Palestinian Resistance Launch Major Attack on Israel: What Happened? – LIVE BLOG

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Your analysis is shallow and emotive based, typical of liberals who love to hear themselves talk but have nothing substantive to share. Many lib-tard types write about justice and equality but don't really care for facts, history, or the world outside their faggoty digital bubble- who are slaves to their masters amazon, netflix, uber eats, etc. They have to stop by their chase ATM on the way to the next divisive gender/identity based gathering lol. It's quite ironic to read your piping in about the Islamic Resisitance, like anyone in the world is interested in your empty comments.

Again your simple-minded understanding is not accurate. If you care about the subject, go through the 472 pages of this thread. The perverted state of Israel's 75 year theft and attempted ethnic cleansing of Palestine- as well as the development over decades of resistance activism to survive the genocide- actually has very little to do with religion. Sure there are cult zionists like here in the religion forum but they are the minority. The situation at hand relates to the concepts of Arab/Islamic Nationalism, nationhood, international law, the Geneva Conventions on lawful conduct in war, the necessity of armed resistance, etc.

Please George either offer up something meaningful or go back to the kiddie-table, dye your implants and smoke another rock gangsta.
You quote an Islamic terrorist above this and pretend you’re different than the Zionists here lol

fuck off
My message is not one of condolences for the martyrdom of the leader of the resistance, for over the past decades, you have demonstrated resilience, strength, determination, and unity that have made you stronger and more steadfast in the face of any calamity, no matter how great. You belong to a school of struggle that knows only persistence and unwavering commitment to the path of truth, no matter the cost. Noble, pure blood is spilled only in the service of truth and its causes.

The resistance does not weaken with the martyrdom of its leader, but remains deeply rooted in the hearts and minds. Great leaders, in their lifetimes, build the ideology of struggle, its methods, and its path. They depart having left behind a system of thought and a practical approach to resistance and honor. They prepare for the inevitable hour of fate, which does not come by chance but carries lessons and results. It transforms them from temporary presence among us to eternal immortality in our hearts and minds, as role models in the struggle, generation after generation.

Resistance is an idea and a philosophy, and the martyr Nasrallah is its memory and its history. He will never become a mere legend; rather, he will remain a guiding approach that produces a reality, centered on resistance, with pride as its essence, dignity as its compass, and liberation as its goal. Across generations, the martyr Hassan Nasrallah will be the beacon of resistance.

We are certain that the Lebanese national resistance will continue its path of struggle and justice against occupation. It will remain the shoulder that supports the Palestinian people in their just struggle for their cause. The martyr Nasrallah will forever be remembered by the Syrians for his loyalty in standing at the forefront of the Lebanese national resistance alongside Syria in its war against the tools of zionism, despite the heavy burdens of confrontation he carried. In the heart of this loyalty, the name of the martyr Hassan Nasrallah will remain immortal.

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President Bashar Al-Assad
Lmao posting a statement of the biggest butcher of Muslims this century. Completely and utterly morally bankrupt
 

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I’ve been saying the monotheists were trying do this for years and was universally laughed at lol
 

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In Lebanon, 136 people killed in the last 24 hours
We’ve heard and seen Israeli air strikes throughout the morning in the vicinity all across southern Lebanon, but in the last hour, the Bekaa Valley and eastern Lebanon have been hit, as has Baalbek and the road towards Syria.

The death toll is climbing as well: 136 people killed in the last 24 hours, and that is something that is putting a tremendous amount of pressure on the emergency services. They’re simply running out of people and ambulances to be able to service the entire area.

Majority of Palestinians support military resistance to Israel: Poll

Almost a year since the start of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, a public opinion poll conducted by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Centre has found that more people support military resistance as a means of achieving the national goals of the Palestinian people.
The percentage of those supporting military resistance, the poll showed, rose to 51.2 percent from 40.8 percent last May.
The poll was conducted in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, but did not include the Gaza Strip “given the inability to secure a random sample because of the current situation” in the besieged coastal enclave.
In contrast, the percentage of respondents who support peaceful, diplomatic and political action as a means of achieving national goals dropped from 44.5 percent last May to 35.7 percent.
 

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The thread went down a lot, and it is important, it needs to be raised.

The healthy (partial) awakening of both internal and foreign political activity of the Thread is highly appreciated. The recently organized attack right in the Eye of Israel and the spiritual battle behind the war aroused the most sincere sympathy, because we (some of us) do not believe a word of both Israel and those organizations, groups, media and individuals who support Israel. I don't believe them. Because of "what else they support" and they do. They craft, plan, launch, and execute the move toward the most dystopian world ever (because of the unheard of possibilities that are available today unlike ever before).

Now let's see what some of those who oppose Israel and pro-Israel organizations support, etc. Just a small look.




