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South African Canadian Family Physician/Palliative Care/ Educator Health Care Leadership&transformation JIPMER’84

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

oh look, Israel just picked the United States' next president.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

WHY are we letting Israeli soldiers destroy every inch of Palestine? Is it ''a war''? Would you accept others do this to you and your home?

Let's stop this genocide together.
Diplomats
Politicians
Judges
Police officers
Journalists
Citizens
Anyone can and must take action.

[Shibley Telhami @ShibleyTelhami]

In light of the anti-Muslim horror in San Diego, I am reposting this reminder: Prejudice toward Muslims is highest among all religious and ethnic groups https://t.co/POhJ8poSlo

[Ammouna127 @Emna24705909]

@HasanabiProd Coward Hakeem Jeffries should introduce a resolution condemning Randy Fine for spreading Islamophobia.

[TheMuslimLawyer @faisalkutty]

Sometimes a poet captures the true cost of war more honestly than all the speeches that justify it.

[Jay Naidoo @Jay_Naidoo]

The Continuity of Fink Haysom
Tribute to a Patriot. 18.03.2026

I met Fink Haysom and Mary Ann Calkin in 1979, at a time when South Africa was burning with repression and possibility. I was a young activist shaped by the aftermath of the Soweto Uprising and the brutal murder of Steve Biko. We had gone underground. Many were detained. Many others went into exile.

It was in this crucible that I encountered Fink and Mary Ann, among the first white comrades who treated me as an equal in struggle and in life. I was 25. Through them, and through the emerging union movement, I began to understand organisation, discipline, and the deeper meaning of working class solidarity.

Fink Haysom was, and remains to me, a deeply principled patriot. As a revolutionary, I bow my head to him. He carried integrity not as a slogan, but as a way of being, quiet, consistent, and unwavering. He sought common ground, mediated with humility, and stood firmly for justice without ego.

Like Nelson Mandela, he understood that compassion and forgiveness are the lifeblood of freedom.

But like all of us in the freedom struggle, the journey came at a cost.

It was not easy on our families especially our children. Our long absences, the constant danger, the demands of the struggle these left deep wounds. Many families were stretched, some broken. This is the unforgiving side of politics that history does not always record.

I know personally the pain that prolonged absence brings. The quiet cost carried by those who wait, who endure, who hold the home while we fight in the world.

And perhaps this is why the inner journey mattered so much.

Madiba often reminded us that the most difficult path is the one within from the cesspool of the mind, with its ego, cravings, and attachments, toward a place of pure compassion and forgiveness and seat of soul in a heart centered leadership.

It is a lifelong journey.

And in Fink, I saw someone who walked that path with sincerity. He had a good head and a good heart. And to hold both, in balance, is no small achievement.

What is striking about Fink’s life is its continuity.

There was no rupture between the struggle years and what came after. When he served alongside Madiba in the Presidency, it was not a shift into power, it was a continuation of service. The same values that guided him in the underground and in the labour movement integrity, dialogue, non-racialism, and justice remained intact.

And when he moved into his work with the United Nations, that continuity deepened rather than diluted.

He carried the lessons of South Africa into the global arena:
•the understanding that peace cannot be imposed it must be negotiated
•that dignity is the foundation of stability
•that reconciliation is not weakness, but strength
•and that humanity must always come before power

In conflict zones and fragile states, he did not arrive as a bureaucrat. He arrived as a comrade of humanity someone shaped by struggle, grounded in humility, and committed to building bridges where others saw divisions.

His life was not a series of roles. It was a single thread of service.

From the streets of resistance, to the Presidency, to the United Nations there was a seamless arc. No contradiction. No loss of moral centre.

This is what made him rare.

In a world where many are changed by proximity to power, Fink remained anchored. His journey reminds us that true leadership is not about position it is about continuity of values across time, place, and circumstance.

And perhaps that is his deepest lesson to us:

That the struggle does not end when freedom is won.
It simply changes form.
And those who carry it with integrity become bridges between worlds.

🙏🏾❤️

[VoxUmmah @VoxUmmah]

The U.S. has called on South Africa to cut ties with Iran, but officials in Pretoria have rejected the pressure. Zane Dangor, Director-General of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, said South Africa has “no reason” to sever relations, despite comments from the new U.S. ambassador suggesting ties with the Islamic Republic hinder relations with Washington.

Dangor also dismissed further U.S. demands, including calls to drop South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ, scrap Black empowerment laws, and accept a refugee programme for white South Africans. South Africa’s position remains anchored in its independent foreign policy and historical ties with Iran, which supported anti-apartheid efforts by cutting oil to the regime and backing ANC-linked resistance networks.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Some Israeli settlers are terrorists acting not just with impunity, but with the protection of the IDF.

[David Schwartz @DavidSchwartz70]

Randy Fine doesn't represent me or any decent Jew and should remove his kippah.

