical to Likud's.
Mon, 2020-03-16 16:51
#59
It's a beginning!
Tue, 2020-03-17 01:04
#60
Not at all. Syphilis or Gonhorrea? Zionist warcriminal or Zionist warciminal? The most important thing is to stop supporting Apartheid Israel and its Zionist support base here in Canada.
Tue, 2020-03-17 02:01
#61
What is the "Zionist support base here in Canada"?
Sun, 2020-04-26 04:54
#62
"There are people in the NDP who reject the Palestinian call to boycott Israel, and say we should work with our progressive partners in the Israeli Labor Party. Now that Labor has joined a coalition government with Netanyahu based on a promise to annex the West Bank, what do they say?"
https://twitter.com/mbueckert/status/1253322507291156480
Canada's Hill & Knowlton Zionist left party whose leadership crushed even a nominal and mild BDS motion in their own convention. Like all the other Canadian parliamentary parties they are owned by Israel and subservient to its lobby. Who cares what they say? A stake through its politically bankrupt walking-dead collaborationist heart is long overdue - to be replaced with something activist, better and new.
Sun, 2020-04-26 05:50
#63
We do have a party to the left of the NDP here in Québec, but so many NDP MPs and supporters critical of that regime have been stifled and don't know where to start. Ideas, please, not just criticism (though I do think the criticism is warranted).
Sun, 2020-04-26 16:28
#64
It's a beginning!
Of what? It's not anywhere close to Netanyahu leaving office-when he gets close to the eighteen month mark, he will obviously find some way of creating a situation that allows him to stay in office indefinitely. And if the man manages to get immunity from prosecution, he will stay in office until he dies. By whatever point that happens, any possibility of a peaceful, just and humane resolution of the Israel/Palestine dispute and the liberation of the Palestinian people from tyranny will be forever lost.
There are a tiny number of people in Israel who want peace and who recognize that first step to making any real chance is to end the oppression of the Palestinian people, to stop the useless and indefensible practice of punishing ALL Palestinians for the acts of the violent, but those people have permanently lost the argument in that country.
Israel will be governed by Netanyanu after Netanyahu after Netanyahu. It will never have a government that puts ending the killing above taking land for the sake of taking land.
For all practical purposes, the only opposition to anything Netanyahu does, among parties in the Knesset, comes from the Joint List, which is post-Zionist. Both halves of what used to be Blue and White-half of its former deputies are now in a separate party, Yesh Atid-are exactly like Likud on "security" issues. The Israeli Labor Party, which is now in a grouping that holds only 10% of the seats in the Knesset, is also largely in agreement with Likud on security issues. Meretz, the supposed "peace party", is now for all practical purposes extinct, holding only a trivial number of seats as part of the same deeply unpopular slate Labor is part of.
There is no possibility for change in that country at this time, and it's likely that none will emerge for years or decades to come.
The only way there ever could be a possibility for change would be if somebody formed a true party of the growing number of poor Israelis in both communities, a party that linked ending the war with Palestinians to a radical redistribution of wealth and political power in that country and made the case that maintaining the status quo, continuing a pointless and increasingly brutal of an area which has had an Arab majority for over a millennium, is doing harm to the working and kept-from-working poor.
The Joint List comes closest to being that party, but its critique of the status quo isn't radical enough and it has not been able to connect with the majority of the poor in Israeli society.
Sun, 2020-04-26 16:36
#65
Boycott any political candidate that refuses to publicly support BDS for a start and review and repeat all other successful strategies that led to the downfall of the South African version of apartheid.
Sun, 2020-04-26 22:59
#66
The Trump Peace Plan already envisions a Palestinian state.
No, it doesn't. Most of the West Bank ends up in Israeli control under the plan and all the Palestinians get are a few tiny, useless slivers of non-contiguous wasteland. It's not possible to make a state from the irrelevant, barren deadlands Jared leaves the Palestinians out of what we we are supposed to see as the goodness of his heart. The whole purpose of what Jared came up with was to humiliate and possibly sign the death warrant for any Palestinian leader who signed on.
An actual peace plan would treat the Palestinian side with "parity of esteem" and admit that the conflict is grounded in a land dispute, not bigotry.
Sun, 2020-04-26 23:18
#67
The hard line Israeli plan is very Canadian. Instead of an Indian Act you get a Palestinian Act with the same tiny reservations and Palestinian Agents controlling all aspect of the Palestinians lives both on and off reserve.
