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Jenny Lee Shee@jennyleeshee.bsky.social · last wk.

The Ontario govt took $60M out of public education and handed it to Staples. Tomorrow, 80K elementary teachers each get $750 of the misappropriated money to buy overpriced classroom supplies at an 🇺🇸 corporation. Please remember this the next time Captain Canada tells you to #BuyCanadian. #OntEd

A chart of school supplies showing the price difference between ordering through the school board or ordering from Staples. Staples is always more expensive.A chart of school supplies showing the price difference between ordering through the school board or ordering from Staples. The total for the school board is $290.38. The total for Staples is $668.98.
Mondoweiss@mondoweiss.net · 4w ago

Demands that Hamas disarm follow decades of international calls for a "demilitarized Palestinian state." These demands insist that Palestinians surrender their right to self-defense, a right no people should relinquish. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/trum...

Trump and Israel are demanding that Palestinians disarm. Here is why that is wrong and unjust.

Demands that Hamas disarm follow decades of international calls for a “demilitarized Palestinian state.” These demands insist that Palestinians surrender their right to self-defense, a right no…

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Mondoweiss@mondoweiss.net · last mo.

Demands that Hamas disarm follow decades of international calls for a "demilitarized Palestinian state." These demands insist that Palestinians surrender their right to self-defense, a right no people should relinquish. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/trum... #Palestine #Israel

Trump and Israel are demanding that Palestinians disarm. Here is why that is wrong and unjust.

Demands that Hamas disarm follow decades of international calls for a “demilitarized Palestinian state.” These demands insist that Palestinians surrender their right to self-defense, a right no people...

mondoweiss.net

Mondoweiss@mondoweiss.net · last mo.

Amid an alleged ceasefire, Israel continues massacring Palestinians and stealing land in Gaza. The ongoing violence is not accidental: it is a political necessity for any Israeli government in power. mondoweiss.net/2026/07/why-... #Palestine #Israel

Why Israel needs to continue its genocidal war on Gaza

Amid an alleged ceasefire, Israel continues massacring Palestinians and stealing land in Gaza. The ongoing violence is not accidental: it is a political necessity for any Israeli government in power.

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Mondoweiss@mondoweiss.net · 2mo ago

At a Toronto-area summit, Zionists like Ben Shapiro and Gad Saad rebranded antisemitism fears around anti-Zionism, leaning on Islamophobia and far-right alliances while dismissing Palestinian dispossession as a "false expulsion." mondoweiss.net/2026/07/insi...

Inside the ‘World Symposium Against Antizionism’: Where contempt for Muslims and leftist Jews took center stage

At a Toronto-area summit, Zionists like Ben Shapiro and Gad Saad rebranded antisemitism fears around anti-Zionism, leaning on Islamophobia and far-right alliances while dismissing Palestinian…

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Avi Lewis@avilewis.ca · 2mo ago

Sometimes you read something that tells you what you already know…but you feel as if for the first time. I read this searing piece through hot tears of rage and renewed determination. /1 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In Israel’s prisons, torture and death have become a norm that it barely tries to hide | Nesrine Malik

The suffering of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya is no isolated case. The abuse of Palestinian detainees is happening in plain sight, yet nothing changes, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Mondoweiss@mondoweiss.net · 4mo ago

For decades, Gulf rulers mistook access to America for influence, but now, with the Iran war, they finally see they are viewed as disposable on the front lines of the U.S. empire. mondoweiss.net/2026/05/fata... #Palestine #Israel

Fatal Friendships: Gulf monarchies and the price of American patronage

For decades, Gulf rulers mistook access to America for influence, but now, with the Iran war, they finally see they are viewed as disposable on the front lines of the U.S. empire.

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Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Althia Raj is doing some of the most important reporting out there right now, exposing how Carney is dismantling any semblance of Canada’s progressive values. Pharmacare, child care, now the environment… Please, pay attention. He’s eviscerating environmental laws worse than Harper. Than HARPER!!!

