Carmen Alvarez @maybeitscarma

Canada DOES NOT have a rigorous export permit process for arms - we decide which human rights abuser we want to sell to and then come up with a justification.

Heather McPherson @HMcPhersonMP

5 days ago

As revealed by @readthemaple, Canada is hosting Israeli weapons' test sessions on technology used to kill Palestinian children. NDP MP @LMathys challenged the Minister to respond in QP today.

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🔥from Robin D.G. Kelley in this Open Letter to Columbia University President Shafik: "You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment." bostonreview.net/articles/lette…

An utter human rights fail @uOttawa. Yes, there may be conflicting factors to balance, but a categorical statement that "encampments and occupations will not be tolerated" blatantly gets free expression/assembly wrong, and almost certainly sets the ground for confrontation.

Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa @uOttawa

6 days ago

Message to the uOttawa community on freedom of expression. For more information - uottawa.ca/en/news-all/me…

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Curious about what's the UBC encampment is all about? I just heard this excellent piece of reporting on CBC radio: for once, anti-genocide students are just allowed to explain what they're doing. Spokesperson Naisha Khan shines with clarity and calm. cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

“A land without people for a people . . . “ Where have I heard that before?

Jack Hauen @jackhauen

a week ago

"(Northern Ontario) is largely empty and begging for exploration drill holes," Ontario Minister of Mines George Pirie tells @NetNewsLedger. youtube.com/watch?v=CynB8C…

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"The ICJ did NOT reject South Africa's genocide claims or declare than implausible" 👇 Important 🧵 on #ICJ Judge Donoghue's interview on BBC HardTalk, in which her talk made it harder to understand the case against Israel over the alleged genocide in Gaza.

Mike Becker @mabecker17

a week ago

Re Judge Donoghue's @BBCHARDtalk interview: I realize this won't satisfy many people, but there is a difference between saying (1) that the ICJ did not decide that claims of genocide are plausible (what she said) and (2) that the Court decided that such claims are NOT plausible.

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Here and elsewhere several people have responded to my social media posts decrying the keffiyeh ban in the Ontario Legislature by criticizing the keffiyeh as a symbol of hate, oppression, violence and antisemitism. I share my thoughts in response here. alexneve.ca/blog/keffiyehb…

The ICJ clearly believes there is a case to be heard on genocide in Gaza, finding "a risk of irreparable harm to the Palestinian right to be protected from genocide". If they didn't, they would have accepted 🇮🇱 request to dismiss the case from the outset. They explicitly did not.

Janina Dill @JaninaDill

a week ago

Look man, there is only "a risk of irreparable harm to the Palestinian right to be protected from genocide" if someone is plausibly threatening that right.

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Former ICJ President Donoghue engages in the ethical error of obtuseness (thx @emilykiddwhite) when she attempts hairsplitting between plausible "rights" and "claims." TL;DR the Court decided there was, at minimum, a serious risk of genocide or related acts in Gaza. 🧵

Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox

a week ago

Finally. We can put this “the ICJ ruled plausible genocide” bullshit to bed. I’ve been arguing this for months, but in case you don’t believe me, here’s the actual President of the ICJ who delivered the ruling: “It didn’t decide that the claim of genocide was plausible”.

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Solidarity with @SarahJama_ The vilification of the keffiyeh and the open display of anti-Palestinian racism in the Ontario Legislature is unacceptable. What is happening in the Ontario legislature is an embarrassment to Canada.

Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani

a week ago

MPP Sarah Jama calls the keffiyeh ban in the Ontario legislature anti-Palestinian racism & refuses to take it off. We spoke with her & the speaker after he asked her to leave the chambers. Full story: toronto.citynews.ca/video/2024/04/…

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The genocide in Gaza is still grinding on, day after day, hour after hour. Precious life after precious life, extinguished. And the future is filled with more horrific revelations of crimes committed, like the mass graves. We don't get to go back to normal. Silence is shame.

hussan @hussansk

a week ago

It's been NINETEEN days since mass graves, with evidence of tortured, were discovered in Gaza. The death count is 700 and rising. Canada has still said nothing. Waiting on @JustinTrudeau @PierrePoilievre @theJagmeetSingh

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It's likely that the #ICJ's January decision on alleged genocide in Gaza was written so that judges could have their different views included. But we now we have Donoghue as the authoritative view while other ICJ judges (rightly) won't join talk shows to share their views. Ugh.

Mike Becker @mabecker17

a week ago

None of this excuses the conceptual confusion around plausibility. That the ICJ looked closely at facts (para 46-53) in deciding the rights asserted by S Africa are plausible adds to confusion & explains why media/experts view the ICJ as having found a plausible case of genocide.

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Getting arrested today trying to deliver aid to Gaza was the only way I could figure out to mark pesach this year with integrity. Next year in liberation!

Rabbis for Ceasefire @rodfeishalom

a week ago

This morning, seven U.S.rabbis and Israeli activists were arrested by Israeli police at the Gaza border as part of a delegation of thirty rabbis and other peace activists with Rabbis for Ceasefire who were attemping to bring food supplies into Gaza through the Erez crossing.

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I find it very troubling that now Israel, a party to a dispute at the ICJ, is using a BBC interview as authority to interpret an order of the Court in ways that contradict the individual written opinions of sitting ICJ judges. Seriously, what was Judge Donoghue thinking

Agreed: "The former President of the ICJ should not have publicly commented on a pending case. In doing so, she has given credence to false and bad faith interpretations of the Court's provisional measures decision. This risks the integrity of the proceedings." 👇

Heidi Matthews @Heidi__Matthews

a week ago

Former ICJ President Donoghue engages in the ethical error of obtuseness (thx @emilykiddwhite) when she attempts hairsplitting between plausible "rights" and "claims." TL;DR the Court decided there was, at minimum, a serious risk of genocide or related acts in Gaza. 🧵

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I'll be there in support. Every single one of us must work together to challenge this racist Keffiyeh ban. @fordnation move a motion, collect your people and reverse this ban. You can force community out of the building, but you can't silence us all. Ball is in your court.

Marit Stiles @MaritStiles

a week ago

Doug Ford, it’s time that your government reverses the Keffiyeh ban.

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You’re right Mr. Housefather: We can’t let what happened in the US happened in Canada, which is police violence and intimidation against profs and students on campuses protesting massacres in Gaza and calling for an end to war. Your call for police action should be censured.

Anthony Housefather @AHousefather

a week ago

Encampments are a violation of university policy. City police are municipal & universities fall under provincial jurisdiction. I call upon university administrators, police (and if needed provincial governments) to act. We can’t allow what is happening in the US to happen here.

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The Wall Street Journal's Editorial Board is explicitly endorsing the position that Western States - the 🇺🇸 + 🇬🇧 - should directly interfere with the #ICC's investigation into the situation in Palestine. The upshot? If they're spouting this drivel, it's a good sign for justice.

Amidst U.S. campus crackdowns on peaceful protests, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression @Irenekhan warns: “The Gaza crisis is truly becoming a global crisis of the freedom of expression [destined], to have huge repercussions for a long time to come.” [Full article:…

It is worth noting Israel was warned *repeatedly* by the #ICC Prosecutor that its behavior, if left unchanged, would require ICC action. Netanyahu and his cohort ignored every warning, as atrocities continued and perpetrators were left unpunished. No one should be surprised.