“Oct 7 2023”

Levi Salomon has been documenting anti-Semitic slogans and acts at rallies in Berlin for 25 years, but never had he experienced such virulent expressions of hate against Jews in post-war Germany until October 7.

On that Sabbath day, Hamas gunmen stormed across the border into Israel, killing 1,400 people, mostly civilians, in their homes, on the streets and at a rave party.

The most deadly attack since the founding of Israel had led it to declare war on Hamas, with Israeli forces heavily bombarding Gaza before sending in ground troops to destroy the Islamist movement. The Hamas-run health ministry said more than 10,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the territory.

TORONTO — As a comment-section editor, I spent more time editing and fact-checking opinion columns than consuming news in the immediate aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, and constantly found myself coming across claims that seemed far-fetched.

Young women raped next to their friends’ dead bodies? That can’t possibly be true. But it was.

Infant babies mutilated and killed in cold blood? Holy hell.

France has seen an exponential rise in antisemitic incidents since the attacks by the terrorist group Hamas on Jewish civilians took place a month ago in Israel, the AFP reports.

The figures were announced on Sunday by French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin.

“The number of anti-Semitic acts has exploded,” he told France 2 television, adding that 486 people have been arrested for such offenses, including 102 foreigners.

MONTREAL – The Montreal police department is investigating overnight firebombings at two Jewish institutions in the Montreal suburb of Dollard-des-Ormeaux.

Police spokesperson Sabrina Gauthier said Tuesday that incendiary devices caused minor damage to the front door of a synagogue and the back door of another nearby building that houses a Jewish organization.

Jewish advocacy group B’nai Brith Canada has identified the synagogue as Congregation Beth Tikvah. Across the street is the local office of the Federation CJA.

Toronto man arrested after police say a fight broke out over pro-Israeli posters being torn down

As if they read Phil Klein’s Corner post from October 25, progressive politicians and activists over the past few days have been on message, arguing that the phrase “free Palestine from the river to the sea” is, as Rashida Tlaib put it, “an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate.”

The British are among the most mild-mannered people in the world. We apologise to the waiter when the food is not up to snuff; we say sorry when others mumble and we cannot understand what they’ve said; we even offer a mea culpa to those who career into us along the pavement, as though it were somehow our fault for getting in the way in the first place. But there is a line, for anyone foolish enough to seek it.

One month on, the Hamas atrocities of 7 October are already being denied, obfuscated and forgotten.

7 October 2023 ought to be a date that will live in infamy. One month ago today, Hamas terrorists smashed through the Israeli border, killing, torturing and kidnapping innocent civilians in their path. Simply repeating the number of those murdered – now believed to be 1,400 – cannot do justice to the savagery and wickedness of this attack. Hamas butchers mowed down teenagers at a music festival. They paraded young women naked through the streets. They raped others next to their friends’ dead bodies. They slaughtered a grandmother in her home and uploaded a film of her murder to social media so her family could see it. They sliced open a woman’s womb and then stabbed her unborn baby. Some children were burned. Others were decapitated. The terrorists’ glee was visible in the depraved footage they willingly broadcast to the world.

In a series of mind-boggling claims, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has cast doubt on the events of October 7 when Hamas terrorists launched their slaughter of Israelis, even going so far as to say Hamas was justified in its attack, calling Israel an occupying force.

Hamas’s Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar has been ‘isolated’ in his bunker, Israel’s defence minister said tonight, as he confirmed IDF troops are in the heart of the terrorist’s ‘stronghold’, Gaza City.

War cabinet minister Yoav Gallant said in a televised statement that the Hamas leader ‘is hiding in his bunker and is without contact with his associates,’ but did not disclose where Sinwar’s bunker is located.

‘We are in the heart of Gaza City,’ Gallant told reporters. ‘Gaza is the largest terrorist base ever built.’

So far so good, casualties are light, progress is being made. I see no reason to listen to the Ceasefire crowd.

Protesters behind a “F— the Jews” pro-Palestine convoy are planning action on Armistice Day in London.

Organisers of the 2021 convoy, where some demonstrators drove through Jewish areas shouting anti-Semitic abuse, are planning a new protest.

The pro-Palestine convoy, which is proposed to travel from Bradford to London, is being promoted on social media and flyers amid growing fears of violent disorder.

Hamas made several strategic miscalculations in its unconscionable attacks on Israel.

Hamas seems to have made two fundamental miscalculations in staging its barbaric October 7 attack on Israel.

First, its leadership clearly assumed that the United States would not continue to support Israel if it killed enough of the Palestinians whom Hamas has been using as human shields to protect its command centers and underground tunnel networks in Gaza.

Among the groups that have supported the rapes, beheadings, burning alive, mass murder and kidnappings of Jews by Hamas have been some that purport to speak for gays, Jews, feminists and progressives. If any of these groups were actually to travel to Gaza, they would be murdered by Hamas.

Hamas has no tolerance for gays, Jews, feminists or progressives. Indeed, among the people beheaded, raped, murdered and kidnapped were gays, Jews who support Palestinians, feminists, progressives and non-Jews. None of that matters to Hamas. If you are a Jew or an Israeli or just happen to be in the way, you are a target of their barbarity.

Anti-Israel thugs who defile Britain’s memorials should face immediate deportation, a celebrated war hero has told Express.co.uk.

Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins, who is best known for his role in the Iraq War including his rousing eve-of-battle speech, defended the “democratic right of people to march in protest”.

Speaking to Express.co.uk, he added: “I think they should take into consideration that the remembrance is remembering the people who won them the rights to exercise that.”

Hundreds of Stars of David have been smeared on walls in and around Paris since the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct 7

France is investigating possible Russian involvement in an alleged anti-Semitic campaign that has seen Stars of David daubed on buildings throughout Paris.

Security services reportedly believe the graffiti may have been part of a Russian campaign to “destabilise” France and foment anti-Semitism in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel.

Hundreds of Stars of David, the symbol of the Jewish religion and the State of Israel, were smeared on walls in and around the French capital late last month.