A Spectre is Haunting Canada

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[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ The State Department has launched an investigation of Trita Parsi, co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the National Iranian-American Council (NIAC), and could seek to deport him, according to U.S. officials and documents reviewed by The Free Press.

Parsi, who holds a green card, is one of the most prominent U.S.-based critics of the war with Iran. He was born in Iran, grew up in Sweden, has lived in the United States for over 25 years.

A Trump administration official said Secretary of State Marco Rubio was taking “a hard look” at anyone whose work “furthers” the agenda of U.S. adversaries, invoking a provision of federal immigration law allowing the secretary of state to personally determine that a noncitizen’s presence compromises a “compelling U.S. foreign policy interest”—the same authority Rubio used in the ongoing effort to deport Columbia University protest leader Mahmoud Khalil.

Quincy’s CEO told staff and donors in April that the think tank was retaining an immigration lawyer and preparing a writ of habeas corpus “to have at the ready” if Parsi were suddenly detained.

The outlet that broke this story, The Free Press, has repeatedly published articles that amplify official pressure on critics of Israel, U.S. wars, and aggressive foreign policy, contributing to a chilling effect intended to deter others from speaking out.

[Peter Beinart @PeterBeinart]

Every time I suggest equality under the law as the right principle for Israel-Palestine, many of my fellow Jews tell me it's dangerously unrealistic, that I don't understand the region etc. It's exactly what I heard from white South Africans as a kid. But I rarely heard a Black South African during apartheid say that legal equality was unrealistic, or would produce more violence, just as I rarely hear that from Palestinians today.

[A Spectre is Haunting Canada @make_mine_marx]

@Joseph945686 @oliveegirl @OVisionIL Lol, you really need to learn to recognize bullshit

https://t.co/QsYxzJsX1x

[A Spectre is Haunting Canada @make_mine_marx]

@Joseph945686 @Ra_w1an00 @oliveegirl @OVisionIL They didn't use genetic science, their claim is based on graphics from a show on the Discovery Channel

https://t.co/rT8HxmvlHk

[A Spectre is Haunting Canada @make_mine_marx]

@GianmarcoSoresi What, no unrevised DSM-5 or DSM-III? No DSM-IV-TR? Not a single edition of the ICD? This is what happens when you let yourself be distracted from your career as a full-time collector of diagnostic manuals by a passing fancy you'll forget in a week, like stand-up comedy.

[A Spectre is Haunting Canada @make_mine_marx]

@eseaFranny @tymshaye @BladeoftheS Nah, FIFA sets the rules for the World Cup, Iran sets the rules for the straight of Hormuz, Israel sets the rules for how America uses it's military in the middle east, and Jeffrey Epstein set the rules for how Trump raped kids.

[A Spectre is Haunting Canada @make_mine_marx]

@CesarBarre26075 @AssalRad Of course they're aligned with the IRGC, they're representing their country and the IRGC is a branch of their country's military. This is like complaining that the US team is aligned with the US Army.
If the USA can't handle their presence then they shouldn't host the World Cup.

[A Spectre is Haunting Canada @make_mine_marx]

@LivZe48598 @jovialicus @IhabHassane No, the Roman Palaestina is just a transliteration of the Greek Palaistinê, the name of the region under the Greek rule that began in the 4th century BC and which Judea was a tributary of. The Greek name derived from the Assyrian Palashtu, which derived from the Egyptian Peleset.

[A Spectre is Haunting Canada @make_mine_marx]

@LivZe48598 @MissD5 @IhabHassane Wrong again, there was no Emirate of Transjordan after May 25, 1946

[A Spectre is Haunting Canada @make_mine_marx]

@Sara_snake6 @ryangrim What Zionist propaganda? The tattoo is real, he admitted it, apologized for his mistake,and got it covered up

[A Spectre is Haunting Canada @make_mine_marx]

@rich_toronto @grey_gh0st_ To be clear, it's the Israeli side that refuses to recognize the Palestinians' right to exist, the Palestinians have formally recognized Israel since the Oslo accords in 1993.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Hi Rich,

The problem with your definitions of Zionism is that Zionism was not an abstract idea ("the belief in the existence of a Jewish home land, Israel") but a “in real life” movement.

