Toronto4Palestine

#T4P aims to facilitate a global environment that supports Palestinian access to dignity, opportunity, and freedom.

[Shane Martínez @martinezdefence]

On November 17, the Palestinian flag will fly at Toronto City Hall. @ICJPalestine secured this historic flag raising to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence.

The struggle continues for peace, justice, and a free Palestine. Join us.

[Toronto4Palestine @Toronto4P]

Canadian Police forces have long standing ties with the genocidal, apartheid-enforcing Israeli Occupation Forces and Shin Bet:
https://t.co/mTw6LRx7fT

[Toronto4Palestine @Toronto4P]

How shocking, that the institution that has continuously harassed, surveilled and brutalized peaceful anti-genocide protestors, is endorsing the most pro-genocide candidate

[Toronto Police Association @TPAca]

We asked the leading contenders for Prime Minister for their position on the policing and public safety issues that matter the most to our members and the communities we serve.

As you head to the ballot box next week, consider these responses. It is clear to us there is only one Party that has maintained a strong position on public safety issues and proactively supported police services.

While our vote is with @PierrePoilievre and the @CPC_HQ, we will work with whoever leads the next government and we will hold them accountable as we continue to advocate for our members and the public.

[Toronto4Palestine @Toronto4P]

.@PierrePoilievre has consistently displayed the most bigoted and hateful forms of antipalestinian racism. This categorization of the overwhelming peaceful demonstrations to end Canadian complicity in genocide as "rampaging riots" only serves to expose his ugly racist worldview.

[Toronto4Palestine @Toronto4P]

Mahmoud Khalil was kidnapped from his home by the US gestapo and shipped to a different state where they knew their fascist judge would rule in favor of deportation proceedings.

This is clear-as-day fascism, all in favor of an apartheid state currently carrying out a genocide.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

BREAKING NEWS: "Mahmoud Khalil can be deported, judge rules"

[Toronto4Palestine @Toronto4P]

Cancel your Xbox Game Pass subscription and boycott Copilot AI. Boycott Candy Crush, Minecraft and Call of Duty and all flagship videogame franchises owned by Microsoft. Boycott Microsoft products.

[Toronto4Palestine @Toronto4P]

Microsoft's designation as a priority BDS target is no surprise as it is perhaps the MOST complicit tech company in the world, providing the IOF military with Azure Cloud and AI services that have enabled the Gaza Genocide.

[Toronto4Palestine @Toronto4P]

Microsoft has a $133M contract with the IOF. Every Gigabyte stored on Azure is a tool of oppression in the hands of an apartheid regime.

[Toronto4Palestine @Toronto4P]

THERE IS NO CEASEFIRE IN GAZA

Israel has been routinely airstriking civilians in Gaza throughout the ceasefire with full western media complicity and has now fully shattered any illusion of a cessation of hostilities by killing over 200 civilians in a bombardment campaign today.

[Toronto4Palestine @Toronto4P]

Dahlia Kurtz has spent over 15 months cheering on Israel's Genocide in Gaza, routinely inciting violence against Arabs and racialized minorities, as well as platforming and allying herself with neofascists and neo-nazis. But yet in classic Zionist fashion, the moment a prominent activist called her out on it she resorted to playing the victim.

It speaks volumes that this fascist can consistently incite violence but Yves Engler gets arrested by Montreal Police for calling her out for it.

Dahlia Kurtz is not even remotely "unsafe", but rather routinely endangers the lives of racialised minorities in Canada as well as Palestinians in Gaza.

[Yves Engler @EnglerYves]

Tomorrow the Montreal police will arrest me for posting to social media against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Today I received a phone call from a Montreal police officer by the last name of Crivello. She asked me to come to a downtown police station where I will be charged for harassment and indecent communication. Crivello said a complaint was submitted against me months ago by a legal firm on behalf of racist media personality Dahlia Kurtz. Crivello said I had described Kurtz as a “genocide” supporter and “fascist” on Twitter. Guilty as charged.
On dozens of occasions I’ve responded to Kurtz’ racist, violent anti-Palestinian posts on X. Six weeks ago I wrote an article noting:
Amidst this ever-worsening holocaust in Gaza, the media and politicians want us to believe Canadian Jews are the real victims. In an egregious example, the Winnipeg Sun just published “Dahlia Kurtz mobilizing pushback on Canada’s Jew-hate problem.” Palestinian suffering is omitted from the long profile of an unhinged Jewish supremacist. The article describes Kurtz combating “‘Free Palestine’ hatefests” and selecting Justin Trudeau “winner of my 2024 Jew-Hater of the Year Award.”
Over the past 15 months Kurtz has become a leader in Canada’s fascist movement, posting incessantly about purported Jewish victimhood and the anti-genocide “mob” who should be “deported”. A compulsive liar, Kurtz openly calls for state violence against those challenging Canadian complicity in genocide. On Friday she posted a video that appeared to show dark skinned teenagers fighting in Edmonton mockingly describing the incident as “a celebration of diversity”. A week earlier she posted a photo of neo-Nazis rallying with the statement “‘MASS DEPORTATIONS NOW’ banner at mall in London, Ontario. Who’s with them?”
A major paper profiling this fascist, Jewish supremacist, fifteen months into the holocaust in Gaza speaks volumes of the media climate.
On July 5, 2024, Kurtz quote tweeted me with the statement: Hello, @EnglerYves. I’m advising you in this one message only that you are harassing me. You’re threatening and you’re making me afraid for my safety. You must stop this harassment — and communication with me. Stop now.”
She quote tweeted a message I posted six days earlier noting “Racist Dahlia supports killing Palestinian children. 20,000 is not enough she wants even more Palestinian blood spilled.”
As an X user noted immediately and Kurtz surely knows, the platform has a mechanism for anyone who no longer wants to hear from another user. They can block that user. Kurtz has chosen not to block me but instead pursue criminal charges.
I’ve never met Kurtz. Nor have I messaged or emailed her. Nor have I threatened her. I don’t even follow her on X (Twitter’s algorithm puts her posts in my feed).
Apparently, the legal firm assisting Kurtz is that of Neil Oberman, who is running for the Conservative party in the upcoming federal election. Oberman has launched a slew of lawsuits in recent months against different institutions and individuals opposing genocide. On two occasions I’ve videoed myself questioning Oberman about his ‘lawfare’ at the service of Israel’s genocide.
As part of releasing me from detention, Crivello is seeking to have me accept conditions that stop me from any interaction with Kurtz. As the father of a two-year-old and seven-year-old and author of 13 books, it’s beyond absurd to suggest I’m a threat to Kurtz. But I am willing to sign this condition to avoid jail. On the other hand, the officer told my lawyer she wants to impose a condition for my release saying that I’m not allowed to discuss the case. That is a flagrant violation of my freedom of expression, but is presumably designed to protect the police officer, Kurtz and her legal team from embarrassment. I will refuse to sign this condition and may be detained until a judge decides if this is an acceptable condition.
Across the country advocates of genocide and apartheid have been using the legal system to protect Israel from criticism. They launch frivolous cases to suck up activists’ time and resources. Too often the police and courts participate in this abuse of their authority.
Police should not be putting their services at the disposition of those promoting Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. The charges against me for posting against Israel’s crimes should be withdrawn.
https://t.co/ow8AYP9ZJF

