Israel’s representative in the Eurovision Song Contest has been told not to leave her hotel room other than for performances because of an expected wave of pro-Palestinian protests.
Eden Golan, 20, arrived in Malmo on Tuesday afternoon amid intense security precautions to begin rehearsing for her performance of the ballad Hurricane.
Dozens of demonstrators calling on the University of Toronto to “divest” from Israel entered King’s College Circle at the school on Thursday and were setting up tents.
Some were holding signs.
There was some police presence at the scene on Thursday morning.
Breaking: Encampment at U of T this morning in support of other Pro- Palestinian demonstrations across North America. Dozens of tents set up in King’s College Circle pic.twitter.com/50hqiXKkfo
— Courtney Heels (@CourtHeelsCP24) May 2, 2024
Protesters set up Gaza encampments at two more B.C. universities
Pro-Palestinian protesters have set up encampments at two more British Columbia universities, as a wave of demonstrations at North American post-secondary institutions continued to spread.
The University of Victoria confirmed Wednesday that a protest site had been established on campus, saying the school was “taking a calm and thoughtful approach” to minimizing disruptions stemming from the encampment in its quad.
Meanwhile at UCLA …
The #UCLA ‘protestors’ now chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ on campus.
Perfectly normal for mollycoddled middle class kids at Uni these days… 🙄
We are raising a generation of ideologically brainwashed individuals who hate their own countries and culture.@EndWokeness @libsoftiktok pic.twitter.com/RuylzTae98
— Ed Reid (@CorryReid) May 2, 2024
VIDEO: LAPD officers forced to retreat out of the UCLA encampment at about 1:53 a.m. (via ABC7) https://t.co/o4hoR926G3 pic.twitter.com/xuiY69LPyo
— Louis Keene (@thislouis) May 2, 2024
Hey Merrick Garland, in case you're still running around, telling people that MAGA extremists are the biggest threat in America. These are Biden voters right now on the UCLA campus 👇 pic.twitter.com/Gt1jbElwqw
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) May 2, 2024
The End?
UCLA 🚨: It’s 0544 , the encampment is now in complete police control. Handful of protestors remain. The encampment is officially over.
It’s morning, birds chirping, I am signing off. Thanks for all the new followers, and all the pages/friends/colleagues who shared my work. 🫡 pic.twitter.com/FlJJQDs65O
— Anthony Cabassa (@AnthonyCabassa_) May 2, 2024
Hundreds of American students convert to Islam and participate in an Islamic call to prayer at UCLA.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) May 2, 2024
Russians flocked to see the bullet-riddled wreck of a British Husky armoured vehicle that featured in a display in Moscow alongside other Nato equipment captured in Ukraine.
State television proclaimed that the star of the show was an American M1 Abrams tank, which it said had been taken out by Russian forces in eastern Ukraine using a guided rocket and kamikaze drones.
Clambering over the tank holding his microphone, a Channel One correspondent told viewers that the tank had been billed in the United States as an indestructible “wonder weapon”.
Translation – “Perched on 25 cm heels, for performances lasting more than 2 hours, the drag queen
@minima_geste is ready for her Olympic Torch relay 🤩
See you this summer, on July 14 & 15, for the passage of the Flame in the capital!”
Perchée sur des talons de 25 cm, pour des performances de plus de 2 heures, la drag queen @minima_geste est prête pour son relais de la Flamme olympique 🤩
RDV cet été, les 14 & 15 juillet prochains, pour le passage de la Flamme dans la capitale ! pic.twitter.com/KluHEcjCPh
— Paris (@Paris) May 1, 2024
As the chatter about the need for Justin Trudeau to retire (for the sake of the country) rises to heights heretofore unknown in any political debate in history, many Canadians question why either the Liberal MPs, or the Liberal Party itself, cannot do something.
Primarily, it must be acknowledged that it is far better to be in power, with all its perks, than in opposition, so why call an election before you absolutely have to?
h/t Mauser
The 60-year-old leader of a mosque in Tyresö, Sweden, has been arrested on suspicion of direct participation in a terrorism organization. The Somali imam was heading a mosque on a volunteer basis, teaching children and youth on the premises of a Muslim cultural association.
