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@SherylNestel

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Member of Independent Jewish Voices Canada, Palestine solidarity activist, grandma, foodie, recovering academic.

Toronto, Ontario
Joined February 2012
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@SherylNestel
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Let’s be absolutely clear here, Amira Elghawaby is being attacked by CIJA for reposting not writing) an article by a former Harvard Hillel Rabbi who deplores the weaponisation of antisemitism. Shame on them.
@richardmarceau
Richard Marceau
6 months
Canada’s Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia @AmiraElghawaby decides to weigh in on antisemitism by… using antisemitic tropes (“powerful forces”) and denying how it is felt by Jews. How can @KamalKheraLib tolerate this dogwhistle?
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@SherylNestel
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2 months
Shabbat Shalom to everyone at the U of T encampment. Big love to my comrades from the Jewish Faculty Network.
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4 months
Hillel at Laurier and Waterloo has openly attacked our upcoming university-sponsored webinar on Islamophobia, anti Palestinian racism and antisemitism. The Jewish speakers (I am one) are being accused of being antisemitic and causing harm to the Jewish community. This is libel.
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@SherylNestel
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7 months
I am devastated by the news that my old friend Vivian Silver was murdered on Kibbutz Beeri a month ago. Her body was just identified. Vivian was a dedicated peace activist and was well known in Israel with many friends and colleagues in Gaza. No one should have to die like this.
@yonanestel
Yona “Education Shifts Power” Nestel
7 months
We were all holding out hope that peace activist and family friend, Vivian Silver, who we believed was being held in Gaza would be returned safely. In fact she was murdered in her home on October 7th and her body was just identified. May her memory be a blessing and bring peace.
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5 months
Our letter from a coalition of 10 Muslim, Jewish and Palestinian groups to Ontario school board officials demanding they investigate claims that Friends of Wiesenthal directs their trainers to report students who express anti Israel sentiments.
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3 months
Brilliant pushback against the claim that London Jews are afraid to leave their homes during pro-Palestine demos.
@PSCupdates
PSC
3 months
We are told that Jewish people stay out of London when marches for Palestine take place and yet at every march there is an organised Jewish bloc. Who are the people marching and why do they march? Listen to Emili from @NaamodUK
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2 months
@LevittMichael Where is your evidence that the encampments have been antisemitic? This claim contradicts everything we have seen and read. Just stop lying.
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3 months
Leah Gazan’s speech today in Parliament in support of the NDP motion is a masterclass in authenticity and political courage.
@LeahGazan
Leah ProudLakota (she/her)
3 months
LIVE: Speech on NDP Motion to recognize the State of Palestine, implement an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages, and reinstate UNRWA funding
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@SherylNestel
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2 months
Just came back from the support demo at the University of Toronto. A few thousand demonstrators with more streaming in. Great vibe!!
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2 months
I will reiterate here Desmond Cole’s call to investigate who is training police about what constitutes hate. The links between Canadian law enforcement and vicious pro-Israel organizations like Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center are consistent displayed and celebrated. Enough!
@DesmondCole
Negro Frolics
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Toronto's hate crimes unit has been extremely busy since October. But most of the charges they're laying aren't for hate crimes, and yesterday Crown prosecutors dropped one of the few that was My latest, on police rhetoric vs. actual charges
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2 months
My kid, who lives in rural Ontario, found out his local city council was discussing the IHRA and showed up to voice opposition. Way to go Yehuda!
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3 months
The breadth of CIJA’s lobbying of Canadian government institutions is breathtaking. They can say that they represent all Canadian Jews until they are blue in the face but that won’t make it true.
@KC321go
KC
3 months
I didn’t pay attention to lobbying in Canada prior to Oct 7 but I am now. Here is the 12 month summary for CIJA, you may need to scroll down to see the Monthly Communication Reports link that provides the details for each communication with gov. officials.
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@SherylNestel
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3 years
Breaking news! This is historic.
@IndJewishVoices
Independent Jewish Voices
3 years
BREAKING: The @CAUT_ACPPU just voted UNANIMOUSLY to oppose the flawed IHRA antisemitism definition at its national council meeting today. IJV applauds #CAUT for taking this strong position against academic censorship! Read our full release here: #NoIHRA
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@SherylNestel
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Syd Nestel , my husband, who is a child of Holocaust survivors,Israeli citizen and a veteran of the IDF just got attacked in the Ontario Legislature by Gila Martow for calling Israel a racist state yesterdayat the Independent Jewish Voices Press conference opposing the Bill 168.
