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[Equity Network @EquityNetworkD]

Palestinians and their supporters were out in the thousands in Toronto yesterday to commemorate the 78th anniversary of The Nakba. No to despair and no to erasure! We demand an arms embargo, an end to the siege on Gaza and an end to the genocidal apartheid and occupation. 1/5

[Equity Network @EquityNetworkD]

@queenie4rmnola Indeed. It is nonsensical and is part of the white delusional myth of stupidity and moral rot.

[Equity Network @EquityNetworkD]

@ColinDMello Who would’ve thought? Racism, xenophobia and extremist politics comes with a price tag. Congratulations, it’s getting worse.

Don’t act surprised when the costs pile up, cons voted for this white delusional good ol’ boy ideology. It’s expensive and makes people poor and stupid.

[Equity Network @EquityNetworkD]

They found their perfect Hasbara messengers this greedy, white delusional supremacist is eager to push the narrative. This government is all cowardice and zero accountability always someone else to blame, never anyone willing to own the damage.

[Yves Engler @EnglerYves]

Canada is facing a crisis of genocidal Jewish supremacy. Anyone who suggests there’s a crisis of antisemitism at this moment when Israel is trying to use that claim to change the narrative about its genocidal actions is enabling a racist lawless state.

As Israel tortures Western activists and slaughters Lebanese in the hopes of scuttling the Iran ceasefire, genocidal Jewish supremacists are swinging their ideological stick wildly. And The Breach is berating leftists for not playing to those enabling Israel’s West Asia holocaust.

In an unprecedented event, on Monday Mark Carney bemoaned the plight of a generally prosperous Canadian community. The prime minister’s racist message was on the front of Tuesday’s Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and National Post as well as in international media like Haaretz, Reuters and the New York Times (“Carney Says Canada Faces a ‘Crisis of Antisemitism’”, noted the NYT). After the initial reports, there was a slew of commentary such as “Conservatives slam Mark Carney’s speech on antisemitism” (Toronto Star), “Time for Carney to finally tackle the growing antisemitism in Canada” (Toronto Sun) and “The truth that Mark Carney avoided saying: Israel has become the International Jew” (Globe and Mail)

As per usual, the National Post took the racist, imperial, frenzy even further. A banner atop Wednesday’s front page described “Canada’s Jew-Hate Crisis” with that edition of the paper devoting seven articles to the topic, including “It’s simple. Islamic extremism is behind all the Jew hate.” On X National Post columnist Tristin Hopper was honest about the politics underlying the frenzy, noting “If Mark Carney wasn’t a colossal pussy, he would say ‘there's no Gazan genocide, there’s never been a Gazan genocide, and the purveyors of this obvious lie are destroying this country, Canada, before our eyes.’”

As the dominant media hyped the anti-Palestinian/Lebanese/Iranian hysteria, The Breach published “The left’s opposition to antisemitism must be unconditional”. Almost entirely focused on criticizing selfless internationalists, Jordy Cummings’ column about Carney’s speech and the Zionists manufactured ‘crisis’ ignored how the rabbi who introduced the prime minister’s speech described the audience as “lovers of Israel” and said, “when Canadian leaders publicly condemn Israel, Canadian Jews pay the price.” Nor was there anything in The Breach piece about Carney (racistly) declaring “When you come to Canada, you bring your faith, your tradition, your language, your story. You leave behind your wars and your animosities.” That statement was made standing next to the synagogue’s Israeli flag.

Nor was there anything about Israeli diplomats interfering in Canadian affairs by hyping antisemitism. The ambassador recently claimed Canada was “one of the centres of antisemitism globally” (we are an importer and “centre” of the prejudice).

Nor did Cumming mention this weekend’s Walk for Israel where tens of thousands of mostly Toronto Jews will march for genocide. Nor was there anything about the private Jewish schools promoting the Zionist death cult. Or the summer camps that will soon take over the indoctrination process.

But Cummings explicitly exculpated Canadian Jewry. He noted, “It is true that many Canadian Jewish people—for reasons having far more to do with false consciousness, fear, and indoctrination than having a murderous racist sensibility—see Israel as core to their Jewish identity in spite of, not because of the continued attacks on Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran.”

A highly educated community in which almost all the institutions actively promote a supremacist genocidal faraway state simply has “false consciousness”. I guess parents paying $25,000 a year to send their kids to a private Toronto high school organizing “IDF Days” are just “fearful”. And that those marching this weekend in support of a state that’s killed dozens of colonized people basically every single day for three years are just expressing their “Jewish identity” not “a murderous racist sensibility”.

A professor at York University, Cummings has been slagging the left about antisemitism for at least a decade (While the latest bugaboo is some leftist retweeting Tucker Carlson on genocide, ‘respectable’ leftists have been berating the Palestine left on “antisemitism” for decades).
While Cummings doesn’t define what he means by “unconditional” opposition to antisemitism, one can surmise his position. He takes a gratuitous shot at well-known Leftist CUPE local 3903 for not joining the “antisemitism” frenzy. When the NDP brass blocked me from running in the party leadership race on a comprehensive anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist platform, Cummings published “No Defense of Yves Engler, Con Artist and Antisemite”. His screed began with “Really, fuck that guy”.

