Edmonton police were notified about vandalism at Gold Bar Park on Monday.

EPS said its Hate Crimes Unit is looking into what appeared to be a swastika and other hate-related symbols burned into the grass.

City crews were removing the symbols and cleaning the area later Monday afternoon.

Gold Bar Park is located east of the core near Capilano. It’s on the south bank of the North Saskatchewan River at the end of 50th Street.

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Why isn't violence against women considered a hate crime? r/fourthwavewomen

[ID: screenshot from Al Jazeera live updates, December 6th 2023 20:35 (UTC), transcribed below:]

Palestinian student shot in US state of Vermont discharged from hospital

Twenty-year-old Hisham Awartani, one of three Palestinian students who were shot two weeks ago, is paralysed from the chest down, his parents said. They verified GoFundMe – a crowdfunding platform – set up by his family has raised more than $1m, but experts at the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation told them that the expenses of adaptive care throughout his life will come to at least $2.8m.

[ID: youtube video of Hisham leaving the hospital]

For the record, the man accused in the shooting of the three Palestinian men was NOT JEWISH.

Please do not allow this terrible event to contribute to antisemitism or retaliatory Islamophobic violence.

James J. Eaton, the accused, is a white Christian man whose mother thought he was decorating a Christmas tree she gave him at the time of the shooting.

Many of us—Jews/Muslims/Israelis/Palestinians/Arabs—have been BEGGING those who claim to be our allies to dispense with violence and violent rhetoric against all of our communities precisely because we all know that these kinds of things happen as a result.

When I say that the rhetoric and tone you use online and the dogwhistles you espouse thoughtlessly can get people killed, this is what I’m talking about.

We all know that you want to be on the “right” side of history. But you have to want peace for all MORE than you want the self righteously fulfilling feeling of being right. This is not a game. People in your country are dying because people who claim to want to help are hurting everyone instead.

The only sides in this conflict are peace vs war, love vs hate. We must all be united in our desire for peace, not by our (self-proclaimed)“righteous” fury.

If you are demonizing Israel and Israelis and Jews or Muslims and Arabs and Palestinians, you are not only on the wrong side. You are not even on a side that can possibly be right.

Your personal political identity is irrelevant. Being a leftist/liberal/progressive doesn’t mean you’re immune to being hateful and Islamophobic and antisemitic. Being right wing/conservative doesn’t meant you are, either.

So, once again, I’m BEGGING YOU ALL: please tone down your rhetoric. Learn what dog whistles affect all parties in this conflict and then stop using them. Elevate the voices of people working for peace, not victory. And spend more time learning from those more familiar with the conflict than you do from those speaking most loudly about it.

And for the love of G-d. Please learn to interrogate a source for credibility before sharing it.

i hate that I even have to do this:

if I have one more fucking mutual on this site dm me a free palestine post during this time when they know that I’m not only jewish but have one of my closest friends fighting for her life while her parents have been kidnapped by hamas (openely funded by Palestinians) i will lose my shit. I’ve messaged some of you privately and you still persist to think you know more. It is disgusting how you keep your narrative without doing the research just to prove a point. I am so close to losing my mind and deleting tumblr for a while, since you guys clearly don’t understand how big of a problem this actually is. I didn’t want to have to make a public post, but at this point, I’m tired of responding to conversations where all I hear about is the pity you are giving to the groups that are murdering my people. There has not been this many jews killed in a single day since the time of the holocaust, so if you’re okay with that, go ahead and reveal yourself as a nazi and let me move on with my life. I stand with the innocent people in Israel, and I don’t give a shit about your opinion. Fuck hamas, and if you’re siding with them (simply because they are in alliance with Palestine) then fuck you too.

Edit: y'all seem to think that since I'm against hamas that I'm somehow condemning the innocents of palestine too, and I would like to set the record straight that I am on the side of human life. Don't come at me saying I'm a genocider and other ridiculous bullshit when I've given of my time, effort and money to help Palestinians in need. And don't call a fucking jewish woman a nazi when my great grandmother's entire family [minus her bother and herself] were murdered in the holocaust. It's a new kind of foul when you try and pull that card.

