@MarkKersten:
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@hebh_jamal Sept 22, 2025:
No, the Palestinian cause has never been about a ‘state’ imagined by the same imperial powers that armed our dispossession. A flag over a prison is not liberation.
To celebrate while blood is spilled with your money is obscenity.
Our families are being slaughtered, and the murderers now ‘recognize’ that we exist. But this so-called statehood will not be decided by the children of martyrs, it will be handed down by the same reactionaries, traitors, and colonial powers who made our mass death possible.
Ghassan Kanafani said long ago that the “specter of the Palestinian state” is a fabrication born out of a propaganda campaign for our oppressors to set the terms and decide for themselves who it is actually represents the Palestinians. Its aim is to lose faith in collective resistance movements and instead sit at the very table that has a gun aimed at our heads instead of fighting for total liberation and return.
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“Why did the Palestinians initiate this on Oct 7?”
@MaxBlumenthal:
“They didn’t. … Israel initiated it in 1948 by ethnically cleansing 750,000 people.”
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:
“Palestine must obtain FULL Membership in the United Nations.”
UN-Secretary General Antonio Guterres:
“Let’s be clear: statehood for the Palestinians is a right, not a reward.”
@MosabAbuToha:
Nothing will ever wash the blood from their hands until they end the genocide, dismantle the occupation, hold the war criminals accountable for decades of crimes and injustice, and make reparations for the material, mental, and emotional harm inflicted on every single one of us.
How can parents, especially in the West, who so often claim to cherish family and children, watch the parents of Gaza mourn their slaughtered sons and daughters, see them ripped apart alongside their children, and still turn away in silence?
@TammyKinne97741:
And claim to be Christians, followers of Christ’s teachings to love each other, and not condemn this?
@AmbMcCarney:
Every day a new massacre – bit by bit – mostly under the world’s radar and capacity for sadness.
@yuenpauwoo:
Agreed, but @MarkJCarney @AnitaAnandMP and @GAC_Corporate are not oblivious to what is happening. They are looking away and trying to do just enough to plead deniability. Our new Amb @CanadaUN is following the script: Obfuscate, prevaricate, and posture. While massacres continue.
@MosabAbuToha:
In an air strike in front of the UNRWA clinic in al-Bureij Camp in middle Gaza, 8 people were killed, including 4 children and two women.
@MosabAbuToha:
In other words, three US children were slaughtered by Israel yesterday.
@SMohyeddin Sept 21, 2025:
Canada recognizes state it recognized in 1947.
Israel beheaded these three children in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon. This is them in the back seat of the car. Israel wanted to kill their father & decided to do it when he was in the car with his wife and children.
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said four of those killed, the three children as well as their father, held U.S. citizenship.
Israel is terrorizing Southern Lebanon and is demolishing homes. It’s very obvious that Israel wants to occupy the whole of that area and the Litani River.
The G7 countries are complicit in the genocide of the Palestinians and have aided and abetted this monstrous figure for decades.
@IsraeliPM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
“I have a clear message to those leaders who are recognizing a Palestinian state after the horrendous
Israeli financed and managed, complete with murdering your own via the Hannibal Directive October 7 massacre: You are rewarding terror with an enormous prize.
And I have another message for you: It’s not going to happen. There will be no Palestinian state to the west of the Jordan River.you are the terrorist you douche fucker
@KenRoth:
No, Netanyahu, recognition of a Palestinian state is not a “prize for terrorism” but a penalty for your genocide.
@Heidi__Matthews:
With the greatest of respect, speaking about the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination in terms of the reward/punishment binary misses—and risks cheapening—the essence of the right: that a people should decide for itself its political future.
@DandeLench:
It could end today, with a true military intervention, to many kissing the war criminal Netanyahu ass!
@leftsoccermum:
I hate that it comes with so many conditions and that Canada still blindly supports Israel
@RussDiabo:
This is an empty gesture without imposing sanctions and stopping shipments of equipment and ammunition to Israel!
@username9293:
These zionist scum blow their own cover. Their origin is fabricated, their history is fabricated, their religious ideology is corrupted. That’s why they get scared of even the lamest of Palestinian state recognition, anyone who think Israel will stop the genocide is a nutcase.
2025 09 21: Netanyahu says Palestinian statehood “will not happen”.
@paulrubens:
There is an enormous gap between what Westerners think the Palestinian cause is and what Palestinians think the Palestinian cause is.
