Iran continues to be a Black Mirror episode in a dystopian fiction where hashtags online are the only means we have to save people from being lynched. It’s not a fiction, though. For Iranians, it’s reality. Please use the hashtags: #freetomaj#toomajsalehi#stopexecutionsiniran
This type of vile action has become normalized & is a despicable display of hatred, not of pro-Palestine solidarity. Disrupting Jewish-led events, meetings, activities, shows, or gatherings to yell at people will not stop the war in Gaza or "end the genocide." There needs to be a different way to constructively and positively harness those strong emotions to meaningfully affect the course of events, instead of useless feel-good activism that's divisive, hateful and meaningless.
A bereaved mother in Gaza screams in agony after losing her home to an Israeli airstrike, saying "Oct 7 doesn't represent us; what happened on Oct 7 doesn't represent us; and [Hamas] who [recklessly] made the decision to drag people into war doesn't represent us." Meanwhile, wanna-be revolutionaries in Western cities are ignorantly cheering on Hamas and mainstreaming support for the terror organization, thinking that they're representing the views of the Palestinian people. At a time when Hamas's despicable behavior, ideology, and program are being rejected by large swaths of Gaza's society and people, ill-informed and misguided "activists" continue to celebrate the October 7 massacre and adopt Hamas's "resistance" propaganda.
Predictably, Twitter Mujahideen are attacking this woman and saying she's an intelligence asset, a traitor, a spy, a coward, etc. I've honestly never met a breed of people more vile and pathetically horrible than those who are pro-Hamas, especially in the Arab world, or worse, in Western cities and capitals, particularly those who wear "intellectual" and "analytical" hats and posture as "elites" who know better.
You cannot claim to be pro the Palestinian people and not be clearly and unequivocally anti-Hamas and Islamist ideology and actions, which have destroyed Gaza, set the Palestinian cause back by decades, empowered anti-Palestinian political forces in Israel, and continue to get civilians killed by refusing to accept a temporary ceasefire that can easily provide an off-ramp for ending the war.
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We are profoundly hurt by this statement from @PrideToronto.
It mentions neither the October 7 attacks – which include execution of young people dancing in a rave, rapes of women, the annihilation of entire families, the killing of babies, the burning alive of innocent families – nor even the name Hamas.
It is Hamas’ ideology that is fundamentally opposed to queer rights. In fact, members and allies of 2SLGBTQIA+ have long been persecuted by Hamas, and indeed throughout Palestinian territories not controlled by the terror group.
Far from @PrideToronto’s self-proclaimed inclusion beliefs, it is a signal of exclusion towards a community — the Jewish community — which has long been active in 2SLGBTQIA+ circles and at the forefront of the fight for queer rights.
The message that Pride Toronto is sending is “Jews don’t matter.”
In fact, Pride never makes similar statements about any situation that doesn’t explicitly involve the 2SLGBTQIA+ community — except on this issue. What does that say about an inherent bias against Jews?
Canada’s Jewish community, both queer and allies, will continue fighting against all forms of discrimination, including this erasive antisemitism displayed by @PrideToronto.
Hamas released a heartless and shameful propaganda video declaring the death of a 34-year-old Israeli hostage due to malnutrition and lack of medical treatment. The group claimed that, just as the people of Gaza are facing horrendous humanitarian conditions due to lack of nutrition and adequate medical treatment, Israeli hostages will experience similar conditions and consequences. While this is an inhumane message, and Hamas should release the hostages if it can no longer take care of them, it is a reminder that everything must be done to expedite their release and return them to their families before they perish in captivity. We know that the only way for their safe release and return is through a deal, similar to what took place in November 2023, that entails the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli detention.
The United States must exert maximum pressure on the Israeli government and on Hamas through Qatari and Egyptian mediators to reach a ceasefire agreement, even if temporary or provisional, to allow for the release of Israeli hostages and the surging of desperately needed humanitarian aid into the coastal enclave. I reiterate my call for an immediate humanitarian 3-day pause that sees the release of Noa Argamani so that her dying mother, Liora, can see her only child one last time in exchange for the release of 50 Palestinian female prisoners from Israeli detention.
Please email or @ the below accounts, using the below template, to ask for Noa’s release so that she can be reunited with her family and dying mother. Of course, the goal is to release all hostages immediately. Yet this proposal can be a win-win for all parties involved.
A reminder that every single day, dozens of Palestinian civilians in Gaza are losing their lives to IDF bombardment, and many more are wounded and facing horrendous circumstances. A temporary ceasefire can lead to an extended one, possibly preventing the invasion of Rafah, and would result in the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. More aid could surge into Gaza during such a period, and a political off-ramp could emerge for all parties involved, sparing lives and stopping further bloodshed. Those who are constantly screaming for a ceasefire yet oppose pauses or temporary proposals are, in effect, OK with the continued daily loss of Gazans’ lives because their maximalist demand isn’t happening right at the moment. If you care about Palestinian lives, I encourage you to consider the value of any and every respite from the daily carnage and how restarting the war after six weeks is unlikely, particularly if a political roadmap is discussed and negotiated. Pragmatism and taking any opening are the only path forward out of this unprecedented mess.