Screenshot of an article by Althia Raj: “Opinion | Mark Carney runs roughshod over the environment: 'It's worse than what Harper did'”Excerpt from Althia’s article reads: “Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to make it easier to kill off endangered species, pollute waterways and risk human health, all in the name of fast-tracking private-sector development projects. For a prime minister who dismissed progressive Liberal MPs concerns over spending on child care, health care and pharmacare during a caucus meeting this week, Friday's announcement on streamlining infrastructure project approvals is a further indication the party is moving to the right, further than anything Liberals have seen, and a giant call to action to all Canadians who care about the environment.”Excerpt from Althia’s article reads: “"It's shocking," Anna Johnston, a staff lawyer at West Coast Environmental Law, told the Star. "This would represent by far the worst evisceration of environmental law in Canadian history, far worse than what happened under Prime Minister (Stephen) Harper's government in 2012." "It's worse than what Harper did, I agree," said Steven Guilbeault, the Liberal MP and former environment minister. "This goes beyond what Harper proposed when he was in power, yes, that's true" If the federal government's proposed changes go ahead, Guilbeault said it will mean "we will have no way of evaluating or understanding what are the human health and environment impacts of projects we are approving - and that the main criteria to evaluate projects moving forward, if this is adopted, is going to be economic development and nothing else will matter." Phil Pothen, a land-use, planning, environmental and administrative lawyer at Environmental Defence, said the government's proposal would "grant any company or project the government chooses a blank cheque to just drive entire species to extinction or extirpation.”
Mondoweiss@mondoweiss.net · 4mo ago

Hamas security leaders tell Mondoweiss that the fight against Israeli-armed militias in Gaza is only one part of the broader effort to counter Israel's campaign to sow chaos in the Strip. mondoweiss.net/2026/05/excl... #Palestine #Israel

Exclusive: Inside Hamas’s fight against the armed militias that Israel is using to sow chaos in Gaza

Hamas security leaders tell Mondoweiss that the fight against Israeli-armed militias in Gaza is only one part of the broader effort to counter Israel’s campaign to sow chaos in the Strip.

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yipeng ge 葛义朋@yipengge.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I am a family doctor and public health researcher, and I oppose Carney’s cruel cuts to refugee healthcare. I join healthcare workers in 9 cities across the country today to demand access to publicly funded universal healthcare for ALL regardless of status. #NoCutsToCare

Yipeng holding a sign in clinic that reads “healthcare should never depend on status”.
MTDomain 🦋@mtdomain.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Discussions will focus on disarming Hezbollah." Wouldn't it be better if discussions focused on disarming Israel? It would save a lot more lives and population displacement. 2023 - present:

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Maryam Jamshidi@msjamshidi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Dahiya Doctrine is Israel's long-est illegal, criminal strategy deliberately targeting civilians & civilian structures on a massive scale. Israel uses the doctrine in all of its aggressions on Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. They never wanted to free Iran - they just wanted to destroy it

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Omar Baddar@omarbaddar.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Israel has been continuously bombing Lebanon almost every day for over a year. Anyone who tells you “Hezbollah broke the ceasefire” is either lying to you, or is just so incredibly biased that their brain genuinely doesn’t register Israeli bombings of Lebanon as ceasefire violations.

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Mira Al Hussein@miraalhussein.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Headlines moved on quickly from the schoolgirls in Minab. We don’t know their names; no media profiles about their lives and aspirations. No smiling photos attached to quotes from mourning families. How unfair that some dead are memorialised while others are relegated to ‘estimated casualties.’

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Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 7mo ago

🇱🇧 In the town of Tallousa, near the Israeli border, in the Marjeyoun District of Nabatieh Governorate, 62-year-old Ahmad Tarmas received a call yesterday from someone identifying as the Israeli army. He asked whether Tarmas wished to die alone, or w/ his family. He chose to face death by himself...