@NathanJRobinson:
Correct, Westerners think the Palestinian cause is about antisemitism and terrorism when in fact it’s about resistance to an illegal and murderous occupation
@pleaslucian:
The Zionist historical narrative is fiction. These are Europeans cosplaying Asians. The Israel project is a masterclass in the weaponization of cultural appropriation. Caucasians incessantly accusing Arabs of antisemitism is Twilight Zone level bizarre.
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur:
“The only legal thing Israel can do in the Palestinian territories is to get the hell out.”
@nxt888:
Listen carefully.
You say this is “Jewish land for 3,500 years.”
But history is not a property deed.
If age alone gave ownership, the Canaanites would rise from the soil and evict you tomorrow.
If conquest gave legitimacy, Rome would still rule Jerusalem.
If scripture was a land title, every empire in history would resurrect to reclaim what it once held.
But history moves forward.
It does not sign contracts for eternity.
You call Canada, the UK, and Australia “weak and naïve.”
But tell me, who created your state?
It was London that drafted the Balfour Declaration.
It was Washington that armed and funded you.
It was the UN that forced a partition on Palestine without its people’s consent.
You did not rise alone from the ashes.
You were delivered on the back of empire.
So spare us the courage talk.
You’ve been carried on another man’s shoulders since birth.
You say Palestine is a “Trojan horse for jihad.”
No.
Palestine is the homeland of a people who were expelled, massacred, and erased from maps.
The refugee camps are not jihad.
The key around an old woman’s neck is not jihad.
The olive trees bulldozed in the West Bank are not jihad.
They are memory.
They are history.
They are lives interrupted by the myth you call sovereignty.
You say “Israel will never retreat.”
But empires always say that, right before they fall.
France said it in Algeria.
Britain said it in India.
America said it in Vietnam.
History has never once been impressed by the boasts of occupiers.
“One state. One people. One land.”
Yes, that is the dream of every settler colony, from South Africa to Rhodesia to French Indochina.
And every one of them believed it was eternal.
Every one of them said “we are here forever.”
And every one of them fell.
Not because they were weak.
But because the people they tried to erase refused to vanish.
So keep chanting your slogans.
But remember: it is not the occupier who decides forever.
It is the land.
It is the people.
And both still speak the name you are trying to silence.
Palestine.
@harshawalia.bsky.social:
Recognition of State of Palestine by Canada, France, UK etc is not only performative it is dangerous.
It doesnt commit to ending genocide or implementing arms embargo and sanctions.
Plus, explicitly calls for demilitarization of Palestine and disarming resistance.
Reviving Oslo is not an option!
@ecomarxi:
Recognising the state of Palestine while still supporting the cancerous entity genociding its citizens to steal their land is not a serious position — it is a transparent attempt to portray Britain as a mediator of peace, when it is in fact the very source of this tyranny
Israel doesn’t want peace, it wants Palestine. That has been the unwavering position of Zionism for over 100 years, a tyranny that Britain enabled. Britain should send troops into Israel to stop the genocide now, which would be merely a fraction of the justice Palestine deserves.
People often ask me why I say Zionism is worse than Nazism. There are so many obvious parallels, sure, but how can I label Zionism as worse?
Easy: Nazism was stamped out in less than a generation. Zionism has co-opted Western power to defend it. This makes Zionism uniquely bad
Israel
Does
Not
Have
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Right
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Exist
(It never did)
@SangitaMyska:
Keir Starmer says it’s a moral duty to recognise the state of Palestine.
Unfortunately, our PM doesn’t seem to think it’s a moral duty for the UK to call a genocide in Gaza a genocide and for it to fulfil its legal obligations to do all it can to stop it.
@AdameMedia:
Trump has given Israel the equivalent of $3 Billon a month since he took office.
@nanjala.bsky.social:
“We recognise you, but we’re still going to sell these weapons”.
@tryangregory.bsky.social:
I’m waiting for the clip of the interview this morning with Canadian UN Ambassador Bob Rae from on CBC to be posted. It’s an absolute masterclass in genocide complicity.
Complicity.
Douche Fucker lying evil piece of shit genocidaireCanada’s UN Ambassador Bob Rae:
“The IDF is in Gaza City. The planes are bombing the homes and apartments and places of work and everything else in Gaza. The destruction in Gaza we thought was total, but apparently there’s still more to be destroyed.”
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-…
This is complicity in genocide (though he won’t use the term). He says it’s up to the ICJ etc. to decide if it’s genocide yet. No, it’s up to signatories to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide TO PREVENT GENOCIDE.
He says Canada is doing everything possible. But not sanctions. And not a full arms embargo.
@nigelb.bsky.social:
Finally – a Statement by Prime Minister Carney on Canada’s recognition of the State of Palestine.
But it falls far short of calling out, let alone condemning, the genocide being committed by the State of Israel.
