The Israel-Hamas War has touched off a wave of antisemitic acts in Canada, including, threats, intimidation, vandalism and violence.
Cities with higher Jewish populations, including Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal, are reporting higher rates of hate crimes following the Oct. 7 attack.
It would be unwise to draw from Israel’s battlefield successes in the early stages of its war against Hamas a straight-line projection of total victory. No plan survives contact with the enemy. But those successes have surely focused the minds of Israel’s post-war planners. What is Israel’s plan for the Gaza Strip after Hamas? Does it even have one?
The anti-Semitism that drove Hamas’s 7 October pogrom has reverberated around the world. The oldest hatred is making a grim comeback, far beyond the Middle East.
Ugly scenes of Jews being mobbed have recently blighted Australia. Last week, around 150 Jewish congregants of the Central Shule synagogue in Melbourne were forced to abandon their worship when over a hundred ‘pro-Palestine’ protesters descended on their Shabbat service. When at least 80 pro-Israel counter-protesters turned up to defend the synagogue, 30 police officers were needed to separate the two sides.
Feminist groups are whitewashing Hamas’s crimes
After accompanying British troops as they liberated Bergen-Belsen in April 1945, Richard Dimbleby produced one of the most viscerally horrifying — and powerful — dispatches in the BBC’s history. “I find it hard to describe adequately the horrible things that I’ve seen and heard,” he began, “but here unadorned are the facts.”
Maybe running around, smashing things and defacing monuments, including sacred ones, aren’t the effective persuasion tools that Islamists and leftists think they are?
In October, the leftists and Islamists were touting a YouGov poll in which 58% of Brits said that there definitely should be a ceasefire and 18% said that there probably should be.
Current numbers are less enthusiastic with only 33% urging a push for a ceasefire.
Jews in American academia seem to have been surprised by the recent wave of antisemitism. I would like to ask them and other American Jews four questions.
While Israel is fighting to eradicate Hamas, the shockwaves of the war in Gaza have reverberated thousands of miles away. In a surge of activism, large numbers of students on America’s college campuses have lined up behind the Palestinian terrorist group, waving the Palestinian flag and expressing antisemitism at a level never seen before in America.
The pro-Hamas activism began already days after the October 7th Palestinian terrorist attack in Israel. It has continued since then, and it seems to have taken our academic institutions by surprise. This is especially the case with Jewish-American members of the faculty, who are now struggling to understand the new reality in which they live and work.
Here’s a partial summary of what it was like to be Jewish in America this past month.
In Los Angeles, an elderly Jewish man was struck on the head by a pro-Hamas protester and later died of his wounds. In New Orleans, a Jewish student who tried to stop a classmate from burning an Israeli flag was attacked and had his nose broken. In Manhattan, a Jewish woman was assaulted and sustained injuries to her face and neck after she confronted two passersby tearing down posters of kidnapped Israeli citizens. The list goes on.
How should we think about these attacks?
Mass immigration has riven Canada with ethnic tribalism. We have become the world’s first 5th Columnist State.
On November 8, the House of Representatives (212 Republicans and 22 Democrats) voted to censure radical Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) because she has “levied unbelievable falsehoods about our greatest ally, Israel, and the attack on October 7.”
One of those outrageous falsehoods was clinging to the false claim that Israel bombed the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza. But guess what? Our professional “fact checkers” haven’t located that lie…or any other nutty utterance, like her laughable claim that “from the river to the sea” isn’t a Hamas slogan about the eradication of Israel, it’s an “aspirational call for freedom” and “peaceful coexistence.”
As tensions continue over the Israel-Hamas war, McGill University says it could end its agreement with its student union over a contentious pro-Palestinian policy being voted on this week.
In an email response to the Montreal Gazette, the university said the proposed Policy Against Genocide in Palestine would worsen divisions on campus and put students at risk.
The Wall Street analyst who was fired after he was filmed telling a Jewish American to “go back to your country” while he covered hostage posters with antisemitic signs has given a groveling apology after he and his wife got death threats.
Kurush Mistry and his partner Shailja Gupta said their actions were “misguided and thoughtless,” and claimed they never supported Hamas.
After a birthday dinner with his parents and son that reminded him of how lucky he is to be surrounded by people who love him, Ryan Merovitz was entering his driveway when his headlights illuminated something that shattered that feeling.
“Dad, there’s something written on the garage door,” his 18-year-old, Mathew, called out from the back seat.
The mother of an Israeli hostage being held in Gaza was ambushed by Hamas’ top hostage official while giving a live interview on Al Jazeera.
Meirav Leshem Gonen’s 23-year-old daughter Romi Gonen was abducted from the Supernova Festival when Hamas terrorists carried out a rampage across southern Israel in the early morning of Oct. 7.
Ep. 39 Candace Owens responds to Ben Shapiro.
TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Candace is attacked – even when she’s right
(4:27) Ben Shapiro’s comments
(12:50) The emotional response to news out of Israel
(23:05) Nikki Haley vs. free speech
(30:34) 2024 predictions pic.twitter.com/VOThqpQQ48— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) November 15, 2023
Believe women, unless they’re Israeli.@UN_Women #BelieveIsraeliWomen #NoExcuses #MeToo_UNless_UR_a_Jew pic.twitter.com/65u51mDVEj
— Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 (@Israel) November 17, 2023
