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Chip Pitfield retweeted
He ripped up trees. He ripped up bike lanes. Record ERs closed. Hallway medicine worsened. $27 million to install, $48 million to rip up. No respect for taxapayers. And he's cruising to a 3rd term in Ontario's election. Yours to Discover. @bcohenn
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Chip Pitfield retweeted
There’s never been a conflict so disproportionately focused on murdering and torturing children than what Israel is doing to Palestinians. It has nothing to do with self defense. It is evil. Child amputees, orphans, babies starved to death, the anguish of boys like this child:
🚨PAINFUL
A CHILD bids farewell to his martyr brother, who was targeted in an Israeli raid on a group of civilians & children in Rafah,southern #Gaza Strip
Do you expect, with all this pain in the heart of this child, that when he grows up he will not avenge his little brother?
Chip Pitfield retweeted
"horrendous" "heartbreaking" "scenes of violence" are accurate description of what Israel is doing to Palestinians & Lebanese.
But b/c the victims are not in Europe, & b/c it's the US, Europe & Israel who are responsible, their deaths will be not be talked about today.
Chip Pitfield retweeted
The president of the @OxfordUnion asked about Israel’s right to self defence. Here is the answer in 30 seconds.
Chip Pitfield retweeted
As predicted, Israel waited until Tuesday, Nov. 5th, 2024, the date of the US Presidential election, to officially announce that Palestinians are in the process of being ethnically cleansed from North Gaza.
Doing Zionism quietly, like clockwork. theguardian.com/world/2024/n…
Chip Pitfield retweeted
Remember how we were told for years that Israel was right to fear being wiped off the map. It was always a nonsense that the only nuclear-armed state in the Middle East was in existential peril.
But now Israel is showing how ready it is to wipe its neighbours off the map.
Chip Pitfield retweeted
As a scholar of international law, I endorse @howserob assessment: Israel is “killing for the hell of it, slaughtering children for a lark [demonstrating] an extreme moral baseness not fully captured even by the legal language of genocide.”
While as a scholar of international law I have to conclude on the available evidence that Israel’s conduct in Gaza is, as a legal matter, genocide, as a matter of morality, the perverted gratuitous murder & destruction by the IDF, killing for the hell of it, slaughtering children for a lark, has an extreme moral baseness not fully captured even by the legal language of genocide.
Chip Pitfield retweeted
Over the next 48 hours, Israel will likely slaughter & ethnically cleanse Palestinians at an accelerated pace, timed for US Presidential election day, so as to minimize the PR damage. This is a phenomenon I call "doing Zionism quietly." (Full article linked in the thread)
Chip Pitfield retweeted
No one can say they didn't know. No one can claim blindness to this suffering. No one can pretend their ears did not hear the cries of children.
But when it's over, and history books are written. Those who were silent or celebrated this, will say to their grandchildren: "Wasn't that a tragedy" "We had no idea of the horrors" "We never supported it"
"Had we known what was happening....".
Well technology has given us one wonderful tool: information. History will no longer be written by the victors, but the people of Palestine who documented and recorded every aspect of their torture and annihilation. Who documented and recorded this for the world to never forget, to expose silence as support and to make sure their plight will be told in one way, and one way only: the truth.
📸: Gaza, yesterday. Waiting for aid.
Chip Pitfield retweeted
“Many Israelis believe –or are brainwashed to believe– that if we only take a huge stick and hit the Arabs one more strong blow, they will be afraid and leave us alone for all time and everything will be alright. For the last hundred years we have been raising a bigger and bigger stick, and it has not helped,” Amos Oz
Chip Pitfield retweeted
Jabalia is being called “hell on Earth." Palestinian are being burnt alive by Israel. Northern Gaza is a genocide within a genocide, and yet our leaders are failing to speak out.
Canadians, especially those in power, the time for silence is over. This is not about Hamas or October 7th—this is about justice and international law.
It’s time for business leaders, journalists, academics, and politicians to take a stand. No more excuses.
Watch my video
Chip Pitfield retweeted
In Gaza, the collective shame of the century continues unabated and unstopped, in defiance of every norm of international law and morale. The Palestinians, exhausted by relentless attacks on their bodies and souls are abandoned to their tormentors. Shocking images of summary executions, mass forced displacements, and other egregious abuses strike us, leaving us stunned and bewildered, unable to comprehend that what is happening in Gaza is truly real. What a disgraceful testament to our global failure to protect basic human rights . The United Nations, once a believed beacon of hope and a force for peace, are crumbling under the weight of this shame - and the pressure of the inaction or complicity of its most powerful member states.
🚨Live-streamed ethnic cleansing: Israeli occupation forces are forcing residents of northern #Gaza Strip to leave their homes and shelters and is carrying out mass arrests of Palestinian civilians.
♦️We have been for weeks warning of Israel’s Generals’ Plan, which is being currently executed for the 16th consecutive day. The plan is aimed at emptying northern Gaza Strip by imposing a strict siege and exterminating and starving the population to force them to leave southwards.
Chip Pitfield retweeted
Was it like this during other genocides?
When the Ottoman State was exterminating the Armenians during World War I, or when the Hutus were exterminating the Tutsis in 1994, were the world's most powerful people cheering on the perpetrators? Were the perpetrators of those other genocides also invited to address the US Congress & were they given 58 standing ovations?
This genocide is a physical & mental genocide.
The physical genocide on live stream. The one Israel & the US are perpetrating against the Palestinian people of Gaza, where 2 million people are being slaughtered & starved to death.
Then there's a mental genocide, also on live stream in Gaza (which had the highest rate of youth self-harming BEFORE Oct. 7th). Israel is committing a mental genocide, where Israel is destroying people's minds. the drone sounds, warplanes overhead and unimaginable scenes of bloodshed.
Then there's the mental genocide for the rest of the world, where ours minds are being incinerated, values we hold dear like equality and human rights are being ravaged by smirky genocidal maniacs. We are being lied to every single day by our leaders and supposed to just carry on, politics as normal, just vote for the least evil person. "How's your work-genocide balance" going?
Genocide upon genocide upon genocide.
Chip Pitfield retweeted
Yuval Harari just published a piece on Zionism in the @washingtonpost. He argues:
"Nothing in this Zionist idea implies that Jews are superior to others, whether they are Greeks or Poles — or Palestinians." @harari_yuval
A short🧵.
Chip Pitfield retweeted
Photo of Haganah / Israeli military soldiers dressing up w/items from the wardrobes of Palestinians they expelled from their homes, in 1948. haaretz.com/israel-news/2020…
Chip Pitfield retweeted
SCOOP: Hurricane recovery officials in N.C. relocated amid report of ‘armed militia,’ according to an email obtained by @bri_sacks washingtonpost.com/weather/2…
Chip Pitfield retweeted
🚨72 hours later, NOT one single mainstream media outlet covered this UN report's confirmation of Israel's systematic MASS RAPE of Palestinian hostages in torture camps, "motivated by extreme hatred towards & a desire to dehumanize the Palestinian people"
Unprecedented cover up!
Chip Pitfield retweeted
This isn’t an armed conflict, it’s a punitive medieval act of retribution, targeted not against Hamas, but against all 2.3m Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Simply obscene that this is being allowed to happen.
Chip Pitfield retweeted
Almost all non-domesticated animals on this earth, 73%, have vanished just over the course of my lifetime.
The neoliberal economy is a planetary cancer. It is deeply, deeply sick.
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