LONDON, Nov 9 (Reuters) – Reuters denied on Thursday suggestions by media advocacy group HonestReporting that it and other international news organisations had prior knowledge of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians and soldiers.
The Israeli government demanded explanations from Reuters and three other news groups regarding the HonestReporting article which questioned their work with Gaza-based photojournalists during the Hamas assault.
From the river to the sea, chanted: Nope, not hate-motivated speech.
The Hamas flag, waving it: Possibly a hate crime. Definitely an ugliness.
A technical briefing for reporters on Wednesday by Toronto Police on hate crime investigations answered some questions and side-stepped or qualified others. But there’s no disputing that hateful and harmful activities have spiked alarmingly since the savage Oct. 7 raids by Hamas into Israel. Enough of a proliferation that the hate crime unit has expanded from six investigators to 20, plus eight district special constables to assist.
I know from personal experience the TPS will turn a blind eye so as not to antagonize the Hamas supporters. Isolating counter-protesters and escorting them from the area if need be is how they handle potential clashes.
As you read the article you’ll come to understand that short of actual murder no hate crime charges will be laid against the Hamas supporters.
Will they riot? No idea but I would not be surprised.
The president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, underlined the need for Jews in the country to be able to live freely and without fear.
His comments on Thursday came on the 85th anniversary of the Nazi November pogroms against Germany’s Jews — and at a time when antisemitic incidents are once more on the rise.
Germany’s Scholz ‘ashamed’ at antisemitism wave as ‘Kristallnacht’ pogrom marked
BERLIN, Nov 9 (Reuters) – Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he was “ashamed and outraged” at a recent wave of antisemitic incidents in Germany, warning Berlin would not tolerate such anti-Jewish hatred as he marked the 85th anniversary of the Nazis’ “Kristallnacht” pogrom of Jews.
Scholz was speaking at a ceremony at a Berlin synagogue to mark “Kristallnacht” alongside Jewish leaders. The synagogue was among 1,000 that were damaged or destroyed across Germany and Austria by Nazi mobs during the “Night of Broken Glass” in November 1938.
OTTAWA—By any account, it has been a brutal month.
The explosion of hostilities sparked by an attack on Israel by Hamas militants has riveted the attention of global leaders, humanitarian organizations and civil society, and deepened rifts at the United Nations. In Ottawa, it has become one of the most all-consuming crises to hit the Trudeau government.
This is a look at how the past four weeks have unfolded inside government. The Star spoke to multiple sources, most of whom talked only on condition they not be identified in order to candidly discuss a challenging foreign policy file with profound domestic and international implications. All described it as the most challenging — including on an emotional level — since the Liberals came to power.
Meanwhile at the Museum of tolerance …
#BREAKING: Two groups clash outside L.A.’s Museum of Tolerance as the center screens a film on Hamas atrocities. LAPD officers move in as several people appear to have been punched and pepper-sprayed. Eyewitness News is live with the tense situation. Tonight at 11 from ABC7 pic.twitter.com/JJSpV6MmXi
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) November 9, 2023
Israel is reportedly considering whether to charge Hamas fighters with rape, after a witness testified about a suspected gang rape at the site of the Supernova music festival massacre.
Investigators from the Israeli police’s Lahav 433 national crime unit have collected evidence of sexual offences against women by Hamas attackers during the deadly cross-border raid on Oct 7, Israel’s Haaretz and Maariv newspapers reported on Wednesday.
Oh sure bring in more like this Nazi.
More ... 1 arrested, 3 injured in violent clashes between Concordia students over Israel-Hamas war
The professor's listed academic specialties include "Immigration and Emigration" https://t.co/zFKVyzutFF
— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) November 9, 2023
Israeli officer: “Most of the horrendous crimes were committed by Gaza civilians. Hamas terrorists mostly killed soldiers and moved on. Civilians did most of the lynching, mutilating, slaughtering, beheading, and burning.”
pic.twitter.com/Bjdii6nbPb— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) November 8, 2023
A man was crushed to death by a robot in South Korea after it failed to differentiate him from a box of vegetables.
The victim, a robotics company worker in his 40s, was inspecting the machine’s sensor at a distribution centre for agricultural produce in South Gyeongsang in the early hours of this morning.
The machine, which was lifting boxes of peppers onto a pallet, grabbed the man with its arm and pushed him against the conveyer belt, crushing his face and chest.
Nearly one in four Canadians will need charitable services to meet their needs through the holiday season, a new Ipsos and CanadaHelps poll suggests. Over 40 per cent of those who say they will need support are under 35 years old.
The poll illuminates the growing demand for social and charitable services amidst a growing and persisting cost-of-living crisis. Food bank use has skyrocketed to record levels and reliance on government social assistance programs continues to grow. A Leger poll from September 2023 found that nearly half of Canadians were living paycheque to paycheque. Financial stress among Canadians jumped 20 per cent since last year, amounting to a “national emergency,” the National Payroll Institute said in an Oct. 2023 report.
“Most of Hamas’ senior political and military figures are hiding in hospitals especially Shifa Hospital,” the terrorist said.
And … IDF finds Hamas terror tunnel inside an abandoned car
The leaders of Quebec’s four main political parties are calling for well-known and controversial imam Adil Charkaoui to be investigated for possible hate crimes after he delivered a prayer calling for the extermination of “Zionist aggressors” during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in downtown Montreal.
Nothing will come of this.
The OPP vows to do a better job of policing its social media accounts.
Earlier this week, some of the almost 60,000 followers of the OPP Central Region X account (formerly Twitter) noticed some unusual traffic on the social media account for the provincial police agency.
h/t Mauser
A witness to the fatal altercation between Paul Kessler and a pro-Palestinian protester said Tuesday that the suspect “stalked” he and Kessler during the demonstration, recording them with his phone and harassing them with a bullhorn.
Reality is both consistent and objective, and because it is, bad ideas produce adverse results—you could also think of it as “every good tree bringeth forth good fruit” while “a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.”
Unified in a seething hatred of the West.
In the month since the horrific jihadist attacks on Israeli civilians, worldwide protests and antisemitic rallies, replete with Nazi-era slogans and tropes, began even before Israel launched its war against Hamas. In the U.S., these demonstrations include unprecedented coalitions of Muslims and “woke” leftists, a seemingly oxymoronic alliance, given that everything else Islam and leftism stand for are mutually exclusive.
The country’s industry is struggling to reach previous levels
Based on its current storage, Germany looks set to make it through another winter without Russian pipeline gas, demonstrating that the fears of the past two years were unmerited. According to a new poll, Germans are no longer worried about potential gas shortages. Policy experts have come to hold the same view, provided the country isn’t subject to a combination of very unlikely factors, such as a complete halting of LNG imports or an enduring cold snap this winter. Alas, it would be premature to claim that the energy question has been finally resolved to Germany’s benefit.
