The controversy surrounding Indigo Books & Music stems from a long-standing debate over the HESEG Foundation, an organization founded by CEO Heather Reisman and her husband Gerry Schwartz that provides post-service academic scholarships to "Lone Soldiers" in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Activists argue that these scholarships act as a financial recruitment incentive for a foreign military, which they claim violates Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) rules stating that supporting another country's armed forces is not a charitable activity.
If you have an indigo gift card, do spend it as they already have that money you are just getting stuff back
Agreed. I treat gift cards as an interest-free loan, so cash-in that loan ASAP!
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And she treats her Canadian employees poorly. Her shitbag husband owns Cineplex too. They’re both awful people.
Yup. It was the worst customer service job I ever worked.
This one staff member was busy dealing with a customer, so she didn’t acknowledge her during one of her random visits. She basically wanted to get her fired, luckily the staff members manager had balls and refused to do so.
She has been hot garbage of an owner since forever.
Oh shit I didn't know that about him, sucks that Cineplex is the only real theatre game in this country
The best memes are ones you have to explain
Nothing like using christmas morning as an opportunity to insert a ham fisted agenda post about jews and muslims killing each other.
Ham and Muslim in the same sentence? Bailiff, smack his nuts
I'm not a bailiff but can I still smack his nuts?
But like lightly & tenderly
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We know what we look like throughout our history.
You have to be unbelievably stupid to think this has anything to do with religion. Maybe go learn about the history of Zionism. It’s fascism and settler colonialism.
Edit: I’ve learned about Theodor Herzl, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, David Ben-Gurion and other fascist shitstains. I’ve learned about the Balfour declaration and the White Papers. If Zionism was actually about protecting Jewish people, there wouldn’t have been attempts to collaborate with the Nazis. Zionism is a death cult.
I mean Cyrus the Great was one of the first great Zionists. Has to do with us living in our homeland and always has.
Feel free to read up more about our history than the past two hundred years friend.
God isn’t real but Palestinians are. Die mad about it.
god isn't real duh. I mean they exist yes. But no I'll die happy
Won’t be for long
Maybe you should actually go learn about Zionism because it absolutely has to do with religion, ethnicity, nationality, and survival. And you clearly know nothing of it's history, just the shit you've seen on tiktok
you’re right. religion became a way to rehistoricize and romanticize the ways in which political zionism was a nation building and ethnic engineering project that sought the approval and support of european empires in creating a new settler colony capable in the middle east capable of militarily and economically containing anti-european arab nationalisms.
Merry Christmas everybody
Happy Birthday to the brown Jewish Palestinian social communist supposedly born today!
It was called Judea back then
I think Yeshua (Jesus) was born in Sameria but still close enough
Bethlehem was in the Judean hills, not Samaria
Whoops I thought it was Sameria, my bad
Many organizations of Jews and Zionists were desperate to save Jews by getting them out of Europe, even if that required working with the regime in power to do it. You can say it that way, or you can be a lying fucking propagandist and try to paint it as “collaborating” with Nazis, as if to imply that they were somehow complicit in the murder of Jews, when in fact it was the exact opposite.
Perhaps it’s worth considering that despite Zionisms many flaws, they were right about the future of Jews in Europe, and that when Jew hating freaks engage in this kind of propaganda and revisionism, it only serves to reinforce their point of view.
Anyways, I hope that you never find yourself in a position as desperate as that of the Jews of 20th century Europe, and if you do, I’ll be sure not to weaponize whatever lengths you go to in order to save yourself and your family against you.
"Hey, USA, we need about a billion more in missiles. These animals won't let us push them out of our god-given scrap of desert. Anything to the contrary is antisemitic"
Desperate like current-day Palestinians, or desperate like current-day transgender people?
Santa doesn't have time for this shit bud
If you think religion has nothing to do with the conflicts, , if you think the conflict is so simple that you’ve learned everything you need to without needing to learn more and you’re now qualified to call people “unbelievably stupid”, you need to keep learning. Merry Christmas.
Plenty of Israeli Muslims/Arabs/Bedouin serve in the IDF. Most of them are outside the draft too but are enlisting at much higher percentages since Oct 7th too, not just Jews were killed by h-mas that day, plenty of Israeli Bedouins/Muslims were killed/kidnapped too.
Just saying
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Santa doesn't have time for this shit bro
Yes, but I wish it were explained a month ago before any Xmas shopping was done there. I thought we were doing great avoiding amazon when instead we were just funding some light genocide.
Obsessed with everyone passive aggressively saying Merry Christmas to each other in this thread lol
Chag Sameach
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happy holidays lol
The amount of Canadian charities that give money directly to Israeli projects is staggering. It’s literally insane how many charitable orgs we have dedicated to supporting them, and how much money it is.
And this should be distinguished from jewish charities - because we have lots of those too - and that’s fine.
And HESEG is specifically funding a foreign military. Which is super illegal and the CRA needs to revoke their charitable status.
