Who’s behind Israel-Gaza disinformation and hate online?

Social media has been awash with false claims, conspiracy theories and hateful content surrounding what’s happening in Israel and Gaza – and questions over whether inauthentic accounts are being used to manipulate the conversation.

As violence unfolds on the ground, I’ve been looking into who is behind this.

When I opened up my TikTok For You Page earlier this week, I was met with a video showing a young Israeli woman being taken hostage by Hamas fighters on 7 October. The footage was shocking.

When I scrolled through the comments, the reaction was not what I expected.

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Ontario Labour Minister Refuses to Meet With Creepy AF CUPE President Fred Hahn Over Social Media Posts Against Israel

An Ontario union president has drawn criticism from the provincial labour minister over social media comments about Israel.

Minister David Piccini has allegedly refused to meet with Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario President Fred Hahn until Mr. Hahn apologizes for his social media posts against Israel.

Mr. Piccini sent a letter to Mr. Hahn condemning several messages on Mr. Hahn’s social media about Israel, reported the Toronto Sun.

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Violence against men: by the numbers

Violence against men is practically never discussed.

However, the ratio of domestic assaults in men and women is one to one (unless otherwise stated, data is from Statistics Canada), but women are three times more likely to report domestic violence to police. Women are three times more likely to obtain a protection order after domestic violence. Men are three times more likely to say domestic violence did not affect them much.

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Photo Video Archive of Civilian casualties intentionally executed by Hamas

Warning this is graphic, you may access the original here on Google Docs

or use the link below for a pdf format you can download.

Photo Video Archive of Civilian casualties intentionally executed by Hamas

Thank this guy …

So sad! …

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Progressives call for US to take in some of the expected 1 million Gaza refugees

Experts predict a million refugees might flee the Gaza Strip amid the war between Israel and Hamas, and socialists and far-left lawmakers said America should welcome them.

“Fifty percent of the population in Gaza are children. The international community as well as the United States should be prepared to welcome refugees from Palestine while being very careful to vet and not allow members of Hamas,” said Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a New York member of the Socialist-Democratic “Squad” who remains under investigation for pulling a fire alarm in the House Cannon Office Building earlier this month.

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Average rent went up another 11% in past year — and even getting a roommate doesn’t help much

Canada’s rental crisis is getting worse, according to a new report that found the average asking price for rent in September was $2,149 — up by more than 11 per cent compared to a year ago.

That’s according a data analysis of tens of thousands of new rental listings across the country from Rentals.ca and real estate consulting and research firm Urbanation.

And according to the September report, average rents aren’t just headed up — they’re increasing at their fastest pace this year.

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Star of David graffitied on Berlin homes in chilling echo of Nazi crimes

The Star of David has been graffitied on the doors of several homes in Berlin, in a chilling reminder of the persecution Jews suffered under the Nazis. Four cases have been reported to German police in recent days, escalating concerns about the safety of Jewish people in the German capital.

In one incident, a Jewish resident arrived home on Thursday evening to find graffiti smeared on her house door. “I speak Hebrew, talk on the phone in Hebrew, and wear a Star of David,” the young woman told Bild newspaper. “I really thought about whether I should stay at home.”

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STIRLING: A million dollars for a memorial to what!?

As reported by the Calgary Herald, on September 30, the City of Calgary announced an official location for a permanent Indian Residential School memorial, at a cost of $1 million.

“This is an incredibly important day,” said Mayor Jyoti Gondek. “It has been a long time coming. I appreciate everyone’s patience as we made sure that we got this memorial right.”

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Hamas, Israel and the ‘yes, but’ squad

Whenever there is a terrorist atrocity somewhere in the world, you can count on hearing from the “yes, but” squad.

Yes, it was awful that the Irish Republican Army set off a bomb at a crowded pub, but you have to remember how angry Irish Catholics are about their persecution by Protestant bigots and British soldiers. Yes, it was terrible that hijackers flew planes into the twin towers, but aggressive U.S. foreign policy stirred up anger in the Muslim world. Yes, Vladimir Putin was out of line to bomb and pillage Ukrainian cities, but the West backed him into a corner by expanding NATO.

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What Americans Need to Know about the Next War

Global disorder is growing rapidly even as domestic political support for the post-war order that America’s power underwrote is diminishing. The prospect of a direct war between two or more of the world’s great powers, something that has been avoided for 78 years and counting, seems more likely now than at any time since the end of the Cold War. The United States has a great deal of experience in fighting other great powers through proxy wars, whether during our own interventions (Korea, Vietnam) or our opposition to adversaries’ interventions (Afghanistan in the ’80s, Ukraine today). Our policy continues to be to deter direct major-power conflict. Resorts to violence — as seen most recently in the savage attack on Israel by Iran-backed Hamas, which occurred just before this issue went to press — are increasing in frequency across Africa and Eurasia, and ultimately such deterrence could fail. Americans would benefit from thinking about what a direct clash with China or Russia would look like and what it would demand of us as a nation.

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More Pro-Hamas Than Hamas

The terrorist group’s disingenuous denials of its atrocities catch its Western allies—which had celebrated them—in an awkward position.

To call someone “more Catholic than the Pope” is to satirize their presumptive piety. What should we call it when someone is more pro-Hamas than Hamas? That is the level to which the terrorist organization’s cheerleaders in the West, most vocal on American university campuses, have sunk.

Hamas terrorists committed the worst atrocities imaginable in Israel last weekend, on a scale difficult to fathom. Their barbarities are stomach-churning—and Hamas even admitted as much, in an official statement released on Wednesday, in which it claimed that it did “not target children,” and that those who believed it had done so were blindly siding with “the Zionist narrative, which is full of lies and slander.” In other words, it would be a slander, says Hamas, to claim that its terrorists had massacred children in their beds, beheaded them, burned them alive, or kidnapped them.

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Confederate flag at Hamas rally!

I’m not sure I understand the objection to the Taliban flag, it’s a Hamas support rally after all.

I suspect it was staged to show that really this is all about supporting the suffering Palestinian transgender kids and their Draq Queen parents!

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