“Oct 7 2023”

France deploys 7,000 troops after The Louvre, Versailles get bomb threats, teacher stabbed in ‘Islamist terror’

The Louvre Museum in Paris and Versailles Palace evacuated tourists and staff Saturday in response to bomb threats, as the French government deployed thousands of solidiers to increase security a day after a French teacher was stabbed by a suspected Islamist terrorist.

Written bomb threats send to Paris police led to alarms evacuating visitors and staff from the Louvre and the underground shopping center beneath its pyramid.

Canadians still trapped in Gaza as Rafah crossing exit agreement falls through

About 150 Canadians remained trapped in the Gaza Strip on Saturday afternoon after the apparent failure of an international agreement to allow foreign nationals to leave the besieged Palestinian territory.

Thousands of people were massing on Saturday at the Rafah crossing from Gaza to Egypt, hoping to be allowed to leave the enclave, after earlier reports that the border crossing would be opened for five hours on Saturday afternoon. But confusion reigned when the gate did not open and Israeli authorities said the agreement was scrapped.

Social media has been awash with false claims, conspiracy theories and hateful content surrounding what’s happening in Israel and Gaza – and questions over whether inauthentic accounts are being used to manipulate the conversation.

As violence unfolds on the ground, I’ve been looking into who is behind this.

When I opened up my TikTok For You Page earlier this week, I was met with a video showing a young Israeli woman being taken hostage by Hamas fighters on 7 October. The footage was shocking.

When I scrolled through the comments, the reaction was not what I expected.

A moment of miracle: a Palestinian "wounded" being evacuated on a stretcher in serious condition recovers in a moment!

Residents of Gaza continue filming exciting blockbusters. #Pallywood pic.twitter.com/DRDSt2re4z

— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) October 15, 2023

Warning this is graphic, you may access the original here on Google Docs

or use the link below for a pdf format you can download.

Photo Video Archive of Civilian casualties intentionally executed by Hamas

Thank this guy …

🚨 They say it didn't happened. They say there is no evidence.
Here is the evidence!
A Google doc with links, video, photos. And it's continuing to update.
Share it! Use it!
We must not allow them to erase and deny the horror! https://t.co/ujBiWUidzn

— Imshin (@imshin) October 15, 2023

So sad! …

Watch this terrorist get his comeuppance during the massacre in Sufa. pic.twitter.com/04y4isUEfK

— The Mossad: Satirical, Yet Awesome (@TheMossadIL) October 15, 2023

Experts predict a million refugees might flee the Gaza Strip amid the war between Israel and Hamas, and socialists and far-left lawmakers said America should welcome them.

“Fifty percent of the population in Gaza are children. The international community as well as the United States should be prepared to welcome refugees from Palestine while being very careful to vet and not allow members of Hamas,” said Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a New York member of the Socialist-Democratic “Squad” who remains under investigation for pulling a fire alarm in the House Cannon Office Building earlier this month.

Canada. This is your problem. https://t.co/cLXEMTWiKN

— Douglas Murray (@DouglasKMurray) October 15, 2023

The Star of David has been graffitied on the doors of several homes in Berlin, in a chilling reminder of the persecution Jews suffered under the Nazis. Four cases have been reported to German police in recent days, escalating concerns about the safety of Jewish people in the German capital.

In one incident, a Jewish resident arrived home on Thursday evening to find graffiti smeared on her house door. “I speak Hebrew, talk on the phone in Hebrew, and wear a Star of David,” the young woman told Bild newspaper. “I really thought about whether I should stay at home.”

Whenever there is a terrorist atrocity somewhere in the world, you can count on hearing from the “yes, but” squad.

Yes, it was awful that the Irish Republican Army set off a bomb at a crowded pub, but you have to remember how angry Irish Catholics are about their persecution by Protestant bigots and British soldiers. Yes, it was terrible that hijackers flew planes into the twin towers, but aggressive U.S. foreign policy stirred up anger in the Muslim world. Yes, Vladimir Putin was out of line to bomb and pillage Ukrainian cities, but the West backed him into a corner by expanding NATO.

The Israeli navy takes out multiple terrorists trying to swim on to the Israeli shore. pic.twitter.com/tWlpOeSdSU

— Viral News NYC (@ViralNewsNYC) October 14, 2023

The terrorist group’s disingenuous denials of its atrocities catch its Western allies—which had celebrated them—in an awkward position.

To call someone “more Catholic than the Pope” is to satirize their presumptive piety. What should we call it when someone is more pro-Hamas than Hamas? That is the level to which the terrorist organization’s cheerleaders in the West, most vocal on American university campuses, have sunk.

Hamas terrorists committed the worst atrocities imaginable in Israel last weekend, on a scale difficult to fathom. Their barbarities are stomach-churning—and Hamas even admitted as much, in an official statement released on Wednesday, in which it claimed that it did “not target children,” and that those who believed it had done so were blindly siding with “the Zionist narrative, which is full of lies and slander.” In other words, it would be a slander, says Hamas, to claim that its terrorists had massacred children in their beds, beheaded them, burned them alive, or kidnapped them.

Admittedly, I grew up in the golden age for Jews in America. Anti-Semitism was muted; Jews were respected for their family values and love of education. In fact in past presidential elections, candidates delved deep into their genetic inheritances to divine a Jewish gene or two.

The existence of the modern state of Israel, a Jewish state but unequivocally also a democracy, gave Jews existential pride, a psychological homeland to which they could move if so desired, and a sense of protection and invincibility.

This war has nothing to do with revenge.

Isn’t it heartwarming that the world loves dead Jews so much? I almost feel guilty for getting that lung transplant. It pains me that I deprived so many members of Black Lives Matter — may they all be damned by G-d Almig-ty — and so many neo-Nazi white supremacists of a small moment of extra joy.

Israel has become a theatre for gruesome spectacle

Israel and Gaza are a Pathé newsreel of violence. Atrocity mounts upon atrocity. Blood smeared on gristle. Festivals mottled with corpses. Women dragged off to be raped and killed. And, now, perhaps the ultimate taboo. “This is the most difficult image we’ve posted,” ran the Daily Telegraph’s front page, reprinting a tweet from the State of Israel’s official account.“As we are writing this we are shaking. We went back and forth about posting this. But we need each and everyone of you to know. This happened.”

A Reuters fact check of an online video suggests Israeli concertgoers were unharmed by Hamas’s terrorist attack—and is prompting Hamas sympathizers to argue that the attack didn’t happen at all.

h/t XC