Kyle Farquharson

Socialist, writer, educator, political analyst, climate activist, civil libertarian. #FreePalestine

[Kyle Farquharson @kylefarq]

Everyone should boycott this World Cup tbh.

[Ian L Richardson @ianrich15813274]

When one of the most respected referees in world football is refused entry by the host nation, because they don't like his home country, the correct response of the other referees should be to boycott the tournament unless he is allowed to do his job. Sadly, that won't happen.

[Kyle Farquharson @kylefarq]

@isaiah_bb Does Sam Harris ever think original thoughts? The argument he’s been rehashing forever is that West Asian Muslims are inherently violent, intractable fanatics who deserve to be killed (unless they capitulate to Washington and Tel Aviv).

[Kyle Farquharson @kylefarq]

This is the real reason Washington is so determined to sabotage Cuba’s economy. There is an inverse relationship between the success of socialism and what little remains of the credibility of capitalism.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

There is nothing surprising about this. As imperialist hegemony weakens and its ability to sabotage sovereign development diminishes, the inherent superiority of socialism as a development model will become increasingly clear to all. This is one symptom of the emerging polycentric world — and part of the long systemic transition from capitalism to socialism.

[Kyle Farquharson @kylefarq]

This World Cup is illegitimate and should be boycotted, imho.

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

This is the absurdity people warned about.

How are journalists meant to cover a multi-country WC if following a team to Canada or Mexico means they may not be allowed back into the US?

It’s discriminatory, impractical, and completely undermines the idea of a global tournament.

[Kyle Farquharson @kylefarq]

Just in case you think the ethical failings of Bari Weiss are an outlier in the western legacy media…

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

I just heard the @BBC radio say that the Israeli army was attacking Hezbollah targets yesterday & they also platformed someone bloviating about how Iran is ‘occupying’ Lebanon.

As a frontline journalist on the ground for the last 18 months, I would like to reiterate that I have not see any Iranian occupation bases in Lebanon. I have not seen any children killed here by Iranian bombs. I haven’t seen the IRGC massacring entire families on a daily basis. The IRGC has not shot at me or killed dozens of my colleagues in targeted attacks. Iran has not been systematically murdering healthcare workers (over 130) in Lebanon.

Israel has violently invaded and occupied Lebanon. The flag flying over the base in Al Khiam is an Israeli flag, not an Iranian flag. (Photo below)

The Lebanese Ministry of Health yesterday reported that 3,613 civilians have been killed and 11,072 have been wounded in Israeli attacks since March 2nd.

[Kyle Farquharson @kylefarq]

Isn’t it remarkable how Iran can strike a vital Israeli military asset embedded among civilians being exploited as human shields and only kill one of them? Almost as if modern militaries have an unprecedented ability to avoid civilian casualties if they so choose…

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

Israeli media reveals that in late February Iran hit Israel's secret geospatial intelligence Unit 9900 building "hidden inside a residential area." In other words Israel deliberately uses human shields to protect military assets

[Kyle Farquharson @kylefarq]

Bari Weiss *is* the thumb on the scale for CBS’s Zionist, Trump-supporting owner Larry Ellison. That’s precisely why she was installed in her job.

The ugly truth is that she isn’t interfering with the American standard of press freedom; she embodies that standard.

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

This is a devastating interview.

Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good.

Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.

[Kyle Farquharson @kylefarq]

@RabbiMivasair North Korea is anti-Zionist. She wouldn’t last five minutes there.

[Kyle Farquharson @kylefarq]

I’ve been thinking about this too. The U.S. is apparently allowed to kidnap foreign heads of state and hold them hostage permanently with no scrutiny, let alone outrage from the ruling class and their media.

[Yves-Angeline @AdamantxYves]

We never hear about Maduro anymore. I can't believe everyone in power just let that go.

[Kyle Farquharson @kylefarq]

I would expect a lifetime ban if a Palestinian at that festival were to accurately condemn Israel as a society that openly condones, justifies, and glorifies rape.

[Eoin Higgins @EoinHiggins_]

Just to be clear, if this was the other way around, a Palestinian filmmaker mocking the sexual assault of Israelis, they would be banned from the festival for life

[Kyle Farquharson @kylefarq]

Once again, in the west, “support for Ukraine” means support for the agenda of using Ukrainians as cannon fodder to weaken Russia. Western leaders’ true “solidarity” is with U.S. imperialism. “Standing with Ukraine” is PR spin to sell it to the public.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

This will be one for the history books. The Iranian government is holding the line to defend Lebanese sovereignty even at a cost to its own interests. At the same time, the Lebanese government is signing a surrender deal with the very US-Israel Axis that is attacking, invading, occupying, and subjugating it, surrendering its territory to the invading army, promising to disarm the country’s only resistance on behalf of the invading Axis, and signing a declaration attacking the Iranian government that is defending it. Marshal Pétain has returned from the grave.

[Kyle Farquharson @kylefarq]

“Rising antisemitism” is a psyop designed to get Israel and its supporters off the hook for genocide.

[Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui @sabreenaGS]

Reminder that when PM Carney and other Canadian politicians talk about rising “antisemitism” in Canada they are not talking about rising hostility towards Jews. They are talking about rising hostility towards Israel, and rising opposition to its genocide of Palestinians.
They are talking about rising anti-Zionism.
Anti-Zionism is anti-racism, anti-apartheid, anti-genocide.
And that, in fact, is a wonderful thing.
We should really be celebrating as a nation if we have come this far to be able to say that anti-racism is rising in this country.

