Rights Action

Rights Action works to end exploitation-poverty, corruption, repression in Guatemala & Honduras, & hold U.S. & Canada, accountable for helping cause them.

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

Gazze hastanelerinde gönüllü olarak görev yapan Japon hemşire, Japonya'ya döndükten sonra basın toplantısı yaptı:

"Gazze halkı neyi yanlış yaptı? Hayatın ağırlığı herkese eşit değil mi? Bu dünya bir türlü adil olamadı.

Bütün dünya onlara saldırıyor, birey olarak hiçbir hakları yok… Hem topraklarını işgal ediyorsunuz hem de onları öldürüyorsunuz.

Belki bu sözler bile dünyaya ulaşmayacak, hatta görmezden gelinecek… Filistin halkı varoluş mücadelesi veriyor…

Gazze halkının sesini dünyaya duyurmaya çalışacağım…”

[Yves Engler @EnglerYves]

The charge against Hassan Hajahmad confirms the importance of abolishing Canada’s civil liberties violating, anti-Palestinian, terrorism list. The charge must be dropped.

Wednesday it was reported that 33-year-old anti-genocide activist Ahmad Hassan Hajahmad was charged with “Participating in or Contributing to Activities of a Terrorist Group.” The offence carries a maximum of 10 years in jail.

The Toronto Police Service (TPS) release about the arrest mentions two speeches Hajahmad made at anti-genocide demonstrations on May 25 and September 7, 2024 “where he used amplification devices to make public statements that advocated for the detestation and harm against members of the Israeli and Jewish communities.”

While I’ve been unable to find the first speech, a 1:41 minute clip of the Sept. 7 one posted by arch genocidal X account Leviathan is totally innocuous. There’s no “detestation” or “harm” expressed whatsoever. All that Leviathan cites as evidence against Hajahmad is a reference to “our spokesperson”, which is purportedly a representative of Hamas.

Seven months after the second speech the police raided Hajahmad’s house and seized electronic devices. The statement by the Zionist-dominated Toronto Police noted, “A joint investigation by the Toronto Police Service Hate Crime Unit and INSET subsequently gathered evidence supporting the allegation that the accused acted for the benefit of, and in association with, Hamas, a designated terrorist group.”

In response, Hajahmad’s lawyer, Mohamed El Rashidy, told the press, “He faces a single charge arising from speaking at public demonstrations. No violence, no weapon, no one harmed. Speaking out at a protest about the killing of civilians is protected expression, not terrorism.”

As with other TPS moves, this case appears to be part of its anti-Palestinian activities. To target opponents of genocide under the guise of combatting hate the TPS greatly expanded its Project Resolute. After complaints from genocide advocates, they banned protests on a city overpass and in a neighbourhood because three in ten people living there are Jewish. Chief of TPS Myron Demkiw has repeatedly been photographed with Zionist vigilantes and had multiple calls with billionaire Zionist Heather Reisman after posters and fake blood were placed on an Indigo bookstore denouncing her role in “funding genocide”. As a result, the police launched pre-dawn raids on a dozen peoples’ homes and charged individuals with hate crimes for putting up posters and using water-soluble paint.

In their release the TPS use the arrest of Hajahmad to promote its new Counter-Terrorism Security Unit. “These complex investigations underscore the importance of continuing to strengthen our Counter Terrorism Security Unit so we can identify and investigate evolving threats to public safety”, it notes. In March the TPS established this unit to “substantially increase the resources dedicated to countering terrorism and violent extremism,” noted Demkiw. Framed as a response to shots fired at empty synagogues and the US consulate, the unit has led to police patrolling with semi-automatic machine guns in a bid to intimidate opponents of Jewish supremacist colonialism.

As has happened with police repressing anti-genocide activists across the country, the charges against Hajahmad will likely collapse. In recent days the charges against Palestine activist Wesam Cooley in Calgary and an Ottawa protester were abandoned. In Toronto dozens of individuals, including in the Indigo case, have had their charges quietly dropped by the Crown.

