Kirsten Olson

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[Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @DuaneBratt]

https://t.co/Ve5FusbVXB Was Shannon Philips targeted by progressive police officers? Are those on trial for assembling weapons at Coutts progressives? Are all the trucks with F*** Trudeau bumper stickers driven by progressives? Canada/Alberta/Calgary?

[Kirsten Olson @NetsrikO]

@vfsglobalcare
My son has been accepted to study in the UK. His visa application was successful but he can’t set up an appointment at either Calgary (closest to us) or Edmonton offices. We keep getting a message that credit card payments will not go through. Can you help?

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

The brilliant @SherylNestel is speaking at @Laurier on Mar 6.

She's a renowned expert on the subjects of antisemitism, legacy Jewish groups, and the Israel lobby.

Naturally, Hillel and others are freaking out, smearing her.

Check out the stunning clarity of her analysis.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Powerful words by 102 years old philosopher Edgar Morin, one of France's most revered intellectual figures, as well as a Jewish WW2 resistant who fought as a lieutenant in De Gaulle's France combattante.
https://t.co/SJXMywTXb5
Here are his words on Gaza: "I am both astonished and outraged by the fact that those who represent the descendants of a people who were persecuted for centuries for religious or racial reasons... That the descendants of this people who are today the decision-makers of the State of Israel, that they could not only colonize an entire people, partly drive them out of their land and seek to expel them for good... But also, after the massacre of October 7, engaged in a real massive slaughter on the populations of Gaza and continue, incessantly, hitting civilians, women, and children.

And to see the silence of the world, the silence of the United States, protectors of Israel, the silence of the Arab states, the silence of the European states who claim to be defenders of culture, humanity, human rights.

I think we are living through a horrible tragedy because we are also powerless in the face of this thing that is unleashing. At least, I say: bear witness! The only thing that remains if we cannot resist concretely is to testify. Let's resist in our minds, let's not be fooled, let's not forget, let's have the courage to face things head-on."

[Emma Graney 🇦🇺🤷🏻‍♀️🇨🇦 @EmmaLGraney]

A former coal mine in the Alberta Rockies is releasing a toxic contaminant at rates dozens of times higher than guidelines, another periodically disgorges water so iron-heavy it stains local creeks orange, says research by provincial govt scientists https://t.co/z3VymUQuHx #ableg

[Emma Graney 🇦🇺🤷🏻‍♀️🇨🇦 @EmmaLGraney]

The paper, in the journal Environmental Pollution, says coal mining in the Crowsnest watershed has been impacting ecosystems downstream for decades. The study includes Grassy Mountain - which is seeing a push for redevelopment https://t.co/DrQOwIhtTc #ableg #cdnpoli

[Connie Walker @connie_walker]

Canadian tar sands pollution is up to 6,300% higher than reported, study finds https://t.co/G7kJnjwJMS

[Dr. Fiona Mattatall 🪩🇨🇦 @FionaMattatall]

A reminder that historically we have separated the MD who orders a test from the company that provides it and the MD who prescribes from the pharmacist who fills the prescription to reduce conflict of interest.
How will this be monitored in this model?
#abhealth

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

For-profit medicine has not shown to reduce waiting lists, medical outcomes are worse, and staff are pilfered from the public system. Donating public funds to profiteers does not advance medicine, patient care or is good public policy. @PatForanCTVNews

https://t.co/pOizT75IOP

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary interviews of a former senior US government official on Gaza.

This is Chas Freeman, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

Key points in the video:

- He agrees that many of the victims of Oct 7th were killed by the Israeli army in the form of "undisciplined fire by helicopters with hellfire missiles or by tanks with incendiary rounds directed at buildings". In the case of the victims of the music festival he even says they "were largely killed, it appears, by hellfire missiles and by other undisciplined fire by Israeli forces". To him this "disgrace in military terms" stems from a "lack of discipline and training necessary to respond" but also from the IDF's "Hannibal directive", which "says that rather than get into bargaining over hostage exchange you should just kill the Israeli hostages along with their captors."

- He says that with Oct 7th "Hamas had 2 objectives": 1) "Put the Palestinian self-determination issue back on the global agenda", something he says they've "succeeded" in doing since they're is "widespread recognition outside Israel that only self-determination for Palestine in the form of a 2-state solution can provide security to Israel". He says that even in "the US, which has a larger Jewish population than Israel, many Jews have come to realize that this is the case. Younger Jews in particular in the U.S. are very disillusioned with Zionism and don't want to suffer contagion from it in the form of antisemitism, which is actually growing now as a result of Israeli actions".
2) "Give Hamas enormous popularity among Palestinians because they are seen as having stood up, as having been willing to accept death rather than captivity". He refers to Norman Finkelstein's "analogy of slave revolts in the U.S." and particularly the "1831 revolt by Nat Turner, a well-educated very intelligent enslaved African who led a slave revolt in Southern Virginia which had as its objective the murder of every white person they encountered." He says it "raises a moral question: 'Is the violence of the slave-owner morally the same as the violence of the slave trying to end that violence?'. The same moral question arises with Israeli oppression of Palestinians versus Palestinian resistance to oppression."

- All in all he concludes that much like the violence against African-Americans that followed slave revolts in the 19th century, the Israeli vengeance against Palestinians "won't be remembered fondly by anyone in the future". In fact he goes as far as saying that "when people think of Israel in the past they thought of it as a refuge for the victims of the Holocaust... now they will think of it as the home of perpetrators of genocide. When they think of Israel, they will think of burned buildings and dead babies. This is an image problem of a fundamental nature and from the point of view of Israel it strips Israel of its protection by charges of antisemitism against anyone who is critical of Israel because to be critical of people who are carrying out genocide cannot be antisemitism, it cannot be considered immoral. Antisemitism is a despicable attitude but to oppose genocide by Israel is not."

[Censored Men @CensoredMen]

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Israeli journalist, Gideon Levy, says:

"If one attack pushes so many Israelis to become inhuman -- Imagine what it does to Palestinians who live under those attacks for decades."

[CIJ_ICJ @CIJ_ICJ]

PRESS RELEASE: #SouthAfrica institutes proceedings against #Israel and asks the #ICJ to indicate provisional measures
https://t.co/WedDXvtBD4

[Roland Paris @rolandparis]

Too many people have been willing to dismiss or downplay the devastating effects of Israel's military operation on civilians in Gaza. Israel's unquestionable right to defend itself isn't - or shouldn't be - a blank cheque.

[𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 [email protected] @jvipondmd]

Revealed: Ads Urging Canadians to Oppose Climate Laws Paid for by Gas Industry
A campaign called ‘Voice for Energy’ doesn’t disclose funders. But Google’s ad registry shows it’s tied to the Canadian Gas Association.
https://t.co/a9fEv6n49R

[Steven Donziger @SDonziger]

BREAKING: Israel's Netanyahu government appears to be carrying out targeted assassinations of intellectuals in Gaza to wipe out a new generation of moderate Palestinian leadership. Artists, poets, doctors, lawyers, and academics are among the victims.

From @declassifiedUK.⤵️

[Soraya Shockley @sorayashock]

When I worked @nytimes, speaking up abt biased coverage of Palestine was always met w/ repression. So often, the call was coming from inside the 🏠

To b a journalist & then abdicate our responsibility to accountability to save our jobs while ppl r dying is to me unconscionable🧵

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

"The mass killing of children in Gaza is abnormal even for a country at war. Nothing rivals it in modern history."
https://t.co/4ltELwUwUl