@ecomarxi:
I cannot think of another evil that has existed in my lifetime that matches the evil of the Israeli regime
@orlaghokelly:
If it wasn’t a concentration camp before….
@MarkJCarney
@AnitaAnandMP
@AdameMedia:
A leaked Israeli plan outlines the division of Gaza into 3 isolated zones, each cut off by military corridors. Civilians would be trapped, aid tightly controlled through barcoded IDs, and movement dictated by occupation forces.
Pure evil.
@Lowkey0nline:
Zionism will never survive the shadow of mighty Gaza, even if it succeeds in wiping it off the map physically.
@AssalRad:
Amnesty International: Israel is committing genocide
Human Rights Watch: Israel is committing genocide
UN Reports: Israel is committing genocide
@samaakhullar:
I just saw another persons body with their head blown off please tell me how this has been normalized I’m going to be sick
The 29 second clip below is excellent; Zionists intentionally and conveniently ignore and or lie about Palestinians giving Jews a home after WW2
@TheBinSultan:
They asked not to destroy their hopes then destroyed a whole nation’s.
@venanzio_az:
Maybe the Battle of Issos between Alexander the Great and Darius III was a failure …
But granting refuge to the Zionists was, in the truest sense of the word, a disaster (Al-Nakba).
@stephaniem0805:
Me neither. I do think it’s important that Judaism & Zionism are not conflated.
Anyone who hasn’t already should watch The Settlers on BBC iplayer ASAP before it’s removed. Free Palestine
@Mondoweiss:
UCLA shut down a screening of The Encampments—a documentary about students being brutalized by police for protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza—by sending police to brutalize students during the screening.
Of the documentary.
About that.
@Rally4Gaza:
I agree. I haven’t seen this level of cruelty and evilness as Israel is committing now. I also haven’t seen the level of hypocrisy as the Western world is showing now. Excellent example of that hypocrisy and genocide-enbling in this important 9 Min clip below:
TORONTO RAISES FLAG OF ISRAEL by ON THE LINE MEDIA, May 2, 2025
… All around us we are seeing new laws, new bylaws, new associations, all popping up, all to maintain the machinery of this genocide. We want a comfortable genocide. A genocide we can feel safe in on campuses, in classrooms, on Parliament Hill. Safety is our number one priority for this genocide and by God we will have it! …
@India-go6he:
Canadians, are you OK with OUR flag being taken down in order to fly the flag of israel?
@AliAli-bc6ir:
The question to ask is why?
Why is everyone hell bent on this genocide going on?I believe Israel’s genocide is being rammed down the world’s throat for 3 main reasons: 1) Money, water and oil and gas; 2) Racism, hatred, white male supremacy; Christofascism.Zionism and Nazism have been escalating since before I was born – many more genocides are planned by the rich, including of other Indigenous peoples around the world and here in Canada – best way for the rich to get richer via getting away with mass murder, is to desensitize the world to it – enter Israel; and 3) Land, beautiful land – Palestine is (used to be) a gorgeous land, a beautiful land – rich white spoiled vulgar privileged murderous rich people want it, all of it, which is why they show no shame illegally holding sales in Canadian cities selling stolen land.
Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz May 1, 2025:
Anti-Zionism is anti-semitism? Sure that makes sense. How you pray and what religious beliefs you hold is exactly the same as supporting apartheid and genocide. Can’t even tell them apart; last time I tried to pray the rosary I got confused and bombed a children’s hospital.
It’s true: there is absolutely no difference whatsoever between opposing a political ideology and opposing the existence of a small religious minority. That’s why it is universally considered racist to criticize an opposing political party. That’s why anyone who tries to engage in a political debate is immediately arrested for committing a hate crime.
Anti-Zionism is anti-semitism. If you don’t support the idea of dropping a western settler-colonialist state on top of a pre-existing civilization and then defending its status quo of apartheid, theft and abuse by any amount of violence necessary, then obviously you support the idea of exterminating millions of Jews in gas chambers.
If you don’t want anyone to commit genocide against Palestinians, then that means you want to commit genocide against Jews. There is no third possibility.
Don’t think we should be sending billions of dollars worth of military explosives to be dropped on hospitals, residential buildings and civilian infrastructure in Gaza? That means you harbor extremely negative emotions toward a small Abrahamic faith.
Think it’s bad to deliberately starve millions of people who are trapped in a giant death camp? Then that means you want to start loading Jews onto trains.
Think it’s wrong to wage a systematic extermination campaign against an entire people because they are a different ethnicity? Then you are no different from the Nazis.
