Rhu Ferguson

*Postdoctoral Research Fellow *Food justice *Socio-economic rights

[Rhu Ferguson @RhuFerguson]

We call on @JustinTrudeau to issue a clear statement of support for the ICC’s work related to the situation in Palestine, which includes commitment to our own obligations under the Rome Statue and respect for the principle of universality.

[Alex Neve @AlexNeve24]

Proud to be among this impressive group of 375 Canadian law professors, lawyers, academics, civil society/faith/labour leaders, former diplomats/parliamentarians and others, who have written this Open Letter to PM @JustinTrudeau calling for a strong statement of Canadian support for the @IntlCrimCourt's work with respect to Palestine/Israel.

Rather than decrying so-called 'equivalence' and thus undermining international justice, Canada needs to demonstrate unequivocal respect for the ICC's independence alongside a full commitment to cooperate with the Court as this case goes forward, including enforcing arrest warrants if that arises.

Human rights are universal and justice/accountability for human rights violations must also be universal. That has never been the approach taken to war crimes & crimes against humanity in Israel and Palestine. Surely, finally, it is time to leave decades of impunity behind and let justice come to the fore.

Canada has a long record of leadership in seeking to advance international justice, including the establishment of the ICC in 1998. There has never been a more important time to step up and show the true measure of that leadership.
https://t.co/QVHomHQ3Ws

[Kavita Algu @KavitaAlguMD]

Can you stop supplying Israel with Canadian made weapons used to kill thousands of Palestinian health and humanitarian workers and bomb the aid supplies, @AnitaAnandMP @MarkJCarney?

It will actually be cheaper for Canada and more effective at addressing the root causes of the need for aid.

#ArmsEmbargoNow
#SanctionIsrael

[Council of Canadians @CanadiansOrg]

PM Mark Carney made history last week with a surprise appearance at the CANSEC arms fair in Ottawa. With his radical shift towards arms investments and continuing cuts to pharmacare and other public services, it's not hard to see why.

https://t.co/MsiSMx3ChQ

[Financial Times @FT]

Iran says 20,000 people left without water after US hits reservoir tanks https://t.co/k7n7ODtvQJ

[Alex Cosh @AlexCosh_]

BREAKING: Canada exported $14.6 million of military goods to Israel in 2025, according to data released today by Global Affairs Canada.
https://t.co/6EgTXDyRT4

[Malika 🧬 @malikules]

atheism leaving my body with every new Pope tweet

[Shane Martínez @martinezdefence]

Elbit Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries are scheduled to attend Canada's largest arms fair next week.

@ICJPalestine and @AdvocatesJust have filed a legal complaint with @CanBorder, calling for representatives of these companies to be denied entry to Canada. This is why. 🧵

[Sandi Slonjšak @sandislonjsak]

Haven’t met anyone working less after adopting the AI.

[Priya Satia @PriyaSatia]

Instead of worrying that humanities degrees don’t prepare students for jobs in today’s world [product managers finance consultants startups], we should worry that we’ve created a world with such little value for literature, art, philosophy—anything that expresses the human soul

[Rhu Ferguson @RhuFerguson]

No thank you!

[Toronto Police @TorontoPolice]

Task Force Guardian continues to deploy highly trained officers at various locations across the city. Our highly trained officers are out there to keep you safe and are always happy to answer your questions.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Why would Israel target medical workers in Gaza and now southern Lebanon? It is part of a strategy to make life unlivable so as to drive out the civilian population. In Gaza, it became part of Israel's genocide. https://t.co/osNMexYMGn

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

This should have been headline news in every major media outlet today. But they want you to forget Gaza, so it gets zero coverage.

[Robyn Maynard @policingblack]

Toronto: What we’re seeing now is that (police) are not even distinguishing between protests, academic events or cultural events. Any time there are Palestinians speaking about Palestine, they are viewed as potentially anti-semitic or promoting violence.” https://t.co/xocnDsrXnn

[Shane Martínez @martinezdefence]

@AnitaAnandMP Does Canada express its "solidarity with the Lebanese people" through its ongoing military cooperation with Israel? Or through its arms exports to Israel? Or by allowing Canadians to serve in the Israeli military?

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

Its sickening to witness open calls for genocide. Its also crushing there is no significantly organized mass anti war movement in the imperial core, despite decades of war & years of livestreamed genocide.

"Everything you do, even if small, matters" is ringing hollow for me tbh.

[kev joon @never_oppressed]

I genuinely feel sick. This is just beyond anything the mind can fathom. And I keep thinking of what Ta-Nehisi Coates said. If you can’t draw the line at the genocide in Gaza, you can’t draw it anywhere else. Moral failure, on a mass and collective scale, brought us here.

[kev joon @never_oppressed]

While Trump is threatening to commit genocide against Iranians, there has not been a single nationwide protest in America against this war. Whatever Trump and the American ruling classes do it is made possible by a people that silently goes along with it.

[Alex Neve @AlexNeve24]

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."

Whether this is raving lunacy, deliberate hyperbole, depraved strategy or unabashed criminality, this is beyond war crimes and crimes against humanity. It is, essentially, a threat to commit genocide.

@MarkJCarney & @AnitaAnandMP, Canada must react. And must push every world leader to do so as well. We do not know whether these will remain chilling words or are a terrifying harbinger of what may be or even is to come. Neither can be allowed to stand.

This is not about taking the world as it is. This is about standing up for the most basic principles of humanity.

https://t.co/llO3h9cUKJ

[Janina Dill @JaninaDill]

Every other state must stand up, threaten and enact sanctions.

Enough is enough!

[Rhu Ferguson @RhuFerguson]

The second best time to unequivocally condemn genocidal threats is now @MarkJCarney @AnitaAnandMP

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Doctors are manually operating ventilators in order to keep babies alive in Cuba.

The U.S. is laying siege cruelly cut off all fuel, power is out, leaving hospitals without electricity. Dialysis patients, babies in NICU, and others will die. This’s a crime against humanity.