I agree! I think there’s probably dozens of charitable organizations that should lose their designations for the same reason. That was my point. There’s so many organizations (Friends of the IDF, UJA, JNF etc), that have specific annual fundraisers, or emergency appeals for donations to the IDF or former soldiers.
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Competence is a funny thing. You have it, or you dont. The more you pay attention and read follow stories- not just headlines- you start to pick up on how how inept our systems actually are. Its a matter of luck nothing has happened, and a matter of time that something will. God willing nothing does and im wrong.
You should pay more attention to what the Jewish community in this country is saying, and their founded fears.
Holding individuals accountable for actions taken by their ethnic group somewhere else is crazy and dark.
Not exactly what I expected from this sub on Christmas
a political shitpost?
On my political shitposting subreddit?
This sub has lost the plot.
This server is a Canadian Meme subreddit
Which is why there's nothing but political shitposts on https://www.reddit.com/r/EhBuddyHoser/top/
Don't go on reddit during christmas and then get offended it's still reddit, there's gotta be better things to do with your day.
Ok… I am not offended, just pointing out that this is not a specifically political subreddit, now off to enjoy my Christmas. I hope you have a lovely Christmas too.
Exactly what I expected. People use this sub to push their agenda all the time.
Yeah man, how dare people push the agenda of stopping a genocide
Rule 6 - this isn't the place
Have you been on this sub, like ever?
I have, and it's gone downhill over the last couple of years.
Increasingly, you must have an anti Israel, pro LPC partisan take.
Canada is supposed to be about inclusion, not polarization, and this sub just became another echochamber.
Dude we just want children to not die
No sane person wants children to die.
Lots of children dying nobody gives a damn about because their media team isn't as good.
I should have been clear with my issue. Indigo isn't fundraising for the IDF. This is disinformation.
The founder created a separate not for profit org which funds scholarships and other benefits for idf soldiers with no families.
Now I think the HESEG's activities in that light make me believe that itself shouldn't be given tax exemption, and I question the legality of operations like that in general (not just because its israel, i would also object to Chinese, European, any orgs or other nations doing the same thing).
If it were more in support of veterans or families of casualties, that would be a different conversation
Anyway, the distinction between Indigo and its founder is important. And if it isn't to you, you shouldn't buy anything from China ever again.
Exactly what I expected no one had a problem when our tax money was being sent to countries with Martyr funds, which in turn is subsidising Jew killings.
I'm glad to learn this, one hour AFTER giving my mother a book with that damn sticker on it.
And hope people had a great Hanukkah too.
I mean, technically, the winter solstice is the reason for the season, and the Christian’s stole it from the pagans…
I’m not trying to be exclusive. As I said hope people had a good Hanukkah too. I can add winter solstice.
Not sure what people are on about it’s a time to be with family. Palestine celebrates Christmas (some of Israel and Hanukkah too).
Regardless of the war / cease fire. I hope everyone remembers it’s not about one or the other.
You can only add one gif on Reddit. Couldn’t add too.
Yes, we should all be happy to have family and friends, but can we realise that it is the religions that divide us, and drives the conflicts. I’m from a Christian nation that is disappearing people, and you are wishing happiness to a people actively suppressing another group. So, religion, while the current reason for the season, is also the reason for mass suffering in the world.
So is corporate greed? Look at how Dole basically murdered people and many other companies with poisoning chemicals.
I’m not trying to enumerate all the “problems” but recognize that people can coexist.
But that takes effort to try to see the bright side of things and in some ways the similarities we have.
Religions are by far the biggest tool of division. Corporations come and go, religions persist and generally drive division through the concept that if you don’t believe, you’ll have problems after death.
If you can't say it to a brown guy from the Middle East, you shouldn't say it to Christians here. Js.
That’s no longer the dominant theory among historians.
Here is a good breakdown with sources:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateReligion/s/3i0ld6taH8
I don’t really care about a debate sub with anonymous weirdos. As of today, if you canvas academic historians, it is no longer the dominant theory.
What’s funny is, the google results on this subject are almost exclusively Christians saying it’s not pagan. Can you point me to some scholarly non-Christian leaning sources for your claim?
Can’t post external links per sub rules, but go look up the article by Professor Tom Schmidt is at Yale - it’s in a paywalled journal but there’s a PDF free on his website.
You can also find Schmidt being interviewed recently by Professor Andrew Henry on YouTube. Both are academic historians. I don’t know their religions but their profession is the search of truth via academia and they aren’t waving a flag in favour of any religion in particular.
In short - There’s no conclusive evidence and it’s possible for more than one theory to contain truth. In particular, the evidence for a major holiday celebrating Sol Invictus on December 25 is tenuous and anyway it’s not clear that it came before Christmas. Meanwhile some early Christian priests were autistically obsessed with calculating dates when major biblical events happened and one of them (incorrectly) landed on December 25.
What kind of book something satanic or what?
i’ve been playing too much blue prince i’m starting to see patterns in the matrix
This is really gross
Indigo is the really gross one to be honest.
Regardless of what folk think of the charity, given that they are former soldiers is likely the reason the charity isn't breaking the CRA rules.