Notices by LeftyLabourTechToronto (leftylabourtech@mstdn.social)

Human shields? And in the West Bank where Hamas has no serious presence?

"A Palestinian was shot, beaten and tied to an Israeli army jeep. The army says he posed no threat"

#FreePalestine #ceasefirenow

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-rights-human-shield-jeep-8e8ed63bda65383e38e4dd52d239e319

Sorry #Tokyo, you aren't going to win this one.

Signed, #Toronto (urban raccoon capital of the world).

#urbanwildlife

https://globalnews.ca/news/10502993/raccoons-tokyo-growing-population/

A few hours ago members of #toronto 's Jewish community (and allies) held a rally against the Israeli genocide in #Gaza at Toronto's "Union Station"

#FreePalestine #Palestine #Gaza #ceasefirenow #Canada #cdnpoli

Ontario government screened law students who signed pro-Palestine letter

Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General’s move is part of a nationwide crackdown on Palestine solidarity

#Palestine #Gaza #ceasefirenow #FreePalestine #Canada #CanadianPolitics #Ontario #OntarioPolitics #onpoli #cdnpoli

https://breachmedia.ca/ontario-government-screened-law-students-who-signed-pro-palestine-letter/

Pan-Canadian rallies for #ceasefire now December 16 & 17th.

#Canada #Palestine #Gaza #FreePalestine

https://ceasefirenow.ca/find-a-local-event

@realcaseyrollins @thor @icedquinn @galena There is no question whatsoever that the assassination of Palestinian American Journalist Shireen Abu Aleh in 2022 by the IDF was a murder. Is the IDF arguing that their snipers are incompetent?

@realcaseyrollins @thor @icedquinn @galena Israel bombed the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza twice, killed and injured perhaps hundreds of civilians in order to kill one mid-level Hamas commander. Do you find that acceptable?

Is Israeli intel incompetent now too?

@realcaseyrollins @thor @icedquinn @galena A good chunk of the rest of the world looks at this as terrorizing a civilian population in an act of "ethnic cleansing".

@realcaseyrollins @thor @icedquinn @galena Anyway, it's the weekend. I have a mass rally in #solidarity with #Palestine to attend. You should go to the event where you live as well. There is life beyond the internet.

@realcaseyrollins @thor @icedquinn @galena so you want to go to a pro genocide protest?

@realcaseyrollins @thor @icedquinn @galena The one exception I would make is that there was a degree of IDF incompetence around October 7th. Most of the IDF was tied up in the West Bank where there were violent settler land seizures going on with the IDF frequently assisting. So, they responded in chaotic ways to the attacks of October 7th. There are some reports from Israeli civilian witnesses that (at least) some Israeli deaths were "friendly fire" incidents.

@realcaseyrollins @thor @icedquinn @galena Israel is an apartheid state with many similarities to South Africa (I've been there...on both sides of "the wall") It also functions as the "local cop" in the US Empire's imperial system and U.S. taxpayers fund it to the tune of about $4 billion per year.

Of course the Israeli state lies. It has every reason to.

@realcaseyrollins @thor @icedquinn @galena They are lying a lot these days, but here are some that date back to 2014.

https://imeu.org/article/fact-sheet-israels-history-of-spreading-disinformation

@realcaseyrollins @thor @icedquinn @galena Like they bombed two ambulances today in front of a hospital. The IDF's evidence is simply "we say so".

We are expected to believe such things based on what? Faith???

@realcaseyrollins @thor @icedquinn @galena The IDF knows the geographic coordinates of every UN facility in Gaza. They bomb them anyway. Do you think that one of the most technologically sophisticated militaries in the world is just incompetent?

@realcaseyrollins @thor @icedquinn @galena Even if that were the case (which it is not), would you support the local police killing everyone in a neighbourhood in order to take down one gang member?

@persagen I wish people would stop referring to the far right as being somehow "populists". They are not. They are "fake populists". Genuine populism has its roots in 1890's Kansas in an early alliance of radical farmers and the early labour movement They called for the nationalization of the banks and the railroads among other things. The FAKE POPULISTS of the right use the culture war to rally the working class in support of a ruling class agenda. There is a difference.

@persagen I honestly think that Canadians concerned about the rise of the PP Boy right-wing should learn from US historian Thomas Frank, who has studied populism, both real and fake, right back to the coining of the term in the 1890's.

We could avoid the kind of horrid politics south of the border that are now blowing north.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/thomas-frank-people-no-review/

@Geoffberner @persagen I think we should be concerned about PP getting in power, but I also think that we should be concerned about JT shifting to the right. We are seeing that already whether it be in the economic and social sphere, or in the environmental sphere.

@persagen @Geoffberner The trick is to build mass social movements such that regardless as to who is in power, they will back off. We need politicians who are afraid of the people.

A case in point. In Ontario Doug Ford backed off on over riding the constitution against education workers after being threatened with a #generalstrike