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Hernan Garcia יעקב בן אברהם retweeted
My second favorite type of Jewish privilege is Jewish institutions having to put up these barriers to prevent people potentially ramming the building.
Hernan Garcia יעקב בן אברהם retweeted
As I said this morning on @gregbradyx, the high holidays are coming, and you'll be hard-pressed to find a synagogue that doesn't have increased security.
You would think that this issue would be worth @MayorOliviaChow time - but she's made it clear Jewish safety isn't a priority
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Hernan Garcia יעקב בן אברהם retweeted
Has the UK 🇬🇧 announced any sanctions on the Palestinian Authority for having a system that LITERALLY gives CASH bonuses to Palestinians for murdering Jews?
Hernan Garcia יעקב בן אברהם retweeted
There was a real choice: build foreign policy around what actually serves Canada, or cave again to the loudest, most fringe voices. This government chose the latter and Canadians are the ones left holding the bag.
Synagogues, Jewish schools, and Jewish-owned businesses are already under threat, with security heightened nationwide as the holiest days of the year approach. Yet this is the moment the government chose to double down on a double standard, one that has emboldened three years of violence on our own streets.
Nowhere in these one-sided declarations is there any demand that the Palestinian Authority deliver on what it promised Prime Minister Carney. The pressure simply evaporates, and it's the Palestinian people, their economy, and Canadian workers who will pay the price.
A stronger economy, eradicating hatred in our own neighborhoods, and real progress toward peace is the leadership Canada should offer, not the careless, one-sided moves that set back all three at once. Canada will one day again chart its own course: restoring a bilateral relationship with Israel built on mutual respect and mutual benefit, the kind that once made Canada a trusted and credible voice in the region. Today, we’re very far from that.
Cc: @AHousefather @vgasparro @lesliechurch @AnitaAnandMP
#LATEST: Canada to join European ban on Israeli settlement goods amid rising violence. toronto.citynews.ca/2026/09/…
Hernan Garcia יעקב בן אברהם retweeted
P!nk, who is Jewish, reposted a Jewish org’s complaint about Macklemore ambushing an Ed Sheeran crowd with a Gaza rally. No caption. For that: boycott.
Macklemore is still on the tour. Even after his racist Jew-face outfit. His career is fine. The only career anyone’s trying to end is hers.
That’s the deal on offer to Jewish artists. Stay quiet, keep your seat.
Luckily, P!nk has always been brave enough to speak up, even when it's not popular.
Hernan Garcia יעקב בן אברהם retweeted
My personal highlight of the trip was visiting sacred sites in the Old City.
I was the only member of my group permitted to enter the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque— subject to a pop quiz testing my knowledge of Islam.
📸 Jan 22, 2026
#Jerusalem #VoteSad
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#AskCarymaAnything
Q: “Why did you accept a sponsored trip to Israel?”
A: The subject matter was relevant to my work documenting extremism and polarization. My purpose was to observe and hear firsthand perspectives, without an editorial commitment or expectation of advocacy.
It was also the first opportunity I’d had to visit my father’s birthplace.
See below for more details.
#Toronto #VoteSad
If you believe a councillor should be willing to listen to anyone, please consider supporting the Vote Sa’d campaign:
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Hernan Garcia יעקב בן אברהם retweeted
I'm a Zionist. Come and get me, Eva Braun. "Windsor city council candidate says Zionists 'must be locked up' | The Jerusalem Post" jpost.com/diaspora/antisemit…
Hernan Garcia יעקב בן אברהם retweeted
Anti-Israel Professor Ilan Pappé’s “idea for peace” at the Oxford Union: send me and my family “back” to Iraq. And the students cheered.
A professor who built an entire career on the words “ethnic cleansing” stood up and proposed one. For me and my family.
Here is what he doesn’t want you to think about:
Millions of Israeli Jews are Mizrahi, roughly half of Israel’s Jewish population, the children and grandchildren of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa. Iraq, Yemen, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, Egypt, Algeria, Iran. We didn’t come from Europe. Over 850,000 of us were expelled or driven out of the Arab world, stripped of citizenship, homes and everything we owned.
