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Avi Lewis
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Avi Lewis
@avilewis
Leader of Canada’s NDP / Le chef du NPD fédéral
I’m a Jew and I feel pretty safe. Two things make me feel unsafe: 1. The sadistic unending murder of Palestinian civilians by Israel, supported by US,UK, Canada etc. 2. The attacks from other Jews, meant to silence me (and everyone). Those 2 things stop, I feel 100% safer.- Jews in North America who feel unsafe when they see a flag or scarf might want to reflect on what feeling unsafe really looks like.These days the only thing that Israeli youth seem to enjoy more than marching through the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem chanting “Death to the Arabs” is attempting to lynch the journalists that film them marching through the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem chanting “Death to the Arabs”
- Just wow. After Israel spends 10s of millions on a decade-long campaign to de-legitimize the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement... UN experts now say that an arms embargo against Israel is an obligation under international law. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…
- My father Stephen Lewis is spectacularly uninterested in social media, so I’m posting this myself (though he has read it and is prepared to suffer the indignity of all I'm about to reveal). When he was Canada’s ambassador to the UN from 1984-88, Dad was truly shocked by the
- The fog of war lies thick all around. It’s so hard to sort out pebbles of fact from mountains of propaganda. But here’s one thing I know: I’m just appalled. Appalled by what Hamas unleashed: the slaughter of civilians, homes drenched in terror and raw vengeance. 1/8
- "Canada should be using every diplomatic and economic tool at our disposal to isolate Israel's impunity and stop the genocide now." - Avi #GazaUnderAttack #cdnpoli #NDP2026
00:00 - This genocide is changing history. Longstanding narratives are being laid to rest, buried in the rubble of Gaza. ⛔️Israel guarantees Jewish safety 🙅🏻♂️The IDF is "the most moral army in the world" 🚫Canada is an honest broker My thoughts from a recent @FacultyJewish event:
00:00 - Replying to @avilewisCan anything good come of all this? Only if a new international peace movement can be born, demanding ceasefire, negotiations, a path to peace with justice... A free Palestine, and an end to apartheid in Israel. 8/8
- The world is horrifically upside down. Our province is on fire and the people defending trees are being brutalized. Meanwhile, the corporations responsible for planetary arson are rewarded with tens of billions of public dollars. We need to change everything. Right now.Today at #FairyCreek, a member of the ERT who clearly needs to be treated for PTSD instead of given a can of bear spray and told to use it on non-violent members of the public, sprayed me in the face for trying to document a violently executed arrest. #bcpoli #climateaction
00:00 - Trump’s team built a snitch site targeting Canadian doctors. Not US doctors. Ours. It asks people to report gender-affirming care. Every province was listed. That's not some code fluke. It's a political threat to scare Canadian health workers into silence.
- This is absolutely urgent. The Israel lobby has won a huge victory. The government of Canada has endorsed its weapon of mass distraction: calling anyone who stands against Israel’s genocide an antisemite. We have to fight this.Joint statement by IJV, @WinchevskyCtr, @FacultyJewish The IHRA handbook poses a danger to Palestinians, Jews and all Canadians who advocate for Palestinian human rights. We call for the handbook’s immediate retraction and urge all Canadians to reject it. ijvcanada.org/canadas-ihra-h…
- Look. Either you believe all human lives are equal or you don't. In the last 2 wks, Israel has killed more *children* than all the people murdered by Hamas on Oct 7. You can't justify this as self defence. It's eliminating people you see as lesser humans.
- Thanks @CBCVancouver for showing a diversity of Jewish perspectives on Israel-Palestine. Reminder: Zionist organizations that claim to speak for all Jews...don't. And spraying accusations of antisemitism as indiscriminately as Israel drops bombs is not making anyone safer.
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