If the 2024 Vancouver Pride Parade seemed shorter than usual despite the grander Canada Pride festivities, here’s why.
On a vibrant and sunny day in Vancouver, the annual Pride Parade on Sunday was abruptly interrupted by a pro-Palestine protest, forcing organizers to cut the parade short.
Pro Hamas supporters stop Pride Parade in Vancouver. Think about it. pic.twitter.com/QL0u4ug42R
— neveragainlivepodcast@gmail.com (@neveragainlive1) August 5, 2024
h/t Mauser
The Palestinian Authority (PA) should have been happy over the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
PA President Mahmoud Abbas appears to have forgotten that Haniyeh represents a group that carried out a violent and brutal coup against his loyalists in the Gaza Strip back in 2007.
Instead, the PA and its leaders have been mourning the death of Haniyeh, who was killed during a visit to Tehran on July 31. They have, in addition, used the assassination to step up their incitement against Israel.
The left’s addiction to warmed-over Soviet anti-Zionist propaganda from half a century ago proves that its criticism of Israel has nothing to do with facts on the ground in Gaza
In November 1967, the Indian chapter of the World Peace Council, a Soviet front organization, held the International Conference in Support of the Arab Peoples in New Delhi. Gathering in the capital of India were some 150 delegates representing 55 countries and 70 international organizations from across the Third World, the socialist bloc, and the West. India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser, Cuba’s Fidel Castro, and Algeria’s Houari Boumedienne—the biggest political stars of the Non-Aligned Movement—sent their greetings, as did heads of Sudan, Syria, Jordan, Algeria, Kuwait, and Mongolia. Chairing the proceedings was Krishna Menon, a firebrand leftist Indian intellectual and former Indian defense minister the KGB had actively cultivated in the hopes that he would rise to be the head of state.
It is often feared that individual assassinations will spiral into wars. The Israeli assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday morning just a matter of hours after Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr was killed, looked as if it might start a new spiral on the road to outright war between Israel and Iran.
Shukr was said by Israel to have been behind the, probably accidental, bombing of the children’s playground at Majdal Shams on July 27, and the Israelis went after him in retaliation inside the Beirut suburb at the heart of the Hezbollah leadership. When Haniyeh travelled to Tehran for the inauguration of the new Iranian president, the Israelis targeted him in one of the guesthouses of the presidential compound itself. It was a stunning demonstration of successful intelligence, precision assassination, and Israel’s audacity to kill him on an Iranian state occasion. It emphasised the failure of Tehran to protect itself, showing Iranian leaders just how vulnerable they all are.
Global Affairs Canada is again telling Canadians to avoid all travel to Israel, citing an unpredictable security situation due to ongoing regional conflicts.
The advisory issued Saturday says an escalation in armed conflict in Israel could affect people’s ability to leave the country on commercial flights, adding they should not rely on the Canadian government to help them evacuate.
The statement says Canadian citizens and permanent residents in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, as well as their spouses and dependent children, should make sure their travel documents are up to date in the event an evacuation is required.
Israel and Iran about to go at it?
It is really not that long ago that a certain German Chancellor declared that he wanted to exterminate the Jews.
The threat was not taken seriously. Many thought Adolf Hitler was merely playing to an uneducated, roguish domestic audience. Not only did the Allied powers brush it off, but many Jews did as well, remaining in Germany and western Europe early on, even as their properties were expropriated and they were subjected to increasing indignities.
This is so refreshing. I have spent more than a few posts railing against the ADL and its allies decrying their embrace of DEI and descent into anti-white hate. And still they wonder at the “Silence”
Nice to see someone has the guts to speak up and call them out.
Here’s the full interview
Via HotAir
A target, a sign of resistance, a badge of honor, a Nazi-era symbol — the inverted red triangle means many things to many people.
The upside-down triangle appeared in videos released by the Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, to mark potential Israeli military targets, such as tanks, shortly after the Israeli invasion of Gaza.
