Sébastien Togneri 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇨🇦

SHAME: The Islamic Republic of Iran has just been nominated to the U.N. Committee for Program and Coordination, which meets soon to shape policy on women's rights, human rights, disarmament, and terrorism prevention. ECOSOC members who backed this include: 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇨🇦🇫🇷🇩🇪🇳🇴🇳🇱🇦🇺🇨🇭🇦🇹🇫🇮

BREAKING Bill C-224 passes second reading unanimously and has been referred to the Standing Committee on Health before it comes back to the House for third reading. 
There are still many hurdles to jump over, but we’re making great progress. Let’s get this done!

Today’s attack on Iran by the United States and Israel is a serious violation of international law. 1/4

“We were disproportionately working around the crisis in Gaza.” Helima Begum, former CEO of Oxfam GB, revealed in a new Channel 4 News interview that Oxfam’s coverage of Gaza wasn’t neutral. She said the organization was constantly pushing to use the word ‘genocide’ before it had been proven and without evidence. Under those directives, it was very difficult to remain neutral and impartial on the conflict. One by one, “humanitarian organizations” are being exposed as either at worst complicit with Hamas, or at best completely biased.

I’m seeing so much nonsense flying around, I’m compelled to lay down some basics. 1. You don’t need a religious basis for supporting the right of the Jewish people to a national home. I’m a Catholic, so I don’t associate the modern Jewish state with any deep theological or eschatological meaning. I don’t believe the “ingathering of the Jews” in Israel portends the end times. But as a matter of secular justice, I believe that the Jews are entitled to a state. 2. Why? Because the modern world is configured along nation-state lines. And long before the Holocaust, the Jews tried every other means — converting, assimilating, becoming German or French or Russian nationalists, socialism, etc. — and they couldn’t escape persecution. The Holocaust only compounded the urgency of a Jewish state. Afterward, a Jewish state was established and internationally recognized. And here we are. 3. You can criticize the policies and conduct of said Jewish state. I did so, quite vigorously, over the summer. I will continue to criticize its drift toward intolerance, disproportionate warfare, and settler maximalism in the Palestinian Territories. 4. But if you are obsessed with the wrongdoings of one state (and one state only), or if you imbue that state with almost metaphysical evil, or claim to question all nationalisms but only focus on one — that crosses a line into animus. Fin.