Now Bethnal Green schoolkids are chanting anti-Semitic slogans – and no one seems to care.
The London I love, cherish and grew up in feels like it is about to disappear.
On Thursday last week, 400 children skipped school to march through Bethnal Green to protest against Israel. The marchers demanded a ‘ceasefire’, but made no reference whatsoever to the act that started Israel’s assault on Gaza – Hamas’s murder of Israeli civilians and taking of hostages on 7 October.
Ever since Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists, along with ordinary Arab Muslims from Gaza, invaded Israel, murdered, raped and kidnapped women and children, the debate has been about how innocent they are. And how easy Israel should be willing to go on them.
Biden’s pro-Israel stance is more rhetoric than reality
Last Wednesday, several dozen pro-Palestinian activists, their faces obscured by keffiyehs and Covid masks, attempted to block the entrance to the Democratic National Committee Headquarters in Washington, DC. Reports of a riot may have been hyperbole, but footage showed a chaotic demonstration reminiscent of the racial justice protests of 2020. The organisers later accused the police of attacking the “non-violent” protestors; Capitol Police claimed that six of its officers were assaulted.
In the aftermath of Oct. 7, the terrible prospect of an “ocean of red” opens up before us.
The great Xingtai earthquake, registering 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale, struck Hebei province at 5:29:14 on the morning of March 8, 1966. Seismic shockwaves tore through the foothills of the Taihang Mountains, opening up yawning fissures in the landscape, while landslides, sand eruptions, and torrents of floodwater erased entire villages in a matter of moments. Five further earthquakes would follow, the strongest taking place on March 22, and the last on March 29. Three weeks of unrelenting tremors and aftershocks left the region, which had no prior instrumentally located seismicity, in a state of total devastation. Some 5 million homes were destroyed or damaged, and an estimated 8,000 lives were lost, mostly in the rural communities outside the prefecture-level city of Xingtai. Another 38,000 men, women, and children lay grievously injured, and hundreds of thousands more were rendered homeless and destitute amid the wreckage of their annihilated farmhouses and villages.
In some parts of the country, standing up for Israel is controversial, even dangerous.
On the campuses of places like Harvard, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, anyone who dares to wave an Israeli flag — or, increasingly, wear a kippah in public — is at risk of being assaulted by angry mobs of people with their faces covered.
In Los Angeles, a pro-Israel protester was allegedly killed by a pro-Palestinian computer-science professor.
A Quebec Superior Court judge has ordered McGill University’s student union to not adopt a contentious pro-Palestinian policy voted on this week until a legal challenge on the matter can be heard in the new year.
The court order was issued Tuesday after B’nai Brith Canada, a Jewish advocacy organization, filed an injunction seeking to halt the vote on the policy amid rising tensions on campus.
New images released from the aftermath of the Nova music festival massacre in Israel on October 7.
⚠️ Warning Graphic pic.twitter.com/3P7jlWZ3e8
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) November 22, 2023
First responders were still struggling to identify the charred remains of Israeli civilians butchered on Oct. 7 when Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario president Fred Hahn boasted of the atrocities committed by Hamas as the “power of resistance.” Hahn’s comments came as Zaka, an Israeli volunteer emergency rescue group, sometimes only found the teeth of terror victims; at other points, MRI imaging revealed a parent and child in a death embrace, their spines inseparably twisted like barbed wire as they were ignited in flames.
… CAA also dropped Saira Rao and Regina Jackson — who co-wrote the 2022 book “White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better” — over their social media posts. Rao had written on X, “Zionists are starting to panic that more and more of the world sees them for the bloodthirsty genocidal ghouls they are.”
Rao tells Variety that Hollywood is “punishing people of color for speaking out.” She adds, “It’s disgusting. The genocide is indisputable. You can watch it on live TV. CAA will be on the wrong side of history. And shame on CAA for doing that to Maha.” A CAA spokesperson says Rao was not dropped for supporting Palestinians but for posts deemed antisemitic.
I just don’t understand Sarandon’s comments at all, they make no sense.
Great news – Susan Sarandon has been DROPPED by top Hollywood agency UTA after her atrocious statement of Jews finally “getting a taste of how it feels to be Muslim in America”. pic.twitter.com/2NFNH4mLa1
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) November 21, 2023
On Thursday, November 9, an aging Right Honourable Brian Mulroney stood before the World Jewish Congress in New York to accept the organization’s highest honour, the Theodor Herzl Award, in recognition of his efforts to combat antisemitism and his unwavering support for Israel and the Jewish people. A shadow of his former prime ministerial self, he spoke with humility and wisdom but also the conviction of experience when he said, “The prime minister sets both the agenda and the tone in Ottawa.”
An official on Maryland’s Commission on Hate Crime Response compared Israel to Nazi Germany in a series of social-media posts. It claimed that reports of Hamas murdering Jewish babies were “fake.”
Nazi salutes, swastikas and Jewish stars on full display to intimidate and terrify Jewish children?
Not in 1930s Europe. In 2023 Toronto.A It’s happening in and around Toronto grade schools.
Turkish Islamists are planning to sail toward Gaza, possibly repeating a 2010 incident that triggered an international crisis. Will American naval assets, sent to the Mediterranean to avert a widened war, prevent the looming clash?
Up to 1,000 boats and ships will reportedly gather in Turkey tomorrow and start toward Gaza on Thursday. The flotilla will be manned by 4,500 people from 40 countries, “including anti-Zionist Jews,” the Turkish website Haber 7 reports, and 313 Russian and 104 Spanish vessels. Only 12 Turkish boats will join the flotilla.
The European Commission is set to announce continued payments of development aid to the Palestinian territories, despite acknowledging the “risk” of funding Hamas.
In the wake of the October 7th terror attacks against Israel, Enlargement Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi announced a freeze of aid to Palestine. His announcement had clearly not been signed off on, with senior officials quickly scrambling to contradict the comments. But they still appear to have prompted an official internal audit on funding.
The Art Gallery of Ontario’s Indigenous curator Wanda Nanibush left her job last week in what the institution calls a mutual decision, following years of outspokenness that caused friction with some at the gallery and in the arts community – which came to a head with the Israel-Hamas war.
She has publicly supported Palestinian causes both recently – including in a since-deleted social-media post viewed by The Globe and Mail – and in the past, including in a 2016 feature for Canadian Art magazine. In that story, she linked the experience of Indigenous peoples living in Canada to that of Palestinians. “Colonization marks a before and after where identity is radically altered by loss,” she wrote.