Read the rest of the updates from The Mentor about the activities of this organization.
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And more. They give a link to:
Changing Systems, Transforming Lives: Canada's Anti-Racism Strategy 2024-2028
https ://www .canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/combatting-racism-discrimination/canada-anti-racism-strategy.html
Anti-Black Racism, Antisemitism, Islamophobia..
https ://www .canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/combatting-racism-discrimination/canada-anti-racism-strategy.html#:~:text=38-,Race,-Race%20is%20a
Race
Race is a "social construct". This means that society forms ideas of race based on geographic, historical, political, economic, social and cultural factors, as well as physical traits, even though none of these can legitimately be used to classify groups of people."
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https ://www .canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/combatting-racism-discrimination/canada-anti-racism-strategy.html#:~:text=challenges%20they%20present.-,Canada%27s,-Anti%2DRacism%20Strategy
Canada's Anti-Racism Strategy 2024-2028 takes a comprehensive, holistic approach by addressing all aspects of society that contribute to systemic racism. Recognizing that multiple factors, including the widening of racial disparities over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, contribute to the perpetuation of racism, the Strategy targets four priority areas within federal jurisdiction.
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Conclusion
Changing Systems, Transforming Lives: Canada’s Anti-Racism Strategy 2024-2028 is about making a better, fairer, more inclusive Canada where everyone can fully participate and thrive."


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More:
Montreal, September 17, 2024 — Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) condemns the rise of far-right Zionist vigilante groups in Canada and is urging media to provide accurate and comprehensive coverage of their activities and ideologies.[...] To help journalists better understand the issue, CJPME has released an essay on four increasingly prominent Canadian organizations purporting to support security for the Jewish community, titled “The Rise of Zionist Vigilante Groups in Canada.”

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Also:

Mr. Issa’s letter was written in response to a recent op-ed that falsely accused pro-Palestinian protesters at Pride events of being antisemitic.
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The letter also emphasizes the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the importance of preserving the intersectionality of Pride, ensuring that all marginalized communities, including Palestinians, are embraced and protected."


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We are deeply alarmed to hear that Prime Minister’s Special Envoy Lyons is imminently preparing to publish a dangerous handbook to guide institutions in applying the extremist anti-Palestinian IHRA definition of antisemitism. IHRA strategically conflates antisemitism with nearly any criticism of Israel and Zionism, and is often used to suppress, censor, and persecute Palestinian perspectives.

It is clear that this anti-Palestinian, pro-censorship handbook will be used to target anti-genocide protestors and put a deep chill on criticism of apartheid, genocide and Zionism. Stand with us against Trudeau’s censorship campaign!"


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CJPME: ISRAEL’S BLOCKADING OF GAZA VACCINES MUST STOP!

Montreal, February 23, 2021 — Like many Canadians, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) is deeply alarmed by Israel’s actions which impede the ability of Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip to access COVID-19 vaccines. Last week, when the Palestinian Authority tried to send its first shipment of vaccines (2,000 Sputnik V doses) for medical staff in Gaza, Israel blocked its entry for days. Meanwhile, Israeli politicians debated leveraging the shipment in return for extracting political concessions. CJPME urges the Canadian government to demand an immediate end to Israel’s illegal blockading of vaccines, and demand a promise from Israel that it will no longer endanger the lives of Palestinians by playing “vaccine politics.”


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COVID-19 IN PALESTINE AND ISRAEL'S MEDICAL APARTHEID

CJPME Factsheet No. 224, published June, 2021
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IS IT DISCRIMINATORY FOR ISRAEL TO EXCLUDE PALESTINIANS UNDER OCCUPATION?
Yes. Israel’s refusal to vaccinate Palestinians under occupation is a clear act of Apartheid. Nowhere is this more evident than in the West Bank, where Israeli settlers can access Israeli vaccines, but Palestinians living in the same territory cannot. As Human Rights Watch has noted, in the West Bank, “people on one side of the street are receiving vaccines, while those on the other do not, based on whether they’re Jewish or Palestinian.”
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HOW HAS THE WEST BANK AND GAZA FARED WITH THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC?
The occupied West Bank and Gaza were hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and have been in a State of Emergency since March 2020. Prior to the pandemic, Palestinian authorities were already facing serious barriers to meeting the population’s health and security needs, in part due to the restrictions of the Israeli occupation (see below). Medical journal The Lancet reported that the capacity of health authorities in both the West Bank and Gaza “to contain the spread of COVID-19 is limited by ongoing and pre-existing shortages in health-care equipment, including medications and disposable equipment.”
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"Every time I watch the maniac settlers I envision them as a Red, Enoch, Tempest, Irrational Ninja, Maldarker, etc.some of the most ill, scary, possessed fanatics who talk here because they've been banned from other forums. Their malice might just be words online but let these types of individuals loose in the Holy Land on stolen property, armed with guns to terrorize and loot their Islamic "enemies"...God help us.

Considering what you said about settlers being pawns, maybe the fake liberal Israelis are feigning their shock at the increase of terrorism. I mean you'd have to see this coming:

U.S. Handgun Exports to Israel Soar as Civilian Demand Grows
The surge in exports comes after the Israeli government loosened gun ownership requirements in response to the October 7 attack by Hamas.

Israeli government has transferred over 150,000 guns and hundreds of other weapons to Israeli settlers since October 7

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JVP’s Core Values
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Our accountability to Palestinian partners is a set of principles, commitments, and structures that serve as the foundation of our work.
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We work to answer the call of our Palestinian partners to build a mass movement of Jews that can effectively interrupt the U.S. state and institutional support that sustains Israeli settler-colonialism, occupation, and apartheid. Rooted in the understanding that systems of oppression are interconnected, we work to build with allied U.S.-based movements for justice towards liberation in Palestine and everywhere.
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We organize our people and we resist Zionism because we love Jews, Jewishness, and Judaism. Our struggle against Zionism is not only an act of solidarity with Palestinians, but also a concrete commitment to creating the Jewish futures we all deserve. We are fighting for a thriving Judaism and Jewish communities, for a multiplicity of Jewish cultures and for the future of the Jewish people.

