David Juncker

Biomedical engineer, scientist, curious. Orthodoxy no thanks. Tweets on science, then covid tests, now genocide. My opinions. ❤️ & RT not endorsement.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

According to the Gospels of both Matthew and Mark, Jesus himself visited Tyre. The Christian community there is certainly 2000 years old.

Israel has been killing Tyre Christians for a month.

There is a shrine and church in the hills where locals believe his mother Mary waited for him while he was in Tyre and Sidon.

I visited with Laith Marouf and we interviewed the priest who strongly supported resistance to Israeli occupation.

[Kristiana Bruneau @GumptionAndCo]

Does that include Canadians that volunteer to go and commit genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes while serving in the IOF?

What about Canadians that violate international law when they buy real estate on stolen and illegally occupied land?

What about Canadian companies that violate international law by selling weapons to a state committing plausible genocide, violating Canada's responsibility to the Rome Statute in not heeding the advice the International Court of Justice.

What about the Canadians, including you, that support an ideology that is no different than Nazism: a belief in ethnic supremacy and righteousness to dehumanize, erase, to steal, to torture and to rape, to ethnically cleanse, to terrorize, occupy, colonize, to genocide and to commit Apartheid?

What if that 'hatred' is already here and YOU are actively enabling it by saying and doing absolutely nothing about it. In fact the opposite; you coddle and protect the feelings of the community that support and participate in it every day.... right HERE in Canada?

YOU are an agent of that hate you speak of, @MarkJCarney. YOU.
@liberal_party @CanadianPM @MarcMillerVM

[nameless @deadtired9999]

No one voted on or for this, yet it’s forming a core part of political and economic policy for the country.

[Yuen Pau Woo @yuenpauwoo]

My motion calling on Canada to examine its risk of complicity in grave violations of international law in Gaza was defeated 40-12.

Here is the exchange that preceded the vote:

[Alex Cosh @AlexCosh_]

A Canadian Sumud Flotilla participant explains that on April 29-30, Israeli forces fired a shot between 2 crew members, held and searched them at gunpoint, and then destroyed the boat's engine and communication systems before setting them on course towards a storm.

"Please let me be clear. The intentions of the Israeli military was to kill us and the crews of two other boats."

[Jason Toney @jasontoney_]

CBC keeps citing B'nai Brith's annual audit of antisemitism, saying that the "Jewish advocacy group" documents "anti-Jewish hate."

In reality, B'nai Brith is a pro-Israel group that conflates antisemitism & anti-Zionism. I complained—@CBCNews editors refuse to make a change.

[Nico Lagan @RealNicoLagan]

Bill C-9 = Defines what you can and cannot say, the consequences of hurting people’s feelings

Bill C-22 = Provides the government with the proof (metadata) they need to go after you for hate-speech.

Bill C-8 = Gives the power to our government to cut you off the internet and prohibit Internet Service Providers from selling you services.

Unlike what they want you to believe, these bills are not separate, they are interconnected.

The government wants to put in place the legal framework to spy on us and use AI to keep us in check.

This is not about safety; this is about crushing dissent.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

There is a strange development in which academics of international politics are expected to publicly condemn adversarial countries before they are allowed to participate in public discourse. The complexity of international politics is reduced to a moral question of good versus evil, and academics must make moral declarations before even discussing facts, history, strategy, and interpretations. Academics should explain why states behave as they do; they are not moral validators.

What value does it bring to an analysis if the analyst "condemns" one side? After Russia invaded Ukraine, the former Norwegian foreign minister actually argued that "this is not the time to understand, but to condemn". This ridiculous position is pushed on academics. However, understanding is not endorsement, explanation is not advocacy, and ignorance is not strength. I argue it is in Russia's security interest to push NATO away from its borders, it is in Iran's interest to control the Strait of Hormuz, and it is in China's interest to create a new international economic architecture. This is not advocacy, nor is it a normative position about how the world should work; rather, it is a recognition of how the world actually works.

An academic should examine interests, capabilities, and strategic calculations that produce such policies—not participate in ritualised declarations of virtue that contribute absolutely nothing. Furthermore, moralism and condemnation often lead to a lack of understanding and increased conflict. When the conclusion is always that the good guys are confronting the bad guys, then the solution is always "peace through strength", "weapons are the path to peace", and defeating the latest reincarnation of Hitler. If you want war, condemn the other side as pure evil. If you want peace, the first step is to understand the other side.

