L Cassidy

(she/her) 🇨🇦✡️🟦

[Dana Weinstein @justdanaw]

Fragen an einen pro-palästinensischen Aktivisten:

Erkläre mir bitte, warum du der Meinung bist, dass Israel den Palästinensern das Land weggenommen hat, obwohl Jordanien 80 % des historischen Palästina besetzt hält?

Erkläre mir, warum du es für selbstverständlich hältst, dass Palästina den Palästinensern gehören soll, dir aber nie der Gedanke gekommen ist, dass Judäa eigentlich den Judäern – also den Juden – gehören könnte?

Erkläre mir, warum du Israel als Apartheidstaat bezeichnest, obwohl ein Araber völlig unbehelligt durch Tel Aviv oder Haifa spazieren kann, während ein Jude, der sich versehentlich nach Ramallah oder Shechem (Nablus) verirrt, Gefahr läuft, gelyncht zu werden?

Erkläre mir, warum du es völlig normal findest, dass Araber in Israel leben, dir aber undenkbar erscheint, dass auch nur ein einziger Jude in einem zukünftigen palästinensischen Staat leben dürfte?

Erkläre mir, warum du die Gebiete erst dann als „palästinensische Territorien“ bezeichnet hast, nachdem Israel sie 1967 von Ägypten (Gaza) und Jordanien (Judäa und Samaria) übernommen hatte?

Erkläre mir, warum die Palästinenser in all den Jahren, in denen diese Gebiete unter arabischer (jordanischer bzw. ägyptischer) Herrschaft standen, nie versucht haben, dort einen eigenen Staat zu gründen?

Und erkläre mir schließlich, warum du diesen Fragen ausweichst – aus Angst, erkennen zu müssen, dass deine unerschütterliche Unterstützung der palästinensischen Sache gegen Israel letztlich nichts anderes ist als der humanitär verbrämte Ausdruck deines Antisemitismus?

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Does Israel have a right to exist?

No?

Cool. Cool.

You are against religious states? Got it.

Totally get it. It’s a problem when members of a religion have more rights than members of other religions. Makes sense. Totally with you…

Hey, mind doing me a solid?

Send me some links to where you opposed the existence of 52 Islamic states.

How about the 120 Christian countries, 15 of which have Christianity as the official religion?

Send me those tweets of yours please.

What’s that? Speak up please. Can’t hear you…

You haven’t written about Muslim or Christian states?

Only the one Jewish state is a problem but Muslim and Christian states aren’t?

Ohhh, ok.

What’s it called again when you single out the Jew and have one standard for Jews and another for the rest of the world?

I know there’s a name for that. Just can’t put my finger on it.

Care to remind me what that’s called again?

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

🇺🇳What will NOT get you fired from a UN job:

- Implying Israelis eat human flesh.
- Saying Israelis have no humanity.
- Speaking on Qatar-owned channel Al Jazeera alongside Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal and Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- Calling Israel “the enemy of humanity”.
- Being condemned for antisemitism by France, Canada, Germany, and the US.

🇺🇳What WILL get you fired from a UN job:

- Saying the war in Gaza is not a genocide.
- Saying Hamas attacked Israel and Jews on October 7 with genocidal intent.

Never forget that UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese had her mandate renewed, while UN Genocide Expert Alice Nderitu had hers terminated.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

It wasn’t Israel that blocked baby formula from Gaza.

It was Hamas who stole and stockpiled it for their narrative that “Israel starves babies.”

Now, Gazan activists are documenting it.

Will all those Westerners who pledged to “listen to Palestinians” do so now that Palestinians are exposing Hamas’s crimes?