We gain strength from the long lineage of Jewish freedom fighters. Behind us are Salonican socialists, Warsaw Ghetto fighters, Israeli Black Panthers, labor organizers, Civil Rights veterans and many more ancestors who worked tirelessly for liberation – of Jews and all people.

We know our communities are under threat. We commit to dismantling antisemitism in the most effective way possible: as part of our struggle against all forms of oppression and bigotry. Our struggles must be united to succeed and we intend on succeeding.
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Racial Justice & Collective Liberation

Our commitment to racial justice is a core praxis in our work, by which we mean an ongoing cycle of action and reflection within which we are striving to dismantle racism–both outside and within the organization–while also working to grow a liberatory culture for our organizing.

We understand that racism shapes everything in the US, Israel and beyond. Racism dictates who lives and dies, who has the resources they need to survive, who has the power to govern, who faces the most violence, who has the freedom to stay in or move from their homes, whose stories are told and believed. As a diverse, multiracial, cross-class, intergenerational movement of Jews we also understand that white supremacy, homophobia, transphobia, patriarchy, colonialism, militarism, and capitalism are intertwined at the roots, and that we can’t fully address any of them without addressing all of them. Our commitment to Palestinian liberation is fundamentally a commitment to fight against racism and for a world where everyone lives with dignity, power, love, community, beauty, and justice.

 

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"Every time I watch the maniac settlers I envision them as a Red, Enoch, Tempest, Irrational Ninja, Maldarker, etc.some of the most ill, scary, possessed fanatics who talk here because they've been banned from other forums. Their malice might just be words online but let these types of individuals loose in the Holy Land on stolen property, armed with guns to terrorize and loot their Islamic "enemies"...God help us.

Considering what you said about settlers being pawns, maybe the fake liberal Israelis are feigning their shock at the increase of terrorism. I mean you'd have to see this coming:

U.S. Handgun Exports to Israel Soar as Civilian Demand Grows
The surge in exports comes after the Israeli government loosened gun ownership requirements in response to the October 7 attack by Hamas.

Israeli government has transferred over 150,000 guns and hundreds of other weapons to Israeli settlers since October 7

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JVP’s Core Values
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Our accountability to Palestinian partners is a set of principles, commitments, and structures that serve as the foundation of our work.
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We work to answer the call of our Palestinian partners to build a mass movement of Jews that can effectively interrupt the U.S. state and institutional support that sustains Israeli settler-colonialism, occupation, and apartheid. Rooted in the understanding that systems of oppression are interconnected, we work to build with allied U.S.-based movements for justice towards liberation in Palestine and everywhere.
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We organize our people and we resist Zionism because we love Jews, Jewishness, and Judaism. Our struggle against Zionism is not only an act of solidarity with Palestinians, but also a concrete commitment to creating the Jewish futures we all deserve. We are fighting for a thriving Judaism and Jewish communities, for a multiplicity of Jewish cultures and for the future of the Jewish people.

We gain strength from the long lineage of Jewish freedom fighters. Behind us are Salonican socialists, Warsaw Ghetto fighters, Israeli Black Panthers, labor organizers, Civil Rights veterans and many more ancestors who worked tirelessly for liberation – of Jews and all people.

We know our communities are under threat. We commit to dismantling antisemitism in the most effective way possible: as part of our struggle against all forms of oppression and bigotry. Our struggles must be united to succeed and we intend on succeeding.
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Racial Justice & Collective Liberation

Our commitment to racial justice is a core praxis in our work, by which we mean an ongoing cycle of action and reflection within which we are striving to dismantle racism–both outside and within the organization–while also working to grow a liberatory culture for our organizing.

We understand that racism shapes everything in the US, Israel and beyond. Racism dictates who lives and dies, who has the resources they need to survive, who has the power to govern, who faces the most violence, who has the freedom to stay in or move from their homes, whose stories are told and believed. As a diverse, multiracial, cross-class, intergenerational movement of Jews we also understand that white supremacy, homophobia, transphobia, patriarchy, colonialism, militarism, and capitalism are intertwined at the roots, and that we can’t fully address any of them without addressing all of them. Our commitment to Palestinian liberation is fundamentally a commitment to fight against racism and for a world where everyone lives with dignity, power, love, community, beauty, and justice.

 

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From the link:
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MEE [MiddleEastEye]: Let's say you win this election come November. What's your plan for the first 100 days in office?


Jill Stein: I pick up the phone and the genocidal war is over. The White House has absolute control over Israel [because] there's no way Israel would survive for 24 hours here without the support of the US.

So the US says the word, and Israel has no choice except to comply.

And my message would be, the flow of weapons stops now, and the flow of all support stops now, unless you cease and desist from this genocidal war and end the occupation and begin your withdrawal from the occupied territories to the ‘67 borders, that is a start.


