Natasha Wiebe
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http://www.ualberta.ca/~nwiebe 01-12-2013 18:57:20
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This is becoming a Trump signature move - the same modus operandi he used with Iran, now deployed against Hamas: pretending he wanted to engage in diplomacy as a trap to facilitate bombing them. Which reinforces the precedent: engaging in diplomacy with the US is now worse than
Thanks for the update. I hadn’t seen that. So Halifax is pulling funding because this genocide washing match is being closed to the public. Tennis Canada claims “local authorities” advised them to do so. Halifax_Police say they were not involved and didn’t give this advice.
👏Forthcoming letter to Tennis Canada signed by Steven Lewis, Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela, grandson of Nelson Mandela, & others: “Your refusal to play Israel would be a thunderclap of moral clarity. It would tell every person watching that justice matters more than any trophy.”
It’s a testament to both the incompetency & petty authoritarianism of HM Courts and Tribunals Service that they destroyed one of the most valuable artworks they own, but they did it so badly that you can still see the shadow of the work, which conveys its message perhaps even more powerfully than