[link removed] Share ([link removed])

[link removed]: https%3A%2F%2Fmailchi.mp%2Frightsaction%2Fharassment-of-senior-citizens-protesting-genocide Tweet ([link removed]: https%3A%2F%2Fmailchi.mp%2Frightsaction%2Fharassment-of-senior-citizens-protesting-genocide)

[link removed] Forward ([link removed])

July 27, 2025



** Senior citizens in Toronto protesting against genocide targeted harsh with harassment and intimidation
------------------------------------------------------------

By Grahame Russell, July 25, 2025
[link removed]

On Monday, July 21, 2025, I joined a small group of senior citizens gathered between 3 and 4 pm on the corner of St. Clair Ave. W. and Avenue Rd. Most carried signs saying “Grandparents Against Genocide”. A couple of signs read “Great Aunts and Uncles Against Genocide.” I am a great uncle, and –at 64– one of the younger ones in the group.
July 21, 2025, Toronto, Canada

There were no noise makers, no loud speakers, no speeches, no interfering with pedestrians or blocking intersections, etc. The entire protest was as one sees in the photo.

Then two younger men came and aggressively confronted the group for 20 minutes or so. The intent of the perpetrators was clearly to silence the protest through harassment and intimidation. This included grabbing and ripping up signs, encroaching on personal space, and holding up mobile cameras in the faces of seniors while shouting in vulgar and aggressive language.

These short videos below speak for themselves.

These are the times we live in. That a small group of elders discreetly protesting Canadian, U.S. and Western-backed starvation and genocide of Palestinians are confronted this way.

[link removed]

[link removed]

*******

Full accountability for U.S., Canadian and Western complicity with the abomination in Palestine

As we try to do with our work in Guatemala and Honduras, Rights Action encourages and supports education, organizing and activism work to hold the Canada and the U.S.-led West legally and politically accountable for supporting, enabling and legitimizing Israel’s ethnic cleansing starvation and genocide against Palestine and the Palestinian people.

Change media sources

Rights Action urges everyone to diversify their news sources, as a necessary antidote to the oftentimes harmful, misleading reporting coming from much of the government and corporate media in the U.S., the E.U. and Canada. We recommend daily news by Al Jazeera news ([link removed]), Democracy Now (www.democracynow.org), The Real News ([link removed]), etc.

We recommend getting involved with / following news feeds of
* Breaking the Silence, Israel: [link removed] ([link removed])
* Palestinian Youth Movement: [link removed] ([link removed])
* Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine: [link removed]
* Double Down News: [link removed] ([link removed])
* Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East: [link removed] ([link removed])
* Jewish Voices for Peace (U.S.): [link removed] ([link removed])
* Independent Jewish Voices (Canada): [link removed]
* If Not Now (U.S.): [link removed]
* If Not Now (Cda): [link removed]
* Ceasefire Now: [link removed]
* Ceasefire Today: [link removed] ([link removed])
* BDS Movement: [link removed] ([link removed])
* 972 Magazine, [link removed]
* Medical Aid for Palestinians: [link removed]
* Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor: [link removed]
* Canadian Foreign Policy Institute: [link removed] ([link removed])
* CODEPINK: [link removed]
* World BEYOND War Canada: [link removed] ([link removed])

*******
Please share and re-post this information
*******

www.rightsaction.org
[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

[link removed] Facebook ([link removed])
[link removed] Twitter ([link removed])
[link removed] Website ([link removed])
[link removed] Instagram ([link removed])
[link removed] YouTube ([link removed])

============================================================
Copyright © 2025 Rights Action, All rights reserved.
You are receiving this email because you are one of our subscriptor

Our mailing address is:
Rights Action
Box 50887
20091-0887
Washington, DC 0
USA
** unsubscribe from this list ([link removed])
** update subscription preferences ([link removed])
Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp
[link removed]