[Kavita Algu @KavitaAlguMD]

“In the last 10 years, 17 cardiac surgeons educated and trained in Quebec have left to practice elsewhere in Canada and the United States in what has amounted to an exodus of top-flight medical specialists. In addition to cardiac surgeons, several dozen other doctors have fled Quebec this year to work in Ontario, New Brunswick and other provinces, making good on their threat following the adoption last fall of Bill 2, the divisive physicians’ pay law that has since been redrafted by the Coalition Avenir Québec government.”

[David Juncker @DavidJuncker]

The outrage so many us feel expressed in front of McGill University's main entrance here in Montreal.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Soy de las Naciones Unidas y vine del Líbano hace 2 semanas, como nadie hizo nada en Gaza, Israel está haciendo lo mismo en Líbano, no han dejado ni un pueblo en pie. 3 compañeros mios fueron asesinados y a nuestro gobierno le importa una mierda".

Un trabajador de la ONU en Canadá, denuncia el genocidio de "Israel" en Líbano y Gaza mientras enfrenta a la policía canadiense que reprime a los manifestantes que protestan contra los sionistas en las calles.

[David Juncker @DavidJuncker]

@DaniMayakovski This is in front of McGill University's main entrance gate in Montreal.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

The Zionists are terrified because drones have fundamentally democratized the battlefield, changing the nature of asymmetric warfare. At low cost, Hezbollah can now inflict heavy damage against Zionist armored vehicles and missile batteries while devastating the morale of their troops, who are used to attacking civilian targets from a distance. This is the flip-side of drone technology. Yes — Palantir and its ilk are dystopian. But if the working class learns its lessons, drones can fundamentally alter the balance of power in ways that cannot be remedied with a trillion-dollar military budget.

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

This is a totally fabricated issue. It's completely made up and manipulated by ruthless, malicious Zionist organizations in Canada to distract from Israel's massive crimes against humanity and to justify shutting down civil liberties of Canadians to shield Israel from well-deserved criticism.
@IndJewishVoices @JewsSayNo

[Dimitri Lascaris @dimitrilascaris]

As many of us predicted, Mark Carney’s drastic increase in military spending is resulting in the transfer of huge sums of public money to U.S. arms manufacturers.

Carney’s regime just announced the expenditure of $2.6 billion for 26 HIMARS missile launchers. They are manufactured by US merchant of death, Lockheed Martin.

What is Canada going to do with HIMARS missile systems? These missiles have a range of about 300 km. Therefore, if they are stationed on Canadian soil, the only country they could strike is the United States!

Obviously, the U.S. isn’t allowing HIMARS to be sold to Canada so that Canada can deploy them against potential targets in the U.S.

These HIMARS systems will be deployed far from Canadian territory - most likely, in Eastern Europe or West Asia. They are intended to be used by Canada to assist the United States and NATO in their wars of aggression abroad.

So much for Prime Minister ‘Elbows Up’.

#cdnpoli @MarkJCarney

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Jewish groups are now boasting more explicitly than ever that they will use Jewish wealth to destroy any US politician who refuses to "stand with" Israel: as they did to Massie.

But if you observe the same exact thing in order to criticize it, you're instantly branded a bigot.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Words have lost meaning.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Their absence of self-awareness is a serious pathology. They just killed 3k civilians (really, civilians) and are complaining that their invading soldiers are facing some risks WHILE INVADING.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Palantir is deeply embedded in the scariest activities of the Trump regime – enabling everything from mass deportations and lawless assassinations in international waters to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and war crimes.

CEO Alex Karp’s recent online manifesto is a truly disturbing, supremacist screed. One UK MP said it “sounds like the ramblings of a supervillain.”

The city of London, England recently canceled a contract with Palantir.

Why is Canada handing nearly $50 million in public money to this creepy company?

Doing business through a secretive contract with this MAGA-aligned tech giant is totally incompatible with the Prime Minister’s promise to defend Canadian sovereignty.

[David Juncker @DavidJuncker]

Imagine this scenario under any other genocide

[Alex Tyrrell @AlexTyrrellPVQ]

In the middle of a live streamed genocide the Canadian Prime Minister is making speeches in front of an Israeli flag, telling us that the real victims are those who’s feelings are hurt by criticism of the offending state.

This picture was taken yesterday.

[Luke Savage @LukewSavage]

What if, call me crazy, we introduced a wealth tax instead