A comedian who has appeared on a number of BBC shows has sparked outrage for posting a threat on social media to kill a female “Zionist” comedian.
Dane Baptiste, 42, has apologised for posting the message on Wednesday in which he warned the unnamed woman that he was prepared to “sit in prison while your family sit in the cemetery”.
Move over graduation season, it’s camping season at University of Toronto.
But camping without a permit.
It’s 10 PM and surprise surprise U of T caves.
U of T says it will not remove Pro-Palestinian encampment this evening if protest remains peaceful https://t.co/r8ksEKZXs3
— CP24 (@CP24) May 3, 2024
Crowd gets larger and larger every 15 minutes. Nearly a thousand people now in front of the encampment @occupyuoft @UofT #Toronto pic.twitter.com/lWjYU1cFho
— Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا (@SMohyeddin) May 3, 2024
UofT says protesters must stop by 10 p.m.
In handouts to protesters on the lawn, the university told students that they must stop protesting by 10 p.m. The consequences of not doing so were not made clear.
The university, in its handout, also noted that no hate speech or discriminatory language would be tolerated, no structures — including tents — could be erected, and no fires or excessive noise would be allowed.
🇨🇦2024
My alma mater @UofT
What sayest thou, PM @JustinTrudeau ?“Um. Duh. Like. This is for the municipality to manage. Um Uh uh um duh. Jurisdiction. Abortion. Diagolon. Uh. Um. Sunny ways.” https://t.co/I4zCScoOL3
— Vivian Bercovici (@VivianBercovici) May 2, 2024
A really good read on the U of T “protest” by a Prof. To my shock very few actual students are involved.
A short note on the encampment that’s now set up here in Toronto @UofT. I snuck into it today (I told them I was a fellow comrade who’d stepped out to get a cig – not exactly crack security). I think it’s only fair to talk to the folks and see what’s going on before judging. 1/x
Covid is long since over, but the protesters still wear face masks: the ignorant, entitled little delinquents running riot in so many of the world’s greatest universities are truly an embarrassment. The product of a catastrophic social experiment, of years of brainwashing and coddling, they embody all of the Western world’s most debilitating pathologies.
Communist cosplay is the worst side effect of this generations indoctrination. They been spoon fed the good side of communism (free this, free that, go frolic in the park, protest) instead of what it actually is. Oh well. Most cone from affluent families so I hardly feel bad. https://t.co/5NMXEACdZh
— Lobbyist_pundit 💸 (@Lobbyist_pundit) April 29, 2024
After slaughtering 1,200 Israelis and kidnapping 240 others on October 7, 2023, the Iran-backed Hamas terror group is again trying to dupe gullible Westerners, including the Biden administration and the European Union, into believing that it has accepted the “two-state solution.” The solution envisages the creation of a sovereign and independent Palestinian state next to Israel, on the entire lands of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem.
Police and private security throng every entrance but one. Steel barriers line the streets. Students pack up belongings in their cars and leave for home – classes are cancelled, and exam plans are up in the air.
Everywhere there is gloom, and uncertainty about what happens next at Columbia University in New York City.
Students told the BBC that the university’s decision to call in police to clear a Gaza protest late on Tuesday, leading to a raid on the occupied Hamilton Hall and more than 100 arrests, has left the college community shattered.
Student protests have erupted across numerous elite American campuses over the past two weeks, pitting administrations against student activists. What accounts for the energy of the movement?
The Israel-Palestine issue is complex, with a good case to be made that Israel should have acted with more restraint. Palestinian motivations are understandable. What is harder to explain, however, is the exceptional focus of white progressive student protesters on this question.
Israel’s representative in the Eurovision Song Contest has been told not to leave her hotel room other than for performances because of an expected wave of pro-Palestinian protests.
Eden Golan, 20, arrived in Malmo on Tuesday afternoon amid intense security precautions to begin rehearsing for her performance of the ballad Hurricane.
Dozens of demonstrators calling on the University of Toronto to “divest” from Israel entered King’s College Circle at the school on Thursday and were setting up tents.
Some were holding signs.
There was some police presence at the scene on Thursday morning.
Breaking: Encampment at U of T this morning in support of other Pro- Palestinian demonstrations across North America. Dozens of tents set up in King’s College Circle pic.twitter.com/50hqiXKkfo
— Courtney Heels (@CourtHeelsCP24) May 2, 2024
Protesters set up Gaza encampments at two more B.C. universities
Pro-Palestinian protesters have set up encampments at two more British Columbia universities, as a wave of demonstrations at North American post-secondary institutions continued to spread.
The University of Victoria confirmed Wednesday that a protest site had been established on campus, saying the school was “taking a calm and thoughtful approach” to minimizing disruptions stemming from the encampment in its quad.
Meanwhile at UCLA …
The #UCLA ‘protestors’ now chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ on campus.
