Jewish volunteers putting up posters of Gaza hostages were assaulted in north-west London in an alleged anti-Semitic attack.
The Metropolitan Police are searching for a man who allegedly attacked a group of volunteers putting up posters of Israeli hostages being held in Gaza.
Footage on social media shows the moment a man shouting abuse pushed a woman to the ground and smashed her phone.
The IDF on Sunday night disclosed the full background behind the finding of five bodies of hostages held by Hamas in a huge underground tunnel near Jabalya in northern Gaza.
Around two weeks ago, the IDF found two bodies. A few days later, it found three more nearby. At the time, the military announced finding only the first two.
The tunnel was vast, including a large elevator and large rooms, and split into side rooms, like command centers, medical stations, prayer rooms, and rooms for manufacturing weapons.
IDF intelligence effort, led by Unit 504, located & recovered bodies of five hostages abducted & murdered on Oct 7th. Warrant Officer Ziv Dado, Sergeant Ron Sherman, Corporal Nik Beizer, Eden Zacharia, & Elia Toledano laid to rest in Israel.
May their memories be a blessing. pic.twitter.com/WkZtu2gQUd
— The Mossad: Satirical, Yet Awesome (@TheMossadIL) December 24, 2023
Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters waved the pan-Arab colors flag and wore the symbolic Palestinian keffiyeh in a series of coordinated “No Xmas as Usual in a Genocide” rallies and marches across the US on Saturday.
Organizers with Shut It Down for Palestine said the organization had focused its protests on the second-most popular shopping day of the year – the day before Christmas Eve – as part of ongoing civic and commercial disruptions. Organizers said they planned to “organize actions to boycott, disrupt and rally at commercial centers”.
Co-ordinators with Shut It Down for Palestine decried Israel’s assault on Gaza as one of “incredible cruelty”.
Every part of the world is tethered to Toronto. In this city, with its microcosms of global cultures, aftershocks of every quake are deeply felt. And when there is war, the heightened tensions spill into our streets, our politics and our lives.
In the 11 weeks since the onset of the conflict, the Star has spent hundreds of hours covering more than 40 events in the GTA related to the Israel-Hamas war.
We’ve seen tears and fights. We’ve been to rallies that have drawn thousands to the downtown core, and intimate memorials hosted at neighbourhood parks.
In a nutshell the Star explains why they’re on Team Hamas.
Calls for the extermination of White people live on C-SPAN, and not a word about it in the media, even got some applause!
@DaveAtherton20 @DavidHadley1973 @VoWalesOfficial pic.twitter.com/dvuanh2y1q— Stan Voice of Wales (@StanVoWales) March 22, 2023
An Iranian-Canadian activist says violent pro-Palestinian demonstrators dislocated his shoulder and ripped away a flag at a protest in downtown Toronto on Saturday.
Video on social media shows Salman Sima, who has counter-protested at recent pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Toronto, struggling with protesters to keep his “lion and sun” version of the Iranian flag, used by opponents of the Islamic regime of Iran. Goldie Ghamari, an Ontario MPP, said the flag represents “freedom and democracy.”
Look at the ridiculous fascists in Toronto who can’t bear to see an Iranian dissident carrying the Canadian flag. They try to rip it from him and then start squealing like they’re the victim. Pathetic cry-bullies. I am continually in awe of Iranian activists. Bravo to @SalmanSima pic.twitter.com/VHml0Ux8W7
— Heidi Bachram 🎗️ (@HeidiBachram) December 24, 2023
Every Christmas Eve local school children come to Holten and Groesbeek Canadian Military Cemeteries in the Netherlands to light a candle in honour of each soldier laid to rest. The act is both humbling and beautiful and serves as reminder to be grateful for the peace we enjoy. pic.twitter.com/mm3wi4tmnJ
— Wounded Warriors CAN (@WoundWarriorCA) December 24, 2023
According to French think tank @Fondapol, between 1979-2021, there were:
-Islamist terrorist attacks, 48,035
-deaths, 210,138
-explosives used, 43.9%
-military is the main target, 31.7%
-civilians, 25.0%
-police forces, 18.3% https://t.co/5APIudafYR pic.twitter.com/atkmkDBK8m— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) December 24, 2023
h/t Mauser
It happened in Italy a long time ago. The war was still at its height, but winter had set in, the roads were impassable and we were pulled out of the front line.
I was chaplain to a regiment which had been through a difficult period and the men welcomed the respite. There was some desultory shelling, but appropriately enough, as it was near Christmas, a measure of peace prevailed. We took over a small village, requisitioned a few houses, and settled down for a couple of weeks. I lived with the doctor and his unit in the Regimental Aid Post.
Well, I don’t know how your Christmas is going, but mine couldn’t be better. Couldn’t be better if Santa loaned me the reindeer for a jaunt to the sunny zones — after, of course, his own blessed and joyful romps on the roofs and down the chimneys of all the world’s houses.