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@SherylNestel
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1 month
The parliamentary hearings on antisemitism are a McCarthyist sham.
@IndJewishVoices
Independent Jewish Voices
1 month
No anti-Zionist Jews, many of whom are supportive of the pro-Palestinian movement, were heard at the committee nor cited in national media reports. "It was a sham hearing, an exercise in propaganda," per @BalsamCorey , IJV's National Coordinator.
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3 months
This is so cool.
@JFREJNYC
Jews for Racial & Economic Justice
3 months
Dispatch from this weekend’s Tot Shabbat for ceasefire, complete with kid-led chants, Shabbat music, and a Yiddish peace song. Plus: marching to tell @RepJeffries that these Brooklyn Jews demand a #CeasefireNow !
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
5 months
Extremely powerful video by descendants of Holocaust survivors calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza.
@jvplive
Jewish Voice for Peace
5 months
We, descendants of Holocaust survivors, call on the world on this Holocaust Remembrance Day to join us in working to end the Israeli government’s genocide against the Palestinian people, enabled and supported by the US government.
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@brish_ti @CBCNews I’m so angry about this. I can’t believe that budget cuts were the real reason for Brishti’s being “let go.” Her article on the suppression of speech on Palestine was MSM breakthrough. Let’s all hope she finds a new platform ASAP.
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@SherylNestel
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3 months
Outrageous police behaviour at yesterday’s Land Day demo in Toronto.
@Ortho_PA_
Ortho PA
3 months
I was at the massive Toronto protest today. We marched peacefully for over 3 hours. Families, grandparents, kids, youth...good folks of all races from all walks of life. There was ZERO violence or harm to anyone...but @TorontoPolice had no intention of keeping it that way! 1/
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Naomi Klein speaking tonight at the Kabbalat Shabbat at the University of Toronto encampment.
@nurdogandiyorki
Nur Dogan
1 month
A powerful speech at #UofTEncampment from Naomi Klein, UofT alum and Jewish Professor & Author about Jewish safety and the encampments on Friday night Shabbat services. @NaomiAKlein
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
6 months
Shree Paradkar speaks the truth every time.
@ShreeParadkar
Shree Paradkar//श्री पराडकर 🍁
6 months
Along with air and ground assaults in Gaza, Israel has also launched verbal volleys of dehumanizing language against civilians. Gazans are terrorists, sympathizers, or human shields - anything but innocent. I get into how this rhetoric is so deadly
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@SherylNestel
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1 month
Unbelievable headline. Did no one at the CJN see the irony? Do they ever?
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
2 years
I’m calling this a victory.
@XjusticeXpeace
Javier Dávila #FreePalestine #NoOneIsDisposable
2 years
#YRDSB trustees vote overwhelmingly in favour of postponing indefinitely a decision to adopt or not adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism
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@SherylNestel
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9 months
@m7mdkurd A painful but necessary read.
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@SherylNestel
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6 months
@hammam_therapy Hammam, I am so sorry for your loss. Will the atrocities and the suffering ever end?
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6 months
Chris is a real mensch.
@allinwithchris
All In with Chris Hayes
6 months
. @chrislhayes : “There is no terrorist attack, no matter how horrific—and truly Oct. 7 was horrific—that can wash clean what we are seeing in Gaza and what we as Americans and our government are abetting. It must end. We must stop it.”
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sheryl nestel
8 months
I’m urging Jewish supporters of justice for Palestine to make every effort to show up Monday morning in Toronto.
@IndJewishVoices
Independent Jewish Voices
8 months
❗️ACTION ALERT❗️ MONDAY: Toronto Jewish organizations call on the Canadian government to - demand a ceasefire - stop funding the Israeli army - end the occupation of Palestine
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3 months
@LeahGazan Absolutely brilliant speech. It was wonderful to hear these words spoken in Parliament. Thank you Leah Gazan for your courage and determination.
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From the “you can’t make this stuff up” file.
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@SherylNestel
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5 months
@nationalpost “We long for our Canada whose citizens were respectful of one another.” In other words: “we long for the good old days of a white Canada.”
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@SherylNestel
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6 months
@NoLore Looks like transphobia to me.
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
3 months
The wonderful Miriam Margolyes has a message for us Jews.
