Fred Litwin

Gay dissident, proud Zionist, Author of "On The Trail of Delusion, Jim Garrison: The Great Accuser."

[Fred Litwin @FredLitwin]

My new book, A Heritage of Nonsense: Jim Garrison's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, is now available. MY book contains nine conspiracy stories which I debunk. https://t.co/FUgDRyC30F

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

“Hey Jew”

The protesters at the Walk with Israel Jewish community march in Toronto are clear about who they are targeting.

This isn’t political protest. It’s hate.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

I agree with Yossi, the grizzled veteran of Israeli intelligence reportage.

The deeper story of the NYT article about Israeli spying -- citing an alleged report the NYT itself hasn't seen -- isn't the spying itself. There's no direct spying on America, because the costs of discovery would be enormous. But there's obviously a great deal of analysis and open-source intelligence work on America, just like there is in America's intelligence community on Israel. Because neither side is stupid, and to do otherwise would be incompetent.

No, the real story here isn't the claims in the article, but the leak itself. It's part of a spate of leaks, possibly but not yet certainly from the Vance orbit, that are trying to distance the administration from the perceived failure of the Iran war by dumping all the blame on Israel.

The simple fact that there's a scapegoat tells us that many in the administration think the war has failed.

[Terence Shen @Terenceshen]

A Chinese propaganda account recently reposted the Canadian congressional hearing clip in which Liberal MP Michael Ma challenged Margaret Johnston @M_Johnston1 apparently hoping to discredit her.

The reaction, however, was not what they expected.

Instead of attacking Margaret, many Chinese netizens flooded the comments section with over 37000 messages of support. Some even claimed to be victims of forced labour themselves and offered to provide evidence.

Margaret Johnston told me that after the video went viral, she received numerous emails from people inside China expressing their support and thanking her for speaking up on behalf of those who have no voice.

Some of the comments translated from Chinese include:

“Dear Margaret, I’m sorry I can’t testify for you in court because I can’t get time off work.”(6890 likes)

“How can I testify on behalf of this righteous woman?”(4150 likes)

“Does anyone have Margaret’s contact information? I have a lot of evidence.”
(8597 likes)

“Please publish Margaret’s contact information. I can provide evidence.”
(10000 likes)

“It’s hard to imagine that someone I’ve never met, and who has nothing to do with me, would care so much about my life.” (9770 likes)

“They absolutely need to be exposed.”

“Every step of progress seems to require involvement from foreigners”(5632 likes)

These comments reveal a striking disconnect between official propaganda narratives and the lived experiences of many ordinary Chinese workers.

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

I never cease to marvel at what a self-righteous grifter @gretathunberg has become.

The climate-to-blood-libel pivot is quite the tell.

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

Great piece by @HadleyFreeman in Britain’s @thetimes about the Great unmarked graves social panic of 2021-26. The story makes Canadians look like gullible idiots, but it’s a valuable international case study in mass hysteria & journalistic incompetence
https://t.co/KiibJJ8HYB

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Israel and Lebanon are at the table negotiating peace.

So the regime in Iran does what it always does. It cannot stand the idea of calm in this region, so tonight it starts bombarding Israel. No provocation. Just violence the moment peace comes within reach.

They tell us Hezbollah is Lebanon.
So why is Iran the one firing at Israel?

Now watch the international media find a way to blame Israel for it.

[National Post @nationalpost]

NP View: Alghabra's appointment a poke in the eye of Jewish-Canadians https://t.co/68bbhUazhD

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Canada has abandoned a Canadian citizen, Huseyin Ceilil, to life in a Chinese prison on trumped up charges.

The neglect of his plight is a national disgrace.

Prime Minister Harper raised his case repeatedly, both in public and directly with Chinese leaders. He also met with Huseyin’s family (I set up the meeting, much to the dismay of the mandarins at DFAIT / GAC.)

But since 2015 his case has, by all appearances, been treated as an embarrassing inconvenience by the federal government.

[Terry Glavin 格立文 @TerryGlavin]

Four essays, any one of which would have featured prominently yesterday in a healthier media landscape, anywhere or everywhere across Canada. Some samizdat in today’s Real Story special edition.
https://t.co/gF1Nmy5OYQ

[Robyn Urback @RobynUrback]

Montreal is losing its chief of cardiac surgery at a major hospital, but I guess sarcastic posts on X is a decent consolation prize.