Second, I would declare a climate emergency. By declaring a climate emergency, the president unleashes over half a trillion dollars every year in emergency funding, which can then be used to basically create jobs on an emergency basis for a green economy, particularly green energy, green transportation, green agriculture and green housing.

So we can begin the transformation of our economy.

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When people are hopeless, economically and politically, they embrace demagogues.

This is the origin of Nazi Germany. This is the story of fascism over and over.

So it's not like we have a choice here, or it's not like the neo-liberal Democrats are going to save us.

The Democrats' neo-liberal agenda is the cause of the surge to the right wing.
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MEE: You have adopted a strong stance on Gaza. Why have you done so, given that it is such a divisive issue in the US?

Jill Stein: Once you see it, you can't un-see it. And I've been seeing it for a long time. Gaza is kind of a microcosm of what's wrong with the empire. As Ronald Reagan's secretary of defence, Casper Weinberger, said in the 1980s, Israel is the unsinkable battleship for the US and the Middle East.

I oppose the war on Gaza as a symbol of empire, which is on its last legs, and we need to transition to a multipolar world, instead of trying to be the unipolar, sole dominant power around the world, for us to be engaging in military confrontation around the world in order to maintain sole power, power when we are no longer the sole economic power, you know,


And we have been exceeded by the Brics coalition in our, you know, in the GDP and so on.

You know, we're an ageing empire, and we're making lots of mistakes like ageing empires do.

We need to transition peacefully, and according to international law and human rights and with diplomacy
into a multi-polar world. We have to do that.

But beyond that, I'd point to two things. One is that I grew up as a Jew following the Holocaust. I was born in 1950 so just a couple of years after the Holocaust, in a Jewish community, attending a reformed synagogue and dealing with genocide was a huge issue for me and the community I was in and my parents. This was a huge issue.

And part of what I was taught was that genocide is not just the responsibility of those who commit it. It's the responsibility of bystanders. I heard that a lot and that was just put into my DNA that we don't stand by while genocide is happening.
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MEE: Back to your campaign, with regards to the several VP options that have been shortlisted. Can you tell us a little bit about how you decided on the people that you know that have been mentioned in news reports, right, and including several Palestinian Americans?

Jill Stein: It's been an evolving process, but our campaign has been very focused on this existential crisis of our era, this crisis of genocide, which is also a crisis of empire.

So that's really been kind of front and centre in our campaign throughout."


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...Jill said, reading from the script the narrative of distribution among the public...




"I oppose the war on Gaza as a symbol of empire, which is on its last legs, and we need to transition to a multipolar world..."

Since we are in the forum of a website that says that "symbols rule the world", here is literally such a symbol, intended, along with other powerful and mighty current symbols, to manage the transition to NWO, throught (in this case) managing the perceptions of target groups. Do you understand this symbol? (Hint: he began his final assault at the end of February 2022)
 

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More great comments that shatter the illusion of party politics (which is believed by "people who are not being honest with themselves as they lack authenticity") by this Australian journalist. I share them with you, dear fellow forum members, in the hope that you will "take these words of wisdom and hold on to them....you'll become a more authentic human being for doing so."

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This “Jill Stein needs to drop out” nonsense is so tedious and stupid. Democrats literally JUST saw what happens when your party’s candidate drops out: they’re replaced with another candidate. That’s what would happen if Stein dropped out. If you don’t think third parties should be allowed to exist in America, just say that. Don’t invent some fictional alternate reality universe where Jill Stein emerges out of nowhere every few years to steal votes from Democrats like some villain in a video game and where getting rid of her would get you those votes back.

Stein shows up as a presidential candidate because she’s the most popular candidate in a political party Americans created because they wanted that party to exist. Your argument isn’t with Jill Stein, it’s with Americans who don’t like your shitty imperialist political party. Either convince them that war and injustice are awesome or stop being such murderous tyrants.
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A new poll from the Council on American-Islamic Relations has Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein beating Kamala Harris among American Muslims in three key battleground states, with an especially large lead in Michigan.
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To call this a night and day difference would be a severe understatement. Clearly Muslim Americans are seeing something they care deeply about this election season which the rest of the population has decided doesn’t matter very much.

That something is of course the US-backed genocide in Gaza, which the Biden-Harris administration has been forcefully supporting for nearly a year. Stein opposes these atrocities, while Harris is currently serving in the administration that’s making them possible.



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So now we’re seeing a US election where two tyrannical capitalist warmongers are squaring off against each other, appealing to the votes of America’s two mainstream political factions which are only mainstream because vast fortunes have been poured into propaganda manipulations to make them mainstream. Then you’ve got candidates like Jill Stein saying normal, sane and common sense things about peace and justice while being framed as an extremist lunatic by the consent manufacturers of the mainstream press. And when Stein loses in this aggressively manipulated information environment within this aggressively manipulated electoral system, it will be framed as evidence that her politics were seen as too fringe and kooky for the mainstream public.


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Vote or don’t vote in whatever way you want. No matter who you vote for, you’ll get tyranny, war and genocide.

Vote for Harris and you’ll get tyranny, war and genocide.

Vote for Trump and you’ll get tyranny, war and genocide.

Vote for Kennedy and you’ll get tyranny, war and genocide.