@jewishcouncilAU
Jewish Council of Australia
3 months
The indomitable Miriam Margolyes OBE has a message in support of the Jewish Council! She calls for all of us Jews to “shout, beg, scream for a ceasefire”
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@SherylNestel
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4 months
Some good news.
@LaraFriedmanDC
Lara Friedman
4 months
Canadian government will resume funding to United Nations relief agency for Palestinians: source | CBC News
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
3 months
Read this excellent thread by Ariel Katz on the Jewish -led demo planned for St. Clair and Bathurst and why it’s not antisemitic.
@relkatz
Ariel Katz
3 months
I’m very disappointed to see @YaaraSaks tweeting this. ⬇️ Let’s unpack the “targeting of the Jewish community is antisemitic”--a 🧵First, as @MaytalKowalski noted, Yonge & St Claire isn't Jewish neighbourhood.
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
2 months
Tonight at the University of Toronto- 1000+ in support of the encampment and against genocide.
@navyuggill
Navyug Saffuwalia
2 months
My brother captured this defiant chant by a crowd of +1000 at the University of Toronto encampment: "Expose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest."
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
3 years
Folks, IJV is doing phenomenal work with minimal resources. This is the year we need you to donate. Fighting repression of speech on Palestine is critical to ending Israeli apartheid and IJV is known worldwide as a leader in this fight.We can broaden this struggle and we can win!
@IndJewishVoices
Independent Jewish Voices
3 years
For 13 years, IJV has been building a movement of Canadian Jews committed to ending Israeli apartheid. But we can't do it without you. We need to raise $60,000 over the next month to continue to grow. Can you chip in today?
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@SherylNestel
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Pro-Palestinian Jewish groups from 16 countries gather for first-ever congress | Morning Star
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5 months
The destruction of archives is part and parcel of genocide.
@Librarians2Pal
Librarians and Archivists with Palestine
5 months
In this report, Librarians and Archivists with Palestine offers a partial list of archives, libraries, and museums in Gaza that have been destroyed, damaged, or looted by Israeli armed forces since October 7, 2023. Visit the link in bio to read the full report.
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2 years
@bzdavidson @ShreeParadkar So you are calling the 350 signatories of the Jerusalem Declaration, the preeminent scholars of the Holocaust, Jewish Studies and Antisemitism, antisemitis? Get a grip.
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
6 years
Protesting at Annual Walk for Israel in Toronto today. JDL was in our face and cops just watched. In years past they formed a buffer.
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
3 months
An interview with students occupying Simcoe Hall at U of T with a demand for divestment.
@DesmondCole
Negro Frolics
3 months
A group of students currently occupying a campus building at @UofT want the school to cancel investments that support the Israeli military, and break ties with universities in occupied Palestine My latest for @YesEverythingCA
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@SherylNestel
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Our fabulous colleague from the Jewish Faculty Network, Deb Cowan in Democracy Now. Deb is an inspiration and an unparalleled and principled activist.
@shiripasternak
Shiri Pasternak
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What we are seeing at UofT is the result of years of campus networks that built trust, solidarity, + relationships over time, @debcowen explains. It’s led by the conviction of students like Mohammad Yassin, who has family in Gaza following their efforts.
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
1 month
Today’s antisemitism hearings featuring Jewish students in Parliament were completely one-sided. Read here what pro-Palestine Jewish students have to say.
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
6 years
This is how the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance is being used to silence and punish those who criticize Israel. The institutional Jewish community in Canada is trying to get it adopted across a range of institutions. Independent Jewish Voices will be fighting this.
@Jonathan_K_Cook
Jonathan Cook
6 years
The witch-hunt to silence critics of Israel as 'anti-semites' using the IHRA definition claims its first scalp with the suspension of a Dudley council officer for noting that Israel is a 'racist endeavour'. Labour has adopted this sham definition too
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
5 months
Outrageous that York called the cops on a talk being given by Dr. Muhannad Ayash.
@SURJto
SURJ Toronto - Defund Toronto Police
5 months
Today, Dr @AyyashMohannad came to give a talk at #YorkUniversity . @TorontoPolice showed up at the lecture because they heard it was a major event. @MayorOliviaChow why are our tax dollars being used to help @YorkUPresident criminalize Palestinians? #DefindTPS #TPSIsRacist
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
6 years
We need to call Trudeau on his conflation of antizionism and antisemitism. He is setting Canada up to pass legislation that would outlaw BDS and other political strategies on behalf of Palestine. This will be an intense struggle and it’s just around the proverbial corner.
