Active in peace, justice; 4 yrs in ישראל-فلسطين, also 2 in 日本, worked at Vancouver's Ahavat Olam progressive synagogue & First United Church homeless shelter
"The settlers want to see the sea. That is a logical and romantic demand. Gaza must be erased so that settlers can see the sea. We must evacuate
#Gaza
of all Arabs and build Jewish settlements in all of Gaza" - Daniella Weiss, head of a Zi*onist settler movement
#GazaGenocide
🚨WATCH: Israeli children sing, "We will annihilate everyone" in Gaza, against a background of destruction.
Disturbing video was posted, then deleted by Israeli national broadcaster
@kann_news
.
We captured it and added English subtitles
FULL STORY:
A grave and harrowing crisis is unfolding in the South Hebron Hills, demanding the utmost urgency and gravity. Settlers, masquerading as a military force, have launched a barbaric assault on Susyiah village. 1/
HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of Jewish New Yorkers are flooding the entrance to
@SenSchumer
's home protesting genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
50+ are blocking the entrance to his home, including rabbis, elders, youth, and NY state electeds
@ZohranKMamdani
and
@MarcelaForNY
.
At a real estate sales promo event in a
#Toronto
synagogue selling properties on land stolen from Palestinian families.
“Thou shalt not steal.”
“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house.”
@IndJewishVoices
@palyouthmvmt
@IfNotNowOrg
Hundreds of primarily Jewish protesters are currently in the Capitol’s Cannon building staging a sit-in protest, calling on Biden and Congress to push for a ceasefire in Gaza.
They’re slowly being arrested.
If a synagogue was selling stolen cars and the authorities did nothing to stop it, would it be appropriate to protest at the synagogue?
That's what's happening here, but instead of stolen cars, it's stolen land.
It's a synagogue building not functioning as a synagogue.
This is Yafa, whose Christian & Muslim inhabitants were murdered and driven out in 1948 by Jewish terrorist gangs and never allowed back. The white pillars are all that remains of a building they blew up.
For a drop of realism:
White House spokesman Kirby was asked today if Israel is committing war crimes:
"We have not seen anything that would that would convince us that we need to take a different approach in terms of trying to help Israel defend itself."
The US fully endorses Israel's genocide.
It's not antisemitic to call that place Palestine. We Jews called it that until 1948.
Check out this price list from Attman's Deli where I grew in Baltimore.
A bit anachronistic, yes. Antisemitic, no.
We are sickened by
@Ryanair
staff that announced they were landing in "Palestine" instead of Israel. Can you imagine this happening on approach to any other country. Its nothing short of
#Antisemitic
and deserves an apology
@RyanairPress
Sober assessment: the enormous protests did not stop the U.S. war on Iraq.
Why believe that the war criminals running the U.S. care at all how many people protest?
We need to directly, physically intervene in the machine of war.
Don’t conflate Jews with Zionists.
Many of us anti-Zionists are Jews.
Many of us Jews simply aren’t Zionists.
The largest Zionist orgs in the USA are Evangelical Christians.
Stopping Israel’s brutality against Palestinians is not antisemitism.
You're just wrong.
"From the River to the Sea" only brings violence because Israel refuses to allow Palestinians to live with freedom, equality & justice in their land. It is not violent. It's being countered by violence.
No Jew needs to be harmed for Palestinians to be free.
As I said earlier this week, “decolonization”, “from the river to the sea” and similar euphemisms necessarily imply genocide.
Clear calls for extreme violence are against our terms of service and will result in suspension.
An absolutely appalling antisemitic attack in downtown Toronto, targeting
@chaptersindigo
and Jewish CEO Heather Reisman. This is the tragic new reality for Jews in Canada. Condemnations simply won’t cut it anymore.
For three weeks, Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills have endured a relentless wave of terrorism. The absence of media coverage has granted settlers carte blanche to commit acts of murder, arson, demolition, destruction, theft, poisoning, and unrelenting terror. 3/
SHUT RIGHT UP ABOUT ANTISEMITISM!!
How dare you manipulate Jewish pain to inflict further pain on millions of totally innocent Palestinians!!!
You and your gang of corrupt criminals have no moral ground to tell
@maritstiiles
what to do.
You have lost all moral authority when you hold such antisemitic hate in your heart that you can't bring yourself to condemn the murder of civilians by a genocidal terrorist group.
