“Oct 7 2023”

Several charged after Scotiabank Giller Prize gala interrupted during televised bash

Toronto police have charged three people accused of interrupting last night’s glitzy Scotiabank Giller Prize ceremony with an anti-Israel protest.

Investigators allege the three people, who range in age from 23 to 25, used forged documents to gain access to the invitation-only literary event at the Four Seasons Hotel.

All three face charges of obstructing property and using forged documents, and are due back in court in January.

Kudos to the Band drowning out the Hamas supporters

BREAKING: Anti-Israeli protesters interrupt the live ceremony of tonight’s @GillerPrize, which honours the best in Canadian literature. Audience boos in response and police escorted protesters out. pic.twitter.com/13tBtunqk0

— Neil Herland (@NEWSneil) November 14, 2023

Jewish-owned businesses in Montreal are being targeted and vandalized with antisemitic material, with the owners too scared to speak out publicly or complain to the police, the Montreal Gazette has learned.

Lists of such businesses are being circulated on social media, mostly on TikTok, urging people to boycott restaurants and other establishments that are owned by Jews or that are deemed to be supportive of the Israeli government in its war against Hamas in Gaza. But protesters are not simply boycotting businesses; some are visiting them and vandalizing company property.

The brother of a British-Israeli man murdered by Hamas has told the BBC he has never been more fearful of antisemitism in the UK.

Bernard Cowan, from Scotland, was killed by Hamas gunmen in his home on a kibbutz in Southern Israel during the 7 October attack.

The 57-year-old left his family in Glasgow when he was just 19 to move to Israel.

His brother Colin says he “is filled with dread” as a Jew living in Britain.

We know the causes. Islamist immigration, a sick and twisted left wing education system, multicult, DEI and cowardly politicians.

The Montreal police have launched an investigation after more than a dozen métro station entrances were covered with posters early Tuesday condemning Canada for being “complicit” in the “genocide” in Gaza.

Montreal police spokesperson Sabrina Gauthier said multiple 911 calls were received around 5 a.m. Tuesday reporting the presence of the posters referring to the Israel-Hamas war at 16 métro stations. She said apart from the messages condemning Canada’s position, the posters also provided links to various websites and referred to planned demonstrations.

TikTok has said that younger generations are simply more likely to be pro-Palestinian than older people as it hit back at claims from US politicians that it is “brainwashing” the youth against Israel.

The video app pointed to polling data showing that millennials in the US are significantly less sympathetic to Israel than their parents. TikTok denied that its algorithm, which chooses what videos people see, is manipulating users.

Two Liberal MPs are part of a Canadian delegation in the U.S. capital on Nov. 13 to join a multilateral effort to combat the rise in antisemitism.

Mental Health Minister Ya’ara Saks and Montreal MP Anthony Housefather are taking part in two days of meetings as part of the International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians.

Could have saved a lot of money by just reading this blog.

Best video you will see all week. pic.twitter.com/OqBONIBkP7

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) November 13, 2023

The plight of families desperately seeking the return of their loved ones abducted from Israel on Oct. 7 is painfully familiar to Aviram Shaul.

His brother, Oron Shaul, was serving in the Israeli army when he was killed in 2014, during the last major war in Gaza. Israel says Hamas still has his body, along with that of Hadar Goldin, who was killed in the same war. The group is also believed to be holding two living Israeli civilians, Avera Mengistu, who crossed into Gaza in 2014, and Hisham al-Sayed, who entered Gaza in 2015. The Israeli government has said both suffered from mental health issues before they crossed out of Israel.

By and large, Biden administration officials have said all the right things about Israel’s obligation to neutralize the intolerable threat posed by the Iranian proxy groups on its borders. But that resolve dissipated rapidly when Israel embarked on its mission to destroy Hamas, which suggests the Biden administration supported it only in theory.

He was a fat bloke with a swastika tattooed on his beer belly and a teardrop inked beneath his eye. Let’s call him the cartoon fascist. The Guardian describes another: “a Port Vale fan supping a can of Stella Artois.” There were several hundred of them on Saturday, boorishly shouting “En-ger-land” around the Cenotaph. East to spot, easy to despise. And I do.

“Has died.

She didn’t drop dead mysteriously, she was gruesomely murdered by Hamas terrorists. https://t.co/SdVI2k6cpP pic.twitter.com/Fpjc7nRm8T

— ~Jachnun Supremacist~ נפתלי בן מתתיהו (@JachnunEmpire) November 14, 2023

We are approaching a tipping point: what unites us may soon be weaker than what we disagree about

Over a weekend that felt like the last days of Weimar, “patriots” chanted “England till I die” at the Cenotaph, and a pro-Palestine marcher declared that “Hitler knew how to deal” with the Jews. These thugs do not speak for the thousands who protest in good faith on either side. But hate speech will be used to smear each cause, posted as proof that it is out for blood. Meanwhile, millions of us feel paralysed by the moral complexity of the Israel-Gaza conflict, and silenced by fear of causing offence.

If you say “I sympathise with you, but…”, you’ll likely get called a coward, for the marchers see no “but” – not a glimmer of light on the other side of the argument, not a shadow over their own. London has become the theatre for a new wave of tribal politics.

Events around the world, arising out of the Oct. 7 pogrom in southern Israel, have exposed multiculturalism’s core weakness, namely that ancient hatreds prevalent in certain cultures do not dissipate in the journey from there to here. Normally dormant, a trigger thousands of kilometres away can activate them. Jews are the primary target of angry Islamists’ hatred, but we are also witnessing a disruptive ripple effect that spreads in every direction, turning public spaces into contested cultural terrain.

This contest, best exemplified in London, England, in recent days, is played out in small ways and large.

The Washington Post’s deletion of an anti-Hamas cartoon has exposed the moral depravity of the left.

Last week, the Washington Post published a cartoon which featured senior Hamas member Ghazi Hamad with women and children tied to his body as human shields. The cartoon featured a speech bubble, in which Hamad says: ‘How dare Israel attack civilians.’