Anti-Zionism is anti-semitism. Cats are ducks. The Declaration of Independence is spaghetti sauce. The Bronze Age is a foot fetish. There are no differences between any two things. All things are exactly the same as all other things.
The human mind is incapable of making any distinctions of any kind. Turning left is the same as turning right. Drinking water is the same as drinking bleach. Going to the supermarket is the same as killing your dad. This is how we all live our lives. Everyone knows this.
Everything I just said makes perfect sense. Anyone who disagrees is Hitler.
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Zionism: The Global Cancer Threatening Humanity. @PrimeNewsDigest Oct 12, 2024:
Zionism, often cloaked in the guise of a mere political movement, is far more dangerous than the world acknowledges.
It has evolved into an insidious force with the power to shape institutions, economies, governments, and global narratives, all while erasing its own atrocities from history.
The gravest threat it poses isn’t just to Palest*nians, but to all of humanity. It is a deeply entrenched system of oppression, violence, and deceit that continues to corrupt societies from within.
Zionism does not merely infiltrate through personnel and finance, although that is part of its operational playbook.
Its true power lies in its ability to ideologically dominate the discourse—convincing, coercing, and intimidating individuals and institutions into submission.
Those who dare to speak against the Zionist agenda are swiftly silenced, branded as anti-Semites, or worse.
This ideological stranglehold is so effective that governments and corporations independently take on the role of punishing critics of Zionist atrocities, even without direct instruction.
The Zionist regime in Israel is responsible for systematic genocide, war crimes, and apartheid, yet the world turns a blind eye.
Why? Because Zionism has woven itself into the fabric of global power structures. The media whitewashes its crimes, portraying Zionists as perpetual victims while ignoring the brutal slaughter of Pale*tinian civilians, the theft of their lands, and the destruction of their homes.
But the danger of Zionism extends far beyond the borders of Pal*stine. This movement has embedded itself into Western governments, particularly in the UK and the US, where politicians are either bought or bullied into silence.
Any attempt to criticize Israel is met with overwhelming backlash, whether through legal persecution, economic sanctions, or social isolation. Zionism has become a global empire of manipulation, threatening the very core of democracy and free speech.
This is why the fight against Zionism cannot be limited to the collapse of the colonial project in Pale*tine. The movement must be dismantled globally, through a generational struggle that confronts its pervasive influence across nations.
Zionism has to be uprooted from the political systems it controls, the media it manipulates, and the social consciousness it distorts. The freedom of future generations depends on this struggle.
Zionism is not just an issue for Palestinians—it is a cancer metastasizing throughout the world.
It must be recognized as the existential threat it truly is: a force bent on sustaining a violent, oppressive state at any cost, while destabilizing global peace and security.
We must wage an intellectual, social, and political war to eradicate its influence before it eradicates us.
The question is no longer whether we can afford to confront Zionism, but whether we can afford not to.
If we continue to ignore the gravity of this threat, we are complicit in the slow destruction of justice, humanity, and freedom worldwide. Time is running out, and the stakes could not be higher.
Zionism’s unchecked power will continue to bring devastation unless it is met with unwavering resistance. We must confront this threat head-on—for our survival, for future generations, and for the very soul of human existence.
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@liamcunningham1 May 18, 2025:
Microsoft has disabled the ICC Chief prosecutors email account.
This is where we are.
@LDelsoll:
When tech giants start interfering with international justice, it’s not just alarming, it’s dystopian. Protecting war criminals by silencing prosecutors? This is beyond the red line.
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@Alonso_GD:
My claim was simple
1948: Israel is born through ethnic cleansing; not democratic
1948-67, its Palestinian population was subjected to military rule; not democratic
1967-today, it subjects occupied Palestinians to racial segregation; not democratic
Israel’s never been a democracy
@ZaKhatib:
Important article by @JoshuaSealy, Shiri Pasternak, and Jillian Rogin – excellent work here.
Canadian lawyers borrow from U.S. playbook to quash Palestine solidarity, In a new push for ‘lawfare’, pro-Israel groups are weaponizing the courts to silence criticism of Israel by Shiri Pasternak, Jillian Rogin & Joshua Sealy-Harrington, Apr 11 2025, The Breach
As Palestinian solidarity organizers face dramatic arrests and deportations in a sweeping crackdown on dissent in the United States, some Canadian lawyers are taking notes.
In the U.S., pro-Israel lawyers have worked hand-in-glove with the Trump administration to escalate attacks on academic and democratic institutions—weaponizing the courts to punish and silence criticism of Israel.
Now, some members of Canada’s legal community are pushing to import those same tactics north—and they’re doing so in the name of fighting what they call “the new antisemitism.”
This is lawfare in action: the strategic use of legal tools to suppress political opponents.
