Author: Blazingcatfur

Barbara Kay: The glaring silence of Jewish studies departments as anti-Israel mobs overrun their universities

MONTREAL — In a 2008 Commentary Magazine article , Ruth Wisse, who in her youth was a Jewish studies pioneer at McGill University, issued a warning to diaspora Jews: if Arab “rejectionism” of Israel’s legitimacy, including the need for Israel’s elimination, comes to be accepted as normal, then not just the Jewish state, but Jews everywhere, will be regarded as “politically idiosyncratic once again.”

That is exactly what has been happening in plain sight at our universities for decades. The October 7 massacre gave wings to the rejectionists, ripping away the coy, tissue-thin facade of anti-Zionism to reveal the coiled antisemitism it had barely concealed. As a result, since October 7, Jewish students who consider attachment to Israel a natural component of their identity haven’t known a full day’s ease on campus.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

80 countries at Swiss conference agree Ukraine’s territorial integrity must be basis of any peace

Globo Homo’s forever war or what?

OBBÜRGEN, Switzerland (AP) — Eighty countries jointly called Sunday for the “territorial integrity” of Ukraine to be the basis for any peace agreement to end Russia’s two-year war, though some key developing nations at a Swiss conference did not join in.

The joint communique capped a two-day conference at the Bürgenstock resort in Switzerland marked by the absence of Russia, which was not invited, but that many attendees hoped could join in on a roadmap to peace some time in the future.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

The letter and the law

When war erupted in Gaza, some TMU law students signed an incendiary petition criticizing Israel. Then came the backlash – and an existential crisis about their school’s mission

When a new law school in Toronto opened its doors in September, 2020, its brochure promised an unapologetically “progressive” legal education.

Ryerson Law, as it was then called, embraced diversity, equity and inclusion. Technology would be central. The curriculum included professional placements, so students would graduate ready to be working lawyers. At its core, this new school – soon to be renamed the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University – promised to change the status quo.

“We are ready to engage with the most challenging legal issues of our time,” dean Donna Young, the only Black woman leading one of Canada’s 24 law schools, said at the launch ceremony.

A DEI law school is a dubious law school.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada

For Poilievre, ignorance of the foreign interference report is not bliss

The National Post’s Tristin Hopper did a fine job this week explaining the migraine-inducing politics behind whether or not an opposition leader ought to read the un-redacted National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) report that apparently implicates more than zero parliamentarians in wilful collusion with foreign influences. The conundrum, in a nutshell, is that once you’ve read it, you’re sworn to secrecy about its contents.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Foreign Interference", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Hidden UFO civilization could be on Earth: Harvard researchers

An unidentified, technologically advanced population could be living secretly on Earth.

That startling claim was made in a new paper by researchers at Harvard and Montana Technological University. They speculate that “unidentified anomalous phenomena” (UAP), another term for UFOs, could be living underground, on the moon or even walking among humans.

The researchers acknowledge in the paper their hypotheses may be regarded skeptically by the general scientific community, but they still deserve “consideration in a spirit of epistemic humility and openness.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"

Grade Inflation and Campus Protests

Lack of academic rigor encourages mindless, mirthless, and militant mediocrity.

Why the outburst of campus protests in recent years, culminating in the sizable and sometimes violent demonstrations at such prestigious universities as Harvard, Columbia, Northwestern, and Stanford? While many factors are at work, one that seldom gets mentioned: boredom. Students often have a lot of free time. TikTok, Instagram, drinking, sex, and internet porn do not provide adequate fulfillment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

WTF?

h/t Mauser

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Why can’t Toronto keep its best public spaces in good repair?

Two centuries ago, Toronto’s leaders set aside a parcel of land in its growing west end for the enjoyment of the public. It became Clarence Square, a classic Victorian park with handsome residences on its flanks.

They would be astonished to see it now. For one thing, the little patch of green is surrounded by an ever-rising forest of high-rise towers in glass and steel. For another, the square itself is an unsightly mess. A graveled dog park occupies one side, a homeless encampment another. The fountain at its heart is broken and encased in plywood hoardings. The lawn is full of weeds.

Because our ever rising taxes go to support bloated union wages and (insert deviant progressive cause of your choosing here).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

Israel, Free World, in Increasing Danger Thanks to U.S. ‘Help’

Last month, a video clip showing the capture of five female IDF soldiers by Hamas terrorists was released along with all the brutality of the terrorists, their intentions to rape and abuse these women, laid bare to see. Even so, the video is far less gruesome than other images of Hamas’s murders, torture, rapes and innumerable acts of barbarity on October 7, 2023. Those show what Hamas really is.

Hamas did shock the Western world for a few weeks, but the West quickly forgot. Demonstrations in support of Hamas began the day after the massacres, October 8, before the victims’ bodies were cold, and swept across the US, Australia and Europe. A wave of anti-Semitism not seen since World War II has accompanied the protests.

The attention of the mainstream media and Western politicians quickly turned from the slaughtered wounded and kidnapped Israelis to the Palestinian inhabitants of the Gaza Strip.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", USA

Canada can no longer be ‘naive’ about the ‘real’ threats it faces: defence chief

Canada must not let up on growing its military and confronting the reality that the threats posed by a challenging and complex global environment have arrived on its doorstep, the outgoing chief of the defence staff says.

Gen. Wayne Eyre said he’s “cautiously optimistic” that the Canadian Armed Forces is on the “upswing,” with new commitments to defence spending, slow improvements to recruitment, and a recognition of security as a top priority for both the government and Canadians.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"