Mon, 2020-04-27 02:50
#68
An actual peace plan would treat the Palestinian side with "parity of esteem" and admit that the conflict is grounded in a land dispute, not bigotry.
Not treating your enemies with respect tends to lead to your own destruction.
Any Jewish advocate would take care to remember this.
Mon, 2020-04-27 17:48
#69
An actual peace plan would treat the Palestinian side with "parity of esteem" and admit that the conflict is grounded in a land dispute, not bigotry.
Not treating your enemies with respect tends to lead to your own destruction.
Any Jewish advocate would take care to remember this.
It is the Israeli state and its IDF that is murdering teenagers for protesting being caged in narrow strip of land.
Mon, 2020-04-27 20:19
#70
An actual peace plan would treat the Palestinian side with "parity of esteem" and admit that the conflict is grounded in a land dispute, not bigotry.
Not treating your enemies with respect tends to lead to your own destruction.
Any Jewish advocate would take care to remember this.It is the Israeli state and its IDF that is murdering teenagers for protesting being caged in narrow strip of land.
Indeed. It is fundamentally wrong to use the words "Jewish" and "Zionist" as if they are interchangeable. These days, most Zionists AREN'T Jewish-numerically, there are far more "Christian" evangelicals who identify as "Zionist" than there are people of any other ethnicity or faith tradition, and an increasing number of people who are Jewish, especially in North America, are speaking out against the brutality the Israeli government subjects Palestinians, including the vast majority of Palestinians who are NOT militants in the armed struggle; and a smaller but growing number are questioning "actually existing Zionism" itself.
Tue, 2020-04-28 01:59
#71
Also, it is a fair question as to whether any Palestinians would even have been enemies of the Zionist project had it been constructed in such a way-as early Zionists such as Martin Buber and Judah Magnes suggested-as to create a state that honored the self-determination objective without dispossessing people or creating a state which was ethnic-supremacist or to have led to the kind of ethnic cleansing-and the unjust implication that those being dispossesed had an obligation to leave the lands their ancestors had always lived on, based on the implication that dispossessed were somehow complicit in the barbaric history of European Christian persecution of Jews-an assertion which reached an obscene level of absurdity in the insinuations that the Arabs of Palestine could have singlehandedly prevented the Holocaust-a despicable lie, given that everyone knew Hitler would never have been allowed his intended victims to simply leave Europe-but refused to do so-and not only that, a lie which led to Palestinians and other Arabs to be unjustly vilified, while allowing the North American countries, the UK, and Australia and New Zealand to evade responsibility for either turning away virtually ALL Jewish refugees and for the UK's insistence on taking only children, many of whom were forced to convert to Christianity by their host families after their own parents had been sent back to Europe to die.
It is time to ask: was it ever justifiable, in any way at all, for those pushing for the creation of Israel in the late 1940s, or for the hasbara(Israeli propaganda) machine of today, to paint Palestinians and other Arabs as though they were no different than the Romans, the tsars, or Hitler, as if they were the successors in anti-Jewish villainy to this Christian European villains?
Tue, 2020-04-28 01:11
#72
Coronavirus in Times of Occupation
"Raise your voice..."
'Our Vision'
https://jnf.ca/about-jnf/vision/
"The Jewish National Fund of Canada builds the foundations of Israel's future..."
Make it stop.
Sun, 2020-05-03 16:10
#73
'Thank you to FP Champagne" - Israel
https://twitter.com/IsraelinCanada/status/1255294143913492481
Canada's shameful support of Zionist apartheid's criminal project continues. Here's what your representative extols:
"Palestinian student activist Mays Abu Ghosh of Birzeit University and from Qalandiya refugee camp, has been sentenced to 16 months in detention. Detained since August 2019 for activism, she was barely recognizable by her parents after torture by Israeli interrogators."
Mon, 2020-05-11 20:58
#74
"When he was running to be NDP leader, Jagmeet Singh told me he supported sanctions on Israel. Since then, he has resisted NDP grassroots support for sanctions. If Israel's pending theft of Palestinian land will not persuade Mr Singh to be true to his word, then what will.?
https://twitter.com/dimitrilascaris/status/1259860988859486212
Nothing. Israel and its lobby have captured Singh as they have the other parliamentary leaders. It is up to you.