So “cleansing” Israel of Mizrahi Jews isn’t a peace plan. It’s a selection process. Who goes? The grandson of Iraqi Jews, or the grandson of Polish ones? And what about the millions of us who are both? And the other half? Send them “back” to Warsaw, Vilnius, Berlin? To communities that were wiped out down to the last child? My family is from Iraq and Tunisia. Which half of me goes where? Most of us cannot divide ourselves in half.
And “back” to what? Iraq stripped its Jews of citizenship and seized their property. It hanged Jews in a public square in Baghdad in 1969. In 2022 its parliament made contact with Israelis a crime punishable by death. There are no Jews left in Iraq. That is the “welcome” Pappé is so sure of. There is no “back” for any of us. That’s why Israel exists.
The Farhud, the pogrom that ended my grandmother’s childhood in Baghdad, was in 1941. Seven years before Israel existed. Iraq did not expel its Jews because of anything Israel did.
Pappé knows all of this. He just leaves it out.
Where is your family from? Tell me in the comments: Baghdad, Tunis, Sana’a, Casablanca, Aleppo, Tehran, Warsaw, Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Vilnius, Kyiv, Bucharest. I want them to see how many of us there are.
Share this with anyone who still thinks Israelis are “colonizers.”
#JewishRefugees #OxfordUnion #IlanPappe #Israel #palestine
Hernan Garcia יעקב בן אברהם retweeted
The Government of Canada is partnering with authoritarian countries like China and Saudi Arabia while imposing punitive measures on a democracy that is heading into an election.
As CIJA CEO @nshack told the Canadian Press, these measures "reinforce a troubling double standard toward Israel that not only impacts the Middle East but has real consequences here at home.”
Canada should be using its influence to advance peace, strengthen the economy and confront hatred at home — not imposing punitive measures that will achieve the opposite.
You can read CIJA's full statement here:
cija.ca/cija_strongly_condem…
And read the article here:
ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/cp…
Hernan Garcia יעקב בן אברהם retweeted
Gaza’s destruction isn’t genocide, it’s the result of Hamas embedding itself in civilian areas, using schools, hospitals, and homes as launch pads.
Israel evacuated civilians block by block to minimize civilian casualties during the most complex military operation in modern history.
Stop fooling people by using destroyed buildings as evidence of genocide. Genocide isn’t defined by how many buildings get destroyed in a war zone.
Speaking of genocide, Mohammed, why are you in denial of the most documented genocide in our history, October seventh, captured on terrorist cameras?
Hernan Garcia יעקב בן אברהם retweeted
Twelve years ago today, Hamas murdered this beautiful little boy — four-year-old Daniel Tragerman. His only crime was living a wonderful, innocent life.
Never let anyone gaslight you into believing those barbarians are the good guys.
Hernan Garcia יעקב בן אברהם retweeted
He was in prison with Mandela. He’s been to Israel. His name is Mosiuoa Lekota, a former South African Defense Minister and prominent anti-apartheid activist. Here he says empathetically and unapologetically that the claim that Israel is an apartheid state is “rubbish,” absolute nonsense.”
Hernan Garcia יעקב בן אברהם retweeted
Years ago I used to look at these images of ritual humiliation Austrian people carried out against Jews in 1938, right after the Anschluss, and wonder what kind of people engage in such psychopathic and dishonorable behavior.
Who would laugh at a grown honorable person being forced at gunpoint to scrub the streets with toothbrushes?
How can any human being behave like this, I would wonder, especially since many of these Viennese people were highly acultured and educated.
Today I wonder no more.
The people who behave in this antisocial cruel and hateful way are all over Instagram and TikTok.
It is Swedish, British and German citizens who carry out weekly gorish plays in which they portray IDF soldiers in the most demonic way possible with medieval zeal.
It is the social media accounts who go to Brooklyn videoing themselves throwing coins and dollar bills at shocked Hasidic Jews.