[L Cassidy @LCass7]

@YGKevents @EventsYGK

[Bereaved Families of Ontario - Kingston Region @BFOKingston]

NATIONAL GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT DAY

On Nov 18th, join us in the Auditorium at 1200 Princess St. when doors open at 6pm. Program starts at 6:30pm with guest speaker Tamara Spearing from @thegweneffectpodcast. Light refreshments. Memorial activities available throughout the evening

[Bereaved Families of Ontario - Kingston Region @BFOKingston]

Join BFO-Kingston on Nov 18 for National Grief & Bereavement Day. Doors open at 6pm, program starts at 6:30pm. Hear guest speaker Tamara Spearing from Gwen Effect Podcast, participate in memorial activities, learning topics & optional grief groups.
RSVP at https://t.co/j3HO81fPAd

[David Collier @mishtal]

@MarkJCarney This will go down in history as a huge error - and a major misstep by western nations - who have coordinated together to reward slaughter, rape, Jew-hatred, and radical Islamic terrorism.

This will only make everything worse.

https://t.co/39hZv8QkYF

[L Cassidy @LCass7]

@Mikeggibbs This will not help the Palestinian people, only Hamas. This will not end the war, only prolong it.

[L Cassidy @LCass7]

@Mikeggibbs The message it sends when 48 hostages, brutally kidnapped on October 7th and held for over 700 days, are STILL being held in Gaza is that terrorism gets rewarded and the world doesn’t care about Israeli hostages. And it pushes right wing Israeli politicians further right.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

I respect @ezraklein a lot, but this is dead wrong and frankly a baffling thing to say.

Charlie Kirk was the *epitome* of our modern brand of poisonous politics. Ezra tries to make the point that he went around to college campuses to debate people. And that's true, for a very tortured version of the word 'debate'.

But Charlie Kirk was not trying to build bridges. He was not trying to reach a common understanding with his opponents in the way that Ezra himself does. He was not operating in good faith, and his goal was not respectful two-way conversations where both sides can grow and change.

Kirk's goal at his college 'debates' was not to find experts on tricky issues of culture and policy and then have a Socratic dialogues and learn from them. His goal was to find a purple haired nineteen year-old sociology major with more feelings than sense, and then dunk on them. He wanted to farm clips he could use on social media to make his opponents look ridiculous, and he was good at it. When I think about how social media has changed politics for the worse, Charlie Kirk and his style of engagement is one of the main protagonists.

We live in a heavily polarized era where the parties hate each other more than they have in decades and political violence is on the rise. And while it might be distasteful to say it directly after he was murdered, Kirk was one of the people driving that hatred and that polarization. He taught his audiences to hate and fear their opponents. He egged on the public's worst and basest instincts. He flirted heavily and repeatedly with the idea of political violence.

It should obviously be said that none of that justifies killing him. Anyone who advocates for political violence is no friend or ally of mine. But for a man who wrote a book called "Why We're Polarized" to look at Charlie Kirk and say that he practiced politics the right way is delusional.

[David Moscrop @David_Moscrop]

Better idea — scrap the Catholic, separate system once and for all.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

92% of UN aid was stolen by Hamas.

Yonatan Samerano’s body was kidnapped by UNRWA staff.

UNRWA food & IDs were found in Sinwar’s tunnel.

The UN’s watchdog cut its threshold in half to declare a famine.

Maybe the UN isn’t the most neutral voice to speak about famine in Gaza.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

The “Free Palestine” crowd in the West breathes Palestine, dresses Palestine, lives Palestine.

But they don’t know where Gaza is on a map.

They don’t know which river and sea border Israel.

They don’t know that 20% of Israel’s population is Arab.

They don’t know that Gaza was under Egyptian control from 1948 to 1967, and yet Palestinians were never granted Egyptian citizenship.

They don’t know that every Israeli was forcibly removed from Gaza in 2005.

They don’t know that Hamas is still holding 50 hostages, blocking any chance of ending the war.

They don’t know that Hamas’s leaders are billionaires living in luxury in Qatar while Gazans suffer.

The only thing they seem to know is how to burn synagogues and beat Jews — thousands of miles away from Gaza.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Jews in Canada are 25x more likely to be victims of hate crime than all other Canadians, according to a new report.

"The daily reality is families wondering if it’s safe to walk to synagogue, school buses being checked for explosives, and students being bullied and harassed for being Jewish."

In a country that celebrates diversity, Jews are being told to hide theirs.