Thu, 2020-05-14 01:02
#75
'Mere Words Will Accomplish Nothing, Mr Singh...'
https://twitter.com/dimitrilascaris/status/1260619954430369792
"Yesterday, I called Jagmeet Singh out for failing to condemn Israel's looming theft of Palestinian land. Today NDP issued this week statement which say nothing about sanctions and amounts to empty rhetoric. Mere words will accomplish nothing, Mr Singh, and you know that."
Which is precisely why he said them like that. NDP = No Difference Party.
Fri, 2020-07-31 11:10
#76
Neo-Nazi Bad, Left Wing Anti-Israel Store-Owner Much Worse
https://yvesengler.com/2020/07/27/neo-nazi-bad-left-wing-anti-israel-sto...
"...The ferociousness of the campaign against Foodbenders has been remarkable. Contrasting it with the Israeli nationalist Canadian establishment's reaction to unambiguous anti-Semitic hatred from a far-right politician would seem to indicate that destroying a business owned by a left-wing owner is of greater priority than opposing neo-Nazis."
Fri, 2020-07-31 20:19
#77
Update: 68 Canadian MPs Have Pledged That Canada Must 'Consider All Reasonable Diplomatic and Economic Options To Stop Annexation and Prompt Israeli Compliance with International Law.
https://twitter.com/dimitrilascaris/status/1288088293272440836
"It appears that NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is fine with Israel's latest assault on international law. Israel's annexation of Palestinian land is a war crime Mr Singh. Why do you refuse to join with the 22 members of your own caucus who oppose this war crime?"
Perhaps we should ask him?
Sun, 2020-08-02 00:37
#78
FSWC: 'Update of Anti-Israel Video from Ontario Curriculum Resources
https://twitter.com/mbueckert/status/1289471075508224
"Removing a child's video blog about how Palestine suffers from Israeli occupation is censorship; implementing policies to make sure such a video is never made again is racist."
THEIR LOBBY HAS TO GO.
Thu, 2020-08-06 10:54
#79
Toronto Area MP [For Israel] Michael Levitt To Resign to Head Jewish Human Rights Organization
https://www.friendsofsimonwiesenthalcenter.com/news/community-intelligen...
"Friends of Simone Wiesenthal Center was proud to announce yesterday the appointment of Michael Levitt as the organization's President and CEO...'His distinguished career advocating for human rights and his support for Israel and the fight against antisemitism brings a high level of leadership and profile to our organization. We could not be more excited for the future,' said FSWC chairman Fred Waks."
Toronto-Area Liberal MP Michael Levitt Puts Family First, Announces Resignation
https://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2020/08/04/toronto-area-liberal-mp-mic...
"Michael Levitt is resigning as the Liberal MP for the Toronto area riding of York Centre. In a Facebook post, Levitt says he has loved being a Member of Parliament but the intense 'all-encompassing job' has taken a toll on his family - especially since the COVID-19 crisis hit Canada five months ago. He says it's time to 'put family first and come back home, both physically and mentally..."
"Congratulations Michael Levitt on your new role with Canadian Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center. Thank you for being a strong advocate for human rights through your work chairing the Foreign Affairs Committee and your leadership on the Magnitsky Act. I look forward to working together in the future!"
https://twitter.com/cafreeland/status/1291112948849618945
Like the Apartheid South African lobby before, the Apartheid Israel lobby must be dismantled in Canada and elsewhere and Palestine freed from racist and genocidal White Supremacist rule.
Thu, 2020-08-06 20:25
#80
laine lowe
I am sure the new position probably also pay handsomely. But sure, it's about family and being home (insert puke emoticon here).
Fri, 2020-08-07 10:41
#81
Toronto's Foodbenders Restaurant Has Been Targeted By Far Right Organizations..
https://twitter.com/GabeBleyer/status/1291039586488025093
"The most recent act of vandalism occurred over the weekend. This is the latest in a series of attempts to hurt their business and to intimidate [pro-Palestinian] Foodbenders into silence." (see above twitter feed)
Why is the Jewish Defence League still permitted to run riot in Toronto? Answer: A powerful lobby that protects and supports them that Canadian politicians are afraid of and so collaborate with to do their bidding.
Fri, 2020-08-07 12:16
#82
It is deeply ingrained in British Canada's DNA. Canadians fought in the Boer War so opposing racism by a guy named de Klerk was easy to do. We also supported the Balfour Declaration and since then the Palestinian's have not really existed in the minds of our policy makers.