@MaritStiles
must remove
@SarahJama_
from caucus & stand up to the vile dehumanization of Jews.
Hamas did NOT start this war. It started in the 1920's and '30's when violent armed Jews began attacking innocent Palestinians. King David Hotel. Deir Yassin.
If doubt that's true, read Thomas Suarez's book "State of Terror", thoroughly documented from primary sources.
Let’s be clear. I want to stop Hamas, the terrorists who started this war, are holding Israeli civilians hostages and using Palestinian civilians as human shields. We all want this war to end and the suffering of all innocents to cease.
"בלי רעב וצמא אצל האוכלוסייה העזתית לא נצליח לגייס משת"פ, לא נצליח לגייס מודיעין, לא נצליח לשחד אנשים, באוכל, בשתייה, בתרופות, כדי להשיג מודיעין ואנחנו יודעים שמציאת החטופים היא מטרה עליונה וסופר חשובה לצד מטרות הלחימה." - כך אמרה ח"כ טלי גוטליב במליאת הכנסת
@TallyGotliv
I lived in Tiberias 1973-74.
Israelis there told me with glee, as if they they thought they were so smart, “In ‘48, we dynamited the entire old city so they’d have nothing to come back to.”
Jews and Arabs used to live there side-by-side as neighbors.
How can one call this a war on Hamas? This level of destruction in Beit Hanoun only serves to make Gaza uninhabitable.
To leave 2.3 million Palestinians with nothing to return to - so that they won't return.
Biden attended Israel's war cabinet and approved the war plan.
I speak Hebrew. This translation is wrong.
The original is even worse, more genocidal:
"Monkeys, liars and supporters of terrorism, wipe out their name (i.e. annihilate them)!”
ZIONISM IS BASED ON SUPREMACY
“It is important to note that Africans are a people of slaves, and a slave’s testimony is invalid.
Monkeys, liars and supporters of terrorism, please name them!”
No one has the “right” to steal other people’s land, demolish their homes, jail them without charges, kill them, rule over them for generations. That’s the reality of Zionism.
Saying you're a Zionist merely means you believe Jews have the same rights as all other people.
You don't have to be Jewish to believe that, just as you don't have to be a woman to be a feminist or gay to support LGBTQ rights.
Say it loud, say it proud:
Yes, I'm a Zionist. 🇮🇱
I said it on Oct 8: Israel is no more capable of wiping out Hamas than the U.S. was capable of wiping out the Viet Cong. Hamas comes from the people and the from the conditions they've endured for generations. As long as those conditions persist, Hamas will persist.
"Hamas is not going to be eradicated no matter what Israel does in Gaza. Even if Israel defeats Hamas's entire military network, even if it kills every Hamas fighter, Hamas continues as a political movement, Hamas continues to have support, not a majority, but a certain amount of…
What is occurring at this very moment is an echo of the Nakba and the tragic events of 1948, unfolding before the gaze of the world. We cannot stand idly by as this continues. Immediate, unwavering, and decisive action is imperative to prevent further catastrophe. 5/
There is nothing antisemitic about supporting human rights for Palestinians.
If your sense of safety as a Jew requires oppressing Palestinians, something is very wrong with you.
#BreakingNews
Antisemitism at Cleveland State University. How are Jewish students meant to feel safe enough to learn in University when this is what they see?Their families accused of human rights violations with no proof? Feels like Nazi Germany propaganda posters
#EndJewHatred
They have subjected the inhabitants, including innocent children, to brutal and violent attacks. These aggressors have issued a menacing ultimatum: if the villagers do not vacate within 24 hours, they vow to return and perpetrate murder. 2/
The situation is so dire that ten villages have been compelled to forsake their ancestral lands and flee in abject fear. Susyiah village now stands as the next target. We urgently beseech you to intervene without delay and bring this horrific nightmare to a halt. 4/
Brand new T-shirt debuted tonight at the
@IndJewishVoices
conference in
#Toronto
.
Lots of great programming at the conf on Saturday. Join in person or remotely.
Retweet 🙏
I’m being accused by the court in Israel of Aiding the enemy in
#Gaza
.
I told the court if my enemy is one million children, then I’m proud of Aiding the enemy.
#IstandWithPalestine
🇵🇸
Do better, Jagmeet. Stop believing CIJA and B'nai Brith. They lie. All the time. You need to know this.
