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Toronto: Wednesday January 7, 2009 Time: 11:20 am
Arrests Underway ...
Police have moved in to arrest a group of Jewish Canadian women who are currently occupying the Israeli consulate at 180 Bloor Street West in Toronto.
CTVNews: A senior officer at 52 Division said the protesters would be taken to 53 Division, where they will face tresspassing and failure-to-disperse charges.
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Jewish Women Occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto
Toronto: Wednesday January 7, 2009 Time: 10:25 am
A diverse group of Jewish Canadian women are currently occupying the Israeli consulate at 180 Bloor Street West in Toronto. This action is in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
The group is carrying out this occupation in solidarity with the 1.5 million people of Gaza and to ensure that Jewish voices against the massacre in Gaza are being heard. They are demanding that Israel end its military assault and lift the 18-month siege on the Gaza Strip to allow humanitarian aid into the territory.
Israel has been carrying out a full-scale military assault on the Gaza Strip since December 27, 2008. At least 660 people have been killed and 3000 injured in the air strikes and in the ground invasion that began on January 3, 2009. Israel has ignored international calls for a ceasefire and is refusing to allow food, adequate medical supplies and other necessities of life into the Gaza Strip.
Protesters are outraged at Israel's latest assault on the Palestinian people and by the Canadian government's refusal to condemn these massacres.They are deeply concerned that Canadians are hearing the views of pro-Israel groups who are being represented as the only voice of Jewish Canadians. The protesters have occupied the consulate to send a clear statement that many Jewish-Canadians do not support Israel's violence and apartheid policies. They are joining with people of conscience all across the world who are demanding an end to Israeli aggression and justice for the Palestinian people.
The group includes: Judy Rebick, professor; Judith Deutsch, psychoanalyst and president of Science for Peace; B.H. Yael, filmmaker; Smadar Carmon, a Canadian Israeli peace activist and others.
Spokespersons for the group are outside the Israeli consulate.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Jewish Women Occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto
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I love this! Awesome job ladies!
If I was in your area, I would join you.
I just wish the MSM would report on this, but sadly they won't :(
Yeah, what a great bunch of gals.
I have posted a link to this story on my blog and a link to the group these people are affilliated with.
It gives such hope to people who just want to see peace, and need to know that Jewish and Palestinians can get along and work together and be productive it is just so great,
I know , I sound flaky, but as of late following this news story and seeing all those dead babies in Palestine, so many dead, heartbreaking....
Penny, you don't sound flaky at all. Most of us have had our moments of tears, but then we get on with doing what we can to get the message out, just as you have.
amidst reports of death and destruction, this story made my morning. fight on ladies, fight on!
A NOTE RE COMMENTS:
Please read the conditions for comments at the foot of the page on which this article appears.
It is too easy to repeat strings of mindless propaganda when one can remain anonymous. Hence my request that all arguments stated as fact must be accompanied by links to credible proof.
Please also keep your comments reasonably brief, and make them more readable by inserting an occasional paragraph.
The effort by the Jewish women activist is commendable in the condemnation of the assault on Gaza but where are the Jewish men.
It's going to take a bunch of gutsy women to challenge the corrupt and crusty politics of mostly-male violence and the financial disaster of a fiat, fractional-reserve, debt-based monetary system financing it. The fact that it is being done by a group of stalwart Jewish women reaffirms my hope. Kick butt, ladies,and kick hard!
Bully to you Ladies. I hope the pullback will come shortly by the IDF so as not to unleash a worldwide backlash.
DT
Bravo!
What these women do has more significance to me than I know how to express.
They are an inspiration.
Diogenes/David
There is no other way to assess the situation in Gaza other than that of an open fenced concentration camp. Nothing in Nazi German history did we ever see the complete encirclement of a camp with tanks, naval bombardment, helicopter gunships and air force bombs like we see in Gaza. The bombing of the United Nation schools with children and refugees represents a mind set of unprecedented evil.
The world meekly stands by and is shamed by these Jewish women and their courageous stand in Canada. The lacky PM Harper should have half the balls.
