The United Nations’ Special Rapporteur to the Occupied Palestinian Territories referred to Israelis as “colonialists” who have “fake identities” while quoting another Twitter/X account on Wednesday, raising questions about the impartiality of the international body.
Francesca Albanese responded to a long post by Alon Mizrahi, a far-left activist, arguing that the reason many Western nations support Israel is that they are colonial projects.
Why can’t they just say it? There’s been exhaustive coverage of the threat posed to MPs in recent days, after House of Commons speaker Lindsay Hoyle ripped up parliamentary convention to allow a Labour amendment on Gaza to be debated on the Scottish National Party’s ‘opposition day’. Yesterday, Hoyle rebuffed accusations he had done so after being lent on by the Labour Party, his party, which would have been badly bruised if Labourites had broken ranks and backed the SNP’s own, more ostentatiously anti-Israel, motion. He did so, he said, because of credible threats made to MPs and on the house itself. The logic was that allowing Labour MPs to endorse their party’s own fudgy ceasefire position, rather than just abstain on the SNP’s motion, would have spared them yet more death threats. ‘I never, ever want to go through a situation where I pick up a phone to find a friend, whatever side, has been murdered by terrorists. I also don’t want an attack on this house’, Hoyle said. But at no point did he, or most of the media write-ups, name where that threat is so obviously coming from. Namely, Islamist extremists.
Fans at a Raptors game in Toronto on Thursday night were asked to remove a hooded sweatshirt with the slogan “Free Our Hostages” and featuring a Jewish star.
“A female security guard came up and said, ‘You’re gonna have to stay here until a manager comes to speak to you,’” Leora Shemesh, one of the fans, told National Post.
“I knew then what we were about to deal with.”
Nearly four months after Hamas waged war on Israel, Palestinians and other Arabs are finally speaking out against the Iran-backed terror group, holding it responsible for bringing a new nakba (catastrophe) on the two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Despite the criticism, many Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip continue to support Hamas and would likely vote for it if there were an election.
The government’s terrorist threat assessment agency is warning that extremists motivated by the Israel-Hamas conflict could attack crowds at events in Canada.
In a series of strategic intelligence briefs issued in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the analysts cautioned about mass violence spilling into this country.
The Integrated Terrorist Assessment Centre (ITAC) predicted attacks could target protests, cultural centres, diplomatic posts “or other symbols of Israeli or Palestinian interests in Canada.”
The report is deliberately vague about who is likely to do the the attacking but it’s a fact Canada now has more White Supremacist groups than White citizens.
Chants proclaiming that “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” at public protests is not a criminal offense, the London Metropolitan Police said on Thursday night in response to the projecting of the phrase on the Big Ben clock tower.
“This is a chant that has been frequently heard at pro-Palestinian demonstrations for many years, and we are very aware of the strength of feeling in relation to it,” the police said on social media.
Islamists are now in charge of Britain, Suella Braverman has said, as the Speaker of the House of Commons admitted he was wrong to ignore protocol over security threats to MPs.
In an article for The Telegraph, the former home secretary said Britain was “sleep-walking into a ghettoised society” threatening free expression and British values in the wake of the Commons chaos.
Her comments come just a day after Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle sparked a furious backlash over a Gaza ceasefire vote by allowing a vote on a Labour amendment, leading to accusations that he had given in to extremists.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday evening brought his proposal for the “day after” Hamas for the approval of the Political-Security Cabinet.
“The Prime Minister’s document of principles reflects broad public acceptance of the goals of the war and of the civilian alternative to Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip,” the Prime Minister’s Office said.
Four months into the war to eliminate Hamas in Gaza, residents of northern Israel are asking, “What about us?”
Lebanon-based Hezbollah and the Israel Defense Force are exchanging fire daily, even as both sides carefully attempt to avoid an escalation into all-out war. Meanwhile, since shortly after October 7 up to 70,000 Israeli citizens have been evacuated from their homes near the Lebanese border.
Hamas may be losing in Gaza, but it’s winning in Michigan.
While Israeli commandos rescued a 70-year-old man and 60-year-old man who were being held hostage in Gaza, Hamas supporters in America were taking an 81-year-old man hostage in D.C.
