“Oct 7 2023”

Hamas’s atrocities already are being forgotten, interred in false equivalencies.

Every 9/11 memorial I’ve seen seems to include the words “Never Forget.” I remember that the phrase, so closely associated with the Holocaust, shook me up. But it also felt superfluous. I used to think: How could I? The September 11 attacks changed my country, changed the way we travel, changed our vocabulary. We still hear notices in Grand Central about unattended baggage. Everyone had a story about where they were, what their institution did in response, and even the conversations they had that day. It was also unforgettable because it was cinematic. The destruction of the towers, an iconic part of the New York City skyline, was broadcast. It was the closest thing to collective humanity walking onto the set of a disaster movie.

The Jewish Century is rapidly fading

It is a warm Monday morning in Rome, and the city’s ancient ghetto resembles an armed camp. As carabinieri line the streets, a cloud of melancholy hangs in the air: not only had more than 1,400 Jews recently been slaughtered in Israel, but the date — October 16 — marks the anniversary of its residents forced evacuation to the concentration camps. History, it seems, is repeating itself.

Societies that give up on freedom will soon find it replaced by violence.

Since the Hamas pogrom of 7 October, there’s been a storm of commentary on how unhinged campus culture in the West has become. Politicians and writers are bewildered that at universities where it’s a ‘microaggression’ to ask someone where they are from, and where you can be subjected to a Salem-like grilling for wearing an offensive Halloween costume, actual genocidal violence doesn’t seem to bother people. The same fresh-faced Maoists who will weep and stomp their feet if you say ‘women don’t have penises’ have collectively shrugged their shoulders over the mass murder of Jewish women and children. Some have even justified it. ‘Glory to our martyrs’, said a projection on to the wall of a building at George Washington University.

At a pro-Palestinian rally on Saturday, Dr. Natalie Knight, an English instructor at Langara College, addressed the crowd.

In her remarks on the Vancouver Art Gallery steps, Knight called the October 7 attacks by Hamas that left 1,400 Israelis dead and hundreds more kidnapped, “the amazing, brilliant offensive waged on October 7.”

The comment, which drew cheers from the crowd, horrified the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver.

Natalie Knight, who led illegal anti-LNG roadblocks in early 2020 in Vancouver resurfaced at today’s pro-Palestine rally in Vancouver. She called the Hamas terrorist attack on Israelis “amazing, brilliant.” (📹Bryton’s Thoughts/YouTube). #vanpoli #cdnpoli #October7massacre pic.twitter.com/JYDuWXG7Bk

— Bob Mackin – Happy Hallowe'en! (@bobmackin) October 28, 2023

The president of York University’s undergraduate students’ union says the university is trying to silence the student group by threatening to withdraw its certification in response to a statement that provoked widespread outrage after the Hamas attack on Israel.

Ashley D’Souza, president of the York Federation of Students, said he won’t retract the statement and won’t step down, despite the university’s demand that he and the entire student union executive resign. He said the YFS, which represents the university’s more than 50,000 undergraduate students, is consulting with lawyers as it weighs how to respond to the administration’s demands, which have triggered a process that could lead to the loss of certification for the union.

While many have condemned the Iran-backed Hamas terror group for the October 7 massacre that killed 1,400 Israelis and wounded at least 5,400 others, the fact is that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its leaders also bear responsibility for the carnage. The PA’s rhetoric and actions actively paved the way for the hell that Hamas unleashed on Israel.

The media haven’t learned anything from last week’s Gaza hospital blast debacle. Despite repeated embarrassments, reporters for liberal cable and broadcast networks are still treating Hamas — a terrorist organization — as a reliable source in their ongoing coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

On October 17, reports emerged that an explosion had occurred at a hospital in Gaza. Within minutes, TV journalists were parroting a Hamas lie that the blast had been the result of an Israeli airstrike, which had killed more than 400 people. None of these reporters at the time wondered how the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Health Ministry had managed to tally the casualties so impossibly quickly.

Segments of the Jewish population in Berlin are being forced to consider a question many once thought unthinkable in the wake of the atrocities committed by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi followers and the subsequent promises of “never again” — is it time to leave Germany?

The explosion at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital on October 17 was a vivid illustration of Hamas’s ability to wage a propaganda war.

The claims made that night by Gaza’s health ministry, which is run by Hamas, highlighted the power of social media to influence global opinion about the conflict in the Middle East.

The health ministry claimed that the explosion had been caused by an Israeli airstrike and that hundreds of people sheltering in the hospital courtyard had died in the blast and ensuing fire.

Are you on the side of the folks who think Auschwitz was a good thing? https://t.co/C7QTSfD8TC

— David Staples (@DavidStaplesYEG) October 31, 2023

Jewish houses are being targeted in a “frightening” campaign on university campuses, The Telegraph has learnt.

Students fear for their safety amid a 400 per cent spike in anti-Semitism.

It comes as some student unions and lecturers appear to have failed to condemn Hamas, a proscribed terror group, since the war on Israel began.

It has now emerged that Jewish chaplains’ houses, designed to be a safe space for students to come and go, have been targeted at two universities.

A veiled woman was shot and critically wounded by police in a Paris underground station after she threatened to detonate explosives.

Police cordoned off the Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand Metro station on the left bank after the incident at 9am, which began when the woman started screaming at passengers while travelling on a train further up the line, officers said.

After passengers called police, officers confronted the woman — who was dressed with full face-covering veil and long robe — in the station.

From Le Parisian – According to the first elements, this woman shouted “Allah akbar”, claiming that “everything was going to explode”. “She started making worrying comments on a train, a few stations before arriving at the François-Mitterrand Library, according to witnesses,” confides a source close to the case.

Via Fdesouche

Ministers are holding an official emergency (“COBRA”) meeting this evening on the Israel-Hamas conflict—their first on any possible terror threat.

This comes after Sir Mark Rowley, commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police, which is seeking clarification over its policing of extreme language, warned that the terrorism threat in Britain is being “accelerated” by the Middle East conflict. He said the country was facing a “particularly challenging time” which could see extremists at home motivated by fighting abroad.