One of the most troubling aspects of the anti-Israel protests taking place across North America is the sense of impunity exhibited by the protesters: they know there will be no consequences for their actions.
Happily, that may not be the case in the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal application filed by 70 Jewish members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees against CUPE Ontario and its president Fred Hahn.
Nearly half of Canadians are opposed to university protest encampments, poll suggests
OTTAWA, Ill. – A new opinion poll suggests nearly half of Canadians oppose the pro-Palestinian encampments that have cropped up on some university campuses.
Just 31 per cent of people who took the Leger survey last weekend said they support the encampments, while 48 per cent were against the demonstrations. About one in five said they don’t know.
The US last week paused a bomb shipment for Israel over concerns it was going ahead with a major ground operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a senior US administration official said.
The shipment consisted of 1,800 2,000lb (907kg) bombs and 1,700 500lb bombs, the official told the BBC.
Israel has not “fully addressed” US concerns over humanitarian needs of civilians in Rafah, the official said.
A new poll shows 81 percent of college students want anti-Israel protesters to be held accountable for the chaos they have caused in recent weeks on campuses across the United States.
Eighty-one percent of college students say the protesters who destroyed, vandalized, or illegally occupied campus property should be held responsible by their universities, according to a Generation Lab poll conducted between Friday and Monday.
A religious studies teacher at a Catholic school has been suspended and reported to the police after saying that Hamas had “committed no crime”.
Ronan Preastuin, a Year 9 tutor, also described the Oct 7 attacks as a “justified act of resistance” and called for “Glory to Hamas”, adding: “The destruction of the racist state of #Isarel [sic] is coming soon.”
Republican Representative Don Bacon of Nebraska introduced a resolution on Tuesday to censure Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) for saying that some Jewish Americans are “pro-genocide” during a visit to Columbia University’s anti-Israel encampment last month.
OTTAWA — Canada’s foreign minister says Israel’s invasion of the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip is “completely unacceptable,” and she’s holding out hope that ceasefire talks will prevail.
Israeli officials announced Monday that the country approved a military operation into the border city, and Israeli forces began striking targets in the area.
On Oct. 7, a cowardly, medieval, murder cult (campus heroes) Hamas took the lives of over 1,200 Jews.
Without warning, at a music festival; chased, toyed with; beating every Jew they could find; hunted them down, tormented them, raped them, shot them. A great insensate orgiastic jubilation over a massacre of innocent Jews of an intensity and enormity not seen since the demonic practices of Jew-hating, Jew-destroying Nazism. The greatest puncture in that useless lying balloon of “never again” since the failed slogan was first muttered. Jews massacred in their homeland. Jews killed again.
Meanwhile at U Of T. Can Keffiyeh Doug stop the encampment?
Jewish student ASSAULTED by Lynch Mob of masked anti-Israel activists at the University of Toronto.
Activists jumped the student and grabbed his Israeli flag whilst assaulting him and grabbing onto him, refusing to let him go.
🎥 @moshe_zelig1 pic.twitter.com/iDOArmcnca
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) May 6, 2024
An investigation into the witches’ brew of billionaires, Islamists, and leftists behind the campus protests
Over the past several weeks, Americans have witnessed what has seemed like a mass outpouring of support for terror on elite college campuses. At Columbia, Yale, Princeton, NYU, UCLA, Northwestern, Texas, and elsewhere, masked mobs have occupied schools with tent encampments, established self-proclaimed “autonomous zones,” clashed with police, harassed and threatened visibly Jewish students, and issued demands for their universities to divest from Israeli “genocide.” Politically, moreover, the protests have displayed an incoherent mix of campus progressivism, hardcore Islamism and Arab nationalism, and revolutionary anarchism and communism, including open praise for North Korea. The only unifying thread would appear to be opposition to Israel and its alleged imperial patron, the United States.
Since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has repeatedly spoken of the need for a “pathway” for the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem. According to Blinken, a Palestinian state would have two positive effects: First, it would pave the way for a normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and second, it would “isolate” Iran and its terrorist proxies, including Hamas and Hezbollah.
Video reportedly shows a group of rioters in Athens, Greece trying to break in and surround a hotel where they heard Jews are staying. This is a lynch mob. Terrifying. pic.twitter.com/3YJjbKtRGp
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 7, 2024
Hundreds of people who wanted to march to the Egyptian consulate in Athens to protest against the Zionist Israeli bombardment of the Rafah border in Gaza, where 1.5 million Palestinians have taken refuge since yesterday, were attacked by the police.#antireport #Athens #Gaza pic.twitter.com/ftJVViHQrE
— Partizan Yunanistan (@partizanGreece1) May 7, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
As pro-Palestinian protesters continue their encampments at universities across Canada and the United States, a new poll sheds light on what Canadians think about the value of protests, generally, and of their ability to effect change.
While the vast majority of respondents say protests are effective at raising awareness, far fewer say they believe the demonstrations can actually change the positions of governments or institutions — and even fewer say they think protests can sway the opinions of people on the other side of an issue, according to a new poll from the Angus Reid Institute released Tuesday.
Gee I am much more sympathetic to Hamas since they explained their baby killing.
British Columbia’s human rights commissioner is calling on universities and colleges to protect the rights of students and staff taking part in “peaceful encampments,” saying she’s worried about people who “speak up in solidarity with Gaza” being penalized.
Kasari Govender said in a statement Monday that campus communities have a right to “peaceful and lawful assembly and free expression.”
Anti-Israel protesters vandalized a World War I memorial in Central Park on Monday and burned an American flag after a mob of more than 1,000 marchers was blocked by cops from reaching the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the star-studded Met Gala was in full swing.
At least one America-hating vandal torched Old Glory at the site of the 107th Infantry Memorial, the base of which was defaced with graffiti reading “Gaza” in large black letters.
Israeli military forces have taken control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, a key strategic objective and the sole gateway between Egypt and Gaza for humanitarian aid, Israeli military officials have confirmed.
“At the moment we have operational control of the Gazan side of the Rafah crossing and we have special forces scanning the crossing … That is what is happening in the upcoming hours. The operation is not over … I can’t give a timeline,” a military official said on Tuesday morning.
The spokesperson for the Gaza border authority on Tuesday confirmed the presence of Israeli tanks at the Rafah crossing. Aid officials in the territory said the flow of aid through the crossing had been halted.
