Norm Farrell IN-SIGHTS.CA @normfarrell.bsky.social

Commenting on B.C. public affairs at since 2009. In 2025, I was a founder of nonprofit Canada West Forum Society.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

The Israeli army has been bombing all over the south today; so much so that I can’t keep up. Here is the latest bombing in Burj eshmali, Tyre district.

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

The Israeli ambassador to Europe is protesting the spread of this image. Let it spread all over the world. 🌍🔥"

[Bruce Arthur @bruce_arthur]

Of all of Poilievre's questionable verbal forays today, this was the one that made me guffaw

[Norm Farrell IN-SIGHTS.CA @normfarrell.bsky.social @Norm_Farrell]

Parliamentary Budget Officer’s estimate of a $578 million cost for Vancouver’s round-ball games is less than 2 weeks old and is already outdated. Official sources now say British Columbia’s cost for 7 matches on the West Coast could reach $729 million. https://t.co/65KRB0X63R...

[Nora Loreto @NoLore]

Canada fired the special envoy for Islamophobia and replaced her with a guy who was the chair of the Canada-Israel committee.

The only act of murderous religious violence inside a house of worship was against a mosque. This is grotesque.

[Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb]

Canada is about to go Full McCarthy against anyone critical of Israel for its horrifically genocidal conduct.

[Jenny Kwan @JennyKwanBC]

I demanded action from @LenaMetlegeDiab to expedite processing for 136 postgrad Gazan students on full scholarships to 26 Cnd universities. In response in HoC last week- she said all will be processed in the next 10 days -will be watching closely to make sure she follows through.

[Norm Farrell IN-SIGHTS.CA @normfarrell.bsky.social @Norm_Farrell]

@itootill @StewartPrest Ian, maybe you should watch Fox News less often.

[Norm Farrell IN-SIGHTS.CA @normfarrell.bsky.social @Norm_Farrell]

@itootill @StewartPrest I suppose those disaffected people want to return to the days when people of colour were denied equal rights and largely confined to menial, physical, and low-wage labour.

[Norm Farrell IN-SIGHTS.CA @normfarrell.bsky.social @Norm_Farrell]

@itootill @StewartPrest I've only noticed a backlash targeting academics from people who are frightened by the idea of inclusivity and choose not to recognize that Indigenous people were badly treated on the stolen lands they had occupied for millennia.

[Stewart Prest @StewartPrest]

If you need a shorthand for the Findlay-era BC Conservatives, they're what happens when SoCred voters are largely shut out of power for a few decades, and spend the intervening years watching a lot of Fox News.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

On 20 February 1939, thousands of Nazi supporters rallied in New York City, waving German flags and Nazi symbols, and cheering Nazi speakers, as a Nazi genocide raged in Europe.

On 31 May 2026, thousands of Zionist supporters rallied in New York City, waving Israeli flags and Zionist symbols, and cheering Zionist speakers, as a Zionist genocide rages in Palestine.

If you can condemn the former, but not the latter, it’s time to consider your own racist complicity in the Holocaust of our time.

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

After Netanyahu told the American President to go to hell this afternoon, he ordered the murder of this beautiful young woman.

Using American bombs. Paid for by American taxpayers. Under the full military and diplomatic cover of the American government.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

This morning I listened to the @BBC talk about Hezbollah rocket attacks on northern occupied Palestine without once mentioning the hundreds of Israeli attacks we have been subjected to just in the last couple of days, the flattered historical cities, razed villages, massacres of families and almost 3,500 civilians killed.

Israel is committing acts of genocide in Lebanon and the @BBC is spreading propaganda.

Photo was taken a few minutes ago in Marwaniyeh.

[tim anderson @timand2037]

Reminder. International law demands that israeli Apartheid, a crime against humanity and the root of genocide, be dismantled and eliminated. https://t.co/gcDqCIx9Ry

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

This video was deleted from Facebook yesterday.

You know what to do ‼️

Trump in 2008: Anyone who invades the Middle East under false pretenses should be impeached.

[NCCM @nccm]

We are disturbed and shocked by the targeting and damaging of a school bus in Hamilton, ON that serviced an Islamic school in the area. 

It is alleged that someone may have targeted the school bus in a parking lot full of school buses, vandalized it with Islamophobic graffiti, and damaged the bus including shredding bus seats.

We are in touch with the school, community members, and all authorities, including the Hamilton Police, regarding the situation. 

The targeting of a school bus that services Muslim children during a time of rising Islamophobic violence is alarming to the highest degree. While we cannot confirm the motivation behind this attack at this time, and we will wait until the police have a final determination, it is extremely concerning.

We call on all leaders to denounce what happened, and to work with community members to stem this tide of Islamophobia. 

We will have more to say as the situation evolves.

[Dan Bilzerian @DanBilzerian]

I’ll say it again, America should be at war with Israel.

[Norm Farrell IN-SIGHTS.CA @normfarrell.bsky.social @Norm_Farrell]

Prime Minister Carney says Canadians have failed Israel.

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

BREAKING: Israel just carried out a massacre in Tyre, completely demolishing three buildings — where many remain trapped inside — and wrecking the Jabal Amel hospital.

Exact casualty figures unknown but thought to be very serious.

More footage below

[Norm Farrell IN-SIGHTS.CA @normfarrell.bsky.social @Norm_Farrell]

How do we define selective memories?

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Pierre Poilievre: "Ten years ago, under the Conservative government of which I was a part, support for separation was zero."