“Oct 7 2023”

Ontario Superior Court Judge Markus Koehnen granted the University of Toronto’s request for an injunction authorizing police enforcement of the university’s demand that the anti-Israel encampment on its campus be removed. Although the university had complained of antisemitic signs and slogans and verbal abuse and intimidation, the judge rejected these claims and obtusely construed the case as one that pitted the university’s claim that the encampment was a form of unlawful trespass, against the claim of the occupiers, an informal coalition of anti-Israel and other protest groups, that what they were doing constituted a legitimate exercise of their constitutional right to freedom of expression.

However big the headline change in the vote between the past two elections, drill down into two demographic pockets of Britain and you find staggering shifts.

It all centres around the relationships between the Labour Party and not just Muslim voters, but Jewish voters too.

It leaves a party in government that has made progress in winning back trust among people from one faith group while suddenly finding itself with a lot of work to do to win back many members of the other.

As Britain succumbs to sectarianism, the implications are grave not just for Jews but for society in general

On October 8, as the world was beginning to comprehend what had just happened in southern Israel, most decent people – including many who would go on to decry Israel’s retaliatory campaign – expressed genuine horror at what Gaza’s Islamist barbarians had done. But a substantial minority was openly cheering. Not just in Turkey and Iran, but in Toronto and London.

In these cities, Muslims and non-Muslims alike lost no time in congregating and marching to chants of “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and other slogans known to glorify the disappearance of Israel. Some of those making merry sported the image of the paragliders used by Hamas to land in Israel just a day or two before. I cannot imagine the pain and disgust that friends and relatives of the victims must have felt on seeing those displays.

The Iranian regime is rapidly pursuing acquiring nuclear weapons. This breakout must be prevented. Iran’s regime poses a danger at least as dangerous as Hitler’s if he had possessed them. Given the Iranian leadership’s ideological extremism, combined with its strategic ambitions and regional influence, the potential for regional and global instability that could result cannot be overstated. Allowing Iran to obtain nuclear weapons will simply increase the risk of a Middle Eastern nuclear arms race and devastating global conflicts.

A warning of an imminent Hamas attack before the October 7 massacre that went unheard was revealed during a Thursday night N12 report.

The alert was written by a non-commissioned officer from Unit 8200, known as “V,” who, according to previous reports, had sent additional warnings to high-ranking officers in IDF Intelligence to prevent the Hamas attack.

Shortly before October 7, “V” sent a coded email stating, “The sword is coming – it is time to warn the people,” in an attempt to alert once more, hoping someone would take notice.

h/t Patti Jo

There was something for every group to latch onto in Ontario Superior Court Justice Markus Koehnen’s decision granting an injunction to clear out the pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Toronto. For the university, as well as for Jewish groups, Jewish students, and members of the wider U of T community, there was the obvious: students and their allies had to pack up their tents and move out by 6 p.m. Wednesday. The decision was unsurprising. King’s College Circle, where the activists had set up camp for the past two months, is U of T property.

Western University has given pro-Palestinian protesters the weekend to voluntarily clear out their encampment, saying if they do so the school “will not pursue disciplinary action against students or employees” who took part.

However, an online post from university president Alan Shepard also warned that “if a student or an employee engaged in violence, property damage, building barricades, unauthorized entry into buildings, harassment or discrimination, they will be held accountable.”