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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

🇳🇱 At noon today in Rotterdam, the city’s air raid sirens sounded their monthly test: 1 min. and 26 seconds echoing across the Netherlands. Hundreds of demonstrators dressed in red timed their march across the Erasmus Bridge and back with the warning test, forming a living red line against Israel...

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Zelda Abramson @zeldaabramson.bsky.social · 2d

Our government is complicity @mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaanand.bsky.social

v e l o c i t y @velocity69.bsky.social · 2d

🇸🇪 Greta Thunberg addresses the media after arriving in Athens,
🇬🇷 #Greece:
🇵🇸 🍉
"I will never comprehend how humans can be so evil. That you would deliberately starve millions of people"

@thunberggreta.bsky.social
#Athens
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
#FreePalestine

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Zelda Abramson @zeldaabramson.bsky.social · 4d

#FreePalestine now in Montreal

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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 6d

As Lemkin knew, genocide hides in plain sight. “Genocide is so easy to commit because people don’t want to believe it until after it happens.”

Raphael Lemkin Coined the Word Genocide. What Would He Say Today? | ⁦‪@TheTyee‬⁩ thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

Raphael Lemkin Coined the Word Genocide. What Would He Say Today? | The Tyee

The haunting story of the refugee driven to name and prevent the greatest crimes of all.

thetyee.ca

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Zelda Abramson @zeldaabramson.bsky.social · 6d

I volunteer

Zelda Abramson @zeldaabramson.bsky.social · 8d

@mark-carney.bsky.social How can you support a plan where the Palestinians had zero involvement? What you are supporting is a complete sellout of the Palestinian people. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Carney welcomes ‘Trump’s historic new Middle East peace plan’ for Gaza

Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government is in support of a plan put forward by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday to end the war between Israel and Hamas.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 12d

Dear Bob Rae,
You don't get paid to sit and listen. You get paid to stand up for Canadian values.
During the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine you used the word genocide numerous times.
The UN has found Israel guilty of genocide.
You're our ambassador.
Why the silence?

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Zelda Abramson @zeldaabramson.bsky.social · 12d

PM @mark-carney.bsky.social Canada needs to step up, sail alongside the Flotilla to help protect the desperately needed aid headed to Gaza. Concrete actions are desperately needed. Halt the genocide Israel is inflicting on the Palestinians in Gaza.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We are sailing to Gaza. Here’s why | David Adler

Governments have failed the people of Gaza. Now, ordinary people are taking humanitarian matters into their own hands – and putting their lives on the line

www.theguardian.com

Zelda Abramson @zeldaabramson.bsky.social · 22d

CIFTA (Canadian-Israeli Free Trade Agreement) enables Israel’s annexation of occupied Palestine, gives trade benefits to settlers, violates international law, and undermines Palestinian self-determination. It must be cancelled. Sign this letter.👇
nwmd.social/s/copylink/4...

Cancel the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement

Canada’s trade deal with Israel rewards illegal settlements. Tell Ministers Anand and Sidhi: Cancel CIFTA, cut trade ties, and uphold international law.

nwmd.social

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Zelda Abramson @zeldaabramson.bsky.social · 24d

A great turn-out protesting Team Israel at Grand Prix Montreal #FreeGaza

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Zelda Abramson @zeldaabramson.bsky.social · 26d

"In a statement, Tennis Canada cited “safety concerns,” but who are we kidding? "

The question is, why is Team Israel allowed to participate in the Davis Cup given the genocide in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli government? Shame. #Free Palestine

Halifax Examiner @halifaxexaminer.ca · 26d

There’s no audience at the Davis Cup in order to protect Israeli players’ fee-fees
Morning File by @timbousquet.bsky.social

There's no audience at the Davis Cup in order to protect Israeli players' fee-fees - Halifax Examiner

There's a broad cowardice in our society, a refusal to use plain language to decry horrific crimes.

www.halifaxexaminer.ca

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Zelda Abramson @zeldaabramson.bsky.social · Sep 7

Take a lesson from the wise women @mark-carney.bsky.social Failure to act equals complicity. Words without actions equal complicity. #FreeGaza

MeidasCanada @meidascanada.ca · Sep 7

Gaza is being destroyed brick by brick.
Western leaders remain silent as families starve.

