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The memory of these stories should be a lesson for us all, that ‘never again’ means never again for everyone everywhere. People under violent occupation have every right to resist, including armed resistance - to exist in this world. You only have to have a heart to understand this.

…healthcare workers like doctors who would smuggle in medicines and vaccines for their people, or Jewish people who picked up arms to resist and spark an uprising against their oppressors.

Visiting the historic sites of the Warsaw and Kraków ghettos, I learned of many forms of resistance that Jewish people organized while under Nazi German occupation. From students who stood in solidarity with their Jewish classmates under Nuremberg laws,

On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I am thinking of the people who resisted against the mass murder and genocide of Jewish people, Slavic peoples, Roma and Sinti people, queer people, people with disabilities, communists, socialists, leftists and many others.

I support @avilewis.ca because he understands that structural oppression anywhere is a threat to our collective humanity everywhere.”

and have access to true universal healthcare in an economy that is green and sustainable which doesn’t fuel militarism, war, and genocide.

In my opinion, it is not only the necessary path forward, but it is the only path forward if we want to see our neighbourhoods and communities not only survive but actually thrive with common sense policies that make sure people can afford their rent and groceries,

“I have witnessed very few politicians like Avi take the democratic socialist position with unapologetic confidence as the path forward for a society that puts the wellbeing of people at the forefront and centre of our politics.

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Smash and destroy that imperial boomerang for good - so no more lives have to be murdered to serve the interests of the rich and powerful.

Our healthcare colleagues are being murdered in front of our eyes. Be against this - from Turtle Island to Palestine, and beyond. It is only when everyday people organize, mobilize, and demand a better world and society that it will ever change.

What we are seeing is the imperial boomerang. The colonial fascist violence that has been inflicted for decades and generations in places like Palestine is being used here on Turtle Island on everyday people like Alex Pretti, who was a nurse.

…but because there is an opportunity for true global solidarity for everyday people to rise up and demand better for a just and humane world for our fellow human kin.

It is a decisive moment, not because the facade is broken because Western powers have come clean about what has already been known to so many who have suffered under capitalist and colonialist policies,

All the while, the Global South have repeatedly raised the alarm bells for decades that the system was never working in their favour.

…has finally backfired and no longer works to maintain power and control for the Global North.

The facade of an international rules-based order is being destroyed because of the impunity enjoyed by powerful Western states, including Canada, which have repeatedly selectively applied human rights only when it benefits capitalist economic and state interests,

To stand with all of those efforts, in solidarity with our fellow human kin who are oppressed, is the most decent and basic of commitments we ought to commit to.

This kind of resistance work is just as important as the work of healthcare workers who provide refuge, healing, and care to the sick and injured. Resistance against colonial erasure takes many different forms.

Palestinians, like any people who are subjected to colonial violence and domination, have the right to armed resistance. The armed resistance in Palestine are freedom fighters who fight for survival, existence, and self-determination.

Israel is the perpetrator of the crime of genocide against Palestinians. Imagine if you lived under siege, blockade, and illegal military occupation - would you not want to fight back and protect your people and your land?

After watching the film, I was taken aback by the language used to frame and justify attacks on healthcare by the Israeli military, reiterated a handful of times in the film itself, amplifying Israeli propaganda bylines on ‘terrorism’ and ‘terrorists’.

The film “Gaza: Doctors Under Attack” was commissioned by the BBC and was supposed to be aired on the BBC, but it was dropped because of political suppression and anti-Palestinian racism, and later it was picked up and aired by Channel 4 and is also being distributed by Zeteo.

We must understand this reality for what it truly is, and work and organize to reimagine a different one informed by decolonial politics that centres collective wellbeing and liberation for all peoples who are oppressed by structural and state violence.

Our way of life and living in a settler colonial state like Canada is currently built on the suffering, dispossession, and annihilation of Indigenous Peoples, both on the land on which we live (Turtle Island, which is stolen land and broken treaty land) and on lands that are far away like Palestine.

War, genocide, and militarism are so immensely profitable, beyond our imagination and comprehension, as healthcare workers who simply want to see healthier and more prosperous populations and communities.

Our federal government continues to allow companies in our own neighbourhoods, like Gastops, to send weapons and arms parts to the United States, so that technologies like the F-35 fighter jets can be used by the Israeli military to continue dropping 2000-pound bombs on Gaza.

The genocide in Gaza is fuelled by Western capitalist, colonial, and imperial interests in which our own governments, companies, and the investments of our academic institutions or even healthcare pensions, are tied to.

…but rather it is exactly the culpability and complicity of our society and institutions for which genocide continues to this day.

As we bear witness from afar from a settler colonial state like Canada, we must understand that the oppression of our healthcare worker colleagues in Palestine is not removed from our existence and day-to-day lives,