john macdonald
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🚨 BREAKING: Explosion in Amsterdam financial district
An explosion hit the Atrium complex in Zuidas, reportedly targeting Bank of New York.
The same Islamist group that claimed responsibility for the attack on a Jewish school in Amsterdam and a synagogue in Rotterdam is now claiming this attack as well.
In a video circulating online, the group issued a warning:
“In the name of Allah… distance yourselves from American and Zionist interests.”
Police confirm the blast and are investigating the footage.
This is now the third incident linked to the same group.
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@TedUrchin @EmmanuelMacron I am smart, successful, and understand the situation. Thanks for asking, bozo.
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@johnmacbeach @EmmanuelMacron Are you clinically or mentally unwell - or just wilfully ignorant?

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I have just spoken with Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian.
I called on him to put an immediate end to the unacceptable attacks Iran is carrying out against countries in the region, whether directly or through proxies, including in Lebanon and Iraq. I reminded him that France is acting within a strictly defensive framework aimed at protecting its interests, its regional partners, and freedom of navigation, and that it is unacceptable for our country to be targeted.
The unchecked escalation we are witnessing is plunging the entire region into chaos, with major consequences today and for the years to come. The people of Iran, like those across the region, are paying the price.
Only a new political and security framework can ensure peace and security for all. Such a framework must guarantee that Iran never acquires nuclear weapons, while also addressing the threats posed by its ballistic missile programme and its destabilising activities regionally and internationally.
Freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz must be restored as soon as possible.
I also urged the Iranian President to allow Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris to return safely to France as soon as possible. Their ordeal has gone on for far too long, and they belong with their loved ones.
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@azizkavish @EmmanuelMacron You support the oppression, rape, and murder of women by Islamist forces.
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Emmanuel Macron spoke with the Iranian President about establishing peace, yet he laid the blame squarely on Iran.
Not once did he mention how Israel is targeting innocent Palestinian children, or how it has martyred innocent Iranian girls.
In reality, what you are implying is that Iran should simply bow down before Israel.
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@Luna_Meher @EmmanuelMacron Do not pretend that the Islamic Republic defends the Iranian people it oppresses.
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Just to be * супер clear * — Iran isn’t the villain here. The Islamic Republic is defending its sovereignty, its people, and its region against foreign meddling and aggression. Iran hasn’t gone looking for war — it’s responding to real attacks on its territory and interests by outside powers and proxy forces.
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@SilentlySirs @EmmanuelMacron You want the Islamist regime to continue to oppress Iranians, sponsor terrorists, and develop nuclear weapons, and call this achieving peace.
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@EmmanuelMacron You ask Iran to stop its attacks but why don’t you also ask the United States and Israel to stop theirs?
Peace cannot be achieved by pressuring only one side, but by ending aggression and respecting the sovereignty of all countries in the region.
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@drvijaysrinivas @EmmanuelMacron Ùnprovoked aggression - you are funny!
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@EmmanuelMacron Did you call the U.S. and Israel to stop the unprovoked aggression and Condemn the US For Bombing the School Children?
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@TedUrchin @EmmanuelMacron Israel does not sponsor terrorism. Israel is not dedicated to destroying other nations. Israel has shown incredible restraint in not using its nuclear capabilities when attacked. Try to understand.
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@EmmanuelMacron @clyntonK1 What about Israel’s nuclear stockpile? Why are you not insisting that they at least allow inspections?
Iran didn’t start this, Macron, Israel and the US did.
You’d do well to keep this at the forefront of your mind.
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@Partisan_12 🎯NAILED IT💯
NO MATTER WHAT -
NO MATTER THE CHALLENGE -
NO MATTER THE FINE -
YOU MORDOR🇮🇱SICK🇮🇱SCUM WILL STAND TRIAL FOR THIS CRIME -
FOR JUSTICE IT'S NOT A MATTER OF - IF - BUT - A MATTER OF TIME

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@Partisan_12 Ha! He thinks Israel is the danger as if radical Islam hasn’t murdered and oppressed wherever it goes. Screaming Genocide is just the latest blood libel.
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@KerryBurgess She makes it about her and couldn’t be more wrong in her narcissistic performative spew.
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Humanity is dead in Israel, in the billionaire class, in global corporations, in mainstream media and most significantly, in our Western political establishment because it has been entrusted with our weapons.
This is us against a terrible evil, we need to start by tearing down the entire Western political establishment and rebuilding it from scratch.
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@EYakoby We know who the real terrorist are, we see the evil the real terrorist perpetrate on a daily basis. The Israeli government with its Apertheid policy, the Israeli citizens with their engraved hate for humanity and the Israeli Settlers with their evil action of stealing land
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@SurvivalistPt @EYakoby Iran’s leader issued a fatwa against women riding bikes. And yet dimwits still support him and believe his ramblings 😆
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@EYakoby 8 replacements already in place , then 80 , then 800, then 8,000 until israel no longer exists.
And if amerixa attacks iran today , that elwill be next week .🤣👍
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@KerryBurgess Yes, actually. One way of locating specific terrorists is to monitor a place they frequent - their home. That way they can be specifically targeted. Much better than indiscriminate bombing.
