Lisa MacLeod is a Progressive Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Ms MacLeod’s tweet begins with an #AdHominem attacks accusing the “Jews Say No To Genocide” protest of “hate speech,” then characterizes their protest as a “sick” “antisemitic” “intimidation fest.
In the following @cbcnews clip, the “Jews Say No To Genocide” explain that they’re protesting an Israeli sale…
Lisa MacLeod is a Progressive Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Ms MacLeod’s tweet begins with an #AdHominem attacks accusing the “Jews Say No To Genocide” protest of “hate speech,” then characterizes their protest as a “sick” “antisemitic” “intimidation fest.
In the following @cbcnews clip, the “Jews Say No To Genocide” explain that they’re protesting an Israeli sale of illegally occupied Palestinian land being held in a synagogue.
Thank you @cbcnews for interviewing me and my comrade Chelsey from Jews Say No To Genocide regarding our opposition to Israeli colonial theft. #BoycottKellerWilliams pic.twitter.com/R4QPAoCPpZ
— Ghada Sasa | غادة سعسع PhD(c)(@sasa_ghada) March 5, 2024
I guess I was naive in thinking government lawmakers ought to follow the law. Particularly awesome in its awfulness is Ms MacLeod’s call for “legislation” to protect this inappropriate use of a place of worship used by unscrupulous realtors to hide behind while facilitating land deals illegal under International Law.
Does the PC Party embrace MPPs who promote illegality?
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[avatar] Lisa MacLeod [blue check]
@MacLeodLisa
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Targeting a Synagogue for your “protest” / hate speech & intimidation fest is sick and antisemitic. Time for bubble legislation to protect worshippers, similar to that we have to protect women at abortion clinics.](https://whoacanada.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/lisamacleodtweetx.png)
![[avatar] Ghada Sasa | غادة سعسع PhD(c) 🇵🇸
@sasa_ghada
🚨 LOCATION CHANGE 🚨
The city shut down the real estate show at Dani Centre! Zionists relocated to Aish Hatorah. It's disgusting they're trying to sell stolen 🇵🇸 land, including in illegal Israeli settlements, in a place of worship! 1/
📍949 Clark Ave W, Thornhill, Ontario
Graphic poster on a Burnt Sienna field:
PALESTINE IS NOT FOR SALE!
[arabic translation]
* UPDATED LOCATION*
Sunday March 3 @ 9AM
949 Clark Ave W
Thornhill, ON
PROTESTS
AGAINST
the ILLEGAL
SELLING of
PALESTINIAN
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[avatar] Laurel L Russwurm
@laurelrusswurm
I'm a little confused: since when is buying and selling real estate "worship"...?
Especially Palestinian real estate in illegal Israeli settlements— something that's long been contrary to Canadian government policy.
Someone needs to have a word with the Scribes and Pharisees.](https://whoacanada.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/macleodlisa-myreply1x.png)
Canadian policy (conforming to International Law )on the Israeli Occupied Palestinian Territories and illegal settlements has been clearly laid out on the Government of Canada website.
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Occupied Territories and Settlements
Canada does not recognize permanent Israeli control over territories occupied in 1967 (the Golan Heights, the West Bank, East Jerusalem & the Gaza Strip). The Fourth Geneva Convention applies in the occupied territories & establishes Israel's obligations as an occupying power, in particular with respect to the humane treatment of the inhabitants of the occupied territories. As referred to in UN Security Council Resolutions 446 and 465, Israeli settlements in the occupied territories are a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. The settlements also constitute a serious obstacle to achieving a comprehensive, just & lasting peace.
Canada believes that both Israel & the Palestinian Authority must fully respect international human rights & humanitarian law which is key to ensuring the protection of civilians, & can contribute to the creation of a climate conducive to achieving a just, lasting & comprehensive peace settlement.](https://whoacanada.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/occupied-territories-and-settlements-cdnpoli.jpg)
Not only do Israeli Settlements on Palestinian Territory breach the Fourth Geneva Convention in International Law, Canada specifically states its opposition to Israeli Barriers and expropriation of Palestinian lands and resources.