In this case, lawfare is being deployed to control the narrative about Israel’s genocide in Gaza—branding as “antisemitic” criticism of Israel, support for international law, or even reference to Palestinian rights, speech, and culture.
Not all pro-Israel activists may support American tactics like abductions and deportations. But the underlying logic of lawfare is gaining ground among some Canadian legal professionals.
Since October 7, pro-Israel lawyers have been at the forefront of a push to criminalize critics of Israel and to promote an anti-Palestinian agenda with the Canadian government. They have intervened in encampment injunction proceedings, sued universities on behalf of students, and lobbied municipal, provincial, and federal governments to ramp up penalties against Palestine solidarity protesters.
One clear articulation of this strategy came from criminal lawyer Mark Sandler in a recent webinar titled “Enough is Enough: How You Can Use the Law to Fight Antisemitism.” There, he laid out a national strategy for using lawfare to introduce harsher penalties and further criminalize Palestine solidarity.
Sandler is the founder of the Alliance of Canadians Combatting Antisemitism (ACCA), which includes Lawyers for Secure Immigration and Lawyers Combatting Antisemitism. He has been the visionary behind coalition building since October 7 and is transparent about his strategy to influence policy and legislative agendas.
This new push for lawfare comes at a time when Israel’s actions are increasingly seen as indefensible around the world—including within Israel—leaving North American governments out of step with the global consensus.
In this context, aggressive censorship becomes a strategic necessity for the pro-Israel lobby.
We break down the Canadian lawfare playbook below.
Censorship through lawsuits
In the U.S., pro-Israel legal advocates have pursued aggressive strategies to pressure universities into adopting policies that suppress criticism of Israel.
Sandler wants to see that same legal muscle flexed in Canada.
He points to recent actions against Harvard as a positive model for what should happen here to force universities to capitulate.
Two federal lawsuits had accused Harvard of fostering an antisemitic environment. As part of the settlement, reached earlier this year, the university agreed to adopt the widely criticized IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) definition of antisemitism—a definition that explicitly includes criticism of Israel.
The IHRA definition has become a lightning rod for controversy because it stifles free speech and academic freedom, promotes anti-Palestinian racism, and narrowly defines Jewish identity as inherently Zionist.
For Sandler, the lawsuits—brought by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education—exemplify the kind of litigation needed in Canada to target universities, unions, faculty associations, and news organizations.Yet another douche lawyer? In my view, there are too many of those, notably in the old white male con category.
So far, most targeted lawsuits against universities in Canada have been driven by a single private law firm: Diamond and Diamond, known for its unethical litigation practices.
The firm’s lawyers have targeted Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) and the Toronto Metropolitan Students’ Union; Queen’s University; the University of British Columbia, York University and the York Federation of Students; McMaster University and the McMaster Students Union; and Concordia University and the Concordia Student Union. None of these lawsuits have been heard in court yet.
Sandler has praised the TMU student lawsuit, arguing that “[s]uch litigation should be vigorously pursued elsewhere.”yup, another douche lawyer in my view, twisting words to suit his apparent supremacy; Zionism has the world’s money, power, bombs and kid-killing tech. Last thing the genocidal Zionist brutes need is to stomp on students and kill Canadians’ right to freedom of expression
Distorting the meaning of hate speech
The core challenge for the pro-Israel lobby in Canada in trying to suppress what they call “the new antisemitism” is that much of the speech they target is protected under section 2(b) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms as “political debate.”
Criticism of a state or political ideology does not on its own meet the legal threshold for hate speech under the Criminal Code.
In his lawfare webinar, the ACCA’s Sandler outlined a new strategy to overcome these legal hurdles.
He announced the formation of the Canadian Jewish Law Association, which will join forces with the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) and a cadre of “top flight” criminal lawyers to “triage” criminal issues. In other words, they will coordinate and pool resources to take on these cases.
Their plan is to couple ongoing litigation with an extensive outreach campaign to police and prosecutors across the country to persuade law enforcement to investigate Palestine solidarity activism as if it were hate speech.
Responding to a request for comment from The Breach, Sandler said “the allegation that I seek to suppress merely pro-Palestinian speech is false.”
He said that while “speech that sharply criticizes Israel” should not trigger criminal law remedies, what is not protected speech is “the vilification and demonization of all Zionists,” which he considers antisemitic.Mr. Sandler needs to go back to school and do some unbiased learning. Zionism is cruelty; it’s crimes against humanity. One need not hate anything or anyone to oppose Zionism and its thieving mass murdering racist fascist supremacy.