Don’t want tyranny, war and genocide? Go ahead and try to elect someone like Jill Stein or Cornel West who stands against tyranny, war and genocide. But have no doubt that the system is rigged to prevent that from succeeding, and you’ll get a president who stands with tyranny, war and genocide."


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She, Jill, was even arrested for her anti-Zionist stance, despite being Jewish, as Karlysymon is indignant here:
Considering that...Abbott issued an executive order in March requiring that Texas universities punish anti-Semitism on campus using the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism,....should be a worrying development. And if this legislation/definition doesn't even protect Jewish people who protest the state of Israel (like Jill Stein who was arrested), then we have to ask WHO or WHAT is this legislation/definition designed to protect?

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*Did you get it?
Anti-Semitism is real and bad, real evil, the spread of dangerous disinformation about jews, which "as we know from history" if not stopped could lead to "monstrous consequences" and so on. And antizionism is a legitimate opposition to Israeli (their "genocide over Gaza", for example).

So mixing legitimate criticism and positions against zionism with the illegitimate bad far-right nazi antisemitism (which is real and we need to fight it) is bad, insidious zionist trick to defame, silence and deter legitimate critics of zionism (which is real evil).

Antisemitism is a legitimate evil.

(Just as legitimate an evil as antiislamism, antiblackness, antipalestinian racism, anti-homo and anti-trans, and other anti. And it will be a cemented evil if or when Israel is restrained, condemned, etc.?)
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Professor Butch Ware is a lifelong activist and educator specializing in the history of empire, colonialism, genocide and revolution.
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With his Ph.D in history from the University of Pennsylvania, Ware is a leading academic authority on the U.S. Black Radical Tradition, Africa and Islam. Since 2004 Professor Ware has been a full faculty member at Northwestern, Michigan, and now UC Santa-Barbara, teaching in History, Black Studies, and Islamic Studies.

(excerpts from the long program)
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PEOPLE


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HEALTHCARE
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Advance reproductive rights and codify Roe v. Wade
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Launch an urgent national program to rebuild the U.S. epidemic/pandemic response:

Review and update the 2006 Pandemic Preparedness Act (last updated prior to COVID in 2019) to ensure U.S. pandemic preparedness is fully funded.
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Strengthen the infrastructure for accelerated emergency distribution of information, medications, vaccines, and treatments

Fund and provide high-quality personal protective equipment such as N-95 type masks and all diagnostic testing (including viral load testing) free at local pharmacies

Mandate and provide funding for high-quality air filtration code improvements for all public transportation, public buildings, schools and businesses
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Establish policies that will eliminate SARS-CoV-2 transmission in schools, healthcare facilities, and on public transportation

Further study the Novavax protein-based COVID-19 vaccine to determine safety and efficacy for children under 12; remove restrictions if findings allow
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Fully fund research into the causes, prevention and treatment of long COVID

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PRISONS AND POLICING
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A Jill Stein administration will:
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Fully legalize cannabis for recreational and medicinal use with similar restrictions to alcohol.

Release nonviolent drug offenders from prison, remove drug offenses from records, and guarantee both pre- and post-release support

Ensure drug treatment on demand

Begin the process of legalizing hallucinogens (LSD, psilocybin and other related substances) and fund studies on their medicinal benefits.

Begin the process of decriminalizing personal possession of hard drugs - treat drug misuse as a health problem, not a criminal problem
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End the epidemic of gun violence with common-sense gun safety laws:

Ban the sale of assault rifles and establish a buyback program
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Create standardized digital records of gun registrations and sales

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REPARATIONS AND THE AGENDA TO FACILITATE BLACK LIBERATION

A Jill Stein Administration will guarantee as a human right reparations to the descendants of African slaves for the historic crime of enslavement. Reparations is a cornerstone of the Black Agenda, but reparations is far from the only policy needed to begin to redress what has been stolen from the Black community over 400+ years.

Scholars and activists who have studied and formulated propositions for Reparations itself have put the minimum cash value of reparations at $12 trillion, to be paid to those who claim legitimate descendancy from enslaved Blacks prior to the Civil War. This number is derived not only from the stolen labor prior to 1865, but also from the reneged promise of Field Order 15, commonly referred to as “40 acres and a mule”, which was never made good upon.

We don’t need any further debate on whether reparations should be paid. They should, without question, as they were in 1988 to those impacted by WWII Japanese internment camps. The Stein administration will confer with Black community leaders on who qualifies, how they qualify (historical records exist), how much they will be paid in cash, and how those payments will be made.

There are other policies essential to the overall Black Agenda, as slavery was not the only historic crime against the Black community in America. We recognize both historic and existing racism in America, While it has been addressed in legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to this day an end to systemic racism has never been realized. Many of these essential policies, such as universal healthcare, immigration, policing, and free public college education, are addressed in other areas of this platform. Furthermore, it should be noted that the Black Agenda is a progressive agenda.

