Author: Blazingcatfur

A group of protesters who staged a rally in support of Palestinians last weekend released video Tuesday of a violent arrest that appears to show an officer kneeling on a man’s neck. But Toronto police say the tactic — something the former chief said cops are not trained to do — wasn’t used.

The Toronto chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), which helped organize the Sunday rally in downtown Toronto, said in a statement that an “attendee was brutalized and arrested” at the event.

Pro-Hamas protester arrested after pushing a police officer off of his bicycle and shoving him to the ground at a demonstration in Toronto, Canada. I Terrace supporting terrorists. Notice how Jewish protests do not get violent. pic.twitter.com/tiv7T436kp

— Cathy Chernin (@chernin_cr) December 11, 2023

Israel’s military has begun pumping seawater into Hamas’s vast complex of tunnels in Gaza, according to U.S. officials briefed on the Israeli military’s operations, part of an intensive effort to destroy the underground infrastructure that has underpinned the group’s operations.

The move to flood the tunnels with water from the Mediterranean, which is in an early stage, is one of several techniques Israel is using to try to clear and destroy the tunnels.

The Liberals must be proud of themselves. They’ve spent the two months since Hamas slaughtered 1,200 Israelis, kicking off the war in Gaza, by ensuring no one thinks they support Israel too much. For example, the government abstained, rather than oppose, a UN motion in October calling for an immediate “truce” between Jerusalem and Hamas.

The US remains a global outlier in its popular support for Israel, but pro-Israel sentiments are declining. Americans continue to side more with Israelis than Palestinians, yet recent data shows that net support for Israelis dropped a full 14 percentage points from October to November amid continued fighting in Gaza.

As a former Liberal MP and Chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, I am appalled to see Canada’s policy shift at the United Nations General Assembly today, that directly contradicts prior statements from this Government, by supporting a resolution that failed to… pic.twitter.com/SqjeAf5aWE

— Michael Levitt 🇨🇦 (@LevittMichael) December 12, 2023

Seldom has a phrase risen so quickly to such infamy as the expression, “From the river to the sea.” Often paired with “Palestine will be free,” the expression is often heard at pro-Palestinian protests. University campuses are in an uproar over it. Left-wing politicians in Britain and the U.S. have been censured or even suspended by their parties for daring to use it. It is widely held to be an antisemitic call for the destruction of Israel. The fact that it was used in PLO statements in the 1960s, when that organization was officially committed to the destruction of Israel, and more recently in the Hamas charter, lends serious credence to these concerns.

It has been in use for years I doubt that any attempt to criminalize it will succeed.