"1948 was the year of the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe), the uprooting of the Palestinians and the dimemberment and de-Arabisaiton of historic Palestine. In the course of the 1948 war. the name 'Palestine' was wiped off the map" (Nur Masalha).

"The officer who fired his gun [multiple times at #AfolabiOpaso] did not speak to investigators, nor did he provide his notes. which is within his 'right to silence'". As lawyer said before re: police "a death sentence and also a wall of silence"

Today, my body was a TV’d massacre.And let me just tell you, there’s nothing your UN resolutions have ever done about this. And no sound-bite, no sound-bite I come up with, no matter how good my English gets. no sound-bite will bring them back to life.

RT @AssalRad: 1000 kids but there were no parents… “because Israel killed them.”.

Comrade, you will hold as enemies. venomous journalists, goitrous academics (Aimé Césaire)

"We must show that each time a head is cut off or an eye put out in Vietnam and in France they accept the fact, each time a little girl is raped and in France they accept the fact. infection begins to spread. the continent proceeds toward savagery." Aimé Césaire.

Gaza 1964 'Christmas party. to refugee children' [see frantic (un)child]. "Like the Africans encountered by peacekeepers, Palestinians have no personhood to disturb the simple frame of who is good and who is evil. the moral universe of peacekeeping mythologies" (Razack 2004)

"Is there a sword that hasn't yet been sheathed in our flesh?. Words are sick of us and we are sick of our loss, .of the echo and our thirst for words. How long should we fly?"

If things like this happened to your journalists, all the world would respond with great anger. You shout about the suppression of intellectuals in the USSR, but you close your eyes to what is happening. in the West Bank [& Gaza] (cited in Chomsky 1999)

"I entrust you with my beloved daughter Sham, the light of my eyes, whom I never got the chance to watch grow up as I had dreamed. If I die, I die steadfast upon my principles." Anas Al-Sharif أنس الشريف

"I believe that there is a 'natural right' of resistance for oppressed and overpowered minorities to use extralegal means if the legal ones have proved to be inadequate…. no third person, and least of all the educator and intellectual, has the right to preach them abstention."

"He was awarded an exemplary service medal by the Governor General in June 2024.".

The city cut the 'community connections hub' from this library and then watched safety incidents increase and now another death. Yet, we are told don't be suspicious of a status quo that is for metal detectors, security, and police in a public library.

"The historical treatment of Indigenous women as sexualized commodities by. Police." . "The violence by police against Indigenous women and girls, who are too often abused when in custody, and raped, beaten, harassed and denigrated by police officers" #2/2

Police Chief: "These allegations are clearly not representative." As if there are no reports documenting ongoing history of a white-settler mentality structured and systemic in policing to dehumanize Indigenous women as commodities and preys. #1/2

A social worker in Winnipeg says that a neglected child reminded them of “Auschwitz”. But if they said Gaza or Sudan do you think the editor would have allowed it to make headline like here?

Apparently all what Palestinians care about are flags and bantustans not liberation or an end to genocide or sanctions. And they still had to interview a Zionist for ‘balance’.

"his was a political death. There are people whose reaction to violence is relief that it has not happened to them, or self-righteous anger. Hawi's death is a phenomenon of a different order. he simply found himself unable to witness such suffering [in others] again" #2/2

MOSES'S PRIEST AND DOOMSDAY . "The body of the damned shall not be cleansed .Or purified in the baptismal font.".(I offered of my flesh: blood, wine and bread.) #1/2

Last year: "Gail Asper calls on city council to reinstall Ten Commandments monument in Assiniboine park". It is "hurtful and wrong" to remove them. Also "we shouldn't be afraid" to discuss having commandments mandated in schools like in the U.S. 2/2

They returned a monument of the Ten Commandments, even though the park (with statue of Moses) have said it would make it "less welcoming for some". Why? Partly because a Zionist said to city: "What harm is there in reminding people not to murder or steal?” 1/2