McGill University is condemning a protest outside the home of one of its senior administrators Sunday morning by supporters of the pro-Palestinian encampment on the school’s downtown campus.
Protest organizers said in a post on social media that the university administration had ignored students who are calling for the school to divest from investments in companies linked to Israel.
The Université du Québec à Montréal says it has informed pro-Palestinian protesters who erected an encampment on campus it will need to “take actions” if the protest continues to impede access to some of its buildings.
In a statement issued Saturday, the university said its priority is ensuring all of its students’ safety, including those taking part in the encampment, as well as maintaining free movement on campus and access to its pavilions.
The International Criminal Court Chief is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh, and Mohammed Deif, its Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview on Monday.
“Today.. we’ve applied for warrants to the pre-trial chamber of the ICC in relation to three individuals that are Hamas members,” Khan said.
A 14-year-old New Brunswick Jewish girl was jumped from behind, slammed onto a parking lot pavement, and savagely pummelled by a 16-year-old Muslim female classmate.
Premier Blaine Higgs determined the “brutal attack” was an indisputable “example of blatant antisemitism.”
The most compelling evidence for Hamas’s atrocities on October 7 came straight from the source: live video from GoPro cameras strapped to the terrorists’ bodies. Why, all sane people wondered, would these monsters be stupid or crazy enough not only to record their barbarism, but to share it proudly with the world in real time? The Nazis, after all, recorded their nefarious crimes, but for their own archives, not for publication.
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Lawyers are questioning Canada’s approach to screening visa applications for people in Gaza with extended family in Canada after one applicant, a medical worker, was asked whether he had treated members of Hamas.
The Canadian Press obtained a redacted letter sent to the applicant by a Canadian immigration officer, which asks if he has “ever provided medical care to injured Hamas members.” If he has not, the letter asks him to say how he was able to refuse “without consequences.”
Kelly O’Connor, an immigration lawyer in Toronto, said she gasped out loud when she saw the text. Any medical worker who denies care to someone hurt in a war zone is committing a “serious breach of the Geneva Convention,” she said in an interview.
No Gazans should be admitted to Canada.
Ottawa woman says she no longer feels safe after hijab pulled at Israel flag raising
… In the blurred video, Abdelkhaleq can be seen holding a large Palestinian flag when someone walks up behind her, giving the camera the middle finger before pulling off her hijab.
“This is assault, this is not right,” she said.
“As soon as I raised the flag and said ‘From the river to the sea,’ what does she do? I’m not going to forget what she did to me and I will fight until I find her.”
A Zionist pulled off a P@lestinian woman's hijab during a rally against the raising of the Israeli flag in Ottawa, Ontario.
Source: Ghada Sasa #news #reels #shorts #fyp #israel #canada #Ottawa #ontario #hijab pic.twitter.com/TkBLsheckv
— TMJ News Network (@tmjnewsnetwork) May 17, 2024
Sharp differences within Israel’s governing coalition have emerged into the open in recent days. On the face of it, the dispute centres on preferred post-war arrangements in Gaza. But the rival stances also reflect underlying, contrasting views concerning the conduct and aims of Israel’s now eight-month long military campaign in the Gaza Strip.
“Iran, you make us proud” and “Yemen, Yemen make us proud, turn another ship around,” were among the chants by the pro-Hamas college students and the paid activists who organized them on U.S. campuses. They declared a “student intifada,” conducted a Hamas-inspired “Day of Rage,” bowed down to Allah and called for “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.”
A man is sought for smashing windows at a North York synagogue – the second time the Jewish place of worship has been vandalized in four weeks.
Toronto Police say officers responded to a mischief call in the area of Bayview Ave. and Fifeshire Rd., north of York Mills Rd., around 3:30 a.m. on Friday.
Earlier this month, the Biden administration floated a trial balloon, suggesting “senior officials across several federal U.S. agencies have discussed the practicality of different options to resettle Palestinians from Gaza who have immediate family members who are American citizens or permanent residents.”
Justin is no doubt enthralled.
“It started with a fellow pupil saying ‘Heil Hitler’ to my son – in the classroom, the school corridor and the playground.” Sarah’s* teenage child didn’t want to go to school the day after this happened. “He was very upset,” she says. “He was also worried about reporting it and being seen as a snitch. There are incidents all the time and it’s not a nice environment for him.”
Sarah’s son attends a state secondary school in Surrey. As a Jewish pupil, he had experienced one incident of anti-Semitism there before Oct 7 last year. But since Hamas’s terror attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza, the British schoolboy has found himself at the sharp end of an escalation in anti-Semitic abuse from his peers, some of whom have taken to incorporating the word “Jew” into his name.
The Biden team’s offer to trade Yahya Sinwar, the man believed to be the mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack, for guarantees that the Israeli military stay out of Rafah points to two disturbing truths about the current conflict in the Middle East. The first is that the U.S. knows plenty about what the Hamas terror group is doing and has done. The second is that Washington has been keeping key information—like the terror leader’s whereabouts—from the Israelis, thereby prolonging the war that it claims to decry.
A Palestinian student who said she was ‘full of pride’ after Hamas launched its attack on Israel has declared ‘I don’t regret it’ after the Home Office revoked her visa.
Dana Abuqamar, 19, a law student at the University of Manchester, attended a pro-Palestine protest just one day after Hamas carried out its horrific October 7 attack.
During the demonstration, Ms Abuqamar, president of Manchester Friends of Palestine, was filmed saying she was ‘really full of joy’ and ‘proud that Palestinian resistance has come to this point’.
Palestinian Manchester Law student Dana Abuqamar, 19, has her student visa revoked, this is a reminder what she said on 7 Oct.
Hamas were "actively resisting.. we are full of pride, we are full of joy."
The people discussing to at the end are @RitaPanahi & @darrengrimes_. pic.twitter.com/hmtdVb951I
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) May 17, 2024
University administrators seem unsure about how to respond to anti-Israel encampments. Last week in Calgary, police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the occupiers. In Edmonton, police went in with batons over the weekend. McGill sought an injunction to clear its camp but on Wednesday, it was denied. In Ottawa and Toronto, administrators have opted for negotiations. One reason for hesitancy by some leaders may be concerns that giving the occupiers the boot would violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