[AP @Average_NY_Guy]

There’s something really dangerous about the kind of antisemitism we’re seeing now. And it’s not just because it’s so out in the open. It’s because it makes Jewish fear sound ridiculous, and hyperbolic.

That’s what makes this moment different, and honestly, even scarier.

For a long time, Jews in the West could talk about antisemitism and people would at least listen. “Never again” meant something. Holocaust survivors were still alive. People took it seriously when Jews said: we’ve seen where this can go.

But now it's all different.

Now if you say Jews aren’t safe in America, people act like you’re hysterical. Mention the Holocaust, and you’re accused of emotional manipulation. Say you’re scared, and they laugh you off like you’re using old-fashioned language from your grandfather’s era. Like we’re trying to guilt the world into caring.

And that’s the scariest part. Not just the hate, but how people have learned to tune out our fear.

This new kind of antisemitism didn’t just pop up again, it came back smarter. It came back disguised. Wrapped in “social justice” terms. Wrapped in academic jargon. Instead of yelling “Jew,” they use words like “Zionist,” “colonizer,” “global elite.” Same hate. Same target. New packaging.

And when we try to call it out, we’re mocked and told that we’re overreacting, playing the victim, or clinging to the Holocaust for lack of better arguments

And suddenly the most basic Jewish survival instincts—warn early, speak up, don’t be quiet this time—sound to the world like overused lines from an old play.

It’s disgusting.

Imagine living in a world where Jewish suffering has been talked about so much, and so often, that people start treating it like background noise. Where the words “never again” don’t raise alarms anymore, they roll eyes. Where every time we say, “This is serious,” we’re met with a shrug or worse, sarcasm.

The modern Jew is now stuck. If we speak too loudly, we’re told to calm down. If we stay quiet, we disappear. Either way, we lose.

And that’s what this new wave of antisemitism has figured out. Not just how to threaten Jews, but how to make our warnings feel annoying. Like spam and a broken record.

It messes with your head. Makes you second-guess yourself. Am I being too dramatic? Too sensitive? Do I sound like I’m trying to “use the Holocaust”? It turns memory into something shameful, and our pain into something suspicious.

That’s why this version is so dangerous.

It’s not just attacking Jews physically. It’s stripping us of our ability to defend ourselves at all. Our credibility. Our voice. The one thing we had after all these years.

Our parents’ generation said “never again” and the world paused to listen. We say it now, and the world rolls its eyes.

This is where we are: Jewish kids needing guards at school. Synagogues burned down. Crowds marching with genocidal chants. Professors spewing hate from podiums. Celebrities spreading conspiracies. And still, when we say we’re scared, we’re the problem.

It’s not just the hatred.

It’s the fact that people don’t care that it’s happening.

So yeah, this is different. This is worse.

Because we’re not just fighting for safety anymore.

We’re fighting for the right to say we’re in danger and not be laughed at.

[ADL @ADL]

Watch below for a friendly reminder of what slogans like "Globalize the Intifada" really mean.

And for those who choose to affiliate themselves with the message behind these slogans, maybe ask yourself: Am I comfortable being complicit in the real-world harm these chants cause?

[Queen Chimerazilla ☭🐾 @Qveen_Potato]

When people wonder why trans people dislike JK Rowling .. this is why.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

You don’t need to downplay one people's pain to care about another.

Your heart should break for babies pulled from rubble, no matter where they’re from. You should care about civilians in Gaza, and you should care about civilians in Israel. That’s not cognitive dissonance. That’s called being human.

You don’t have to support a country’s government—or any war—to recognize the humanity of the people affected.

If it truly brings you joy that Israelis are being murdered, just because of where they're born, you’re not taking a political stance. You’ve just lost your humanity.

[Dr Helen Webberley (she/her) @HelenWebberley]

A woman is someone who feels like a woman, sees herself as a woman, identifies as a woman. She may express her femininity in any way that suits her life at that time. She simply is a woman.

A transphobe is someone who feels that womanhood is defined by the absence of a penis.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

There’s also the more generalized coercion which comes from the legislated poverty many disabled people are forced to live in.

The constant degradation that comes from having to beg for a meagre support that isn’t enough to keep food on the table.