Germany has announced a ban on Samidoun, a group that says it advocates for Palestinian prisoners, and imposed further prohibitions to stamp out support for the Islamist militant group Hamas, which Berlin already lists as a terrorist organization.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz had announced that the government planned to take action against the two groups in the days that followed the October 7 massacres in Israel that killed some 1,400 people.
Justin Trudeau came into office on the spume of Canadian-level celebrity, built on a persona of ostentatious, idle gestures and token cheer (selfies, socks, costumes), the endless vocalization of woke crackerjack-box slogans and a smile cemented in place that had all the warmth of well-gelled cement. Just style. Style, understood as the adoption of surface mannerisms in place of deeply settled convictions, convictions built on a real attempt to understand Canada, to relate to all its regions, and an appreciation (which does not mean agreement) of the ideas, lifestyles and situations of mainstream Canadians: style adopted as a campaign dynamic.
Welcome to “diversity.”
7,000 pro-Palestinian Arab demonstrators had gathered at the station in Düsseldorf, the seventh largest German city, to march along the Königsallee towards regional Parliament. One of the speakers told the mayor: “Our children already make up 30 percent of the students in Düsseldorf.” Where “ours” stands for Muslims.
Welcome to “diversity”.
Here is the ruthless logic of the pro-Hamas demonstrations that we see these days throughout Europe and in Italy:
“We will be the majority, woe betide you if you support Israel”.
In recent months, there has been considerable attention given to the evidence that the standard of living of Canadians is falling. The benchmark reference for this trend is the decline in after-inflation income per person – that is, real GDP per capita. This worrying development reflects still-elevated inflation, weakening economic growth, and strong population gains fuelled by immigration.
A few years ago, when Left-wing activists started calling on the Government to “Defund the police”, I ridiculed them. Now, though, I wonder whether they might have had a point. It’s not that I think we shouldn’t have a police force. It’s just that it’s growing less and less clear what we’re getting for our money.
These days, the police hardly ever solve crimes such as burglary and theft. In 2021, a mere 5 per cent of burglaries in England and Wales were solved. And if your bicycle or laptop has been stolen, forget it. You won’t be seeing them again. (I’m referring to the bicycle or laptop, although I might as well be referring to the police, since you probably won’t be seeing them, either.)
The situation in Canada and the UK is comparable though to date our police forces unlike Britain’s have refrained from ripping down Hostage Posters to preserve “community cohesion.”
When they’re not busy tearing down pictures of kidnapped Jewish women and children, they’re arresting people who criticise the “Diversity is our strength!” Mob.
London is no longer a British city. https://t.co/ZRC1t6N9m0
— Laurence Fox (@LozzaFox) November 1, 2023
Housing affordability saw a “considerable deterioration” in Canada in the third quarter of 2023, according to a new report from the National Bank of Canada.
The report, which comes after improvements over three consecutive quarters, shows that many homeowners are struggling and others feeling unsure they’ll ever break into the housing market.
A Hamas terrorist admitted in haunting detail his role in killing women and children during the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, according to a new interview video.
Omar Sami Marzuk Abu Rusha, a member of Hamas’ Nukhba special forces, was seen discussing his murders in a video released by Israel’s Shin Bet internal security department on Wednesday.
Israel's Shin Bet internal security releases a video of a Nukhba terrorist recounting the events of the massacre
"The mission was simply to kill. We were not supposed to kidnap, only to kill. To kill every person we see"
WATCH THE FULL VIDEO: https://t.co/D4cgITZb5n pic.twitter.com/gwoGEhMq1V
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) November 1, 2023
While both Ottawa and Washington are aiming to eventually eliminate new gas-powered cars from being sold, consumer demand for electric vehicles (EVs) is currently languishing and the true cost to the consumer of an EV is a subject of debate.
“EVs have consistently failed to compete with combustion vehicles on performance and cost, and failed to win broad consumer support despite oceans of government subsidies for manufacturers and buyers alike,” said an Oct. 11 Fraser Institute op-ed.
Even with strikes plaguing the industry, “the bigger story in autos is the EV slowdown,” RBC Capital Markets global auto analyst Tom Narayan told CNBC on Oct. 30.
Paris Metro, chanting:
“F**k the Jews and their grandmothers mothers,
Long live Palestine Yeah Yeah,
F**k the Jews and their grandmothers,
We are Nazis and proud” https://t.co/QvYVDQzgms— Stop Uyghur Genocide (@FJnyc) November 1, 2023
With the passage of time comes distance, and perspective. It is more than three years since that strange summer of 2020, when the entire Western world was convulsed by the George Floyd protests, organised by local Black Lives Matter groups, and the accompanying moral panics over statues, police racism and “white supremacy”.
It’s no surprise that anti-Semitism has exploded globally in the wake of Israel’s devastating military response in Gaza to the terrorist attack by Hamas on Oct. 7.
The latest warning comes from FBI Director Christopher Wray, as reported by the BBC, who said anti-Semitism in the U.S. is reaching “historic levels”.
What the hell did you think would happen when you opened the gates to barbarians?
When you allowed universities to be taken over by raving lunatics?
When you demonized anyone who dared point out that not all cultures are equal?
That’s one way of dealing with people who rip down posters. pic.twitter.com/F4IlEIH0c2
— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) November 2, 2023
The Guardian’s coverage of the Hamas terror attacks was so “upsetting” a Jewish staff member has said they are planning to leave the organisation.
The employee also claimed that they felt uncomfortable in the newsroom, where fellow staff “dismissed Jewish pain”.
Writing in Jewish News, the anonymous staff member said they had raised concerns about aspects of the Guardian’s reporting.
“With this amendment we can at least draw a line,” Quebec Senator Pierre Dalphond told the Senate’s agriculture and forestry committee.
Just one week before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he planned to exempt home heating oil from the carbon tax, in a desperate bid to curry favour with voters in Atlantic Canada, the committee was dealing with another proposed carve out.
Hamas’s military wing, al-Qassam Brigades, has claimed that seven of the hostages it is holding were killed when Israel bombed Gaza’s largest refugee camp on Tuesday.
At least 50 people were killed and more than 150 injured in the Israeli airstrikes on the densely populated Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, according to hospital figures and the local health ministry, which is run by Hamas.
