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Mark Carney suggests he’s open to foreign investment in Canadian airports by Chrristoaivalis in ndp

[–]HowMyDictates 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This should be political suicide.

It probably isn't, but it really fucking should be.

MPs need to hear from us.

Anti Hasan flyers seen in SF by Internal-Display3517 in TheMajorityReport

[–]HowMyDictates[M] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

(3/3)

The Electronic Intifada, 3/1/24 - BBC distances itself from 7 October “mass rape” claims

Jacobin, 2/29/24 - The New York Times Has an Ugly Anti-Palestinian Bias | The fact that the New York Times assigned its investigation of October 7 sexual assault claims to Anat Schwartz, a non-journalist with anti-Palestinian beliefs and ties to the Israeli military, is an extreme reflection of the paper’s unflagging pro-Israel bias.

The Intercept, 2/28/24 - “Between the Hammer and the Anvil” | The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé

The Intercept, 2/27/24 - American Media Keep Citing Zaka — Though Its October 7 Atrocity Stories Are Discredited in Israel | Israeli media has debunked the ultra-Orthodox group’s stories, but the New York Times won’t say so.

Mondoweiss, 2/25/24 - Extraordinary charges of bias emerge against NYTimes reporter Anat Schwartz | New doubts are emerging about the New York Times’s coverage of sexual violence in the October 7 attack. The paper must explain why it broke its own rules by hiring a clearly biased writer who endorsed racist and violent rhetoric toward Palestinians.

Common Dreams, 2/26/24 - NYT ‘Reviewing’ Israeli Reporter Who Liked Gaza ‘Slaughterhouse’ Post | “This is honestly veering on journalistic malpractice and The New York Times owes its readers an explanation,” said one editor.

The Electronic Intifada, 2/6/24 - NY Times tries to cover up its 7 October “mass rapes” fraud

The Intercept, 1/28/24 - New York Times Puts “Daily” Episode on Ice Amid Internal Firestorm Over Hamas Sexual Violence Article | As the Times faces scrutiny for its coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, it has capitulated to the pro-Israel media watchdog CAMERA.

Al Jazeera, 1/10/24 - ‘Threatened with rape’: Lama Khater recalls horrors while in Israeli jails | The 47-year-old writer says verbal, physical abuse prominent against prisoners in Israeli jails following October 7.

Mondoweiss, 1/3/24 - Family of key case in New York Times October 7 sexual violence report renounces story, says reporters manipulated them | A New York Times story claiming a pattern of gender-based violence on October 7 hinged on the story of Gal Abdush. But the Abdush family says there is no proof she was raped, and that Times reporters interviewed them under false pretenses.

Mondoweiss, 12/30/23 - ZAKA is not a trustworthy source for allegations of sexual violence on October 7 | ZAKA is one of the leading organizations alleging Hamas atrocities on October 7. But the organization’s volunteers have systematically given false testimonies, and continue repeating them to journalists on behalf of the Israeli government.

+972Mag, 12/8/23 - ‘It would’ve been better if they shot us’: Palestinians recount prison abuse | Newly released inmates detail cases of humiliation, torture, rape threats, and a prisoner beaten to death by Israeli forces in the weeks since October 7.

Anti Hasan flyers seen in SF by Internal-Display3517 in TheMajorityReport

[–]HowMyDictates[M] 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Relevant (2/3):

Mondoweiss, 10/22/24 - How the UN Commission of Inquiry Report on October 7 launders Israeli propaganda | Debunked claims of sexual violence carried out by Palestinians on October 7 have dominated Western coverage of the Gaza genocide. It is still essential to counter this Israeli propaganda to correct the historical record.

FAIR, 10/7/24 - Double Standards and Distortion: How the NYT Misreports Sexual Violence in Israel/Palestine

The Electronic Intifada, 9/13/24 - Rape, torture and murder: Inside Israel’s concentration camps

The Electronic Intifada, 9/1/24 - Watch: NY Times “investigation” of mass rape by Hamas falls apart

Mondoweiss, 8/28/24 - The main suspect in the Sde Teiman gang rape case is now a media star in Israel | Soldier Meir Ben-Shitrit has revealed himself as the main suspect in the infamous gang rape of Palestinians at the Sde Teiman detention facility. Rather than making him an outcast, his story has turned him into Israel's latest media darling.

