Lauren Weinberg
@ldweinberg.bsky.social
Home baker. Antizionist Jew. Former proprietor of Open Sesame in Kitchener-Waterloo.
Love to see the Zionist NYT letting gross antisemitism go unchallenged. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The reason we need more religious studies education is because the "New York Times" can just allow someone to say in an interview that wokeness is like the Old Testament, which supposedly has no forgiveness, and the assertion goes unchallenged.
!["I mean, you happen to be right. And by the way, I’m not being dismissive of you. I’m just saying that my friends have tested me more than yours, and maybe I’ve tested them. I’m not religious, but I’m a Christian, and God forgives. That’s what it’s all about. The problem with quote, unquote, wokeness — and don’t get me wrong, it is great that marginalized people have a voice; it is great to advocate for anybody that feels marginalized — but the problem is we’re in the Old Testament right now, and the Old Testament has no forgiveness. The Old Testament didn’t work, so they had to write a remix called the New Testament.
There’s been discussion lately about how the Woke 1.0 era, which refers to the immediate post-George Floyd era, was “crazy.” Do you see that moment in time as just “crazy?” Was there anything redeeming about it? I think I just answered. Again, it’s great to help those that need help. We need more of that. The problem is when you institutionalize it. My half a joke: The Salem witch hunts — I’m sure the first three witches they caught were actually witches. But then you open up a witch office, and now you gotta start lying because you got overhead. You gotta justify the witch hunters’ pensions and [expletive]. I’m glad that all of this stuff happened, it needed to happen, and because it happened, maybe I’ve heard some voices that I probably wouldn’t have heard otherwise."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cmvc2f5b5fou3ijbgagiovlj/bafkreif3ltvoc2fuavimjxmdkqi4qofqx3wlmjkx25np74hzze2stbyxuu)
October 3, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Love to see the Zionist NYT letting gross antisemitism go unchallenged. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"It’s been a few days since this vicious piece appeared, yet no-one in the mainstream media or political class has denounced or even commented upon the piece—except for one Liberal politician, Salma Zahid, who had her car in her driveway set on fire."—Judy Rebick
Avi Lewis is a Jewish politician refusing to be silent about Israel’s genocide—and now he’s being threatened with violence.
@judred.bsky.social writes that the lack of uproar reveals just how powerful the pro-Israel consensus remains among Canada’s elite.
breachmedia.ca/im-familiar-...
@judred.bsky.social writes that the lack of uproar reveals just how powerful the pro-Israel consensus remains among Canada’s elite.
breachmedia.ca/im-familiar-...
I’m familiar with death threats. They show Avi Lewis is having an impact ⋆ The Breach
The National Post has suggested violence is the way “to deal” with the NDP leader for his outspoken criticism of Israel
breachmedia.ca
October 2, 2026 at 8:37 PM
"It’s been a few days since this vicious piece appeared, yet no-one in the mainstream media or political class has denounced or even commented upon the piece—except for one Liberal politician, Salma Zahid, who had her car in her driveway set on fire."—Judy Rebick
Do you HEAR YOURSELVES?!
October 2, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Do you HEAR YOURSELVES?!
Thread. Still disgusted by how @thebigstory.bsky.social laundered this crap.
1/9 We cannot accept the findings of the federal CASE report. The methodology is fundamentally broken. Its data is highly questionable, but the resulting political weaponization is actively harmful. We unpack why for
@canadiandimension.bsky.social.
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
@canadiandimension.bsky.social.
canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
September 30, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Thread. Still disgusted by how @thebigstory.bsky.social laundered this crap.
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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.
Some very normal stuff from the former editor in chief of the Canadian Jewish News
September 30, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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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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...
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...
September 30, 2026 at 3:33 AM
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...
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...
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Time for this classic again.
September 30, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Time for this classic again.
"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.
Blaming the Belleville attack on antizionists is NONSENSICAL.
NEW: Pro-Israel voices have suggested that anti-Zionism, the pro-Palestine movement and “anti-Israel” policies were responsible for causing the Belleville attack.
There is no public evidence to support any of these claims. www.readthemaple.com/how-pro-isra...
There is no public evidence to support any of these claims. www.readthemaple.com/how-pro-isra...