How could you say that, I hear the perceptive reader ask, when you are in Toronto, where the malls are a scene of menace, shoppers and their children harassed, and where some school boards (righteous cowards) forbid even the saying of “Christmas” (“winter holiday” is their desperate, bloodless substitute). Banning Christmas and all its wonderful trappings — particularly the Christmas tree — falls under the ever-dropping guillotine of inclusion.
Welcome. I hope you are all enjoying Christmas Eve.
Some will sit down to a feast tonight others on Christmas day. My home was a Christmas Day feast.
Joyful havoc ruled.
The day began with a mad pajama clad dash downstairs often before the break of dawn with a tipsy Dad leading the 6 boy charge.
I’m certain there were years when most of us didn’t bother changing into street clothes at all.
The kitchen was a one woman whirlwind. You did not get in Mom’s way as Christmas day kitchen tramplings were overlooked by the children’s aid of the time.
Our Christmas meal was basic and special. A giant turkey with Mom’s delicious stuffing (which she taught me how to make), and her cranberry sauce, raisin, apple, pumpkin pies, cookies, candies and chocolates galore, nuts of many types, mandarins and weird things like blood pudding your dad liked.
Yea we always had brussels sprouts the DEI hire of vegetables too which I think were made part of the traditional meal to remind us that hell existed.
Then there was Mom’s homemade Christmas cake. One year she washed out the crispers from the fridge and used those as her mixing bowls. I loved that cake but it can’t be duplicated.
I think Christmas dinner was the only meal I ever ate as a kid that didn’t include ketchup.
I remember coming home for Christmas one year so sick with the flu that the room started to spin when I walked in the kitchen and was overwhelmed by the heat and aromas.
I spied a bottle of whiskey on the table and proceeded to down 6 shots in quick succession, big ones. I slept till the early evening.
Still I was home for Christmas.
I loved making Christmas dinner for K.
Cranberries, a pie or two and prepping the stuffing the night before. It always felt a bit like my childhood all those years ago.
It is early morning now and I found Mr. Robot waving to me from the back of a bookshelf.
He is a Christmas ornament Kathy gifted me many years ago. I had forgotten about him.
I will take it as a sign from K & Xavier and I will keep him with us as we trod new paths.
Please enjoy our reader carols. This has been an especially fine year of selections, add your faves in the comments. We’ll have more on Christmas Day. My thanks to all.
From Cyclist – The Shepherd – Frederick Forsyth – read by Alan Maitland from CBC Radio
From testsubjectx1 – Martina McBride – Please Come Home For Christmas
From Lord Dilligaf – Watchman of Zion
Also – Gregorian Chant Medieval Carols
And – Hodie Christus Natus Est – Christmas Gregorian Chant
And one more … Hodie Christus natus est – Sweelinck
From Appreciative Reader – In The Bleak Midwinter – Holst – Tenebrae conducted by Nigel Short
From DCH – “Christmas Time’s A’Coming” by Bill Monroe
From Kiki9 – Who Put The Stump
From Norman in New York – La Sierra University Orchestra – “Fantasia on Greensleeves” by Ralph Vaughan Williams
From Surele Surele – for KING + COUNTRY – Little Drummer Boy
Modern warfare is just a series of proxy wars.
The war in Ukraine is a proxy war. Ukraine is the proxy of America and NATO. To stem a Russian invasion, America and its NATO allies are helping Ukrainians defend their country against the invaders in every way save by putting “boots on the ground.” The question is just how long America and its allies will persevere and whether respective elected governments can, over time, convince their electorates that the benefits of continued support for Ukraine outweigh the costs, in this case almost entirely financial.
Hamas supporters are comparing Israel with the Nazis https://t.co/QHTHTBdiwm
— neveragainlivepodcast@gmail.com (@neveragainlive1) December 24, 2023
Trying to grab a piece of someone else’s land has always been a favorite trick by rulers in domestic difficulty to divert attention from their own incompetence or worse.
It is, therefore, no surprise that as international order begins to break down for lack of an authority to enforce it and with the United Nations an empty shell, old irredentist dreams return to haunt more and more nations.
This back-to-the-future through the past episode started with the Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008. Moscow’s argument was that South Ossetia, a Muslim-majority enclave in Georgia was, in fact, a part of Ossetia, which had been annexed by Russia in the 18th century. It mattered little that Russian Ossetia had converted to Orthodox Christianity.
It will be a sad, silent night in Bethlehem.
The city of Jesus’ birth has canceled its annual Christmas celebrations out of respect for the ongoing siege of the Gaza Strip, nearly three months into the war between Israel and Hamas.
Bethlehem – or Beit Lechem, located in what is now the Israeli-occupied West Bank – is typically flooded with pilgrims and other celebrants in late December.
Even though the Trudeau government has made no secret of dialling up immigration to historic highs, the latest Statistics Canada figures on population growth are still jaw-dropping. In just three months (from July 1 to Oct. 1), Canada added an extra 430,635 people – only four per cent of which could be attributed to births. For just the first nine months of 2023, Statistics Canada noted that the country had seen a higher level of population growth than “any other full-year period since Confederation in 1867.”
