York University says it will begin a process that could lead to the school withdrawing its recognition of its student unions in response to a controversial statement the groups issued about this month’s Hamas attacks in Israel.
In a written notice Friday, the university’s administration said it suspects the student unions have breached their responsibilities under a university regulation, by failing to act in an open, accessible, democratic and non-discriminatory manner.
A first-year Israeli student at Harvard Business School was shoved and accosted amid a “die in” protest held on Wednesday to assail Israel’s retaliatory attacks on Hamas.
The incident, captured on video reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, shows the student saying “don’t grab me” and “don’t touch my neck” as protesters surround him, blocking his view and their own faces with keffiyehs.
h/t MW
Protest in front of the US consulate in Toronto right now… Free Free Palestine ! pic.twitter.com/AjZJZ6ffn9
— Noorain (@Noorain07987878) October 21, 2023
THOUSANDS in TORONTO occupy University Ave in front of the U.S. Consulate condemning Israel's ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestine.#StopPalestineGenocide #PalestinianGenocide #FreePalestine #Palestine#Toronto pic.twitter.com/SWw7uehcJT
— Javier Dávila #FreePalestine #NoOneIsDisposable (@XjusticeXpeace) October 21, 2023
Great turnout at the Palestine rally at Toronto Metropolitan University yesterday. Students and workers united to show our solidarity with Palestinian people against imperialism and genocide. pic.twitter.com/sTzVbS5lmP
— Fightback (@CanadaMarxists) October 21, 2023
Thousands of people are taking part in a pro-Palestinian protest in London for the second consecutive weekend.
The Met Police estimated up to 100,000 people had joined the march, which was due to end in a rally near Downing Street, as of 14:00 BST.
Smaller demos took place in Birmingham, Belfast, Cardiff and Salford.
It comes as aid deliveries reached Gaza for the first time since Israel imposed a blockade following a Hamas attack which killed 1,400 people in Israel.
Holy moly!
An absolutely gigantic turnout in London right now to say, “Free Palestine!”🇵🇸
— sarah (@sahouraxo) October 21, 2023
Meanwhile in the USA …
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged divergent views, and common fears, among his Liberal MPs over the Israel-Hamas war on Friday, when he also faced an unfriendly crowd during a visit to a mosque.
Some Liberal MPs are joining calls by Muslim groups for Canada to push for a ceasefire in the region, while major Canadian Jewish groups have demanded Trudeau retract an earlier comment they view as lending credence to the claim by Hamas that Israel was responsible for an attack on a hospital in Gaza City.
Demonstrators gathered at four pro-Palestinian rallies in Toronto on Friday to show their support for people in the Gaza Strip as the Israel-Hamas war continues.
One rally is ongoing at Queen’s Park and has drawn more than 500 people. The other three were held outside the office of Deputy Premier Chrystia Freeland, at Toronto Metropolitan University and at the University of Toronto.
At Queen’s Park, the demonstrators called on the Ontario government to reconsider a motion that passed 78-0 in the legislature on Thursday. The motion condemned Hamas and affirmed Israel’s right to defend itself. All Progressive Conservative and Liberal MPPs voted in favour of the motion tabled on Monday, while the NDP abstained from the vote.
This demo may draw a crowd, so far the Hamas support rallies have been small to middling affairs.
#TORONTO:
NATIONAL MARCH FOR GAZA 🇵🇸 #StopGenocideNow#PalestinianGenocideWHEN: Sat. October 21 @ 2PM
WHERE: U.S. Consulate
(360 University Ave.), TorontoJoin THOUSANDS in condemning Israel’s settler colonial genocide & ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
WE CAN’T STOP NOW! pic.twitter.com/6q4RDMYo0u
— Javier Dávila #FreePalestine #NoOneIsDisposable (@XjusticeXpeace) October 19, 2023
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CNN reporter Sara Sidner was accosted live on-air on this morning as she reported from the West Bank, with an angry crowd of Palestinians telling her: ‘F**k CNN – you are not welcome here’ in the latest indicator of the region’s bubbling hatred of America.