A decade or so ago Jordy posted something to Facebook that stuck with me. He wrote something to the effect of “any notion of Jewish power is antisemitic”. While it’s not uncommon to see someone make such an absurd statement, it stood out because Montreal’s main Jewish community centre, which regularly advertises events in the Montreal Gazette, is named the Cummings Centre. In other words, Jordy’s family name represents an important institution of Jewish power in the city.

Since then, I’ve wondered if he was related to the namesake of the institution and, apparently, he is. A Google search of “Jordy Cummings family background” came back with: “He is the grandson of the prominent Montreal Jewish philanthropists Jack and Norma Cummings. His grandmother, Norma Reitman Cummings, was a daughter of the family behind the historic Canadian clothing retailer Reitmans.” The AI mode response linked to an article about his grandma’s death that noted Jordy’s relation to former Senator Marc Gold. A former chair of the Canada-Israel Committee and Jewish Federations United Israel Appeal, Gold was appointed by Carney on Monday to the new Ministerial Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion.

Jordy probably should have mentioned this apparent familial connection when writing about the new Equality Committee, but I understand why he wouldn’t draw attention to his family ties. Who would take seriously someone berating anti-genocide leftists as “antisemitic” who hasn’t even publicly criticized his family’s extensive funding of anti-Palestinian initiatives?

The Breach should be embarrassed about publishing Jordy Cummings genocidal enabling hypocrisy.

[Kavita Algu @KavitaAlguMD]

Hey @MarkJCarney, “we don't welcome the world's hatreds. When you come to Canada [from Brookfield and the Bank of England], bring your faith, your tradition, your language, your story - you leave behind your animosities [for Indigenous communities, public goods, the working class, the environment, public health care, and social services]”.

[Zoe_Bear 🔻🍉🐝🇵🇸🇱🇧Free 🇸🇩🌺🇨🇩🇵🇸🇮🇷 @zoe_habibi]

This man is giving material support for genocide, and then has the caucasity to say this to the victims of said genocide.

He's a piece of 💩. And if you agree wit him, so are you.

[Equity Network @EquityNetworkD]

@valdombre In other words - bring the parts of you we can extract knowledge/labour/skill/joy from but the parts that have been robbed/harmed by white colonial violence that built our empire, keep them muzzled. Stay in your lane & remember your place as second class citizens, immigrants.

[Equity Network @EquityNetworkD]

In other words - bring the parts of you we can extract knowledge/labour/skill/joy from but the parts that have been robbed/harmed by white colonial violence that built our empire, keep them muzzled. Stay in your lane & remember your place as second class citizens, immigrants.

[Riley Donovan @valdombre]

PM Carney tells immigrants to leave behind the feuds of their homelands:

"We don't welcome the world's hatreds"

"When you come to Canada you bring your faith, your tradition, your language, your story - you leave behind your animosities"

[Equity Network @EquityNetworkD]

Yes. White folks, “Woke”is paying attention when people get treated unjustly.

The way white folks have appropriated it incorrectly is gross. Awareness is a must.

Imagine being so resentful that political platforms are basically, telling us stop noticing injustices.

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

The Canadian government according to conservatives: we are communist and love being woke

The Canadian government actually: we are neoliberal and love genocide

[CAGE International @CAGEintl]

He said leave behind foreign feuds standing next to Israeli flag moments after rabbi described audience as “Israel lovers”
@EnglerYves

[Claudia Webbe @ClaudiaWebbe]

Rape with objects. Gang rape. Rape by trained dogs. Targeted genital shooting. Filmed. Photographed. Archived by the perpetrators. Across 12 named Israel detention sites.

The UN calls it a pattern. B’Tselem calls it a network of torture camps. Both are correct.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

The Balkans are rising.

[Alex Cosh @AlexCosh_]

Alberta separatists might be competing with Zionists for Canada’s most self-victimized political group.

[الكسندرا ميراي @LexiAIexander]

What a racist POS

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

Is this a hate motivated sign @TPSOperations? It has all the trappings of classical hate AND antisemitism.

Vermin ✅
Virus ✅
Cultural symbol ✅

If you need her name. Let me know. In fact, I think I will file a complaint myself.

[Anti-Police Power Surrey @appsurrey]

All you’re ever getting done is imperialism, neocolonialism, and militarism. Get lost banker.

[Equity Network @EquityNetworkD]

@paulvieira @JesseBrown white man declares “Canada”, a genocidal settler colonial enslaving antiBlack imperial extractor-state, “harmonious" and "without incident" until Oct 7, 2023. Then tries to scapegoat Muslims. Canada’s violent terrorizing of Muslims, is the highest in the G7 nations.

[Kerch 🍉 @matt_kercher]

“The muslims are to blame” is an interesting tact to be taking when your whole stated goal is to combat hate against another cultural group.

Like your doing the exact thing you complain about, and directing it at muslims @JesseBrown

[alexxstation @alexxstation]

Here's two Toronto police officers on bicycles blowing multiple stop signs.

[Back On This App and It’s Still Hell @wickdchiq]

Imagine couching genocide as an “animosity”

[Kristiana Bruneau @GumptionAndCo]

Funny. All I hear about is antisemitism, antisemitism is everywhere... and all I SEE every day is a deep and institutional hatred of Muslims, and wanton hate and neglect of Black, Brown and Indigenous communities in Canada.
Isn't that funny?
What did that famous book say, "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command"