The route of the march went past Mount Sinai Hospital. No one "targeted" it. Please stop regurgitating the faux outrage constantly manufactured by the Zionist lobby.
Yesterday, the Mount Sinai Hospital was targeted because of its ties to the Jewish community in Toronto.
This is not okay.
Hospitals are a place for healing - not a target for protests.
Yup, Jews have the same rights as other people. Get over it.
NO ONE has the “right” to steal other people’s land, demolish their homes, jail them without charges, kill them, rule over them for generations.
That’s the reality of Zionism.
Saying you're a Zionist merely means you believe Jews have the same rights as all other people.
You don't have to be Jewish to believe that, just as you don't have to be a woman to be a feminist or gay to support LGBTQ rights.
Say it loud, say it proud:
Yes, I'm a Zionist. 🇮🇱
We are sickened by
@Ryanair
staff that announced they were landing in "Palestine" instead of Israel. Can you imagine this happening on approach to any other country. Its nothing short of
#Antisemitic
and deserves an apology
@RyanairPress
We implore you to harness the full weight of your resolve and influence. The people of Susyiah and the entire South Hebron Hills region need your support and intervention like never before. Let us unite and stand resolutely against this grave injustice. 6/
Nothing
@Ilhan
did or said is antisemitic. Stop repeating that lie. You and others are using it for other political gains. Face the facts:
@AIPAC
raises and spends $100 million per year in order to influence Congress and U.S. policy for Israel.
#IStandWithIlhan
Israel will flood Hamas tunnels with nerve gas under US navy supervision --
So now Israel is gassing Palestinians.
I guess they learned nothing at all from history.
In
#Toronto
? Join us Thursday, Mar 7, 3:30 at 613 Clark Ave W in Thornhill — which is hosting a real estate event selling properties on blatantly stolen Palestinian land.
“Thou shalt not steal.”
“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house.”
@IndJewishVoices
"With utmost grief we inform you of the tragic loss of Professor Mohammad Eid Shubair, wife Rehab Mohamad Shubair, daughter-in-law Najat Ayoub Alhelo, and son, Muhammad Malik Shubair in an Israeli airstrike on their home in the vicinity of the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City. 1/
Together, we can bring an end to this nightmare and avert an impending catastrophe.
[Name withheld to protect from retribution],
[Location also withheld] 7/7
Israel is now bulldozing civilian homes in Northern Gaza!
These homes literally took generations to build; brick by brick; people toiling hard & putting everything they have; then all gone in a blink
Gaza's average ANNUAL income is $1,256; 10,000s of homes are now gone forever!
Get it straight.
No one is being killed because they are Jews.
It’s because they are settlers living on stolen land and part of a massively, brutally oppressive mechanism of destroying an entire society.
Palestinians have a right to defend themselves. They do not have the right to indiscriminately murder random Jewish civilians. But people who say the first phrase usually mean the second.
Yes. That’s us. Pro-Palestinian and pro-Jewish. There’s really no contradiction. Call it pro-all-of-God’s-children. I’m one of the 500 or so in the crowd. 3,000 more on the streets. Just got out of jail and am on my home.
When you find a sign that's stating the truth to be more offensive than hundreds of hate-filled, armed hooligans attacking a village of innocent people and burning their houses, here's what you say.
Reports that students at Columbia have taken over Hamilton Hall, smashed windows, setting up barricade.
At what point does this constitute probable cause?
Israeli forces kill Palestinian father of newborn with a bullet to the chest --
Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint shot Abdullah Samih Ahmad Qalalwa, age 25, in the chest, then denied him medical assistance. Their reasons for attacking him are implausible.
You don’t speak for us Jews.
You don’t speak for us Canadians.
You are the vastly funded lobby of genocidal Israel.
We Jews are in those protests. We organize them.
Jews stand for justice, equality & freedom - not your racist ethno-state.
@IndJewishVoices
@JewsSayNo
We’re fed up. Canadians are fed up.
For months, Jews in 🇨🇦 have been intimidated by anti-Israel radicals. Aggressive demonstrations have taken place outside synagogues and taken over Jewish neighbourhoods, calls of ‘Death to the Jews’ have been chanted in front of Jewish…
My message to Jewish students and community members at the Sylvan Adams YM-YWHA today: Thank you for being so candid and so honest, and for speaking so openly about your experience during this difficult time. We stand with you, and we always will.
