Corey Balsam 🍉

Judge: Palestinian minor who died in Israeli prison was 'likely starved,' but case closed haaretz.com/israel-news/is…

Bill C-9 is a dangerous and overreaching piece of legislation that will threaten fundamental rights for all Canadians. As Jews committed to justice and solidarity, we reject the idea that increased policing of peaceful protests will protect our communities. This Bill fights freedom of expression, not hate, and further entrenches police powers to crackdown on political dissent and progressive movements. Read our full statement here: ijvcanada.org/criminalizing-…

Breaking: @MarkJCarney's government just voted against Bill C-233, which would have stopped the flow of weapons to Israel via the United States loophole. Canada has chosen to protect those profiting from genocide. We will not forget how MPs voted in this urgent moment.

Summer camps like the ones described here are a core part of the infrastructure of anti-Palestinian indoctrination within our communities. Many openly encourage support for the Israeli military and engage in violent anti-Palestinian racism. Zionist lobby groups like CIJA don't want Canadians to know about what goes on in these camps, so as usual, work to delegitimize those drawing attention to them. These camps must be investigated and held to account for the hateful attitudes they foster. @OCACamps

A massive CBC investigation has just confirmed what we’ve suspected all along: The Canadian government knew our weapons were reaching Israel through the "U.S. Loophole"—and they were quietly investigating the legal fallout while publicly lying to us about it. Behind closed doors, a Crown corporation report (the CCC) was tracking these parts and citing ICJ genocide warnings. In public? Ministers looked us in the eye and said it wasn't happening. This isn’t a mistake—it’s international-scale gaslighting. We have a chance to end the deception. Bill C-233 is up for a vote in Parliament this March. It’s the "No More Loopholes Act," and it’s how we stop unregulated military trade for good. 🔗 ACT NOW: Link in bio to email your MP and read the full reports from CBC and The Maple.

Thank you, Senator @yuenpauwoo , for speaking out against the ongoing genocide of Palestinians on Holocaust Remembrance Day. To honour the legacy of the Holocaust and our people’s history, never again must mean never again for anyone.

Hi, Hi, I'm Jewish. Many of my closest friends are Jewish. I love them all. My whole family is Jewish, I love them all too. My community is Jewish. Love them all. I love Judaism. I host shabbat dinners, celebrate Jewish holidays, sing Jewish prayers, study Torah & Talmud, and love Jewish culture, history and expression. But I'm not a Zionist. Zionism was an ideology that said, let's create a Jewish state in a country that's 97%+ non-Jewish. That's why, when Zionists bought land in Palestine from the 1900s-1948, they uprooted the people living on the land because they weren't jewish. That's why, when Zionists created cooperatives in Palestine in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, they insisted on "Hebrew Labor", i.e., "Jews only" -- no Arabs allowed. That's why, in the 1930s, Zionists expelled Palestinian Arabs from working at Jewish companies and business. Jews only! jstor.org/stable/10.1525… That's why, in 1948, Zionists militias ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians from their homes. That's why, from 1949-1956, Israeli forces shot & killed b/w 2,700-5,000 overwhelmingly unarmed Palestinians trying to return to their homes after the war. Because they were the wrong religion/ethnicity (source: Benny Morris, Border Wars, p.416). That's why Israel expelled another ~30-40,000 Palestinians from Israel from 1949-1959. palestinenexus.com/articles/israe… That's why Israel expelled another ~250,000 Palestinians from Gaza & the West Bank when it occupied those territories in 1967. That's why Israel continued to expel Palestinians from the occupied territories from 1968-1993, many hundreds of thousands of them. They had the wrong DNA. palestinenexus.com/articles/israe… The Zionists wanted to create a Jewish State with a Jewish majority in a land of overwhelmingly Palestinians. That's why Israel has become such a pariah state over the years, because it's insistence on jewish rule in a country with so many Palestinians. That's why Zionism has led Israel to become an apartheid state, according to every relevant human rights organization (@ICAHD in 2010, @UNESCWA in 2017, @YeshDin in 2020, @AdalahCenter in 2020, @btselem in 2021, @hrw in 2021, @fidh_en in 2021, @alhaq_org in 2022, @Addameer in 2022, @AlMezanCenter in 2022, @cacalqudsuni in 2022, @AdvocacyJlac in 2022, @miftahpal in 2022, @ICJ_org in 2022, @DAWNmenaorg in 2022, @amnesty in 2022), since it cannot grant the ~5-6 million occupied Palestinians Israeli citizenship. Israel chose apartheid and Jewish supremacy over democracy. Zionism also explains why Israel is now committing genocide (according to @amnesty, @hrw, @btselem, @MSF, IAGS, @alhaq_org, @UNHumanRights, @UN_HRC, @pchrgaza, @AlMezanCenter, @WarOnWant, @PHRIsrael, @fidh_en, PHROC, @LemkinInstitute, @theCCR, @ECCHRBerlin , @unitedforrights @JURDIasso, @TheElders, @Oxfam ), because, what a Zionist dream it would have been had Palestine been a land without any people on it! the ideology incentivized genocide. So, please don't conflate Judaism -- that has existed for 3,300+ years -- with your 150-yr-old anti-Jewish ideology founded on the principles of forcible displacement & genocide Judaism will last as long as their are humans on the planet. Zionism is imploding in real time. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