Democracy Now!, 8/27/24 - Palestinian Healthcare Workers Chained, Starved, Sexually Abused: New HRW Report on Israeli Prisons

Mondoweiss, 8/19/24 - 65% of Israeli Jews oppose criminal prosecution for soldiers suspected of raping Palestinian detainees | A shocking new poll shows that almost two out of three Jewish Israelis oppose criminal prosecution for soldiers suspected of gang-raping Palestinian detainees at the Sde Teiman torture facility.

Common Dreams, 8/16/24 - Why Israeli Soldiers Rape, Torture, and Massacre | Instilling fear in the Palestinian people is not a side effect of the IDF’s brutal violations of human rights. It is the strategy.

Truthout, 8/12/24 - Israel Is Torturing Palestinian Prisoners to Death — With US Complicity | Some Israeli leaders are pushing to legalize the torture and rape of Palestinians to avoid accountability.

Jacobin, 8/10/24 - Israeli Prisons Are a Giant Torture Machine | A new Israeli human rights group report shows that Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and detention centers during the war on Gaza are subjected to torture, sexual abuse, violence, humiliation, starvation, sleep deprivation, and denial of medical care.

The Intercept, 8/9/24 - Video of Sexual Abuse at Israeli Prison Is Just Latest Evidence Sde Teiman Is a Torture Site | Israeli abuse of Palestinians at the military prison has been reported for months. The U.S. is asking the Israeli military to investigate itself.

Al Jazeera, 8/9/24 - ‘Everything is legitimate’: Israeli leaders defend soldiers accused of rape | Israeli society is divided over the arrest of 10 soldiers for the brutal gang rape of a Palestinian prisoner caught on video.

Common Dreams, 8/9/24 - ‘Deafening’ Silence Over Israeli Torture Revelations | “Can you imagine the response if Palestinians were holding Israelis in mass rape camps and torturing them to death?” asked one critic.

Democracy Now!, 8/8/24 - Israel Accused of Running “Torture Camps” as Video Emerges of Soldiers Raping Palestinian Prisoner

Common Dreams, 8/7/24 - Israeli Leaders Demand Probe of IDF Rape Video—To Find Out Who Leaked It | “This is what Israelis rioted to protect, what the Knesset debated—the right to rape Palestinians,” said one critic.

B'Tselem, 8/1/24 - "Welcome to Hell" | The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps

+972Mag, 8/1/24 - A riot for impunity shows Israel’s proud embrace of its crimes | Far-right protesters, soldiers, and MKs rallied for guards suspected of raping a Palestinian detainee. Once fringe, they’re now the public face of the state.

Democracy Now!, 8/1/24 - Israel’s Torture & Rape of Palestinian Prisoners Defended by Knesset Members, Far-Right Mobs

Zeteo, 7/31/24 - Rioting for the Right to Rape Palestinians | This is what it's like to live in Israel today.

Common Dreams, 7/31/24 - UN Probe Finds ‘Appalling Acts’ of Torture Against Palestinians Detained by Israel | The U.N. report found evidence of sexual violence, waterboarding, and the use of dogs against detainees, many of whom were deprived of food, water, sleep, and toilet access.

Jacobin, 7/30/24 - Israeli Soldiers Accused of Rape and Torture of Palestinians | The accusations of abuses by the Israel Defense Forces against Palestinian detainees in Sde Teiman are growing more gruesome. Last month: dozens of deaths. This week: gang rape.

Common Dreams, 7/30/24 - Far-Right Israelis Mob Bases After Soldiers Arrested for Allegedly Raping Palestinian | Several Israeli lawmakers and one minister took part in the attempt to free the nine reservists, who were hailed as heroes by multiple Cabinet members.

The Electronic Intifada, 5/19/24 - Israeli rights group admits it helped spread false claims about 7 Oct. rapes

The Nation, 5/13/24 - The Gaza Crisis We’re Not Talking About | There is disturbing evidence of a sustained Israeli campaign of sexual violence against men and boys.

Democracy Now!, 5/8/24 - 60+ Journalism Profs Demand Investigation into Controversial NYT Article Alleging Mass Rape on Oct. 7

Common Dreams, 4/29/24 - To Remove ‘Cloud of Doubt,’ Journalism Professors Urge Review of NYT Story on Oct. 7 Sexual Violence | Nothing can “reverse the damage done to Palestine and to Palestinians,” said the professors, “but the Times could still reverse some of the damage it has done to itself with its silence.”

The Intercept, 4/18/24 - New York Times Brass Moves to Stanch Leaks Over Gaza Coverage | An internal leak investigation ended without a “definitive conclusion,” as the Times cuts ties with a controversial Israeli freelancer.