But the courts have so far disagreed with Sandler and the pro-Israel lobby’s characterization of protected speech. They’ve decided the speech under question is simply pro-Palestinian and not antisemitic or hateful.
When CIJA and others made submissions to former Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice J. Michael MacDonald during his investigation of a student petition at Toronto Metropolitan University, he declined to apply the IHRA definition of antisemitism. He wrote:
I am of the view that the letter should not have been characterized as antisemitic. There is no universally accepted definition of antisemitism, but (as discussed), this External Review has understood antisemitism as “the manifestation and expression of discrimination against Jewish people.”
The distinction is key: antisemitism must involve discrimination against Jewish people as Jewish people. Zionism, as an ideology, is therefore open to critique.
Ontario government screened law students who signed pro-Palestine letter
Similarly, CIJA, B’nai Brith, and Friends of Simon Weisenthal Centre all intervened in legal efforts to shut down the Palestinian solidarity encampment at the University of Toronto. Yet, presiding Justice Markus Koehnen ultimately decided that it was not the antisemitic “hatefest” they alleged.
He concluded that allegations of antisemitism were being used in troubling ways, noting that “the respondents’ fears about the risk of a new form of McCarthyism are not without foundation.”
In his webinar, Sandler argued that a lot more work is needed to push for the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism. Or in other words – in my view, destroy the charter right to freedom of expression for those of us publicly opposed to Israel’s genocide and crimes against humanity – finish off what Rosalie Abella and Irwin Cotler started (read Will Koop’s report below, “Zionism hates the Truth” for the gory details).
The new lawfare coalition is likely hoping to push lawsuits that would render the IHRA definition legally binding so that it could then be used to interpret hate speech offences.
A probable moving target for these suits is faculty and student organizations. There have already been attempts to smear university campaigns that are part of the international Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel as antisemitic.
I’ve been boycotting Israeli goods and Zionist politicians throughout my adult life. I could never vote for Carney because of his cowardice in refusing to state opposition to Israel’s genocide. Israel’s and Zionism’s cruelty has tarnished my entire life. No one — not even fancy pants racist Zionist lawyers or their gangs, racist Zionist/Harper judges or racist Palestinian/Arab/Muslim-hating NGOs — will be able to force me to buy goods made by genocidaires or those that lie about it, support it or promote it.
@4noura:
Living in the United States rn means being surrounded by a liberal class that believes attacking humanitarian aid convos, flinging children across rooftops & into pieces is legitimate warfare while also threatening those who protest are kidnapped, deported, fired.
How can any human being of sound mind declare persons protesting the above as being antisemitic. Sick, cruel, disgusting and as usual, pimped by lawyers.
In my view, persons (often in positions of power, like lawyers and politicians) trying to silence those of us opposed to Israel intentionally blowing kids and babies to bits are the ones that need to charged with hate crimes.
Hatred? Anti-semitisim?
Who are the real haters?
I think Zionists, including Herr Harper, and those that want Muslims and Arabs exterminated claiming they are insects, rodents, not human, push the lie of protesting genocide being antisemitic so that Palestianian lands and $hundreds of billions in oil and gas resources can more easily be stolen by racist rich ugly powerful white men.
In Canada alone, 18 faculty and 28 student associations have passed motions committing to BDS on their campuses. A formal complaint against the University of Windsor’s historic agreement with encampment protesters, which included an agreement to boycott Israeli universities, was filed under the Ontario Discriminatory Business Practices Act, but was also recently dismissed.
Weaponizing criminal law
Because the threshold for proving hate speech offences is so high, Sandler proposes a workaround: using other Criminal Code offences to suppress Palestine solidarity and criticism of Israel.
Instead of relying solely on hate speech provisions, Sandler recommends charges like intimidation for when a “hateful mob” takes over an intersection; mischief for interference on private and public property, to address “hate activities” on streets and campuses; and unlawful assembly to disperse hateful protests.But only “hateful mobs” or “hateful activities” if they are pro peace, and pro Palestine, not raging mobs of Zionists, or racists/white supremacists/Arab haters, or angry violent raging fanatics that believe – without doubt – the bible says god promised Palestine to the genocidiares and that they are right to mass murder to get what they want, and or the eager greedy rich buying stolen Palestinian properties that are not for sale!
But what exactly counts as “hateful?” Protests in solidarity with Palestinians—amid an ongoing genocidal campaign—are routinely framed as hateful towards Jewish people, even when Jewish people are visibly present or even leading the demonstrations.
Sandler also casually shifts between describing Palestine solidarity demonstrations as “protests” and “Hamas protests.” While he claims lawfare efforts target “extremists,” distorted framings like his manufacture extremists to target.In my experience, Zionists trying to silence pro peace, anti genocide people, rarely tell the truth to get their demands (abuses against our charter rights) met.
