OTTAWA — As he attempted to speak with students at the University of Calgary last week, masked anti-Israel activists pounded on the doors shouting “Allahu akbar!”
That was the scene that greeted former Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy on Halloween during a cross-country speaking tour that he said exposed him to the true nature of Canada’s pressure cooker of largely tolerated antisemitism and hatred against Jews.
Joe Biden was visiting Pittsburgh while nearby JVP protesters demanded a ‘ceasefire’ that would save Hamas. One of the protesters was Talya Lubit, a recent college graduate, who told the media, “We’ve been begging and pleading for a ceasefire for six months now.”
h/t Patti Jo
A Lebanese ship captain abducted by Israeli special forces may have been acting as a double agent.
Imad Ahmaz, described by the Israeli military as a “senior Hezbollah operative”, was extracted from a residential building in Batroun, 20 miles north of Beirut, in Lebanon, on Friday.
At least 12 naval commandos from Shayetet 13 – Israel’s version of the Royal Navy’s Special Boat Service (SBS) or the US Navy’s SEALs – were involved in the dramatic raid, which was launched from an unknown location in the Mediterranean sea.
The executive director of the Giller Prize privately told authors that she was working to end the Giller’s financial partnership with its lead sponsor, Scotiabank, amid growing controversy surrounding the bank’s ties with an Israeli arms manufacturer.
But despite behind-the-scenes assurances from Elana Rabinovitch that the foundation responsible for the literary award was planning to “extricate” itself from Scotiabank, the organization appeared to abruptly change direction, publicly doubling down on the partnership, which began in 2005.
Not just a Canadian thing …
Purging Jews From the Arts
Sally Rooney is a clarifying figure in the literary world. She does not go for complexity or nuance, and she doesn’t like to leave herself open to interpretation. Rooney has now written the same novel four times, likely to avoid any possible confusion over what it is she wants to say. And rather than hide behind some disingenuous claim of “just anti-Zionism,” she does things like oppose her last novel’s translation into Hebrew, an act of overt hostility to Jews and only Jews.
h/t Patti Jo
October 17. Israeli authorities announce that Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the Hamas terrorist organization, the man who planned and ordered the atrocities of October 7, 2023 and the hostage-taking that accompanied them, has been eliminated. In the hours that followed, US President Joe Biden said that Sinwar had been an “insurmountable obstacle” and that his death offered “the opportunity… for a political settlement” in Gaza. A short time later, US Vice President Kamala Harris said that it was now possible to “finally end the war in Gaza.”
Ottawa under pressure to give more Lebanese a safe haven in Canada
Ottawa is facing calls to expand a temporary immigration program that gives people who have managed to escape Lebanon a safe haven in Canada, with MPs and immigration experts saying the measures are too limited and leave relatives of Canadians in peril.
Earlier this week, the federal government announced a program that will allow Lebanese nationals and their immediate families to extend their stay in Canada so they can avoid the fighting between Israel and Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah that has escalated over the past five weeks.
No thanks, cancel that order.
A teacher at a specialist school has been suspended after describing the mastermind of the Oct 7 attacks as a martyr.
Mohammad Dahlan, who teaches design and technology, made the remarks about Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar following his death last month.
Mr Dahlan was also reported to the police after posting online that “killing Zionists is an act of worship”.
Pro-Palestine vandals have stolen two busts of Israel’s first president from a glass cabinet at Manchester University.
Palestine Action seized the sculptures of Chaim Weizmann as part of a string of co-ordinated attacks to mark the 107th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration on Saturday.
Arthur Balfour, then foreign secretary, outlined plans to form “a national home for the Jewish people” in a letter to Lord Rothschild, which was endorsed by the Government on Nov 2 1917.
BREAKING: Palestine Action abduct sculptures of Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann, from the University of Manchester.
Weizmann secured the Balfour Declaration, a British pledge written 107 years ago, which began the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by signing the land away. pic.twitter.com/a8urQciod5
— Palestine Action (@Pal_action) November 2, 2024
Know them by who they run with- CAGE had very warm words for the psychopath Jihadi John
Palestine Action will be joining this discussion https://t.co/1oSoossE3I
— Palestine Action (@Pal_action) November 2, 2024
Crown prosecutors have dropped assault and harassment charges against a woman who pulled the hijab of a protester at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Ottawa in May, saying it needed to balance the public interest in prosecution and the reasonable prospect of conviction.
As part of the reasoning given for withdrawing charges on Thursday, assistant Crown attorney Moiz Karimjee said the Crown considered a number of factors, including that the victim was chanting “From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free,” which he said could be reasonably inferred to be “a call for genocide of the Jewish people.”
Those who led an ‘intimidating’ rally at the JW3 community centre included a former civil servant, a male escort and a Just Stop Oil activist
Aconference at the JW3 Jewish community centre in West Hampstead, north London last weekend was met by masked protesters and a wall of sound. “You are mass murderers”, the crowd of 60 chanted, led by amplified voices: “Babykillers not welcome here.”
A Jewish pensioner was left in tears, while another woman could be seen crying as she asked a police officer for assistance while a young man shouted into a megaphone at her.
Do you think a far right mob blocking all entrances to a mosque and bellowing "Islam no more" would be allowed to get away with it?
Now see the JW3 Centre in London, last Sunday. pic.twitter.com/K5RhR5gTEn
— habibi (@habibi_uk) October 29, 2024
The most disgusting, aggressive scenes and levels of intimidation from “pro Palestinian” activists outside JW3, a Jewish cultural centre in London attended by children, young families. Very little police presence. pic.twitter.com/NfAlVlMCVI
— Sandy Rashty (@SandyRashty) October 27, 2024
United Nations special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese has withdrawn from a Montreal conference featuring Charlotte Kates, the founder of Samidoun, a designated terror group.
An updated list of individuals participating in the inaugural “Coordinating Council 4 Palestine” conference on Nov. 1 and 2 has removed Albanese’s name as the keynote speaker on Saturday evening after Jewish leaders decried her plan to speak at the event. There have also been calls for her to be barred from Canada because her remarks, including comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, have been deemed to be antisemitic.
On the evening of October 7, 2024, a well-known and frightening group of people gathered on the steps of Vancouver’s Robson Square, their faces obscured by masks and keffiyehs as they set a Canadian flag on fire while chanting “Death to Canada! Death to the United States! And Death to Israel!” and “We are Hezbollah and we are Hamas!”
That group is Samidoun, also known as the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, and they have a long history of incitement in Canada and abroad. They had been able to register themselves as a non-profit in Canada, but since this most recent stunt, calls increased not only to remove their non-profit status but also to list the group as a terrorist entity under Canadian law.
The Liberals are Samidoun.
In August, the second largest teachers union chapter in the country—there are more than 35,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles—met at the Bonaventure Hotel in L.A. to discuss, among other things, how to turn their K-12 students against Israel. In front of a PowerPoint that read, “How to be a teacher & an organizer. . . and NOT get fired,” history teacher Ron Gochez elaborated on stealth methods for indoctrinating students.
But how to transport busloads of kids to an anti-Israel rally, during the school day, without arousing suspicion?
Interesting read given the TDSB’s recent field trip to a hate march.
The Canadian government is facing demands to bar Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur overseeing the Palestinian territories, from the country, following comments she made that have been called antisemitic.
Albanese is scheduled to speak at the University of Toronto on Nov. 7 about international law and genocide.
I doubt they will ban her. Trudeau covets the Mohammedan vote, he is in the thrall of the UN and his party is virtually Islamist in conviction.