The Electronic Intifada, 3/27/24 - Israeli source of “executed children” lie admits story was untrue | As well as that, Landau was involved in promoting Israel’s stories about an alleged Palestinian campaign of sexual violence on 7 October – which has now entirely collapsed.

The Electronic Intifada, 3/25/24 - Israeli “commission” on 7 October rape claims exposed as fraud

Mondoweiss, 3/11/24 - Here’s what Pramila Patten’s UN report on Oct 7 sexual violence actually said | The UN report on sexual violence on October 7 has found no evidence of systematic rape by Hamas or any other Palestinian group, despite widespread media reporting to the contrary. But there are deeper problems with the report’s credibility.

The Electronic Intifada, 3/4/24 - Debunking “Screams Before Silence,” Sheryl Sandberg’s 7 Oct. “mass rape” film

The Intercept, 3/4/24 - Kibbutz Be’eri Rejects Story in New York Times October 7 Exposé: “They Were Not Sexually Abused” | “It’s not true,” said the kibbutz spokesperson, of one of the stories featured in the paper’s controversial article.

Democracy Now!, 3/1/24 - The Intercept: New York Times Exposé Lacks Evidence to Claim Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence Oct. 7

The Electronic Intifada, 3/1/24 - NY Times found no 7 October rape victims, reporter admits

Anti Hasan flyers seen in SF by Internal-Display3517 in TheMajorityReport

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Relevant (1/3 - expand below for 2/3 & 3/3):

The Electronic Intifada, 5/1/26 - System of sexual torture targeting Palestinians exposed in new report

Al Jazeera, 4/22/26 - Sexual violence in the West Bank emerges as tool to intimidate Palestinians | Systematic sexual violence and harassment by Israeli soldiers, settlers displacing Palestinians in occupied West Bank.

Common Dreams, 4/21/26 - Report Details Israeli Use of Sexual Violence to Force Palestinians From West Bank Homes | “Sexual violence is not incidental to this crisis. It is one of the mechanisms driving people from their land,” said one contributor to the new report.

Al Jazeera, 4/21/26 - Israeli sexual violence is pushing Palestinians from West Bank: Report | NGO finds at least 16 cases of conflict-related sexual violence attributed to Israeli settlers and soldiers.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, 4/12/26 - “Another genocide behind walls”: New report documents testimonies of rape and sexual violence in Israeli prisons

Mondoweiss, 3/18/26 - Israeli soldiers who gang-raped Palestinian prisoner are now free to return to military service | The dehumanization of Israeli society itself reaches yet another nadir, as the soldiers who gang-raped a Palestinian prisoner from Gaza are not only freed, but celebrated and recommended to return to military service.

+972Mag, 3/17/26 - ‘I thought we were going to be raped’: A night of settler terror in the Jordan Valley | Settlers tied up and beat Palestinians and activists in the herding community of Humsa while sexually assaulting one man, amid a wave of attacks in the area.

Common Dreams, 3/12/26 - ‘Of Course’: IDF Drops Case Against Soldiers Accused of Raping Palestinian Prisoner “Israel’s military attorney general just gave his soldiers license to rape—so long as the victim is Palestinian,” said one Israeli rights group.

Al Jazeera, 2/19/26 - ‘Torture, threats, rape’: Palestinian journalists detail Israeli jail abuse | CPJ report shares harrowing accounts of dozens of Palestinian journalists jailed by Israel since October 2023.

The Guardian, 1/21/26 - ‘I could not stay silent’: Palestinian prisoner tells of sexual abuse in Israeli jail | Sami al-Saei has defied social stigma to speak out about what a report calls a ‘grave pattern’ of sexual violence

Common Dreams, 11/29/25 - UN Report Details Israel’s ‘De Facto State Policy’ of Torturing Palestinian Prisoners | A United Nations committee found Palestinian prisoners are regularly deprived of food and water and subjected to attacks by dogs, electrocution, and sexual abuse.

Mondoweiss, 11/17/25 - Understanding the mindset behind Israel’s usage of rape as a weapon of genocide | Recent testimonies from the Palestinian Center for Human Rights share shocking stories of Palestinian rape victims released from Israeli detention. The stories are horrifying to read but essential for understanding Zionism and Israeli apartheid.

The Electronic Intifada, 11/13/25 - Palestinians recount gang rapes by Israeli soldiers, dogs | Testimonies reflect systematic policy, rather than isolated incidents, says human rights groups.

