Elle.Ford 🇨🇦🫶🏻🇵🇸

‘‘ We don't have to accept each others beliefs.. but we do have to accept each others right to believe them’’

[Rabbi David Mivasair @RabbiMivasair]

Hindu racists standing with Zionist racists. No thanks.

[The Saviour @TheSaviour]

🚨🇦🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸BREAKING: Images of Milei, Netanyahu, and Trump with Nazi swastikas were displayed at Lollapalooza in Argentina

[Dimitri Lascaris @dimitrilascaris]

Today, Ontario's Attorney General @douglasdowney sought an injunction to ban the Al Quds rally in Toronto.

Downey had his ass handed to him by the Court.

As the judge observed, the Attorney General made numerous inflammatory claims against the organizers of the rally with *no evidence* to back up those claims.

Here's the reality of what happened today: a political hack who masquerades as Ontario's Attorney General tried to subvert the constitutional rights of Canadians.

Shame on him and on @fordnation for pandering to the hysterical demands of a racist, genocidal lobby.

#Toronto #cdnpoli #Palestine #genocide

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

Apparently, the reason "Canada is not for sale", is that it had already been bought by Zionists.

[Yves Engler @EnglerYves]

@adam_louis52328 Canada’s Jewish community is materially best off of any religious or ethnic group but often considers itself oppressed. That community also broadly backs Israel’s genocide

[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 as a political structure. 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 nearly all 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 in fact sincere, 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, a subjective emotion, actually correlates to real threat or danger. 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.

[Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti @MustafaBarghou1]

Gunfire at homes… Footage documents part of an attack carried out by Israeli settler terrorist gangs on the Palestinian area of Hamroush in the city of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank.

[Ali Larijani | علی لاریجانی @alilarijani_ir]

I’ve heard that the remaining members of Epstein’s network have devised a conspiracy to create an incident similar to 9/11 and blame Iran for it. Iran fundamentally opposes such terrorist schemes and has no war with the American people.

[Yves Engler @EnglerYves]

400 marched in a snowy Montréal today to mark Al Quds Day & denounce Canada’s support for US/Israeli aggression & genocide in Iran, Lebanon & Palestine

[Elle.Ford 🇨🇦🫶🏻🇵🇸 @E_Ford_Ford]

@john_dehaas @RimZ93 @fordnation We will march in our streets in solidarity with oppressed people. Racist psychopaths struggled to grasp this with their animalistic brains.

[^o^ @LeCentristNomad]

@fordnation Doug Ford needs to read the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms! @MarkJCarney

[Leah 🇨🇦 True Crime Canada @CanTrueCrime]

@fordnation What the f🍁ck is this?

What are you hiding?

[Kelly Bainbridge @KellyBainbridg6]

@fordnation Yet not one jew has ever been killed in a Canadian hate crime.

While Zionist Jews like Erza Levant from Rebel news spread the most propaganda attacking Muslims.

[Acyl Adoum Manany @AcylManany]

How pathetic and disgraceful that Canada’s so-called politicians are completely under the control of Israel and Zionism. Don’t get it twisted, Zionism is a mere hundred-year-old ideology, while Judaism is a 3000 year old religion, loved and respected around the world. The only people destroying Judaism today are Zionists themselves, aided by spineless, cowardly politicians like you and the so-called Prime Minister of Canada. You have no courage, no backbone, and no loyalty to Canadians. You are a national embarrassment, and I genuinely feel sorry for this country.

[Kavita Algu @KavitaAlguMD]

@fordnation Yesterday @fordnation met with a representative of the Israeli state.

Today he is violating our charter rights in service of a foreign state that is committing a genocide.

[Elle.Ford 🇨🇦🫶🏻🇵🇸 @E_Ford_Ford]

@fordnation Our streets only welcome pedophiles, war criminals, child killers, and corrupt politicians. 🤢

[Peace around globe @PeacenMEast]

@fordnation You belong in the same trash Doug 👇🏼, you corrupt Israel little bitch

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

The cowardice in this statement jumps off the page. Say Israel.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Now, in Tehran, despite the snowy weather and with explosions echoing in the background, people remain in the streets in defiance of the Epstein Coalition. This is what it means to be the nation of Imam Hussain.