🏳️‍🌈 Dr. Hershl Berman 🏳️‍🌈

Proud father of two wonderful children. Palliative Care Physician. I do not tolerate antisemites. Proud to be ✡️

[🏳️‍🌈 Dr. Hershl Berman 🏳️‍🌈 @BermanPCMD]

To those who would define me - a 🧵

[🏳️‍🌈 Dr. Hershl Berman 🏳️‍🌈 @BermanPCMD]

Recently some people have decided that it’s ok for them to spread political messages at concerts and other public venues

Here are my thoughts about that:

https://t.co/a4LGZiKzhb

[🏳️‍🌈 Dr. Hershl Berman 🏳️‍🌈 @BermanPCMD]

With respect

Given that the current Mayor has turned Toronto’s streets and public spaces into venues for hate parties, how do you support someone who has helped Toronto become an international symbol of intolerance?

[Progress Toronto @progresstoronto]

We don’t agree with Nick Kouvalis on much, but we do agree politicians need to have principles and that Brad Bradford has none.

Brad went from a progressive who voted to defund the police to courting MAGA supporters. Why should you trust his word?

Listen to Kouvalis yourself ⬇️

[🏳️‍🌈 Dr. Hershl Berman 🏳️‍🌈 @BermanPCMD]

@CheriDiNovo Olivia helped to turn our streets into hate parties (costing us millions of dollars that could have gone towards the remaining potholes)

For all his shortcomings, Brad has been an ally to an oppressed minority and will not tolerate racism under his watch

https://t.co/aOVr7VPIPI

[🏳️‍🌈 Dr. Hershl Berman 🏳️‍🌈 @BermanPCMD]

@ultiandcider @raghu_venugopal There is a strong possibility that voting for a right of centre candidate could usher in severe austerity

But as I point out in my article, without defeating Mayor Chow, the deterioration of our social fabric will continue

The left needs a fresh start

https://t.co/aOVr7VPIPI

[🏳️‍🌈 Dr. Hershl Berman 🏳️‍🌈 @BermanPCMD]

@Heavenly_Armed @dgrdon @BradMBradford @MayorOliviaChow With respect

My post on X was not talking about Israel. And if you had read the article instead of searching for the word in it you would see that that is not the point of the article

Given your fictitious accusations against Israel I don’t see a point in continuing this

[🏳️‍🌈 Dr. Hershl Berman 🏳️‍🌈 @BermanPCMD]

@Heavenly_Armed @dgrdon @BradMBradford @MayorOliviaChow Hmmm

With respect

Fewer than 200 followers

Can’t spell Israel

Brings up Israel even though the post was not talking about it.

Either a bot or someone who knows nothing about reality or someone who does and is doing a poor job of being malicious.

[🏳️‍🌈 Dr. Hershl Berman 🏳️‍🌈 @BermanPCMD]

The difference B/T the @NDP of Tommy Douglas and the NDP of today is that Mr. Douglas knew what was important to Canadians and focused on those issues

In contrast, @avilewis and the remaining few caucus members are obsessed with a fictitious genocide and have abandoned workers

[NDP @NDP]

Tommy Douglas knew then what New Democrats still know today.

If we could mobilize the resources of this country to defeat Nazi tyranny, there is no reason we cannot do the same to make sure that each and every person has what they need to live a dignified life.

Happy Birthday, Tommy.

[🏳️‍🌈 Dr. Hershl Berman 🏳️‍🌈 @BermanPCMD]

Tell me you always wanted to be a writer of historical fiction instead of a rabbi without telling me that you always wanted to be a writer of historical fiction instead of a rabbi

(With respect, of course @promeusinc)

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

The "five Arab armies" came to rescue Palestinians after months of Jewish terror attacks drove hundreds of thousands out of their homes and off their land BEFORE the end of the British Mandate on May 15, 1948. Deir Yassin, Haifa, Yafa. Read Thomas Suarez's "State of Terror".

[🏳️‍🌈 Dr. Hershl Berman 🏳️‍🌈 @BermanPCMD]

This is a big endorsement

A well-respected PROGRESSIVE has endorsed @BradMBradford for Mayor

This supports my theory that there are many progressive voters who have had enough of Chow and her posse’s tolerance for hate

https://t.co/aOVr7VPIPI

[Gil Penalosa @Penalosa_G]

Why I am supporting BRADFORD for MAYOR of Toronto.
Because Bradford listens. Evaluates new information, and if necessary, he changes opinion. Which is what good mayors must do.
Chow? Not much done past 3 years. Future? No ideas. No bold projects. Wasted opportunity.

[🏳️‍🌈 Dr. Hershl Berman 🏳️‍🌈 @BermanPCMD]

🇨🇦A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian🇨🇦

And that includes my Family, friends and in-laws in the great Province of Alberta!

