Seeking peace & justice since 1968; 4 yrs in ישראל-فلسطين. Active in @IndJewishVoices in Canada and @JVPlive in the U.S.
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Rabbi David Mivasair retweeted
“We’ve built software to track Wikipedia editors,” says the head of the ADL.
We have an investigation publishing soon about pro-Israel manipulation of Wikipedia, and he just blurts it out
Rabbi David Mivasair retweeted
בכל פעם כשאני כותב על כך שרוב מוחלט מתושבי מזרח ירושלים הם לא אזרחי מדינת ישראל מתחילות התגובות שזה בעצם באשמת הפלסטינים שלא ביקשו אזרחות.
אז אחת ולתמיד הנה רשימת התירוצים (החלקית מאוד מאוד) של רשות האוכלוסין למה לא לתת אזרחות לתושבי ירושלים, ילידי העיר, שחיים בה כל חייהם:
- אישה סורבה בגלל שלאבא של בעלה הייתה דירה מחוץ לירושלים. הדירה נמכרה עוד לפני שהיא התחתנה, אבל היא לא הצליחה לספק למשרד הפנים מסמכים לגבי מי רכש את הדירה.
- אדם סורב בגלל תיק פלילי על סכסוך שכנים, שנסגר ללא כתב אישום שנים לפני שהגיש בקשת ההתאזרחות.
- אישה שאמרה בראיון ברשות האוכלוסין שהיא משאירה את הילד שלך אצל חמותה כשהיא הולכת לאוניברסיטה, אבל בראיון של אבא שלה הוא אמר שהילד נשאר אצל אמה שלה.
- צעיר שלא היה לו קו טלפון קווי אז הוא לא הצליח להציג חשבון טלפון.
- אדם שבעל הבית שלו לא הסכים לתת לו מסמך שמפרט את כל הדיירים שגרים בבניין שלו.
- אדם שפעם אחת הסיע את אמא שלו לביקור אצל אחיו בבית הכלא.
- אדם שגר בפחון, ללא חיבור לרשת הטלפון והחשמל ולכן הוא לא יכול להציג חשבונות.
- אישה שמדברת עברית אבל אחרי ראיון של כמה דקות הפקידה החליטה שהעברית לא מספיק טובה.
- צעיר שהיה בן 13 כאשר הוריו התחילו את תהליך ההתאזרחות, אבל התהליך הסתיים כשהוא היה מעל 18 אז הוא צריך להתחיל מחדש.
- אדם שעשה לייק לפני שנים לפוסט פרו-פלסטיני.
- אדם שלאשתו (שהיא אזרחית!) היה בפייסבוק באנר של נכבה והבן שלהם, שהיה בן 7 הצטלם פעם עם דגל פלסטין.
- עשרות אלפי צעירים שהיו אמורים לקבל אזרחות אוטומטית בגיל 21 על פי סעיף 4 א' לחוק האזרחות. המדינה פשוט מתעלמת מהסעיף.
עוד מקרה שטופל על ידי עו"ד עדי לוסטיגמן:
ילדה שהוריה הגישו בקשה, עד שהבקשה נידונה היא הייתה מעל 18 וסירבו לה, היא הגישה שוב בקשה ואמרו לה שהיא לא יודעת מספיק טוב עברית למרות שהיא עשתה כמה קורסים ברמות גבוהות (עצם העובדה שזה תנאי לילידי ירושלים ולא לעולים חדשים מכל מקום בעולם היא הזיה).
בכל מקרה, האישה הגישה עתירה לבית המשפט. במשפט, רשות האוכלוסין ירדה מדרישת העברית אבל אז אמרו לה שאין לה מרכז חיים כי לא יתכן שהיא גרה בקומת קרקע שהיא גם חניון ושהיא לא מכירה מספיק טוב את שמות השכנים וילדיהם.
האישה הגישה עוד עתירה. הפעם למחוזי. המחוזי דחה את העתירה.
היא הגישה ערעור לעליון שהתקבל והיא קיבלה אזרחות.
רוב התושבים לא מסוגלים להתמודד עם ההר הזה וארגוני זכויות האדם בירושלים לא עוסקים בזה כי זה השאלה האם נכון לאפשר התאזרחות של תושבי מזרח ירושלים שנויה במחלוקת פוליטית.
אז מכאן ואילך בבקשה - זה לא שהפלסטינים לא מבקשים אזרחות, זה ישראל שלא נותנת.
(בתמונה, פיזור הקלפיות בירושלים ביום הבחירות, תמתחו קו ויצא לכם הגבול בין שכונות בהן גרים יהודים לשכונות בהן גרים פלסטינים, כפי שכתבתי בציוץ הקודם - יש לזה שם באפריקנס).
Rabbi David Mivasair retweeted
The violent mobs of the 1930s are nothing compared to ..... no violent mobs today.
Jewish community in Canada facing unprecedented threats, security officials warn /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/politics…
Shocked?!
Imagine how Palestinians feel when they are labelled as being in Israel.
People facing death in Gaza who write to me on +972 phones show up as being in Israel, which is who is starving and killing them.
@Connecting_Gaza @IndJewishVoices
Courtney Greenberg, National Post
A Canadian traveller who received a text from Bell Canada welcoming him to “Palestine” while he was in Israel says he is shocked and disappointed.
The Ottawa resident — who only wanted to be identified by his first name, Charles, out of concerns for his safety amid rising antisemitism — told National Post he decided to take a trip to Israel and landed there last week. He was at the Holocaust memorial and museum Yad Vashem in Jerusalem when a text from the telecommunications company popped up on his phone.
Rabbi David Mivasair retweeted
Last week I was in Cuba. We bore witness to the impacts of the over six decades long U.S. blockade and siege on the people of Cuba. We brought donated medical supplies, medications, and other essential items but this is not a sustainable solution.
