A majority of Canadians favour Canada’s support for Israel in its war with Hamas, which most respondents classify as a terrorist organization, according to a new poll for the National Council of Canadian Muslims.
That’s great but the only “support” Trudeau will care about comes on election day from 2 million Muslims versus 350,000 Jews.
And I find the number of respondents calling for a “ceasefire” suspect.
In the weeks since the Oct. 7 massacres, Canadian academia has yielded no shortage of voices justifying the attacks and calling for Israel’s ultimate defeat
But on Wednesday night, a table at Concordia University draped with an Israeli flag and carrying pictures of Israeli hostages was all it took to provoke a crush of anti-Israel protesters screaming, making threats and ultimately resorting to physical violence.
Anti-Israel students physically attack Jewish students at the @Concordia University in Montreal Canada for daring to put up a table with posters of Israeli kids kidnapped by Hamas.
What’s going on at universities across the West?
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— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 8, 2023
Israel will, ‘as a last resort, likely act preventively or reactively with all weapons at its disposal’
Professor Alan Dershowitz is one of Israel’s most prominent defenders outside the Jewish state. He has just written — in record time — a book about the events of October 7: War Against the Jews — How to End Hamas Barbarism. It will be published next month and will argue, among other things, that the Hamas attack “has required Israel to consider its nuclear option as a last resort to assure its survival.” I spoke to Professor Dershowitz and asked him first, about another of the book’s arguments, that there should be no absolute distinction between civilians and combatants in Gaza, but instead “a continuum of civilianality.”
My dear friend, professional colleague, and soul brother Rabbi Steven Pruzansky recently published an article that “beat me to the punch” on themes I express below, so I have to share some credit here with him for what I am about to write. But I wuz gonna write on it, and I of course will say it my way.
The left-wing college monoculture helps explain why students support Hamas.
Shortly after Hamas launched its attack on Israel, a coalition of more than 30 student groups at Harvard released a now-infamous statement blaming Israel for Hamas’s brutality. “We, the undersigned student organizations,” the statement read, “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.”
ABC, CBS, and NBC all covered Wednesday morning the bipartisan censure of far-left Congresswoman and Squad member Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for her deep-seated hatred of Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric, most recently posting a video with pro-Hamas supporters chanting “from the river to the sea.”
But while they noted the dangerous rhetoric, they tried to equivocate with plenty of “both sides” talk about the Israel-Hamas war and fretting the vote made for “[d]ramatic and emotional scenes” with Tlaib giving “an impassioned speech” while having “fought back tears.”
It’s no secret that many younger members of the Biden administration are not happy with the president’s policy of demonstrating strong support for Israel. Dozens of State Department members signed a “dissent cable” taking issue with the president’s decided tilt in favor of the Israelis.
Now, there’s a growing revolt in the White House as many junior aides are griping about the pro-Israel bias of the president.
Montreal police are investigating after shots were fired at two Jewish schools.
Police say they received two 911 calls, one at around 8:20 a.m., and the second just before 8:50 a.m.
In both cases, the callers reported the schools’ front doors had been struck by bullets, but police say they cannot yet confirm if there is a link between the incidents.
For a minute there I actually thought the Prime Minister was going to take a moral stance against the grotesque display of Jew hatred now erupting on the streets of Canada. But nope. He had to include “Islamophobia.” If you can’t discuss a problem honestly don’t discuss at all. https://t.co/zqEVuvjP6R
— Linda Frum (@LindaFrum) November 8, 2023
h/t patthedog
About 200 pro-Palestinian protesters, many of them Jews, are demonstrating inside Union Station and demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. The protest is organized by Jews Say No to Genocide and the Palestinian Youth Movement. pic.twitter.com/0GgoNxioTX
— Joshua Chong (@joshualdwchong) November 9, 2023
The West has been flooded with barbarians, who are no longer at the gates but well inside them.
But the threat of the barbarians from without is minuscule compared to the reality that barbarism itself has become perfectly normal within our society, and barbaric practices have been adopted by many Americans.
