Policy & researcher in the labour movement. Socialist. Anti-Zionist Jew. Views expressed are my own.
Sep 7 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This episode of @FrontBurnerCBC should go down as one of the most important interviews in the history of 🇨🇦’s public broadcaster. @UNICEF’s John Elder details his 1st-hand account of the world’s 1st live-streamed genocide, w/ an agonizing focus on Gaza’s children. A brief 🧵
.@jayme_poisson asks Elder, who has worked in war zones for 20 years, how Gaza compares. He says: “I have never ever seen that physical destruction to the level of Gaza and I’ve certainly never seen the physical devastation to children’s bodies on a scale that I’ve seen in Gaza.”
Apr 10 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Going through boxes from my parents’ storage, I stumbled upon a school project I did at the Jewish day school I attended for 9 years. It’s from either 1999 or 2000 & is very disturbing. A 🧵 about Zionist indoctrination of Jewish children outside 🇮🇱. Pics of the project below 👇
The project was called “a Project in Honour of the State of Israel” & the drawing was the cover. As you can see, it shows all of historic Palestine as being Israel, w/ a total erasure of the West Bank & Gaza. It’s no wonder I never heard the word Palestine until high school.
Sep 26, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
CORRECTION: anti-genocide protestors are targeting an event recruiting volunteers for an army of a country the World Court believes is plausibly committing genocide, & which executes a system of apartheid as identified by the world’s and 🇮🇱’s leading human rights orgs. 1/4
It’s a travesty that @JewishOttawa & the JCC deems it appropriate for a space dedicated to Jewish communal life to be used for such horrifically unethical purposes. This 4th generation Jewish Ottawan who was raised on that campus says mazel tov to anyone protesting this. 2/4
Jul 11, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Joe is banking on us not reading this report. The data he cites simply isn't in it. I'm confident he never read it. While I don't agree w/ a lot of the authour's framings & assumptions, here are some findings Joe wouldn't want you to see. A brief-ish 🧵
The report concludes that for most individuals & most groups, anti-Zionism isn't antisemitism (despite @CIJAinfo, @AHousefather, @DeborahLyonsSE & @Arturmaks' racist claim that it is). Most critics of 🇮🇱 in 🇨🇦 don't have negative attitudes toward Jews.
Jan 28, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
My MP, @SophieChatel1, blocked me directly after replying to my thread & releasing the statement below. I just discovered she unblocked me so I proceeded to unblock her back. Now that I can see her comments & weigh in, here it goes. Thanks in advance for replying, Sophie. 🧵 1/7
Sophie: u make a blanket statement that the IDF “aim at Hamas infrastructure and members". But we spoke about my wife’s family whose neighbour’s house was directly targeted despite not being Hamas infrastructure & the family of 14 inside not being Hamas members. Any thoughts? 2/7
Oct 29, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
After an in-person meeting, phone conversations, texts & email exchanges, I’ve given up on my MP @SophieChatel1 condemning the murder of my wife's uncle, cousin and his two-year-old daughter by Israel, or taking any principled stand against the #Gaza_Genocide. 📷1/9
I met w/ Chatel a week and a half ago for over an hour, w/ @AliEhsassi joining partway through. Both Liberal MPs serve on the House of Commons foreign affairs committee, so their voices carry weight. Both refuse to call for a ceasefire despite agreeing w/ my points in private 2/9
