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The Bomb-Shelter Rave: Why Tel Aviv Refuses to Stop Dancing Inside Tel Aviv’s 'bomb-shelter raves,' where Israelis gather during missile alerts and dance to electronic music — a defiant act of survival.

Apparently some people are upset about this article. 🤔

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

I'm well aware that that other platform is apparently where the Nazis are but at least there, there's still people talking about this, amid the hate.

Here, it's basically silence, which makes me wonder how much of what Nazis are/were is actually understood.

Attacking synagogues, for example...?

Jansen Ganesh is on fire in this column on the UK’s role in the Iran conflict

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I agree.

Omg, I might hate-listen to that. Do you have a link?

Yes, I don't even want to hate read them. 😅

Exactly. He doesn't engage with her argument at all, and mostly seems to want to repeat his manifesto while also self promoting.

Ugh, good luck.

Also, he says writers should write what they want as long as it's antizionist, and he gives his own novel as the prime example of what's needed. 😂

Aaron Kreuter's response to PMB is, for lack of a better word, lame. He doesn't address her main point which was that his "manifesto" didn't supply any examples of the contemporary Zionist Jewish fiction against which he is fulminating.

Toronto synagogue struck by gunfire, police investigating Toronto police are investigating after a synagogue in North York was struck by gunfire late Monday night.

I will never understand how we have reached the point in Canada where synagogue shootings have become so common that they fail to shock. Yet many politicians still stay on the sidelines and those who regularly speak out on social justice remain silent.
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

Douglas Coupland was born in 1961.

Settler-colonial theory is very popular in Canada and the US as well, I think

"No one is illegal" is a gift to MAGA In the wake of MAGA’s overreach, the country needs a credible alternative on immigration, not another fake-deep bumper sticker.

"Thus “No one is illegal” is a deepity. Either it’s saying no one’s existence is illegal (true but trivial) or that no immigration restrictions can ever be legitimate (earth-shaking but implausible)."

open.substack.com/pub/bigifftr...

So, is the Canadian 4-minute high sticking vs. the US 2-minute high sticking a result of tariffs?

Just One More Goal
Bill Brownridge
2013

Lol. He needs to learn a little humility if he wants to fit in.

He should at least volunteer for the door-to-door combat.

Opinion: What do you do when you’re living next door to a fascist state? We must expect the United States could remain fascist far into the future. As with naiveté, hope is not a strategy

This from U of T's latest star recruit seems a bit... unhinged?
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

macleans.ca/longforms/th... Macleans covered this story three months ago, and went deeper, but got almost traction on here for its report. This, from Professor Jeffrey Sachs, is a good analogy and some useful context:

University of British Columbia Professors Sue School Over Political Correctness A group of academics at the University of British Columbia say the school’s D.E.I. policies and practices, which include land acknowledgments, violate a law that requires universities to be “nonpolitical.”

A group of professors at the University of British Columbia say the school’s DEI and land acknowledgement policies violate a law that requires universities to be “nonpolitical.” The lawsuit has set off a major legal and cultural battle.

It's a big flake day.

At a time when there's a new Canadian Jewish novel of *any* sort every trillion years and newspapers don't have books sections and 'author' pays zilch, is the crisis in the field a lack of Gaza-related content? Some thoughts for @thecjn.bsky.social thecjn.ca/opinion/pers...

Snow Laden Spruce
A.J. Casson
n.d.

North York demonstration draws 350,000 in support of anti-government protesters in Iran: Toronto police | CBC News A rally in North York Saturday that drew an estimated 350,000 people called on the Canadian government to recognize Iran's exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi as the leader of Iran’s democratic transitio...

Seeing lion and sun flags, often with Canadian flags as well, all over today. Toronto police say there were around 350,000 at a massive rally near me. They coordinated with police and everything went smoothly.

May Iran soon be free,may its brave people stay safe.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Canada has some good looking speed skaters. Just sayin'...

Um...why?

Why Canadian Jews are increasingly averse to identifying as 'Zionists' despite supporting Israel: study "I think this is a way of informing the general public that Jews are hurting," says professor Robert Brym, about surveying the community.

Before I sleep, I think this is a good explanation to @beckyaizen.bsky.social comment on Jewish Americans are for Israel but don't say that they are Zionists, drawing from the same revelation in Canada.
nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

Skater
Alex Colville
1964