One more thing: to the people in my inbox telling me hitler was right and that they hope hamas gasses me like my ancestors, i hope you take a moment to self reflect and find what's truly bothering you, bc ain't no way y'all just became nazis over me trying to save human life on both sides

Almost every single time I log on, I see another Jewish blog I follow announce that they're leaving tumblr or going on an indefinite hiatus.

Goyim are literally driving us out of every space, both online and off. It's not safe to be Jewish anywhere. I am sick of this shit. I am sick of being expected to just put up with it. I am sick of watching Jews just disappear from public life and go into hiding.

And it's terrifying because there's no way that the rabid antisemitic freaks on this site are gonna be able to contain themselves and keep it in the digital world for long. There's already random violence against Jews happening everywhere and it is *going* to lead to more pogroms sooner or later.

They're not gonna be satisfied until there is no trace of us left anywhere.

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oh my god tw for child death, murder, racism, islamophobia

a 6 year old Muslim child was murdered and his mother was severely wounded by their white male landlord outside of Chicago (NBC affiliate). they are also Palestinian, according to the mother's ex-husband.

their landlord, who is facing hate crimes charges as well as first degree murder and attempted first degree murder charges, said "You Muslims must die" while attempting to kill her, and it is suspected that he was motivated by the escalation in israel-palestine.

the mother is expected to survive. her son's name is Wadea Al-Fayoume. he just turned six two weeks ago, and now he is gone.

maybe don't call people "human animals" and say they're all terrorists.

A Ukrainian woman living in London has had her gate (which had a Ukrainian flag on it) set on fire by russians.

This is what ukrainians in Europe have to deal with. We are not safe anywhere. But yet it's imaginary "russophobia" that people are concerned with.

I am so tired of this world

JK Rowling has challenged Scotland's new hate crime law in a series of social media posts - inviting police to arrest her if they believe she has committed an offence.

Please please PLEASE call her bluff and arrest her.

A long-time Free Palestine mural in Montreal, which was belonged to an NGO, was vandalized by zionists this week. December 16th 2023.

- Hussein

GODS I don't know how to explain how much it pisses me off that a Native 2 Spirit child was literally attacked AT A SCHOOL and refused to be given care which caused them to fucking die, and so many of the people talking about it are just referring to them as Nonbinary and not even mentioning that they were indiginous.

Fellow trans people: when talking about hate crimes against people for being trans do fucking better. Stop erasing ethnic and racial minorities identities to focus exclusively on the trans part. And ESPECIALLY stop fucking substituting their racial specific gender label for anything else. They. Were. Two Spirit. Stop erasing that. Especially when the reason they died was most likely because they were attacked for their identity.

KANSAS CITY, MO – Ralph Yarl, a 16 year old Black boy, was shot twice by a white man in North Kansas City after accidentally ringing the doorbell of the wrong home while attempting to pick up his sibling. The white man, Andrew Lester, reportedly shot Ralph in the head through the glass door, then when Yarl was already bleeding out on the ground, shot him again. The family has described it as a hate crime, and community members are calling for justice for the young victim.

“This was not an ‘error’; this was a hate crime. You don’t shoot a child in the head because he rang your doorbell. The fact that the police said it was an ‘error’ is why America is the way it is,” said Dr. Faith Spoonmore, the aunt of Ralph Yarl.

Reports indicate that the white man was taken to the police headquarters briefly to provide a statement but was released shortly after without charge. Yarl’s family is outraged that the perpetrator has not been held accountable.

According to Dr. Spoonmore, “This man intended to kill an innocent child simply because he rang the doorbell of the wrong house. He looked him in the face and shot him… and the individual is free to go about his day as if he did a great deed. While my nephew Ralph Yarl is a great kid, an intelligent kid, a black boy is left with so many broken pieces.”

👉🏿 https://kansascitydefender.com/justice/kansas-city-black-family-demands-justice-white-man-shoots-black-boy-ralph-yarl/

GoFundMe link

👉🏿 https://www.gofundme.com/f/nf36y-cover-medical-expenses

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