The United Nations seemingly halved the estimated number of women and children killed in Gaza, according to UN data published on May 6 and 8.
The UN published the number of fatalities reported by the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health or the Government Media Office in Gaza and Israeli authorities.
Uh … my grandfathers and every single one of my great uncles fought the Nazis and my grandmothers and great aunts served as riveters in the factories helping build the planes that bombed them. https://t.co/pov1PLJcJm
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) May 11, 2024
Netanyahu is correct that WW II was not a crusade to rescue the Jews of Europe. It was a war to defeat Axis tyranny over all peoples.
The Fallen of World War II from Neil Halloran on Vimeo.
Israel is likely to have breached international humanitarian law with American weapons during its military campaign in Gaza, a US government report has concluded.
However, the long-awaited US State Department report added that Israel’s forces did not act in a way that would prevent Washington sending further military assistance to its ally.
While it was “reasonable to assess” that Israel had used US-supplied weapons in ways that could be deemed illegal, it also said that officials in Washington could not reach “conclusive findings” that they were used in specific breaches.
OTTAWA – Canada abstained on a motion at the UN General Assembly Friday designed to move the international body towards recognizing Palestinian statehood.
The motion passed by a wide margin, with only the U.S., Israel and a handful of other countries opposing the move. The motion recognizes that a Palestinian state is ready for admission to the UN. The UN Security Council has already rejected granting a Palestinian state full diplomatic recognition and Friday’s vote calls on the Security Council to reconsider that choice.
Abstention is just cowardice in this instance. Too many votes at risk for Junior to do the right thing I suppose.
In 2019, Ron DeSantis appointed Brian Lamb, a former point guard at the University of South Florida, to the 17-member board of regents for the state university system. The Florida governor, when he made the pick, was clearly thinking more about his athletic accomplishments than his ideological principles, as Lamb soon afterward became head of diversity and inclusion at JPMorgan Chase. It therefore probably shouldn’t have been surprising when, after the death of George Floyd, Lamb sent a memo to all presidents of public colleges in Florida demanding they “prioritize and support diversity, racial and gender equity, and inclusion” and telling them that they would be held “accountable for policies, programs, and actions” in this area.
A teenage anti-Israel protester who vandalized a World War I memorial in Central Park earlier this week has been arrested — after his father turned him over to the cops, according to the NYPD and police sources.
The 16-year-old boy was charged with criminal mischief in the third degree, a felony, and making graffiti, which is a misdemeanor, for allegedly defacing the 107th Infantry Memorial during an unruly demonstration on Monday night.
The United Nations General Assembly has enhanced Palestine’s rights within the organisation and called for it to be accepted as a member.
Palestine has had non-member observer state status since 2012, which allows some rights short of a full member.
Membership can only be decided upon by the UN Security Council.
The US would veto a bid for full membership in the council, but Friday’s vote can be seen as a gesture of support for the Palestinians.
The encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters at McGill University in Montreal is nearing the three-week mark, having survived heavy rains, a failed lawsuit to get them expelled and a sizeable counter-demonstration.
In an attempt to resolve the situation, the university said last week it was willing to host a forum to discuss the protesters’ main demand: that it divest from companies with ties to Israel.
But the student activists say they won’t leave without a firm commitment from the university to liquidate its investments in defence companies like Lockheed Martin, which they say are helping sustain the current Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
Divestment is how they spell Jew hate nowadays.
Bret Stephens warned his New York Times readers on Friday that Presidentish Joe Biden “just made his biggest blunder” when he paused delivery of more than 3,000 much-needed aerial bombs to Israel this week. Stephens is the NYT’s Conservativish™ writer, so he must drag his readers to the truth like a dog on a leash when he figures out you’re taking him to the vet.
Ontario’s post-secondary education minister is concerned about encampments at universities and doesn’t want upcoming graduations to be hindered by the ongoing protests.
“I want to ensure that all students and faculty are safe,” Colleges and Universities Minister Jill Dunlop said at Queen’s Park on Thursday.
“We’re approaching graduation season, and I don’t want to see families intimidated and not attending graduation because this situation is happening,” she told reporters.
Meanwhile at the University of Calgary …
BREAKING:
Dramatic scenes from the university of Calgary as the Police begins to dismantle the anti-Israel encampment on day 1.Follow and support @MediaBezirgan for more on-the-ground coverage. pic.twitter.com/i7W4LaXOqI
— Mocha Bezirgan 🇨🇦 (@BezirganMocha) May 10, 2024
‘Free to protest but not free to camp’: Police fire tear gas and clear U of C encampment
Toronto area school board “will be making changes” after its decision to use a Menorah instead of the Star of David as a symbol for Judaism in school’s multifaith calendar sparked backlash.
What would be the worst foreign policy message imaginable? There are many contenders, but the frontrunner has to be simply that “terrorism works”. Once this lesson has been learnt, the door will be open to years of violence against us. It’s called appeasement, and history has taught us where it leads.
If you, like me, are concerned by the rise of Islamist extremism around the world, the danger it poses to Jewish communities everywhere, and the way it threatens both the firmness of liberal values and our national security, the inconstancy of Western support for Israel in its mission to destroy Hamas – including here in Britain – should fill you with dread.
From the first moment students in the US pitched tents on campus and spouted their hostility towards Israel, it was inevitable that their counterparts in the UK would follow suit. As expected, from Aberdeen to Bristol, from Oxford to Cambridge, British students have set up their own ‘Gaza solidarity’ camps and are donning the uniform of the anti-Israel protester – the keffiyeh and Covid mask combo.
A young man in ball cap, shorts and sneakers carries his phone aloft, livestreaming as he strides around the pro-Palestinian protest camp at U of T.
“These people support terrorists,” he proclaims. “They don’t believe what happened on Oct. 7 was terrorism.”
“That’s because it wasn’t!” says a woman, head wrapped in a keffiyeh, face covered in a surgical mask. “You’re delusional.”
I applaud the Star’s sense of fairness. It’s important we see matters through the eyes of the youth.
My prior two installments in this series are here and here. I urge you to read them for background and context.
Because of political correctness, one of the glaring causes of the current campus student riots may not be spoken. We all see it. We all know it. But we must not say it.