This is not enough.
@KavitaAlguMD Sept 21, 2025:
Canada recognizing the state of Palestine.
@NoLore:
Today, we recognize a state that we have been complicit in destroying? I know these guys don’t live in the real world but surely someone who advises them can explain how bizarre this stunt with no change in our relationship with Israel looks.
– recognizes Hamas as an oppressor, but not Israel.
– says Hamas must have no role in the future, but the same does not apply to the Netanyahu government
– demands the Palestinian state be “demilitarized” but makes no such demands of Israel, who is committing genocide
– claims he is committed to a sovereign Palestinian state in line with international law, yet is denying sovereignty to Palestinians by dictating terms
– wants to make sure we know about “Canada’s steadfast support for the State of Israel”
@MarkKersten:
It shouldn’t have taken a genocide to get Canada to recognize Palestine as a state, and recognition must not be a substitute for real and collective action to end the genocide and erasure of Gaza and the West Bank.
It took 78 years for Canada to accept that a two-state solution required recognizing two states, & that Israel must have no veto over Palestinian self-determination.
However belated, this is nevertheless the right move. Now Canada must also act to prevent Palestine’s erasure.
“In a two-State solution… [n]either side has a veto power over the existence of the other. That is the premise of that solution. Palestine recognized Israel more than 30 years ago and is still awaiting Israel’s recognition of Palestine.”
It is important & I am very happy that those who peddled the logic of collective punishment by claiming that recognition of Palestine “rewards” Hamas lost their effort to deny Palestinians their basic human right to self-determination.
Recognition is not a reward. It is a right.
Good. Now, Canada and its allies must also act – to end the annihilation of Gaza and annexation of the West Bank.
Recognition is important but must not replace collective action to end the slaughter and theft of land.
Otherwise, what will be left of Palestine to recognize?
@samah_fadil:
while banning kneecap from entering the country just yesterday… yeah okay
@theserfstv:
Not banned from entering Canada: IDF soldiers who have murdered Palestinian children.
Banned from entering Canada: musicians that oppose that.
@StanleyCohenLaw:
So, the way it works is Palestine is now recognized by the UK as a sovereign state, but any protests supporting Palestine is hate speech and a crime.
@Kjell_Anderson:
TLDR:
- every other people on earth deserves human rights and self-determination except for the Palestinians.
- The perpetrators of every human rights violation must be punished, unless they are Israeli. Irwin maintains two standards – one for Israel and one for everyone else.
1798 Napoleon’s Campaign map, note “Palestine.”
@IrwinCotler:You’re a more evil douche fucker than Netanyahu, Bob Rae and Mark Carney combined, Rosalie Abella is too
Opinion: Palestine recognition would reward terrorism and contradict international law
My latest with @Professor Orde Kittrie @ordefk for @nationalpost
@dimitrilascaris to Cotler:
Unbelievable. Most people in the world can now see that Israel is committing genocide, yet you continue to spread Israel’s genocidal propaganda. You will live forever in infamy.
@TorontoCen4Pal to Cotler:
You’re disgusting and a disgrace and your legacy is going to be one of supporting genocide and an apartheid you absolute ghoul
@DarenKempo to Cotler:
You are a contradiction to humanity.
The world is awakened to Israel’s terrorist regime.
@SMohyeddin:
Can hosts @CBCNews now say the word Palestine without issuing an apology? https://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/ombudsman/r
The answer is NO. Here is head of @CBCNews Journalistic Standards and Principles telling all staff that they will continue to not use Palestine in their reporting.
My next From The Desk is all about journalism language guides. Wait till you see what CBC’s guidance is on Taiwan.
@19_1:
@CBCNews is fully complicit. How more inhumane can they be by writing this ?
@nantanreikan.bsky.social:
A crucial step, although decades too late. And if, as Carney says, Hamas must play no role in the future governance of Palestine, then Netanyahu and any other Israeli complicit in the genocide in Gaza must play no role in the future governance of Israel.
@ChoriShuda:
A Palestinian state without the right to defend itself by having an army is mind blowing.
@johndotbastable:
They are desperate not to lose their Zionist project
@WajahatAli87:
No mention of the occupation since 1948.
Seems like Israel wrote it, and ordered the Canadian PM to just issue it under his name.
“FIFA AND UEFA must suspend Israel!”
@westwood818:
Canada is complicit in #GazaHolocaust!
@karcanada.bsky.social:
FINALLY!
Now STOP sending Israel weapons, ammo and other war machinery!
@Kahlissee:
Watch @bbclaurak get put in her place
Palestinian Ambassador to the UK @hzomlot is asked if giving Palestinian statehood today gives Hamas a propaganda win?