I'm not telling any Jew how to observe their faith—personal practice is sacred and private. Full stop. However, since Randy Fine himself says that he isn’t an observing Jew but puts on a kippah to make a statement, then we must call it out.

He puts it on when he's spewing Islamophobic sewage, demanding more fear of Muslims, demonizing other faiths, or gloating over harm.

Kippahs aren't bigotry capes. It's not a prop for Venom. It's supposed to remind you that God sees the filth you're peddling. Take it off and stop pretending you're anything but a hate-peddling disgrace.

Jews everywhere: Let's make it clear—RANDY FINE DOES NOT SPEAK FOR US.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

More than two weeks into the war with Iran, Muslim Americans are confronting a new surge of hateful rhetoric amplified online and echoed by Republican lawmakers.

Civil rights advocates and Democratic lawmakers have condemned the remarks as dangerous and openly bigoted.

@GeoffRBennett has more.

[𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦 @Malcolm_Pal9]

Rachel Corrie’s parents, Craig and Cindy, are still fighting for Palestinian human rights 23 years after their daughter was killed by Israel.

[Dilly Hussain @DillyHussain88]

When I first visited Afghanistan in 2024, I went to the “Omid” (Hope) drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul, which was bombed by Pakistan last night.

Afghanistan has one of the most successful opium addiction rehabilitation programmes in the world. This is despite 20 years of a brutal US-led NATO occupation that proliferated opium usage domestically and monopolised its global exportation.

I met former addicts who had become Huffadh of the Quran, as well as electricians, tailors, carpenters, bricklayers, and teachers of Pashto, while others were studying English. Many had completely rebuilt their lives. Some had spent just three months there and never wanted to leave, choosing instead to stay on as mentors and volunteers to help others recover.

In the space of just a few years, opium addiction across parts of the country had dropped so significantly that in many towns and cities it had become almost non-existent.

To now see Pakistan bomb the same rehabilitation centre, killing at least 400 civilians, is deeply disturbing.

Those killed were patients, people who had entered that centre with hope. Muslims in the process of turning their lives around, who could have gone on to become Quran teachers, labourers, and contributors to their society.

To carry out such an attack in the concluding nights of Ramadan, at a time when the Muslim world is already in turmoil, is utterly shameful, regardless of any anti-terrorism justification put forward by Pakistan.

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji‘oon.

[Baljit Nagra @drbaljitnagra]

Priyanka Chopra PR is trying to put out the fire after her Oscar appearance. Key tactic blame Pakistani people. Well I’m Indian and I am callling her out for her hypocrisy. Becoming UNICEF ambassador for children and being quite about plight of Gaza children - unforgivable

[It's Ahmad @AhmadX_Official]

A beautiful view of Medina in 1396 AH / 1976.
Decades may pass and buildings may change, but the love for the city of the Prophet PBUH never fades from the hearts of believers.

[Jewish Voice @jewishvoicelive]

Jews and Muslims in brotherhood -

Jewish rabbis were in the streets of London to show support for Iran.

Torah Jews will continue to support the great Iranian people and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

We pray to Almighty GD every day to eliminate the scourge of Zionism.

The Iranian people are not the enemies of the Jews; the enemies of the Jews are Israel and the Zionist regime.

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

I worked months in central Africa with the rural poor doing spinal taps and giving brutal drugs to patients with sleeping sickness. That is why I believe @DNDi and @MSF deserve the 2026 Nobel Prize in medicine for acoziborole. @MSF_IP @NobelPrize

[Adv. Vijay Singh @VijaySingh_law]

SHE SAID THE QUIET PART ALOUD. 🔥

#FridayFitness #iran #Israel

[Yipeng Ge 葛义朋 @yipengGe]

My statement on Al-Quds Day:

Free Palestine.
Within our lifetimes.
Solidarity forever.

🇵🇸

[Iman Jalali @Stealx]

I'm Iranian-American. I hold both of those identities and I won't apologize for either one.

As an American, I want this country to be smart. Not just strong. Smart. And what I'm watching right now is the opposite of smart. It's the same playbook we've run decade after decade. Overwhelming force, premature victory laps and zero understanding of what the other side is actually doing.

As someone of Iranian descent, I know something most American analysts don't: The regime has been thinking about this war for 40 years. Not hoping for it. Preparing for it. Everything designed around: "What do we do when America comes?"

The answer was never "win a dogfight." The answer was: Death by a thousand cuts. Make the Strait impassable and make the missile defense systems run dry. Make the world economy scream. Make the Gulf countries question their choices.

And that's what we're seeing as our media is high fiving over destroying the Iranian Navy, a Navy that was laughable or Iran's fighter jets, which were so out of date that nobody ever thought Iran had a real air force.

I'm not rooting for Iran. I have family there who are terrified. I'm rooting for America to be honest with itself. I've watched us confuse blowing things up with winning my entire adult life. At some point, you have to ask, if we keep winning wars like this, why does nothing ever get better?

This isn't about being anti-war or anti-American. It's about being anti-stupid.