The UN found Israel killed 35 Palestinian kids during the 2018 Gaza protests. At the time @lisanandy asked how the govt could continue justifying arms sales to Israel
For 2yrs Nandys been part of a govt thats armed Israel while its killed tens of thousands of Palestinian kids
Basic education piece:
Not all Jewish people are Zionists.
Lots of Zionists aren't Jews.
The Board of Deputies largely self identity as Zionists.
The Media often report the Board of Deputies as the opinion of Jewish people.
Yet many Jewish people say #NotInOurName
I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: Canada: Intervene to Stop Israel’s Mass Starvation and Intensified Genocidal Attacks on Gaza. Write one here: https://t.co/IhSOrz8KpU
More than two years after the International Court of Justice found Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory unlawful, Canada continues to engage in military cooperation with Israel. This includes hosting an Israeli military attaché under the Canada-Israel Strategic Partnership.
In August 2023, a Col. Liron Biton took command of the IOF's Binyamin Brigade in the West Bank. The brigade covers the region of Mateh Binyamin, where over 40 Israeli settlements and outposts are located – sites that Canada has acknowledged are a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and has described as "a serious obstacle to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace."
Is this the same Col. Liron Biton who has been accredited by Global Affairs Canada? @CanadaFP
I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: Demand Canada finally act by ending all support of the illegal Israeli settlement enterprise. Write one here: https://t.co/HIK1eVWZOH
Bell Review Confirms Only Anti-Israel Attitudes Are Rising, Not Antisemitism
As I said a few months ago, you’re being told there’s a dangerous explosion of Jew hatred to cover up the fact that there’s actually a very healthy explosion of Israel hatred.
Reading by Tim Foley.
Rabbi Chaim Mentz of Bel Air demands that Trump restart the war with Iran.
"No more negotiations!... He has Israel ready to roll!"
He argues that if he doesn't do it before January, he won't have the power of the purse since Congress will fall into Democratic hands.
"There's no more waiting! Now is the time!"
There's only one constituency that has consistently pushed the US to go to war with Iran for more than two decades: Hawkish pro-Israel donors and organizations.
"The documentary NAZA silences us not because of the monstrosity of what Israel did but because it serves as irrefutable proof of our own monstrosity. Our societies watched it all and did nothing. We are all guilty"
✍️ Opinion by Jonathan Cook
https://t.co/6AGdCxwGOa
I hope every single person in the world watches NAZA and yet I fear they will still not be able to do anything. about the men and women who have brought us this genocide.
Why are western audiences stunned into silence by the new film NAZA? Because it shames us. It shows us who we are. It tells us exactly what the pillars of our western “civilisation” stand on.
Read my latest here: https://t.co/cK4a407BmA
NAZA silences us not because of the monstrosity of what Israel did, but because it serves as irrefutable proof of our own monstrosity.
Read my latest here: https://t.co/cK4a407BmA
Unlike the Venice Film Festival, where the documentary NAZA received a record 25-minute standing ovation, the sold-out screening I attended greeted the film's end with stunned silence.
The credits rolled. The lights went up. We traipsed to the exit. No one said a word.
That seemed a much more fitting response than the one in Venice. Ever since, I have been pondering what exactly our stunned silence meant.
Was it shock at the horrors inflicted on Gaza?
Not really. Barely any of the destruction and mass-killing was shown. We have seen far, far more of the genocide live-streamed on our phones.
Was it the fact that none of the interviewees appeared to regard the official figure of nearly 75,000 dead in Gaza, and more than 175,000 maimed, a Hamas-inspired fiction, as the Israeli government continues to claim, with the western media following suit?
In fact, the strong impression conveyed by the military insiders interviewed by the film-makers is that the true death toll is likely to be far higher.
Was it the astonishing lack of self-awareness and reflection among most of the interviewees, who spoke drily – mostly indifferently – about the technical aspects of Israel’s innovative AI systems, which drove target selection to destroy homes and kill Palestinians on an unprecedented, industrial scale?
Selected from more than 100 Israeli military personnel who spoke to the film-makers off camera, the chosen 24 included some who had helped engineer what they called a “factory” for murdering Palestinians.
Others operated this production line, killing by algorithm, as though, in their words, they were playing a “video game“.
According to the interviewed soldiers, for every person suspected of being in Hamas, however junior their status, Israel authorised the killing of between 20 and more than 100 NAZA – the Hebrew acronym for Palestinian bystanders, including women and children.
When Hamas carried out its one-day attack on Israel in October 2023, the Israeli military claimed the group had around 30,000 fighters.
In addition, Israel – and its AI machinery – connected a far larger portion of the population to Hamas, if only because individuals worked for the Gaza government’s political, bureaucratic and administrative arms, from school teachers to doctors and nurses.
The film’s interviewer, Yuval Abraham, put to one interviewee a simple observation about the maths.
According to the logic of Israel’s NAZA doctrine – permitting potentially dozens of civilian deaths for every Hamas-linked target – almost the entire 2 million inhabitants of Gaza were viewed as acceptable “collateral damage”.
The intelligence official mulled this point for some time, as though it had never occurred to him, before agreeing.
This is an extract from my latest article NAZA is not just about Israel and Gaza. It’s about the evil lurking in us all. Find a link to the rest in the reply post below ⬇️