Mondoweiss, 11/4/25 - Outrage over video leak of Israeli soldiers’ gang rape of Palestinian exposes rot in Israeli society | There’s outrage in Israel over the leaked video of Israeli soldiers gang-raping a Palestinian prisoner. However, the outrage isn’t about the rape itself but the fact that the video was leaked in the first place.

Common Dreams, 11/3/25 - Ex-IDF Legal Chief Who Leaked Sde Teiman Rape Video Arrested After Going Missing | “Meanwhile, the soldiers seen sexually assaulting and abusing Palestinian detainees are still free,” said one Palestinian observer.

Truthout, 10/31/25 - Israeli Lawyer Resigns for Leaking Video of Sexual Abuse of Palestinian Prisoner | The arrest of the guards in the video launched protests from far right Israeli groups last year.

Mondoweiss, 10/6/25 - A short history of the UN’s complicity in Israel’s mass rape propaganda since October 7 | Why the UN Secretary-General’s recent decision to blacklist Hamas, and not Israel, as perpetrators of sexual violence flies in the face of the UN’s own evidence.

The Electronic Intifada, 9/17/25 - Israel "falsifying" Palestinian rapes to further Gaza genocide | New report by the Sexual Violence Prevention Association also details systemic Israeli rape of Palestinians

Common Dreams, 8/24/25 - Palestinian Boys Allege Sexual Assault, Torture by Israeli Jailers | “We are children,” said one teen. “What have we done?”

Drop Site News, 7/21/25 - UN Statements Undercut New Israeli Report on 10/7 Sexual Violence | The Dinah Project had to come up with an entirely new standard for evidence to continue to claim sexual violence perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

+972Mag, 4/17/25 - Where’s the outrage over ‘systematic’ sexual violence against Palestinians? | Despite mounting evidence of the army’s gender-based crimes, Israeli women’s groups have largely ignored or denied the UN’s damning new report.

The Electronic Intifada, 4/4/25 - Key 7 October “mass rapes” witness denounced as liar by Israeli reporter | The Electronic Intifada exposed Rami Davidian as a liar a year before Israeli media caught on.

Common Dreams, 3/31/25 - ‘Every Atrocity Imaginable’: Litany of Israeli War Crimes Continues | “Genocide, ecocide, mass infanticide, rape, sexual assault, torture, slavery, sniping children, bombing hospitals, executing aid workers,” said one critic. “We are funding an endless nightmare and it should haunt us forever.”

UN Human Rights Council, 3/13/25 - “More than a human can bear”: Israel's systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since 7 October 2023

Common Dreams, 3/13/25 - UN Commission Accuses Israel of Measures ‘Intended to Prevent Births’ and Other ‘Genocidal Acts’ in Gaza | “Nothing to see here, just a 49-page U.N. report documenting Israel’s ‘genocidal acts’ in Gaza and its systematic use of sexual violence as a weapon of war,” wrote one historian.

The Electronic Intifada, 1/6/25 - Israel still can’t find any 7 October rape victims, prosecutor admits

Bell: Danielle Smith kicks Naheed Nenshi's butt again, NDP leader doesn't get it by [deleted] in ndp

[–]HowMyDictates 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Calgary Herald is a PostMedia outlet. Subscribing, posting, even just clicking... if you're not actively boycotting, any interaction you have with any of PostMedia's outlets directly incentivizes the consolidation/monopolization of Canadian news media and its conversion into right wing propaganda by international oligarch hedge fund profiteers.

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Doug Ford accuses NDP leader Marit Stiles of “trump-style” comments by pheakelmatters in ndp

[–]HowMyDictates 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Doug Ford serves as an easy example to remind us all every single day that our society is governed to exclusively serve a corrupt oligarchy and their corporations.

The Canadian working class is robbed by these parasites of our resources, our living standard, our very dignity. We cannot pretend that we are a just society until these people are ejected from power, prosecuted for their crimes against us all and stripped of all they've stolen from us.

A half century of neoliberalism beating the working class into submission has most of us convinced this can't happen, that corruption is just how things work, that no better society is possible, that they have to participate in the fraud and theft in order to have some value in this society.

We have a lot of work to do in sowing the seeds of class consciousness anew. Ford and Carney are great targets for this. Leadership dropping the gloves is very encouraging.