Wed, 2020-08-19 14:07
#83
On today's edition of CBC's 'The Current', Indigenous guest-host, Duncan McCue was forced to apologize for 'mistakenly' referring to the occupied territories as 'Palestine' on yesterday's show. 'Sorry, my bad' said McCue. Yet another example of the ever growing power of Israel's Canadian lobby and the national broadcaster's apparent willingness to accommodate it.
Wed, 2020-08-19 15:16
#84
from above:
"Before we get to the podcast, we've got a correction to make. Yesterday in my interview with Joe Sacco, I referred to the Palestinian territories as 'Palestine.' We apologize. My bad..." Guest host Duncan McCue @ 22:45
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-aug-19-2020-1.5691734
No matter how much Zionists or their Canadian collaborators at the CBC dislike to hear it, Palestine is still Palestine. The apology should be retracted.
Contact The Current
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/contact-the-current-1.4348032
Wed, 2020-08-19 20:48
#85
laine lowe
Wow, that is so blatant. I'm hoping that Dunan McCue purposely used "Palestine" knowing that he would be reprimanded and made to apologize for it. I think the apology itself draws attention to how biased the CBC is.
Thu, 2020-08-20 00:53
#86
As an Indigenous broadcaster who wrote the book on how to report on Indigenous peoples, and a long-time journalist of some stature at the CBC, Duncan McCue could and should have refused to apologize rather than publicly undermine the Indigenous struggle for Palestine. Unfortunately he did not. Too bad. Israel won. Again.
Thu, 2020-08-27 01:03
#87
Palestine Deleted
https://mondoweiss.net/2020/08/palestine-deleted/
"CBC Radio host Duncan McCue issued an on-air apology for using the word 'Palestine' in an interview on the Public Broadcaster's flagship current affairs show. 'This is an issue that Honest Reporting Canada has sensitized the CBC to,' HRC director Mike Fegelman proudly announced in a post emblazoned with the lines 'Palestine Doesn't Exist' and the 'mythical state of Palestine.'
So what's CBC's problem? How can one explain host Duncan McCue's August 19 on-air mea culpa (he had no choice), and Palestine's digital laparotomy from The Current's online edition? Why didn't the CBC tell Israel's 'media watchdog' to return to its kennel...?"
Let CBC Know Palestine Exists
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/write-cbc-and-let-them-know-indeed-pal...
"Please let the publicly funded CBC know you are concerned that it feels the need to erase and apologize for the word 'Palestine'."
CBC as Winston Smith. When will the Canadian msm class end its abject and outrageous public subservience to Apartheid Israel and its lobby? Please forward to all your media friends/contacts in hopes of waking them up to this pernicious problem.
'Palestine is Still the Issue': UN Vote Exposes, Isolates Canada
http://www.ramzybaroud.net/palestine-is-still-the-issue-un-vote-exposes-...
"The notion that 'Canada is better,' especially when compared with US foreign policy has persisted for many years. Recent events at the United Nations have, however, exposed the true nature of Canada's global positions, particularly in the matter of its blind and uncritical support for Israel..."
Thu, 2020-08-27 21:26
#88
Embassy of Israel
https://twitter.com/IsraelinCanada/status/1297893499166248962
"Congratulatons to Erin O'Toole on winning leadership of the CPC last night. We look forward to working with you to continue strengthening the longstanding ties between Israel-Canada."
Just another Canadian politician eager to serve Israel.
Thu, 2020-09-03 23:07
#89
LAST CHANCE TO SIGN THE PETITION: LIFT THE BLOCKADE ON GAZA
https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-2565
"Petition closes September 4, 2020, at 3:26 PM ET. Will be presented to the Canadian parliament by petition sponsor Paul Manly, MP Nanaimo-Ladysmith, Green Party Caucus BC."
Make sure you fwd to your own MP requesting they sign. Let's see how many do the right thing.
