@Joe_Roberts01
@ryanlpainter
Lovely, I am so pleased to read this. We have a little Reform shul in Victoria. Call on me if you need any resources. Kol hakavod to building connections.
@Quillette
@jonkay
I’m not transphobic. I am in favour of honesty, common sense, and intelligent understanding of distinctions between sexes, regardless of gender identity.
What is going on in sports now is a travesty of inclusion, and is causing good will towards gender variance to evaporate.
@Toronto4P
@occupyuoft
Why would the university speak to anyone with ‘demands’ and who addresses their pals as comrades - beyond my ken. Who is paying your bills? We all want to know.
@leekern13
Here we are. 2024. Many in the alphabet soup community won’t be seen with a known ‘Zionist’ here. Jews/Zionists/Israelis are being shunned and ostracized across the world. This isn’t progress, keffiyeh kiddos. This is very serious repression.
@nspector4
For all the talk there is all kind of room for antisemitism in Canada. Marches should have been stopped first day; encampments should have been stopped at first tent; Keffiyeh wearing in H of C? Mistruths and Israel denial in schools after October 7 - all happening and much more.
@DahliaKurtz
I am cursing out loud right now. He is blaming the Netanyahu government for the face of terror!! Not Hamas. Not Iran. Not Hezbollah. Trudeau is worse than useless.
I was standing on the sidewalk in front of the Sheiks Islamic Centre this afternoon holding posters of the hostages. Parents were bringing small children to learn from this man.
Victoria, B.C., Imam Sheikh Younus Kathrada is at it yet again - calling for destruction of Jewish people.
But B.C. politicians, incl. from the city of Victoria, don't raise a peep.
I've asked them for their views.
They don't get back to me.
#islamophobia
#cdnpoli
@AzzatAlsaalem
That very statement underlies the very good reason Islamofear exists. Not a phobia. No one is worried about being beheaded by a Jew or Christian. Can we please stop this political pandering?
Who will be muzzled, hung to dry, or turfed next, Premier Eby? While planning curriculum for teaching the Shoah you might want to emphasize how it all began. Just a thought.
@TerryGlavin
@timescolonist
Thank you for re-posting this article Terry Glavin (I am a big fan of yours, so a little verklempt!!). We all need to say enough.
@HenshiG
Thank God for all the tough Jewish women like your grandmother. She would be proud of you and all the warriors fighting for Israel today. Shavua tov. ❤️
@Dave_Eby
@Conservative_BC
What really worries the parents I know are their children exposed to anti Semitism, in whatever the guise of the moment may be.
@DahliaKurtz
Our sweetest bravest Bayla says Shabbat shalom. Adopted after 4 years in a cage. No training, basically feral, 5 years in she is a lesson in courage and love. And treats.
The day before the
@NDP
votes to reward Hamas, the Jewish & non-Jewish community gathered, incl. the LGBTQ community & children. Counter protesters only really interfered once when an angry pro-Palestinian man started screaming “Hitler was right” 😳.
#canpoli
#yyjpoli
#NDP
@ElizabethMay
They can return the hostages. Today. All of them. It isn’t lost on any of us that those poor souls and their families are devastated as well. Maybe fast for them?
@HenMazzig
Not a shekel given in future without honest (not sure such a mashiach would be) oversight. No shekels for rebuilding tunnel/mazes/cells/munition depots. Not a shekel to any UN organization.
@SFJCRC
How did these young people become so rancid and vulgar and hateful and ugly? This is all beyond me, I must admit. To watch people also spew hatred at Jews leaving shul today - after services commemorating the Shoah - it is just nauseating.
@TristinHopper
Eby and company didn’t just throw Robinson under the bus, they then backed the bus over her. She had nothing to apologize for. And she should not undergo any Red Guard purification of thinking programme. We should all be very worried today.
Posting this again. I challenge you to actually read this nonsense and then ask yourself how Jewish students and potential Jewish clients will be treated by these bigots.
That the Liberal government is restoring funding to this organization complicit in terrorism and the massacre of Israelis, and the raping of Israeli women - without holding the line for the return of the hostages is mind boggling. No accountability whatsoever.
I completely oppose the resumption of UNRWA funding without even having an interim report published by those investigating, when no funds are due until April and when we could have worked with the US on their plans to deliver aid. I stand by the statement I issued yesterday 100%.
@MunicipalFly
Pathetic. No mention of Hamas murders, rapes and planned vicious atrocities against Israelis and other; no mention of the number of times Hamas has refused to release hostages, including babies, no mention of Hamas repeatedly walking away from ceasefire offers. Pathetic.
Just disgraceful. NDP Committee members stood with Jews honouring Yom HaShoah, including survivors and their descendants, knowing this vote was coming up the very next day. Feckless mendacity.