🇱🇧 In the town of Tallousa, near the Israeli border, in the Marjeyoun District of Nabatieh Governorate, 62-year-old Ahmad Tarmas received a call yesterday from someone identifying as the Israeli army. He asked whether Tarmas wished to die alone, or with his family. He chose to face death by himself and left the home he was in. Minutes later, a drone strike killed him in his car. Similar incidents have occurred in southern Lebanon, with victims receiving “death calls” before being assassinated by Israel, journalist Radwan Mortada writes. Pheebs @galpalpheebs “Do you want to die alone? or with your family?” Journalist Radwan Mortada recounted the story of 62-year-old martyr Ahmad Tormos from the town of Tallousa, south Lebanon, who was killed yesterday after receiving a direct call from the Israeli occupation army giving him an impossible choice: die alone, or die with those around him. Without hesitation, Ahmad chose to die alone and save his family. He drove away from them so the strike would not hit their home. Moments later, an Israeli drone fired two missiles at his car, killing him. Mortada noted that similar “death calls” have reportedly been made to others in southern Lebanon, where men chose to walk toward death alone rather than allow their loved ones to be targeted. Ahmad had previously lost his son Hassan, who was martyred two years earlier.Bild
Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 7mo ago

🔴 Gaza | Feb. 13 Israeli forces continued breaching the ceasefire w/ airstrikes, artillery shelling, ground incursions, & home demolitions in various parts of the Strip. ▪️Air strikes: Israeli forces launched a series of airstrikes on Rafah in southern Gaza, carried out another strike on eastern...

🔴 Gaza | February 13 Israeli forces continued breaching the ceasefire with airstrikes, artillery shelling, ground incursions, and home demolitions in various parts of the Strip. ▪️Air strikes: Israeli forces launched a series of airstrikes on Rafah in southern Gaza, carried out another strike on eastern Gaza City. ▪️ Khan Younis: Overnight, Israeli forces demolished homes east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Artillery also shelled eastern areas of the city. Shehab News reported that Israel opened intensive gunfire from military vehicles east of Khan Younis. ▪️ Drone attacks in Gaza City: Israeli quadcopter drones dropped bombs on homes near Al-Zeitoun Club in southeastern Gaza City. ▪️ Ground incursion & live fire: Military vehicles and bulldozers advanced into eastern Zeitoun near Kuwait Roundabout on Salah al-Din Street, opening heavy fire at civilians and passing cars. ▪️ Medics shot at: On Thursday, ambulance crews and the Palestinian Red Crescent evacuated three wounded people from the same area despite continued gunfire directed at them. 🎥 Video: Deaths and injuries were reported among Israeli-armed militias during clashes in Gaza City’s Zaytoun neighborhood, prompting Israeli aircraft to intervene and bomb the area. (Shehab News) (All information provided by Palestine Online, unless otherwise noted.)
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 7mo ago

I discovered Israeli government procurement documents showing a Canadian group that's sending right-wing media personalities on free trips to Israel was granted funds from Israel's foreign ministry The funding came through an arm of the ministry focused on managing “public perception of Israel”

Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs procurement documents showing the Exigent Foundation was granted $128,800 USD
PressProgress@pressprogress.ca · 7mo ago

NEW: Group sending Canadian right-wing media personalities on free trips to Israel quietly funded by Israeli government Documents unearthed by @pressprogress.ca show Israel's foreign ministry granted the Exigent Foundation $175,000 CAD to bring "Canadian influencers and policymakers" to Israel

Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 7mo ago

Dr. Bishara Bahbah, Palestinian-American academic & political activist who has served as an informal backchannel mediator b/w the Trump admin., Hamas, & the Palestinian Authority, told Al Jazeera Mubasher that the Rafah crossing restrictions & daily killings in Gaza follow from the fact that “the...

Dr. Bishara Bahbah, Palestinian-American academic and political activist who has served as an informal backchannel mediator between the Trump administration, Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority, told Al Jazeera Mubasher that the Rafah crossing restrictions and daily killings in Gaza follow from the fact that “the U.S. administration is currently preoccupied with Iran,” with recent meetings with Israeli leaders “focused solely on Iran.” At the same time, he insists that “the U.S. president is very committed to the success of the peace process and reconstruction in Gaza,” even as Israeli violations are ignored. Bahbah noted that Hamas’s weapons are the central barrier to reconstruction, yet “from October 9 until now, no party has spoken with Hamas about this issue,” despite Hamas being “ready to sit and negotiate,” he said. He described U.S. decision-making as “very difficult and concentrated in certain individuals, not within institutions.” He also claimed that escalating military deployments toward Iran signal likely war, saying no country sends aircraft carriers “without intending to use force,” adding, “if I were a betting man, I would say Iran will be struck.”
Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉@siriusstar3.bsky.social · 7mo ago

