Benjamin Berman

Canadian politico. Pragmatic progressive. Fascinated and frightened by human behaviour in the age of social media | Views expressed = my own ✌

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

An Israeli sniper killed a UN worker on the roof of his home in the northern West Bank...Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, a sanitation worker with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, was the first UNRWA employee killed in the West Bank in more than a decade." https://t.co/jPAeyT6KRn

[Gideon Levy @gideonle]

Israelis must ask themselves if they're willing to live in a country that lives on blood https://t.co/wROUh5PfHo.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Propaganda Reality

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

Not a single body was whole. These people were praying in a shelter. May they rest in eternal peace and never suffer again, and may those who support this never sleep in peace again.

Via @AJEnglish

[Dan Sheehan @danpjsheehan]

More than 100 hungry, grieving, traumatized souls, blown apart while performing dawn prayers together in a school sheltering displaced people.

Like their lives meant nothing.
Like they were nothing.

[Jewish Voice for Peace @jvplive]

Early Saturday morning Israeli forces massacred over 100 people as they rose for prayer. The attack targeted hundreds of displaced Palestinian refugees who were seeking shelter at a school. 🧵

[Mark Stone @Stone_SkyNews]

It is objectively the case that this moment of mass killing (like so many before it) clearly crosses all red lines & policy statements ⁦@JoeBiden⁩ has made.
Every time, @StateDept⁩ calls for restraint, investigations. Until the next one. https://t.co/fA9SIBM1R2

[Abier @abierkhatib]

This is what "peace" without justice looks like.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Gaza: In the largest and most shameful concentration camp of the 21st century, Israel is genociding the Palestinians one neighborhood at the time, one hospital at the time, one school at the time, one refugee camp at the time, one 'safe zone' at the time. With US and European weapons. And amid the indifference of all "civilised nations".

May the Palestinians forgive us for our collective inability to protect them, honoring the most basic meaning of intl law.

[Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib]

Bombing a school is a war crime under international humanitarian law. Period.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Netanyahu’s standing ovation in Congress.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Former Israeli military chiefs of staff and Mossad directors (people who can't be dismissed as antisemites) tell Congress that "Netanyahu poses an existential threat to the State of Israel" because he is now fighting the war in Gaza for himself, not Israeli security interests.

[Alon-Lee Green - ألون-لي جرين - אלון-לי גרין 🟣 @AlonLeeGreen]

This is the real story of Israel: While Netanyahu gives a smug ass speech in congress - Carmit Palty Katzir, who's father & brother were murdered on October 7th and her mom kidnapped, is arrested by Capitol Police for wearing a shirt demanding Netanyahu to "Seal the deal"

[Benjamin Berman @Ben_Berman]

Netanyahu is the first sitting Israeli prime minister to face court as a defendant.

One of the main reasons Netanyahu wants the genocidal ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza to continue is so he can stay in power and not face justice.

[Benjamin Berman @Ben_Berman]

The charges against Netanyahu in Israel:

Case 1000 - fraud/breach of trust: allegations that Netanyahu and his wife received lavish presents from prominent Israeli Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan and Israeli/Australian billionaire James Packer in return for political favours

[Benjamin Berman @Ben_Berman]

Case 4000 - fraud, breach of trust, and bribery: indicts Netanyahu for granting regulatory favours to Israel’s leading telecommunications company, Bezeq Telecom Israel, in return for positive coverage of him and his wife on a news website controlled by Bezeq’s former chairman

[Alon-Lee Green - ألون-لي جرين - אלון-לי גרין 🟣 @AlonLeeGreen]

Dear Americans, please remember before his speech: Netanyahu is a liar, a war criminal, a person that is not only oppressing the Palestinians, but also holds the entire people of Israel in a prison of bloodshed and never ending war & occupation.

He does not speak in our name.

[עומדים ביחד نقف معًا Standing Together🟣 @omdimbeyachad]

The Israeli military’s demand for the 250,000 Gaza city residents to evacuate the area is insanity. People are choosing between the risk of aerial bombardment, live fire, starvation, dehydration or disease. These are not real choices - there is no safe place to go in Gaza.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

"Israeli-made weapons designed to spray high levels of shrapnel are causing horrific injuries to civilians in Gaza" especially children, say foreign surgeons in Gaza. The weapons cause "many of the deaths, amputations and life changing wounds to children." https://t.co/Lc1Urqh1Aa