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The Barrier
Canada recognizes Israel's right to protect its citizens from terrorist attacks, including through the restriction of access to its territory, and by building a barrier on its own territory for security purposes. However, Canada opposes Israel's construction of the barrier inside the West Bank and East Jerusalem which are occupied territories. This construction is contrary to international law under the Fourth Geneva Convention. Canada not only opposes Israel's construction of a barrier extending into the occupied territories, but also expropriations and the demolition of houses and economic infrastructure carried out for this purpose.
https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/international_relations-relations_internationales
/mena-moan/israeli-palestinian_policy-politique_israelo-palestinien.aspx?lang=eng](https://whoacanada.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/the-barrier-cdnpoli.jpg)
![Ghada Sasa | غادة سعسع PhD(c) 🇵🇸
@sasa_ghada
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We reject the faithwashing of Zionism! Zionism is both a settler colonial AND antisemitic ideology, and we will be protesting genocidal Israeli land grab no matter where it takes place! Show up to the protest and share, share, share.
📍949 Clark Ave W, Thornhill, Ontario
Gmail attachment:
Toronto Eveny change of location
Friday Mar 1, 2024 at 5:02pm
Due to the local municipality who are the owners of the Dani Centre who look at thus event as a potential politicl issue which they won't allow, they have instructed the Dani Centre to cancel the event.
The location has been changed at the last minute with the help of the Dani Centre to the Aish Hatorah in Thornhill, located on 949 Clark Avenue. A representative of the Dani Centre will be standing outside the Dani Centre and will direct anybody that does not receive this message in time. Please confirm with an email by reply/
Shabbat Shalom
Darren Rich
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Keller Williams
Office: +972-9-8866270 Fax: +972-9-8866271
Mobile: +972-52-7771716 UK +44-20-80891446](https://whoacanada.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/macleodlisa-4bx.png)
Ironically, the municipal owner of the venue originally intended to hold the stolen land real estate sale withdrew its consent from the dubious event, prompting the venue change to the Aish Hatorah Synagogue.
This land sale nonsense is not only happening here in Canada. Stolen West Bank settlement homes are being flogged in the USA, as Rich Siegal explains in the following video:
Thanks to @Sasa_Ghada and Mr Siegal for taking a stand and sharing this information.
While I am not a lawyer, my reading of the relevant International law suggests countries that allow or enable International laws to be broken run the significant risk of being charged with complicity.
For decades Israeli governments have flouted International laws, and the countries with which they’ve been friendly (like Canada) have looked away, effectively giving Israel a free pass to do as it likes without accountability or repercussion. At this point the situation has gotten so far out of hand, and the bad behavior from government, IDF and settlers alike has become so flagrant, it is no longer confined to the dark, but happening in the bright light of day.
With South Africa’s case before the International Court of Justice, and subsequent ICJ Provisional Orders ruling Israel’s actions can be “plausibly” considered genocide, the possibility of charges of conspiracy to commit or complicity in genocide grows ever greater.
It’s past time Canada understands:
friends don’t let friends commit genocide.
As I write this, at 7,932 signatures it needs only 68 signatures to reach 8,000!!! This is so important because the more signatures e-Petition 4802 receives, the more seriously the Government of Canada will take it, so please keep signing and sharing!
Many thanks to everyone who has signed, and to the brave souls like @Sasa_Ghada, @BonsaiSky, Chelsey Lichtman at @JewsSayNo, Rich Siegal, @IndJewishVoices, and all the people online and off who are putting themselves on the line to protest, and share information & awareness of the terrible things happening to Palestinians in the Palestinian Territories occupied by Israel that our governments and MSM have ignored, decade after decade.
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Vote for your future. Elect Annamie Paul.
Dear Toronto Centre: Vote for your future!
Annamie Paul is passionate advocate for Toronto Centre. She will fight for the policies we all need — like a Guaranteed Livable Income.
