“You’ve probably heard by now if you’re a regular reader that the immediate claims that 500 or more people were killed in the Gaza hospital explosion last week has not held up to scrutiny. Hamas eventually settled on the figure 471 but western estimates have ranged from 100-300 or, from a separate estimate, maybe closer to 50.”
The new definition of racism blinds people to injustices against any group that is perceived to be dominant
When two planes flew into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the world stood in solidarity with the United States. In London, “The Star-Spangled Banner” was played at Buckingham Palace. “We are all Americans,” declared Le Monde. In Berlin, 200,000 people took to the streets to express their sorrow. This makes it all the more striking how different — and how morally obtuse — the reaction to Hamas’s slaughter of around 1,400 Israelis has been.
Major news outlets were strangely reluctant to dwell on the horror before jumping straight to the Israeli response. Instead of declaring that we are all Israelis, Le Monde editorials fulminated against Israel’s “desire for vengeance.”And when huge demonstrations filled the streets of Berlin, London, Paris and Brussels, they were not in solidarity with those who’d been brutally murdered, but in support of the terrorists.
“Queers for Palestine” is a personal favorite of Israel supporters to illustrate the baffling lunacy of leftists in protesting on behalf of the Hamas terrorist organization.
The ludicrous image of “Queers for Palestine” protesters — from the streets of New York to San Francisco — was heightened by proud participants proclaiming their sexual identity on placards whereby the distinction would be lost on Hamas terrorists: “Trans,” “non-binary,” and even a non-committal category of “undecided,” were observed in the solidarity marches. Many of the protesters dressed for the occasion wearing the keffiyeh scarf, a patriotic symbol of Palestinian identity.
After the Maine massacre, we are hearing the familiar response to a mass shooting by a mentally ill man, which is to deprive everyone of their civil rights. The reality is that if you have violent and dangerous people on the loose, they will get their hands on guns or other weapons, regardless of whatever laws there are. Gun control doesn’t stop killers, it stops people from protecting themselves. If you want to stop mentally unstable mass shooters, institutionalize them.
Two years ago, a group of retired French generals gave scandal by publishing an open letter warning the Macron government that it was setting France up for civil war with its softness on both ‘wokeness’ and radical Islam.
[I]f nothing is done, laxity will continue to spread inexorably in society, ultimately causing an explosion and the intervention of our active comrades in a perilous mission to protect our civilizational values and safeguard our compatriots on national territory. We see there is no longer time to procrastinate, otherwise tomorrow the civil war will put an end to this growing chaos, and the deaths, for which you will bear responsibility, will number in the thousands.
The French government criticized these generals as out of line, which prompted a follow-up letter from active-duty soldiers, writing anonymously in defense of the older ones. Those soldiers said that decline such as they were seeing in France “precedes collapse,” and that the real threat to France was not from military men speaking out, but from “civil insurrection.”
Radical left-wing politicians and their puppets in the mainstream media are currently working around the clock to convince the masses that Israel was, is, and will probably continue to be, a nation of colonialist invaders who are oppressing the Arab Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, having pushed them off land that rightfully belonged to them. This, for many of these individuals, justifies the use of terrorist tactics — or at the very least, excuses them — against the Israeli people, more or less pushing the narrative that they are reaping what they have sown.
The first wave of the invasion has begun
The news that mobile networks had gone down in the strip was the clue that something was imminent. Then, last night, just under three weeks after the 7 October Hamas massacres, Israel announced that its ground forces were “expanding operations” in Gaza. Aerial bombardment of the strip was heavier than anything since the war began; more ground troops are pouring across the border.
As the Sun rose on Israel on 7 October and a terrible darkness descended, Western commentators, activists and academics quickly took to social media. Not to condemn Hamas’s massacring of Jewish people, but to justify the violence as part of a ‘progressive’ karmic payback on the part of the world’s oppressed. This, they argued, is what ‘decolonisation’ looks like.
Kennedy has been denied Secret Service protection even as his father’s assassination made it the norm in presidential races.
Once again, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has encountered a security threat, and yet again, the Biden administration is refusing to provide the presidential candidate with Secret Service protection, despite multiple requests from Kennedy and his team over several months. In an exclusive interview with The American Spectator, Kennedy told us about the latest threat and informed us that he has responded by filing a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Secret Service.
The Lewiston killer is dead.
That’s good news for a lot of people. It’s not so much that human life is meaningless to them as this particular individual gave up any claim to being human when he gunned down 18 people and injured 13 others.
LOS ANGELES — Matthew Perry died Saturday of an apparent drowning at his Pacific Palisades home, a representative for the actor and a law enforcement source say.
h/t Sweetpea
TORONTO — York University and its students union are facing a $15-million class-action lawsuit related to decades of alleged antisemitic incidents.
Representing current students, recent alumni and attendees from 1998-2021, the lawsuit targets both York University and the York Federation of Students.
The lawsuit alleges that the plaintiffs have been made to feel unsafe on campus, including being forced to hide their Jewish identity and threatened with physical violence.
In the wake of the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas, Toronto has experienced a wave of tension leading to widespread safety fears.
Jewish, Palestinian and Muslim communities have long been the subjects of discrimination and hate, and for many Torontonians, the threat is suddenly front of mind.
I want the crocodile to eat the Star first.
The acquittal of Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin last December on a charge of sexual assault arising from an incident that allegedly took place nearly 35 years earlier, and the failure of the Canadian government to produce any significant documents relating to the case in response to a subsequent lawsuit from Fortin, is disconcertingly reminiscent of the shameful prosecution of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman in 2018. In both these cases, with very different fact situations and charges, there were many indications of a shabbily motivated and prepared prosecution, followed by the frantic ambition of everyone connected with the prosecutions to avoid lawsuits of retribution by settling the claims with presumably ample amounts of the taxpayers’ money in exchange for a ban on any public comment. As I commented at the time of the Norman case, it appeared to be a vindictive and unfounded imputation of discreditable motives to a courageous officer doing his best for the Armed Forces of Canada, to which he had devoted his entire career. In the Fortin matter, the military authorities threw a distinguished combat general to the wolves in capitulation to fuzzy recollections of a complainant who had remained silent about her grievance for most of her life.
Just because this man thinks he is a woman does that mean he should get access to women’s spaces? pic.twitter.com/7oBvrsQsSN
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) October 26, 2023