Hamas may be losing in Gaza, but it’s winning in Michigan.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib is now the latest Michigan Muslim terror activist to urge Hamas supporters in the state to reject Biden in the primary by casting an “uncommitted” vote.
Canada has stopped issuing export permits to companies looking to sell military equipment to Israel, according to one person familiar with the matter.
The source says that Mélanie Joly’s office has issued instructions to staff at Global Affairs Canada to delay issuing permits that are required for weapons, firearms and components that could have a military use.
There is no proof of the alleged IDF depredations. This is all about winning the Islamist vote.
We must condemn sexual gender-based violence. Allegations brought by @UNHumanRights experts’ on #SGBV against Palestinian women in Gaza must be investigated and perpetrators held accountable. We believe women, condemn all forms of #SGBV, and advocate for justice in such cases. pic.twitter.com/uSiZPUqmln
— Mélanie Joly (@melaniejoly) February 21, 2024
Like a number of ‘anti-colonialists’, William Dalrymple lives in colonial splendour on the outskirts of Delhi. The writer often opens the doors of his estate to slavering architectural magazines. A few years ago, one described his pool, pool house, vast family rooms, animals, cockatoo ‘and the usual entourage of servants that attends any successful man in India’s capital city’.
I only mention Dalrymple because he is one of a large number of people who have lost their senses by going rampaging online about the alleged genocide in Gaza. He recently tweeted at a young Jewish woman who said she was afraid to travel into London during the Palestinian protests: ‘Forget 30,000 dead in Gaza, tens of thousands more in prison without charge, five MILLION in stateless serfdom, forget 75 years of torture, rape, dispossession, humiliation and occupation, IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU.’ It is one thing when a street rabble loses their minds. But when people who had minds start to lose them, that is another thing altogether.
Applauding Hamas at the Bataclan where its ISIS cohorts murdered 90 people is just one example. it gets worse.
“Islamists have understood the psychology of woke crowds, a collective version of Stockholm syndrome. Weak unbelievers who have all their contempt and give in to their fury like lambs. Horrifying.”
Thus the anthropologist Florence Bergeaud-Blackler on the images arriving from the Bataclan which provoked a torrent of reactions. The musical duo Shkoon performed on the stage of the Paris theater where ISIS killed 90 people on November 13, 2015. The band, led by a Syrian, mixes Arabic sounds and electronic music. During the concert at the Bataclan, the band performed the song “Yamma mwel el hawa”, which evokes the Israeli-Arab Palestinian conflict. The audience thus began to shout “Free Palestine” during the concert, amidst thunderous applause.
February 10, Bataclan music venue in Paris
Young people chant Free Palestine, voicing opposition against the IDF’s decision to eradicate the Islamist terror group Hamas.
November 13, 2015
Islamists from ISIS enter Bataclan and murder 90 concert-goers pic.twitter.com/IT4uAJ4Q54
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) February 18, 2024
“I come to Israel with a single message: You are not alone,” US President Joe Biden said right after the October 7 massacre by the terrorist organization Hamas of Israelis, Muslims, Americans, Europeans, Filipinos and Thai visitors enjoying a Saturday holiday in southern Israel. “As long as the United States stands — and we will stand forever — we will not let you ever be alone,” Biden continued.
Police stood by as “From the River to the Sea” was projected onto Parliament, a senior Jewish MP has said.
Andrew Percy, a Tory backbencher, raised concerns after pro-Palestine protesters broadcast the slogan “From the river to the sea” onto the Elizabeth Tower, which houses Big Ben, on Wednesday night.
He spoke out during a Commons debate that saw many MPs express fears for their safety and warn that threats from “Islamist extremists” were stifling democracy.
In disgusting scenes last night at Parliament, MPs voted on Gaza ceasefire amendments, a pro-Palestinian mob gathered outside.
One projected onto the Parliament the genocidal "free Palestine from the river to the sea." Illegal, but the @metpoliceuk did absolutely nothing. pic.twitter.com/RN1IIsBd06
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) February 22, 2024