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This is not war. Don't pretend that this is war. This is what gangsterism looks like when criminals have unlimited funds and weapons supplied by a superpower with no questions asked.
He can be thankful he was in Lebanon, if he were in Gaza, he would have died with his family.
Oh America, what have you created?
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@NiqabNancy Misstated proof of the radical underpinning of terrorism
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@SuppressedNws1 Gee, and the Gazans had nothing to do with it?
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Avi Lewis isn’t responsible for the decades of anti-Palestinian activism, but his recounting of family lore shouldn’t lead some to believe the family most responsible for NDP anti-Palestinianism were “anti-Zionist”.
Yesterday Keith Porteous of Island Grapevine News emailed me to complain about an article in which I (in passing) labelled grandfather David Lewis a “fanatic Zionist”. Porteus wrote, “David Lewis was an anti-Zionist member of the Jewish Labour Bund. Avi is also an anti-Zionist Jew. Be serious.” Certain about his version of history, Porteus repeated his claim after I responded, stating in a follow up message that “describing any of the family as being ‘Zionist fanatics’ is dishonest.”
Porteous’ confusion about David Lewis is probably due to Avi saying he’s from an anti-Zionist tradition. It may be the case though it skips two generations. His great grandfather was part of the Jewish Labour Bund, but his grandfather, father, mother and other family members were influential anti-Palestinians.
After Israel conquered East Jerusalem in 1967, David Lewis promoted a “united Jerusalem”. “The division of Jerusalem,” said the long-time influential figure in the NDP, “did not make economic or social sense. As a united city under Israel’s aegis, Jerusalem would be a much more progressive and fruitful capital of the various religions.”
As Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza, Golan Heights and Egypt’s Sinai, Lewis made “impassioned warnings that Israel was in danger.” During his time as federal leader from 1971 to 1975 Lewis also spoke to at least one Israel Bonds fundraiser, which raised money for that state.
Just after stepping down as federal leader of the NDP in 1975 David Lewis was the “speaker of the year” at a B’nai B’rith breakfast. In the hilariously titled “NDP’s David Lewis urges care for disadvantaged”, the Canadian Jewish Newsreported that Lewis “attacked the UN for having admitted the PLO” and said “a Middle East peace would require ‘some recognition of the Palestinians in some way.’ He remarked that the creation of a Palestinian state might be necessary but refused to pinpoint its location. The Israelis must make that decision, he said, without interference from Diaspora Jewry.”
Avi’s father was also deeply anti-Palestinian. Ontario NDP leader from 1970 to 1978, Stephen Lewis demanded the federal government cancel a major UN conference scheduled for Toronto in 1975 because the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was granted observer status at the UN the previous year and their representatives might attend (the conference had nothing to do with Palestine). In a 1977 speech to pro-Israel fundraiser United Jewish Appeal, which the Canadian Jewish News titled “Lewis praises [Conservative premier Bill] Davis for Stand on Israel”, Lewis denounced the UN’s “wantonly anti-social attitude to Israel” and told the pro-Israel audience that “the anti-Semitism that lurks underneath the surface is diabolical.”
Stephen Lewis only stopped taking openly anti-Palestinian positions during the recent genocide in Gaza. After Canada’s failed bid for a seat on the UN Security Council in 2020 he was still seeking to protect Israel by (absurdly) denying that Canada’s extremist anti-Palestinian voting record at the UN contributed to the country’s defeat.
While Stephen Lewis has publicly criticized Israel’s genocide in Gaza, his sister continues to promote anti-Palestinian positions. Former president of the Ontario NDP and federal council member, Janet Solberg led the charge against having the 2018 NDP convention even discuss the “Palestine Resolution”. In January 2024 Solberg liked a Facebook comment – in response to former Canadian Labour Congress executive vice president Donald Lafleur - claiming Hamas, not Israel, was committing genocide and that they wanted to “drive the Jews into the sea”.
During several decades at the Toronto Star Avi’s mom, Michele Landsberg, wrote anti-Palestinian diatribes. In one of her later columns the prominent feminist wrote, “to keep their people primed for endless war, Palestinians have inculcated racist hatred of Jews and of Israel in school texts, official newspaper articles and leaders’ pronouncements, in language so hideous it would have made Goebbels grin.”
Over the past few years Landsberg has reversed course. She’s published op-eds critical of Israel and rallied against genocide.
While he appears to have told the story of his great grandfather being anti-Zionist more often, Avi has discussed his family’s anti-Palestinianism in recent months. Additionally, Avi has openly challenged Israel for two decades ago and should be credited for that. As I noted after the Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East NDP leadership debate on Palestine, Avi has a better position on the subject than the other candidates who were allowed to participate in the debate.
But Avi should go much further in upending Canadian complicity in genocide and apartheid. He should be pressed to call for:
Revoking the charitable status of organizations backing apartheid.
Prosecuting Canadians who fought in Gaza.
Abolishing the anti-Palestinian “terrorism” list.
Applying the Foreign Enlistment Act to organizations “inducing” Canadians to join the Israeli military.
Now is the time for activists to press the matter since after the leadership vote movements will have less leverage over Lewis or whoever becomes NDP leader. Let’s ensure the prospective NDP leader is committed to ending Canadian complicity in genocide.
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