In addition to ensuring Reparations, a Jill Stein Administration will:

Direct all federal agencies to consider and include race and ethnicity as part of all of their initiatives and other programs implemented with federal dollars
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Coordinate with Black-led formations including, but not limited to, the Black Hive at Movement for Black Lives to codify proposals and demands included in their Black Climate Mandate

Coordinate with Black-led formations including, but not limited to, the Black Alliance for Peace to promulgate their Zone of Peace strategies that combat and dismantle larger structures and interests that generate war and state violence—colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism and all forms of imperialism both domestically and internationally


“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” -Fannie Lou Hamer

2SLGBTQIA+ RIGHTS

A Jill Stein Administration will guarantee the human rights of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

Violent attacks on transgender women (particularly Black and other transgender women of color), recent stripping of state protections, lack of legal protection after negative court rulings, and long-standing historical inequities continue. We will end the acceptance of a violent culture that devalues the humanity of our 2SLGBTQIA+ siblings. We will fight for the liberation of 2SLGBTQIA+ people around the world.

Here’s how:

Support the Equality Act, the PRIDE Act, the Every Child Deserves a Family Act, and other bills to prohibit discrimination by the U.S., the military, state or local governments, or private industry

Support the PrEP Access and Coverage Act (until universal healthcare is implemented).

Develop and implement 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusive public education to combat bullying

Include 2SLGBTQIA+ history in school curricula, provide school and community trainings and 2SLGBTQIA+ specific school counseling

Federally prohibit the harmful practice of “conversion therapy”

Fund housing relief programs for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth, who are disproportionately represented in unsheltered populations

Remove punitive and cumbersome legal name change requirements and fees

Declare trans murder and suicide rates a national emergency

De-gender or add nonbinary gender options to all Federal public documents

De-gender school dress codes, and guarantee protection from discrimination as a result of dress in workplaces

Publish the original Equal Rights Amendment in the National Archives, effectively bringing it into law.

Prohibit insurance companies from denying trans-affirming procedures

Remove “transmedicalist” language from all educational materials relating to trans individuals

Specifically prohibit disciplining or firing trans employees for acknowledging their gender/pronouns with customers, clients, or other individuals in the workplace

Legally prohibit mutilative surgeries on intersex infants

Pass legislation to mandate that police adopt policies to ensure fairer interactions with transgender people, especially transgender women of color, who are disproportionately impacted by disparities in policing

Outlaw misgendered imprisonment nationwide and end “gay panic” and “trans panic” defenses for violent crimes

Prevent and repeal any legislation that purports to protect religious liberty at the expense of the rights of others





*Professor at Columbia University, is Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He has served as adviser to three UN Secretaries-General, and currently serves as an SDG Advocate under Secretary-General António Guterres.

More Jeffrey:
a world-renowned economics professor, bestselling author, innovative educator, and global leader in sustainable development.

Sachs is widely recognized for bold and effective strategies to address complex challenges including the escape from extreme poverty, the global battle against human-induced climate change, international debt and financial crises, national economic reforms,
and the control of pandemic and epidemic diseases.
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April 6, 2021, Rockefeller Foundation
One for All: An Action Plan for Financing Global Vaccination and Sustainable Growth



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US: Muslim groups urge voters to back Jill Stein, Cornel West or other pro-Palestine candidates
While only a minor voting bloc, Muslims say endorsements show their anger over bipartisan support for Israel could sway the election

The statement was written by the American Muslim 2024 Election Task Force, an umbrella group formed this year that consists of a number of prominent Muslim organisations including the political arms of Americans for Justice in Palestine (AJP), Cair, and the US Council of Muslim Organizations.



 

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This joint report provides recommendations to the Canadian government regarding the renewal of the federal Anti-Racism Strategy. It argues that Canada's strategy must address antisemitism, Islamophobia, and anti-Palestinian racism together hand-in-hand using an intersectional framework. This is a joint submission from Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME), the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association (ACLA), Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV), and Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council (CMPAC).

Issued May 2024
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CONTENT OF CANADA’S ANTI-RACISM STRATEGY AND IHRA HANDBOOK

1. CANADA’S ANTI-RACISM STRATEGY AND ASSOCIATED HANDBOOKS/GUIDES MUST RECOGNIZE SETTLER- COLONIALISM AS A CENTRAL FEATURE AND FOUNDATION OF RACISM WITHIN CANADA AND WITHIN ISRAEL

Both Canada and Israel are settler-colonial states, created as an outcome of British imperialism. Given this intersectional history, Canada’s Anti-Racism Strategy must approach racism through the lens of settler-colonialism and therefore antisemitism and anti-Palestinian racism, like all forms of racism, must be understood within the structure of settler-colonialism present in Canada.
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2. CANADA’S ANTI-RACISM STRATEGY MUST INCLUDE A DESCRIPTION OF ANTI-PALESTINIAN RACISM

..Handbooks and guides should be consistent with an anti-racist approach that includes a definition of anti-Palestinian racism, along with other definitions of racism and discrimination. Importantly, anti-Palestinian racism must be understood as distinct from, but in instances intersectional with Islamophobia (anti-Muslim racism). Conflating anti-Palestinian racism with Islamophobia, erases the identity and experiences of Palestinians as well the root causes of the racism they experience.
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3. CANADA’S ANTI-RACISM STRATEGY AND IHRA HANDBOOK MUST RECOGNIZE THE INTERSECTIONS AND STRUCTURAL IMBALANCE BETWEEN EFFORTS TO COMBAT ANTI-PALESTINIAN RACISM AND ANTISEMITISM


The recent rise in antisemitic, anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian, and Islamophobic incidents cannot be separated from the escalation of racism and xenophobia we are seeing throughout the world; phenomena linked to the diminution of liberal democracy as it is influenced by the effects of ethnonationalism, surveillance capitalism, and environmental breakdown. Fighting and educating against antisemitism must be part of a larger struggle against white supremacy, eurocentrism, and all forms of group hatred and discrimination.
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"This is a joint submission from Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME), the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association (ACLA), Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV), and Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council (CMPAC)."

Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV)




Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) is a grassroots organization grounded in Jewish tradition that opposes all forms of racism and advocates for justice and peace for all in Israel-Palestine. Our strength comes from our members. IJV has active chapters in cities and on university campuses across the country.
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Thematic areas
Palestine Solidarity: IJV was the first national Jewish organization to endorse the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. We continue to support and defend BDS as well as to hold Canadian organizations accountable when complicit in Israeli oppression of Palestinians.


Anti-racism and Indigenous solidarity: IJV stands in solidarity with Indigenous peoples and with all marginalized peoples in Canada against racism, settler colonialism and white supremacy. IJV also works to combat antisemitism and distinguish it clearly from critiques of Zionism and Israeli policies.
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IJV Principles
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4. We oppose all forms of racism, including antisemitism, anti-Arab racism, anti-Black racism, Islamophobia, and intra-Jewish racism, which marginalizes Jews of colour, Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews.
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7. We strive to be inclusive, justice-seeking, democratic, and open to diverse ideas and practices.
8. We believe that true security requires justice and solidarity.

We hereby reclaim the tradition of Jewish support for universal freedoms, human rights and social justice. The lessons we have learned from our own history compel us to speak out.
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IJV Halifax condemns bigoted stickers appearing around the city

October 2, 2020




A message possibly connected to “Q-Anon,” a conspiracy theory alleging a worldwide cabal is kidnapping and abusing children.

Unknown individuals are placing unattributed adhesive stickers around Halifax that promote conspiracy theories and foment hatred toward vulnerable groups, especially using COVID-19 as a starting point.

Independent Jewish Voices condemns this spate of hate and is calling on people of good will to report these affronts so that we can monitor their proliferation and messages and take measures to stop them.

The stickers appear to be similar and may be related. The message seems to be that both the pandemic itself and the measures taken to reduce its spread are part of a secret scheme to rob individuals of their freedom. The so-called “Q-Anon” movement, originating in Donald Trump’s US is part of a reaction to the Movement for Black Lives.


Halifax has seen its share of right-wing and white-supremacist hatred of late: acts of anti-Black racism in HRM employment sites, including Fire, Police and Transit. insults to people of colour on Transit, the so-called Soldiers of Odin marching through the north end, the so-called “Proud Boys” (the same group Donald Trump, in the recent presidential debate told to “stand down and stand by”) disrupting a protest at Halifax’s Cornwallis statue, counter-demonstrations against the indigenous treaty fishery.

The proper response to all of this is solidarity – among all the groups targeted: African-Canadians, Indigenous folks, other people of colour, Jews, women, LGBTQ2+ people and immigrants.

One of the stickers targets Jewish people. As Jews, we are, of course, concerned. But it is essential to recognize that antisemitism is not an exceptional form of bigotry. People who hate, discriminate and/or attack Jews can, and also do, hate, discriminate and/or attack other vulnerable groups.

In addition, privileging the efforts to combat discrimination against one of these groups, risks further marginalizing the other targeted groups, and undermines solidarity and cooperation among them in fighting their common enemies.

Fighting and educating against antisemitism must therefore be part of a larger struggle against all group hatred and discrimination."


Medical Apartheid in Israel-Palestine

May 10, 2021


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Independent Jewish Voice Canada has applauded Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem for issuing reports finding that Israeli authorities are committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution. It is important to understand how Israeli apartheid operates as a system by denying Palestinians access to healthcare resources.
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February 16, 2021: Democracy Now reported that Israel has halted the shipment of 2,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to the Gaza Strip, where they were due for medical workers. The besieged territory is home to more than two million people but has yet to receive any vaccines. This comes as Israeli health officials reported a nearly 95% drop in symptomatic coronavirus infections among 600,000 Israelis who received Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. About 30% of Israeli citizens have received at least one vaccine dose — the highest rate of any major nation — but that figure excludes Palestinians in the Occupied Territories who remain largely unvaccinated.
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What you can do
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Support the People’s Vaccine Campaign for an equitable and just COVID-19 global distribution plan.


People’s Vaccine Campaign:
There is no moral justification for millions to die whilst pharma billionaires line their pockets with profits gained in part from public research and investment. We cannot continue on a path where pharma shareholders call the shots and women, minorities, and people in poorer countries suffer the consequences.

We must break up monopolies, improve global research capacities, and support tech transfers that ramp up production of lifesaving vaccines, tests and treatments.


Pandemics should not be a case of survival of the richest.



The Alliance advocated for the waiving of IP barriers to boost global production of COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments.


The Alliance has played a pivotal advocacy role in the negotiations surrounding the Pandemic Accord.