But across Canada, Grandmothers Against Genocide, a powerful grassroots movement, is standing up against the darkness.

youtu.be/T4yqJq5S3As?...

GRANDMOTHERS AGAINST GENOCIDE

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

youtu.be

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Sep 6

Former UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

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Zelda Abramson @zeldaabramson.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Zelda Abramson @zeldaabramson.bsky.social · Aug 18

We are witnessing a genocide in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli government. Contact Tennis Canada and the Canadian government to "forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events." Allowing participation is complicity.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Aug 18

“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.”

- 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (FREDERICTON, August 18th, 2025) A group of 413 Canadian and Canadian-based scholars, athletes, sports journalists, and sports officials have signed a public letter calling on Tennis Canada to cancel the Davis Cup tournament with Israel this September in Halifax. Signatories include three United Nations Special Rapporteurs, four-time Olympian distance runner Mohammed Ahmed, two members of the Palestinian women’s soccer team who compete for York University, a former Canadian Olympic beach volleyball coach, sports journalists Shireen Ahmed and Ian Kennedy, public intellectuals and activists Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis and some of Canada’s most distinguished and internationally-recognized scholars. The letter is signed by prominent individuals from 46 different academic institutions in Canada, as well as by Canadians at prominent global institutions. One hundred and six of the signatories are based in Atlantic Canada, where the event is slated to occur. The call to cancel the Davis Cup event comes amidst rising condemnation of Israeli conduct in Gaza and the West Bank, which leading legal scholars, activists and human rights groups have described as a genocide. Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the letter says that allowing the competition to go ahead is “unconscionable” and calls on the Canadian government to prevent Canadian athletes from competing against Israeli athletes in all international sporting competitions. Despite Tennis Canada’s claims that the event isn’t political and is just about playing tennis, the letter states in part that Canada should follow the lead of other nations who “refuse to legitimize Israel’s crimes” by withdrawing from international sporting competition. “This includes Jordanian tennis player Abdellah Shelbayh, who recently withdrew from a tennis competition in Greece after being slated to play an Israeli athlete,” the letter says. The letter points to the use of sporting sanctions in South Africa as a meaningful …

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Zelda Abramson @zeldaabramson.bsky.social · Jul 30

Maybe he will resign. What a wonderful thought.

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Zelda Abramson @zeldaabramson.bsky.social · Jun 15

Thank you for taking an interest in Manuel. The response at Global Affairs is very disconcerting and worrisome. I have no confidence in my government providing the necessary support should a crisis arise abroad.

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Zelda Abramson @zeldaabramson.bsky.social · Jun 15

2. I contacted my MP and spoke with her assistant who took down the info but never got back to me. I spoke to Global Affairs twice but they refused to help in any way saying that it is a private matter, and to call back should she be arrested. In the end, all worked out well for her.

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Zelda Abramson @zeldaabramson.bsky.social · Jun 15

1. I tried to contact the Canadian Embassy in Egypt and Global Affair Emergency line in Ottawa on behalf of my daughter who's a delegate for the GlobalMarchforGaza. She's among 1000 who was taken off the bus at a checkpoint point, passports were taken. I also emailed Anita Nanand but no response.

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Zelda Abramson @zeldaabramson.bsky.social · Jun 15

Happy Father's Day to all fathers who do not get parades.

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yipeng ge @yipengge.bsky.social · Jun 15

Manuel Tapial’s whereabouts are currently unknown. It’s been almost 24 hours since he’s been detained. His wife Baya was deported and put on a plane and is now already outside of the country.

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Zelda Abramson @zeldaabramson.bsky.social · Jun 13

My daughter is one of the delegates. I have contacted the Canadian emergency number who are taking a wait and see approach.

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LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · Jun 11

Former President of the Canadian Medical Association: #Canadasky

yipeng ge @yipengge.bsky.social · Jun 11

Canada is complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza being committed by Israel. This is why the Canadian government continues to not acknowledge that it is a genocide in Gaza.

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Zelda Abramson @zeldaabramson.bsky.social · Jun 10

Only if you convert to being a Zionist Jew. My opinion apparently does not matter.

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