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Lauren Weinberg

@ldweinberg.bsky.social
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Home baker. Antizionist Jew. Former proprietor of Open Sesame in Kitchener-Waterloo.

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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 22h
Thread. Still disgusted by how @thebigstory.bsky.social laundered this crap.
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Corey Shefman @coreyshefman.bsky.social · 22h
There's a decent argument that this column violates the criminal code prohibition against inciting violence. The thing he's accusing Lewis of is also how Yitzhak Rabin's killer tried to 'justify' his actions - removing other Jews to 'protect' the Jewish people. This is sick, and a shanda.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 30/09/2026
The National Post is using language that seems wildly irresponsible and dangerous here Citing ancient “Jewish law,” it labels Avi Lewis as a “rodef” The ultranationalist extremist who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin rationalized his killing on the same basis: www.theguardian.com/world/2020/o...
None of this applies, however, when a Jewish person presents a clear and present danger to the Jewish community. When that happens, Jewish thought is much more forceful: you must prevent the perpetrator from
causing harm.

Jewish law developed two character sketches to describe such scenarios. The first is known as a "mosar" — a Jewish person who informs to oppressive
authorities, potentially leading to the imprisonment, torture or death of community members. The second, called a "rodef," refers to a Jew who is actively pursuing another with the intent to harm or kill them. In both scenarios, the law is clear that a Jew is duty-bound to step in. Protecting the community and its members is the most important thing.It was around then that Yigal Amir, an earnest law student, made up his mind to kill the prime minister. Later he would insist he was not swayed by extremist rabbis; he had reached his own decision that Rabin - through his willingness to cede territory and to allow the creation of a Palestinian Authority, with its own armed police force - was a rodef and therefore a legitimate target. He got a weapon easily enough. With his brother, Amir was working on the creation of an anti-Palestinian militia. Nor was access difficult; on at least three occasions before the rally, Amir attended public events where Rabin was present. He was waiting for the right moment: he didn't want to shoot and miss.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"There is currently no public evidence linking Ward to the pro-Palestine movement or any views about Israel or Zionism." Blaming the Belleville attack on antizionists is NONSENSICAL.
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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Canada: Anti-Zionism is not Antisemitism. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Canada: Anti-Zionism is not Antisemitism
Cliquez ici pour une version française de cette campagne. Last week, Public Safety Canada tried to quietly redefine anti-Zionism as antisemitic. This marks the first time the Canadian government has...
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Tri-Cities Transport Action Group @tritag.ca · 29/09/2026
Announcing our Waterloo Region election questionnaire for 2026! We have had 84 candidates respond so far to our questionnaire on key issues around walking, biking, and transit:
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Waterloo Region Election 2026
Municipal candidate responses to our top transportation policy questions
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes
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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thread.
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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every time @cornelluniversity.bsky.social makes the news, I'm more embarrassed to be an alum.
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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh FFS
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is what happens when society ignores the far right while criminalizing people who are actually on the side of peace and safety.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
watching question period sparring between two conservatives (Poilievre and Carney) arguing about who can do more for business is uhhhh depressing
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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"But it seems just as natural that scores of American Jews have their eyes open, are disgusted with what they’ve seen, and don’t think the country should be cloaked in a 'cannot be accused of genocide' protective blanket just because they feel connected to it."
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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Abolish ICE.
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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Abolish ICE.
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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 11/09/2026
I rarely talk about how I was 6 blocks away from the WTC on 9/11. & it's less bc of the trauma and more the sheer shame of how the US turned that trauma into grist for more killing. here, I talk about how the attacks became a formative moment in my political life www.coyotemedia.org/september-11...
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I Watched the Planes Fly Past My Classroom Window. Then Came 25 Years of Grievance
For Soleil Ho, September 11 was their political origin story.
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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In Canada, too.
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NB Media Co-op / Coop Média NB @nbmediacoop.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Philanthropists critical of Nakba exhibit donated $4.8M to groups later sanctioned for funding illegal settlements, Israeli military Report by Brett McKay nbmediacoop.org/2026/09/10/p...
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Philanthropists critical of Nakba exhibit donated $4.8M to groups later sanctioned for funding illegal settlements, Israeli mili
A family foundation that paused funding for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights because of an exhibit on the displacement
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
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🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 08/09/2026
Why is our head of government making a PragerU video
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is ADL's solitary statement after Nazis won state elections in Germany for the first time since the Holocaust:
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Ed Sheeran’s fans came for a concert, not performative, biased and hateful anti-Israel “activism” from his opener, Macklemore.

Imagine being a Jewish or Israeli fan who came with family or friends to enjoy the show, only to be confronted with this hostility from the stage. Or feeling so unwelcome by the opening act that you leave early.

This isn’t new for Macklemore. He has a record of demonizing Israel and Israelis, falsely accusing Israel of genocide and engaging in antisemitic rhetoric and behavior.

This is completely unacceptable.