Ironically, it is criticisms of these protests—rather than the protests themselves—that are motivated by racism. Labeling anti-war protests as “hatefests” that support “terrorism,” and branding attendees as terrorists, exemplifies anti-Palestinian racism.
Sandler goes further, labeling chants like “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” as “unequivocally” antisemitic. But this claim is deeply contested by experts in antisemitism, Middle Eastern politics, and criminal and constitutional law.
Dear Mr. Sandler:
Palestine will be Free!
From the River to the Sea!
Love Jess.
1945 oilfields concessions in the Middle East, note “Palestine” circled in red on the map below.
From the River to the Sea is geography, history, home, family, reality, justice, peace, it’s not hate or antisemitism.
Visual I sent to Steve Harper and my MP wishing them Merry Christmas in 2010. Neither wished me the same back, or said “thank you.”
In contrast, pro-Israel rallies in Canada and the U.S.—which have been vocally pro-war during what the International Court of Justice, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch have called either a “plausible” or proven genocide—face no such backlash.
Another key legal tool Sandler promotes is “bubble legislation.” Initially introduced in Canada to protect health care workers and people accessing abortion clinics from anti-abortion violence, bubble laws are now being pushed in relation to Jewish institutions.
A number of municipalities have already enacted or are considering enacting this legislation around synagogues and Jewish community centres in response to Palestine solidarity activism.
But context is essential here. This push to “protect” Jewish institutions was triggered by protests led by Jewish groups outside synagogues, targeting events for real estate pitches in the illegally occupied West Bank of Palestine.
Civil liberties groups have expressed deep concern about the constitutional violations posed by such bubble laws, particularly regarding freedom of expression and assembly. Even Ontario Solicitor General Michael Kerzner, from the Progressive Conservative Party, has conceded these laws are likely unconstitutional and should not be adopted—despite Premier Doug Ford’s support.
Erasing Palestine
With these renewed efforts to “educate” law enforcement and prosecutors on the IHRA definition, there is every reason to fear that anti-Palestinian racism will become even more entrenched.
Responding to The Breach, Sandler said, “I believe in Palestinian self-determination and a two state solution and have said so many times.”But only on Zionism’s terms? Not Palestinians?
The trouble with the strategy of lawfare, however, is in its definition of Palestinian self-determination.
Sandler and others who seek to turn the “demonization” of Zionism into a hate crime do not recognize Israel as a settler colonial project that overrides Palestinian sovereignty. Sandler and his ilk see their political opponents challenging Israel’s right to exist as an ethnostate and frame this challenge as a genocidal demand rather than a just one.
This conception of antisemitism casts as hateful and antisemitic the entire Jewish Labour Bund, Jewish luminaries like Hannah Arendt and Albert Einstein, Palestinian scholars such as Edward Said, and Black intellectuals like James Baldwin.
At the same time, it leaves no room for Palestinian claims to rights and sovereignty. This is a key reason why Sandler insists that adopting a definition of anti-Palestinian racism is “incompatible” with the IHRA framework—in effect, that framework treats Palestinian political expression as inherently antisemitic.
Lawfare champions even frame the existence of Palestinian culture and history as evidence of antisemitism.
This attempted demonization of pro-Palestinian speech and action sets a dangerous precedent in a dangerous time.
Though these strategies have largely failed under legal scrutiny so far, they have created a chilling effect on free speech. And the recent lawfare successes in the U.S. point to a tightening control on all political positions that challenge colonial and imperial power.
In Canada, we mimicked the “war on terror” to our own peril. We risk repeating that mistake now, in a new imperial war on freedom of speech, expression, assembly, and, most importantly, Palestinian freedom.
I live frac’d in Alberta, white supremacist, misogynistic land of rape by oil and gas. Industry and AER, its self regulator, tried to destroy my right to freedom of expression 20 years ago, complete with the AER lying in their court filing calling me a terrorist to prejudice judges against me and to discredit me and my case (all because I dared to publicly peacefully ask the regulator to regulate Encana illegally frac’ing my community’s drinking water aquifers).
Alberta judges and supreme court of Canada judges (7/9 plunked there by anti-charter racist Zionist Herr Harper) joined them in damaging our charter right to freedom of expression.
In addition to Palestinian solidarity activists, those who will bear the brunt of this new wave of repression will be those already most impacted by increased police powers and surveillance, such as Black and Indigenous peoples—two groups that have long traditions of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle.
We must prepare for the inevitable onslaught of pro-Israel lawfare already being planned in the legal community.