My son is employed here in Texas building equipment needed to fracture natural gas wells. About 3 months ago he told me his employer had a contract build fracturing equipment for Israel. I would say this awful situation in Gaza has something to do with the "Gaza Marine Field containing 1.2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas". Source:
http://www.oilandgasinvestingglossary.com/palestines_natural_gas_troubles.asp
Think of the military war toys they could purchase from Russia with wealth that is rightfully owned by the Gaza Strip Palestinians.
These ditzy people need to need to get a life, and see reality.
There is no honesty in this group if they only blame Israel. How can you ignore the indiscriminate launching of rockets at civilians and not condemn those actions.
The eight are merely a pathetic, misled group.
Stephen Bedford
No one ignores the desparate firecrackers popping around Israel. But lets be honest, more Israelis will die from, say, overdoses in a single day then will be injured from the firecrackers in 5 years. You make it sound like they were nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki or something.
Of course, this futile resistance response to stave of 60 years of Israeli high-tech terror and ethnic-cleansing is a sadly pathetic attempt at self-defense. Palestinians still live in a giant concentration camp, as one respected Vatican cardinal admitted this week --
http://tinyurl.com/97e2sk
The terrorization of the Palestinian civilians continues.
The world must disarm the Israeli regime in order to disarm Hamas. That is now clear to all.
Even some mainstream media has tired of the racist charade rotated endlessly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KntmpoRXFX4
Thanks You, Ladies. :-}
Aja
The above comment states that it was Israel that broke the truce. Here's a chart produced by the Israeli Foreign Ministry that confirms that Hamas observed the truce.
Even though it's tragic that anyone has to die for land, and I personally feel terrible that the latest to be injured by Qassams is a little Israeli girl, but it's a fact that only 13 Israelis have died from rocket attacks since 2001. The rockets are clearly only a pretext for the massacre of Palestinians and not the real reason.
The mainstream media will likely ignore this. Canada leads the wy.
Which begs the question: Why do the Jewish women (and men) in the U.S. not do something similar in front of the White House.
The logical date for such action, February 20, is unfortunately too late.
Real action at last! Let's see some creative ways of showing dissent... Activists who do Act: Welcome... back...?
BeeSting
I am amazed by the ignorance represented in the comments in this blog. Nazi Germany, concentration camp, real action, firecrackers. You people need to open your eyes!
To take the position that Hamas is innocent of bringing this on ignores the facts.
The civilians will be the biggest losers, and sadly, they elected the Hamas and thus support the hateful actions.
Unless you position activism against both sides in the fighting, and equally protest the aggressive actions of Hamas along with the aggressive reaction of Israel, you will only perpetuate the suffering of civilians.
Israel withdrew years ago,and instituted the blockade to stop/reduce the contraband that could be used to create mortars and rockets to be used against its civilians.
Please, please, don't hide behind the 'innocence' of Hamas.
I suspect this blog site regularly calls for citizen involvement. Try calling on the Palestinians to become activists for peace and to stand up against the aggression of their own leaders.
That will bring change, not the acts of the likes of Rebick in Canada. A big red nose, and you have Bozo the clown!
Stephen Bedford
The reason why Jewish community has existed for thousands of years is the undeniable fact that, beisde being monotheists, many of them have continued to denounce oppression, mass murders, aparthied, torture and cruelty by their fellow Jews. God does not exterminate a nation among whom are the sane people who stand for justice and are against opression. Please note that Ahmadinijad only called for wiping out the Zionist regime, and not the jews. He, like all Muslims is aware that Jews are, as far as monotheism is concerned, are closest to Muslims.
Well done brave ladies. Shalom and Salaam.
Wow, four Jewish ‘voices’ can now be heard objecting to the slaughter of perfectly innocent men, women, and children. Are we supposed to be impressed? No, this is not a start.
Please notice that they make no call to end Israel’s fundamental racist-supremacy. Can anyone imagine any other massive campaign of ethnic-cleansing and apartheid producing one of its countless mass-atrocities and people objecting to this particular atrocity without a single word against the overt, overarching racism it manifests?
If these women cannot speak one word against the fundamental racism of the Jewish State forced into Palestine, they only make Zionism seem to have a sweet and caring side – this only perpetuates the racism and assures more ‘regrettable’ atrocities in the endless series.