ELECT ANNAMIE PAUL
Tomorrow — Monday October 26th, 2020 — is #ElectionDay in two Toronto ridings.
Newly elected Green Party of Canada leader Annamie Paul is running to win the Toronto Centre seat vacated by former Liberal Finance Minister Bill Morneau (amidst WE scandal ethics questions) . Annamie is both a brilliant candidate and an excellent choice to represent this, her home riding.
Photographer Sasha Zavarella is running in York Centre, where another Canadian National Party Leader — this time Peoples Party of Canada’s Maxime Bernier.
Neither of these by-Elections will change the balance of power in Ottawa.
That means voters are free to vote for what they want — they don’t have to worry vote splitting will result in the party they fear winning majority power.
Since by-Elections historically have poor attendance at the best of times (and a pandemic is surely not one of those times!) fewer votes cast means these votes will have more weight. This is a brilliant opportunity for voters in these formerly safe seats whose votes never elect anyone to cast a vote that may be heard. Greens across Canada are rooting for Annamie, because the sooner our leader can take her seat in Parliament the better we’ll be able to hold the government to account.
It is important to remember the other big parties “whip” MP votes, which means their MPs represent their party first, because, if they don’t, they can lose party support which invariably means losing their seat. Whipped votes used to be a rarity, but in recent times they have become the default for NDP, Liberal and Conservative MPs.
Green MPs differ from other major party MPs because first and foremost they represent the constituents of their ridings. If there is a conflict between what is best for their riding or what’s best for the party, the best interest of their constiuents come first. Always.
If you live in either of these two ridings, your vote for Annamie or Sasha will mean something. We’ve seen what an impact Mike Schreiner has made as a single Green MPP. Electing another Liberal will just be more of the same old. But Greens will always make a difference.
And we can give our votes more power if we can convince our friends and families to vote too.
Even in our terribly unrepresentative voting system, voting is incredibly important. Even our vote is unlikely to change the outcome, it puts our choice on the record.
If you live in one of these ridings, please vote tomorrow. (And make sure to wear a mask when you do!) It is so important — and perhaps even more important:
VOTE FOR WHAT YOU WANT.
(Even if you don’t want what I want.)
If enough of us vote for what we want, we might just get it. And Annamie has an excellent chance of winning this one.
So get out and Vote!
Adam Beck
The visionary who established the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario. because he understood electricity would become an essential public utility.
I’m guessing it would never even occur to him that a day would come when myopic Liberal and Conservative Ontario Governments of Ontario would work so hard to privatize everything previously owned by the public.
Privatize means selling things the public owns for good reason (like Ontario Hydro) to private interests who reap profits of infrastructure the public has invested in for the public good.
SUMMER
Even though the lush green trees spread a heavy
shade over the ground, people still feel the summer days
are very long. A tower casts its clear reflection
onto the still pond. Suddenly I sense the
crystal curtain beads swaying lightly and
I feel a gentle breeze waft by. It brings
with it the sweet smell of roses and fills
the entire courtyard with an intoxicating
fragrance.
Part of a 4 Seasons Group of Murals in Toronto
Organized by:
Ralph Thornton Centre
Chinese Chamber of Commerce
SPRING
On this spring morning, the sun has already risen high in
The sky, but I’m still sleeping soundly and have no
awareness of it at all. The happy sound of birds
Singing can be heard everywhere. I think of
last night’s rain and wonder how many spring
blossoms have fallen.
Part of a 4 Seasons Group of Murals in Toronto
Organized by:
Ralph Thornton Centre
Chinese Chamber of Commerce
WINTER
Not even a single bird flies above
the high mountain peaks stretching off
into the distrance. Not a trace of human
presence can be detected on the paths.
Only one old fisherman wearing a coir
coat and a leaf hat sits in his little
boat. He is fishing all alone on the cold river.
Part of a 4 Seasons Group of Murals in Toronto
Organized by:
Ralph Thornton Centre
Chinese Chamber of Commerce