1588 Map of Palestina in Library of Congress:
1912 Map in Library of Congress of Palestine in the time of Jesus, 4 B.C. – 30 A.D. : (including the period of Herod, 40 – 4 B.C.):
@MosabAbuToha:
November 2, 1917
And the “days after”
Shame on humanity!!!
“… it being clearly understood …”
“… it being clearly understood …”
Pg 13 from Will Koop’s report:
Abella, for the longest time, is a recognized defender of human rights and of freedom of expression. In monumental juxtaposition, here is the opening quote from her speech, Judicial Independence, Democracy and Human Rights, presented at the Minerva Center for Human Rights symposium, University of Jerusalem, Israel, on April 9, 2018:
It is 70 years since Israel was born, 70 years since the values in the declaration of independence were articulated. It is also the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Genocide Conventions, and the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht. All of these, and the fact that we observe Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday, form the backdrop to this lecture on judicial independence.
It is always a privilege for us to come to Israel, to see how it has flourished and to see the way, over the years, it has been a luminous symbol of how democracy can thrive under pressure. I first came to Israel in 1965 after my first year of university. I came because I had family here, but mostly I came because I was Jewish and wanted to see for myself how this miracle of a country had created a democratic oasis in the desert. Over the years, I came back again and again. Israel was an emotional magnet and an inspiration. Above all, Israel was a judicial beacon. I have been a judge for 42 years, and one of the things I grew to be over the last several decades, with each visit to Israel, was a judicial ambassador for the judiciary of Israel. The Israeli judiciary’s tenacious loyalty to principles of democracy and Jewish values – concepts which for me are symmetrical and symbolic, even under internal and external siege – made them heroic in the eyes of judges all over the world.
Pg 589 and 590 from Will Koop’s report:
As Zionists around the world were celebrating the 76th anniversary of the occupier State, Maureen Murphy, in her May 27 instalment for Electronic Intifada, Israeli strike on Rafah kills dozens of displaced Palestinians, commented that “observers” of the on-line genocide “around the world reeled in horror,” reporting that UNRWA officials stated that “Gaza is hell on earth:” “attacking women and children while they cower in their shelters in Rafah is a monstrous atrocity.” “More than 36,000 people have been killed in Gaza since 7 October, and more than 81,000 injured, though the actual number of fatalities is likely much higher, with thousands of people missing under the rubble of destroyed buildings.” Forensic estimates of the murdered Palestinians by in a July 10, 2024, article, published in the Lancet, put the actual figure close to 200,000! Murphy also reported that “Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, implied that Israel’s self-investigations were a “sham” in his announcement on Monday that he is seeking arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Yoav Gallant and three Hamas leaders.” Israel’s war cabinet would soon hunt down and murder 2 of “three Hamas leaders.” Prime Minister Netanyahu, later officially registered by the ICC as a war criminal, would be welcomed by American federal politicians and permitted to make an address to Congress, receiving 58 standing ovations, an unspeakable spectacle!
Within this context of Israel’s genocide week 34, with Palestinians burned alive, under a cloak of shameless ‘business as usual,’ Rosalie Abella approached the podium at Tel Aviv University to make a 24-minute presentation:
“I have always felt very lucky to be able to come to Israel and to visit Israel. And never more than now.
… I want to start by saying a few words about Irwin. Irwin has shown that not only can one person make a difference; he can make all the difference in the world. Irwin is what happens when someone with a profound commitment to his Jewishness weaves the visceral influences of its culture and history into a crusade of tolerance for everyone. …
And using only the finest ingredients he donates this energetic magic selflessly and brilliantly to everything he does and everyone he loves, turning all
of it and all of us into something better than we thought possible. Those of us who have had the privilege of being up close and personal to Irwin Cotler know where he gets the fuel to keep him and the rest of us in perpetual, positive and joyful motion. … Irwin’s whole life is a monument of optimistic humanism and courageous tenacity, and he’s living proof that when the right person is bending it, the long arc of the moral universe does bend towards justice.
FFS! Irwin, thank you for being the illuminated inspiration who helps the rest of us see. And thank you for all you have done, all you’re doing, and all you will do for justice in the world. This magnificent Institute which bears your name is just the latest in a long line of institutional tributes to your unique leadership. Long may it and you last. I want to talk today about a subject that has magnetized Irwin’s professional interests for decades. Not only because it is at the defining heart of Irwin’s passion for justice but because it is at the defining heart of the world’s hope for humanity. And I’m speaking about international human rights law.”
