Re: “On Israel-Gaza, Canada must rise to the humanity of the moment“
"I think that the genocide unfolding in Gaza is our wake-up call to stop seeing and expecting Canada to promote and enforce human rights and recognize and treat it as complicit in human rights abuses once and for all."
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Article fails to define antisemitism & include Palestinian perspectives
"It is a critical point that should be included as these two concepts can get conflated. The confusion between these two terms only encourages Israel’s impunity for its policies and actions violating Palestinian human rights. Pro-Palestine supporters also face deep consequences, such as losing their jobs, being harassed online, censured, and physically injured."
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Re: “Immigrants should leave grievances behind”
"As a daughter of immigrants who came to Canada and a Canadian by birth, our loyalty to Canada is our duty to call out our government when it is wrong, has failed to live up to its standards, and enact better policies, which include its international affairs, in the hope of getting it to change to be better."
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Re: “Trudeau should not put geopolitics ahead of Canadians”
"Failing to see it this way and waiting again to react by gathering academics, experts, and diaspora community members “once the war is over” would put us back in the same cycle of deliberately turning a blind eye to damning evidence."
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Article downplays the number of Palestinians killed
"I find it inappropriate to report the numbers of Israeli dead in the first section of the article, while not giving the much larger Palestinian losses until the fourth section. One would expect to see these closer together unless the intention is to downplay the number of Palestinians killed."
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Palestinian slogan grossly misrepresented in one-sided article
"There are nearly 7 million Palestinian refugees around the world today. They were not merely kicked to the “outskirts” of Palestine. Many were kicked entirely out of the territory and are stateless to this day. It is again alarming that this reality would be downplayed by insinuating that Palestinians were just displaced to the outskirts, just a little bit."
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Thanks for describing a Canadian Palestinian's flight from Gaza
"Parents would be able to identify with Ms Nassrawi, when she tries to reassure the children with the pretense of a thunderstorm and earthquake. It reminds me of what one of the researchers for Defense for Children International Palestine (dci-Palestine) wrote: " give me another story to tell my children" .The thunderstorm story only goes so far."
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Thanks for specifying the number of Palestinians killed
"The article gives up to date numbers of Palestinians killed and I thank you for including the important fact that while Western intelligence dispute these numbers. Historically data given by the Gaza Ministry of Health have been correct. Mainstream media have the unfortunate habit to treat Israeli sources a as credible while casting doubt on Palestinian sources."
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Re: "Islamophobia: I have never seen it this bad”
"Importantly, your article includes reference to the rise in antisemitism as well as Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism associated with the violent events in Israel and Gaza. Such balance is necessary at this time as individuals of all religions in this violence are feeling threatened along the lines you express."
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Thanks for challenging the Israeli military narrative
"Your citing the sources of the data you use to describe the violence is excellent as this allows the reader to make their own decision as to the veracity of the numbers. Unlike other reporters, you do not merely parrot the IDF propaganda. Thank you for this."
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