We must prepare our own coalitions of resistance and meet this challenge on the streets, in the courts, in our classrooms, and in our workplaces.
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Phil Boisse
Canadian mainstream news uses double standard terminology:
Israeli defence forces vs Palestinian terrorists
Israeli hostages vs Palestinian prisoners
Don Heppner
Agree, it is so very biased.
Mark Sandler
It is unfortunate that the article about “pro-Israel lawfare” so significantly misstates my position. The authors state for example that I promote a discredited view that “from the River to the Sea – Palestine shall be Free” is unequivocally genocidal when I have repeatedly said the exact opposite, including in a presentation cited by the authors. Instead, I have said that the use of the phrase although deeply troubling is not so unequivocal as to justify criminal prosecution for hate speech unless (as has repeatedly occurred) it is accompanied by other actions or comments that make clear that it is used to promote a Jew-free country in place of Israel. Or accompanied by articulated support for terror groups declared unlawful by the Canadian government and for their genocidal agendas.
The authors misrepresent that the IHRA definition of antisemitism includes criticism of Israel without even acknowledging the specific provision exempting criticism of Israel from being labelled as antisemitic. They also misrepresent my position on this issue including my repeated commentary that criticism of Israel, its policies, conduct of the war, and government are largely protected speech.
They completely misstate my position on anti-Palestinian racism which challenges a definition of anti-Palestinian racism that labels everyone as racist who even disputes a Palestinian narrative that calls pre-1967 Israel’s boundaries occupied territory and denies Israel’s right to exist. I said that true anti-Palestinian discrimination is not addressed by vilifying all those who support Israel’s right to exist without distinction.
The authors express concern about the suppression of pro-Palestinian views while supporting university initiatives that undermine academic freedom and institutional neutrality by prohibiting association with Israeli academic institutions.
I found little in this article that accurately reflected what I have said. The authors were obviously intent on making certain points unencumbered by the facts.
I dialogue with those who hold opposing views all the time. I promote respectful dialogue and education as preferable in most cases to the use of the law — a position also well publicized but ignored.
However, I do not apologize for advocating the robust use of the law to combat extremism, not mere pro-Palestinian advocacy. It is not protected speech to support terror groups banned in Canada, and their terror activities. It is not protected speech to incite others to support such activities. It is not protected speech to intimidate or harass Canadian Jews (or indeed, any identifiable group) or to unlawfully block roads, and interfere with the lawful use and enjoyment of other infrastructure.
Don Heppner
If you are concerned about terror groups, why do you support Israel? They are the most terrifying terror group in the Middle East!Absolutely! Zionism is worse than Nazism, and Israel, USA et al will not stop mass murdering when every last Palestinian is dead, or even when they’ve wiped out every Arab. And, then, they’ll come for us in North America
Vida Jaugelis
Reading your headline coupled with the image of a of a Vancouver police officer detaining a person superimposed over an image of a pro-Palestinian rally alarmed me. Are pro-Palestinian protestors being arrested in Vancouver I wondered? I then looked at the image more closely – and recognized the McGill University campus. I am against the genocide of the Palestinian perpetrated by the Israeli government, and look to accurate reporting to keep informed. But misrepresenting possible “lawfare” strategies that may be deployed in Vancouver as actual events on the ground through image manipulation does not advance the cause of Palestinian rights and those who support them.
Refer also to:
2025 04 19: Anti-Semitism: “We will defund universities,” says a Conservative candidate Montreal lawyer Neil Oberman in a hallway. Montreal lawyer Neil Oberman is the Conservative candidate in the riding of Mount Royal, Quebec by Radio-Canada, April 19, 2025
Lawyer Neil Oberman, who is running for the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) in the riding of Mount Royal , said he supports cutting funding to universities that are not doing enough to combat anti-Semitism on their campuses.
Known for having led led legal actions to limit pro-Palestinian demonstrations on several university campuses in Montreal a year ago, Mr. Oberman made these in statements in interviews published on April 8 by the English-language media Jewish News Syndicate (JNS).
These comments as President Donald Trump in the United States has been waging a major offensive for several weeks against dozens of universities of tolerating students protesting for BDS and Peace for Palestine anti-Semitism.
CBC and many main media, some of the worst genocidaire enablers and liars are the NYT and BBC, have been grossly dishonest in their reporting, serving Israel mass murders of innocent Palestinians (for decades now). I always wonder why. Funding? Big money gifts from Zionists to management? Does Bibi have dirt on them via Pegasus spyware on their cell phones?
On Monday, the US administration announced the freezing of 2.2 billion in grants to Harvard University, one of the most prestigious in the world, after it refused to comply with White House racist, cruel, unjust, pro mass murder, pro weapons industry, inhumane, anti Palestiniandemands.