[Terry Glavin 格立文 @TerryGlavin]

Well done, @Terenceshen. My contribution: Four diaspora voices, on disremembering Tiananmen. https://t.co/OYlGAonNF2

[Stephen Taylor @stephen_taylor]

Islamophobia policy handbook launched by man from Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council wearing a lapel pin which is the outline of the state of Israel.

Interesting.

[Ian Young @ianjamesyoung70]

In the new Hong Kong, on this June 4 - the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre - even referring to the numbers "6" and "4" can get you hauled away by plainclothes police

[IntegrityTO @integrity_to]

TTC wants to “decolonize wayfinding”

You don’t have a serious transit system because you don’t have a serious TTC Board.

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

Exceptional editorial on Mark Carney’s antisemitism speech and its lack of courage:
“He should have said: ‘If you oppose Israel’s existence, if you demonize Jewish-Canadians, you are wrong, you are hateful and I stand against you.’”
https://t.co/tG4AYUhra8

[Fred Litwin @FredLitwin]

RT @jenniferzeng97: 🚨 37 years ago today, the CCP killed nearly 40 thousands of students and citizens on Tiananmen Square just to stay in p…

[Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka]

TIME TO LEAVE: Never be the last guest at the party: British Jews are under attack from the far-left, the far-right, and radical jihadists, even aided by some Jews for their own benefit, as usual. 250,000 people are the crux of the UK's culture war.

The community is too small and fragile to withstand this multifront battle in the long run. It’s time to move on to sunnier climes. Onwards and upwards. Never look back. Don’t waste your one life in a place where you need to struggle to express your core identity. Always live in a place that is on the up, not on the decline.

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

This is far longer than my typical post, but it tells an important story of what appears to be an attempt by leadership at Massey College to censor a major conference on antisemitism, leading to the resignation of one of its senior fellows.

The disappointment that greeted Mark Carney’s antisemitism speech this week is partly a function of a Jewish community that has been facing real threats for months, with fears that our governments and institutions have been unwilling to confront them directly and honestly. Hours before the Carney speech, I received a note from Peter Biro, a Toronto lawyer and longtime senior fellow at the University of Toronto’s Massey College, that provided a tangible example of the harm. Biro, facing what appears to have been an attempt by Massey College leadership to censor a major antisemitism conference planned for this fall, resigned his fellowship rather than succumb to it.

Biro proposed, organized, and committed to personally fund a one-day conference, “Antisemitism in Our ‘Free and Democratic Society’: A Canary’s Song,” co-presented with the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and featuring Deborah Lipstadt, Deborah Lyons, and Irwin Cotler, among others. According to his resignation letter, which I am sharing here with his permission, the College told him it had never approved the event and insisted on appointing an advisory committee to review, curate, and approve a version of the program that fit the College’s “mission and approach.” When he asked who had raised concerns and whether such a committee had any precedent, he says he received no answer.

Biro calls the stated objection false and a pretext. The real concern, he argues, is the substance: how antisemitism would be examined, by whom, and whether a human rights centre founded by a Jewish and Zionist lawyer was an acceptable partner. That objection makes little sense, since the College itself partnered with the very same centre only months ago. In Biro’s words, the committee “looks and feels less like prudent corporate governance and more like antisemitism.” Read the letter and judge for yourself.

Here is the part that should worry everyone. An academic institution responded to a conference on antisemitism, organized by one of its own fellows and featuring some of the world’s most notable antisemitism scholars, by insisting that an oversight committee was needed to decide whether the subject was being handled appropriately. I’ve organized many conferences and never had university leadership intervene in this manner. Massey College, much like Mark Carney, had a chance to lead, but both failed to meet the moment. The conference will go on in Toronto on September 15. The stain on Massey College will not come off as easily.

[John Ivison @IvisonJ]

“Islamists arrive and are given permission to give vent to their ancient loathing by anarcho-socialists, and their naive campus enablers, who love Palestine but hate Canada, and despise Jews most of all.”
https://t.co/rtw0nkp3X6

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

"It's okay for her to eat kids, but I can't choke her down?"

This is how blood libel becomes violence against Jews. People genuinely feel that attacking Jews is not just their right, but righteous.

This woman is claiming she can smell the dead children on a Jewish woman's breath in a subway in New York and people don't understand it when I say you can criticize Israel but you can't use blood libel to do it.

I don't know how it could be more obvious why.