Perfectly normal for mollycoddled middle class kids at Uni these days… 🙄
We are raising a generation of ideologically brainwashed individuals who hate their own countries and culture.@EndWokeness @libsoftiktok pic.twitter.com/RuylzTae98
— Ed Reid (@CorryReid) May 2, 2024
VIDEO: LAPD officers forced to retreat out of the UCLA encampment at about 1:53 a.m. (via ABC7) https://t.co/o4hoR926G3 pic.twitter.com/xuiY69LPyo
— Louis Keene (@thislouis) May 2, 2024
Hey Merrick Garland, in case you're still running around, telling people that MAGA extremists are the biggest threat in America. These are Biden voters right now on the UCLA campus 👇 pic.twitter.com/Gt1jbElwqw
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) May 2, 2024
The End?
UCLA 🚨: It’s 0544 , the encampment is now in complete police control. Handful of protestors remain. The encampment is officially over.
It’s morning, birds chirping, I am signing off. Thanks for all the new followers, and all the pages/friends/colleagues who shared my work. 🫡 pic.twitter.com/FlJJQDs65O
— Anthony Cabassa (@AnthonyCabassa_) May 2, 2024
Hundreds of American students convert to Islam and participate in an Islamic call to prayer at UCLA.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) May 2, 2024
Police say a 44-year-old woman has been arrested in a hate-crime investigation over a speech in Vancouver that praised the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel.
A statement from the Vancouver Police Department says the woman “referred to a number of terrorist organizations as heroes.”
It says a criminal investigation is underway to determine if her comments violated hate-crime laws.
For the past few weeks, protests have rocked college campuses across the United States over Israel’s war against Hamas. Last night, police raided Columbia University to remove students occupying one of its buildings, while violence has broken out between protesting groups at UCLA in California.
The pro-Palestine demonstrators portray themselves as defenders of human rights and social justice – viewing Israel through the warped lens of anti-colonialism and intersectionality. But in reality they have been amplifying the messaging of US-sanctioned terrorist organisations like Hamas. These entities have the blood of Americans, Israelis, and Palestinians on their hands. But none of this seems to bother the protestors.
From demanding ‘humanitarian aid’ to complaining about their privacy and whining when the cops finally cracked down
Columbia student protestors were finally shut down by police force Tuesday night after weeks of unrest spurred by the school’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
Protesters have been demanding the college divest from companies with links to Israel or firms profiting from its war on Hamas.
NYPD officers apprehended pro-Palestinian students on the Ivy League campus who had taken over Hamilton Hall, causing considerable damage and destruction to the building.
Luv the Twitter context citations.
Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall:
"It seems like you're saying, 'we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food'." pic.twitter.com/vNczSAM4T1
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) April 30, 2024
It’s not just on campus: even in primary and secondary education, Jews are often portrayed as privileged whites and Zionist colonial oppressors.
Anti-Semitism is spreading in K–12 school districts. Even in primary and secondary education, Jews are often viewed as privileged whites and oppressors, with Israel branded as an egregious example of “settler colonialism” and oppression of “indigenous people.” “Liberated ethnic studies” curricula, like the one mandated by California, have created a distinct variant of critical theory aimed at Jews for being Zionist colonial oppressors.
I’ve read a number of articles on the topic of DEI and CRT in the classroom and also the wider world.
A few recognize that it is poison for everyone. But others seem fine with DEI so long as Jews are able to secure a safe space in the victimhood hierarchy.
Groups like the ADL of course are keen to grab a piece of that action leaving whites as the Eternal Oppressor.
According to Israeli media outlets, the government in Tel Aviv has cast a cautious eye toward The Hague, Netherlands — home of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The government’s unease comes after recent reports that the court may issue warrants for the arrests of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Herzi Halevi, chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), before the end of the week.
Netanyahu commented on a possible arrest warrant on Friday, April 26, on the social media platform X, writing, “Under my leadership, Israel will never accept any attempt by the ICC to undermine its inherent right of self-defense.”
A pro-Hamas activist who spoke at Columbia despite being banned in Germany for supporting terror is a communist from New Jersey who openly supports the October 7 massacre of Israelis.
Charlotte Kates, a major figure in the pro-Palestine movement in colleges for over two decades, has been a constant presence at anti-Israel encampment at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
The New Jersey native is the international coordinator of Samidoun Prisoners Solidarity Network, a group with ties to the PFLP that is listed in Israel as a terror group and banned in Germany as such.
Update – Hate-Crime Probe: Vancouver Woman Arrested Over Speech That Praised Hamas Attack
MONTREAL — A Quebec judge has rejected a request for an injunction against an encampment erected by pro-Palestinian activists on the McGill University campus.
Two students at the Montreal university had asked Quebec Superior Court to order protesters to move at least 100 metres from school buildings, saying their presence had created an environment of aggression and left them feeling unsafe.
