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[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

This is inversion so callous it's hard to believe.

The Holocaust had a survival rate of about 30%. Millions of people disappeared from European cities and towns over several years. Everybody knew because it was happening all around them.

Gaza has a survival rate, despite the worst and most deadly and horrible periods of the war, of 97%.

All the dead Jews were noncombatants. A large percentage of the dead Gazans were combatants.

And the Jews of Europe, even as their millennia-old civilization was being systematically wiped out, wanted nothing from the societies that surrounded them except to be allowed to live in peace.

Gaza's leadership of religious fanatics, meanwhile, wants every last Israeli dead and gone, is willing to fight to the last Gazan to achieve that aim, has said so publicly and worked for decades to blow up every peace attempt -- and even now believes that Gaza's destruction would be a worthwhile sacrifice to lay on the altar of Israel's destruction, because their god told them so.

So Israelis can reasonably believe, given those features of the Gaza war that aren't true about any genocide ever, and were pretty much the opposite of what was happening in the Holocaust, that Gaza's suffering is a bad and painful war, but not remotely a genocide.

But the point of it all, of course, is not to analyze Gaza, but specifically to lump it together with the Holocaust -- to cast the Jews as the new Nazis.

The only reason this person would dare to make such an insanely ahistorical and immoral parallel is because this is the heart of the bigoted propaganda campaign in which he enthusiastically participates: The point of it all is to make the Jews into the Nazis.

A culture that obsessed about Jews being evil and was then shocked by the Holocaust into obsessing about dead Jews as the apotheosis of righteous victimhood is now obsessively engaged in knocking Jews off that moral pedestal they themselves put them on.

That's why they don't care one whit about Hamas massacres of Gazans, about genocidal wars in Syria or Yemen (even when they've funded and armed the sides), about flotilla activists currently held by the Libyans...literally nothing triggers a response except Jews.

They still, even after all these generations, no matter what else is happening in the world or in their own societies, can't stop thinking about Jews.

And as we Jews learned in the 1940s -- the actual, historical 1940s, not the weird fantasies conjured up by these bigots -- a whole society can be in the grip of a callous, destructive bigotry and still believe it is true and righteous.

[NB_Slater @NB_Slater]

Ask yourself: What are @BCNDP values? Its fine to attack conservative values, but the BCNDP has to show/explain what their progressive values are! #bcpoli

[BC NDP @bcndp]

Even Conservative MLAs don't support Kerry-Lynne Findlay and her Trump-style politics.

She attacked the family of Conservative MLA Peter Milobar just because they're Indigenous.

She's the most extreme, divisive party leader in BC history. No wonder pro-Trump MLAs all back her.

[Tony Clark @Tony__Clark]

Premier Danielle Smith should resign.
- 49% Agree
- 43% Disagree
#ableg

[Matt Hannah 🍁 @mattjdh]

“She’s more deeply affiliated with social conservatism than any right-of-centre leader since Bill Vander Zalm.”

[Ravi Kahlon @KahlonRav]

Maple MAGA won the BC Conservative leadership race.

Bad news for British Columbians who want less Trump, not more.

[NB_Slater @NB_Slater]

@caroltreardon Summer is here, we will all soon be brown enough!

[BIV News @BIVnews]

Rob Shaw: Kerry-Lynne Findlay inherits a BC Conservative party split in two https://t.co/Tw39YNCT14

[Kareem Allam @kareemformayor]

“I looked at the parties that exist and felt that they were too ideologically rigid. And we need a government at city hall that is going to make decisions based on facts, science, evidence, data and lived experience. Not on the hottest take of Ayn Rand, Foucault or Marx.” https://t.co/ESEODvgeZm

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

Antizionists in front of a Jewish old folks' home with a megaphone and an Ayatollah placard. Cops do nothing.

[Elizabeth Tsurkov @LizHurra]

Analysis of the recent reputable poll in Lebanon showing a significant rise in support for peace (absence of war) and normalization (warm peace) with Israel.

[Selina Robinson @SelinaMRobinson]

Hey @CTVNews … it wasn’t an accusation … it’s a documentation … guess you are having a hard time believing the Jews … again.

[NB_Slater @NB_Slater]

Well said, although I have to add that if you have not read @GeorgeLakoff's theories relative to US conservatives controlling the US political narratives, you are missing a crucial part of the picture from the guy who deconstucted US conservative strategy going back to Powell Memo in 1970; is considered the Grandfather of "modern message framing"; and who is one of the founders of "Cognitive Linguistics" taught now in 50% of US universities. His theories go back to how the Cartesian enlightenment theories were wrong or wrongly interpreted. @damasiousc neuroscientist has written "Decartes Error" which gives one a sense of the incredible work being done in both disciplines that very much align and relates to how US conservatives developed their own understanding of these ideas to become an intentionally hidden force in US and world political campaign tactics. Keep up the great work!