[Toronto4Palestine @Toronto4P]

Lifshitz, like many other Israeli hostages, most likely died to Israel's indiscriminate bombing campaign that was deployed to genocide Palestinians.

The resistance still returned their bodies to their families, unlike many Palestinians whose remains are still buried under rubble.

Jolie has much to say about who gets the right to govern Gaza, but not a whisper about the Israeli Leadership that has proudly championed a depraved, bloodthirsty genocide for over a year.

[Mélanie Joly @melaniejoly]

See my statement below:

[Toronto4Palestine @Toronto4P]

🚨🇵🇸 HAPPENING NOW: Despite a snowstorm warning, people of Toronto are out on the streets calling for an end to US and Canadian complicity in Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians

[Toronto4Palestine @Toronto4P]

Canada must immediately move to denounce Trump's ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza.
Canada has long been a branch of U.S. foreign policy, committing crimes against humanity and violating international law.
This must end now.

[Toronto4Palestine @Toronto4P]

The IOF kept bombing Gaza and killing civilians even after the ceasefire announcement on the technicality that it's commencement was at a later date. Similarly, they have also been continuously bombing Lebanon despite the ceasefire a couple months ago.

[Toronto4Palestine @Toronto4P]

After blocking ceasefire agreements for months, a ceasefire deal has finally been announced after over a year of genocide. This does not mean we allow the world to return to a pre-October 2023 state where Palestinians suffer in silence. A ceasefire deal is not the end of the growing movement for a fee Palestine, it’s just the beginning.

[Toronto4Palestine @Toronto4P]

One cannot lament both the humanitarian crisis in Gaza AND deteriorating relations with Israel. The latter is simply a result of the former. Israel has wilfully and intentionally carried out a genocide while proudly recording and broadcasting it to the whole world, so it is no wonder that countries would want to distance themselves from all that.

It is Canada's obligation as a signatory to the Rome Statute and the Genocide Convention to take all measures to apply pressure on Israel to prevent it from committing genocide- an obligation it has not even committed to fully.

There are no two sides to genocide. We must pressure Israel diplomatically and financially to force them to put an end to the Gaza genocide.

[Hon. Marco Mendicino @marcomendicino]

Please see my statement.

[Toronto4Palestine @Toronto4P]

As the year comes to an end and people around the world look forward to 2025, Gazans continue to suffer under US-Israeli genocide as babies are freezing to death.
We are all complicit till our tax dollars keep funding one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes of the 21st century

[Toronto4Palestine @Toronto4P]

Charlatan Brian Lilley conveniently leaves out that the CEO of Indigo, Heather Reisman pays to send Canadians to an army that is under trial for genocide and has been documented by the UN to have committed severe war crimes over the past year.

Besides this, her organisation even violates Canadian Law by contravening the Foreign Enlistment Act, as well as CRA rules by registering as a tax-exempt charitable organisation despite "supporting the armed forces of a foreign nation" being specifically stated to not be acceptable for this designation.

But to wilful fools like Lilley, Indigo will always just be an innocuous "jewish-owned business" devoid of any context.

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

Absolute lunatics taking over the Eaton Centre in Toronto.
They are targeting a Jewish owned business, Indigo.
They also believe that you should be able to lead a normal life until they get what they want. Full support for terror attacks on Israel.

[Toronto4Palestine @Toronto4P]

After the disastrous attack on Kamal Adwan Hospital yesterday, the IOF detained Palestinian civilians and subjected them to torture and brutalization.
The WHO, among other organizations, is calling this a "systemic dismantling" of Gaza's health system- which is a grievous crime against humanity.

[Toronto4Palestine @Toronto4P]

Israeli occupation forces have stormed and torched Kamal Adwan Hospital- the last remaining medical facility in Northern Gaza.

They have deliberately targeted and destroyed every single hospital in Gaza claiming without evidence that each of them was used for military purposes.