Just remember, these Palestinian students are Israeli citizens, the grandchildren of those that the terrorist Zionist militias failed to exterminate or expel in ‘48.
4\ The view from the inside is absolutely horrifying. If the Israeli mob manages to break into the college campus, those Arab students will be at risk of lynching!
h/t
@AlonLeeGreen
I know of exactly one elected official in all of Canada who had the integrity and clarity to speak up when all others cowered in fear of powerful lobbies manipulating them.
Now that the
@OntarioNDP
has expelled
@SarahJama_
, it's hard for me to remain a member.
A Jew in Toronto wrote to me now:
"I would like to talk with you about our faith.
I find celebrating Passover while the Zionist Entity illegally occupies Palestine the ultimate hypocrisy. Celebrating freedom from slavery while enslaving another nation makes my stomach churn."
If I was on that campus, I’d be marching with them.
The real terror is what Israel does to Palestinians every day and every night for three generations now.
Imagine being a Jewish student on this campus and watching this terror-supporting parade make its way through the University.
How can Jewish students feel safe in this environment?
This is clearly about Israel, not about Jews.
The line above and below the star depict the flag of 🇮🇱.
Israel equals death for tens of thousands of Palestinians. You can't pretend otherwise.
Being real about Israel killing people is not antisemitic.
CIJA = zero credibility.
Stop this cynical propaganda.
Send them to
#Gaza
to help the sick, the elderly, people who have had everything taken from them and to rebuild — after you end the siege on the two million people you hold there in the world’s largest open air prison.
This is the team of Israeli men and women who are on the ground in
#T
ürkiye assisting with emergency relief efforts.
Join us in wishing them good luck and a safe and successful mission.
Nope. I'm a Jew. That's why I focus on Israel.
Human rights violations anywhere are serious and need to be stopped. No one can address them all. I believe my specific responsibility is to do what I can about about Israel's brutality against Palestinians.
@shammaalama
@CotlerWunsh
@TheIHRA
@Harvard
If you don’t criticise 50+ majority Muslim countries or 22 Christian states, many of whom are authoritarian / theocratic/ human rights abusing regimes, but you have an issue with the 1 state in which half the world’s Jews live, you are an antisemite.
Learn more about this critically important period.
For starters, read Israeli historian Ilan Pappé's "Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine".
Follow up with Thomas Suarez's "State of Terror".
@Hashoobi
@Mivasair
The Arabs proposed a single state, one person one vote, rejected by Jewish forces who declared independence, and launched the Nakba using the long prepared Plan Dalet to remove Palestinians
This is more about maintaining their privilege, than about democracy.
If these Israeli protesters actually "cherished democracy", they'd extend it to the 5 million Palestinians that Israel, the country that privileges them as Jews, has brutally ruled over for 55+ years.
The tide is turning. Not fast enough to save yet thousands more from tragically and needlessly dying. But, it is turning, due to hundreds of thousands of us pushing it.
The deadly Zionist lobby is losing its death grip over our political systems. Keep pushing!
1) The Torah says Jews' ancestors came from Mesopotamia and Egypt. It names the other people there before our ancestors arrived, so definitely not indigenous
2) The lower levels of the Kotel are from Herod, 2100 yrs ago. Stones above that are Umayyad and top is Ottoman.
The Torah: "You shall not murder", "You shall not steal", "You shall not stand idly by the blood of your brother".
We are called upon to take action to end Israel's mass murder of innocent civilians and ongoing theft of their land.
#rabbis4ceasefire
THIS is as sick as it gets.
On Purim, dressing up and goofing around with a fake dead Palestinian body.
Total perversion of religion and debasement of Jewish culture.
Judaism teaches that every person is an image of God - צלם אלהים. This is a חילול השם.
It's know from Israeli media that Israel's own helicopter gunships attacked Kibbutz Be'eri and the IDF shelled some of the buildings there.
Much of the massive damage to structures and some of the deaths of Israelis was not at all from Hamas but from the IDF's response.
What the BBC fails to tell you about October 7:
Kibbutz Be’eri has been a favoured destination for BBC reporters keen to illustrate Hamas’ barbarity. It is where Lucy Williamson headed once again this week.
And yet none of her reporting highlighted comments made to the Israeli…
This was dismissed as antisemitic conspiracy when it was said weeks ago -- now that an Israeli investigation says the same thing, it's being taken seriously by Western media.