The people of Cuba are struggling immensely. There is a dire lack of energy and fuel, leading to blackouts and water shortages. Food costs are high, people can’t afford to feed their families. Medication is unavailable or on extremely short supply.
This blockade maintained by the U.S. must end. Today there was a United Nations resolution on condemning the economic embargo imposed on Cuba. Canada must do more to support the people of Cuba as they continue to suffer the consequences of Western imperialism and interference with their sovereignty, independence, and self-determination. Let Cuba live! 🇨🇺
'Turning up the heat': Hackers leak ICE and DHS workers' info dailykos.com/stories/2026/10…
This is all completely a made up, manipulated, exaggerated attempt to silence support for Palestine and distract from Israel's mass murder of Palestinians.
Jewish community in Canada facing unprecedented threats, security officials warn /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/politics…
Rabbi David Mivasair retweeted
People like Mercedes (Ottawa Chief of the Globe and Mail) function as a conduit for state narratives, imperialist war mongering and western cultural supremacy
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Mercedes interned with the U.S military and has a national security background. The people of Canada absolutely cannot rely on people like her to do independent checks on power, let alone be an objective chief correspondent of a major news organization
An example of this is an interview from 2012, which was months before Canada cut its diplomatic relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Mercedes joined a campaign with Zionist talking heads like National Post to turn Iran's call for diaspora mobilization into a national security threat.
What they fail to reveal is that the U.S/Canada western alliance had been building pressure on Iran for months and expanded their sanctions on Iran and its people. In 2010-2011 they froze property in Canada and restricted exports. As an extremely important context, during this time, Canadian and Israeli relations were getting stronger alongside these escalations.
Jewish community in Canada facing unprecedented threats, security officials warn /via @globeandmail theglobeandmail.com/politics…
Rabbi David Mivasair retweeted
BREAKING: Huge confusion as Brazilian man not taken into ICE custody despite illegally entering US without a passport 👀
Rabbi David Mivasair retweeted
Imagine if a sitting Republican senator said voters should reject Jon Ossoff or Josh Shapiro because they reject Jesus. That would be a big story. This won't be because Islamophobia from powerful Republicans is simply the norm. It's why there's no comparison between the level of Islamophobia and the level of antisemitism in America today. Only one is actively promoted by the state. peterbeinart.substack.com/p/…
Plotting a Comeback: Gaza Resignees Confront Biden’s Genocide Enablers – VIDEO - eepurl.com/IXOyY4zpYf
Help Mohammed across the line.
In the past two months, he's gone from being a Gazan refugee in Cairo to being a grad student in Glasgow. He's determined to succeed and to benefit others through what he can accomplish.
Right now, he needs $115 to pay his tuition on Nov 1. We've already raised the other $900. Can you help? Can you get him across the line to make this tuition payment at @UofGlasgow? @glasgowunisrc @CEES_GlasgowUni
chuffed.org/project/mohammed…
James, what do you think is the likelihood that this decision by CLC leadership is actually a step forward? Comrades in @PalestineLabour are expressing optimism. They believe it gives them more ground to push forward for unions to actually stop their complicity. What's the chance that they are right?
An empty gesture to cover up the COMPLICITY of the trade union bureaucracy in both Canadian imperialist criminality and Israel's genocide. It's actually obscene.
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Rabbi David Mivasair retweeted
If it were not for you @cbonneauimages, I would not be as aware of this. It’s sad that the images are not broadcast by MSM. Even if governments don’t do anything to intervene now, we must believe that if people know, change will come.
Rabbi David Mivasair retweeted
The most honest statement ever made about Cuba policy came from a State Department memo in 1960, written before the sanctions were fully implemented.
The memo, written by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Lester Mallory, stated that the U.S. should pursue a policy to bring about hunger, desperation, and overthrow of the Cuban government.
Not: respond to "Cuban repression."
Not: protect Cuban human rights.
Not: promote democracy.
Hunger. Desperation. Overthrow.
This memo is declassified. It is in the historical record. It is not disputed.
It means that every subsequent year of sanctions, every subsequent citation of Cuban poverty and dysfunction as evidence of socialist failure, every subsequent American official expressing concern for the welfare of the Cuban people:
All of it happened downstream of a documented decision to deliberately produce hunger and desperation in that population.
This is not a conspiracy theory.
It is a declassified government document.
The conspiracy was the policy.
The theory was written in plain English by an American official in 1960 and has been implemented faithfully for 66 years since.
What they wanted to prove, they engineered the conditions to prove.
And then they called it evidence.
ALT U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Lester D. Mallory's secret memorandum recommended economic measures to bring about "hunger, desperation and overthrow of government" in Cuba. Declassified U.S. State Department memorandum, 6 April 1960, FRUS Document 499.
Rabbi David Mivasair retweeted
I'm not sure most Canadians realize what's happening right now with Indigenous folks and the Carney government.
Today, voice after voice from Indigenous leadership, youth, from across the country, has been telling us they're gearing up for a fight for their rights.
This is big!
Rabbi David Mivasair retweeted
A great response to our gvt's refusal to close the arms loophole.The Canadian gvt claims to be compliant with the July, 2024 ICJ ruling but military supplies - munitions, explosives, F-35 parts-go to Israel from Canada via the US. Value is hundreds of millions of $$- not trivial.
Rabbi David Mivasair retweeted
Brazil's failed far-right presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro fled to his true home in the United States, where he published a statement claiming to be "president-elect" of Brazil.
Meet the new Juan Guaidó.
He is now trying to change the official name of the country to "the United States of Brazil". (The actual name is the Federative Republic of Brazil.)
The corrupt Bolsonaro dynasty are US puppets, dedicated to helping the US empire try to colonize Brazil.