Vivian Bercovici: Suddenly Toronto resembles Germany in 1938
Dear Madam Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, Ms. Deborah Lyons,
It is with deep concern that I write this open letter to you in what is perhaps the darkest hour for the Jewish people since six million were murdered in the Holocaust.
As the child of a Holocaust survivor, I have often churned and wondered: “How could they not have seen it coming?”
If you read this blog then you know Toronto did not become a Hamas outpost “suddenly.”
It’s becoming a bad joke that so many are shocked, shocked to find themselves surrounded by Hamas supporters as if they appeared by magic.
The “shocked” demonized those who spoke against Islamist immigration as bigots, Islamophobes, nativists and white supremacists.
All the while coddling, protecting the hate they invited inside the gates.
For some the Bubble has burst, most I suspect will continue to believe their own lies.
They refused to heed Europe’s experience with Islam which this blog has highlighted for going on two decades and now we find ourselves a few short steps away from their fate.
Viva diversity.
LONDON, Nov 9 (Reuters) – Reuters denied on Thursday suggestions by media advocacy group HonestReporting that it and other international news organisations had prior knowledge of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians and soldiers.
The Israeli government demanded explanations from Reuters and three other news groups regarding the HonestReporting article which questioned their work with Gaza-based photojournalists during the Hamas assault.
From the river to the sea, chanted: Nope, not hate-motivated speech.
The Hamas flag, waving it: Possibly a hate crime. Definitely an ugliness.
A technical briefing for reporters on Wednesday by Toronto Police on hate crime investigations answered some questions and side-stepped or qualified others. But there’s no disputing that hateful and harmful activities have spiked alarmingly since the savage Oct. 7 raids by Hamas into Israel. Enough of a proliferation that the hate crime unit has expanded from six investigators to 20, plus eight district special constables to assist.
I know from personal experience the TPS will turn a blind eye so as not to antagonize the Hamas supporters. Isolating counter-protesters and escorting them from the area if need be is how they handle potential clashes.
As you read the article you’ll come to understand that short of actual murder no hate crime charges will be laid against the Hamas supporters.
Will they riot? No idea but I would not be surprised.
The president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, underlined the need for Jews in the country to be able to live freely and without fear.
His comments on Thursday came on the 85th anniversary of the Nazi November pogroms against Germany’s Jews — and at a time when antisemitic incidents are once more on the rise.
Germany’s Scholz ‘ashamed’ at antisemitism wave as ‘Kristallnacht’ pogrom marked
BERLIN, Nov 9 (Reuters) – Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he was “ashamed and outraged” at a recent wave of antisemitic incidents in Germany, warning Berlin would not tolerate such anti-Jewish hatred as he marked the 85th anniversary of the Nazis’ “Kristallnacht” pogrom of Jews.
Scholz was speaking at a ceremony at a Berlin synagogue to mark “Kristallnacht” alongside Jewish leaders. The synagogue was among 1,000 that were damaged or destroyed across Germany and Austria by Nazi mobs during the “Night of Broken Glass” in November 1938.
OTTAWA—By any account, it has been a brutal month.
The explosion of hostilities sparked by an attack on Israel by Hamas militants has riveted the attention of global leaders, humanitarian organizations and civil society, and deepened rifts at the United Nations. In Ottawa, it has become one of the most all-consuming crises to hit the Trudeau government.
This is a look at how the past four weeks have unfolded inside government. The Star spoke to multiple sources, most of whom talked only on condition they not be identified in order to candidly discuss a challenging foreign policy file with profound domestic and international implications. All described it as the most challenging — including on an emotional level — since the Liberals came to power.
Meanwhile at the Museum of tolerance …
#BREAKING: Two groups clash outside L.A.’s Museum of Tolerance as the center screens a film on Hamas atrocities. LAPD officers move in as several people appear to have been punched and pepper-sprayed. Eyewitness News is live with the tense situation. Tonight at 11 from ABC7 pic.twitter.com/JJSpV6MmXi
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) November 9, 2023