“So, let’s go back to the beginning, to the origin of the species we call modern international human rights law, not only to understand what we evolved from but also to understand what we’ve evolved into. Human rights in our lifetime cannot be understood without understanding their conceptual proximity to the Holocaust. The genocide convention and the spiritual symbolling, the universal Declaration of Human Rights whose 75th anniversary we celebrated last year, where the wings of the phoenix that rose from the ashes of Auschwitz and roared their outrage. They were the powerful legal “Israel is a democracy, a Jewish state with democratic values.”
Quote from Rosalie Abella, April 16, 2023, 92nd Y Street event, New York, YouTube, “Three Supreme Court Justices on Israel’s Judicial Overhaul.”
Israel’s authorities deplore Shahak. But there is not much to be done with a retired professor of chemistry who was born in Warsaw in 1933 and spent his childhood in the concentration camp at Belsen. In 1945, he came to Israel; served in the Israeli military … He was – and still is – a humanist who detests imperialism whether in the names of the God of Abraham or of George Bush. Equally, he opposes with great wit and learning the totalitarian strain in Judaism.
The reason that Israel, defined by Israeli laws as a “Jewish State,” can never be understood as a democracy, is because of its “discrimination” and practice “exclusivity.”
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Abella issues rule of law rallying cry, ‘If we judges and lawyers don’t protect justice, then democracy doesn’t have a chance’ by Holly Lake 4 Nov. 2025, National Magazine
Former Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella’s life began in a country where there was no democracy, no rights, and no justice.
It created an unquenchable thirst in her for all three.
She was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1946, after the Second World War, during which her parents spent more than three years in concentration camps. Her brother, just two, and her father’s parents and three younger brothers were all killed at Treblinka. Her father was the only person in his family to survive the war.
No one with this history does not feel lucky to be alive and free, nor do they take anything for granted.
“You cannot be born in the shadow of the Holocaust, to two Jews who survived it, without an exaggerated commitment to the pursuit of justiceso that’s why Abella enables mass murder of innocent women and kids? WTF. You cannot grow up indifferent to a just rule of law when every adult you love experienced a horror of its subversion,” Abella said.They you ought to be condeming genocidal Israel, not praising and helping it, fucking lying hypocrite
“And no one with this history does not feel that lawyers have a particular duty to promise our children that we will do everything humanly possible to keep the world fairer for them than it was for their grandparents — a world where all children, regardless of race, colour, religion or gender, can wear their identities with dignity, in pride and in peace.” But, you were happy to lie in your ruling in Ernst v AER, and shit on Canada’s charter and rule of law. Douche!
Supporting and enabling Israel’s genocide sure wins lots of law awards! Grossly inhumane, but explains why Israel gets away with decades of brualizing Palestinians and stealing their lands and resources (hundreds of billions in oil and gas). As she accepted the Benjamin B. Ferencz Rule of Law Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Bar Association conference in Toronto this week, Abella told those gathered that while she is very proud to be a member of the legal profession, she’s never forgotten why she joined it.Ya, use me, my suffering, and lawsuit to shit on Canada’s charter, and defame me, make shit up out of her award winning ass to keep Israel frac’ing strong.
The award is named after the chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trialsYou gotta be fucking kidding me. This is vile abuse of power and the law, but I supposed necessary propaganda to keep Israel’s genocide going strong and con the world into looking away.who was just 27 at the time, and who championed replacing the “rule of force with the rule of law.” He went on to become a scholar and architect of the International Criminal Court.
Abella said he not only believed in world peace, he spent his life trying to figure out how to make it happen because of what he had witnessed at the German concentration camps he helped liberate.
“Having my name linked with Ben Ferencz, with the rule of law and with the International Bar Association, not only brings all of the pieces of my life together, it explains it because it links me with the aspirational international collaboration of law, lawyers and judges at Nuremberg,” she said.
“Who I am, what I am, what I believe in, what I hope for all start there.”
‘At a crossroads’
To honour Ferencz’s legacy, her speech was a tribute “to the role of law, the rule of law and the inspirational lawyers and judges who promoted and protected it at Nuremberg.”
At times emotional, it also served as a rallying cry to stand up and protect the rule of law, given the threat it faces in many parts of the world today.
“We are at a crossroads in so many ways, and the choices we will make as lawyers, as a profession, will determine not only how history will judge us, but what kind of world we will have,” she said.Yup, Abella shows to enable and support mass murder of babies, kids and women. Douche Fucker Liar Genocidaire!