It was a movement with leaders, institutions, policies and militias that set out to build what it called a Jewish state with a Jewish supermajority working at Jewish-only cooperatives living in Jewish-only colonies owned by Jewish-only land authorities operating Jewish-only schools maintained by Jewish-only militias in a country that was overwhelmingly Palestinian Arab. What could possibly go wrong?

The first thing that could and did go wrong was that not enough Jews moved to Palestine to outnumber the Palestinian Arabs. It was known as the “Arab problem,” i.e., the problem that there were too many Arabs in Palestine.

By the mid-late 1930s, the Zionist movement settled on “transfer,” i.e., expulsion, as the optimal solution to this problem. And then, in 1948, that’s exactly what Israel did, expel about 750,000 Palestinians from their homes. Then they expelled another 30,000 over the next decade. And then another 300,000 in 1967, along with 130,000 Syrians, and then they pushed out a few hundred thousand more from 1968 to 1993, and a few hundred thousand more since.

Today, Israel’s forcible displacement policies are on steroids. Israel is crowding Palestinians into smaller and smaller areas of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Israel, and pushing them out of Palestine altogether at an accelerating pace. Now, it’s expanding into Lebanon and Syria and doing the same there to Lebanese and Syrians.

Zionists like yourself insist on a definition of Zionism detached from the history of the Zionist movement. As we said, the Zionist movement at its core was about the immigration of Jews into Palestine & the displacement of Palestinians out of it, the construction of Jewish settlements in it and the destruction of Palestinian ones, and the armament of Jewish militias and disarmament of Palestinian ones. That was how an Arab country was transformed into a Jewish one, demographically, physically and kinetically.

You can call immigration “indigenousness,” you can call colonization “the right to self-determination” and you can call a policy of forever, forcible displacement “liberation.”

But no one is buying the bullshit anymore. That’s why Israel’s Foreign Ministry budget will receive a $150 million bonus this year, more than a 20X increase in bonus blood money. That’s also why the Israel lobby in the US is responsible for the most expensive primaries in US American history. And that’s why Israel is paying influencers $7,000 per post, since people aren’t buying the bullshit.

And the reason is pretty simple. Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza has ripped the mask off the underlying logic of Zionism. As Patrick Wolfe famously put it in his classic essay on the topic, settler-colonial movements, “without exception,” lead to a logic of the “elimination of the native.” And in the case of Palestine, the logic of the elimination of the native needed no theorizing by academics, not even a look at history. Instead, it has been on live-stream every day for the past 969 days, and counting.

https://t.co/6Pew4QoVXu

[A Spectre is Haunting Canada @make_mine_marx]

@Moke1966758 @nxt888 @SecRubio Clearly you have no idea what you're talking about, the tank man photo was taken the day after the square was cleared; the column of tanks he blocked was leaving, not arriving.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Two years of lying about bombing hospitals in Gaza – supposedly to target "Hamas control and command centres" underneath – has really paid off.

Now Israel bombs Lebanon's hospitals and doesn't even need to pretend there's a military rationale.

[A Spectre is Haunting Canada @make_mine_marx]

@harryt59_harry @DennisKendel @PierrePoilievre Now now, let's be fair here, Trudeau also had more intelligence in his little finger than Poilievre has in his whole brain.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This shows that Germany obviously still doesn't get it: their "historical responsibility" isn't to support Israel even as they commit genocide.

When the lesson of Nazism is obviously a universal one about justice, they instead think it's a blood debt to a particular people.

Which is, when you think about it, the Nazi way of looking at it: hierarchizing peoples and assigning collective responsibility - or collective impunity - on that basis.

[Hebh Jamal @hebh_jamal]

For the first time, Germany failed to secure enough votes for a rotating seat on the UN Security Council. In real time, it learned that its commitment to Staatsräson and support for Israeli genocidal violence has severely damaged their standing in the international community 🤷‍♀️

[A Spectre is Haunting Canada @make_mine_marx]

@ColinWr29337470 @GadSaad No take backsies! He's your problem now!

[A Spectre is Haunting Canada @make_mine_marx]

@gold_rose11 @AzorTheReturn @jasontoney_ @CBCNews We're not looking at racism or antisemitism in general, the focus on violent incidents is because we're looking at @AzorTheReturn's claim that there has been "an uptick of antisemetic violence in Canada."