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[Areefa @AreefaEh]

There will always be things
but
There won't always be time

[Elizabeth May @ElizabethMay]

Canada has lost a champion for human rights, climate and justice. I was honoured to work with #StephenLewis. Love and condolences to his whole family. Such a bittersweet day so soon after @AviLewis win. #RIPStephen

[Jewish Voice @jewishvoicelive]

Iran is not an enemy of Jews or Judaism, but Zionism and Israel are the eternal enemies of the Jews.

[Tenzing Lamsang @TenzingLamsang]

No country in the world has killed more journalists in the last few years than Israel.

253 as of 26th March and now two more.

[Areefa @AreefaEh]

The land, the seas, oceans, rivers, lakes, the entire Earth, the moon, the planets, the stars, the sun all belong and bow to God.
You, dear mortal, are but a temporary caretaker!
#standforjustice #bewarefalsegods

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

Israel closes the Holy Sepulcher for the first time in the history of Christianity. This never happened in 1200 years under Muslim rule.

[Yaqeen Institute @yaqeeninstitute]

They tell you that your enemy lives next door, that it’s immigrants who are threatening your culture and success.

Meanwhile, you’re one medical bill from bankruptcy, one layoff from homelessness, and too exhausted to question any of it.

But maybe the people they’re pointing at aren’t your real enemies.

Watch more Snapshots with Imam Tom Facchine: https://t.co/2HLPdzaL1R

[Yipeng Ge 葛义朋 @yipengGe]

Canada writes these statements, but continue to supply Israel with weapons via the United States, and continues to buy weapons from Israel. Always performance and never real action.

[Idris @7signxx]

Never forget...

"Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who kept Kamal Adwan Hospital open as Israeli forces invaded northern Gaza, has now been imprisoned for a full year without charge. “A full year of injustice has passed,” his family says. He remains in Israeli custody under a law allowing indefinite detention without trial, along with at least 95 other Palestinian healthcare workers still detained by Israeli authorities, including 80 from Gaza and 15 from the West Bank."

©dropsitenews

[Areefa @AreefaEh]

I genuinely feel sorry for the multitude of people, whose hearts are so obscure, that they'd rather spend the non-refundable minutes of their life displaying their ignorance, rather than challenging their assumptions. #dontbelieveeverythingyouthink

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Doctors are manually operating ventilators in order to keep babies alive in Cuba.

The U.S. is laying siege cruelly cut off all fuel, power is out, leaving hospitals without electricity. Dialysis patients, babies in NICU, and others will die. This’s a crime against humanity.

[Tenzing Lamsang @TenzingLamsang]

Western media has gone blind, deaf & mute on two big stories:

1)A respected Palestinian doctor gang raped to death by Israeli soldiers who went free &were treated as heroes

2)18-month- old baby tortured with cigarette burns & nail being shoved into his leg by Israeli soldiers.

[Global Insight Journal @GlobalIJournal]

🇮🇷 Iranian woman:

"I have never joined national rallies before, but now it’s a different matter! If necessary, I will take up arms and go fight."

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

A video posted on social media shows an Israeli woman dancing while waving knives and chanting “the people of Israel live”, as sirens sound following rockets fired from Iran.

The incident took place in the city of Beersheba, where the woman was reportedly arrested after being tackled by security forces.

[Misan Harriman @misanharriman]

The story of a baby being tortured SHOULD be headline news everywhere, right?

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

No child should have to stand in line like this just to eat while billions are spent on war.

[Areefa @AreefaEh]

@ireallyhateyou Who is his God - Pharoah? This psychopath cannot claim that's a "religious approach".

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

I was asked just before Shabbat to provide a personal statement which a lawyer will draft into an affidavit to block the Zionist request for an injunction to block the Al Quds Day rally in Toronto tomorrow. Because this is one of my communities here, I want to share here what I wrote:
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I am Rabbi David Mivasair, a 74-year-old retired Canadian rabbi currently residing in Hamilton, Ontario. I served for nearly 25 years as the spiritual leader of two Vancouver synagogues, as a spiritual care provider for the Fraser Health Authority in British Columbia and the chaplain of the largest homeless shelter in British Columbia about fifteen years ago. I am a member of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association. I also hold a Master of Social Work degree and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Divinity.
I have lived in Israel for four years and have returned a number of times to support the work on the ground there for peace and justice for everyone living in that land. I speak, read and write Hebrew and have been directly, personally involved with Israel and Palestine for well over fifty years.
I am very aware of real antisemitism in our society. And, I am very aware of the intentional misuse of accusations of antisemitism for political reasons in our society as well.
I am directly, personally familiar with the Al Quds Day rally in Toronto. I was a speaker at the Al Quds Day rally on April 15, 2023. I was invited by the organizers to speak at the rally as a rabbi, as exactly who I am. I am a Jew, a rabbi and, at this time in my life, I am an anti-Zionist, which is a perfectly legitimate position for anyone to hold on the question of Israel and Palestine.
When I spoke at the Al Quds Day rally in 2023, other rabbis spoke there as well, as they do every year. Like me, they are also anti-Zionist Jews. None of us are anti-Jewish or antisemitic in any way. That is a preposterous proposition.
Zionist organizations promote the belief that the Al Quds Day rally is antisemitic in order to shut down the public expression of completely legitimate political speech.
There is absolutely no danger to any Jews anywhere because of what is said and done at the Al Quds Day rally. No one there expresses any intention to hurt any Jews in any way. There is no advocacy of violence.
At the Al Quds Day rally there are calls for the elimination of the State of Israel. I myself make those calls. The State of Israel is a thoroughly racist endeavor which was founded on the expulsion and elimination of the majority of the Palestinian population of Palestine in 1948. It continues at the present to enforce on Palestinians over whom it rules a regime which most objective observers agree is accurately described as apartheid. And even at this very time, the State of Israel is conducting war crimes and what is determined by most experts to be a genocide against Palestinians. Calls for the elimination of the State of Israel are calls for it to be replaced by a state in which all are equal, just as in Canada. The elimination of the State of Israel is not synonymous with the elimination of or any harm to the Jewish population in Israel or any Jews anywhere in any way. It is simply the call for Jews in Israel to end their regime of ethnically-based domination and extreme inequality.
Any claim of feeling fear by any Jews with regard to Al Quds Day, if it is in fact sincere and real, is because of their own intense identification with the State of Israel and their feeling that they will be harmed if the State of Israel ceases to exist. People feel fear for many reasons. Not all fear, which is a subjective emotion, actually correlates to any real threat. The feelings of fear expressed by some Jews regarding the Al Quds Day rally have no basis in anything at all that anyone says or does at that rally. Those feelings are simply their feelings. That does not mean that there is any actual, external reason for them to feel fear. Although there is strong rhetoric against the State of Israel, there is absolutely no threat to Jews. Claims by some Jews to feel fear need to be assessed in light of the reality that there is in fact no threat or danger to them. The subjective feelings of some people are not a basis on which to deny the charter rights of others.

[Mrs Kensington @Londonlife44]

@Fidias0

[Fidias Panayiotou @Fidias0]

Why Israel Keeps Getting Into Wars

[Areefa @AreefaEh]

You cannot serve two masters
#pitythefool