(with embedded video of Macklemore's remarks on Palestine at the Ed Sheeran MetLife concert)

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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This excellent overview doesn't mention one thing, which is that it's highly likely (but has not been proven in acourt of law) that then-Ontario Premier Mike Harris was personally responsible for ordering the attack and took no heed of the risk of injuries and deaths. He was never held accountable.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
what is it about academics becoming university presidents that makes them lose 30 IQ points
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Richie Assaly @rdassaly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
NEW: Four Jewish community groups — @ifnotnowtoronto.bsky.social, @jews4tikkunolam.bsky.social , @jewssayno.bsky.social and @indjewishvoices.bsky.social — say they are "relieved" that Olivia Chow is not participating in the Jesse Brown-hosted "debate" on antisemitism.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
No starker example of the media having different rules for each political party. If the press treated Elon Musk like Hasan Piker, every Republican in America would be forced to answer questions about why their party's biggest donor espouses anti-semitic race science.
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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I keep seeing these losers' flyers and stickers in UpTown Waterloo. They want to deport every Canadian who isn't of English or French descent: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'We didn’t want them:' Hamilton rallies against Dominion Society, as group holds event in Burlington, Ont. | CBC News
More than 100 people gathered outside of Hamilton city hall around midday Saturday to denounce the fact that a self-proclaimed nationalist group that wants to deport millions of people from Canada pla...
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
if only there had been clues
Republicans convention delegates holding “mass deportation now!” signs
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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Abolish ICE.
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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Abolish ICE.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Crucial new piece in @thegrindto.bsky.social on how the Canadian state and major media outlets have used a deeply flawed 'study' to launder claims of antisemitism on campus. Turns out *the study itself* acknowledges it is *Zionist Jews* who report increased antisemitism. Antizionist Jews DO NOT.
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Campus Antisemitism Report Hid a Key Finding that Turns the Results Upside Down
In early August, mainstream outlets repeated the findings of a flawed report describing alarming levels of antisemitism on university campuses. Two weeks later, the authors stated that 92 per cent of…
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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"There is no secret to social housing in Vienna. There isn’t something that makes it nebulous and mysteriously impossible….There is only the will to do it and the belief that it matters…" 60% of Vienna's residents live in social housing.
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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Hahahahahahahahahaha
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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"and I will speak on behalf of Michigan Jews…" Please don't, Dana. You can't even acknowledge that matzah is the "bread of affliction." Have *you* ever read a haggadah? This was like reading an interview with a QAnon adherent. Also, why does David Frum have a job?
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Caroline Casey @cacasey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
we are going to find out she invented cheese and it will feel right
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 26/08/2026
TODAY: @littlewow.online in conversation with labor lawyer and union organizer Jeremy Bernick on U.S. Wikipedia workers' union drive. "What we’re asking for ... are basic social and political rights that our own employees in other countries are already entitled to." flaminghydra.com/wiki-workers...
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Wiki Workers of the World Unite
The Wikimedia Foundation’s annual Wikimania conference in Paris drew nearly 5,250 participants this year, in person and online. It’s the Foundation’s 25th anniversary, and the conference’s organizers ...
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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I've seen (and torn down) their vile flyers and stickers in Waterloo. 😐
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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Thread. Good thing Staples is Canadian—oh wait.
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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Pretty clear implication here that apart from two real ones the ranking congressional Democrats have washed their hands of Mahmoud Khalil, even though his case is egregious and has dire implications for every single constituent they have. Pathetic & chilling stuff. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Screenshot from New Yorker article by Andrew Marantz "The higher Khalil got on the rungs of congressional seniority, the more circumspect the lawmakers sounded. The No. 2 House Democrat, Katherine Clark, has a palatial office in the heart of the Capitol, with crystal chandeliers and mirrors in gilded frames. "We love our progressive members with our whole heart and soul,” Clark said, diplomatically. "But I wonder if you've reached out to our more pro-Israel members -someone who may say, 'You know, we might disagree on this particular issue, but this is about a higher principle.'”

"I'd be happy to come down and meet with anyone," Khalil said. "So far, we haven't seen much interest."
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Dawn Summers real or fake @dawnsummers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.
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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It's not like I had high expectations of Tim Hortons, but it's disappointing to see them going all-in on promoting the new HP series.
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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I'm sure the Canadian version will be totally different! 🙄
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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Abolish ICE.
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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This episode is hot garbage, and everyone who helped create it should be ashamed.
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Lauren Weinberg @ldweinberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Thank you, Jewish Faculty Network: "A survey that can’t hear from Jews like us, filtered through a definition that casts our views as hatred, doesn’t measure antisemitism. It confirms its own premises." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: The antisemitism report that erases a century of Jewish debate
By incorrectly defining anti-Zionism, the federal government’s CASE report brands disagreements among Jews as hatred
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 10/08/2026
There's just something gut wrenching about a man who comes from the first Republic founded by ex-enslaved people to end up fucking shackled in 2026.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 09/08/2026
#OtD 9 Aug 1945 the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing tens of thousands of civilians. General Dwight D. Eisenhower said it "was completely unnecessary… as a measure to save American lives." More info here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1087...
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