How Pro-Israel Voices Warped The Belleville Shooting Narrative
Pro-Israel voices suggested that anti-Zionism, the pro-Palestine movement and “anti-Israel” policies were responsible for causing the attack.
www.readthemaple.com
September 29, 2026 at 7:08 PM
"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.
Blaming the Belleville attack on antizionists is NONSENSICAL.
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Canada: Anti-Zionism is not Antisemitism. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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...
actionnetwork.org
September 29, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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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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:
Waterloo Region Election 2026
Municipal candidate responses to our top transportation policy questions
www.tritag.ca
September 29, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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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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.
September 26, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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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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...
OK, Washington Post, enlighten me. What is the bright side of being a Nazi?
September 27, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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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Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes
September 27, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes
Thread.
This misses any analysis of what the term “Zionism” constitutes. You can always find bad-faith antisemites using “Zionist” as a replacement for “Jew,” but conflating anti-Zionism w/ antisemitism under that flimsy justification is bad-faith reasoning that assumes the conclusion.
Anti-Zionism is too often thinly veiled antisemitism, as if substituting the word Zionist for Jew renders the unacceptable acceptable. The federal government has now called it out in a new report, recognizing that antisemitism includes anti-Zionism.
www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/09/a-de...
www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/09/a-de...
September 26, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Thread.
Every time @cornelluniversity.bsky.social makes the news, I'm more embarrassed to be an alum.
A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity.
Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.*
The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.
Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.*
The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
www.cornellsun.com
September 25, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Every time @cornelluniversity.bsky.social makes the news, I'm more embarrassed to be an alum.
Oh FFS
Canada's former ambassador to Israel pens article in National Post, claims without evidence there is a "direct link" between "Free Palestine" activists and the shooter in Belleville
Then admits she she didn't read the multiple news reports identifying the shooter as a COVID-19 conspiracy theorist
Then admits she she didn't read the multiple news reports identifying the shooter as a COVID-19 conspiracy theorist
September 23, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Oh FFS
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This is what happens when society ignores the far right while criminalizing people who are actually on the side of peace and safety.
Man wielding shotgun opened fire at officer outside Belleville synagogue: SIU.
globalnews.ca/news/1206680...
globalnews.ca/news/1206680...
Man wielding shotgun opened fire at officer outside Belleville synagogue: SIU | Globalnews.ca
A shootout near a synagogue in Belleville, Ont., Sunday evening began when a man wielding a shotgun opened fire at an officer stationed outside it, Ontario’s police watchdog says.
globalnews.ca
September 21, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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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watching question period sparring between two conservatives (Poilievre and Carney) arguing about who can do more for business is uhhhh depressing
September 21, 2026 at 6:46 PM
watching question period sparring between two conservatives (Poilievre and Carney) arguing about who can do more for business is uhhhh depressing
"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."
It’s pretty wild to compare the campaign against Macklemore to the utter lack of campaign against Kanye West slate.trib.al/qyeLCM8
The Jewish Leaders Celebrating Macklemore’s Dismissal From Ed Sheeran’s Tour Have Lost the Plot on Antisemitism
The leaders of many Jewish organizations need to understand what their constituents think about Israel.
slate.trib.al
September 17, 2026 at 2:17 AM
"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."
Abolish ICE.
Jesus
September 15, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Abolish ICE.
Abolish ICE.
One woman I met outside Delaney Hall told me men inside the jail -- including her husband -- are denied medical care and have resorted to drinking their own urine to try to address infections. truthout.org/articles/thi...
This Back to School Season, Kids Face a New Fear: ICE Taking Their Parents
More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.
truthout.org
September 15, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Abolish ICE.
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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...
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.
www.coyotemedia.org
September 11, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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...
In Canada, too.
The political and cultural response to 9/11 was to briefly mouth some "Islam is not to blame" platitudes and then declare total war on Muslim people and the Muslim world and we're entering the 25th year of it with no end in sight.
If nothing else, this book deserves your attention because it refutes what is becoming an alarming consensus talking point in the center that 9/11 brought out the better angels of our nature - a delusional distortion of reality that is true only for one value of "our."
September 11, 2026 at 3:04 PM
In Canada, too.
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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...
Report by Brett McKay
nbmediacoop.org/2026/09/10/p...
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
nbmediacoop.org
September 10, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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...
Report by Brett McKay
nbmediacoop.org/2026/09/10/p...
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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.
September 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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.