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Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (He/Him) retweeted
I can hardly imagine anyone who hasn’t seen this photograph. But it was taken on this day in 2000.
I cannot believe the photo is 26 years old now.
The boy in the photograph was Fares Odeh. He was just 14 years old.
Ten days after this image was captured, Fares went out again to throw stones at Israeli tanks, seeking to avenge the killing of his 17-year-old cousin.
An Israeli sniper shot him in the neck, killing him.
And there is another chilling detail to this photograph.
The photo changed Israeli tank doctrine. In August 2001, The Jerusalem Post quoted an anonymous tank doctrinist saying tank personnel were now instructed to fire upon rock-throwers.
Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (He/Him) retweeted
The Netherlands is boycotting Eurovision due to the inclusion of Israel amid a genocide. Now is not the time for Canada to join this contest. Canada must withdraw from Eurovision 2027.
Netherlands drops out of 2027 Eurovision in protest over Israel's participation haaretz.com/israel-news/cult…
Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (He/Him) retweeted
Arabs invented our numbers. "Alghebra" is an Arabic word for a reason.
Last year's Nobel for Chemistry went to Palestinian-American Omar Yaghi for metal-organic frameworks.
Never mind the irony of RFK Jr accusing others of not being scientifically-minded.
Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (He/Him) retweeted
.@FranceskAlbs📍NEW report on media in a time of genocide. “This report examines how the destruction of truth has become integral to the destruction of a people.”
👉Full interview: youtu.be/uK7DE8S1Pq4?si=m0H3…
Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (He/Him) retweeted
Today’s the day Ottawa will get out to vote. 🗳️
I will be voting for Neil Saravanamuttoo for mayor.
Polls are open 10am-8pm.
Go vote! 🗳️
Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (He/Him) retweeted
The homes of families not accused of any connection to the attack on the IDF checkpoint have been and are being demolished in this reprisal.
cbc.ca/news/world/israel-wes…
Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (He/Him) retweeted
This Israeli military strategy, referred to as the Dahiya doctrine, was developed by Gadi Eisenkot, the ex-general who is seen in Israel as the alternative to Netanyahu. Google it.
It involves using massive, disproportionate force and targeting civilian infrastructure to pressure hostile governments or non-state groups.
This massive, disproportional force against innocent civilians, as in Gaza, Lebanon and elsewhere, will continue as long as the U.S., Germany, UK and other external powers that arm and finance Israel allow it.
@IndJewishVoices @jvplive @NaamodUK
Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (He/Him) retweeted
Israel has killed 351 children so far, since a supposed ceasefire on October 2025. unicef.org/press-releases/st…
Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (He/Him) retweeted
A horrific and devastating massacre in a church in Jordan, which has no history of this kind of violence. While not everything is known, we should greatly fear Zionist/Western-backed sectarian “Muslim” savagery of the type Western intelligence armed, funded and mobilized to destroy Syria and other countries being brought into Jordan.
BREAKING: At least six people killed and 28 others wounded after a shooting in Jordan’s Karak governorate that saw gunmen open fire during a funeral at a church.
Read aje.news/0wymgc
Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (He/Him) retweeted
.@UofT students union, representing more than 40,000 students, passes historic motion with overwhelming majority, to boycott Israeli academic institutions 👇
Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (He/Him) retweeted
There's a big idea we haven't talked about enough this election. Healthy school food. For every kid.
Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (He/Him) retweeted
This Diwali, you are still allowing military equipment to go from Canada to Israel to kill Palestinian families in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (He/Him) retweeted
Canada's sanctions regime against Russia includes a comprehensive two-way arms embargo.
But Canada applies no comparable measures against Israel – even in the midst of an ongoing genocide. To the contrary, Israeli arms manufacturers like Elbit Systems are free to acquire Canadian companies whose technology can be used to entrench Israel's unlawful military occupation of Palestine.
This is yet another example of Canada failing to fulfill its obligation "not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by the continued presence of the State of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory." (ICJ Advisory Opinion, July 19, 2024)
Elbit Systems has completed the acquisition of International Submarine Engineering (ISE), a Canadian company specializing in advanced autonomous underwater and remotely operated systems for the maritime domain.
Together, our combined capabilities strengthen a comprehensive maritime portfolio spanning autonomous surface and underwater platforms, mission systems, C2, sensors, communications, and electronic warfare.
The addition of ISE is expected to expand capabilities in underwater ISR, Mine Countermeasures (MCM), and Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW).
Read more: tinyurl.com/2va465m4
Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (He/Him) retweeted
It should be illegal for Israel’s top arms producer to purchase a Canadian company.
Elbit Systems is complicit in the genocide of Palestinians.
Cancel the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement, enact sanctions and a two-way arms embargo now.
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Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (He/Him) retweeted
There are valid critiques of Olivia chow - I’ve made them myself ! But Brad Bradford would be a complete disaster for this city, conservatives would run every single part of the lives of Toronto residents
Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (He/Him) retweeted
Anand refers to Israel’s responsibilities “as the occupying power”, entirely omitting the unlawfulness of the occupation itself. There can be no meaningful accountability or civilian protection so long as the occupation and associated racial segregation and apartheid continues.
Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (He/Him) retweeted
Some of you may not know this, but the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author S. K. Ali is my sister. And yes, I’m a proud brother!
She’ll be speaking at the Silk Road Literary Festival on Saturday, October 17, at Meridian Arts Centre in Toronto. It’s a wonderful lineup:
📚 3 p.m. — S. K. Ali: Muslims in fiction and Golden Flight.
🌎 4:30 p.m. — Dr. Saeed Khan: Muslim Americans and the changing American political landscape.
🎬 6 p.m. — Farah Nabulsi: Cinema, Palestinian representation and telling our own stories.
📖 7:30 p.m. — Omar El Akkad: Witnessing and our responsibility.
A special mention of Omar’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This—a powerful reckoning with Gaza, Western complicity and the distance between our professed values and our actions. A book whose title alone demands that we examine where we stand today.
If you’re in the Toronto area, please go support these voices and be part of these conversations. Share the posters and help spread the word!
