Iran is signaling that its promised strike against Israel may not be imminent, with comments from senior officials temporarily easing fears of escalation into a wider regional conflict.
Iran for weeks has warned of a “devastating” reprisal to “punish” Israel after the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh while visiting Tehran in late July — as officials in Israel, Washington and the wider Middle East have nervously waited for a response.
The powerful UK network of woke, unelected civil servants and officials known as ‘the Blob’ has become notorious for trying to subvert democracy at home, defying the previous Tory government on everything from Brexit to immigration policy.
Now the Blob is spreading its anti-democratic tentacles internationally, pressing its allies in the Labour government to abandon Israel, which is fighting against Islamist terrorists for its survival as the only democracy in the Middle East. The Blob is so blinded by its loathing of Western-style democracy that it seems prepared, effectively, to declare war on Israel.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees has “lost confidence” in national vice-president Fred Hahn and is demanding his resignation after he posted a video widely denounced as antisemitic.
“We’ve given him pretty strong direction,” CUPE national president Mark Hancock told the Star in an interview Wednesday, a day after the union’s executive board met over the growing controversy surrounding Hahn.
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There are some awards that should give recipients pause and make them reconsider their life choices. Like receiving a Razzie Award for worst actor, a Grand Cross of the German Eagle from the Nazis or a human rights award from the Islamic Republic of Iran. But for Canadian terror apologist Charlotte Kates, the Iranian regime’s recognition of her anti-Israel campaign is considered a badge of honour.
“As word came that murderous hordes were approaching, the Jews attempted to flee. Those who could not, barricaded themselves indoors and prayed for a miracle.”
This moving narrative describes not the shocking events of October 7, 2023, at Kibbutz Be’eri and other communities in Israel, but the massacre of eastern European Jews nearly 400 years earlier by Cossacks during the 1648 Khmelnitsky pogroms, in what is now Ukraine.
Montreal police (SPVM) says at least one synagogue in Montreal is on a list of more than 100 places of worship across Canada that received a threatening email Wednesday morning.
The force received a 911 call at 7:10 a.m. about the email, which was received at 5 a.m., and officers are currently onsite at Adath Israel Poale Zedek Anshei Ozeroff on Harrow Crescent in Hampstead.
Probably White Supremacists.
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Paris, the world gave you the Olympic truce for which President Macron asked — but now it’s au revoir to all that. Things previously swept under the carpet for a couple weeks of international kumbaya are now aswirl, some inextricably linked to events in the Middle East.
Antisemitic incidents, a staple of modern French life, are multiplying. On August 15, just days after the Olympic games concluded, a man was filmed hurling antisemitic remarks at a woman riding the metro in the 16th district of Paris — one of the capital’s toniest neighborhoods. According to footage evaluated by French police, the aggressor’s insults included “Hitler was right” and “you’re going to pay” as well as the additional libel of “you’re committing crimes against humanity.”
The Israeli military has recovered six more bodies of hostages in Gaza kidnapped by Hamas, as the US warned that time was running out to reach a deal to free the remaining hostages and end the war.
The military said the bodies were recovered in an overnight operation in southern Gaza. They included the remains of 79-year old Avraham Munder, whose kibbutz had earlier on Tuesday announced he had died after suffered “physical and mental torture for months” in captivity. The military did not say how they died.
Many of the Arab journalists reporting on Israel and Gaza for the mainstream Western media, as well as for the Qatari propaganda outlet Al Jazeera, turn out to be longtime supporters of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. These are the people on whom many in the gullible West have been relying for information, unaware of these journalists’ long associations with terror groups. Now one of their number, Bisan Owda, who works for Al Jazeera, and who turns out to have been for a long time a PFLP enthusiast, has been nominated for an Emmy in the category of “hard news feature story.” Robert Spencer wrote about this briefly here, and more on this scandalous state of affairs can be found here: “How Terrorist-State Propaganda Became the Norm for U.S. Audiences,” by Seth Mandel, Commentary, August 8, 2024 …
On October 7, 2023, the Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, along with thousands of “ordinary” Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, invaded Israel. While chanting “Allahu Akbar” (“Allah is the greatest”), they tortured, abused, raped, burned and beheaded, murdering more than 1,200 Israelis, including women, children and babies. They also kidnapped more than 240 Israelis to the Gaza Strip.
The far-left, anti-Israel National Lawyers Guild has been mobilizing to assist the tens of thousands of protesters expected to hit the streets of Chicago.
If demonstrations unfold as expected at the Democratic National Convention next week, look for an occasional fluorescent-green hat among the protesters. This is the signature headgear worn by National Lawyers Guild (NLG) legal observers, who can often be found attending major left-wing protests in support of the demonstrators. They represent an organization that has long been one of the most deeply radical activist groups in the country and one that harbors a particularly virulent hostility toward Israel. They have expressed that hostility in some truly appalling ways.
Hezbollah’s commander Fuad Shukr lived a life so secret few knew his name or face before an airstrike killed him and helped put the Middle East on the brink of war
BEIRUT—Fuad Shukr had eluded the U.S. for four decades, ever since a bombing killed 241 American servicemen in a Marine barracks in the Lebanese capital, which it says he helped plan. At the end of July, an Israeli airstrike found him on the seventh floor of a residential building not far away.
The militant was one of the U.S.-designated terrorist group Hezbollah’s founders and most senior operatives, a longtime trusted friend of the leader Hassan Nasrallah who played a key role in developing the missile arsenal that has made Hezbollah the world’s best-armed nonstate militia. For the past 10 months, he had commanded the group’s increasingly intense cross-border skirmishing with Israel.
The Iranian regime’s significant role in the ongoing pro-Hamas protests in the US was finally acknowledged on July 9 by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines.
“In recent weeks, Iranian government actors have sought to opportunistically take advantage of ongoing protests regarding the war in Gaza, using a playbook we’ve seen other actors use over the years. We have observed actors tied to Iran’s government posing as activists online, seeking to encourage protests, and even providing financial support to protesters.”
Haines made it sound as if the Iranian regime had been sitting on its hands until “recent weeks,” but apparently Iranian government agents have been active all along in stoking the protests, including in Ivy League universities such as Harvard and Princeton.
As delegates arrive in Chicago on Sunday ahead of the Democratic National Convention, protesters plan to march along Michigan Avenue. On Monday, as the political show begins inside the United Center, demonstrators say they will gather by the thousands outside. And as the convention goes on, activists say, so too will the protests, every single day, showcasing divisions on the left during a week when Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to project Democratic unity and enthusiasm.
From the moment the Democrats chose Chicago as the site for their nominating convention, it was a foregone conclusion that protesters would show up in large numbers. The city has a long tradition of left-wing activism, and nominating conventions tend to attract demonstrations.