Sat, 2020-09-12 07:52
#90
In early September those who wrote The Current and others at the CBC, including head of the CBC Catharine Tait, received responses from Naill Cameron of CBC National Audience Services. Cameron said that Palestine was deleted because the word is counter to “established CBC language policy” and that there is “no modern country of Palestine.” He said that CBC “does not refer to Palestine or show a map with Palestine as a country.” Cameron went on to say the CBC uses “the term pro-Palestinianinstead of pro-Palestine when referring in generic ways to Palestinian supporters.”
https://mondoweiss.net/2020/09/cbc-owes-the-people-of-palestine-an-apology/
Tue, 2020-09-15 19:12
#91
Protests and Rockets as Gulf States Sign Deals with Israel
https://twitter.com/intifada/status/1305996580873527297
"At a White House ceremony on Tuesday, the UAR and Bahrain officially established diplomatic relations with Israel. During the ceremony, two rockets were fired from Gaza towards the southern Israeli cities of Ashdod and Ashkelan. The rockets and any violent Israeli response given the lie to claims that the events on the White House lawn have done anything to advance the prospects of peace."
Tue, 2020-09-15 22:49
#92
'Honoured to be Appointed to This Important Role as Chair of the Subcommittee on Israel-Diaspora Relations'
https://twitter.com/IsraelinToronto/status/1305595945355227137
"Congratulations to MK Cotler-Wunsh on your appointement! We look forward to helping you with the important work of connecting Israel and the Diaspora."
Toronto - The Most Zionist Community in the World
https://jewishtoronto.com/news-media/toronto-the-most-zionist-community-...
"This is a strong and well-established community with great influence in Canada in all areas - political, economic, academic and more. A recent study by York University and the University of Toronto found that Jews in Canada have a stronger connection to Israel than American Jewry..."
Spirit of Hope Returns May 2021
#HUMANRIGHTS
Wed, 2020-09-16 01:20
#93
My question is why now? Why not under Obama? How did Trump make this happen?
Wed, 2020-09-16 11:41
#94
Wed, 2020-09-16 11:45
#95
Wed, 2020-09-16 14:59
#96
Canada is Wrong To Welcome the UAE-Israel Deal
https://twitter.com/socialistproject/status/1306262327411572736
"Far from bringing 'peace', normalization is on track to accelerate military spending and militarism in the Middle East."
Thu, 2020-09-17 17:39
#97
"I mentioned this on my page but when I was starting grad school in 2014 I was explicitly told to never criticize Israel publicly because it would almost certainly affect my career prospects. These campaigns of intimidation against pro-Palestine advocates are so commonplace!"
https://twitter.com/shafiekeyvan/status/1306620841338253317
Look what happened to CBC's Duncan McCue for daring to utter the word 'Palestine'. Zionized from sea to shining sea.
Fri, 2020-09-25 16:18
#98
Engler: A 'Diabolical Lurking' Beneath the Surface of Canada's [Zionist] Left
https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/2020/09/a-diabolical-lurking-benea...
"Does Canadian Left icon Stephen Lewis want Palestine to disappear? Omitting Palestine from the Security Council discussion is not motivated by a different interpretation of the facts but rather reflects the longstanding anti-Palestinian activism of Lewis and members of his family..."
Canada Talks Israel-Palestine (and vid)
https://canadatalksisraelpalestine.ca/2020/09/24/un-must-hold-internatio....
"The occupation has gone on for 57 years. No occupying country which in good faith, is intending to return the occupied land to the people, the sovereignty, would be there this long..."
No good faith with Apartheid Israel or its Canadian compradors.
Sun, 2020-09-27 09:08
#99
'The CJPAC family is expanding!'
https://twitter.com/CJPAC/status/1308446094058287106
"Lorne Geller has joined the team as our Assistant Director, Political Outreach and Programming! Lorne comes to us with a great deal of experience already. We can't wait to work with you!"
Canada's Zionization for support of Apartheid Israel continues apace.
Thu, 2020-10-01 19:05
#100
The University of Toronto’s law school allegedly rescinded a job offer for director of the law school’s International Human Rights Program in response to external pressure about the candidate’s scholarship and work on Israeli government violations of international law.
https://www.juancole.com/2020/10/critical-chilling-research.html
Sun, 2020-10-04 18:29
#101
Who Owes Who an Apology and Will Palestine Be Allowed on Canadian Airwaves?
https://twitter.com/trapdinawrpool/status/1312720422933274624
"CBC host [Duncan McCue, now 'on leave' from CBC] utters the word Palestine - CBC then edits it out and forces him to apologize; Who Owes Who an Apology and Will 'Palestine' Be Allowed on Canadian Airwaves?"
Only one indication of the Israel lobby's power and Canada's acquiesence to it. MPs remain silent.