Northwestern University will face off against the University of Utah in its NCAA football bowl game on Saturday. During a commercial break, the Jewish advocacy group Alums for Campus Fairness (ACF) will air an advertisement calling out Northwestern University president Michael Schill for his lackadaisical approach to antisemitism on his campus.
This will be Ricarda Louk’s first Christmas without her beloved daughter Shani, the 23-year-old whose death at the hands of Hamas reverberated around the world.
Every year, the pair would visit Ravensburg in southern Germany, where Mrs Louk grew up, so they could spend time with Shani’s grandparents and stay in touch with their German heritage.
But this year there will be an empty seat at the table. “It’s strange…everything is difficult without her,” Mrs Louk told The Telegraph.
In a Thursday interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored, the Young Turks host Cenk Uygur melted down in a debate with British political commentator Douglas Murray over their personal views on the Israel–Hamas war and the rise of civilian casualties in Gaza.
#BREAKING pro-Palestinian protesters stage sit in at the Eaton Centre @CityNewsTO pic.twitter.com/dAcxjiAkCh
— Michelle Mackey (@michellemackey) December 23, 2023
Pro Hamas supporters shut down the main entrance to the Toronto Eaton Centre today. No police action pic.twitter.com/IfRfj9XTct
— neveragainlivepodcast@gmail.com (@neveragainlive1) December 23, 2023
The Biden administration’s policies of placating the ruling mullahs of Iran and their proxy, Yemen’s Houthis, have clearly failed. If the Biden administration thought that by rescuing Iran’s economy, which had hit bottom, and removing the Houthis from the list of Foreign Terror Organizations would make both Iran into an ally, the generosity appears to have backfired. Iran’s regime financed and helped plan the invasion of the invasion of Israel by Hamas, which is another Iranian proxy. Iran has been arming the Houthis to target US and its allies in the region, and disrupt the shipping in the Red Sea, and Iran’s militias in Syria and Iraq have fired on US troops more than 100 times just since October 17.
Muslims and violence they just go together …
Another one for the blooper reel.
Would-be assailant falls flat on his face after shoving my videographer from behind.#cdnpoli #Toronto #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #ProtestMania pic.twitter.com/n8oKXvGp5X
— Caryma Sa'd – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) December 23, 2023
TORONTO: Not a peaceful protest as @SalmanSima & @sadeghinoor assaulted while their Lion & Sun flag stolen near the south entrance to the Eaton Centre & Daniel Bordman’s phone grabbed.
Any comment @TorontoPolice?pic.twitter.com/cShCiH5Gc9
— Rowan Thee Stallion 🏇 (@canmericanized) December 23, 2023
It appears the protest is on the move. Headed west on Dundas and turning south on Bay.
But reporter @laurenonline managed to capture this, with police chasing and questioning a protestor.
So far, the protest appears to be peaceful. pic.twitter.com/fEe4djSecw
— 640 Toronto (@am640) December 23, 2023
Israel says it has arrested 200 members of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups in the past week and taken them into its territory for questioning.
A statement said some of the suspects had been hiding among the civilian population and surrendered voluntarily.
Israel says 700 Palestinian militants have been arrested since it launched its military operation and invasion of Gaza with the aim of eliminating Hamas.
SNOBELEN: Religion an easy target for misguided haters
By now, everyone has seen the social media clips of Hamas supporters “protesting” in malls across Canada. Seems they don’t like shoppers or Santa or something.
I can understand Christians getting a little testy with Santa. Christmas trees, reindeer and even Frosty the Snowman aren’t, last I checked, religious symbols.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau received the equivalent of a long-distance high five from Hamas last week, after Canada’s affirmative U.N. vote on Dec. 12 supporting an “immediate sustainable ceasefire” in Israel’s war against the Hamas terror organization.
In a five minute English-language video statement posted on Dec. 18, Ghazi Hamad, a senior leader of the terror group, praised Canada, Australia and New Zealand by name.
More Americans support sending further military aid to Ukraine than to Israel, according to a Quinnipiac poll published on Wednesday.
Net support for increased funding for Israel has dipped underwater, with 45% backing and 46% opposing the measure. A month earlier, the same pollster found that 54% of Americans supported further aid, with 39% opposing. Meanwhile, the corresponding figures for sending further military aid to Ukraine are currently 55% and 38%.
Sarah Brown and her husband decided to have a date night last Friday. Their three-year-old was at the grandparent’s for the night, so the couple planned to go out for dinner and take their 8-week-old to the Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto for a photo with Santa.
The police did nothing.
A British man has been accused by the German authorities of being Hamas’s key liaison in Europe with numerous alleged links to the terrorist organisation.
Majed Al-Zeer, 61, a prominent Palestinian activist who has appeared in parliament at events with Jeremy Corbyn and several other British MPs, is alleged to have contacts at the highest levels of the Hamas leadership.
A file from the German interior ministry, first reported by Der Spiegel, a German news magazine, names Al-Zeer as the “person responsible for Hamas” in Germany and across Europe.
The “war on Christmas” debate is an oldie but a goodie. It’s become something of an annual tradition to ask whether such a war is in fact going on or not. It’s usually reignited by a news story about a school replacing their Christmas concert with a “holiday concert” or a town that decides to stop putting up a Christmas tree.
This year though, the Israel-Gaza war has brought a troubling twist to the war on Christmas. Pro-Palestine protesters have decided to target malls in Canada during this busiest shopping season of the year.
It’s taking no time at all for the Biden administration Red Sea plan to fall apart. In point of fact, it started to crumble almost as soon as our lumbering, blundering SecDef Lloyd Austin announced the inspirational program.
The new multi-national taskforce with the thrillingly inspirational name – “Prosperity Guardian” – was a call-to-arms of sorts for nations whose vessels transit the Red Sea/Suez Canal routes, and who were being threatened by repeated Houthi attacks, both drones and swift boat piracy, in what’s known as the Bab el-Mandeb (BAM) Strait. That’s the southern chokepoint where the Red Sea squeezes between Yemen and Djibouti as it makes a left turn before reopening into the Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, and the open waters of the Indian Ocean beyond.
As the Ivy League anti-Semitism scandal shows, an elite education offers no immunity to bigotry.
‘Anti-Semitism is a symptom of ignorance, and the cure for ignorance is knowledge.’ These words were spoken by Harvard University president Claudine Gay during her congressional testimony about anti-Semitism earlier this month. This may seem like a simple, comforting homily, but parse that sentence and you will find a thin layer of self-serving hubris. Implicit is the message that because we are Harvard, we cannot be ignorant. So we can’t be anti-Semitic.