BREAKING: Israel's
@Haaretz
reports that an Israeli official investigation has determined that an
@IDF
helicopter killed Israeli civilians at the Nova rave on 7 October. Text in screenshot translated via Google. Original Hebrew here:
Who do they think they're doing this for?!!
Did they ever do it for the thousands of innocent Palestinians slaughtered in Gaza by Israeli airstrikes in the past few years?
Did they do this for 100,000 Armenians forced out of NK last week?
Why single out Israel?
In light of the recent events in Israel, the
#PeaceTower
is illuminated in the colours of the Israeli flag, and the National Flag of Canada is flying at half-mast from now until sunset tomorrow.
Israel is on the brink of genocide against Palestinians. Jews and all people in the US must rise up with literally everything we have — the way we would have wanted others to rise up for our ancestors. Join us in DC on Oct 18, 2 pm. I'll be there.
SHUT RIGHT UP about "Jewish owned business"!!
Aroma is an Israeli company w 160+ stores there, incl some built on undeniably stolen Palestinian land.
I've been there and seen them myself.
It must be boycotted
#BDS
in
#Toronto
and everywhere.
A boycott aimed to intimidate Jews and discourage anyone from shopping at a Jewish owned business once marked the beginning some of the darkest moments in human history.
This is a repeat of last week, it’s a repeat of history and it’s vile antisemitism. Full stop.
If you…
No one knows who killed our friend Vivian Silver, זצ"ל.
There are very credible reports of the
#IDF
firing indiscriminately and killing many Israelis.
Hamas would have wanted to take her hostage, not to kill her. So, I don't think we can say who killed her.
Jewish activists from around the world going to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Palestinian activists on the ground in joint struggle and solidarity work. Apply by Jan 1:
@CJNVtweets
Total perversion of Judaism and Jewish identity.
American Jews must end their support for organizations that support this.
The entire Zionist enterprise is enabled by influential U.S. Jewish organizations.
Unreal!
#Israeli
settlers are jubilantly dancing & celebrating their deadly pogrom on Huwara, where they killed a Palestinian, wounded over 100, burned down 15 homes, dozens of cars, shops & farms under the full protection of the IDF!
There's been ZERO arrests against settlers!
Intifada = "uprising", "shaking off".
It's not inherently violent. It's against 🇮🇱 because 🇮🇱 is the violent oppressor for 75+ years.
If you feel "intimidated", look at yourself and why you identify with an oppressive state.
In 🇨🇦, we are free to call for others' freedom.
Chanting for intifada (uprisings against Israel and Jews, including acts of violence and terror) in the streets of Toronto is a clear tactic of intimidation. The police must ensure that our streets are safe from hate, incitement and threats of violence.
“Monsters exist,” wrote Primo Levi, a Holocaust survivor, “but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
Retirees go to 🇮🇱 at own expense to fill IDF noncombat roles, wear IDF uniforms, live on IDF bases, follow IDF orders thru an org called Sar-El.
Recruiting them violates 🇨🇦 Foreign Enlistment Act. We've reported it. Fed govt does zilch.
@IndJewishVoices
JUST NOW AT THE STATUE OF LIBERTY: 500 Jews and allies took over the island to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. Just like Palestinians, so many of our ancestors yearned to breathe free — and we took over the Statue of Liberty to say never again, for anyone.
#CeasefireNOW
#LetGazaLive
I love this old menu on the wall of a Jewish deli in my hometown of Baltimore. It tells quite a story.
"Buy Palestine Matzo"
Anyone need to have that explained?
Obviously, you're covering up that they lived on stolen Palestinian land in the settlement of Efrat. I saw with my own eyes Israeli bulldozers smashing Palestinian farms to take land for Efrat. You're also avoiding that they carried arms in the IDF to suppress Palestinians.
Over the last 2 months 3 families have had to bury two of their children, today 2 beautiful girls were indiscriminately shot and killed whilst their mother fights for her life. The conflict is not about the Palestinians not having a state but because we have a Jewish State.
Israel’s little-known concentration & labor camps
The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948-49 has been exposed.
Rarely discussed is the internment of thousands of Palestinian civilians in 22 concentration and labor camps from 1948 to 1955.
Barcelona mayor Ada Colau garnered harsh criticism and accused of antisemitism after announcing her city was suspending all ties with apartheid Israel until Palestinian human rights are respected.