(((Noah Tepperman)))

@Citizen004 @Mark_Goldberg @TheCJN @ebessner @avilewis Not so much, no.

@Mark_Goldberg @TheCJN @ebessner @ntepperman @avilewis The episode should be called, "Splitting Hairs."

NDP leadership race: Who’s the ‘least bad’ for Canada’s Jewish community? | @TheCJN thecjn.ca/news/ndp-leade… @ebessner in conversation with @ntepperman @AviLewis is widely seen as the front-runner, but concerns are being raised about his strong anti-Zionist views. 1/2

It’s so weird to see an example of critical thinking described as “insane”. I guess that’s where binary thinking & living in an echo-chamber gets you. This is the left’s dark mirror to MAGA: absolute ideology; absence of self-awareness and curiosity; double standards; racism.

@NoLore @readthemaple It’s so weird to see an example of critical thinking described as “insane”. I guess that’s where binary thinking & living in an echo-chamber gets you. This is the left’s dark mirror to MAGA: absolute ideology; absence of self-awareness and curiosity; double standards; racism.

This piece of writing is insane. In an article that alleges that "Jews are being purged from public life" Brown doesn't name a single Jewish person who has lost their job or public role, and then blames @readthemaple for the most recent shootings at Toronto synagogues.

@b_mogil @ebessner @NDP @avilewis @IndJewishVoices Thank you - and that makes 2 of us.

@ebessner @NDP @avilewis @IndJewishVoices Love @ntepperman and no idea how he puts up with all of this

As the @NDP chooses its next leader, some Jewish Canadians are raising concerns about the front-runners' strong positions against Israel: especially the only Jewish candidate, @avilewis, who is anti-Zionist, says Israel has committed genocide, is a member of @IndJewishVoices, and yet said nothing to show compassion for his community after the recent attacks on 3 Canadian synagogues. It's making party insider and @TheCJN's NDP political panelist @ntepperman worried that a Lewis victory could make antisemitism worse.🎧Listen: [thecjn.ca/news/ndp-leade…]

@dscanlon_d @Mark_Goldberg @TheCJN @ebessner @avilewis Because it will almost certainly normalize & contribute to the normalization of misinformative & discriminatory perspectives & beliefs that target a superminority. There will still be an impact.

@Mark_Goldberg @TheCJN @ebessner @ntepperman @avilewis What difference does it make? They'll never form government.

Good. Non-delegates w/o credentials broke through 2+ security layers (in place b/c of threats against Singh), put everyone at risk & seemed coordinated w/ Barry’s buddies. They should’ve been charged w/ trespassing. Refund your campaign donations. Also, you’re a racist.

@EnglerYves Good. Most of them weren’t credentialed delegates; they broke through multiple security layers (in place because of death threats against Singh & others) & put everyone at risk. The whole thing seemed coordinated w/ Barry’s buddies. They should have been charged with trespassing.

After blocking my candidacy, Bianca Mugyenyi's candidacy & expelling me from NDP, yesterday National Director Lucy Watson withdrew convention credential for campaign co-manager Barry Weisleder. Watson cited Weisleder supporting anti-genocide protesters at last convention. Video of protest

I spoke with @CBSNews about the global antizionist hate movement, in the wake of the arson of four ambulances in Britain.

Israel is set to deport a Jewish American activist who reported an Israeli settler who ran over a five-year-old Palestinian girl in the South Hebron Hills two days ago. They arrested and deported the activist who reported the crime—not the criminal.

@EnglerYves The real question is has @EnglerYves returned campaign donations to their donors yet?

