Author: Blazingcatfur

Why do people with no knowledge of the Israel-Hamas conflict feel the need to join these awful marches?

A short video was shared on X this week in which two young female protesters at a pro-Palestine march were asked a pretty straightforward question about the crisis in the Middle East: ‘When Hamas invaded Israel on the 7 October, what was your initial reaction to that?’

The first one looked briefly confused. Was this a trick?, she seemed to be thinking. Her companion stepped in: ‘I don’t believe they did, did they? Hamas?’ Then something started coming back to the first one. The stirrings of something like a distant memory. ‘I think so…’, she said, trying to correct her friend who didn’t think Hamas had done anything.

The Met are set to form a ‘ring of steel’ to quash any hint of trouble around this week’s Remembrance events amid fears of a pro-Palestine protest clashing with the Armistice Day parades.

Police chiefs have cancelled leave, extended overtime and drafted in 1,000 more officers from across Britain to reinforce their ranks.

And senior public order officers are set to give orders to immediately clamp down on any criminality or violence.

The Israel Defence Forces have been attacking Hamas in Gaza from land, sea and air for two weeks now, following a three-week air campaign. Before ground operations began, US military advisers urged the Israelis not to launch a large-scale campaign, which they believed would result in an IDF bloodbath – and be less effective than a combination of air strikes and special forces raids. The IDF rejected that advice, and moved into Gaza with a large combined arms force. And it has confounded its critics.

Amid Israel’s onslaught in Gaza, the Jewish voices offering nuance — and dissent — are more important than ever

On the morning of Oct. 8, the day after the deadly Hamas attacks in Israel, Eli Spiegel was reeling from the news of the massacre.

“What we were witnessing was horrific and intense,” he told the Star. Yet, when he opened Instagram, he didn’t find people talking about the violence that was unfolding, but instead expressing support for Palestinian resistance.

When he wrote a post suggesting that people leave space for others to grieve before waving flags and chanting slogans, he found a handful of people being hateful, mocking him.

I don’t know how many “Nuanced Jews” make up the diaspora in North America but there sure seems to be a lot of them.

The Israel-Hamas War has touched off a wave of antisemitic acts in Canada, including, threats, intimidation, vandalism and violence.

Cities with higher Jewish populations, including Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal are reporting higher rates of hate crimes following the Oct. 7 attack.

National Post is tabulating these incidents in a story that will be updated with the latest from social media and news reports.

It is the nature of the news cycle that huge things get passed over.

But what happened just over a month ago in Israel should not be passed over.

The scale and catastrophe of what happened is still becoming clear.

Yet the world seems to have moved on.

You decide! Is it Trudeau or Judah in their chant?

"Judah, Judah, You Can't Hide…"

We are horrified to see students at #Toronto's @MarcGarneauCI engaging in explicitly antisemitic chants at a recent anti-#Israel protest.

How are Jewish students supposed to feel safe when such hatred & threatening rhetoric is tolerated at… pic.twitter.com/oEGwJKBrki

— CIJA (@CIJAinfo) November 10, 2023

I think the wee Nazis are saying Judah.