The imam has been leading the mosque at least since the early 2000s, and for a time functioned as the chairman of the cultural association. His arrest was the result of an investigation following a raid by Swedish security services SÄPO in March, where four men in their 20s were detained.
The man who once called a cabinet minister a “piece of sh**” is leading a parade of outrage that someone called him and his policies “wacko.”
Justin Trudeau’s Liberals lost no time in fundraising off Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre being ejected from the House of Commons over Tuesday’s events.
With Ottawa’s political class still reeling from Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre’s use of the unparliamentary moniker “wacko” in reference to Justin Trudeau on Tuesday — a slight that led to Poilievre getting ejected from the House of Commons by Speaker Greg Fergus — it’s worth taking a closer look at the prime minister’s rather eccentric behaviour of late.
Police say a 44-year-old woman has been arrested in a hate-crime investigation over a speech in Vancouver that praised the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel.
A statement from the Vancouver Police Department says the woman “referred to a number of terrorist organizations as heroes.”
It says a criminal investigation is underway to determine if her comments violated hate-crime laws.
For the past few weeks, protests have rocked college campuses across the United States over Israel’s war against Hamas. Last night, police raided Columbia University to remove students occupying one of its buildings, while violence has broken out between protesting groups at UCLA in California.
The pro-Palestine demonstrators portray themselves as defenders of human rights and social justice – viewing Israel through the warped lens of anti-colonialism and intersectionality. But in reality they have been amplifying the messaging of US-sanctioned terrorist organisations like Hamas. These entities have the blood of Americans, Israelis, and Palestinians on their hands. But none of this seems to bother the protestors.
Eminent philosophers and colleagues of a professor who has become embroiled in a race row have criticised attempts to remove him from the University of Cambridge.
Nathan Cofnas, a researcher in philosophy, is about to be expelled from Emmanuel College and is being investigated by the philosophy faculty and the Leverhulme Trust, which funded him.
He wrote a blog linking race to academic ability and suggested that in a true meritocracy black people would excel only in sports and entertainment.
I have been brooding for days about a story in the Daily Mail that offers an expert’s prediction about who will win in 2024, based on his analysis of past election data: He’s calling it for Joe Biden. Normally, Allan Lichtman is worth taking seriously because he’s predicted the popular vote winner every year since 1984. However, 2024 is an anomalous year, and I think (and hope) that this year, he misunderstands the operative facts.
Whatever happened to Sadiq Khan, the bus driver’s son from Tooting? That was the ticket – pun intended – he soared to City Hall on in 2016. His ‘man of the people’ schtick was inescapable. He even tweeted about enjoying a cheeky Nando’s. The message was clear: I’m nothing like my predecessor as mayor, Boris Johnson, son of Bullingdon, or my Tory opponent for the mayoralty, Zac Goldsmith, son of a billionaire. No, I’m like you. Boy from Tooting done good. Shoulder-rubber with the little people. A breath of fresh air from the old elites who turned London into a playground for the rich and a hellhole for the poor.
Last week, a story appeared in Politico’s West Wing Playbook about how Joe Biden’s inner team have taken to calling President Donald J. Trump—a president with a singularly outstanding record in protecting Israel and the Jewish people—“Hitler pig.”
From demanding ‘humanitarian aid’ to complaining about their privacy and whining when the cops finally cracked down
Columbia student protestors were finally shut down by police force Tuesday night after weeks of unrest spurred by the school’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
Protesters have been demanding the college divest from companies with links to Israel or firms profiting from its war on Hamas.
NYPD officers apprehended pro-Palestinian students on the Ivy League campus who had taken over Hamilton Hall, causing considerable damage and destruction to the building.
Luv the Twitter context citations.
Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall:
"It seems like you're saying, 'we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food'." pic.twitter.com/vNczSAM4T1
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) April 30, 2024