Canadian monarchists are trying to blame the Iranian government for a killing apparently committed by supporters of the Shah. This type of inversion of reality underpins discussion of Iran, masking a fanaticism that likely contributed to the murder of Masood Masjoody. On Saturday the Vancouver police reported the arrest of two suspects in the killing of Masjoody. Mehdi Ahmadzadeh and Arezou Soltani were charged with first degree murder. A former SFU professor involved in many legal disputes, Masjoody disappeared in early February. Opponents of the Iranian government immediately accused Tehran of murdering him. A UK Guardian headline, for instance, read “Iranian mathematician missing in Canada may have been targeted by Tehran, activists say.” This frame dominated the discussion of his disappearance despite the fact Masjoody was suing the son of Iran’s former Shah Reza Pahlavi. While the police haven’t cited any motive for the murder — if there was evidence of Tehran’s involvement it would have been mentioned — the two individuals charged are staunch monarchists. Masjoody had tweeted that the two individuals charged with his murder wanted to kill him because of his opposition to Pahlavi. There’s a photo circulating of one of them with Israeli, US and monarchist flags and another of both of them with Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre. The suspected murder may represent an escalation of the authoritarian, even fascistic, tide sweeping large swaths of the Iranian community. A week ago, a thousand members of the community did a fascist salute in downtown Vancouver and an Iranian counter protester at Saturday’s Al Quds rally in Toronto brought an effigy of a lynched Palestinian. Despite the police suggesting the killing was committed by monarchists, leading Iranian spokespeople continue to suggest the opposite. Prominent monarchist Nazanin Afshin-Jam MacKay, whose father ran the Tehran Sheraton hotel until the end of the Shah’s rule, strongly suggested it was a government hit. The wife of former Conservative minister Peter McKay then claimed the killing represented a threat to opponents of the Islamic Republic. “For years,” she wrote, “we have been warning Canadian officials to wake up to the export of the regime's Islamist extremist ideology here in Canada, as well as concerns about funding networks, safe haven for regime officials in Canada, billions of dollars in money laundering, and the possibility of sleeper cells.” Should we now worry about Pahlavist sleeper cells? The bid to blame the Iranian government for a killing apparently committed by monarchists is connected to another crass inversion of reality. By promoting the “700 IRGC agents in Canada” storyline the media and politicians regularly claim Canada is a safe haven for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp. But 22 months ago Canada listed the IRGC as a banned terrorist organization (its Quds Force was listed in 2012). It’s the only component of any state’s military on Canada’s terror list. (Incredibly, the 700 IRGC members in Canada estimate comes from a group calling for Canada to list the IRGC as a terrorist group in a 2023 Global News article. Even if true it’s largely meaningless since the IRGC has nearly 200,000 members and Iran has mandatory military service so there are over a million former IRGC members.) In another example of the absurdity of the ‘Canada is soft on Iran’ line, Ottawa broke off diplomatic relations with Tehran 15 years ago. The UK, France and most of the world have diplomatic ties with Iran. At the same time Canada put Iran on its state sponsor of terrorism list. No other country is on that list (Syria was recently removed after a former Al Qaeda leader took charge of the country). Additionally, Ottawa has imposed a slew of sanctions on Iran. After Russia, it’s probably Canada’s most sanctioned country and Ottawa has enabled the theft of Iranian government assets. Suggesting Canada is soft on Iran is an absurd inversion of reality designed to justify and encourage further Canadian belligerence and imperialism. The “700 IRGC agents in Canada” storyline also gives licence to fanatic opponents of the Iranian government to intimidate community members opposed to imperialism. Still, the ‘IRGC is overrunning Canada’ story line is promoted across the political spectrum. While it’s particularly popular with the Conservatives and aggressive Zionists, NDP foreign affairs critic Heather McPherson has echoed it. Adding a bizarre twist to the imperial propaganda, Green Party leader Elizabeth May recently told the House of Commons that members of the IRGC are obtaining baptismal certificates in the Anglican Church of Canada to hide their identities. May has yet to offer evidence for her claim. Amidst a devastating US/Israeli war on Iran we must shun the imperial propaganda. It may even be leading to people being killed in Canada.

@NinaByzantina CIJA is not “roughly” the Canadian version of AIPAC. AIPAC *only* does Israel advocacy and can donate to elections. CIJA cannot donate. It advocates on all issues impacting Jews in 🇨🇦: healthcare, housing, safety, religious rights, and yes, 🇨🇦✡️’s support for Israel too.

CIJA is roughly the Canadian version of AIPAC. Canada has a much smaller population than the US, so political contributions influencing pro-Israel views in Canada, like the one below to the Conservative Party, are significant.

@Hallandale @HenMazzig No. Ive been working on one today and while I’m confident that what I have is accurate, I don’t have any sense at all as to what might be missing.

@HenMazzig - please consider expanding this to include not just arson but *all* attacks on synagogues.

@michaelasachs She must know Ghada Sasa.

Wow, she “corrected” it with ANOTHER BLOOD LIBEL

@HenMazzig It’s noteworthy that Israel isn’t on this list. Someone should point this out to antizionists - especially the Jewish ones.

Here's a list of synagogues that have been set on fire, or targeted with arson, since October 7: - Oct 17: El Hamma, Tunisia - Oct 18: Berlin, Germany - Nov 8: Montreal, Canada - Nov 18: Yerevan, Armenia - Nov 19: Lakewood, USA - Feb 28: Sfax, Tunisia - April 5: Oldenburg, Germany - April 10: Moscow, Russia - May 1: Warsaw, Poland - May 17: Rouen, France - May 30: Vancouver, Canada - July 11: Obninsk, Russia - Aug 24: La Grande-Motte, France - Dec 6: Melbourne, Australia - Dec 18: Montreal, Canada - Dec 30: Mykolaiv, Ukraine - Jan 11: Sydney, Australia - July 4: Melbourne, Australia - Aug 13: Obninsk, Russia - ⁠Nov 27: Chernivtsi, Ukraine - ⁠Jan 10: Mississippi, USA - ⁠Jan 14: Giessen, Germany - ⁠March 9: Liege, Belgium Every time a synagogue is set on fire, I have to update this list. And it never gets easier.

@Arturmaks She’s not well. Israel derangement syndrome?

Bloody obscene that Nora wants Israeli civilians killed.

@RabbiPoupko @juliedabrusin … and as commanded by Hashem you’re fulfilling the mitzvah of… shaming her publicly with a post on a platform owned by an antisemite?

3 Toronto Synagogues were fired at with military grade weapons, Canadian Jews are fleeing Canada but Canadian elected official @juliedabrusin found the real problem.

Another common lie is that antizionists in Canada are "Palestinian activists". I never use the term because I know that Palestinians are a small minority in the Canadian antizionist hate movement. Most people involved have no direct link to Israel/Palestine.

Look what an Israeli strike did to this Tehran landmark. Wait, no, actually, this is the Plasco Building in 2017. After years of neglect, cutting corners, and low safety standards by the city, an electrical failure burned the building, and it collapsed, killing tens of people.

The shift from title to subtitle here is wild. So not only does the regime not pose an “existential threat” to Israel, it doesn’t even pose a “significant danger”? Just entirely unserious analysis, for purely politicking purposes. Embarrassing for everyone involved.