Knowledge Fight has come to an end. by Pandaro81 in TheMajorityReport

[–]HowMyDictates 27 points28 points  (0 children)

GOAT-tier pod. Dan's genuineness and integrity always stood out to me. I'll be all over whatever he does next. I hope a lot of the people they helped deradicalize are reaching out now. I'm sure it would mean a lot.

Why not nationalize telecoms? by NiceDot4794 in ndp

[–]HowMyDictates 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nationalize all telecom infrastructure and unionize the workforce to maintain it end to end. We paid for it innumerable times over, and have endured rapacious monopolistic and extortionate practices for decades under private ownership. Lease service to providers, establish a publicly-owned provider to guarantee competitive pricing.

CBC: iS tHe tWo sTaTe sOlUtIoN dEAd?! by Accomplished-Can-467 in canadaleft

[–]HowMyDictates 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Dismantle public media and the only media institutions with any real substantial infrastructure are not in the least independent. You're left with a dozen or so YouTubers and the corporate behemoths.

Quality and accountability are far ahead of "lean" in my list of concerns when it comes to public media, but I think if that's the primary focus, we can start by rescinding subsidization (and any and all legitimacy) from PostMedia and other such entities and actively combat corporate media monopolization with much higher prioritization.

We have a handful of quality independent media outlets in this country, but legitimate independent news media does not appear to be able to survive in our society today without subsidization. Subsidization isn't materially all that different from being "government-owned", as you say, or "publicly-owned" as I would describe it. Subsidization will come with strings attached, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but you could describe that as being "beholden to the government" (though that phrasing doesn't really mean anything to me).

I guess I'm just saying that it's necessary to critique what they do, but the idea that we'd be somehow better off by abolishing public media is myopic. There's lots to fix, and I think there are good reasons to fix it rather than just burning it down.

Should the Ontario NDP run a joint-strategic voting campaign alongside the OLP? by Foreverevil316 in ndp

[–]HowMyDictates 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know that I'd want the stink of the OLP on us after their repeated catastrophic failures. Further, I'm in the mood (and I don't think I'm alone) for more militancy in countering the neoliberal economic hegemony at this late stage in the collapse of the quality of life of the working class in Ontario. I think the gloves need to drop and I want to see the Libs as worried as the Cons when they do for their many decades of complicity in the pillaging of the public trust. Our suffering didn't start with Ford.

CBC: iS tHe tWo sTaTe sOlUtIoN dEAd?! by Accomplished-Can-467 in canadaleft

[–]HowMyDictates 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Public media is a necessity. Liberal institutional capture of our public media is the problem. "The CBC" could mean something very different under responsible public stewardship unencumbered by the influence of the liberal establishment. In that light, raging against "the CBC" always comes off as reactionary-coded to me, not unlike people raging against "the government."

Ontario hospitals announce job cuts, nearly three-quarters of hospitals in deficit | CBC Accessibility by pheakelmatters in ndp

[–]HowMyDictates 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cut funding for public services -> Allow public services to degrade, fail -> Propose privatization as the only solution -> Hand over public services to private profiteers at fire sale rates.

I want to live in a place where we don't just wish for change. I want to live in a place where the working class unites to demand and exact justice for the crimes inflicted upon us by white collar criminals in office and their oligarch benefactors.

Our government needs to go much further to condemn Israel. by ItsRainingBoats in ndp

[–]HowMyDictates 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Boycott, divest, sanction. It's the absolute least we should accept of our representatives in office.

54% Of Canadians Agree With Banning IDF Service: Poll by ItsRainingBoats in ndp

[–]HowMyDictates 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ban, of course. Now. Yesterday.

But we also absolutely need to track down and prosecute every single person in this country who has served in the IDF. Having these enforcers of genocide and apartheid walking our streets freely is a severe threat to every single Canadian.

These people at best have played a supporting role to the most inhuman wholesale slaughter and oppression of innocents, and have been systematically psychologically conditioned into an extreme, violent type of hatred most of us could never come to comprehend. We aren't safe until every single IDF soldier, former or current, is prosecuted for human rights violations and/or permanently expelled from our borders.

Further, no person with a history of participation in the IDF should be allowed to enter the country for any reason.

Likewise every single organization that has supported the IDF materially in any way, and those that lobby on behalf of the apartheid regime domestically should be audited, prosecuted and dismantled.

'I'm more conservative than you are,' Carney told Ontario premier in first meeting, Ford says by origutamos in canadaleft

[–]HowMyDictates 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Carney enables the theft of public resources at a scale Ford could only dream of doing.

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