“To me, lawyers are democracy’s warriors because lawyers represent the best hope that justice will be protected.”I’ve never seen more law violators and liars than lawyers and judges! My lawsuit experiences, reading that the law society licences known convicted pedophiles to practice law and get protected access to rape kids, and reading the many cases where judges let off convicted rapists to protect their futures while abusing the victims taught me there is no justice system in Canada, there is a very expensive legal-judicial industry that is run by the Patriarchy.
This month marks the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Nuremberg trials held by Allied forces to prosecute prominent leaders in Nazi Germany. Abella said along with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the trials were “the phoenixes that rose from the ashes of Auschwitz.” They represented the global consensus that there were to be no more human rights abuses — that what happened to Jews would never happen again to anyone.
“Nuremberg was the legal engine that exposed, held accountable and defined the bedrock principles for a future in which justice would be protected and directed by a new global legal regime,” she said.
“We made a commitment then to humanity that we would protect the world from inhumanity, and that the protection of rights, which is at the heart of democracy, is a sacred trust.” Abella lies and lies and lies and lies. Perfect Zionist, lying seems to be what they do best, after supporting Israel mass murdering Palestinians.
Millions of people died in the Second World War because they didn’t have rights, while millions of others died fighting to make sure the rest of the world got them.
Lessons the world hasn’t learned
Abella said the world was supposed to learn three lessons from Nuremberg. First, that indifference is the incubator of injustice. Second, that it’s not just what you stand for, it’s what you stand up for. And finally, that we must never forget how the world looks to those who are vulnerable.Palestinians excluded? Abella is a fucking genocide-enabling fraud.
However, we still haven’t learned the most important lesson, which is to try to prevent rights abuses in the first place.
While lawyers tend to take some comfort in the possibility of a subsequent judicial reckoning, such as what occurred at Nuremberg, Abella asked whether subsequent justice is an adequate substitute for justice. Even if Abella had not been told to or chose to lie about me, and not been the swing judge that killed my lawsuit, and even if I had been allowed to sue AER for violating my charter rights (a right guaranteed to me under the charter), the case would have gone on for decades, likely never would have ended before I died, all the while living with frac’d and life threatening drinking water. Some fucking “justice.” The water supply got frac’d illegally by Encana, never to recover. Justice – Caveman Canada Rape Enabling style.
As she sees it, the current gap between the values the international community articulates and the values it enforces is so wide that almost any country that wants to can push its abuses through it. Ya, and Abella aid those abuses with her rose tinted love of genocide by Israel.
No national abuser seems to worry whether there will be a Nuremberg trial later, because usually there isn’t. And by the time there is, all the damage that was sought to be done has already been done. In too many parts of the world, Abella said, there are no regrets, no tolerance, no justice and no hope.
“They’re putting the rest of the world in danger because intolerance, the world’s fastest growth industry, seeks, in its hegemonic insularity, to impose its intolerant truth on others.”
And yet all too often, we’re reluctant to call intolerant countries that abuse their citizens to account, and hide behind silencing concepts like cultural relativism, domestic sovereignty or root causes.
“These are concepts that excuse injustice,” she said.
“Silence in the face of injustice means injustice wins.”
We’re trapped in a frenetically fluid, rhetorically tempestuous, ideologically polarized and economically myopic discourse that is clamouring for our attention. She worries the ideals of fairness and justice that have guided her all her life are under siege, and about the lack of consensus about what justice, truth, or democracy mean, or what law is for.
“Too often, law and justice are in a dysfunctional relationship. We’re in a mean-spirited, moral, free-for-all that puts us at the edge of a future unlike any I’ve seen in my lifetime,” Abella said.
A disregard for democratic norms
Instead of learning the horrendous cost of discrimination from the Second World War, “we’re forgetting our compassion and penalizing the vulnerable in the world.”Ya, most especially Muslims/Arabs, enabled by Unjust Zionist Abella!
“The lawyer in me is watching, in heartbreak, the Cavalier disregard in so many parts of the world for rudimentary democratic norms, for settled expectations of decency and for human and civil rights.”
Knowing that the world did nothing to speak out about the insidious and ultimately genocidal rise in anti-semitism, revelling in the Allies’ triumph over it and the chance to grow up in a world whose moral guardrails were found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and understanding that experiencing the helpless vulnerability of being different, obliged us to protect others who were different, Abella says has driven everything she’s done in her life. fucking liar.
“It’s the way I pay tribute to the resilience of my parents and the other survivors.”
As she sees it, collectively, we need to stop yelling at each other and start listening to reclaim ownership of our civility, humility, dignity, and the liberal democratic values the Allies fought for and won the war to protect, as well as ownership of our right to be different.