In his interview with JNS, Mr. Oberman insures that “the policies of the Conservative Party of Canada are clear, precise and very effective.”And is why they lost the 2025 election after sporting a massive lead in the polls, and why Pierre Poilievre, lost his convoy-fucker-trucker-wanna-kill-Trudeau-ass-licking seat
“We will defund universities” , he said in response to a question about what he” plans to do about the explosion of Pro peace, pro humanity, pro justice, anti-genocide and BDS protests and student encampmentsanti-Semitism in Canada” followingIsrael’s and Zionism’s brutal apartheid, land thefts, water contamination, infrastructure (health, education, food, culture, religion, etc) destruction, occupation, open air prison, starvation, thousands of Palestinians (including kids) jailed and raped and tortured without charges over decades, theft of hundreds of billions in Palestinian oil and gas, and Hamas resisting the atrocious crimes by Israel on Oct 7, 2023 — all after Palestinians were kind enough to give Jews a home. the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023.
"Universities will not receive a single penny from the federal government until they clean up their act.
A quote from Neil Oberman, Conservative candidate in Mount RoyalMr. Oberman also said he was in favour of expelling “foreign” students who, according to him, “actively participate in the destruction of minorities and communities” .But not if they are vicious hate-filled violent Israelis destroying minorities and communities, right?
“We will identify them first, then we will enforce the law and then, if a court or other regulatory body decides that they are not in compliance with their [study– permit,Editor’s noteOr their visas, they will be dexagon” , he said toJNS.
In the United States, numerous universities have reported that some of their students’ visas have been revoked. According to US media reports, several hundred students are affected.
Funding for universities in Canada comes from a variety of sources, including the provincial government, federal grants, and tuition fees.
According to a parliamentary report released in December 2024, “each year the Government of Canada spends as: 4.5 trillion to support research at post-secondary institutions across the country” .
“This funding includes grants for the research team, scholarships for the student population, research support funds for institutions as well as programs to improve research infrastructure” , the report further states.
Since the outbreak of the Israeli war in the Gaza Strip, following attacks by Hamas, several university campuses in Canada have been the scene of pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Camps have even been set up there to call on academic institutions to stop investing in arms linked to the Israeli army.
The pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the McGill University campus.
Neil Oberman is a civil and commercial litigation lawyer at Spiegel Sohmer, of which he is shareholder a. Hey represented two students at McGill University in Montreal who sought an injunction to limit pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus .
students Accisades the main groups responsible for the encampment of “creating an aggressive, hateful and violent climate” on campus, saying “do not feel comfortable going to the university” and expressing fear for their safety.
“In March 2024, [Mr. Oberman obtained an injunction order for more than 30 Jewish buildings and institutions to protect them from protests, intimidation, and other threatening acts” , the website states.PCCwhich presents a biography of its candidate.
In its anti-racism strategy, the Government of Canada that “Hamas’s attack on Israel and the Western Israel-Hamas conflict have exacerbated the growing rates of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia reported in recent years” .
“There has been a sharp increase in police-reported hate crimes and incidents targeting places of worship, synagogues, mosques, schools and across communities the country” , the document said.
Mr. Oberman hopes to orst his Liberal rival Anthony Housefather in Mount Royal Riding, which has a large Jewish population.
Mr. Housefather, who has represented this riding since 2015, is the favorite to win the April 28 election, according to polling aggregator 338Canada. He has also been very active in the fight against anti-Semitism in Canada, by especially the outbreak of pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses.
Mr. Housefather led a campaign in December 2023 with four other Liberal MPs, calling on the leaders of 27 Canadian universities to take a position on anti-Semitism . Last July, he was appointed by train Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the government’s special advisor on relations with the Jewish community and combating anti-Semitism.
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Both Mr. Oberman and Mr. Housefather declined or interview request.
Radio-Canada also contacted the Conservative Party of Canada to clarify its position on the issue of university defunding. “In response to your question, as you probably know, post-secondary institutions are largely funded at the provincial level” , party spokesperson Audrey Lepage responds by email.
“Universities have an obligation to ensure the safety of students on their campuses” , added Ms. Lepage.
The spokesperson did not respond to our follow-up question, however, about whether there is a Conservative Government would cut the .4.5 billion in federal grants to support research at post-secondary institutions.
On Wednesday, during a press scrum following the French-language leaders’ debate, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said that foreign nationals visiting Canada “should be expelled from the country” if they are involved in “acts of vandalism” linked to anti-Semitism.No creative DNA in Poilievre, everything he presents is copied from USA Nazis.