Is Palestine News Network berating Jews in the streets and approaching them as they try to dine quietly in kosher restaurants.
And what about Vienna? How did producing such behavior workout for them?
Vienna went from being one of the world's great intellectual and cultural powerhouses to a city you would only visit to see it's achievements of past.
Vienna went from being the city of Freud, Mahler, Schönberg, Schrödinger, Pauli, Zweig and many others who transformed the entire world of psychology, physics, music, art, literature and philosophy to being a a tourism based city where people come to visit what it used to be in the past.
Every single person who is silent about the treatment of Jews today on social media, the normalization of cruelty, the rewarding of antisocial behavior towards Jews needs to understand that there will be extraordinary societal consequences for that silence.
Photo: Austrian national library.
Hernan Garcia יעקב בן אברהם retweeted
It’s not a genocide, it’s just a war. That Islamists started.
About 70,000 have been killed. Roughly half are militants. This is an excellent civilian to death ratio.
If Hamas has any military expertise it’s in using human shields, which is a war crime. Their strategy is to get their own people killed, broadcast it, and convince the world that Jews are bloodthirsty.
There are many ways to be antisemetic. Perhaps the worst is expecting Jews to lay down and die after being raped, shot, maimed and murdered.
Hernan Garcia יעקב בן אברהם retweeted
University instructor “Dr.” Abbas Hamze decided to take time from his busy schedule to make a speech at the Jewish neighborhood of Bathurst & Sheppard where he talked about Jews being kicked out of every country, their “black magic”, and how they rape, kill & eat children under approval & armed protection of @TorontoPolice @TPSOperations
“Dr.” Abbas Hamze is a Master Sessional & Master of Data Analytics Instructor with University of Niagara Falls @unfcan, a Faculty Lecturer at @georgiancollege, and a College Lecturer for @ConestogaC.
When not teaching impressionable minds at universities, Abbas Hamze can be seen driving over to the Jewish neighborhood of Bathurst & Sheppard on Sundays to harass & intimidate Jews including protesting outside of Jewish schools & synagogues.
Abbas Hamze also calls for the kidnapping of Israeli hostages stating that “Hamas has the right to take hostages in October 7th 2023” while also claiming “Hezbollah has the right to assist Hamas in October 8th.”
Despite being an advocate for Hamas kidnapping Jews, the @TorontoPolice provide an armed escort for Abbas Hamze as he protests at Jewish neighborhoods, schools, and synagogues.
Abbas Hamze has also been pictured holding up flags of the Islamic Republic of Iran in this Jewish neighborhood while also writing “we will continue the path of Imam Khamenei, no matter how many sacrifices are, and his pure blood will bear the inevitable victory.”
Abbas Hamze came to Canada from France in August of 2022 & is not believed to be a Canadian citizen. Why was he let into Canada with these radical beliefs? @CitImmCanada
This is a Notice of Public Interest to the Jewish community of Toronto regarding this radical supporter of foreign designated terrorist groups who targets Jewish neighborhoods, schools, and syagogues while supporting kidnappings.
All materials provided were obtained via publicly available sources & does not contain any forms of private media.
Hernan Garcia יעקב בן אברהם retweeted
Sankofa Square should be renamed and cleaned up, says Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford trib.al/5CZumI0
Hernan Garcia יעקב בן אברהם retweeted
It's pretty clear from this post by @strombo that he doesn't really understand the problems with the "Nakba" exhibit at @CMHR_News.
So, let us help @strombo understand what is really going on ⬇️
When a federally funded museum's exhibit presents the story of the "Nakba" in a one-sided, anti-Israel narrative that distorts the actual historical record by disregarding key context and evidence, that's a problem.
When a federally funded museum's exhibit fails to identify Hamas as a listed terrorist organization, or to explain that Hamas’s objective on October 7, 2023, was the mass murder of Jews, that's a problem.
When a Liberal-appointed Jewish member of the board for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights steps down because he believes that the Museum's mandate has been compromised by the decision to sacrifice truth at the altar of politics, that's a problem.
