Carmen Alvarez
@maybeitscarma
@ccalvarezb.bsky.social Family Lawyer | JD @UCalgaryLaw | Poli Sci B.A. @UBC | Law, politics, & human rights. Views my own. Retweets not endorsements.
If Mosab has this perspective despite all he’s been through. We’ll save justice for The Hague. In the meantime, without blame or condemnation, I call on @CanadaFP @Canada @MarkJCarney @AnitaAnandMP to act now. Sweeping sanctions now.
It is not time to blame and condemn. It is a time to take concrete action and stand up for humanity.
Bookmarking Kemi’s statement for reference at The Hague.
There is no such thing as a negotiated solution for ending a genocide. There is a duty to prevent and punish genocide. This narrative is not only a talking point but reveals that Kemi & co believe that starving babies, sniping children, raping hostages is legitimate warfare #Gaza
An important article about domestic violence in B.C. It is so much more endemic than many realize. (Note: despite my appreciation for this article, I do not support @VancouverSun @PostmediaNews @nationalpost for their complicity in the Gazan genocide.)
5 women killed in 3 weeks in B.C. These are preventable tragedies. YWCA CEO Erin Seeley and I wrote this op-ed to say: enough is enough. We need urgent action to end femicide and gender-based violence. 📰 vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/… #bcpoli #EndGBV
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Orwellian obfuscation from an Orwell aficionado. Israel is killing innocents & starving the population of Gaza. Israel broke the ceasefire & cut off negotiations to release hostages. Israel wants to cleanse Gaza of its inhabitants. Israel is the problem. @CanadaFP @AnitaAnandMP
As the global tide turns against Israel’s genocide in Gaza with renewed fervour, I am very concerned that something will curiously happen to distract from this - nothing to do with Mossad though. 🤔
Exactly this.
The “we can no longer stay silent” line is so deeply disturbing. As if everything up until this point was fine: the maimed children, the slaughter of tens of thousands, the non stop carpet bombing… Why were you silent in the first place? Shame on all of you.
I don't know how anyone w/ principle still works @CanadaFP @GAC_Corporate or @CanadaUN I feel sick just being Canadian, how does someone wake up every day, go to work & choose to participate in the mechanisms/systems that normalize, enable & obfuscate Canada's role in genocide?
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” — Omar El Akkad
A joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters
The Western states that say they'll wait for a peace agreement with Israel before recognizing a Palestinian state are being disingenuous. Netanyahu is determined to prevent a Palestinian state, so his "peace" is either apartheid or mass expulsion. dw.com/en/which-count…
This literally works on toddlers. It would work on Israel. But it’s not a lack of understanding. The US, UK, Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand all know this. It’s not a lack of understanding. It’s a lack of political will to stand up.
If the US and UK halted military assistance to Israel and the EU suspended its trade agreement aid would be flowing into Gaza.
Anyone with eyes saw this coming from day 1. It is soul-crushing that this has gone on for so long with full (and no, I don’t count statements and half steps as any kind of progress) complicity of our government @liberal_party. We will never be the same.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is condemning Israel for failing to prevent the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, in the latest sign of rising international alarm over the starvation and deaths of civilians in the besieged Palestinian territory. trib.al/G86VCQk
“What they want is my silence, and they will never get it.” -Edward Said
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Yet again we are told that "Hamas doesn't want to make a ceasefire deal" but the deal they are being offered is to (1) agree to their own destruction and (2) agree that the ceasefire will be fake and the war will continue.
I’d trust these Palestinians’ assessment as to the credibility of a writer over the New York Times’ credibility any day of the week.
Abu Shabab is quite literally the organized crime boss in Gaza that is armed and funded by Israel… a FACT that Israeli officials have repeatedly admitted in Israeli media.
The government's ban on Palestine Action violates international law, says the UN human rights chief. We ended up with a Labour government led by a human rights lawyer - who breaks international law in order to crush opponents of genocide. Wild. theguardian.com/politics/2025/…
Fascinating shift on Israel in the last few days from a very wide range of center-left politicians & voices that had previously defended the country’s conduct
Fascinating shift on Israel in the last few days from a very wide range of center-left politicians & voices that had previously defended the country’s conduct
AIPAC is spreading lies. The Israeli government is starving Palestinians and everyone knows it. How can we trust Democrats to fight for anything if they take money from people who lie like this about starving kids.
The food, medicine and aid are IN Gaza. The @UN won’t distribute it. Hundreds of truckloads are sitting there. The trucks are loaded. Demand they deliver. Yesterday, Hamas again rejected a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal that Israel accepted. Where’s your unequivocal condemnation?
Unconscionable. This is what @MarkJCarney @liberal_party @AnitaAnandMP @CanadaFP @GAC_Corporate @JustinTrudeau @melaniejoly have all endorsed. Shame on this country and its complicit government.
Trump signs on to Israel's Final Solution in Gaza: mass starvation, mass death, and mass expulsion of those who survive.
Setting it up so she can say after the conference that Canada doesn’t think a Palestinian State is ready to be recognized, after attempting to bully France to not recognize Palestine. How much in Canadian offensive arms have you allowed to be sent to Israel to commit genocide,…
Today I spoke with Minister Gideon Saar. I underlined the urgent need for Israel to unblock humanitarian aid immediately, of which Canada has committed over $300 million, and to end the unnecessary humanitarian crisis in Gaza. I also reiterated Canada’s ongoing support for an…