Irrespective of what happens with the charges against Hajahmad, they’ve served part of their political purpose. “ANTI-ISRAEL PROTEST LEADER CHARGED WITH TERRORISM OFFENCE OVER ALLEGED HAMAS LINKS”, noted Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center while another genocidal Jewish supremacist posted, “For 1st time, Police have evidence that protest organizers are aligned with terror groups.” Former Jewish Defence League head Meir Weinstein wrote, “Toronto Hamas Supporter Ahmad Hassan Hajahmad Charged With Terrorism Offences Today & He Has Been A Featured Speaker At The Muslim Association Of Canada Conference. Israel Now Calls On Canada Revenue Agency To Investigate The Charitable Status Of The Muslim Association Of Canada!”

Even if somehow Hajahmad were found guilty of “Participating in or Contributing to Activities of a Terrorist Group”, the post-9/11 law is the problem. Canada’s terrorism list violates due process and is deeply anti-Palestinian. Over 10 percent of Canada’s terror list is made up of organizations headquartered in a long-occupied land representing one-tenth of one percent of the world’s population. Representing much of Palestinian political life, eight of the oppressed nation’s organizations are listed.

There are also at least two Canadian-based groups that have been added to the terror list for supporting Palestinians. In October 2024 the Liberals listed the grassroots Vancouver activist organization Samidoun Palestinian Prisoners Solidarity Network.

With the coming into force of Bill C-9 last weekend, it is now a crime to display Samidoun’s logo in front of a religious institution hosting an Israeli general. The Combatting Hate Act reinforces the terror list in service of Zionism by criminalizing the display of listed “terror” groups’ symbols in certain contexts.

In recent weeks pro-genocide groups have called to list Palestine Action Canada and Masar Badil as terror organizations. They will keep pushing their authoritarian genocidal Jewish supremacy until stopped politically.

There are dozens of individuals currently in Toronto who’ve recently killed while serving with the Israeli military in Gaza, Lebanon and elsewhere. It doesn’t appear a single one of these genocidaires have been charged or even investigated. But the police have charged an individual who has repeatedly protested genocide.

Shame on all Canadians if we allow this foreign-inspired, pro-Israel authoritarianism to continue.

[Rights Action @RightsAction]

Swiss/U.S.-owned Fenix mine reopened on stolen Maya Q’eqchi’ lands. Q’eqchi’ communities still demanding prior consultation

We recommend reading these excerpts (translated by Rights Action) from Mongabay article about notorious Fenix mine: https://t.co/Sn7k1YWQEX

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⚡️ NEW from @DropSiteNews: Prosecutor Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes and Claims of Torture Was Murdered in Ecuador

New evidence has emerged of U.S. Coast Guard activity in the aftermath of two strikes, further corroborating survivor testimony.

Story by @sovietwithsazon

https://t.co/AFUA7Qzpdo

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

UN says it's genocide.
HRC says it's genocide.
PVA says it's genocide.
ICJ says it's genocide.
ICC says it's genocide.

Anyone who knows anything about genocide says it's genocide. Everyone is lying except Israel who are committing genocide and ethnic cleansing.

[Belly of the Beast @bellybeastcuba]

The U.S. State Department just released a 100-page report about Cuba’s alleged influence among the U.S left, making the case for red-baiting in the U.S. and regime change in Cuba.

Watch Belly of the Beast journalist Liz Oliva Fernández break down what the report says.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

What a contrast Spain 🇪🇸 is to the UK 🇬🇧:

Lamine Yamal waves the 🇵🇸 flag

To then be attacked by Netanyahu 🇮🇱

For Pedro Sánchez,🇪🇸 PM, to spring to his defence:

‘We support free speech’
‘Solidarity with Yamal’
‘For speaking against genocide’
‘And for Palestinians 🇵🇸’

🇪🇸 💚 🇵🇸

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

This is exactly what a head of government must say.

The ICC should (be left free to) do the rest.

[NCCM @nccm]

It is hard to put into words the extreme sadness, frustration, and anger so many of us are feeling with respect to an alleged group attack on a Muslim woman in front of her 7-year-old child and others in Moncton, New Brunswick.

