Despite several locals and even the union’s national executive calling for his resignation, CUPE Ontario’s affirmation of their leader and his controversial statements about Israel has alarmed its Jewish members.
Happy Labour Day from CUPE. The vibe is good. pic.twitter.com/rF0T5tzLBc
— Sid Ryan (@PSidRyan) September 2, 2024
You can feel their disease.
More than 50 Liberal ministerial staffers, mostly of Muslim and Arab origin, are refusing to volunteer in the LaSalle-Émard-Verdun by-election because they object to their own party’s stand on the conflict in Gaza, revealing how deeply that conflict is tearing at the Liberal Party.
And while this speaks to the internal division of a tired government, it also reveals how starkly polarized Canadians have become over the Middle East.
We know what side Trudeau is on.
The murder of six more Israeli hostages — Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi and Ori Danino — captured by the terrorist group Hamas appears to be leading many Israelis, along with most of their ever-gullible media (remember the Oslo Accords?) to think that if only their government would agree to a ceasefire, they would get their hostages back. Most people, at least in the West, would desperately like that — not just the American ones — all 120 of them, especially before Hamas finishes murdering them. If the Israelis really want their hostages back, however, they had better think again.
In the wake of the La Grande-Motte Synagogue attack and political turmoil, France Central Consistory vice president and Marseilles Consistory president Michel Cohen Tenoudji expressed concern to The Jerusalem Post about the future of French Jewry and fate of the French Republic.
After the August 24 arson terrorist attack on the Beth Yaacov synagogue in southern France, the Jewish community was shocked and outraged, said Cohen Tenoudji. The attack by the 33-year-old Algerian man, which wounded a police officer, amplified fears about rising antisemitism in the country.
The six hostages whose bodies were recovered by Israeli forces from a Rafah tunnel in southern Gaza overnight Saturday were shot multiple times at close range just days before their discovery, Israel’s Health Ministry said on Sunday.
According to examinations conducted by the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv, the captives were murdered 48 to 72 hours before the autopsies, which would place their deaths at some point between Thursday and Friday morning.
Israel’s first nationwide general strike since the Hamas attacks of 7 October, which was convened in support of a deal to free hostages held in Gaza, has ended after eight hours with a court order for workers to go back to their jobs.
The strike was organised amid widespread public anger at the government’s handling of the war in Gaza after the discovery of the bodies of six hostages at the weekend.
It was called by Israel’s largest trade union, Histadrut, from 6am on Monday, closing government and municipal offices as well as schools and many private businesses. Israel’s international airport, Ben Gurion, was reported to have shut down at 8am local time (6am BST) for two hours.
🇮🇱 Watch: Half a million people have marched in the streets of Israel ahead of a nationwide strike
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— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) September 2, 2024
I am not sure what the strikers hoped to accomplish. A ceasefire simply tees-up renewed Hamas treachery.
Hamas has released a video on Telegram on Monday showing the six recently slain hostages speaking into a camera, while also announcing that it will release their “last message to the world” before they were killed.
Canadian post-secondary schools have made discrimination and ideological filtering a daily practice. It could be their downfall
This fall, as kids and parents contemplate the piles of cash they are about to fork over for this thing called a “university education,” they might be wondering if universities are getting back to normal. The past several years saw a moral panic of wokeness erupt in higher education circles in the wake of American Black Lives Matter race politics, Donald Trump and our very own alleged mass graves controversy in Kamloops.
Tens of thousands of grieving and angry Israelis surged into the streets of Tel Aviv Sunday night after six more hostages were murdered by Hamas at Gaza, chanting “Now! Now!” as they demanded that Prime Minister Netanyahu reach a cease-fire with the terrorists to bring the remaining captives home.
The mass outpouring appeared to be the largest such demonstration in 11 months of war and protesters said it felt like a possible turning point, although the country is deeply divided.
It is time to call out Western liberals’ craven silence in the face of Hamas’s fascism.
The discovery of the bodies of six Israeli hostages in a tunnel in Rafah confirms what many of us knew about Hamas – that it is a Jew-killing machine that masquerades as a national-liberation movement. That it has no purpose beyond the persecution and slaughter of the Jewish people. That its aim, for all the crowing of its useful idiots in the West about ‘resistance’ and ‘decolonisation’, is nothing more and nothing less than the fascistic terrorising of the inhabitants of the Jewish State. The ‘brutal murder’ of these six people, their only crime their Jewishness, is the bloodiest proof yet that in Hamas Israel faces not only a military foe, but also a virulently racist, existential threat.
The closet
I woke up in Kfar Aza on the morning of October 7 to the sound of Hamas rockets. I knew how the rockets usually sounded here, so I immediately realised something was different about these ones. I said, “Yes, a day off work! I can work from home.” Those were my first thoughts. I went outside to the neighbours: “Hey, good morning, good morning!” Outside, I heard boom-boom-boom, there were already gunshots in the kibbutz, and I was all like, “What’s up? Good morning!” We didn’t get it at all.
The bodies of hostages Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Carmel Gat, Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov, and Ori Danino were found in the Gaza Strip, the IDF said on Sunday morning.
The IDF retrieved the bodies of the hostages from a tunnel under the city of Rafah in Gaza.
They were likely slaughtered by Hamas shortly before the IDF got to them in Rafah.
When the culture wars started, I was frequently irritated and amazed by those who insisted it was all just Right-wing media provocation. It was blazingly obvious everywhere, from mandatory workplace unconscious bias training to increasingly illiberal student campaigns, to the deranged stunts carried out with increasing regularity by Greta Thunberg’s acolytes that it was anything but “just” that.
Even so, one could hide and take a break. One could go on a trip somewhere away from it all, leave London or student towns, turn off the news, change the subject.
MONTREAL—“One second we were talking and the next he was gone, I don’t think we will ever get over it,” Raquel Ohnona Look, whose son Alexandre Look, 33, was murdered at the Supernova music festival by Hamas terrorists, told JNS.
Hoping to avoid a repeat of last year’s hateful anti-Israel campus protests this fall, a Jewish group is putting university administrators on notice.
In letters addressed to the heads of over 80 schools across the country, B’nai Brith Canada is urging universities to apply existing anti-racism and DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) policies to ensure Jewish students are protected from hate — particularly with the anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks just around the corner.