The day after Premier
@Dave_Eby
stated in his speech on Yom HaShoah that his government will do everything in its power to fight antisemitism in BC, the committee reviewing Bill C23, the 2004 BC Anti-racism Act, voted against incorporating
@theIHRA
definition of antisemitism into
@TerryGlavin
To Victoria as well. Capitulation thrives in the capital of BC. These students (???) issue their Demands. Who are you to issue demands? And the collective capitulation of the grown ups is hard to watch. Thank you. Again.
@kinsellawarren
Bethlehem, Gaza- what does it matter? As long as you have the ‘facts’ about bombs and Israel in a sentence you’re set for an award in journalism these days.
Pallets are forming a fence around the UVic summer camp for Israel haters,
@PresidentUVic
. Their demands are not about academic differences. And if you find this camp-in acceptable on university property please invite those camping on Pandora to join in.
And all you keffiyeh Kens and Kims- if you really believe your politics, then take the masks off. If you need to cover up you are either frightened or worried your mama might see you. Cowards, all of you.
@Dave_Eby
Torah teaches us this very week we must walk the walk- not just talk. Those who would hate and isolate Jews, attempt to burn synagogues and schools are acting. Governments at all levels must demonstrate your support for us with action, not just words. Now.
I think I speak for a lot of Canadians when I say take off your fucking masks if you're so proud of what you're doing.
Retweet if you agree.
#cdnpoli
#bcpoli
@Adam_Stirling
No. Selina Robinson should not - ever - submit to the Red Guards in mosques or elsewhere. Bad enough enduring the obsequiousness of her own party. What callous disregard for her and actual history not some fairy story this episode demonstrates.
I have stood by this haters school and watched young parents bring their children to this fakemam: teaching hatred to children 101. But yes, Canada had no room for anti Semitism.
Sending love today to everyone whose mother is no longer. We live with memories, precious memories. And much love to every mother whose child is no longer. I too live in that strangeness of having been a mother, but now, only memories.
[Yep]
"It’s odd, to say the least, that the ethnic group that is today most vociferously accused of settler colonialism is the one that can unmistakably trace its language, culture and religion to the same places from which it was long exiled and now inhabits and governs.
@VerminusM
What a waste of IDF time. Sheer Grandstanding. This rabbi is offended. Shabbat shalom to all IDF members who surely are channeling אִיּוֹב in such circumstances.
This is really insightful and informative recap of what Hitler did and what is happening again in a fresh way. The Weimar Republic declined culturally, socially, morally and economically, and the Jews were blamed for it because they were bankers, they “invented communism,” etc.
And... in the news!!! Thank you, Michael.
From a friend, “I absolutely admire your moral clarity and how you structured your speech to shift strategic focus from facts, which our enemies do not care about, to the Truth.”
Tim is a staunch supporter and has been calling out hatred for months. Islamist Kathrada is one of too many local Jew haters - what is it about Victoria? Thank you,
@timthielmann
.
Dear university presidents. As you meet with the comrades of MeinCamps please bear in mind that BDS works both ways. Many people are divesting themselves of donations; many parents will boycott sending their children to your ‘schools’ and sanctions are in the mail.
One more moment that I mentioned at the beginning of my remarks at the pro- Israel rally. It was very good to stand with a crowd of people who actually sang O Canada. Loudly. It’s been awhile.
@CotlerWunsh
The trouble with much ‘feminist’ writing is that it became entirely derailed from reality. If you live within a theoretical framework, it can, apparently, be difficult to recognize when reality bites your tuchus.
@HilzFuld
I am a very recent participant on X: October 7 was pivotal for me. I have a voice and an obligation to speak up as a Reform rabbi and Zionist. Not a contradiction. A have very few followers but that doesn’t matter. Being here has allowed all of our voices to be heard. Thank you.
@CIJAinfo
Jewish women, many of whom worked to create the feminism of the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s when I was involved, would be horrified by this stance. Jewish women today will just get on with our lives, contributing as we are able to our communities.
Today, stand outside and breathe air for all the souls who are still hidden in Gaza, the beloved souls taken as hostages. Breathe life. We are their lungs and their heart. Say a blessing for their return.
@DrJacobsRad
@umanitoba
I believe every potential donor is looking at the political abyss that academe appears to be holding. An abyss of equivocation if not silence, an abyss where tirades of accusations have replaced actual historical truths. A moral and ethical abyss. A shanda for us all.
@kinsellawarren
Thank you
@kinsellawarren
for being a witness to evil. We just heard from
@ianincolwood
who also witnessed what should never be in this world. The planning and intentional executions of innocents is beyond our ken. And yet, the world looks away and bays for more.
@HertfordshireI
Make them pay, although we know it will come from the pockets of their parents. Make them clean up their mess. Make them paint those walls.
In a speech a month before the October 7 pogrom, Abbas said the Holocaust wasn't about the Nazis' antisemitic mass hysteria, it was because Europeans were angry about the Jews' "social role. . . usury, money and so on.”
I just saw a full-sized Palestinian flag flying from a $1 million+ house in one of Victoria's toniest neighbourhoods. The sight honestly made me queasy; I've always joked that Victorians would be the first to call bylaw on Anne Frank, but it's not funny anymore.