I fully agree and remain waiting for my public apology from Abella for her defaming me, and shitting our charter and the rule of law in her ruling in Ernst vs AER, and for her enabling Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.
“Above all, we need to replace global hate with global hope.”What? With lying lawyers and lying judges and boast fests like this conference to broadcast pro genocidal racist lying abuses and horrors?
The noblest profession
Abella grew emotional as she spoke of her father, a lawyer who was denied the ability to practice in Canada when the family arrived here in May 1950 because he wasn’t a citizen.
“My father died in March of 1970, a month before I finished law school. He didn’t live to see his inspiration take flight in his daughter, or in her two sons who followed in his footsteps,” she said. I always wonder if the sons lie like their mum and if they are racist Zionists too?
“But not before he taught me that being a lawyer was the noblest thing you could be, and that democracies and their laws represent the best possibility of justice.”pffft. there is no such thing as justice where Homo naziens is concerned.
Abella said justice is the gift that keeps right on giving, propelling her from a displaced persons camp in Germany to become the first Jewish woman of the Supreme Court of Canada.
“Democracy does not just depend on the will of the people, but on their humanity. If we judges and lawyers don’t protect justice, then democracy doesn’t have a chance.”Then why the hell are there so many Muslim/Arab hating, Zionist, pro mass murder, pro mass starvation and rape, pro stealing, pro violating international law judges and lawyers in the rich white western world?
@academic_la:
I grew up in Israel. I was educated there. Served it. Studied it. Taught about it. No one knows it better than I do. And there is no doubt. It was built on racism and the destruction of the Palestinian people.
@AdameMedia:
Jeffrey Epstein officially worked for the Israeli government.
Leaked emails show Epstein arranged talks between the Israel and Cote d’Ivoire that culminated in the signing of a formal defense agreement in 2014.
Epstein laid the groundwork for a deal that helped flood Cote d’Ivoire with Israeli surveillance tech.
@MosabAbuToha Nov 7:
Complicit and guilty.
@AssalRad:
The Biden admin knew all along that Israel was committing war crimes. Biden and Blinken especially are unrepentant war criminals.
Their legacy and Abella’sis genocide.
@MosabAbuToha Nov 5:
On October 29, 2025, Israeli terrorist forces carried out terrorist airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, breaking the ceasefire and killing more than 120 Palestinian civilians, including over 50 children and 20 women.
Among the victims were two children from the al-Bureij refugee camp — Massa and Shabaan Eid — along with their father, Mohammad. Their mother, Maiy Ziyara, was critically injured in the attack. Yesterday, November 4, she succumbed to her wounds.
IBA opens annual conference with fervent defence of the rule of law, More than 5,000 delegates attend conference, held this year in Toronto, as keynote address highlights gap between values the international community articulates and those it enforces by Ben Edwards, Nov 3, 2025, The Global Legal Post
International Bar Association (IBA) President Jaime Carey was among the speakers welcoming more than 5,000 delegates at the IBA 2025 Annual Conference in Toronto yesterday evening.
Carey reflected on the close ties between his home country Chile and Canada, as well as themes around the rule of law, diversity and inclusion, and artificial intelligence. Carey’s speech was followed by the presentation of the Benjamin Berell Ferencz Rule of Law Lifetime Achievement Award to Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella, a former judge at the Supreme Court of Canada.
Abella then delivered the ceremony’s keynote address, in which she delivered a powerful and at times emotional speech that was part tribute to the rule of law and part call to action against the dangers the rule of law is facing today around the world.
In receiving her Rule of Law award, she paid tribute to Nuremberg prosecutor Ferencz and how Nuremberg was the legal engine to protect the world from inhumanity. Abella drew parallels between indifference to the rule of law today and how the world stood by and watched Hitler’s treatment of Jewish people in the run up to World War II with indifference.
She said: “At the moment, the gap between the values the international community articulates and the values it enforces is so wide that almost any country that wants to, can push its abuses through it… In too many parts of the world, there are no regrets, no tolerance, no justice and no hope, and those parts of the world are putting the rest of the world in danger because intolerance, the world’s fastest growth industry, seeks, in its hegemonic insularity, to impose its intolerant truth on others.”
She said we need to replace “global hate with global hope, otherwise there is no hope”.
Other speakers included former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde, who was introduced by IBA Host Committee co-chairs Karen Sargeant and Shane Freitag. Bellegarde discussed the rights of indigenous people and the challenges they face when it comes to the rule of law.