(Not surprised but relieved)

https://t.co/deJYNuy8N8

[🏳️‍🌈 Dr. Hershl Berman 🏳️‍🌈 @BermanPCMD]

I 💯 agree

We cannot allow a loud racist minority to drive a hateful narrative that has caused so much harm right here in Canada

This sends a message that while you have the right to be an antisemite, you most certainly do not have the right to be one openly without consequence

[Artur Wilczynski @Arturmaks]

@KavitaAlguMD @CalgaryOpera He got what he deserved. He expressed his opinion as is his right. Now the Calgary Opera has expressed theirs as is their right. We all have freedom of expression. We don’t have impunity from consequences of that expression.

[🏳️‍🌈 Dr. Hershl Berman 🏳️‍🌈 @BermanPCMD]

With respect @AmiraElghawaby

Doubling down to support an organization that has misrepresented the government you worked for is not a good look

They were caught in a pretty big lie

Do you really want to be part of that?

[Amira Elghawaby @AmiraElghawaby]

“We will continue to advocate for the protection of civil liberties, freedom of expression, and the right of all Canadians to engage in legitimate political debate without fear of having their views unfairly characterized.”

[🏳️‍🌈 Dr. Hershl Berman 🏳️‍🌈 @BermanPCMD]

I am relieved to learn that @CalgaryOpera decided to prioritize the needs of their audience over the political whims of one of their cast

When people go to an opera they go for the opera, not to have someone else’s political agenda, however misguided, forced upon them

[Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East @CJPME]

We are disturbed to learn that @CalgaryOpera has removed bass-baritone Gabriel Sanchez-Ortega from future performances of "Tosca" after he unveiled a Palestinian flag during the curtain call on opening night. Art is political, and artists should not be punished for expressing support for the Palestinian people as they face a genocide. This decision must be reversed.

[🏳️‍🌈 Dr. Hershl Berman 🏳️‍🌈 @BermanPCMD]

This is not an accurate description of the “clarification” that was sent to @nccm

The current position of the Canadian govt is that antizionism as an ideology is in fact antisemitism

Sadly the misinformation that this group is spreading will promote further spread of Jew-hate

[NCCM @nccm]

After significant community concern and advocacy, including much engagement by many Canadians, including NCCM, the Government of Canada has clarified in a response letter that anti-Zionism is not inherently antisemitic, reaffirming Canadians’ right to engage in open, respectful, and lawful debate about Israel, its government policies, and any political ideology.

In its response to NCCM on October 16th, the Minister of Public Safety reaffirmed that the Report is not intended to suggest that all criticism of Zionism or Israel is antisemitic, nor to limit or discourage lawful political expression and public debate.

While this clarification is a step in the right direction, many in our community remain concerned about the IHRA definition and how it may be applied in practice to chill legitimate political speech, even though the federal government states that it is non-prescriptive guidance and does not restrict Charter-protected freedoms.

Many Canadians have lost their jobs for innocuous statements critiquing Israel. We’ve taken many of these cases to court to protect their rights and have won.

We will continue to advocate for the protection of civil liberties, freedom of expression, and the right of all Canadians to engage in legitimate political debate without fear of having their views unfairly characterized.

[🏳️‍🌈 Dr. Hershl Berman 🏳️‍🌈 @BermanPCMD]

I rarely agree with @Roman_Baber but I do give credit where credit is due

Unlike some of his @CPC_HQ colleagues, when he addresses antisemitism, he doesn’t make it all partisan

And in this case, he is spot on

@iamIqraKhalid should be jettisoned from the @liberal_party caucus

[Roman Baber @Roman_Baber]

Chair of the House of Commons' Justice Committee, the Committee I sit on, @iamIqraKhalid, admiring a map that wipes the Jewish state of the map.

How soon till the riots we see in France & Belgium erupt in Canada?

[🏳️‍🌈 Dr. Hershl Berman 🏳️‍🌈 @BermanPCMD]

I’ve given a lot of thought to this year’s race for Mayor of Toronto

Sometimes in medicine, our patients have to endure pain in order to have hope for the future

Toronto, we face the same choice

Read it here in my latest on Substack

https://t.co/oqQtEdd7Tv

[🏳️‍🌈 Dr. Hershl Berman 🏳️‍🌈 @BermanPCMD]

Note to @promeusinc

The above post is respectful (it even says so) and cannot be interpreted as being combative or confrontational

It is always appropriate to refute misinformation when posted on social media, particularly when it is designed to fuel hatred

[🏳️‍🌈 Dr. Hershl Berman 🏳️‍🌈 @BermanPCMD]

With respect

It is disingenuous to post a third party mockup of a statement potentially made by the Canadian government that claims that the statement says something it does not

The govt “statement” does not say that antizionism is not antisemitism

@nccm

[Amira Elghawaby @AmiraElghawaby]

Important clarification regarding Government of Canada’s position

via @nccm

[🏳️‍🌈 Dr. Hershl Berman 🏳️‍🌈 @BermanPCMD]

Assuming the statement is authentic, it simply says that not all criticism of Zionism etc.. is antisemitic

Just as not all criticism of Muslims is Islamophobic

BUT

Just as being anti-Muslim is Islamophobic, so Antizionism itself is antisemitism

Both are examples of racism