@SaiaYork
SAIA York
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While delivering an apology on behalf of Canada for turning away Jewish refugees in 1939, @JustinTrudeau diverted to attack #BDS and the fight for Palestinian rights, thus helping in conflating anti-Zionism with anti-semitism. #YorkU #cdnpoli #StLouis
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@SherylNestel
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@ELDV4Palestine This is a brilliant push-back against The Ontario Legislature’s kaffiyeh ban.
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10 months
@mehdirhasan Mehdi, Ali and Ayman have changed news culture by reporting on Palestine.
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
1 year
This is very bad news. Shame on Heritage Canada for caving into those who support Israel’s apartheid regime.
@IndJewishVoices
Independent Jewish Voices
1 year
BREAKING: @MKhannam1 of @CdnHeritage has confirmed that grant applicants will be required to sign an attestation stating that they will not undermine Canada’s anti-racism strategy, which includes the discredited and divisive IHRA definition of antisemitism. #NoIHRA 🧵1/11
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sheryl nestel
4 months
John Clarke speaks the truth here about the repression of pro-Palestine protests.
@CDN_Dimension
Canadian Dimension
4 months
Conflating Palestine solidarity with antisemitism can only produce distorted results, writes @JohnClke .
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
4 months
Apropos Hillel’s attack on Jewish speakers at the upcoming Laurier webinar on Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian racism and antisemitism:
@UssamaMakdisi
Ussama Makdisi
4 months
There is a campaign of bullying, intimidation, and narcissistic gaslighting occurring across our campuses and country: and all designed to make sure that we don’t talk about Israel’s appalling genocide of Palestinians that has horrified the vast majority of the world. Those
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@NaomiAKlein Naomi nails it.
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
6 years
The inimitable Eli Valley on mendacious Kavanaugh.
@elivalley
Eli Valley
6 years
I drew Brett Kavanaugh and the Doppelgänger Defense:
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sheryl nestel
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@JoelHardenONDP Thank you Joel!
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sheryl nestel
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Read this incredible letter from Calgary mayor Jyoti Gondek about why she is canceling her participation in Thursday night’s Hannukah candle lighting event.
@JyotiGondek
Jyoti Gondek
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1/2 On the eve of a beloved Calgary tradition, the annual menorah lighting at City Hall, I have learned that the event has been repositioned to be political. This breaks my heart. It is with great regret and sadness that I will not be attending. My statement is posted here.
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@LaraFriedmanDC Thanks for this important post.
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Scholars of reproduction and practitioners have issued this very strong statement on the reproductive rights of Palestinians.
@RodantevdWaal
Rodante van der Waal
6 months
We made a statement calling-in the field of reproduction: “Resistance is Fertile: No Reproductive Justice without Freedom for Palestine.” The time for resistance and transnational solidarity is now. Repro-workers, scholars, and activists, please sign ♥️
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
1 year
Great that people are challenging anti-Palestinian racism in schools.
@CJPME
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
1 year
We are concerned about false and harmful statements made by a guest speaker to high school students at @westmounthigh , who said the idea that Israel is abusing Palestinians is “a bunch of crap [...] trust me they're doing everything but abusing the Palestinians." @EnglishMTL
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
4 years
My latest piece on Rabble about Jagmeet Singh’s (leader of the New Democratic Party) capitulation to the Canadian Israel Lobby.
@IndJewishVoices
Independent Jewish Voices
4 years
Why is @theJagmeetSingh appeasing the pro- #Israel lobby over rank-and-file @NDP members who support #Palestinian rights? The latest on @rabbleca by IJV's @SherylNestel in response to his recent showing on the CIJA podcast. @CJPME @Courage_CA @mbueckert
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Ilhan Omar is fierce!
@Ilhan
Rep. Ilhan Omar
29 days
WATCH: Rep. Omar questions UCLA Chancellor Block on his response to pro-Palestinian student encampment on campus.
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@SherylNestel
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And what are police being taught by this group that equates anti Zionism with antisemitism? Police will not make Jews safe. Only solidarity will achieve that.
@anna_lippman
Anna🍉🗝️
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The insanity knows no limits
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
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@aaronlakoff @AHousefather Thank you for doing that!
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Listen to the brilliant analysis of Jill Rogin.