[Nick Cleveland-Stout @nick_clevelands]

The Israeli Defense Ministry is training 320 "influence experts" per year on using deepfakes, psycohological warfare, propaganda, and deception. Some of the courses specifically focus on how to conduct influence operations in the US.

[Kyle Farquharson @kylefarq]

@nkalamb Also typical of liberalism, he doesn’t really believe what he’s saying. Diaspora groups in Canada have long been entitled (even encouraged) to harbour hatreds as long as they’re convenient to Ottawa’s geopolitics.

[Kyle Farquharson @kylefarq]

@rosendo_joe The only crippling debts in Canada are private ones owed to banks and credit card companies.

[Kyle Farquharson @kylefarq]

@lauramatsue Tell me about it. I’m a longtime user and appreciator of the em-dash, now under a pall of unrelenting suspicion.

[Yves Engler @EnglerYves]

At a bastion of support for genocidal Jewish supremacy Mark Carney just bolstered forces funding and promoting a lawless genocidal state. At a synagogue that prays for Israeli soldiers the prime minister appointed a top apartheid lobbyist head of a new “equality” council.
In a speech billed as a response to a “crisis in antisemitism” Carney boosted a movement promoting a lawless state addicted to murder. Over the past few days Israel has slaughtered a hundred in Lebanon in a bid to undermine a US-Iran ceasefire so they can kill more Iranians.

Monday Carney announced that a new Ministerial Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion would be headed by the former chair of the Canada-Israel Committee and chair of Jewish Federations United Israel Appeal. Marc Gold has been promoting apartheid and genocide for decades and will now have a formal government position to fight “discrimination”.

Carney’s speech took place at Toronto’s Holy Blossom Temple. The synagogue advocates for the lawless apartheid state. It recites prayers for the success of the IOF. Its website states, “We know many congregants have dear ones in Israel. If you have a dear one who is serving in the IDF now, please send us the name, so we can include them in our daily prayers.”

It also organizes missions for congregants to volunteer on Israel’s occupation force bases. At the end of this month the synagogue is organizing a tour of Israel with multiple events focused on Israeli soldiers and illegally occupied territory. The promotional brochure for the “Holy Blossom Temple ‘We the North’ solidarity and service in northern Israel” tour notes:

“Engage in a meaningful conversation with Mai Levy, a former Holy Blossom Temple Shinshinit from Caesarea, as she shares her personal journey and reflections from serving as an IDF officer throughout the recent war…. Spend the evening together with IDF reserve officers and soldiers getting a sense of their experiences as well as an opportunity to thank them for their vital service…. Meet Lt. Col. (Res.) Eyal Dror on the Golan Heights for a strategic briefing overlooking Quneitra, learning about Israel’s northern security challenges and the humanitarian efforts of Operation Good Neighbor during the Syrian civil war.”

Holy Blossom is promoting Sunday’s “Walk for Israel”, which will see tens of thousands of Toronto Jews take the streets in support of apartheid and genocide. In New York on Sunday tens of thousands marched behind murderous fascist Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich in an “Israel Parade” and two weeks ago hundreds rallied in front of the New York Times office to support Israeli officials raping Palestinians.

Carney’s speech is a boost for those organizing the Toronto “Walk for Israel”. It’s a boost for the schools and community organizations inducing Canadians to join the Israeli military and to those sending four hundred million dollars a year in tax-payer subsidized donations to Israel.

In recent days genocide supporters have sought to claim a fourteen-year-old Toronto girl running away from home was “antisemitism”. They also claimed anti-genocide protesters hanging effigies of Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and Itamar Ben-Gvir was “antisemitism”.
Those promoting Israel’s ongoing destruction of Gaza and land theft in the West Bank are becoming shriller with their claims of “antisemitism”. Their screeching is designed to stifle the movements seeking to lessen Canada’s extensive support for apartheid and genocide.

There’s no “crisis of antisemitism” in Canada. There is, however, a crisis of genocidal Jewish supremacy.

And empowering such Israel supporters in the name of fighting “antisemitism” will likely have the opposite effect.

[Kyle Farquharson @kylefarq]

F the World Cup.

[Alex Shams @alexshams_]

The US has refused to host Iran's national team for the World Cup even though they have to play all their games there

Which means they're based in Tijuana and will have to fly on the day of their games

I've never heard of this kind of discrimination in World Cup history

[Kyle Farquharson @kylefarq]

This is the mental pretzel required to achieve both of the Australian government’s desired goals, shared by western rulers in general: 1) stifle criticism of Israel, and 2) shield individuals and institutions that support Israel (Jewish or otherwise) from any inconvenience.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Australia's antisemitism czar released a document which simultaneously asserts that "antisemitism and antizionism are both expressions of hatred towards Jews" AND that "It is antisemitic to conflate the policies of the Israeli government with the views of Jewish Australians".

These two sentences are contradictory and mutually exclusive. They cannot both be true. If it's wrong to conflate all Jews with Israel, then it cannot be right to conflate a rejection of the pro-Israel political ideology with a hatred toward all Jews. It's either one or the other. It can't be both.

Just in case you wanted a little more insight into how absurd and incoherent this fake "antisemitism" panic is.