Two Levy's vs. The United Nations

 

As UN Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, gets ready to come to Toronto on November 7th, many pro-Israeli organizations have been working hard to get her talk at the University of Toronto cancelled. But it's not just these organizations. Two Levy's have been working hard to try and silence her. French blowhard, Bernard Henri Levy and Britain's Levy lite, Eylon. Both have threatened the UN Special Rapporteur and both have now made their way to Toronto because of Albanese. The theatre of the absurd continues in our beautiful city, as every attempt is being made to silence the facts and truth about Israel's genocide in Gaza.

On the Line Media will be covering Ms. Albanese's talk on November 7 at the University of Toronto. 

Stay Tuned! 

Criminal appeal to be heard in case of alleged Israeli military recruitment

 

On Thursday, November 7, 2024, the Ontario Court of Appeal will hear arguments in a two-year legal battle centred around allegations involving alleged Israeli military recruitment in Canada.

In September 2022, a Justice of the Peace found that there was sufficient evidence for a criminal charge to be laid against Sar-El Canada for allegedly recruiting or inducing individuals to accept non-combat engagements as volunteers with the Israeli armed forces, contrary to section 11 (1) of the Foreign Enlistment Act.

Section 11 of the Foreign Enlistment Act states that “Any person who, within Canada, recruits or otherwise induces any person or body of persons to enlist or to accept any commission or engagement [combatant or non-combatant] in the armed forces of any foreign state or other armed forces operating in that state is guilty of an offence.

The case, which was commenced by Canadian Rabbi David Mivasair and Palestinian-Canadian artist Dr. Rehab Nazzal as a private prosecution, represented the first ever prosecution related to alleged Israeli military recruitment in Canada. However, the case never made it to trial. In December 2022 the Public Prosecution Service of Canada intervened, took over the case, and terminated the prosecution.

The appeal alleges that the Public Prosecution Service of Canada committed an abuse of process in terminating the prosecution, and that the move was reflective of a larger pattern of Canada refusing to enforce the law where Israel’s armed forces are concerned. The appeal seeks, among other things, an order that the prosecution be allowed to continue.  (more...)

Criminal appeal to be heard in case of alleged Israeli military recruitment

UAW members push their union to divest from Israeli genocide

 

Rank-and-file members of the UAW are demanding that union leadership immediately divest from Israel Bonds.

On the morning of October 7, 2024, members of the International Executive Board (IEB) of the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) found their inboxes flooded with hundreds of emails from union members around the country. The messages all demanded the same thing: that the UAW immediately divest from a relentless U.S.-backed Israeli genocide responsible for the death of an estimated 186,000 Palestinians in Gaza.

The UAW—which represents about 370,000 auto, academic, legal, and weapons industry workers—maintains somewhere between $400,000 and $1,000,000 in investments in Israel Bonds, which directly fund the ongoing and spreading violence in occupied Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, and beyond. The company’s own website highlights “the crucial role of Israel Bonds during this time of conflict and war.” 

Echoing demands by Arab, Black, and other UAW members in 1973, UAW members today are demanding to know why the IEB is investing their dues money to support an expanding U.S.-backed genocide. 

The same day as the mass email campaign, members of UAW Labor for Palestine, a rank-and-file led initiative building solidarity with Palestinian workers as part of the Labor for Palestine National Network, confronted UAW President Shawn Fain at Black Lake Lodge, the union’s conference retreat center. Referencing a failed decision this past summer wherein the IEB voted against divesting from its Israel Bond holdings, union members asked Fain, “The next time the UAW IEB holds a vote to divest, will you vote ‘Yes’?” Fain assured rank-and-file members that he in fact will vote for divestment.

Days later, on October 13, Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), the reform caucus whose members currently hold a majority of the seats on the IEB, voted overwhelmingly in its first ever convention to endorse rank-and-file UAW members’ resolution calling for the IEB to divest from Israel Bonds. This critical step reveals broad support for divestment from across the UAW.  (more...)

UAW members push their union to divest from Israeli genocide

ISRAELI INTERFERENCE IN US ELECTIONS: Lobbying, Foreign Agents, Moles & Impunity

 

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Emmy-nominated filmmaker and award-winning journalist James Bamford, author of ‘Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs & the Collapse of America’s Counterintelligence’. He discusses Israel’s influence in the US Presidential election as the US enables Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Israel’s interference in the 2016 election by lobbying Donald Trump to agree to Benjamin Netanyahu’s demands, pro-Israel billionaire and dual US-Israeli citizen Miriam Adelson’s enormous $100 million donation to Donald Trump to buy pro-Israel policies, the Israel lobby’s purchasing of the Democratic Party and Kamala Harris who has never condemned Israel, the difficulty for journalists to write critically about Israel in the US and the attacks he has faced for his reporting on Israel, Israel’s infiltration of university campuses in the US, the embedding of Israeli Unit 8200 agents in the US’ NSA, the US’ assistance to Israel for assassinations against key figures in the regional resistance against Israel, the fate of the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, and much more.

FAAE Committee on Palestinian Statehood

 

CJPME's VP Michael Bueckert Parliamentary Witness Testimony

Trump Plans UK-Style Attack on Israel Criticism

 

Joe Lauria says the Heritage Foundation’s “Project Esther,” as covered by Drop Site News, replicates the U.K.’s use of a terrorism law to criminalize pro-Palestine speech and activism.

A second Trump administration could criminalize criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza as support for terrorism, along the lines of the British Terrorism Act, according to a report in Drop Site News.

The report says the plan is to “break the pro-Palestinian movement in the U.S.”

“The plan, dubbed ‘Project Esther,‘ casts pro-Palestinian activists in the U.S. as members of a global conspiracy aligned with designated terrorist organizations. As part of a so-called ‘Hamas Support Network,’ these protesters receive ‘indispensable support of a vast network of activists and funders with a much more ambitious, insidious goal — the destruction of capitalism and democracy,’ Project Esther’s authors allege.

This conspiratorial framing is part of a legal strategy to suppress speech favorable to Palestinians or critical of the U.S.-Israel relationship, by employing counterterrorism laws to suppress what would otherwise be protected speech, legal experts told Drop Site News.”

The authors of the plan are part of the right-wing Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, Drop Site says. Former President Donald Trump has tried to distance himself from Project 2025 but he is a strong supporter of Israel, having moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and accepted Israel’s annexation of Syria’s Golan Heights, considered illegal by the U.N. Security Council.

The Washington Post reported in May that Trump told donors in New York that he would deport foreign students if they demonstrate for Palestine. “One thing I do is, any student that protests, I throw them out of the country. You know, there are a lot of foreign students. As soon as they hear that, they’re going to behave,” Trump told the donors, the Post reported.  (more...)

Trump Plans UK-Style Attack on Israel Criticism

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On ex RCMP officer Mike Burke

 

In this weekly series, Nighttime Podcast is joined by investigative journalist Paul Palango and legal analyst Adam Rodgers to discuss the past week’s news stories related to Canadian crime.

In this episode we discuss:

• Paul and Adam’s review of the ‘Fear Thy Neighbor’ episode covering Portapique
• much more on ex RCMP member Mike Burke and the murder the RCMP isn’t talking about