Sidner is among the network’s reporters who have been in the region since Hamas waged war on October 7. On Friday, she was reporting from a street in the West Bank – one of two Palestinian territories – when she was approached by a furious man.
h/t Linda1000
The Israel-Palestine conflict has not caused a Democratic exodus
Despite sections of the American Left coddling Hamas and criticising Israel in the wake of the former’s atrocities against Israeli civilians, most American Jews do not appear likely to follow co-religionists such as Jared Kushner or Steven Miller into the Republican camp.
Rep. Ilhan Omar slammed President Joe Biden over the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. "Where is your humanity? Where is your outrage?" pic.twitter.com/qtD7ONluyw
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) October 20, 2023
Trudeau acknowledges Liberal caucus divide over Israel-Hamas war. Says differences are ‘a source of strength’
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday that MPs, including from his own caucus, are reflecting “very real fears and concerns” amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, but called on them to remind Canadians that diversity is a “source of strength.”
Justin will lick Satan’s ass for a vote.
More … Trudeau acknowledges divisions in caucus, won’t repeat Canadian envoy’s call to destroy Hamas
He needs his face slapped.
The people that put Trudeau in power now want him out. They hate him.pic.twitter.com/oMmVFXTybX
— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) October 20, 2023
TRUDEAU requires a police escort everywhere he goes, including today while he attended Friday prayer at a mosque in the GTA #Canada #Ontario #Toronto #TrudeauDestroyingCanada pic.twitter.com/qb62b1zHv4
— Melissa 🇨🇦 (@MelissaLMRogers) October 20, 2023
An American mother and daughter became the first hostages to be freed by Hamas on Friday night in “a sign of goodwill”.
They were identified by the Israeli military as Judith Raanan, who is believed to be in her 60s, and her 17-year-old daughter Natalie, who were visiting family living in a Kibbutz close to the Gaza Strip when Hamas attacked.
Joe Biden said the pair “endured a terrible ordeal these past 14 days, and I am overjoyed that they will soon be reunited with their family, who has been wracked with fear.
When Canadians took to the streets in the thousands to protest the education system’s desire to cut them out of their children’s lives, there was a vast chorus of boos.
All kinds of agencies, companies, and associations issued statements and transmitted them on social media to show their solidarity with members of the LGBTQS2 communities who may have felt unsafe after seeing folks demand to be informed if their child wish to be called Joan instead of John, or Fatima instead of Fazil.
As the head of Detroit’s Jewish Community Relations Council for the last four years, Rabbi Asher Lopatin said he has tried to build a working relationship with Rashida Tlaib, the far-left anti-Israel congresswoman who represents the state’s twelfth congressional district.
Yazmeen Deyhimi’s journey from a young ADL ‘No Place for Hate’ intern to Hamas campaigner to apologizing on social media is a study in the profound political confusion of the campus woke
Yazmeen Deyhimi, who the organization Stop Antisemitism identified as one of two New York University students caught on video tearing down flyers depicting the faces of people Hamas kidnapped to the Gaza Strip, began volunteering for the Anti-Defamation League when she was just a freshman in high school. While still a young teen, she “took part in the ADL Peer Training Program,” according to a short biography of Deyhimi included in the ADL of New York and New Jersey’s announcement of its 2019 high school summer intern class. “She quickly joined the No Place for Hate Committee and has been committed to help facilitate events such as Unity and Equality Days,” the blurb continued.
The function of the police, one might have thought, was to protect the weak against the overbearing and the bullying. Unfortunately, a by-product of the Gaza crisis has been to suggest that, at least on the streets of London, a bit of carefully targeted thuggery against your political opponents can pay useful dividends.
For some days now, the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) has been raising awareness of the plight of abducted Israelis in Gaza by driving display vans around iconic parts of London. These vans are fitted with electronic billboards on the sides and back containing the names of children taken by Hamas from Israel a couple of weeks ago, and still holed up (assuming they are alive) in the Gaza Strip.
If Americans do not have good background history, or very good intuition and common sense, it is increasingly difficult to cognitively negotiate the mainstream media war ‘news’ since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
Our gut tells us that we must sort this one out, quickly. Concurrently, our decision-making as a free people is being hijacked by the leftist Democrats’ neurotic permaglue in massing to support the indefensible, e.g., the horror of Hamas (this leftist germinally fascistic stance that might also serve them well, briefly, as ‘socialists’).
Putting these phenomenally purblind Democrats aside, let’s look at what happened this week in Palestine.