When the advisory council overseeing the "Nakba" exhibit includes individuals who have publicly proclaimed that “Zionism is a disease that must be destroyed”, that's a problem.
Many Canadians are raising legitimate concerns about these issues. The argument isn't that the story of the "Nakba" needs to be silenced, but whether it is being told fairly, grounded in historical context, informed by multiple perspectives, and free from ideological advocacy.
Museums aren't meant to settle arguments.
They're meant to deepen our understanding of them.
#canadianmuseumforhumanrights
#winnipeg
Hernan Garcia יעקב בן אברהם retweeted
This year's KW Palestine Festival will be held on municipal property at Kitchener City Hall. Advertisements for the Festival indicate that the event will include an exhibit walkthrough that will contain antisemitic content, including an installation described by the organizers as “a symbol of the eventual destruction of Zionism.”
The materials present Israel not as a state whose actions may be debated, challenged, or condemned, but as an illegitimate expression of the Jewish system of beliefs.
The destruction of Zionism means the destruction of the Jewish people’s right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland. The Jewish people have the right to live freely and securely in the land to which they are historically, religiously, and culturally connected.
Antisemitism disguised as anti-Zionism is not new. It is one of the ways anti-Jewish hate is being surreptitiously injected into public life. It may masquerade as education, culture, resistance, or human rights advocacy, but its targets remain the same: Jewish life, Jewish history, and the Jewish people’s right to live in their ancestral homeland. Jews are denied their faith, identity, and ancestry.
Municipal officials should not be fooled by this rebranding. B’nai Brith Canada is calling on the City of Kitchener to urgently review this event and whether the advertised materials are in violation of the City’s own policies.
The municipality has a responsibility to maintain safe, inclusive, and hate-free civic spaces. Our leaders must enforce a zero-tolerance policy for hate. If they fail to do so, B'nai Brith Canada will hold them accountable.
Hernan Garcia יעקב בן אברהם retweeted
Do you know what takes real confidence? Putting the phrase “the eventual destruction of Zionism” in your festival’s own advertising and booking Kitchener City Hall to display it. Not a warehouse. Not a private venue. CITY HALL. In Canada 🇨🇦. A building funded by taxpayers, including Jewish taxpayers, in a city with an official policy on inclusive, and safe civic spaces. @bnaibrithcanada has asked Kitchener to review whether this violates its own rules. The fact that this even requires a formal request tells you everything about where we are in Canada in 2026.
This year's KW Palestine Festival will be held on municipal property at Kitchener City Hall. Advertisements for the Festival indicate that the event will include an exhibit walkthrough that will contain antisemitic content, including an installation described by the organizers as “a symbol of the eventual destruction of Zionism.”
The materials present Israel not as a state whose actions may be debated, challenged, or condemned, but as an illegitimate expression of the Jewish system of beliefs.
The destruction of Zionism means the destruction of the Jewish people’s right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland. The Jewish people have the right to live freely and securely in the land to which they are historically, religiously, and culturally connected.
Antisemitism disguised as anti-Zionism is not new. It is one of the ways anti-Jewish hate is being surreptitiously injected into public life. It may masquerade as education, culture, resistance, or human rights advocacy, but its targets remain the same: Jewish life, Jewish history, and the Jewish people’s right to live in their ancestral homeland. Jews are denied their faith, identity, and ancestry.
Municipal officials should not be fooled by this rebranding. B’nai Brith Canada is calling on the City of Kitchener to urgently review this event and whether the advertised materials are in violation of the City’s own policies.
The municipality has a responsibility to maintain safe, inclusive, and hate-free civic spaces. Our leaders must enforce a zero-tolerance policy for hate. If they fail to do so, B'nai Brith Canada will hold them accountable.
Hernan Garcia יעקב בן אברהם retweeted
The Nakba exhibit divides Canadians, imports a foreign conflict and fails the mandate of a national museum.
Tell the @CMHR_News enough is enough. Close this "error in curation".
go.theallies.ca/close-nakba
