“Oct 7 2023”

As their country unites in the face of terrorist evil, ours is exposing a nasty and divided underbelly

I have spent recent weeks in Israel, and goodness knows this is a country that has plenty of challenges. But one question I have been asked a lot by an alarmingly wide array of Israelis is: “What happened to Britain?”

Generally, I get protective after this question, and reassure people that Britain is still Britain and that our core of decency remains as it always was. But the response is always the same: “But these marches?” Now perhaps they will say “… and the vote?”

In Canada that dubious distinction must fall on the GTA or is Torontostan sufficiently ugly to claim the title as its own?

Competing chants broke out when pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted a rally by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in London on Thursday night.

Poilievre was interrupted several times by protesters as he spoke to hundreds of people attending an “Axe the Tax” rally at the Greek Canadian Community of London and Vicinity Club on Sarnia Road.

Man Sounds Off On Pierre Poilievre In London, Ont To Call For A Ceasefire In Gaza! Respect to this gentleman. #FreeGaza #FreePalestine #Palestine #Palestina #Israel #londonontario #ontario #canada #Ceasefire #AlShifaHospital #Gaza #IsraelIsATerrorist #thursdayvibes pic.twitter.com/GAsz5vjlyk

— That Guy Shane (@ProfanityNewz) November 17, 2023

The Hamas terrorist who paraded festivalgoer Shani Louk’s body through Gaza has been killed by Israel, a rabbi has claimed.

The mother of Shani, 23, who was shot dead by Hamas terrorists on October 7, reportedly told a leading rabbi that the terrorist who paraded her body through Gaza on the back of a truck was killed by Israeli forces.

The tattoo artist’s family spent weeks believing that Shani had been kidnapped from the Nova electronic festival on October 7 by Hamas – before Israeli soldiers confirmed she had been killed after they found fragments of her skull on October 30.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke to Benny Gantz — Israel’s former defence minister who now serves in the wartime cabinet — hours after his critical comments about the war effort ignited an Israeli backlash.

In a readout sent to reporters Thursday, the Prime Minister’s Office said that in his conversation with Gantz on Wednesday, Trudeau reaffirmed Canada’s “longstanding support for Israel and its right to defend itself in accordance with international law” and condemned Hamas’s “terrorist attacks” and its use of Palestinian civilians as human shields.

He toned down his earlier comments but he’s still kissing Hamas butt.

Many state and federal officials whose names grace its roster seem unvexed by the group’s terrorization of American Jews.

Despite the organization’s efforts to bury the evidence, CNN’s Jake Tapper helpfully reminded his followers on Thursday that the first reaction to the October 7 massacre of the New York chapter of the far-left group Democratic Socialists of America was to affirm the legitimacy of that unspeakable slaughter.

On October 7, 2023, 1,500 Hamas terrorists invaded Israel by land, sea and air, massacring innocent youngers at a music festival, burning people living in border communities alive in their homes, decapitating babies, and raping numerous women. Simultaneously, Hamas fired thousands of rockets at the Jewish state. Israeli forensic experts have already confirmed that Hamas is guilty of rape, torture and other crimes against humanity.

I remember during an earlier periodic outbreak of violence in Gaza being accosted by a man of distinctly Mohammedan tint outside a local supermarket and being asked if I knew that some of the profits from their products supposedly went toward helping Israel fund the mass military killing of Palestinians. I said that no I didn’t, thanked him for his information, and went straight inside to blow as much as I possibly could on Jaffa Cakes, to ensure the largest number of civilian casualties possible.

I didn’t, of course. I don’t even especially like Jaffa Cakes. I just resented foreign conflicts being exported abroad to my own native British homeland needlessly: Did people stand outside Palestinian souks warning local Semtex purchasers they may have been inadvertently funding the IRA?

As anti-Semitism surges, Jews are looking for ways to defend themselves.

In the wake of Hamas’s massacre in Israel on 7 October, anti-Semitism has been surging across America. Reported anti-Semitic attacks have increased by 400 per cent compared with the same period last year. And last week, a 69-year-old Jewish man died after clashing with members of a pro-Palestinian rally in Thousand Oaks, California.

There is now ample evidence that American Jews are increasingly arming themselves in response. This could mark a significant shift in the attitudes of America’s Jewish communities towards gun ownership.

What use is a Jewishness that blinds you to hatred of Jews?

After the October 7 terrorist attack, many American Jews have stomached two shocks: the shock of Hamas’s brutality, and the shock of their putative political allies’ support for the brutes. Liberal Jews are not only horrified by campus chants of “there is only one solution: Intifada, revolution.” They are also surprised.

A storm has gathered over the Belgian Parliament for refusing to show a graphic video of the Hamas attack on 7 October, put together by the Israeli Government, due to a lack of consensus between MPs.

Unlike some neighbouring countries, the Belgian Parliament turned down an invitation by the Israeli Embassy on Tuesday to set up a screening of graphic videos of the Hamas terror attack on 7 October, which killed around 1400 people. It was the worst attack in Israel’s history.

Whilst MR, Les Engagés and N-VA were in favour of the screening, strong opposition came from the French-speaking Socialist Party (PS) – who argued it would be fairer to also show a reciprocal video on the violence against Palestinians. This stance was backed by the Belgian Green Parties (Ecolo/Groen) and the Belgian Worker’s Party (PTB/PVDA).

Damn socialists.

California police have arrested Loay Alnaji on an involuntary manslaughter charge for the death of Jewish protester Paul Kessler.

Kessler, 69, died after getting into an altercation with Alnaji at a protest in Thousand Oaks earlier this month.

An autopsy revealed he’d been hit in the face and died after hitting his head on the concrete sidewalk. Witnesses said Alnaji attacked him, causing him to fall.

Canada’s former foreign affairs minister, John Baird, said Justin Trudeau was responding to pressure from his own caucus members to shift to a more pro-Palestinian stance, when he called on Israel to use “maximum restraint” in Gaza.

“I think supporting Israel is not a popular thing in all quarters, but it’s the right thing. Trudeau has one eye on foreign policy and the other on the next election (because) a group of his MPs are getting increasingly nervous and increasingly concerned that they’re facing defeat.”

A man draped in an Israeli flag entered a High Park mosque on Monday and refused to leave until he was escorted out by Toronto police.

Toronto police said they received a call on Monday because of reports of an “unwanted guest” at Jami Mosque.

An elderly gentleman wearing #Israel flag was kicked out of a mosque in Toronto using police force while he wasn’t doing anything to bother anyone!
This is the true face of #Islam not what you see in mainstream media.
Muslims have ZERO tolerance for the slightest diversion from… pic.twitter.com/amcPWQziOT

— Nazanin (@nazanin7) November 16, 2023

H/T Sweetpea

Hypocrisy, double standards and a failure to understand the region. These are the charges being levelled at the West, primarily the US, by leaders of 57 Arab and Muslim countries who convened at the weekend in the Saudi capital Riyadh.

How is it, foreign ministers said to me, that the West slams Russia for killing civilians in Ukraine, yet, in their words, it “gives a green light to Israel to do the same in Gaza”?

In the luxurious surroundings of Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton hotel, amid giant floral bouquets and glittering chandeliers, and a world away from the shattered landscape of Gaza, princes, presidents and prime ministers met for the Joint Arab Islamic Extraordinary Summit.

So how come they won’t accept Palestinian refugees?