“Oct 7 2023”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his nation on Friday evening that he had refused the Biden administration’s request for a “pause” in fighting, ostensibly for humanitarian purposes.

The principal at London Islamic School – in Southwestern Ontario – says a teacher reading a student’s poem on TikTok that states “Israel should be banned” has been spoken to.

However, the word had with her was not about what many would consider anti-Semitic themes in the video but on her choice to put it on social media.

When can a demonstration be banned?

Article 8, paragraph 1 of Germany’s constitution, or “Basic Law,” states: “All Germans shall have the right to assemble peacefully and unarmed without prior notification or permission.”

In principle, there is a high bar to be met in Germany before restrictions on freedom of assembly — including an outright ban — can be imposed. The ban must be very well justified, as the highest German court, the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, has repeatedly made clear.

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese Shia Islamist group Hezbollah, is addressing his followers in his first public comments since the Israel-Hamas war broke out.

The speech is likely to indicate the group’s next moves, as its fighters and the Israeli army are engaged in intense attacks on the Lebanon-Israel border.

This has raised fears the area could become another front in the conflict.

So far, however, the violence has largely been contained.

Since Hamas carried out the 7 October attacks on Israel, killing more than 1,400 people, Lebanon has been on edge, closely watching Hezbollah.

An Israeli first responder to the October 7 terror attack has claimed that Hamas terrorists roasted a baby in an oven in shocking video testimony.

Asher Moskowitz, of the United Hatzalah first responder group, published a video of himself speaking to a camera, delivering his witness account.

In it, he claims he saw the remains of a baby who had been baked to death in an oven at kibbutz Kfar Aza, where more than 100 civilians were killed.

Since the massacre of over a thousand Israeli civilians by Hamas on October 7th, the number of antisemitic incidents across Europe has increased drastically as arson attacks have been seen in Austria and Germany, along with Italy, where stones dedicated to victims of the Holocaust were set on fire in Rome.

The two stumbling stones, stones bearing a brass plaque with the names of victims of the Holocaust, dedicated to Michele Ezio Spizzichino and Amedeo Spagnoletto, were damaged earlier this week by unknown vandals who apparently tried to set them on fire, Il Giornale reports.

After telling us for weeks that everyone in Gaza was dead or about to die of thirst, apparently the biggest problem in Hamastan, apart from exploding weapons caches in the kitchen, is losing internet access.

Hamas uses the internet for money, it’s financed partly by cryptocurrency from terror sympathizers, propaganda and communications. The Biden administration however insists that internet access is a human right.

Left-wing opponents of Netanyahu now support military action in Gaza

The debate within Britain’s Labour Party over whether to call for a ceasefire or vaguely termed “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza reflects a more painful situation on the Israeli Left.

From the centrist liberals who oppose Benjamin Netanyahu and support two states but accept the current occupation, to committed anti-Zionists who call for one state and a right of return to Palestinians, all have been shaken by the events of the past few weeks.

Meyer Lansky…. we could use him today at a time in America when Jews are under assault on and off campus.

Sparked by Israel’s war against the brutes of Hamas, the antisemitism is everywhere.

So it was in the 1930s when Lansky was Public Enemy Number 1, a so-called gangster, the main attraction for The Jewish Mob.

He ran the largest gambling operation here and everywhere and he had associates, men with guns and muscles, to see that all debts were paid.

A different world …

Marks & Spencer has apologised for posting a picture on social media that showed burning hats that resembled the colours of the Palestinian flag.

The retailer removed a post from its Instagram that showed an outtake from its newly released Christmas advert alongside the caption: “This Christmas, do what you love… like saying no to paper hats.”

The post prompted a fierce backlash on social media over claims it made a political statement because the red, green and silver hats appeared to reflect the Palestinian flag.

A civilizational darkness not seen since the Holocaust has fallen. Shamefully, much of it emanates from our own institutions of higher learning.

God, the prophet Isaiah taught, established the Jewish people as a “light unto the nations.” The light of the people of Israel—of justice and mercy, sober intelligence and hopeful faith—has always been one of freedom, shining amid the gloom of tyranny.

When the light was first kindled, the nation in deepest darkness was Egypt. Reliefs at Karnak depict the man-god Pharaoh—immense, archetypically impersonal, and stiff—looming menacingly over herds of human beings. The Bible tells us that a Pharoah solidified control of the land during the famine of Joseph’s time. The Israelites were later forced to make bricks under the Egyptian lash, while organized squads of laborers quarried and hauled massive stones for obelisks and pyramids. The pharaonic machine spent enormous material and social capital on monumental constructions and lavish jewelry meant to bedeck the tombs of dead royalty.

Germany’s deputy leader has said “too few” Muslims in the country condemned the Oct 7 attack Hamas inflicted on Israel.

Robert Habeck urged Germany’s four million Muslims to distance themselves from anti-Semitism, saying some have been “too hesitant” to condemn Hamas.

“Anti-Semitism should not be tolerated in any form,” the German vice-chancellor and Green politician said, adding that “the scale of the Islamist demonstrations in Berlin and other cities in Germany is unacceptable and requires a tough political response”.

Jewish people don’t feel safe in Canada anymore.

And there’s not enough outrage about the constant reminders of why they feel that way.

According to a Harvard/Harris poll, 51 percent of Americans ages 18–24 believe Hamas was justified in its brutal terrorist attacks on innocent Israeli citizens on October 7.

I read that statistic at a time where I thought I’d lost the capacity to be shocked. For weeks, I’ve seen the clips and read the firsthand stories documenting Hamas’s atrocities: burned bodies, decapitated babies, raped women, children tied together with their parents, mutilated corpses. I’d seen the rallies on elite campuses celebrating Hamas’s murderous cause, the faculty letters excusing the terrorists. I thought I had grasped the extent of the moral rot. I thought I had seen the bottom.

But I hadn’t.