Alliance Co-Chair Winnie Byanyima and leading world figures advocate for a People's Vaccine - because no one is safe until everyone is safe

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IJV Stands with Trans and Non-Binary People at the University of Waterloo and Beyond

July 7, 2023

Last Wednesday, June 28, a gender studies class at the University of Waterloo was targeted in an apparent hate crime that left a professor and two students injured. This was not an isolated incident, but rather another disturbing sign of the rise of transphobia and hate in Canada.

Extreme anti-trans policies are inflaming the United States, but Canada is showing symptoms too. This can be seen in the rise in transphobic rhetoric online and by politicians, as well as the targeting of events like all-ages drag storytime and of teaching and research critical of racial, ethnic, and gender-based intolerance. As an organization established to oppose hate, violence, and oppression, Independent Jewish Voices condemns these hate-fueled attacks and stands in solidarity with trans people all over the globe. We are proud to count trans and non-binary Jews as part of our membership and continue to work to make our organization trans-inclusive. We also recognize that our Palestinian comrades, both at home and in the diaspora, include trans and non-binary people who experience greater susceptibility to violence because of their intersecting identities.

Our fight for Palestinian liberation and an end to antisemitism is deeply intertwined with the struggle for trans liberation and an end to transphobia. It is no coincidence that those who oppose the existence of trans people also perpetuate antisemitic tropes and call for a white nationalist state. The alt-right movement is the latest stage in a long colonial history that has tried to impose a white, Christian, capitalist, patriarchal power structure on societies the world over. We see this now with groups such as White Lives Matter and their targeting of Jews, racialized people, and trans people, which makes those with overlapping marginalized identities especially vulnerable. But this type of hate is not new, and neither are the direct parallels between oppression of Jews and oppression of queer people.

In the 1940s, the LGBTQ+ community was targeted alongside Jews for systematic genocide by the Nazi regime. While both Jews and trans folks represent a small portion of the overall population, they are often highlighted by hate groups as being responsible for the social and moral decay of (Western) society.


These hate groups understand that white heteropatriarchal nationalism involves targeting of *all* vulnerable communities. We know that to oppose them, we must continue to see our struggles as interwoven. Today and every day, we stand in solidarity with our trans kin under attack and we will fight for a world where everyone is free, from Turtle Island to Palestine.


 

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Hezbollah denies Israeli troops crossed into Lebanon

Hezbollah has denied that Israeli forces crosses into southern Lebanon after Israel said its forces were carrying out “limited” raids there.
“All Zionist claims that [Israeli] occupation forces have entered Lebanon are false,” Hezbollah media relations official Muhammad Afif told Al Jazeera.
He added there had “not yet been any direct ground clashes between [Hezbollah] resistance fighters and [Israeli] occupation forces.
“Our fighters are ready to confront enemy forces that dare or attempt to enter Lebanon,” he said.

TV channel HQ in south Beirut destroyed in Israeli attack

Israeli fighter jets have attacked a television channel’s headquarters in Beirut, in what is described as the first targeting of a Lebanese media institution during the conflict.
The late Monday attack levelled the building of the pro-Hezbollah As-Sirat TV channel in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Shortly before the attack, the Israeli army ordered staffers to leave, claiming the site was being used for producing “combat means”, according to Anadolu news agency.
Hezbollah denied storing weapons inside civilian buildings, including the As-Sirat office.
No casualties were reported in the attack.
 

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Analysis finds Israel killed more children, women than any other recent conflict in a single year

A new analysis by Oxfam has found that the Israeli army has killed more children and women in the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip over the past 12 months than the equivalent period of any other war in the last two decades.
In a statement, the charity said that conservative figures put the number of children and women killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza to more than 11,000 and 6,000, respectively.
Estimated figures from 2004-2021 on direct conflict deaths from the Small Arms Survey show that the highest number of women killed in a single year was more than 2,600 in Iraq in 2016, Oxfam said.
It added that a report by Every Casualty Counts examined information on more than 11,000 children killed across the first 30 months of the Syrian war, an average of more than 4,700 deaths a year. UN reports on Children and Armed Conflict over the past 18 years show that no other conflicts killed a higher number of children in 12 months, Oxfam said.
“These staggering figures are both appalling and heartbreaking,” said Sally Abi Khalil, Oxfam’s Middle East and North Africa director.
“Influential actors in the international community have not only failed to hold Israel to account, they are also complicit in the atrocities by continuing to unconditionally supply it with arms. It will take generations to recover from the devastating impacts of this war and there is still no ceasefire in sight.”


 

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Unleashed ‘monster’ must be stopped, Qatari minister says

Lolwah Alkhater, Qatar’s minister for international cooperation, has sharply criticised Israel’s attacks on Gaza and Lebanon.
“A monster has been unleashed in our region. A monster that uses prohibited weapons and methods that target civilians indiscriminately,” she wrote on X, referring to Israel.
She added that the “monster … didn’t adhere to a single decision by the Security Council” and violates international law daily.
“And yet, it continues to receive not only the blessings of some international actors, but also their weapons and taxpayers money. The Israeli Occupation EXCEPTIONALISM above international law MUST STOP,” she wrote.
“Unless we stand united to stop it, this military and political bullying will destroy the entire region.”
 
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