Ahsan Ali 🇵🇸

"I've been to Israel. It's so complex." Steve and @BlueJays President @MarkShapiro, of course, talked baseball, but they veered into some unexpected territory, including the Middle East. FULL pod: youtu.be/l61NoDrmLoE

@nxt888 Many colonies have the infrastructure left behind by the colonizer. Usually the most advanced in their country. Laws, order, and a higher level of civilization in that area, compared to outlying areas. Yeah, the investment was paid for by something.

ADL deeply mourns the loss of our longtime national director, Abraham H. Foxman z”l. Abe, a Holocaust survivor, served his entire 50-year career at ADL, becoming one of the world’s foremost voices against antisemitism and hate. May his memory be a blessing. Please see our full statement here: adl.org/resources/pres…

"I've been to Israel. It's so complex." Steve and @BlueJays President @MarkShapiro, of course, talked baseball, but they veered into some unexpected territory, including the Middle East. FULL pod: youtu.be/l61NoDrmLoE

I tried to attend the @OntariosDoctors annual general meeting tonight in Ottawa, and was removed from the room by members of their executive team Sandy Zidaric and Adam Farber because I wore my watermelon pin that I’ve worn countless times without issue in many spaces including on parliament hill. They cited the concern that the watermelon pin as a political symbol could possibly make other physician colleagues in the room “uncomfortable” or “unsafe”. All the while genocide continues in Palestine. When I asked if their policy of what could not be worn on the bodies of their members in their meetings have applied to any other political symbols or attire, they could not give me other examples. They asked me to remove the watermelon pin or leave the room, or sit in another room by myself to tune into the meeting virtually. I declined and left. I explained to them this is an incredibly disappointing and discriminatory policy for their meetings, and I hope it is revised. I know medical colleagues including medical learners who have been kicked out of clinic because they wore a watermelon pin. These are examples of anti-Palestinian racism. As a physician, I stand in solidarity with my Palestinian medical colleagues who have been killed by the Israeli military and continue to be subjected to genocidal violence. Over 1,700 Palestinian healthcare workers have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza. Many Palestinian healthcare workers remain in Israeli captivity and are being tortured by the Israeli military, including Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a paediatrician who stayed to care for his patients in the hospital he was the medical director of. Shame on @OntariosDoctors for not only censoring what is allowed to be displayed on the bodies of their members, and even more so to be painfully silent in the face of attacks on our medical and healthcare worker colleagues in Palestine. Don’t look away from the genocide in Gaza. These acts of discrimination are forms of racism, and racism is a distraction from the real issue of ending Canadian complicity in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

A sitting MP had to stand up in Canada’s own legislature and formally call on a government agency not to be weaponized against Jewish people. In Canada. In 2026. Anthony Housefather had to look his colleagues in the eye and say, out loud, on the record: please don’t use the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) as a cudgel to destroy Jewish institutions. That is where we are. For months, a coordinated campaign has been working methodically to strip Jewish organizations of their funding, their legitimacy, and their standing in Canadian civil society. Methodically. Coordinated. Those are not my words. Those are the words of a 🇨🇦 MP raising the alarm on the floor of Parliament. A federal judge reviewing the CRA treatment of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) found conduct carrying “the flavour of abuse of process, bad faith decision-making, and abuse of public office.” If this were happening to any other community in Canada, would we still be whispering about it? Would we still be threading it politely through procedural motions and carefully worded requests? x.com/Mark_Goldberg/…

I tried to attend the @OntariosDoctors annual general meeting tonight in Ottawa, and was removed from the room by members of their executive team Sandy Zidaric and Adam Farber because I wore my watermelon pin that I’ve worn countless times without issue in many spaces including on parliament hill. They cited the concern that the watermelon pin as a political symbol could possibly make other physician colleagues in the room “uncomfortable” or “unsafe”. All the while genocide continues in Palestine. When I asked if their policy of what could not be worn on the bodies of their members in their meetings have applied to any other political symbols or attire, they could not give me other examples. They asked me to remove the watermelon pin or leave the room, or sit in another room by myself to tune into the meeting virtually. I declined and left. I explained to them this is an incredibly disappointing and discriminatory policy for their meetings, and I hope it is revised. I know medical colleagues including medical learners who have been kicked out of clinic because they wore a watermelon pin. These are examples of anti-Palestinian racism. As a physician, I stand in solidarity with my Palestinian medical colleagues who have been killed by the Israeli military and continue to be subjected to genocidal violence. Over 1,700 Palestinian healthcare workers have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza. Many Palestinian healthcare workers remain in Israeli captivity and are being tortured by the Israeli military, including Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a paediatrician who stayed to care for his patients in the hospital he was the medical director of. Shame on @OntariosDoctors for not only censoring what is allowed to be displayed on the bodies of their members, and even more so to be painfully silent in the face of attacks on our medical and healthcare worker colleagues in Palestine. Don’t look away from the genocide in Gaza. These acts of discrimination are forms of racism, and racism is a distraction from the real issue of ending Canadian complicity in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.