The European Union as well as the United States, Germany and several other countries classify Hamas as a terrorist organization. Following the Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023, the German interior minister outlawed all activities of the group in Germany.
The United States has sent warships and fighter jets to the Middle East as it prepares for a major Iranian attack against Israel over the assassination of Hamas’s political leader.
A US aircraft carrier strike group led by the USS Abraham Lincoln is being transferred to the region to replace the USS Theodore Roosevelt, Pentagon officials said.
It emerged on Saturday that Iran has arrested two dozen people, including intelligence officers, as it hunts down the intelligence leak which led to Israel killing Ismail Haniyeh on a visit to Tehran.
h/t DS
Family of murdered Israeli hostage releases sickening footage of Gaza civilians kicking and stomping on his corpse
The family of a murdered Hamas hostage posted shocking footage showing the victim’s lifeless corpse being abused and desecrated on the streets of Gaza following the Oct. 7 terror attack.
Eitan Levi’s grieving relatives agreed the gruesome video could be shared on Instagram, as “proof that there is no innocent citizen in Gaza.”
🔊 Uninvolved Civilians?
This video is extremely difficult to watch, but it's essential. Essential for the entire world. Especially for those of us who have forgotten who we are dealing with.
The family of Eitan Levi, of blessed memory, who was kidnapped and murdered by… pic.twitter.com/1V0TrQZWBH
— Israel News Pulse (@israelnewspulse) August 3, 2024
His high-ranking colleagues have been killed but the ‘cruel, cunning’ ideologue who masterminded the October 7 attacks has disappeared into the tunnels beneath Gaza
Of the high-value Hamas targets sought by Israel, only one remains. After the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader, and Israel’s confirmation it has killed Mohammed Deif, the military chief, Yahya Sinwar, the group’s leader in Gaza, is the last man standing.
Sinwar, a veteran of the Israeli prison system, is the mastermind of the October 7 attack on Israeli communities near Gaza and a committed ideologue who had to have known, but did not care about, the horror it would visit upon the Gazan people.
Amid reports of Iran bolstering anti-Israel activists in the United States, disinformation researchers fear a similar phenomenon is unfolding across Canada.
Marcus Kolga founded DisinfoWatch in 2007 to monitor and expose state-sponsored attempts to hijack social media for malicious intents. Since the Hamas invasion of Israel last October, he’s seen a spike in such activity.
Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, hired Iranian security agents to plant explosives in three separate rooms of a building where a Hamas leader was staying, the Telegraph has learned.
The original plan was to assassinate Ismail Haniyeh, the political head of the Palestinian terror group, in May when he attended the funeral of Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s former president.
The operation didn’t go ahead due to the large crowds inside the building and the high possibility of its failure, two Iranian officials told The Telegraph.
Antisemitic incidents across Canada have Canadian Jews and advocates on edge.
“The voices of the vast majority of Canadians — including faith, business and political leaders — need to be heard before it’s too late. All Canadians must come together against this growing surge of antisemitism,” wrote Deborah Lyons, the Special Envoy on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism, on X.
Lyons, who is also a former ambassador to Israel, was responding to a recent wave of vandalism and threats to Jewish schools, businesses, and synagogues.
At a ritzy downtown Toronto hotel last November, on one of the year’s biggest nights for Canadian literature, a pro-Palestinian campaign quite literally took centre stage.
There, during the opening minutes of the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize gala, anti-war activists stormed the ceremony. Flanking host Rick Mercer with signs reading, “Scotiabank funds genocide,” the protesters called out the award’s title sponsor for its multi-million-dollar holdings in a controversial Israeli arms manufacturer. Then, as quickly as they arrived, the activists were escorted out of the star-studded ballroom by police and later charged. It was an event that marked the beginning of an ongoing movement led by pro-Palestinian activists that has upended the Canadian arts scene, with the goal of pressuring cultural organizations to distance themselves from corporations that they say are tied to the Israeli war effort.
