Emotions flare between protesters and counter protesters as crowds thin. #cdnpoli #Thornhill #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #ProtestMania pic.twitter.com/0xquN2zbrg
— Caryma Sa'd – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) March 8, 2024
Pro Hamas supporters threatened violence against the BAYT Synagogue in Thornhill pic.twitter.com/8mENsfR0sI
— neveragainlivepodcast@gmail.com (@neveragainlive1) March 7, 2024
The few enquiring minds still left occasionally ask me what the most underreported stories of the current Israel-Hamas conflict are. I tend to reply that there are two.
The first is the issue of Israeli refugees. They are not called that inside Israel, where the authorities prefer to refer to them as ‘internally displaced people’. But while the world rightly concerns itself with the internally displaced people inside Gaza, the lack of notice paid to this other story is strange.
Despite the presumed murder of more than 31 of the roughly 134 hostages remaining in Hamas captivity and the continued refusal of Hamas to free any more, the Biden administration nevertheless continues, embarrassingly, to thank the Islamist, terror-sponsoring Gulf state of Qatar for its “efforts” since October 7.
In December, US Vice President Kamala Harris thanked Qatar’s Emir, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, “for his efforts in securing a deal between Israel and Hamas that provided an extended pause in the fighting which resulted in the release of more than 100 hostages, including Americans.”
Former British Columbia cabinet minister Selina Robinson has quit the NDP, citing antisemitism in the ruling party’s caucus.
Robinson, who is Jewish, says she can no longer remain in the party because it is not properly addressing antisemitism in the province or among her former colleagues.
Robinson told an impromptu news conference in a hallway of the B.C. legislature that she will now sit as an Independent.
When Flavio Volpe’s Uber pulled up at the AGO on Saturday evening to attend an event with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni, he immediately sensed there was going to be trouble, he says.
Unlike the heavy security normally seen at events involving heads of government, the streets had not been blocked off and police presence was minimal. There were protesters everywhere.
“I fully expected there would be hundreds of protesters there, the prime minister is a legitimate target (of protest),” said Volpe. “But I also expected police to have secured the site to provide safe passage for guests.”
An imam who compared the October 7 attacks to Jews breaking out of concentration camps during the Second World War has been reported to the police for alleged hate speech.
West Yorkshire police confirmed it was making inquiries into comments by Sheikh Jaffer Ladak, the imam of the Baab-Ul-Ilm Centre in Leeds.
A debate in the Dutch Parliament in The Hague was disrupted on Tuesday by rowdy pro-Palestinian activists protesting the Israeli Defense Force’s actions in the Gaza strip.
Shortly after the activists were promptly escorted out, some 25 fellow protesters initiated a sit-in at the parliament’s visitor’s hall. They chanted slogans, including “Free Palestine,” “Ceasefire now,” and “shame on [outgoing Prime Minister Mark] Rutte, blood on your hands.” Most disturbingly, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” was chanted—which calls for the eradication of the Jews and the abolition of Israel as a nation.
After President Joe Biden came home from his Caribbean vacation, the Deputy Defense Secretary came back from hers and the Secretary of Defense was on the verge of being released from the hospital, airstrikes were finally authorized against the Houthi Jihadis attacking ships in the Red Sea.
Biden said that the air strikes sent “a clear message that the United States and our partners will not tolerate attacks on our personnel or allow hostile actors to imperil freedom of navigation in one of the world’s most critical commercial routes.”
Europe is simply dealing with its own cultural issues by projecting them onto the current conflict in the Middle East.
The conflict between Israel and Hamas following the latter’s 7 October 2023 terror attack has caused uproar and reaction in Europe. Antisemitism is clearly on the rise particularly among left-wing progressives, while a strong pro-Israel force is defending the Jewish state and fighting the recent surge of antisemitism.
The conflict between Jews and Muslims is indeed steeped in antisemitism; however, in Europe, this term is now used to hide a deeper culture war. On the one hand, it simply conceals a more fundamental anti-Western cultural revolution, and on the other it allows for a newfound national and European courage to mask itself as a progressive crusade against a new Holocaust.
Anyone who knows the history of Jew hatred knows that while it starts with the Jews, it never ends with them.
Today, in Canada, in 2024, you can be accosted and roughed up by what are laughably called “pro-Palestinian” demonstrators, for attending a political event, skating at city hall, shopping in a mall, buying a book at a bookstore, eating lunch at a restaurant, attending university or a municipal council meeting, or living in a “Zionest-infested area.”
I should have written this years ago while the idea was still fresh and I was still young. I think of it now because times are tough for me and my people, and so rather than give in to despair, the better choice is to think back and remember one of the best days you ever had – and that would be Montreal, when the State of Israel’s First Chief Rabbi, Rav Yitzchak haLevi Herzog came to visit.
It was a tremendous event…and for us kids enrolled in Yeshivas Merkaz HaTorah, it was like a Shofar blast from Sinai.
Pro-Palestinian protests have turned parts of London into “no-go” areas for Jewish people, Suella Braverman claimed as she urged Rishi Sunak to introduce emergency laws to tackle extremism.
Mrs Braverman said Mr Sunak needed to replace his words with action by giving powers to ministers so they could prevent protests from going ahead.
We aren’t London … yet.
They are in charge in Toronto and they know it.
If Hamas supporters don’t want you to have your event, they will threaten, impede or physically stop it and there is nothing you can do about it.
York Centre Federal Liberal Association enjoys some of the vibrant diversity they forced down the throats of Canadians with the Liberal Party’s harmful mass immigration policy https://t.co/BG7TAdyDvQ
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) March 6, 2024
To be honest I am fine with the Liberals being run to ground by their erstwhile allies.
If you support mass immigration, diversity, multiculturalism, DEI and CRT then you are my enemy.
Violence and the threat of violence has long been a tactic of the Liberal-Left to silence views they don’t like, recall Ann Coulter’s tour.
It seems the TPS have been given a hands off order, I expect Ottawa’s police have received the same instructions.
Join us on Mar 9 to create history, as we journey to Ottawa to call for an end to Canada’s complicity in what promises to be the largest National March for Palestine ever. We have organised buses for affordable transit from Toronto, Hamilton, Mississauga and Scarborough. You can… pic.twitter.com/S10SgRu38X
— Toronto4Palestine (@Toronto4P) March 6, 2024
France has further scaled down the Paris 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony, which will take place in July on the River Seine, amid concerns over terror threats.
Boats ferrying flag bearers from all participating nations will sail four miles through the heart of Paris, with 104,000 spectators now earmarked to watch from the waterfront and 222,000 others watching from bridges and streets, Gérald Darmanin, the French interior minister, told a Parliament hearing on Tuesday.
France has decided to remove the cross from the Les Invalides Dome on the official poster of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Preciously, Porsche removed a statue of Jesus from a commercial it recorded in Lisbon and Real Madrid removed the cross from its logo.
What are they afraid of? pic.twitter.com/gNXpM1m9oa
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 5, 2024
Trudeau confronted by pro-Palestinian protesters while snowboarding in Thunder Bay
h/t UCSPanther and SDMatt
I guess his security team just looks the other way now.
