I don't get how Cineplex has dodged the ire of the #Palestine / #BDS / etc. boycott movements. They're run by the same Israeli billionaires as @chaptersindigo (which activists risk jail to protest) and they distribute Israeli propaganda (while suppressing "No Other Land").
So the prisoner just convicted of murdering his parents, stepped up to the dock, and sought mercy. " I am an orphan, " said he.
The story of Zionism ....
@larryelder These life value conversion equations are one of the weirdest things you Israel apologists do, and you do it all the time. Who do you guys think you're appealing to by explaining to Americans that their lives are worth less per capita than Israeli lives?
the US regime's treatment of Iran's football team is worse than how Nazi Germany treated participants in the 1936 Olympics, including black athletes like Jesse Owens who was treated better in Berlin than he was in Jim Crow America. And you just know there's some genocidal Zionist Jewish supremacist somewhere in the Trump admin who is behind all this, most likely that depraved grotesque cretin Stephen Miller.
@pierrehardrock@JJ_McCullough It is outrageous to demand that 100% of a government ministry/role operat in a language that most of the citizens don't speak.
https://t.co/ZX1nVb4mkg
@MGrantham6874@JJ_McCullough And how did that come to be? Did they get to vote on it? Of course not.
How can a place claim to be a democracy while also having the entire government operate in a language that 6/10 voters don't speak?
@MGrantham6874@JJ_McCullough And how did that come to be? Did they get to vote on it? Of course not.
How can a place claim to be a democracy while also having the entire government operate in a language that 6/10 voters don't speak?
@sichimencho@JJ_McCullough "offcial language" is a very un-Anglo concept (exceptions being NZ with recent legislation which came from promoting Maori and working backwards from that: Singapore+India needed something tribally neutral).
Toronto police claim a “gun-for-hire network” is behind at least 27 shootings in the GTA, “including shootings at synagogues and Jewish schools.”
The Toronto Star reports: “Police believe that several young people have been hired to carry out shootings throughout the city and the wider GTA, including the U.S. consulate shooting, shootings at synagogues and Jewish schools, as well as shootings targeting the waste management company GFL Environmental.”
If true, the obvious next question is: Who is paying them, and who benefits from these shootings?
https://t.co/xAaJEe8Pj2
You can make an argument that people in public sector service roles should not display political insignia. But only if you apply that universally and not make Palestine the exception. I was once asked to remove a Palestine badge by security at parliament. (There is a rule, bizarre as it seems, that you cannot wear political insignia in parliament). Next to me in queue was someone wearing a Ukraine badge. When I challenged why that wasn't being removed the answer was " that's not political". This is all part of the project by Israel and its allies to toxify support for Palestinian rights as something extreme , sinister and outside the boundaries of acceptable discourse, usually via narratives of antisemitism or support for terrorism. Its power is diminishing in the context of the genocide which has been livestreamed. People know what they have seen. But that doesn't mean the political establishment will still not try to use the playbook to repress, grotesquely framing opposition to war crimes and atrocities as a threat to Jewish safety, in this case the safety of Jewish patients. In doing so they undermine amy consistent antiracism, dehumanising Palestinians by suggesting bringing the facts of their oppression into the public domain and demanding an end to UK complicity with it , is something harmful. In the Health sector, the worst example of this was the successful campaign by @UKLFI to get a hospital to remove a display of pottery plates made by children from Gaza , on the basis that the images of Palestinian life and culture prevented Jewish patients attending the hospital. These initiatives must be resisted by all who believe that standing in support of principles of justice and rights and against the crimes of genocide and apartheid is not simply a right but a profound moral duty.
There are lots of people on here drinking the security services Kool Aid over the sentencing of the Filton Four.
They believe the judge was right to overturn the jury's decision to convict four anti-genocide activists of criminal damage and make it a terrorism offence instead, overturning centuries of legal precedent.
Why? Because, they claim, the four activists broke / smashed / shattered a police woman's spine.
But that obviously can't be the explanation because three of the activists had nothing to do with that incident and yet they were convicted as terrorists by the judge anyway.
Even Samuel Corner, the activist who was convicted over this incident (which left the police woman with a minor fracture, according to the medical authorities who testified), shouldn't have been sentenced as a terrorist for it because that is not what the jury, which heard the actual evidence, decided.
The jury convicted Samuel Corner of grievous bodily harm *without intent*. The prosecution had charged him with GBH *with intent* because they needed that as his conviction to build a public mood in support of the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.
If Corner could be presented as having entered Israel's Elbit weapons factory with intent to commit violence, then the implication would be that the other activists were in on that plan – a conspiracy – and the government would be off the hook of violating fundamental legal norms by proscribing Palestine Action.
By stripping out intent, the jury pulled the rug from under the government's feet.
Judge Johnson's task was put the rug firmly back in place by riding roughshod over the jury's decision and sentencing them as terrorists anyway.
The timing couldn't be more convenient. On Monday, the Appeal Court will be deciding on the government's appeal against the High Court declaring its proscription of Palestine Action unlawful.
If you're peddling the "But they smashed the back of a police woman" line you've been fed by the Daily Mail and BBC, it's because that is exactly what the government needs you spouting as it upends our age-old rights to jury trials, as it stamps out an honourable tradition of direct action dating back to the Suffragettes and before, and as it gives itself cover for continuing complicity in a genocide.
Stop being a cuck. Don't fall for this psy-op.
@JJ_McCullough I feel like your original sin(s) are calling-out Quebec and calling-out "weird left-wing nationalism".
Whenever I see anyone getting incensed at the mention of your name it's the same few Qu***kers and R**ditors