@FacultyJewish
JewishFaculty.ca
3 months
Another blistering presentation for our webinar features Associate Professor @jillianrogin , discussing Pro-Israel Advocacy and Hate Speech Legislation. Rogin argues that Pro-Israel groups who have been demanding criminal law responses to antisemitism - including increased
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
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This👇🏻
@occupyuoft
UofT Occupy for Palestine
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sheryl nestel
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This report is one of the most horrific to come out of this genocidal war,
@LaraFriedmanDC
Lara Friedman
2 months
‘Come out, you animals’: how the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital happened -- the IDF shot patients in their beds & doctors who refused to abandon the sick, separated people with differently-colored bracelets, executed 100s of civil govt employees.
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sheryl nestel
3 years
It’s important to note that the report rejects adopted the IHRA. A warning to those who would impose this highly problematic document on every Canadian institution.
@UofT
University of Toronto
3 years
#UofT ’s Anti-Semitism Working Group has delivered its final report & made a series of recommendations to tackle anti-Semitic racism & religious discrimination on campus – all of which have been accepted by the university.
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sheryl nestel
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Impressive list of BDS-supporting organizations in Canada.
@mbueckert
Michael Bueckert
1 month
In Canada over just the last 2 months, we've seen 1 major labour union, 2 student unions and 7 faculty associations vote in support of boycotting and/or divesting from Israel's genocide. The student encampments reflect a broader momentum toward divestment
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sheryl nestel
3 months
Solidarity with Sabreina
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sheryl nestel
8 years
Seen today at the Lush store Toronto Eaton Centre
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@NoLore Pathetic list of signatories.
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sheryl nestel
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Robin D.G. Kelley‘S shocking account of what has transpired at UCLA. It’s a reminder that most violence at the encampments has been enacted by police and pro-Israel thugs.
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
1 year
These Nakba stories are indispensable to understanding the ongoing devastation created by 75 years of Israeli violence and dispossession.
@ArielleLAngel
Arielle Angel
1 year
"Walking without my father, with somebody else’s, I literally stumbled upon the home where my grandfather—& his father & so on—had once lived. The moment I fell, I felt no fear. The dwelling was awaiting my rightful return." A photo essay to mark Nakba Day
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
6 years
It's way past time to revoke the JNF's tax exempt status in Canada
@radioragazza
sue goldstein - Mercury justice for #GrassyNarrows
6 years
Stop the racist Jewish National Fund!
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sheryl nestel
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ICYMI
@elivalley
Eli Valley
2 months
Here's the single sheet. Gut Shabbos!
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sheryl nestel
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Happy Passover. Free Palestine.
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
3 months
An excellent critical analysis of claims of rampant antisemitism in the UK.
@bentreyf
Ben Reiff
3 months
I wrote about the moral panic that London has become a “no-go zone” for Jews — which has been deliberately constructed by the government and other right-wing actors to delegitimize and curtail the capital’s mass pro-ceasefire rallies👇
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
6 years
Register now! Independent Jewish Voices Canada 10th Anniversary Conference with Rebecca Vilkomerson, Diana Buttu, Mark Tseng-Putterman and many more. Oct. 12-14 in Toronto REGISTRATION OPEN!
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
2 months
Excellent statement on the campus protests and why allegations of antisemitism are bogus and are a means to distract us from the ongoing genocide.
@jvplive
Jewish Voice for Peace
2 months
“As the largest anti-Zionist Jewish organization in the world, we unequivocally reject the conflation of antisemitism with anti-Zionism and reaffirm in the strongest terms that there is no place for antisemitism in our movements.” Our full statement:
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
3 months
Read this and do not turn away from the horror.
@AyyashMohannad
Muhannad Ayyash
3 months
"That is when he learned that some neighbours .. had stayed behind to care for elderly and disabled people who could not be moved. They had all sheltered in the diwan of one house. Then the bombs struck and killed 18 of them." Ghada Ageel via @AJEnglish
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
4 months
This just in.
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
6 months
An extraordinary statement from a veteran Harvard Hillel rabbi .
@YousefMunayyer
Yousef Munayyer
6 months
"For eighteen years I had the great privilege of working as Executive Director of Harvard Hillel....Let me speak plainly: It is not antisemitic to demand justice for all Palestinians living in their ancestral lands. As a Jewish leader, I say: Enough."
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
6 months
Don’t look away.
@Mondoweiss
Mondoweiss
6 months
This is a crime against humanity.
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@SherylNestel
sheryl nestel
9 years
#ISupportBDS because it is powerful tactic for ending Israeli violence.
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