Yes! It is indeed a fragile and flawed ceasefire. This is what you get when one side remains committed to using the ceasefire to re-arm for its perpetual campaign of “resistance”, while the other is determined never to let that happen.

“Not comfortable” talking about anything that doesn’t fit their little racist narrative.

“Stop the genocide!” Me: There’s a ceasefire. “Israel is genocide!” Me: So what’s your solution? “From water to water, Palestine is Arab!” Me: What about the 7M Jews who live there now? “Go back to Poland!” Me: Hm. What was that first thing you were shouting?

A Palestinian from Gaza calls out Mamdani.

Dear pro-Palestine movement, Just give us this one day. Just this one day. To mourn our dead. To grieve. To collect our thoughts. To pray for peace. To commemorate every single innocent human we’ve lost in this utterly senseless conflict. Just one day. You fucking psychopaths.

I should be clear, it was always Jew hatred. I’m simply pointing out that most are no longer even pretending that it’s about anything else.

It’s not a political movement; it’s a cult. Mamdani and El-Sayed are both staunch antizionists. But for a movement whose litmus test now includes unadulterated, unhindered Jew hatred, it’s no longer enough just to hate Israel.

Toronto is a cesspool for this type of shit right now. That said, (minimal) credit where due, but U of T denied them their campus as a venue for their appalling attempt to appropriate and erase their victims’ grief. I’m sure they’ll slither over to some other public space, though.

Well when you put it like that

Like many who lived in the Gaza Envelope region, Vivian Silver was an activist who didn’t just talk the talk on Palestine; she moved to Israel from Canada and did real work to make lives better. None of that mattered to Hamas. Nor, it seems, to the antizionist mob that celebrates her murder.

A recurring controversy in left-wing spaces is "Was Person X being antisemitic or does he just call everyone he's arguing with a 'filthy lapdog of the globo-capitalist elites who should be liquidated along with his spawn'?" and I'm kind of tired of it, to be entirely honest.

Oh…I’ve got a big bag of “Fuck you!”s for these lying sociopaths.

And I know what you’re thinking: Well, isn’t part of being a paid shill not telling people you’re a paid shill? Not sure, tbh. Maybe?

I am not paid by AIPAC, Bibi, the ADL, JNF, UJA, B’nai Brith, the Rothschilds or their top-secret banking cabal to be a Zionist. But if any of them want to pass along the rumoured $7k, I wouldn’t say no 😉

It’s pretty insulting to anyone from Cairo to say an aerial photo of their city is proof of genocide. You’d think they’d be the first to say, “Hey, back up for a second!” And yet not. Must be a lack of civic pride.

To be clear, I don’t expect the world to stop on behalf of me; just an example of how isolating it is to be the only Jew in the room, when moments that matter a great deal to us don’t matter at all to anyone else.

I guess it’s just a typical example of how lonely and morally suffocating the post-10/7 diasporic Jewish experience can be at times. I honestly assign no ill intent to the timing of the event. But if I called it out, I’m not confident they’d understand.

What do I do? Call in sick? Go but stage some kind of subtle protest to ease my conscience? Do I openly state my objection, consequences be damned? Complain to HR?