A top employee at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reportedly made numerous racist remarks about white European people and Jews, such as saying that white people are “parasites” and a “virus” while branding Jewish people “Nazis”.
Dawn Queva, a schedule coordinator for BBC 3, made a series of racist anti-white and antisemitic comments on social media, according to multiple reports.
One hundred-plus days of war. More than 26,083 people killed. More than 65,000 housing units destroyed and 1.7 million residents displaced.
Gaza is a catastrophe. And unbelievably, the situation there could get worse.
Canada and other countries have suspended funding to the UN agency that provides assistance to Palestinians in the embattled territory. The decision came after allegations by the Israeli government that a number of agency workers were involved in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel that killed some 1,200 people and took more than 200 others hostage. More than 100 of them are still being held captive.
VERNON, B.C. – B.C. Premier David Eby says Post-Secondary Education Minister Selina Robinson needs to “repair the damage” caused by her comments that Israel was founded on a “crappy piece of land,” angering pro-Palestinian groups and triggering calls for her resignation.
Eby says the remarks were “totally unacceptable,” and “increase division” in the province at a time when people of Palestinian descent are feeling alienated.
Robinson apologized in a social media post on Thursday, saying her comments were “disrespectful,” and she had been referring to the land having limited natural resources.
Does @theJagmeetSingh not know that @selinarobinson is a member of his federal Party, or is he play-acting? pic.twitter.com/YW4gWSZWr0
— Norman Spector (@nspector4) February 3, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Britain struck 36 Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday in a second wave of assaults meant to further disable Iran-backed groups that have relentlessly attacked American and international interests in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.
The latest strikes against the Houthis were launched by warships and fighter jets. The strikes follow an air assault in Iraq and Syria on Friday that targeted other Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan last weekend.
BREAKING:
US and British forces strike more than 30 Houthi positions in Yemen pic.twitter.com/FgMPf3DXys
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) February 3, 2024
The last few months unfolded with a marked escalation in the activities of Iran’s proxies, militias and terror groups. Iran’s proxy Hamas launched its attacks on Israel, unleashing a barrage of violence across the region. Simultaneously, Iran-backed militia groups in Iraq escalated their assaults on US bases and personnel. Another proxy of Iran, the Houthi rebels in Yemen, also caused turmoil in the Red Sea, which is vital to maritime traffic. Their actions not only threaten regional stability but also sent shockwaves through global trade routes and raised concerns about the broader implications of their destabilizing activities.
Harvard is set to host a controversial Palestinian professor who said Hamas’ October 7 attack was ‘just a normal human struggle’ and blamed Israel for ‘making us take their children and elderly as hostages’.
Dalal Saeb Iriqat, an Associate Professor at the Arab American University, is due to appear at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy school on March 7.
Her appearance is part of a series entitled Middle East Dialogues, billed as conversations to ‘understand what is happening and to expose them to the best thinking on how peace may be achieved’.
China’s navy has started escorting Chinese cargo ships through the Red Sea, according to a shipping company and Chinese state media reports. This comes as many cargo shipping companies have decided to avoid the globally important trade passage because of attacks from Houthi rebels.
Since November, Iran-backed Houthis have launched scores of drone and missile attacks on ships passing through the Red Sea, acts that they say are in support of Palestinian militant group Hamas in the war with Israel.
Many reports and pictures about the suffering in the Gaza Strip have circulated on social media platforms in recent weeks and months. But while some are accurate, others are fakes generated by AI.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is looking into sanctions against Israeli settlers in the West Bank who have been accused of attacking Palestinians and Israeli peace activists in the territory.
On Thursday, the U.S. State Department issued financial sanctions against Israelis living in illegal settlements. Washington says the sanctioned individuals are connected to “escalating violence” against Palestinians.
“We are looking at sanctions on extremist settlers,” Trudeau told reporters Friday after an unrelated announcement in Waterloo, Ont., where he offered no update on a Canadian missing in the Gaza Strip.
With Iran seemingly intent on intensifying its confrontation with the US, it is hard to imagine a worse time for the Biden administration even to consider withdrawing any of the US forces currently based in the Middle East.
Prior to the latest Iranian-sponsored attack on US forces based in Jordan, in which three serving American service personnel were killed and another 34 were injured, the White House had already opened negotiations with the Iraqi government on the future of US and other allied troops based in the country.
Not sure Old Genocide Joe has much of a say in the matter.
Pro-Palestinian protesters spewing anti-cop chants clashed with police at a rally outside Columbia University on Friday — leading to nine arrests over several hours.
The “All Out for Palestine” demonstration kicked off at 3 p.m. and less than two hours later protesters waving Palestinian flags could be seen in footage posted to social media scuffling with NYPD officers in the street.
“NYPD, KKK. IDF they’re all the same,” the group chanted as at least one protester was seen being detained by police.
🇺🇸🚨‼️ At Columbia university… pic.twitter.com/H7mmyaQXrR
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) February 2, 2024
#BREAKING Multiple Protesters arrested at "All Out for Palestine" rally at Columbia University in New York City. pic.twitter.com/gDjyB4i4X0
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) February 2, 2024
Fears that the Biden administration’s bear hug of embattled Israel is the prelude to eating it alive were dramatically enhanced this week.
On Wednesday, U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said that the administration was “actively pursuing the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with real security guarantees for Israel.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Friday, in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan last weekend.
President Joe Biden said in a statement: “The United States does not seek conflict in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world. But let all those who might seek to do us harm know this: If you harm an American, we will respond.”
Biden and other top U.S. leaders had been warning for days that America would strike back at the militias, and they made it clear it wouldn’t be just one hit but a “tiered response” over time.
#BREAKING: As a result of the #USAF's airstrikes at the #IRGC linked targets in #Iraq, #KataibHezbollah has lost tons of its rockets and ballistic missiles. Watch explosion of the rockets as a result of the fire caused by a US airstrike at one of the KH's warehouses in #Iraq! pic.twitter.com/EW2KAkmE6r
— Babak Taghvaee – The Crisis Watch (@BabakTaghvaee1) February 2, 2024
Sweden on Friday said it has launched a terrorism investigation into an object found at the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm earlier this week.
“The preliminary investigation launched by the Swedish Police Authority on January 31, following the discovery of a dangerous object at the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm, has been taken over by the Swedish Security Service,” the Swedish Security Service, also known as SAPO, announced.
“In connection with this, the criminal classification has been changed to a terrorist crime,” SAPO added.
There was a time when he’d have jumped at the chance – not today, not with this president.
Alabas Farhat, Democratic representative for the state of Michigan, declined the invitation for a “meet and greet” with Joe Biden and he wasn’t alone.
Arab Muslim community leaders in the greater Detroit area snubbed the campaign visit to their neighbourhood. The problem they have is Mr Biden’s support for Israel in the war with Hamas and his opposition to a ceasefire.