They need to be asked to object to the real problem and the nature of the problem: the whole notion of ethnic-supremacy as a viable option. If their publicity-gathering is not designed to draw attention to the actual problem – Zionism – they are merely smoothing it over.
You are heard in Europe, in Germany!
A great action you jewish women made!
We have many actions, too! Look on our homepage www.juedische-stimme.de.
Hope that our voices will be heard by the politicians!
We say too: Not in our name! Israel can not breach all international laws and human rights!
To Stephen Bedford:
Again I ask you to review the conditions for posting at the foot of this page. Sorry, but this is your last post if you do not support your "facts" and if you continue to rely pejoratives in place of reasoned argument.
You GO girl...or girls...um..LADIES!!! More power to you. You have more action than the puppet rulers of the Arab and muslim world combined!
You make me proud to be a Canadian :)
To the woman from Texas (Jan. 7, 8:19PM) who suggested that Gaza's natural gas is what Israel is after, your suspicions are backed up here:
War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields
To Yayacanada: I just read your note about links. I have everything I stated in my blog(sig link), and links to the stories in the sidebar, about Dion re Lesley Hughes, media control, etc.
Dave, I am glad someone else is catching on to the Zionist-Lite(kill the Palestinians slowly) movement.
I think you would like my blog(click my name).
Anachore: Re your complaints about my not posting your numerous sermons.
Please re-review the conditions regarding comments. This is not a bully pit or a pulpit, and you have your own website from which to express your point of view.
As I've said before, it's too easy to spout off and accuse others of being "mealy mouthed" when your real name, face and location are safely hidden.
To Stephen B.
Well, this is a first. To date, commenters have understood what is entailed in providing credible references for assertions.
In the interests of, I hope, absolute clarity, I have now revised the conditions for comments at the foot of this page.
You are a group of fantastic women! Kol hakvod!
Has the canadian media provided a coverage of this story, or have they stuck to the version of "imagine you are in Don Mills and daily rocketed by separatists from Scarborough"
Canada's stance regarding this issue is highly shameful and given the zionist stronghold in Canada, the action of these women's highly remarkable.
This is how I look at the conflict between Israel and Humas/Palestine, in a very simplistic form. One of your neighbours throws rocks into Your house every day, it breaks the odd window and every so often it hits you or one of your family members. You can’t appeal to your other neighbours because; they all dislike you and want you to leave. One would simply call the police, but Israel can’t. And I haven’t seen the rest of the world try to stop the “rocks” from hitting the said house. One option, if the family could not stop the violence, would be to leave. But where would Israel go? They can’t move (as the country or many family leaving), no other country in the world would take that many people, and we can hardly feed ourselves. So they are stuck there, in an area where they must put up with people calling for their family’s death. Violence is never the answer to anything, and should be the last option.Sorry for this being so long, but I need to say this (and more) because in my area some high official is trying to kick Jewish people out of schools and its bothering me. (This is second hand information and once a link can be found it will be posted)
http://www.thestar.com/article/568619
Sid Ryan and his boycott of jweish academia
Dear Anonymous: I know those people throwing the rocks. They used to live in the house they're throwing rocks at, and periodically the shack in which they now subsist is invaded by the people who took over their original house, on one pretext or another, and holes are punched in their walls or the place is knocked down, and they have to build it all over again. Not to mention that the street is guarded by vicious pit bulls so they can't even go out to buy groceries.
The other neighbours don't so much as dislike them as just don't want to get involved because, well, you know, they do business with the people who took over the family's home, and with their powerful friends. They prefer not to escalate things, and to attend community meetings and try to get injunctions against both parties to cease and desist.
But now the people who kicked them out and locked them into the dump are retaliating for the rock throwing by invading their space and are in the process of systematically slaughtering them, father, mother and children.
People from other neighbourhoods, however, people without vested interests,are pretty upset at the injustice of it all, and they just don't want to have anything to do with the invaders' sympathetic visiting relatives. It's natural.
One thing we agree on is that violence solves nothing.
Okay, we've both said our piece about the history. Please remember this article is about now, and the slaughter of caged people, and the shocked reaction of some Jewish women.
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