He acknowledged that Canada is now starting to recognise indigenous peoples’ rights and claims to justice, but he warned there was a danger that if those efforts were not sincere, then they would become hollow.
Bellegarde’s speech was followed by a ceremonial welcome from Elder Kevin Myran and The All Nations Juniors, who performed a traditional drum dance.
Justice, diversity and human rights lead IBA 2025 opening by Noemi Distefano, November 03 2025, IFLR
Around 5,000 lawyers gather in Toronto this week as the IBA opens its doors for a landmark global conference
The International Bar Association has welcomed around 5,000 lawyers, judges, academics, in-house counsel, and public-interest advocates from across the globe to its 2025 annual conference in Toronto.
Hosted yesterday, November 2, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, the opening ceremony combined cultural recognition with a clear call to action on justice, human rights, and advancing diversity within the global legal profession.
Chief Perry Bellegarde, former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, opened the evening by acknowledging the Indigenous peoples whose lands encompass Canada.
He highlighted the presence of 639 First Nations and more than 70 tribes and languages, reflecting on the structural barriers Indigenous communities have historically faced. Bellegarde reminded delegates that between 1927 and 1951, it was “illegal for an Indian to pursue legal counsel and have access to lawyers”, emphasising the long struggle for legal rights.
“Even after 1951, when it became possible for our people to access the court system, we faced the challenges that most judges had very little understanding of our peoples and little or no training in the legal basis for our claims,” he recalled.
Bellegarde noted that Indigenous people have actively engaged with international law to address the effects of colonialism and systemic discrimination, using global human rights systems to have their perspectives heard without bias.
“I’m very proud of the way Indigenous people have been able to bring international law back to the domestic sphere, because now all the laws in Canada have to get in line with the United Nations Declaration,” he continued, highlighting its role as a framework for reconciliation in Canada and beyond.
Guardians of justice
The ceremony continued with an address from IBA president Jaime Carey, who framed the conference around the global responsibility of the legal profession.
Carey described the gathering as an opportunity to “share ideas, challenge assumptions, build networks and renew our commitment to the rule of law and justice in an even more complex world”.
He emphasised that lawyers, judges, academics, and public-interest advocates are “stewards of institutions, guardians of rights, and intermediaries between power and people everywhere”, carrying responsibilities that extend beyond individual clients or cases.
Carey warned that the rule of law faces pressures worldwide.
“It is under strain from populist pressures, authoritarian backsliding and crises that test institutional resilience,” he said, urging that defending law as a formal ideal is insufficient.
Justice must be tangible, he added: “We must ensure that justice is real and accessible, that courts, legal services and institutions reach the marginalised, the vulnerable and the powerless.”
He also highlighted IBA initiatives addressing these challenges. On technology, Carey noted that AI is “reshaping how we practise law, how evidence is gathered, how disputes are resolved and how rights are protected or threatened.
“The key question is: how do we harness innovation without sacrificing accountability, fairness, transparency or dignity?” he continued. “We need robust frameworks, professional standards and cross-jurisdictional dialogue to ensure AI augments justice rather than erodes it.”
On diversity, he added that “true inclusion is not tokenism, it is integration, power sharing and continuous reflection”, pointing to IBA programmes advancing equity and leadership for underrepresented groups.
Carey finished with a call to collective action: “May the rule of law always have its champions among us, may justice find new pathways, may our diversity strengthen and not divide.”
Life achievements
The ceremony concluded with a speech and Q&A by Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella, winner of the 2025 IBA Benjamin B Ferencz Rule of Law Lifetime Achievement Award. Abella, the first Jewish woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, was praised for her “remarkable career, trailblazing achievements and dedication to the rule of law as the cornerstone of just societies”.
In her address, she reflected on the profession’s responsibilities, stating that “lawyers are democracy’s warriors”, and underscored the importance of justice beyond the letter of the law: “We need the rule of justice, not just the rule of law. We need to put justice back in charge, and to do that, we need to put compassion back in the service of law and law in the service of humanity.”Lots of nice words, not put into action by Abella when she was judge, and afterwards, notably her trips to genocidal Israel!
Sunday’s opening ceremony set a determined tone for the week ahead, placing justice, inclusion, and the defence of the rule of law at the centre of this year’s IBA agenda.
Noemi joined the IFLR team in 2024. An award-winning journalist, she previously worked as a reporter and podcast host at IR Magazine. Her earlier roles include reporting for Newtrade Media and Shephard Media. Noemi holds a Master’s degree in journalism from Edinburgh Napier University.
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