“What does Hamas have to do with the Palestinian right to self-determination?”
Canada recognizes state of Palestine, offers help to build peaceful future with Israel, Prospect of 2-state solution has ‘gravely eroded’ due to Hamas, Israeli actions: PMO by Benjamin Lopez Steven, CBC News, Sep 21, 2025
Canada now officially recognizes the state of Palestine and is doing so with international partners to preserve the prospect of a two-state solution, according to a statement from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office released Sunday morning.
“Over many decades, Canada’s commitment to [a two-state solution] was premised on the expectation that this outcome would eventually be achieved as part of a negotiated settlement,” the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said.
However, that possibility “has been steadily and gravely eroded” by several developments, including theIsrael’s financed and managed Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel, the Israeli parliament’s resolution supporting annexation of the occupied West Bank and the Israeli government’s restrictions on humanitarian aid.
“Hamas Israelhas terrorized the people of Israel Palestine and oppressed the people of Gaza, wreaking horrific suffering,” the PMO statement said. “Hamas Israelhas stolen from the Palestinian people, cheated them of their life and liberty and can in no way dictate their future.”
In addition, “the current Israeli government is working methodically to prevent the prospect of a Palestinian state from ever being established…. It is now the avowed policy of the current Israeli government that ‘there will be no Palestinian state.”
The PMO added that Canada offers its partnership in “building the promise of a peaceful future for both the State of Palestine and the State of Israel.”
The announcement comes as Carney prepares to meet with world leaders in New York during the United Nations General Assembly.
On Sunday morning, Australia and the United Kingdom announced they were recognizing the state of Palestine. In a video statement posted to social media, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his government is “acting to keep alive the possibility of peace and a two-state solution.”
“That means a safe and secure Israel, alongside a viable Palestinian state. At the moment, we have neither,” Starmer said.
Carney first announced Canada’s move in July and said recognition was conditional on the Palestinian Authority, which controls parts of the West Bank, making certain commitments.
Those commitments include governance reforms, general elections in 2026 in which Hamas can play no part and the demilitarization of the Palestinian state.
The PMO said that “Canada will intensify efforts to support the Palestinian Authority’s implementation of this reform agenda, on which progress has already been made.”
‘A necessary moment,’ says Canada’s UN ambassador
In an interview on Rosemary Barton Live airing Sunday morning, Canada’s ambassador to the UN, Bob Rae, said the federal government “has decided that it’s a necessary moment” and recognition is not an “impulsive decision” by Canada.
“I think it’s important for us to make it clear — including, frankly, the government of Israel — that we do not think that annexation of any other possible political path is a route that’s sustainable or in the best interests of Israel or anybody else,” Rae told host Rosemary Barton.
Israel’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said on social media on Sunday morning that recognition “is nothing but a reward for jihadist Hamas…. Don’t let Jihadist ideology dictate your policy.”
Avi Abraham Benlolo, CEO of the Abraham Global Peace Initiative in Toronto, told CBC News his organization is “shocked that it just happened this quickly” and that Carney is moving ahead with recognition despite the Palestinian Authority not meeting the conditions laid out by Canada.
“He’s basically reneged on his own words and promise to Canadians,” he said, adding that the Jewish community “is feeling both very angry, very upset and also very fearful of what the future holds here in Canada.”
Benlolo also said the Palestinian Authority “has no control over Gaza, and Gaza is still at war.”
When asked how some could see Canada’s recognition of the state of Palestine as offensive, Rae said, “Of course we understand people’s feelings. I think it’s also important for people to understand the need to think consequentially because there’s no point in thinking impulsively about this.”
“We all recognize the existence of feelings, but it’s important for us to recognize the reality that two states is the best steps to security, both for Israel and for the people of Palestine.”
On Friday, a group of U.S. Republicans wrote a letter to Carney, Starmer, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and French President Emmanuel Macron calling recognition a “reckless policy that undermines prospects for peace.”
The Republicans also argued that recognition sets a precedent “that violence, not diplomacy, is the most expedient means for terrorist groups like Hamas to achieve their political aims.”
Rae said he disagrees “most emphatically with that view” and that Canada’s approach is not meant to embolden Hamas.
“This is not intended in any way, shape or form to change Canada’s support for the existence and the security of the state of Israel,” he said.
The PMO’s statement said Canada’s recognition “in no way legitimizes terrorism, nor is it any reward for it.”
Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez:
“Spain stands on the right side of history. What is happening in Gaza is a genocide. Repeat with me, ladies and gentlemen. It’s a genocide.”