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This holds for the @liberal_party of Canada and most Western countries. If they won't - we MUST. Pressure the political class - they love stasis. This is how Apartheid in South Africa was dismantled.
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Russell Maynard
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Russell Maynard
@rusmaynard
I've worked in Community, Harm Reduction, Housing and Health for over 20 years. Opinions are my own and not those of the organizations I work with.
Vancouver, British Columbia Katılım Nisan 2017
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Today we announced the most ambitious housing plan in our City's modern history: Block by Block.
We're building 200,000 new affordable homes. We're overhauling code enforcement. We're cracking down on bad landlords. We're creating tens of thousands of good-paying jobs. We're building new paths to homeownership. We're investing $5.6 billion in NYCHA — the largest City capital investment in recent history.
New York is facing a historic housing crisis. We're pursuing a historic solution.
All hands on deck. All-of-the-above. All for New York City.
Read more: cbsnews.com/newyork/news/n…
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“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.
And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.
A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.
But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.
But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.
It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.
But there does need to be a clear intent.
And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.
A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.
Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.
Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.
And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.
But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.
But reality cannot be denied.
So yes, it is a genocide.
And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”
- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024
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Did Minister @AnitaAnandMP follow our allies and, at the very least, ask for an apology and demand an independent criminal investigation - and not another probe by those involved in the cruel and degrading treatment of flotilla participants?
These should be basic first steps.
Foreign Policy CAN@CanadaFP
1/4 Minister Anand spoke with the Israeli Foreign Minister to raise Canada’s serious concerns regarding reports of the mistreatment of Canadian participants in the flotilla.
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Outrageous!
BDS Now!
Boycott @Israel
Divest from everything @Israel
Most importantly...
Sanction @Isreal!
sarah@sahouraxo
BREAKING: Israel just dropped bombs on the Qaraoun Dam in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley — a key water reservoir serving civilian populations across surrounding villages. This is not a battlefield target. It is a critical water infrastructure. This is an act of genocide.
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How; In what way - is this acceptable @MarkJCarney ?
This is literally Canada's so-called allies using force to circumvent the law!!
This is exactly the behaviour to a Mafia.
Canada does nothing...
@AnitaAnandMP aren't you a licensed lawyer?
Where is your integrity?!
Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده@RamAbdu
French judge Nicolas Gouyou, who issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu at the ICC, says Visa and Mastercard blocked all his cards, leaving him unable to make purchases. He says judges, lawyers, & politicians are being intimidated & treated as criminals.
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Democrats have provided reflexive & unconditional support to Netanyahu & Israeli governments, even as they undermined the values we claimed to stand for.
It's time to end taxpayer-funded support & condition arms sales to end the occupation & salvage a 2-state solution.
nytimes.com/2026/05/26/opi…
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SHOCKER:
When you close supervised consumption sites you don’t get less public drug use, you get more public drug use, more overdoses, and more people dying alone.
You didn’t solve the problem.
You just pushed it into parks, alleys, stairwells, and neighbourhoods with even less support and supervision.
ottawacitizen.com/feature/dope-s…
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‘This is an apartheid regime’: Critics decry Israel’s new death penalty law aje.news/9j164u via @AJEnglish
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134 years ago this cartoon was drawn, and in 134 years the problem has only gotten worse.
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'Israelis are more genocidal than you think': The 'counter hasbara' of Andrey X haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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"when confronted with the actions of @Israel, the Canadian administration, @MarkJCarney, has maintained an exceptionally mild & passive approach. We have seen neither consistent, unequivocal condemnation nor any meaningful implementation of sanctions." @CIJAinfo
Alireza Salimi@AR_Salimii
During the election, Prime Minister @MarkJCarney promised Canadians that his administration would uphold core national values and defend Canadian sovereignty in foreign policy. Central to this commitment is protecting human rights and standing firmly against war crimes or crimes against humanity. Based on these explicit assurances, many Canadians, including myself, voted for this government. Yet, when confronted with the actions of the Israeli government, the Canadian administration, including the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, has maintained an exceptionally mild and passive approach. We have seen neither consistent, unequivocal condemnation nor any meaningful implementation of sanctions. As a Canadian citizen, a taxpayer, and a voter who supported this ruling party, I believe we are entitled to a clear, convincing explanation. Why has the government adopted such an asymmetrical stance regarding these international law violations? I remain deeply committed to Canadian values. It is only fair to ask: are the Prime Minister and the ruling party demonstrating that same commitment? 🇨🇦
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@petehoekstra
Pound-away-Pete
guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁@guyfelicella
Trump threatened Canada’s economy, mocked our sovereignty, talked about annexation jokes, and disrespected Canadians repeatedly. Then they act confused when Canadians push back? No Pete, Canadians didn’t suddenly “rally against America” for no reason. People are reacting to arrogance, disrespect, and constant attacks from Trump. If you can’t understand that, then you can absolutely pound sand 🇨🇦
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It's true! Canada has explicitly supported the build-out of an Apartheid system in @Israel right from the 1948 Nakba & decades of constant war. Never willing to challenge the USA-Israel military industrial complex.
Cdns continue to watch as Apartheid grows & Genocide unfolds.
Nur Dogan@nurdogandiyorki
Norrad Bouzide, a harm reduction worker and advocate from Toronto and a Global Sumud Flotilla activist, arrived back in Toronto after Israel illegally detained and tortured activists. On his T-shirt: “The Government of Canada enabled my torture!”
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Check out @steeletalk new podcast dropping this Thursday.
Involuntary care for severe mental health conditions already exists in BC and for a very small group of people in crisis, I support it.
What I do not support is rounding up everyone struggling with addiction and forcing them into treatment.
We’ve already seen where that approach leads: people avoid services, use alone, distrust the system, relapse after release, and more people die.
Recovery works best when people are supported, housed, connected, and ready, not when they’re treated like criminals for being sick.
Lynda Steele 🇨🇦@steeletalk
“Lock them up and forcibly treat them”. Some say that’s the answer to BC’s mental health & addiction crisis. Former drug user turned advocate @guyfelicella strongly disagrees. Hear why Thursday on the podcast “Change My Mind with Lynda Steele”. linktr.ee/steeletalk
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