“Oct 7 2023”

In two reports on antisemitism and Islamophobia in Canada, Liberal and NDP MPs on the House of Commons justice committee said Ottawa should take steps to keep student protest encampments off university grounds, criminally ban the display of terrorist emblems and recognize anti-Palestinian discrimination as a unique form of hate.

The antisemitism report’s first recommendation says the government should work with provinces and territories to see that universities ensure “encampments are not permitted,” and to determine “what the rules are for protests and demonstrations, including that hateful speech, and speech that incites and justifies violence, will not be tolerated.”

… The two reports, which together offer 34 recommendations, were drafted by the House of Commons standing committee on justice and human rights after it heard from Jewish and Muslim advocacy groups, university students, administrators and academics.

Everybody thinks they can tweak the law to favour their side. It’s a foolish game that always backfires.

Our rights to free speech should not be constrained by political agendas. As we have witnessed with Section 13 that way leads to tyranny.

November 7. Amsterdam. As soon as a soccer match between the Netherlands’ AFC Ajax, a Dutch soccer club, and Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv ends, Maccabi supporters who came from Israel and several European countries to attend the match, are attacked. Many are chased through the streets, beaten, thrown to the ground, punched, kicked, stabbed, and thrown into the icy water of the city’s canals. While the attackers shout anti-Semitic slurs, the victims, in an attempt to escape, shout back that they are not Jewish.

Before disappearing into an Algerian prison, where at 75 years old he now risks ending his days, the great novelist Boualem Sansal gave this last extraordinary interview to the Journal du dimanche:

“Self-flagellation is gaining ground throughout the West and is becoming a danger. I do not understand why governments are not worried about this galloping epidemic and are not taking any action to prevent the disasters that it will eventually cause. We can begin to believe that the West is committing suicide and in the most amusing way. Good deal for the BRICS and the Islamists who dream of a great replacement. We are overwhelmed by fear. And fear causes in man as in animals one or the other reaction, or even both at the same time: the subject becomes violent and attacks or submits to fear and goes as far as mutilating himself to show his submission. Self-flagellation and Wokism are acts of symbolic self-mutilation, they express atonement, submission, preparation for liberating suicide”.

Fourteen months after the Iran-backed terrorist group, Hamas, attacked Israel, murdering 1,200 Israelis and wounding thousands more, Hamas has finally acknowledged that it has been abandoned by many Arabs and Muslims.

When Hamas launched the October 7, 2023 assault on Israeli communities near the border with the Gaza Strip, its leaders were hoping that many Arabs and Muslims would join the fight to murder as many Jews as possible to eliminate Israel. Hamas officials expressed hope at the time that the October 7 atrocities would prompt the formation of a large Arab-Islamic battlefront against Israel. The hope was that the Iran-backed Hezbollah organization in Lebanon would launch a similar invasion of Israel, that Iran would unleash thousands of ballistic missiles against Israel, and that tens of thousands of Muslims would invade Israel from Jordan.

… Mainstream Jewish America has cultivated the false belief that conservative white Christians pose an existential threat to their lives and rights. Yet, since October 7th, it is precisely these conservative white Christians who have consistently stood with Israel and American Jews. This is clear to anyone grounded in reality rather than in the distorted narratives presented by outlets like The New York Times or The Forward. Today’s Conservative Christians not only uphold the values that turned America into the Goldene Medine, but they also understand the Bible well enough to recognize Jewish rights to the Land of Israel (putting aside their belief in the Second Coming as the reason)—and the obvious wrong of slaughtering teenagers at a music festival.

The double standards of many progressive Jews are striking. They are appalled that their fellow progressives condone Hamas violence or blame Israeli fans for the recent pogrom in Amsterdam. But why should this shock them any more than the justifications for mob violence during the George Floyd riots in America? When law-breaking, vandalism, and taking “justice” into one’s own hands are legitimized, it’s no surprise when similar arguments are applied to the Middle East. Admittedly, the BLM mobs didn’t rape and murder thousands, but when “resistance to oppression” is celebrated in one context, it becomes remarkably easy to argue that greater “oppression” justifies even greater “resistance.”

A group of Jewish-Canadian activists protesting Israel’s ongoing armed offensive in Gaza have occupied a parliamentary building in Ottawa on Tuesday morning.

The demonstration organized by the Jews Say No to Genocide Coalition filled the lobby of the Confederation Building on Wellington Street, which houses the offices of many government and opposition members of Parliament.

BREAKING: Jews say no and allies sit in at parliament building in Ottawa pic.twitter.com/vfrR1WkuoJ

— Jews Say No To Genocide (@JewsSayNo) December 3, 2024

BREAKING: Jews and allies forced out of parliament pic.twitter.com/AXfnkAEtcC

— Jews Say No To Genocide (@JewsSayNo) December 3, 2024

Hamas has released a video of the Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander — who appeared to be speaking under duress — expressing disappointment at Binyamin Netanyahu and sending a “message” to Donald Trump.

Alexander, 20, seen for the first time since he was kidnapped on October 7 last year, said he was “disappointed” at the Israeli prime minister’s recent $5 million offer to anyone who returns the hostages alive.

“The prime minister is supposed to protect his citizens and soldiers,” Alexander can be heard saying. “But you neglected us.”