I now feel what earlier generations of Jews felt – a sense of belonging to a marginalised and constantly imperiled people. During Hanukkah, I went to as many public lightings as possible, my small act of defiance. But many others stayed away, particularly after the Bondi Beach attack in Australia.
The Trump administration is discussing the possibility of offering asylum to Britain’s Jews, The Telegraph can reveal.
Robert Garson, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, said he had been in talks with the State Department about providing sanctuary for Jews fleeing anti-Semitism in the UK.
Mr Garson, who was born in Manchester, told The Telegraph that the UK was “no longer a safe place for Jews”.
And Canada?
The elected police chief at the centre of the Israeli football ban row has been accused of offering to give a controversial mosque the equivalent of a “blank cheque” to apply for public funding.
Simon Foster, the West Midlands police and crime commissioner, wrote that he would be “very happy” to provide Green Lane mosque with a generic letter of support that would allow it to apply for future, unspecified public grants.
Internal documents reveal that in January 2023 Foster also praised the “impressive range of work” at Green Lane, which has a history of antisemitic and misogynistic speakers. Last night he said he supported the charity for a specific grant but ultimately did not issue the wider letter.
US President Donald J. Trump is expected to announce the formation of a “Board of Peace” to oversee temporarily the running of the Gaza Strip and manage its reconstruction. According to multiple reports, Qatar and Turkey are among several countries that have been invited to join the board.
Both countries are widely known as major international supporters of political Islam, specifically through their historical and ongoing backing of terrorist and Muslim Brotherhood groups – including Hamas, which is currently ruling the Gaza Strip and has shown no signs of letting up. With countries such as these, it is, frankly, hard to see how the new board would be able to bring peace, security and stability to the Middle East.
Not sure the base would go for a US occupation.
Solicitor General Michael Kerzner is right: Toronto’s response to chronic intimidation and harassment by masked mobs has been grossly inadequate for two years. Frequent vitriol and social disorder are causing real damage to Toronto’s livability and reputation. But the fault does not lay with our police, who are doing everything they can. Police don’t make the rules, political leaders do.
Our elites imported the Islamists.
Our elites embraced DEI which designates “White People” forever villains.
Our elites turned our schools into indoctrination centres.
Our elites enabled two tiered policing and justice.
Our elites declare us to be Islamophobic and kowtow for the Islamist vote.
Our elites will never accept responsibility nor will they ever be held accountable.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood this afternoon stated that she no longer has confidence in the head of West Midlands Police, after it was revealed that the force used AI in compiling its risk assessment for its handling of a football match between Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv in November.
Chief Constable Craig Guildford admitted earlier today that AI invented a fictitious game between the Israeli club and West Ham. This hardly helped his case that the decision to ban Maccabi fans in Birmingham was a foregone conclusion in the face of resistance from Muslim lobby groups. It does, however, strengthen allegations that police fabricated their intelligence case. Another question springs to mind, too: why did Britain’s third-largest police force rely on AI in such a contentious piece of decision-making?
Less than 40 per cent of CBC’s reporting on the Israel-Hamas conflict was “balanced or neutral,” finds a new study by a Jewish advocacy group.
B’nai Brith Canada also found that more than 50 per cent of CBC’s news articles and videos included in the study met its threshold for pro-Palestinian bias, while less than seven per cent met the threshold for pro-Israel bias. This was based on a sample of 299 items published between Oct. 1, 2024 to April 30, 2025.
The Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration massacre, Australia’s deadliest terrorist incident, which resulted in 15 dead and 40 wounded, continues to dominate my thoughts. One particular witness account haunts me. A mother, separated from her three-year-old daughter, found some of the few police officers present. She told a journalist: “These police officers were hiding behind a car… I tried to grab one of their guns. Then one of them grabbed me and said ‘no.’”
Here, I see encapsulated diaspora Jews’ present dilemma in the form of a plea and response: Protect us, state law enforcement agent. No? Then allow us the means to protect ourselves. Also, no.
Humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in the Gaza Strip have been thoroughly infiltrated by Hamas, according to a new report by NGO Monitor: Puppet Regime: Hamas’ Coercive Grip on Aid and NGO Operations in Gaza. The report is based on Arabic-language documents, retrieved by Israel’s military, spanning the years 2018-2022, from Hamas’s Gaza Interior Security Mechanism (ISM), a unit within the Hamas Ministry of Interior and National Security.
“The evidence confirms that NGOs in Gaza do not operate independently or neutrally,” NGO Monitor found. “Rather, they are embedded in an institutionalized framework of coercion, intimidation, and surveillance that serves Hamas’ terror objectives.”
A police force has been accused of a cover-up after downplaying threats against Maccabi Tel Aviv football players from “Asian youths looking for a fight”.
A heavily redacted report from West Midlands Police obtained by The Telegraph reveals that Israeli football players were stalked by Birmingham locals in the days and hours before their Europa League away match against Aston Villa.
The Silver Command log lists sightings of “masked-up” groups of males, with “Asian youths looking to fight” and heading in the direction of the stadium.
OTTAWA — They’re doing the best they can with the tools they’re provided.
That was the message Thursday from Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw, as he and Toronto Police Service Board Shelley Carroll responded to last week’s letter from Ontario Solicitor General Michael Kerzner demanding police do more to crack down on increasingly hateful anti-Israel protests in the city.
A preacher at a mosque consulted by police ahead of an Israeli football fan ban said that men can physically discipline their wives and that wives should not leave the house without permission from their husband.
During the sermon shortly before Christmas a preacher at Green Lane mosque in Birmingham said that husbands could resort to discipline as a “last resort” if wives were rebellious, and that men had a right to expect obedience.
Revealed: The letters that undermine police claims about Maccabi fan ban
A chief constable faces renewed calls to resign over the banning of Israeli football fans after letters from Dutch officials emerged, accusing him of talking “nonsense” over his justification for the ban.
Craig Guildford claimed West Midlands Police recommended banning Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from the match in Birmingham after receiving intelligence from Amsterdam about their behaviour at a previous game.
Some Canadian Jews refuse to refer to themselves as Zionists, but it’s not because they don’t support the right of self-determination for Jews and the existence of a Jewish state, according to a newly published study. It’s largely due to a perceived negative connotation associated with the term, notably since the Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attacks in Israel by Hamas.
Is antisemitism a trivial problem in Canada? Are the protests that many Jews decry as antisemitic really just anti-Zionist? Are nearly half of Canada’s Jews non-Zionists? According to Avi Lewis, who’s running for the leadership of the NDP, and Corey Balsam, national co-ordinator of Independent Jewish Voices, an anti-Zionist group, the answer to all these questions is “yes.” They are wrong.
Police produced false evidence to retrospectively justify banning Israeli fans from an away fixture in Britain after the move was agreed. The force drew up the “intelligence” after the local council privately said it had been “challenged” over the decision and needed a clearer “rationale”.
West Midlands police and Birmingham city council had already agreed to operate “on the assumption” of “no away fans” when Maccabi Tel Aviv played Aston Villa in November.