[Naheed Nenshi @nenshi]

Alberta’s NDP Caucus has obtained video evidence that appears to show that a senior member of the United Conservative Party (UCP) party executive and a member of the UCP Caucus staff, people that are in the Premier’s inner circle, attended the April 16 online meeting of the Centurion Project. This meeting provided training to volunteers on how to use the separatists’ project database that is at the centre of this data breach of three million Albertans’ electoral data.

The Alberta NDP Caucus obtained a recording of the Centurion Project’s April 16 online meeting, attended by 80 individuals. The attendee list and a video recording of the call identify that a ‘Rob Smith’ and an ‘Arundeep Sandhu’ were in attendance. The President of the UCP is named Rob Smith and the UCP Caucus Director of Stakeholder Relations is named Arundeep Sandhu.

Alberta’s New Democrats have passed this recording on to the RCMP as they continue their investigation.

This obtained video also shows Centurion Project members demonstrating how to use a database to search for personal information of Albertans by searching for the name and address of former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. Jason Kenney’s personal information was shared on screen with all meeting attendees. This video appears to show the database that was built using the unauthorized electors list that was the subject of an injunction issued by the Court of King’s Bench on April 30, 2026.

Premier Smith must immediately confirm whether Rob Smith and Arundeep Sandhu identified in the video are the same individuals that are associated with the UCP party and caucus. If these were the same UCP associates, the Premier must also explain:

-Why were senior UCP officials attending the meeting? Were they directed to attend?

-How she can claim, as recent as yesterday, that she only learned of this data breach from police statements on April 29-30, published almost two weeks after this meeting took place?

-Why was it not reported or disclosed by any UCP or any government official to the RCMP and Elections Alberta that the Centurion Project appears to have unauthorized access to the electors list?

-What actions, if any, she has taken to protect the privacy of Albertans?

Albertans deserve answers and transparency from Premier Smith and this UCP government, now.

[Selina Robinson @SelinaMRobinson]

Standing in solidarity is not what is needed. When will community leaders get this through their thick skulls … this doesn’t reduce Jew hatred you actually need to have a real action plan.

[Selina Robinson @SelinaMRobinson]

.@KevinVuongxMP starts off the piece with a great question … where is your outrage? #bcpoli #cdnpoli

[NB_Slater @NB_Slater]

@JasJohalBC She has the classic conservative values that allow her to do anything, as long as it promotes her winning. Winning justifies any actions.

[Ô.Mercedes @DolceVenezia74]

La presse internationale lance un appel d'urgence:
"Laissez-nous entrer à Gaza".

Le culot!
Allez-vous couvrir ceci?
Allez-vous enquêter sur ce qui se passe dans les tentes des camps de réfugiés?
Parce que là, ce sont les gazaouis qui témoignent: Hamas viole non seulement les femmes mais leurs filles ⤵️

Une épidémie de viols et de grossesses d'enfants est signalée à Gaza sous la domination du Hamas.

Les Gazaouis vivant sous la domination du Hamas commencent à briser le silence, décrivant des abus sexuels de la part de plusieurs hommes, du chantage sexuel pour de l'aide ou de l'argent, et des abus de la part de personnes en position de pouvoir.

Les organisations de droits humains à Gaza affirment que jusqu'à 60 000 femmes sont vulnérables, avec des rapports indiquant également une augmentation des mariages d'enfants et des grossesses.

Jusoor News a filmé des témoignages vidéo rares à l'intérieur de la bande de Gaza. Le tournage a été réalisé au péril de la vie, car s'exprimer à Gaza comporte un risque grave.

Dans un témoignage rapporté par un homme de Gaza. Il a décrit comment il a découvert une veuve déplacée par la guerre, en train d'être agressée sexuellement à l'intérieur d'une tente par un groupe de membres du Hamas, obligée de garder le silence.

Un autre homme de Gaza a confirmé qu'un épisode similaire s'était produit avec l'une de ses voisines, qui avait été victime de chantage par l'une des organisations caritatives du Hamas… ils voulaient qu'elle se vende en échange d'un colis alimentaire, ou d'un bon d'aide, ou de 100 shekels.

[Selina Robinson @SelinaMRobinson]

An excellent listen.

@JesseBrown talks about how the #Canada we thought we knew is not the country we thought it was. But he is not walking away … and neither am I.

[David Eby @Dave_Eby]

With the Look West jobs plan, British Columbians are punching well above our weight.

Last year our economy grew faster than the national average — with another $88 billion in proposed major projects. We're driving growth for Canada.

How are we building this momentum?

[Ben Brittain @BenABrittain]

Profound and moving monologue from Trevor Phillips - one of Sky’s greatest assets and the country’s increasingly bravest journalist.