A major University of Pennsylvania donor has withdrawn a $100m (£79.3m) grant after a controversial appearance in Congress by the school’s president.
In an email seen by the BBC, Ross Stevens said he was “appalled” Elizabeth Magill avoided questions about how students calling for the genocide of Jews would be punished.
Ms Magill was grilled by politicians on Tuesday about antisemitism on campus.
She has since apologised for her remarks, but is facing calls to resign.
A network representing influential Canadian Muslim donors to the Liberal Party of Canada has dropped out of the ranks of the party’s top donors, citing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s disinclination to call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict, CBC News has learned.
In a formal letter sent to party president Sachit Mehra on November 27, the group — which calls itself the Network 100-GTA, London, Ottawa, Montreal and says it has 400 members — said it has called on Trudeau repeatedly to request a ceasefire.
I bet they take over the Green party.
Graphic reports this week continue to be ignored
There’s never been a better moment to be a rapist. Almost 200 women report a rape to the police every day in England and Wales, yet fewer than four will see their attackers punished. Rape denial is commonplace, not just in relation to what victims say but whether it happened in the first place. Endless excuses are made for defendants: the victim had been drinking, didn’t say “no” loudly enough, or didn’t have visible injuries.
Leave it to Canada to try to reconcile accounts of Hamas gang rape with the modern morals of the West. Take the Canadian embassy to Israel, for example.
“Sexual & gender-based violence impact both Israeli & Palestinian women and girls, and also men and boys, in distinct ways,” it wrote in a post this week. “Canada condemns all use of sexual and gender-based violence as a tactic of war.”
The United States’ top diplomat has told the Israeli government that he expects it to end the war in Gaza within the next month.
At meetings in Israel last week, Antony Blinken, the American secretary of state, made it clear that Israel would have until early January to wrap up its ground operation against Hamas.
Today marks both the two month anniversary of the war in Gaza and the start of the Hanukkah festival period. For Jews worldwide, it is a sombre occasion as this is the first Jewish festival since the Oct 7 attacks that saw gunmen storm communities near the border with the Gaza Strip, killing hundreds of Israelis and taking hostages.
As the war has unfolded, both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia have skyrocketed. In the 61 days inclusive between the Hamas terror attack on Israel and Dec 6, Community Security Trust (CST) recorded at least 1,890 anti-Semitic incidents across the UK.
Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an influential Muslim-American lobbying group, is standing by remarks he made during a conference in late November justifying the atrocities committed by Palestinian terror groups after they invaded southern Israel.
What can we Jews not accomplish? There were three years between the ovens of Auschwitz and the foundation of the Jewish State. And then the Israelis transformed the wasteland between the River and the Sea into an agricultural phenomenon, supplying much of Europe’s produce. Jews even wrote the world’s greatest Christmas songs: “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” by Mendelssohn, a converted Jew (a “Jew”), and “White Christmas” by Irving Berlin.
Today marks both the two month anniversary of the war in Gaza and the start of the Hanukkah festival period. For Jews worldwide, it is a sombre occasion as this is the first Jewish festival since the Oct 7 attacks that saw gunmen storm communities near the border with the Gaza Strip, killing hundreds of Israelis and taking hostages.
As the war has unfolded, both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia have skyrocketed. In the 61 days inclusive between the Hamas terror attack on Israel and Dec 6, Community Security Trust (CST) recorded at least 1,890 anti-Semitic incidents across the UK.
Not a good look.
“You can cry here,” the sign reads in pale blue lettering on a clean white background.
Beyond it, comfortable sofas piled with cushions are screened off from the rest of the room. It’s a safe, private corner where survivors of the Nova music festival can be with others who went through the same ordeal on 7 October, and get the mental health support many of them desperately need.
More than 360 young partygoers were shot, beaten or burnt to death by Hamas attackers, who stormed the festival site near the Israel-Gaza perimeter fence early that morning. Another 40 were taken hostage.
Many pro-Hamas demonstrations that have been taking place on US campuses since Hamas launched its war on Israel on October 7, when more than 3,000 Hamas terrorists invaded and raped, pillaged, murdered and kidnapped their way through the small communities of southern Israel, have reportedly been led by a radical organization known as National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), which, according to a report in The Atlantic, announced a “national day of resistance”.
Antisemitism on campus is intimately tied to the loss of viewpoint diversity which has occurred in the US, Britain and other parts of the Anglosphere since the mid-1960s.
Just days after the Moncton, N.B., city council drew nationwide jeers for cancelling its annual menorah display (a decision that was reversed on Monday ), the mayor of Canada’s fourth largest city looked to follow in their footsteps, announcing via a press release posted to X that she would not be attending the annual menorah lighting at Calgary’s city hall.
TEL AVIV—The southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis is a critical target for Israel’s military—strategically and symbolically. The centuries-old market town is the suspected hiding place of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and the militant group’s most significant remaining military stronghold.
But the fight to capture it risks putting Israel on a collision course with the Biden administration, which has called on Israel to minimize civilian casualties and ease humanitarian deprivation in Gaza, and to hew to a more limited war aim of expelling Hamas from power.
IDF forces have captured members of the Hamas Shejaiya Battalion in Khan Younis.
The terrorists are one of the main units responsible for the Oct 7th massacre as being responsible for firing hundreds of rockets into Israel.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) December 7, 2023
h/t Mauser
In a closed Facebook discussion group open only to educators with southern Ontario’s Peel District School Board, teachers were discussing how best to talk to students after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.
“Jews are the problem,” one teacher wrote.
Wow I never knew we had so many “far right white supremacist” teachers.
h/t MP