“”You just cannot come here and burn down a Jewish bakery or a house, or break windows in a political riot, and expect to stay in the country on a visitor visa” Poilievre said in response to a question from a representative of the far-right activist propaganda/disinformation/bullying racist hate and rage farmeroutlet Rebel News .
In his “Quebec platform” for the current election campaign , the Conservative leader also promised to “fight against woke Ideology.”
“A Conservative Government will end the imposition of woke ideology in the federal public service and in the allocation of federal funds for university research” , the document reads, without further details.KKKopyKKKat peePee
The threat to cut federal funding to universities is also included in the party’s policy statement, but it specifically targets Canadian institutions that “to fail protect freedom of expression as defined by the Charter” .
2025 05 01: @ecomarxi:
The Republicans are arresting people for saying mean things, deporting people who haven’t broken the law, revoking visas, and destroying the constitution — all for Israel.
Is this the Freedom you voted for?
2025 05 01: ‘The process is the punishment’: Assault charge against U of T encampment protester withdrawn — a year later, The Star reported days after the charge was first laid that a video provided by a protester showed a much different interaction than the report filed by university security by Jennifer Pagliaro, Toronto Star
A pro-Palestinian protester charged with assault after a standoff at a University of Toronto encampment has had his charge withdrawn 11 months later.
The Crown dropped the charge against Hesham Aly after he was first charged by Toronto Police in May last year for allegedly approaching a man at the perimeter of the encampment and assaulting him.
The sudden withdrawal came nearly a year after charges were first laid, despite video clearly showing Aly was not the aggressor and almost 10 months after a Superior Court judge found Aly was the one trying to de-escalate the situation, calling the original claims “misleading.”
“I find the whole situation frustrating,” Aly told the Star in an interview. “I believe that the charges weren’t about justice but about silencing dissent and discrediting the encampments.”
The Star reported days after the charge was first laid that a video provided by a protester showed a much different interaction than the report filed by university security.
Video shows U of T encampment incident that sparked assault charge
In the video, Aly is seen standing with his hands in his pockets in front of the fenced-in encampment in support of Palestine, as an older man on a bicycle takes video on his phone, challenging Aly and the protesters about wanting to play football on the campus’ occupied grassy area.
“All your faces are going on artificial intelligence,” the man can be heard saying. “Do you have anything else to say before you take this to another level?”
The helmeted man then tells Aly to “get out of the way” before putting his free arm around Aly and attempting to pull the fence from behind him. Aly then pushes the man away as others move in to intervene. Aly is then seen trying to pull those supporters back.
In July, Superior Court Justice Markus Koehnen made a ruling on an injunction request by the university to end the ongoing encampment.
In it, the judge details several safety complaints by the university, including the incident involving Aly. He describes what the university claimed was a father and son trying to use the area to play football who were assaulted by a protester.
“Bystander video footage demonstrates that this description is inaccurate and misleading,” Koehnen wrote, describing what happened in the video published by the Star.
“On my view of the video, the father was being excluded from Front Campus but it was the father who became physically aggressive and the Marshall who ensured that the situation did not escalate.”
Aly, speaking to the Star, said he’s disappointed that campus security, Toronto Police and the Crown did not investigate what really happened even after video evidence contradicted the initial report that led to his arrest. He said it’s also disheartening to see so many public resources expended to pursue these types of cases, what he said are efforts to dehumanize and criminalize pro-Palestinian voices.
“The process is the punishment,” he said, explaining that police publicizing these arrests is scary, humiliating and can result in serious consequences for those charged.
As for the incident itself, Aly said in the minutes before the video begins he was trying to show the man and his son other fields they could play in, pointing out the encampment area was full of tents, but the man insisted he wanted to be let in.
“I knew that this wasn’t about me,” Aly said.
Aly’s lawyer told the court he hopes similar matters are dealt with more quickly.
Shane Martinez told the judge they were frustrated by the lack of action in Aly’s case with a serious charge hanging over his head despite contradictory evidence. He said it took them threatening to go to trial on the charge for the Crown to back down.
“It feels as though we’re yelling into a void trying to draw attention to these things,” Martinez said in court (The Star requested an official audio recording of the appearance).
Ontario Court Justice Feroza Bhabha said she agreed with Martinez that the wheels of justice needed to move faster.
“I’m with you on that,” she responded after Martinez’s comments in court.
“These decisions need to be made sooner rather than later.”
Earlier this month, the last of 11 people charged in an incident that saw a downtown Indigo store defaced with posters and red paint were discharged without criminal records — 17 months after the alleged vandalism took place.
None of the so-called “Indigo 11” were convicted on the charges against them, with the majority having the charges dropped entirely.
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