#Toronto Protest.

[babakca]

Palestinian Toronto Rally. Feb 12 2024. Film Mission.

[princesserica84]

As a Jewish Canadian, I'm scared.

For anyone who may not know, today at the Toronto Metropolitan University, a number of Pro-Palestine (antisemitic) protestors set up outside the Hillel Centre (which is a centre for Jewish campus life) and were screaming things like "shame". They were verbally aggressive and yelling at the students. They chose this spot because they are blaming these Jewish students for a war they had zero involvement in, for a war on the other side of the world. They are blaming them simply because they are Jewish. This is the definition of antisemitism. And if you are not Jewish, shut the fuck up because you do not get to decide if I am offended as a Jewish person.

If this was towards people of color, or LGBTQ+ people, everyone would be talking about it. But they aren't, and yet it's the same. Let me be perfectly clear:

BLAMING PEOPLE FOR THE WAR IN GAZA SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY ARE JEWISH IS ANTISEMITIC

And yet, this is what those Pro-PalestineHamas protestors are doing. They are just students going to school. What is wrong with people that they think this is okay? Why is it that only Jewish people seem to be talking about this?! Jewish people take up less than 2% of the Canadian population. Why is it that the other 98% is not saying anything?

I'm scared because this country is my home. I'm scared because I know there are people here that hate me because I am Jewish.

I'm scared because the last time Jewish people started being treated this way, 6 million of us were tortured, starved, and gassed to death.

This post is not about Palestine or the war, so please don't yell at me about that. This post is about antisemitism in Canada. This post is to inform you that Jewish people are scared and we are angry that so few Canadians seem to care.

[dontforgetukraine]

More images of demonstrators outside of TIFF protesting the propaganda film "Russians at War".

Source: Ukrainian Canadian Congress

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Organizers of a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at the University of Toronto say the university is ignoring their demands and instead focusing on the logistics of the demonstration.

Erin Mackey, one of the spokespeople for the protesters, says university administrators are giving them "the runaround" by discussing sanitation and other issues related to the encampment but are "not addressing the core issue."

Demonstrators have been calling on the university to disclose ties with the Israeli government and divest from Israeli companies.

Full article

Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

[girlactionfigure]

Any of our Zionist Doctor friends there tonight? Be safe out there! (This is in Toronto)

This will definitely free palestine right?

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[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Middle school students were forced to take part in a protest in Toronto earlier this week, where teachers allegedly instructed them to wear blue shirts to identify themselves as “settlers” and “colonizers,” Canadian media and government officials reported on Friday. 

Parents had been told the 7th and 8th-grade students were at the protest to “observe,” but videos and witnesses who spoke to the Toronto Sun revealed that the students were encouraged to take an active role. 

'You'll get over it'

While the protest had been in support of the Grassy Narrows First Nation and the ongoing water crisis, anti-Israel chants reportedly quickly took over.

One Jewish student expressed their discomfort to their teacher about the anti-Israel chants, the student’s cousin told the Sun. The teacher allegedly responded, “You’ll get over it.”

“It is very frustrating that elements of the anti-Israel mob are using their positions as educators to drive this agenda on impressionable children who know nothing about this conflict in the Middle East,”  Toronto City Councillor James Pasternak told the Sun.  “Our education system must nurture young minds in a positive way and not teach them to demonize those they don’t agree with.”

[commiepinkofag]

A gay “kiss-in” demonstration Yonge and Bloor streets, Toronto, 17 July 1976

L to R: David Foreman, Tim McCaskell, Ed Jackson, Merv Walker, David Gibson, Michael Riordon. Credit: Gerald Hannon, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, accession 1986-032/08P(35).

On February 9, 1976, gay activists Tom Field and Bill Holloway were arrested at the corner of Yonge and Bloor streets in Toronto for kissing in public. They were charged with obstructing the sidewalk and committing an indecent act. Ironically, the men had been posing for photographs for an article on homophobia to be published in the now-defunct newspaper Alternative to Alienation. …

Field and Holloway were found guilty of committing an indecent act by Judge Charles Drukarsh on July 13, 1976, and were each fined $50. The ruling infuriated Gay Alliance Toward Equality [GATE], the Body Politic, and members of the community. The need for protest was in the air, but only a very special kind of protest would do. 

A few days later, on July 17, GATE and the Body Politic sponsored a kiss-in to support the right for gay people to publicly show affection. About twenty people paraded in same-sex couples at Yonge and Bloor streets, kissing as they walked. Policemen watched from the sidelines, but did not intervene. The protesters had made their point. — Donald W. McLeod

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[aeolianblues]

Also, from one campus radio station volunteer to all the other ones, exceptionally braver than me, putting themselves on the frontlines, broadcasting straight from the protests, getting themselves barricaded into their broadcasting booths overnight and continuing to be the only people bringing you live and on-the-ground coverage of the protests, I love you all.

CKUT, having covered the die-ins, coming live from the protests grounds at McGill, you have all my strength and love.

CJLO, for righting the disappointment we all felt in Concordia after earlier this year, thank you for your coverage of the Concordia protests, and supporting CKUT's coverage in Montreal.

WKCR, bravest of them all, putting themselves on the frontlines and bringing extraordinary coverage from Columbia. You are true journalists.

They're the future of journalism.

(A note about why some of these posts are coming from '[station]music' accounts: Meta, in retaliation to a demand from the Canadian govt to pay royalties for using news on their site (Bill C-18), decided to ban all news for Canadian accounts on IG and FB altogether. Of course, this did not touch commercial radio stations that simply play the same 5 songs over and over their breakfast shows, but every single campus radio station is now blocked in Canada, completely killing their reach especially to a younger, student audience. Many have made new accounts to continue posting about the non-news shows on air. There's never been a more important time to directly go to their websites for updates, and hell why not, throw them some donations if you can. They're the ones doing the good work in this time of need!)

[muirneach]

a series of pins im putting together to start a richer and nuanced dialogue on my bags

[babakca]

Street Portrait / Photography. Toronto Freedom Rally. ©Film Mission 2024

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Remember when they were pretending that they were "not anti-Jew but anti-Zionism," and the normies would wonder how they tell who's a Zionist and who's not, even as they targeted synagogues, Jewish students and Jewish businesses?

If you're shocked at this, you shouldn't be. We knew exactly what they meant, even while they pretended that they didn't. But they've become so bold the mask has come off. Figuratively, even if not literally.

[ Source: Australian National University: Pro-Palestine students allegedly perform Nazi salutes and impersonate Hitler during meeting ]

[ Source: "Clothing store in Gaza displays merchandise on masked mannequins, some with knives taped to their hands" ]

[dontforgetukraine]

Ukrainian demonstrators protest the propaganda film "Russians at War" outside TIFF. They sing "Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow" (Oi u luzi chervona kalyna / Ой у лузі червона калина).

Video credit unknown Source: Ukrainska Pravda in English

Source: Chris Alexander

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[vyorei]

News from when I was on break

[hesitationss]

adi and i went kite flying w our local family actions for palestine group!!! @peachstarz

i made some sandwiches, we drank hot cocoa, and flew our spiderman and minion kites! we had lots of fun today! (PS. we love you palestinian spiderman from toronto!!!)