Rashida Tlaib had the crowd eating out of her hand.
It was March 2018, and the hookah lounge in a working-class suburb outside of Chicago was packed.
Warm and engaging, switching frequently between English and Arabic, Tlaib – a Michigan State representative with larger ambitions – pleaded for out-of-state donations to help her become the first Palestinian American in Congress.
A York University sociology professor who studies protests and at least two other employees of the school have been placed on leave from their jobs after they were charged in connection with hate-motivated mischief over the defacing of a Toronto Indigo bookstore.
Colleagues and students have announced an hour-long walkout from class on Tuesday afternoon in protest of the suspensions, which organizers say will interrupt studies, create fear and damage the reputations of those accused.
While the release of the first groups of hostages held by Hamas has inevitably raised hopes about the fate of the remaining Israeli hostages, it also exposes the Biden administration’s worrying lack of commitment to supporting Israel’s declared aim of destroying the Islamist terror group.
In the immediate aftermath of Hamas terrorists committing the worst terrorist atrocity in Israel’s history on October 7, US President Joe Biden was quick to reassure Jerusalem that Washington fully supported Israel’s right to defend itself.
Two women have been charged with hate crimes after they attacked a Jewish victim who confronted them for tearing down posters in New York City of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas.
Mehwish Omer, 26, and Stephanie Gonzalez, 25, allegedly assaulted the 41-year-old woman after she approached the duo as they took down posters of Israeli hostages from a light pole in the Upper West Side on the night of November 9.
The Jewish woman told police she began recording Omer and Gonzalez and arguing with them before she was attacked. The young women then assaulted the victim, ripping off her Star of David necklace and knocking her cellphone out of her hand before running off, per the NYPD
Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offended his country earlier this month when he asked Israel to exercise “maximum restraint” in military operations in Gaza.
“We were offended by the comments of Prime Minister Trudeau because I spoke myself with Prime Minister Trudeau just a week before [he] spoke to me about enabling the exit of Canadian civilians, who are in Gaza, and Israel has done its best and made it a priority,” Herzog told CBC’s The National on Sunday.
The Israeli president said Israel “truly” cares about civilians in Gaza and warns them of imminent attacks through leaflets, text messages and other methods to give them time to flee.
Five armed Palestinian groups joined Hamas in the deadly 7 October attack on Israel after training together in military-style exercises from 2020 onwards, BBC News analysis shows.
The groups carried out joint drills in Gaza which closely resembled the tactics used during the deadly assault – including at a site less than 1km (0.6 miles) from the barrier with Israel – and posted them on social media.
They practised hostage-taking, raiding compounds and breaching Israel’s defences during these exercises, the last of which was held just 25 days before the attack.
The Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group and its supporters are once again disappointed that the Arab countries did not come to the rescue of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during the current war which erupted after the October 7 Hamas massacre of Israelis. At least 1,200 Israelis were murdered and more than 4,500 wounded in the massacre. Another 240 Israelis, including toddlers, children, women and the elderly were kidnapped to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
Elon Musk made a fact-finding trip to Israel this weekend after taking criticism for a tweet response that critics called anti-Semitic, and ended up discovering the obvious. After touring some of the areas attacked on October 7, the self-professed Chief Twit had a one-on-one with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the implications of the massacres in southern Israel.
Well you’re not going to destroy them by “Truce.”
Israel and Hamas agree to extend truce for two more days, and free more hostages and prisoners
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel and Hamas agreed to extend their cease-fire for two more days past Monday, the Qatari government said, bringing the prospect of a longer halt to their deadliest and most destructive war and further exchanges of militant-held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.
Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., I wondered if the events would finally force the world to understand what the Israelis had been going through. A year earlier, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat rejected a historic peace offer at Camp David and launched a deadly second intefadeh against Israeli civilians.
As he sits in Geneva, Michel Dreifuss does not feel all that far away from the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 and the subsequent war at Gaza. The ripples are rolling through Europe and upending assumptions both global and intimate — including those about his personal safety as a Jew.
“Yesterday I bought a tear-gas spray canister at a military-equipment surplus store,” the 64-year-old retired tech sector worker said recently at a rally to mark a month since the Hamas killings. The choice, he says, is a “precaution,” driven by a surge of antisemitism in Europe.
“Credibility, an editor once said, “is the lifeblood of our profession. Without it not one person will believe a single word that we write.”
Hence, Reuters’ categorical denial of bias in reporting the Holocaust-like events of October 7 in the Gaza envelope can be, as the saying goes, laughed out of court. “Reuters is committed to delivering independent, accurate and unbiased news.” Really? A freelance “stringer” from Gaza, whose Bible is the Koran and whose family are back in Gaza City scared stiff of what Hamas might do to them, can deliver independent, accurate, and unbiased photographic or video images of a pogrom on Jews? His work must inevitably be advocacy journalism at best or anti-Semitic propaganda at worst.
Inside Gaza as you have never seen before: Palestinians share footage of people swimming on the beach, shopping at markets and playing football in a rare glimpse of what life was like in the city before October 7
Three Palestinian men were shot and injured near the University of Vermont on Saturday in what authorities suspect could be a hate-related crime.
The Burlington Police Department said in a press release that two of the three victims are in stable condition while the third sustained “much more serious injuries.” The three men, who are each 20 years old and of Palestinian descent, were visiting the home of one victim’s relatives in Burlington for the Thanksgiving weekend and were walking along a street when they were confronted by a white man with a handgun.
It’s no small task to hijack a whole system of education to achieve a political end, but Canadian academics — “critical race scholars,” “decolonial theorists” and the like — seem to have accomplished it. Congratulations are in order. Once believed to be underdogs doomed to a life of underemployment and student debt, these scholarly activists have created a red guard of radicalized students willing to march in the street calling for intefadeh.
Ideological entrepreneurs in progressive academia (most of academia) embraced the theories of Kimberlé Crenshaw, a Columbia University professor of critical legal studies who came up with the idea that identity is the root cause of disadvantage. They then applied the work of academics like Ibram X. Kendi, who discovered the solution to oppression: “anti-racism,” or the levelling of the social justice scales by discriminating against the privileged. The takeaway: those who are considered to be privileged colonizers deserve whatever anti-oppressive resistance comes their way.
Some are horrified by the massacres, others feel the bloodshed and devastating Israeli retaliation are the price of freedom
On the morning of October 7, Sara, a mother of two from Gaza, woke to the news that Hamas fighters and crowds of civilians had broken through the billion-dollar fence that for 16 years had penned her and 2 million of her people into a strip of land slightly smaller than the Isle of Wight.
