“Oct 7 2023”

Hamas Must Be Destroyed Before Any Peace Talks Take Place

The announcement by Ireland, Norway and Spain that they are to recognise a Palestinian state this week only highlights a breathtaking naivety about the fundamental reality of the long-standing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

In fact, the announcement is likely to extend the violent conflict currently taking place in Gaza: it sends a clear message to terrorist groups such as Hamas that carrying out brutal attacks against innocent Israeli civilians will be rewarded by supporting their demand for statehood.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Israeli tanks in central Rafah for first time after strikes on refugees

Israel’s military has said it’s likely that the blaze that ripped through a Rafah tent camp after air strikes, killing at least 45 people, was caused by a secondary explosion.

An initial investigation by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), published Tuesday, said the army fired two 17kg munitions targeting a pair of senior Hamas militants. Daniel Hagari, a military spokesman, said the munitions on their own would have been too small to ignite a fire on such a big scale.

Israel was looking into the possibility that a Hamas weapons dump was in the area, Hagari said. The IDF published maps showing where its weapons struck and a recording of an intercepted conversation between two Hamas fighters claiming there were weapons in the area.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

OCAD sued for $1M over alleged failure to protect Jewish students

A student at Toronto’s Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) University is seeking $1 million in damages after alleging she was subjected to ongoing anti-Jewish discrimination at the school.

The statement of claim, filed by the New York based Lawfare Project on behalf of Samantha Kline in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, claims there is a pattern of antisemitic harassment at the school as a result of OCAD’s alleged failure to protect Jewish students since war broke out between Israel and Hamas.

“Antisemitism has always been a problem at OCAD, and after Oct. 7 it exploded and the school did nothing about it,” Kline said at a news conference outside OCAD on Tuesday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada

Islamism must be on the agenda in this election

We are less than a week into the UK’s General Election campaign and we already have our first race row, courtesy of Nigel Farage.

Speaking on Sky News’s Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, the Reform Party president said that there is a growing number of British Muslims who ‘do not subscribe to British values’ and ‘loathe what we stand for’. To back this up, he cited ‘recent surveys’ that say ‘46 per cent of British Muslims support Hamas – support a terrorist organisation that is proscribed in this country’.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

More than 60 UofT faculty members declare support for pro-Palestinian protesters after administration’s discipline threat

Some faculty at the University of Toronto say the administration’s threat to discipline those who violate its trespass order and join a pro-Palestinian encampment has encouraged more professors to join the protest.

In a show of solidarity with student protesters, some faculty vowed Tuesday that if the university asks police to clear the encampment they would stand in the way to protect the students.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", WTF?

Ontario mom pulls Jewish daughter out of high school after antisemitic ‘culture’ event

An Ontario mother has pulled her Jewish daughter out of high school fearing she is no longer safe, saying the school is allowing and encouraging pro-Palestinian activists to display and promote threatening antisemitic messages.

“I live in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, and my child is not in school because she’s Jewish. That’s insane,” said Anissa Hersh, after withdrawing her daughter from Burlington Central High School last week

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada

Conrad Black: Call for Canada to Recognize Palestinian Statehood Is Both Ridiculous and Wrongheaded

The stampede in many Western countries to champion the Palestinian cause has been a thoroughly nauseating spectacle of misdirected righteousness, faddishness, and racist bigotry.

This past week, following the announcement that Ireland, Norway, and Spain proposed to recognize a yet-to-exist Palestinian state, Canada’s New Democratic Party proposed that this country do the same. This was just reflexive political opportunism by the NDP. It is a new variant on the cowardly Western practice of purporting to support both sides in a war of life and death that only one side can win.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada

Guess Which ‘Moderate’ Palestinian Terrorist Group Participated In the October 7 Massacre

The war in the Gaza Strip, which erupted after Hamas massacred 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023, is not limited to Israel and the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group. Other terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip are involved in the fighting against Israeli troops. Those groups also participated in the October 7 massacre. They include Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) — and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the Fatah faction headed by none other than the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023"

In These Strange, Savage Times, a ‘Practical’ Antisemitism Emerges in Britain

The Labour Party may have ejected Jeremy Corbyn, but the Green Party is now putting up aggressively Islamist candidates.

For years I’ve been oddly intrigued by those poor souls who somehow manage to run themselves over with their own cars, such as the pop singer Brian Harvey of East 17. I always think of this when I consider the Keystone Kommunism of Komrade Jeremy Corbyn.

He’s the little man who got behind the wheel of a vehicle far too large for him to handle and eventually went under it when, in 2019, he led Labour to its greatest defeat since 1935. Huge swaths of traditional working-class Labour heartlands — the Red Wall — opted for Boris Johnson.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, UK

‘We will be your human shields’: Why unions are showing up in force to support the U of T pro-Hamas protest encampment

Settlement offers have been made and rejected. Deadlines have come and gone. Convocation is around the corner. As the Palestinian solidarity camp at the University of Toronto stretches into its fourth week, all outcomes other than a police intervention appear increasingly unlikely.

With tensions stretching to their limit, representatives of workers have thrown their hat into the ring, pledging to support the student protesters till the end.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"