This is so unjust
You fall asleep with an American Dream, and wake up with an American Nightmare.
The image that haunts me is the sight of Jewish college students who rush for safety in the school library for fear of being attacked by a mob of misfits.
That was how we closed out the year 2023, and in 2024, it starts all over again. Happy New Year.
Two Toronto councillors are calling a fire at a deli in North York a deliberate act and a hate crime.
Toronto Fire responded to a call around 6 a.m. Wednesday for a commercial fire at International Deli Foods in the area of Steeles Avenue and Keele Street.
The UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, a local Jewish charity, has launched a lawsuit against a Brampton company that described itself as a broker of transportation services, for allegedly “refusing to provide services to Jews.”
In the statement of claim for the lawsuit, obtained by the Star, UJA said it paid a nearly $70,000 deposit to secure 27 buses for transporting people to a rally against antisemitism in Ottawa early last month. Most buses never showed and the money was never returned, the group alleges.
U.S. spy agencies verified Israeli claims that Hamas and another Palestinian terrorist group used Shifa Hospital in Gaza City as a command center and to hold hostages, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
In late November, the Israel Defense Forces released extensive video evidence of terror tunnels under Shifa Hospital—the Gaza Strip’s largest medical facility—saying it “unequivocally” proves the modus operandi of Hamas, “which systematically operates from hospitals.”
Billionaire Bill Ackman posted a 4,000-word essay arguing that his alma mater’s policies on diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, are “the root cause of antisemitism” at Harvard University — even as he called for an overhaul of its governing board.
Hours after celebrating Harvard president Claudine Gay’s resignation, Ackman shared to X at 2:03 a.m. Wednesday that it wasn’t just the nearly 50 allegations of plagiarism against the embattled administrator that concerned him, but concerns that “DEI is racist.”
The National Council of Canadian Muslims is calling on the federal government to remove a cap on the number of Palestinians who can seek refuge with their Canadian extended family members from the violence in the Gaza Strip.
The special extended family program for people in Gaza is set to launch next week. Palestinian Canadians pleaded for months for help from the federal government to rescue their loved ones from the Israel-Hamas war.
She won’t be leading the Crimson, but green shouldn’t be a problem.
Outgoing Harvard President Claudine Gay will still likely earn nearly $900,000 a year despite being forced to resign her position as the school’s top administrator.
Political Science professor Gay — who stepped down amid a tempest of allegations she did not do enough to combat antisemitism and academic plagiarism Tuesday — will now return to a position on the Cambridge, Mass., school’s faculty.
OTTAWA – Canadians can and must do better as hate crimes increase during the Israel-Hamas war, federal New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh says, calling back to his own experiences of being targeted for his identity.
There has to be space for people to express their fears, worries and political opinions without provoking hateful conduct, Singh said in a year-end interview with The Canadian Press.
“I think we can be better as a country,” the NDP leader said in a phone call from Toronto.
We’ll be doing better the moment your citizenship is revoked and you’re deported to India Singhy.
The federal government says a maximum of 1,000 Palestinian relatives of Canadian citizens will be able to apply to escape the Gaza Strip with Canada’s help.
The special extended family program for people in Gaza is set to launch next week, after Palestinian Canadians pleaded with the government for months to rescue their loved ones as the Israel-Hamas war continues.
The policy details released last week say the program will stop taking applications either after it receives 1,000 requests or after a year has elapsed.
This is not a land dispute but a war to terminate Israel.
Israel is fighting our fight.
For civilization.
Against the barbarians.
Yet — Biden/Harris, Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Lloyd Austin, Senate/House Democrats publicly urge Israel to ramp down, even stop its military in Gaza. Imagine FDR in newspapers (read by the Nazis) — scolding Churchill — “Not victory, Winston, it’s stalemate, stupid!”
Harvard University president Claudine Gay announced Tuesday she is stepping down from leading the prestigious college and will return to the faculty following weeks of controversy over campus politics and her own academic record.
“It is with a heavy heart but a deep love for Harvard that I write to share that I will be stepping down as president,” Gay wrote in the emotional missive.
“[I]t has become clear that it is in the best interests of Harvard for me to resign so that our community can navigate this moment of extraordinary challenge with a focus on the institution rather than any individual,” she explained of the decision.
Terrorists teach Gazan kids how to shoot guns, launch anti-tank missiles and stage suicide attacks against Israel at summer camps – after indoctrinating them with anti-Semitic Mickey Mouse knock-off
In Toronto, they hid behind locked doors when we came. Hard to beleive they wrote the Geneva Conventions.
Mirjana Spoljaric suggested that Israel must negotiate with Hamas to arrange Red Cross (ICRC) access to the hostages. “Israel must work out with Hamas our lack of access to hostages,” she has the gall to say. Clearly the ICRC learned nothing from their disgraceful response to the Holocaust, because this would be like a statement that the Nazis and the Jews should discuss how the Red Cross should respond to the concentration camps.
We can recognize evil when we see it, can the ICRC not recognize evil? Have they learned nothing from their mistakes?
A pro-Palestine mob has created a New Years Day nightmare as they have blockaded the JFK airport and surrounding roads, causing a gridlock for travelers.
The protest was arranged by the pro-Palestine group called WOL as they instructed participants to flood JFK Terminal 4 on Monday.
Only passengers with boarding passes and employees with valid forms of identification are being allowed to enter the JFK Air Train at Jamacia Station.
NOW: A protestor set off a red smoke bomb inside of Macy’s at Herald Square
Protestors were able to make nearly a full lap around the first floor before police escorted them out of the building pic.twitter.com/GVBEa9AsDV
— katie smith (@probablyreadit) December 31, 2023
Israel is withdrawing some troops from Gaza but preparing for an intense campaign to continue there for “six months at least” as well as expanding preparations for a Lebanon war, a senior official has said.
There is growing international pressure to curb an offensive that has so far killed nearly 22,000 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them women and children. Even Israel’s staunchest ally, the US, which rejects calls for a ceasefire, has started pushing the government to scale back the ferocity of its attacks.
