Author: Blazingcatfur

The Royal Ontario Museum has reversed its decision to change a travelling art exhibit about Palestinian-Muslim funerary practices after protests that included an 18-hour sit-in by the women who created it.

The Toronto museum says it wanted to change the exhibit, Death: Life’s Greatest Mystery, because of “heightened sensitivities” over the Israel-Hamas war.

Two days before it was supposed to open, ROM officials told the four Palestinian American women behind the exhibit about certain changes they wanted to make, according to artists Sameerah Hosam Ahmad and Malak Kanan.

TEL AVIV — Some families of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip are opposed to a cease-fire or a humanitarian pause in the fighting, as was advocated by United States President Joe Biden.

And while U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a series of meetings with Israeli leaders in Tel Aviv on Friday — including the country’s full war cabinet — and pushed for a humanitarian pause nearly a month into Israel’s operations in Gaza, a number of relatives of hostages said there should be no letup or reduction in the intensity of Israel’s military campaign.

Depending on the media outlet, the Israeli Defense Forces today executed either a strike inside Gaza that landed “near” a convoy of ambulances or one that “hit” the medical convoy directly. Discerning consumers of news media are probably capable of detecting the editorial sympathies the discrepancy exposes. Nevertheless, the episode is a sign of things to come as IDF forces approach ever closer to Al-Shifa Hospital.

Just as the Israel Defense Forces encircle the Hamas stronghold of Gaza City, calls for a “ceasefire” are accelerating.

For the first week or two after the Hamas Holocaust of Oct. 7, which saw the most Jews massacred in a single day since Hitler and hundreds more taken hostage into Gaza, calls for a ceasefire were mostly relegated to far-left, self-hating “Jewish” groups such as IfNotNow and so-called Jewish Voice for Peace, along with the fifth column, jihad-sympathizing congressmen who comprise the House “Hamas Caucus,” such as Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). In those halcyon days just a short while ago, even White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that Hamas Caucus calls for a ceasefire were “repugnant” and “disgraceful.”

How the times have changed.

Hi, Terror Apologist!

I don’t know who you are, why you care about the plight of Jews in the diaspora or in Israel, how long you’ve been involved with Jewish-Arab peace and coexistence movements, or how much you have personally at stake with the safety of Israeli Jews or people in Gaza, but I’m so glad you’re here.

Hassan Nasrallah keen to please Iran paymasters as he keeps options open with ‘nothing to do with me’ speech

There have not been many occasions like it, fewer still for the speech of an unelected cleric and militia leader.

Almost the entire Middle East stopped to tune in to the pronouncement of Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah at 3pm on Friday.

Would he open a second front in the Israel-Hamas conflict, hurling the region into much wider conflagration, one that could in turn spark a new world war?

In a recent interview, Jonathan Pollard explicitly confirmed the only plausible explanation for what happened on Simchas Torah: there was a stand down order while thousands of Jews in dozens of communities were brutally murdered, tortured, raped, mutilated, and dragged off to Gaza.

The vital clip is available here, and a link to the complete interview with Kofy Time TV is in the description.

As copious video evidence has shown, the savages conducted their rampage methodically and at great leisure, without concern that an overwhelming military response was likely to arrive any moment. They somehow knew they had time to sit down and eat, take smoking breaks, pose for videos, loot the dead, and torture many of their victims.

I know a bit about Pollard but have not followed him to any extent. I do not know anything about the author of the linked article Chananya Weissman and hope a reader can set us straight.

I am intrigued by their POV. Something has seemed off about the Israeli response.