Jerry Faust 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦

All opinions are my own & not endorsed by my employer, RT is not an endorsement. Ally against antisemitism. I love books/reading, nature, urbanism…

[Jerry Faust 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @jerryfaust]

I’m almost finished with Sakina’s Kiss, a suspenseful literary novel by Vivek Shanbhag translated by Srinath Perur and published last year by McNally Editions. This is the time I’ve read a book translated from Kannada.

[Jerry Faust 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @jerryfaust]

@adam_louis52328 Adam, do you still hope to go into academia once your dissertation is finished?

[Jerry Faust 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @jerryfaust]

Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈! It’s great to see support for the 🏳️‍🌈 community in Israel, and a recent survey shows increasing support there for our community.

[StandWithUs @StandWithUs]

Scenes from the Jerusalem Pride Parade. Israel stands out as a place where LGBTQ+ people can live openly, proudly, and authentically. 🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈

[Jerry Faust 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @jerryfaust]

Happy birthday Martha Argerich! Her recording of Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #3 is amazing.

[Steven Isserlis @StevenIsserlis]

Martha Argerich is 85! Unbelievable - 85 going on 25; as she says 'I just don't feel old.' A very happy birthday to a musical/ human dynamo - passionately warm-hearted, fiercely loyal, perennially self-doubting ('forgive my sins' she mutters before going onstage); and adorable!

[Jerry Faust 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @jerryfaust]

@rwrandall Well kudos to the Victoria Chamber for not granting him an award. In all fairness, I don’t think the accusations against him stretch back to 2007 as he started his own company sometime after that.

[Jerry Faust 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @jerryfaust]

Greg Martel is accused of defrauding investors of millions of dollars. I’m glad he has been arrested and I hope he is extradited quickly. He needs to face justice in a 🇨🇦 court where his guilt (or innocence) can be proven.

[CHEK News @CHEK_News]

Greg Martel, a Victoria man who ran a Ponzi scheme, has been arrested in the country of Georgia, multiple sources tell CHEK News.
https://t.co/IOYMOqshwH

[Jerry Faust 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @jerryfaust]

@rwrandall Was Martel ever bestowed with such a prize?

[Jerry Faust 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @jerryfaust]

@BriannaWu Is an ETA required for all non-Israeli citizens who wish to visit? I’ve never been there but maybe I’ll get the chance to go in the future.

[Jerry Faust 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @jerryfaust]

This candidate is running for CA governor as a conservative Republican, but her proposal eerily echoes the (now-defeated) Democratic congressional candidate Maureen Galindo. Antisemitism & antizionism exist on the left & right and should be called out by all ppl of conscience.

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Yep. So this happened. Every day, it escalates more and more.

What a vile despicable woman she is.

[Jerry Faust 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @jerryfaust]

RIP Marianne Satrapi, the Persian-French feminist and cartoonist who created Persepolis and spoke out against the brutality of Iran’s regime. I saw the animated version in a theatre several years ago.

https://t.co/02OiAgeKEk

[Jerry Faust 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @jerryfaust]

There all kinds of reasons ppl have the surnames they have; Mona was being rude/prejudiced last week. Despite my surname, I have no German ancestry; my grandfather changed his surname as an adult to honour his stepdad. Otherwise, my surname would be an (uncommon) English one.

[Jerry Faust 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @jerryfaust]

@SelinaMRobinson @chaat_papri Mona, Selina’s memoir will tell you about her surname. Also: some of my Jewish classmates had surnames like Phillips, Johnson etc; ✡️ status traditionally comes from the mother. Conversely, 🇬🇧 rugby star Ben Cohen isn’t Jewish, but his great-grandpa was. Stop your bigotry.

[Jerry Faust 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @jerryfaust]

@reesetheone1 @magi_jay Dena have a shot in TX with James Talarico too

[Jerry Faust 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @jerryfaust]

Cartoonist Liz Climo is correct: bears are awesome!

[Jerry Faust 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @jerryfaust]

I agree with Mark: it shouldn’t be illegal to build early 20th century housing forms, including multiunit apartments with minimal setbacks or parking, on most residential streets in North American cities.

[Mark Marissen @marissenmark]

In North America, we really started doing stupid things about housing around the end of the 1920's/early 1930's.

[Jerry Faust 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @jerryfaust]

@HenMazzig @SelinaMRobinson “Jews eating kids” is made-up shit from the Middle Ages, you can trace this back to incidents in Blois, France (1171) and Lincoln, UK some years later. It’s sad that someone in the 21st century would use this to spread hate on the subway. 😔

[Jerry Faust 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @jerryfaust]

It’s been over four years … but #Ukraine is hanging on. I hope they defeat Putin/Russia *and* retain all of their territory.

[Jerry Faust 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @jerryfaust]

Antisemitism in the 🏳️‍🌈 community is always 100% *wrong*. I call on all of us who are 🏳️‍🌈 to welcome Jewish ppl into our spaces and events, and I will try to be an ally to ✡️🏳️‍🌈 ppl by avoiding spaces/events that discriminate.

[Jonathan Greenblatt @JGreenblattADL]

This is unacceptable.

[Jerry Faust 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @jerryfaust]

It’s been very clear lately. But I say: bring back the rain! I hope wildfires won’t be bad this summer.

[Jerry Faust 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @jerryfaust]

@Fleischmarket I was hoping the PM would have also said: “I’m a Zionist.” I am almost certain the PM *is* a Zionist, I’ve never heard him say 🇮🇱 shouldn’t exist. But we need to get to the point where the word is no longer acceptable as a slur/insult.

[Jerry Faust 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 @jerryfaust]

I hope the tide is turning in BC… and in Canada. If we allow hate & antisemitism to fester, *all* of us will be at risk.

[Nico Slobinsky @nicoslobinsky]

Today, AG @NikiSharma2 launched the province's Anti-Racism Action Plan. I want to express my gratitude for the inclusion of antisemitism in the plan, including in spaces such as the K-12 education sector. #bcpoli 1/2 https://t.co/phFgKyaAPk…