While trying to enjoy a car parade inside a parking lot, the family were allegedly accosted by a group that yelled obscenities at them, including phrases like “Go back to your country."

Moments after, the group then allegedly beat the Muslim women in front of her son, while her husband was some distance away. He said he found her later on with a swollen face and bloody nose, along with other sign of an alleged assault.

This is a horrifying ordeal and the authorities have been alerted. We are in touch with all parties and urge authorities to investigate all angles of this incident, including hate motivations.

Meanwhile, we urge all elected officials in Atlantic Canada and beyond to denounce the rise in Islamophobia across Canada, and to meet with community members.

We will have more to say as the situation evolves.

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

The Jewish Community stands with Zohran Mamdani

Share this so World know the truth.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Take a look at this for fuck’s sake! You Fiends of Israel in Downing Street and Whitehall must be so effing proud of yourselves

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Sería bueno ver un bombardeo a Gaza desde esta colina, para eso vine, para vivirlo yo misma, sería una experiencia diferente, y luego de ver como bombardean a los palestinos... simplemente volveremos a casa".

Colonos sionistas viendo los bombardeos sobre Gaza desde el macabramente llamado "Cine Sderot", una colina de la ciudad ocupada de Sderot, donde los sádicos sionistas suelen ir a ver como masacran a la población gazatí, mientras montan picnics y botellones, lo hacen desde hace años, ni siquiera esta práctica del video es actual, ya lo hacían en 2014.

El reflejo de una sociedad colonial carcomida por el supremacismo que no ve a los palestinos como humanos, al igual que los racistas afrikaners no veían a los negros como personas en Sudáfrica, acabar con esto es un deber para la humanidad.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

China openly challenges Trump.

Trump: "We need two billion dollars a day to reopen the Strait of Hormuz."

Chinese Foreign Minister: "The Strait was open before the war. The root of the problem lies in your illegal actions against Iran; you have created a global crisis out of nothing."

[Belly of the Beast @bellybeastcuba]

Rep. Jim McGovern calls U.S. sanctions on Cuba "human rights violations" that have lasted for decades. Watch his full speech.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Imagine death penalty for Christians only, for Jews only, for Bavarians or Parisians only. People belonging to a group presumed guilty and deprived of civilians status.

Only because they want to live as a people. Free on their land.

This is what colonial repression looks like.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

So Israeli settlers attack a Palestinian village, throw gasoline through a window onto a baby, nearly burning the young child alive, and beat a pregnant woman with stones.

Zero Western media coverage.

The complicity runs so deep...

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem told Mehdi Hasan on Zeteo that the world is increasingly rallying behind Palestine as Israel's genocidal actions in Gaza have become impossible to ignore.

Bardem argued that the growing worldwide support for Palestine is a direct response to the atrocities witnessed in Gaza and the West Bank, saying that "anybody with minimal common sense understands that that is wrong."

Discussing the political backdrop to the Spain–Argentina World Cup final, he also criticised Argentine President Javier Milei for openly aligning himself with Benjamin Netanyahu and far-right Israeli leaders, saying it was unfair to present Argentina as represented by those figures.

Bardem stressed that Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, and the Israeli cabinet do not represent Jewish people and warned against antisemitism, while insisting that criticism of the Israeli government is both legitimate and necessary.

The actor said younger generations are driving a historic shift in public opinion because they are witnessing Israel's actions in real time and are increasingly demanding accountability, justice, and an end to the impunity enjoyed by Israel's leadership on the world stage.

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

​Spain responded harshly to Israel's statements:

"We are not defaming you, Israel, we are describing you: You are a genocidal and criminal regime."

"You will all be held accountable before the International Criminal Court."

[Censored Humans @CensoredHumans]

CNN will never show you this : An Israeli settler pointing a gun at a Palestinian farmer.

"This land is mine now. Get out. Never come back"

The farmer's family worked that land for generations.

The settler flew in from Eastern Europe.