A Pakistani man arrested in Quebec for an alleged plot to kill Jews in New York City has been transferred to a provincial detention centre in Montreal from Rimouski, Que.
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, who appeared in Quebec Superior Court this morning, was transferred to the jail in the city’s east end on Thursday, but his lawyer says he hasn’t yet been able to review court documents with his client in person.
In a first test case for warrants issued by a global court at Hague, Poland is announcing it would arrest Prime Minister Netanayahu of Israel if he attends the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, where an estimated 1 million Jews perished as part of the genocidal Nazi war against them.
“We are obliged to respect the provisions of the International Criminal Court,” Poland’s deputy foreign minister, Władysław Bartoszewski, who is charged with organizing the ceremony, claimed Friday, according to the Polish-language newspaper Rzeczpospolita. Dozens of world leaders are expected to attend the January 27 ceremony.
Jewish leaders fear that a provincial investigation into a field trip authorized by the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), during which students participated in anti-Israel chants, is too limited in its scope.
In September, students from 15 TDSB schools attended the Grassy Narrows River Run rally in downtown Toronto. The demonstration was framed as an opportunity to learn about mercury contamination and Indigenous access to natural resources but featured anti-Israel chants and signage. Parents said they were informed that students would “observe and learn,” but not participate, as the crowd made its way to the provincial legislature at Queen’s Park.
Montreal police arson investigators will examine the damage done by a crude firebomb at the site of a Jewish community centre and synagogue early Wednesday in Dollard-des-Ormeaux.
h/t MP
Former climate icon Greta Thunberg, revered by politicians, the media and church institutions as a modern-day saint, has hit rock bottom.
The innocent girl against the forces of evil; the young woman acting for higher motives; the penniless rebel; all tropes describing Greta that have gained popularity in recent years.
Antisemitism is woven into elite culture in Canada. It arose from the successful demonization of white people as racist oppressors by our elites. Now this same elite is engaged in civil war cynically demanding ordinary Cdn's protect Jews from the depraved Muslims they imported.
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) December 17, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
The state of Israel will shutter its embassy in Ireland after it backed South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice and promised to arrest Prime Minister Netanyahu if he set foot in the country. The Irish prime minister called Israel’s decision to close the embassy “deeply regrettable.”
“The decision to close Israel’s embassy in Dublin was made in light of the extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government,” Gideon Sa’ar said in a statement on Sunday. “Ireland has crossed every red line in its relations with Israel. Israel will invest its resources in advancing bilateral relations with countries worldwide, prioritising those that align with Israel’s interests and values.”
A rigorous analysis published on Saturday of Hamas authorities’ death statistics in Gaza shows they were vastly inflated and methodologically flawed.
The report by the London-based Henry Jackson Society security think tank breaks down the figure of about 44,000 deaths since Oct. 7, 2023, that the Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza has published, and which international media have reported without scrutiny.
You mean we’ve been Fafo’d!
Americans were shocked and outraged by the assassination of Brian Thompson, the CEO of the UnitedHealthcare insurance company. Or at least most Americans were. Some were apparently happy about it, as a torrent of hate on social media directed towards the victim and sympathy for the murderer indicated.
There have already been several thwarted plots in Canada alone and with their ideological kin getting trounced in the ME perhaps a few more losers will step up in solidarity.
To many Britons, the word “sectarianism” is associated with unfortunate parts of the world such as the Middle East, or, closer to home, Northern Ireland. The thought of homegrown sectarianism disfiguring politics on the mainland, perhaps for the first time since the 17th century, is a troubling one. Yet it may already be a reality which we have to confront.
The Gaza independent alliance — featuring four Muslim MPs elected to Parliament in July’s general election, as well as former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn — is reportedly looking to officially form and register as a political party. Since the election it has become symbolic of a new sectarian politics emerging in Britain, with campaign groups such as The Muslim Vote using Gaza to voice their disaffection with Labour for taking Muslim voters for granted.
