ihsaan 🍉

CDO at @HCICanada
Formerly Dir. Mobilization & Comms at Amnesty Canada and ED at NCCM. RT not = endorsements. Views my own UOI. DMs open.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The leading Israeli scholars of the Holocaust and of genocide - Omer Bartov, Daniel Blatman, Amos Goldberg - all agree that Gaza is a genocide.

So do Israel’s top human rights groups Btselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel.

Give it up with the antisemitism smear.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

This sums up global politics better than anything else.

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

Think about this.

Armies of people out there, incentivized by a company hired by politicians to post AI-generated political messaging as if it’s their real, organic thought.

Dystopian sci-fi? Nope. Reality.

I’m partnering with Canada’s National Observer to share this huge story:

[HCI Canada @HCICanada]

Thank you @iamIqraKhalid, for your commitment to listening and engaging with humanitarian organizations like HCI and evacuees, even under difficult circumstances.

Bringing these stories home matters, and Canada has an important role to play in upholding humanitarian principles and ensuring these voices are heard.

[AmnestyCanada @AmnestyNow]

Today marks the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation in Canada

On this day, all non-Indigenous people are called upon to witness and act upon this truth without which there can be no reconciliation

🔗 https://t.co/JKIA8rbC0d

#TruthAndReconciliation #NDTR #EveryChildMatters

[Alex Neve @AlexNeve24]

How many commissions, committees, experts, academics & human rights groups?
How many voices from the ground in Gaza?
How many - all naming, decrying & condemning genocide - will it take?

https://t.co/2OztGXH91R

[Canadian Civil Liberties Association @cancivlib]

CCLA strongly condemns the Quebec government’s announcement that it will introduce legislation that prohibits prayers in public spaces.

Read more here.
https://t.co/Fe4P3jTxN1

[ihsaan 🍉 @ihsaan]

Honoured to join the team at @HCICanada as the first Chief Development Officer. Moving spaces from working on human rights to humanitarian relief—still focused on justice and dignity. Advice, feedback, & (re)connections welcome! Onwards.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Food should never come with gunfire.

Over 500 Palestinians have been killed and 4,000 injured under Israel’s militarized distribution scheme in Gaza.

This is not a humanitarian response.

More than 170 organizations, including @Amnesty, are calling for an end to this deadly system and a return to principled, UN-led humanitarian access.

[Alex Neve @AlexNeve24]

"When our children ask what we did as Gaza was systematically destroyed and its children killed, what will we say?"

Naved Bakali, @washim001, @faisalkutty asking the question of our time.

https://t.co/WGq5vqgXTe via @torontostar

[Alex Neve @AlexNeve24]

And still the world pays next to no attention to the immense suffering in #Sudan.
https://t.co/2RLYJHtAdm

[Alex Neve @AlexNeve24]

Along with @Heidi__Matthews, we've done cross-Canada @CBCNews marathon of 25 morning show interviews discussing our #Gaza letter to @MarkJCarney @AnitaAnandMP.
Key question I was asked repeatedly: do you think the government will act?
My answer: there is no other choice.

[Sameer Zuberi 🇨🇦 @SameerZuberi]

Today, I met deeply vulnerable Uyghurs who recently arrived in Canada, to safety and security.

It was a moving experience after years of advocacy, and the unanimous passage of my motion M-62 in the House of Commons, to resettle 10,000 Uyghurs from third countries. (1/2)

[ihsaan 🍉 @ihsaan]

NEW Heritage Minute: Bora Laskin https://t.co/WqCvcySggF Kudos to @waliedesq & the team at @NLawGlobal for helping bring this important story to light. Your support honours those who paved the way for others & inspires the next generation to lead with courage #HumanRights

[ihsaan 🍉 @ihsaan]

Recommended read by @nickdeardon75 and @shaistaAziz
"Only legal action, protests and public pressure – not meetings with uninterested ministers and civil servants – will convince Britain’s government to end its complicity in genocide."

[Nick Dearden @nickdearden75]

Today I join @shaistaAziz in urging UK NGOs working on Gaza to boycott meetings with the government as long as their complicity in Israel’s genocide continues. 🧵

https://t.co/J7mcZpYb8s

[ihsaan 🍉 @ihsaan]

Recommended read by @MarvaWisdom @KeithNeuman1 & Michael Adams of @Environics_Inst Opinion: Now is not the time for Canada to walk away from diversity, equity and inclusion /via @globeandmail https://t.co/rqFz0AGoYa

[ihsaan 🍉 @ihsaan]

Recommended read by Washim Ahmed - Poilievre's plan to deport residents under the pretense of hate crimes is not leadership. It’s dangerous politics https://t.co/X6HSqefxNo via @torontostar #HumanRights #election2025

[Clinton Desveaux @ClintonDesveaux]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨

Pierre Poilievre team attempts to muzzle journalists at campaign stops

Only 4 questions per event allowed, ZERO follow up, journalist asking question chosen in advance by Pierre Poilievre team. No media allowed to travel with Pierre. No media allowed to speak to attendees at events. Sometimes camera/video people physically touched. The Conservatives Party campaign is successfully undermining freedom of the press and voter awareness unfortunately. It’s an old playbook (former Conservative Opposition Leader Stockwell Day in 2000 attempted similar actions in Parliament Hill Media Scrums)

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

A video found on the mobile phone of a medic—whose body was discovered in a mass grave alongside 15 aid workers killed by Israeli fire in Gaza on March 23—shows that the ambulances and fire trucks they were using were clearly marked and had their emergency lights on when Israeli forces opened fire on them.

This revelation contradicts an earlier claim by the Israeli military, which stated earlier this week that its forces did not randomly attack ambulances, and that some vehicles “approached suspiciously without lights or emergency signals toward the troops,” prompting them to open fire.

The video was obtained from a senior UN diplomat who requested anonymity. The New York Times has verified the location and date of the footage.

[chantal hébert @ChantalHbert]

Édifiant: Poilievre Stop in Fish Plant Smells | Canadian Journalist https://t.co/XgloCo44Ws