If the driver was Palestinian, IDF protocol is to shoot him at point blank; prevent medics from aiding him; make him bleed to death; demolish his family's home; revoke movement/work permits for his entire family; & hold his body hostage A settler gets a free pass! Apartheid...

Truly shocking that @CanBorder detained @rfalk13, a 95yr old Jewish legal scholar and former UN Special rapporteur, on his way to the Palestine Tribunal on 🇨🇦 Responsibility. Here's a brief interview I did with him in 2009 as an intern with @aicnews: rabble.ca/general/richar…

The IHRA definition isn’t about fighting antisemitism. It’s about silencing criticism of Israel. On Monday, IJV’s @BalsamCorey told the @SenateCA Human Rights Committee: it’s time for Canada to dis-endorse IHRA. #NoIHRA #cdnpoli

If there was an image of a Palestinian clubbing an elderly Israeli woman in the head and knocking her unconscious, it would be on EVERY SINGLE NETWORK as a main story. But the racist & often murderous brutality directed at Palestinians is deemed unworthy of attention.

No mention of the fact that Israel has murdered 97 Palestinians since the enactment of the ceasefire, including a family of 11 people with 7 children. Once again, CIJA focuses on parroting Israeli gov. talking points to justify unending violence against Palestinians.

One irony of Trump's strong insinuation today about Miriam Adelson -- that she loves Israel more than the US -- is a statement that is prohibited and subject to punishment as "anti-Semitism" under the expanded IHRA hate speech rules Trump forced American universities to adopt.

IJV strongly supports this Senate motion calling for a meaningful investigation into Canadian complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Thank you to @yuenpauwoo for reminding us that never again must mean never again for anyone!

Today, the new Global Sanctions Coalition is calling for immediate sanctions against the World Zionist Organization and Israeli Minister Orit Strook as key architects of illegal settlements across the occupied Palestinian territory. It's time for Canada to take concrete action against the organizations and leaders that fuel illegal settlements. Read more at tr.ee/GSC1. #SanctionIsraelNow @CJPME @AdvocatesJust @CanPalCoalition @PalCanCongress

IJV strongly opposes the federal government's new hate crimes bill. This bill effectively enshrines anti-Palestinian racism and provides dangerously far-reaching powers to police, to crackdown on and malign those speaking out against genocide.

I was joined by @OxfamQuebec, @CJPME, @IndJewishVoices & @CMPACanada in calling for action to end Canada’s complicity in human rights abuses through arms exports. Watch here: cpac.ca/headline-polit…

When asked today if Canada is going to consider “limiting trade with Israel,” as the European Union is considering, @AnitaAnandMP opened the door to the possibility by saying Canada is “evaluating the relationship with Israel.” We cannot afford to keep stalling amid Israel’s genocide and annexation. We urge her to act immediately to cancel the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement and cut trade ties with Israel.

A "670% rise" in antisemitism in Canada, cited by the Israeli Diaspora Affairs ministry, produced a flurry of news reports this year and last. But the number has no source. @blakejlambert reports on the political context for Canada's antisemitism panic: jewishcurrents.org/a-canadian-ant…

There is no returning from this. This is the end of the line. Any ideology that ends up in this has failed some basic test and needs to be dismantled