Michael Higgins: Liberal government hate crime report pretends antisemitism doesn’t exist
“Hate persists when apathy prevails,” reads a new report on hate crimes by a federal government ombudsman who is supposed to be the “voice of the victim.”
Hate also persists if you just ignore it. For example, the report by the victims’ ombudsman specifically does not mention any attacks on Jews, Jewish institutions, or the alarming number of antisemitic protests in this country.
The Office of the Federal Ombudsperson for Victims of Crime reports that there was a 32 per cent increase in 2023 in the number of hate crimes reported to police but ignores the fact that attacks on Jews increased 71 per cent that year.
This report is the product of an Elite which seeks to exonerate itself. Trudeau’s Liberals and the NDP support Islamist immigration, anti-zionist universities, schools and unions. Not to mention the demonetization of White Canadians under racist DEI and affirmative action programs. They kowtow to our enemies for their votes. They are criminals. Stupidly groups such as B’nai Brith embrace DEI as a means of working within the system. The system that assigns White people the role of perpetual villain as the apex oppressor of all humanity. Uh Huh.
Tensions were apparent in the Liberal caucus Wednesday after a committee chaired by Liberal MP Lena Metlege Diab released a report endorsing the disputed concept of anti-Palestinian racism.
Attorney General Arif Virani said he was “alive to concerns” about the notion of anti-Palestinian racism, but stressed the need to confront the rise in hatred since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in southern Israel.
Palestine would be a ‘failing state,’ characterized by internal conflicts and armed actions against its neighbors.
The governments of Ireland, Spain, and Norway want to recognize a non-existent Palestinian state, just as other, predominantly Muslim states have done since the United Nations elevated the status of the Palestinians to that of a quasi-state in 1988. But this status does not actually make the territory a state. Point three of the Montevideo Convention, one of the relevant lists of criteria for statehood under international law, emphasizes, “The political existence of the state is independent of recognition by the other states.”
In other respects, too, the Palestinians do not fulfill the criteria for statehood. The population of the Palestinian territories consists of very different, mutually disunited Arab tribes, clans, and immigrant groups that emerged from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. They settled in and around the nascent Jewish state when proximity to the Jewish enterprises became lucrative. For decades, efforts have been made to declare this heterogeneous population a kind of nation, with a common culture, history, and goals, united by the narrative of the so-called Nakba, said to designate their expulsion and persecution by Israel.
We rarely run pieces this long. But today’s investigation—the story of how antisemitism became deeply embedded in Justin Trudeau’s Canada—called for it. This is a piece worth reading carefully. It is relevant not just to our many Canadian readers, but to anyone invested in the future of the West. —Bari Weiss
For Sarah Rugheimer, a professor of astronomy at York University in Toronto, the first sign of the virulent strain of antisemitism now embedded in Justin Trudeau’s Canada appeared on a lamppost.
It was a few weeks after the Hamas massacre of last October 7. Rugheimer, 41, was walking in a park near her home in the city’s quiet Cedarvale neighborhood when she saw a poster of the Israeli hostage Elad Katzir, a 47-year-old farmer from Kibbutz Nir Oz, covered with swastikas.
In the days that followed, as the war raged in Gaza, swastikas turned up all over Cedarvale. They also started appearing on the York campus, where Rugheimer serves as the Allan I. Carswell Chair for the Public Understanding of Astronomy. As fall turned to winter, a swastika showed up in the snow outside the campus building where she works.
The Liberal Party is cracking down on Jew hate. pic.twitter.com/0zB2SZBQJy
— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) December 11, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
Somewhat covertly, in November 2024, Ayelet Shaked, a former Israeli Minister of Justice, was shockingly denied permission to enter Australia for the purpose of participating in a conference discussing current Middle East events. The conference was hosted by the Australia Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC), and intended to be a Jewish community event.
Colin Rubenstein, executive director of AIJAC, denounced the visa denial, made without a reason being disclosed at the time, by Australian Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke. In Rubenstein’s view, “The decision to refuse a visa to… Shaked on the grounds that she would vilify Australians and incite discord among the community is a disgraceful act of hostility towards a democratic ally.”