“A global PR tour for Israel, plain and simple, where Herzog and his band of war criminals will parade around, try to normalise genocide and drum up investment and support for even more illegal Israeli settlements and weapons deals to massacre children in Gaza and start more wars in the region.”

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Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 7mo ago

⭕️ Sharif Abdel Kouddous calls claims that the Rafah crossing has meaningfully reopened a political mirage. What’s now being celebrated as an “opening,” including by the EU, Sharif says, is a tightly controlled trickle. On the 1st day, only 5 critically ill Palestinians were allowed to leave Gaza...

⭕️ Sharif Abdel Kouddous calls claims that the Rafah crossing has meaningfully reopened a political mirage. What’s now being celebrated as an “opening,” including by the European Union, Sharif says, is a tightly controlled trickle. On the first day, only 5 critically ill Palestinians were allowed to leave Gaza, with 2 companions each, despite more than 20,000 people, including 4,500 children, urgently needing medical care. Just 12 Palestinians, mostly women and children, were allowed back in. Returnees described hours-long interrogations, handcuffing, blindfolding, confiscation of belongings, humiliation, and threats after being transferred by the Israel-backed Abu Shebab militia to Israeli checkpoints. @sharifkouddous | @DropSiteNews
Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A Canadian-made armoured vehicle was spotted on Minneapolis streets the day ICE murdered Alex Pretti. The company that sold ICE that monster as part of a $10 million deal? Roshel. What’s more: Canada’s government brought Roshel’s CEO on a trade mission SIX DAYS AFTER Renee Good was murdered.

Jules or Τζουλς 🕊️🍉@katsikajules.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Medical sources in Gaza say at least three Palestinians have been killed & many wounded throughout the day in Israeli attacks on Sunday. The silence by Western MSM & leaders sickens me to the core, as they trot along with Trump, thanking him for his ME progress & Board of Peace efforts.

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Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 8mo ago

Originally posted Jan. 16, 2026: One-year-old Mohammed Bassiouni died of exposure to the cold on Tue. It was his first birthday. That night, as winter storms lashed Gaza w/ cold winds & torrential rain, his family was shivering in a battered tent in Deir al-Balah where they had been displaced...

That night, as winter storms lashed Gaza with cold winds and torrential rain, his family was shivering in a battered tent in Deir al-Balah where they had been displaced after fleeing Beit Lahia in northern Gaza “It was a night of rain and wind. We were up all night, his mother and I,” Mohammed’s father, Maher Bassiouni, told Drop Site. “At 4 a.m., the wind and rain calmed a little and me and his mother slept a bit. I woke up at 6 a.m. and I found the boy dead.” He spoke holding his son’s lifeless body wrapped in a purple blanket. “We belong to God and to him we shall return. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs. I have nothing more to tell you. He is one year old. Today is his birthday. January 13th is his birthday, the day he died.” Mohammed is the seventh child to die from hypothermia since the onset of winter, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, including four since the beginning of the year—among them a baby just seven days old and a four-year-old girl. Another 25 Palestinians have been crushed to death as storms caused damaged buildings and walls to collapse on families seeking shelter inside or in tents nearby.Israel’s continued strangulation of essential supplies during winter has left hundreds of thousands of Palestinians shivering in the wet and cold and nearly three dozen dead. Read the full Drop Site report from Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Kouddous, with videos from @AbdSabbah91 in Gaza. Our story is linked in reply. 🎥 Interviews below from @comrawire : comra @comrawire Gaza’s Civil Defense has warned of catastrophic repercussions as a new winter storm hits the enclave, while Israel deliberately continues to block shelter materials. [comra] reporters in Gaza have documented the despair of Palestinians with nowhere safe to take cover.