CUPE president, Fred Hahn celebrating at UoT encampment with the people who would throw him off a building or hang him by the keffiyeh he is wearing.
Thumbs up for self destruction and cultural appropriation that they were crying about just last year. pic.twitter.com/okQDm9Mbf9
— Kirk Lubimov (@KirkLubimov) May 3, 2024
h/t Mauser
Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters marched through Manchester on Sunday saying they were “full of joy” at the attacks on Israel, while British Jewish groups braced themselves for an increase in antisemitic hate crimes.
CST, a charity advising Jewish organisations on security in Britain, said it had already received several reports of verbal abuse against Jewish people where the attacks on Israel by Hamas militants had been mentioned.
The charity, which was consulted by the home secretary over the weekend, said that it feared a repeat of 2021, when violence in Israel and Gaza appears to have contributed to a record number of reports of antisemitism in Britain.
‼ SUPPORT FOR TERRORISM ON UK STREETS:
At a pro-Palestinian rally in Manchester today, President of Manchester Friends of Palestine, Dana Abuqamar commented on the murder and kidnapping of hundreds of Israeli civilians by saying: “We are FULL OF PRIDE AND JOY for what has… pic.twitter.com/lUuQRmyILX
— StandWithUsUK (@StandWithUsUK) October 8, 2023
A nation’s badge of shame.
Antisemitism is the oldest hatred and the most pernicious. It exists even in places where there are no Jews. In Europe, antisemitism has been an instrument to scapegoat the Jews. Germany, the nation that perpetrated the Holocaust and is directly responsible for the murder of Six Million Jews, continues to exhibit its endemic antisemitic tendencies. The Department for Research and Information on Anti-Semitism (RIAS) has documented 2,480 incidents of antisemitic attacks in 2022, or about seven incidents daily. Much like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in the USA, RIAS tends to find antisemitism mostly in right-wing circles and tends to minimize left-wing and Islamist manifestations of antisemitism. Since the 2015 influx of Muslim immigrants into Germany, anti-Jewish acts of violence and abuse have gone up exponentially. In 2019, for example, the German government documented 2,032 antisemitic incidents. Germany has absorbed about 1.5 million migrants, the overwhelming majority being from Arab-Muslim countries.
Fears mount that anger directed at police for Nahel Merzouk’s death will be aimed at the community after a Holocaust memorial was defaced
France’s Jews are on high alert after the fatal police shooting of a teenager sparked days of riots across the country.
The Jewish community fears that the anger directed at police for the death of Nahel Merzouk, who was of North African descent, will be aimed at them, according to local leaders.
It’s no secret that France’s Jews have been exiting for years now.
The anti-Semitism in Europe in general is at a level we have yet to witness in North America. I stress yet.
Canada has reaffirmed its complicity in the murder of Israelis by renewing its aid to the Palestinians through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to the tune of $100 million over the next four years, in addition to an immediate $3 million in so-called emergency aid.
When far-right extremists attacked synagogues in Pittsburgh in 2018 and Poway, Calif., in 2019 with deadly results, these incidents generated the kind of fear among American Jews that had not been felt in living memory. Communities were galvanized into action to better protect Jewish institutions. More than that, these acts of domestic terrorism served to create a sense of genuine alarm about Jewish security in the United States that was felt even among people who rarely, if ever, walked into a house of worship.
But more than a year after another synagogue was attacked in Colleyville, Texas, in January 2022, the very different reaction to that crime is still worth thinking about.
Anti-semitism being mainstreamed? You don’t say! How could the Islamist-Liberal Left alliance possibly be a revelation to anyone not living under a rock?
Two hate crimes made news in New York City last week. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) chose to condemn only one.
Why? Both involved premeditated, unprovoked attacks on people based on their identities. Victims in both cases required hospitalization. What distinction could have made one worthy of condemnation and one worthy of silence?
If you follow CAIR even casually, you already know.
Moderate Muslim Raheel Raza published a heartwarming story in Canada’s National Post Monday, entitled “I’m a Muslim and I love Israel. Here’s why.” In it, she notes that “every moment of my first trip to the Jewish state was an awakening about the misinformation I had been fed.” Raza tells numerous stories about the kindness shown to her by Jews and Israelis, and in this torn and weary world, that is heartwarming indeed.
“It’s over,” said the late Hebrew U. antisemitism expert Robert Wistrich. “It’s a slow death.” It is actually speeding up.
“With the number of Jews plummeting from 3,000 to 600 in just a few years, the Swedish city of Malmö is the barometer of the slow demise of European Jews after the Holocaust,” wrote the late great Holocaust historian Robert Wistrich.
He continued: “It is not for nothing that former European Commissioner Frits Bolkestein advised the Jewish community of Holland to emigrate to avoid harassment by young Muslim fanatics. The prospects in Belgium and Norway are no better. The verdict is on the wall, for anyone with eyes to see. The reward for Europe’s regrettable and cowardly appeasement of Islamism will, however, be short-lived. Because bowing down and willful blindness come at a high cost in the long run. Muslims will eventually take their revenge on a European society that the most fanatical among them already loathe.”
A tale of two massacres
Truth is the first casualty of war, they say. It’s the first casualty of virtue-signalling, too. Over the past week we have seen just how estranged from truth the West’s fashionable anti-Israel set has become. Something extraordinary happened: woke commentators and activists expressed more fury over a massacre that didn’t happen than they did over one that did happen. They made more noise over a massacre that exists mostly in their imaginations than they did over a massacre that existed in the real world, that shattered people’s lives in the most violent, horrifying and bigoted fashion imaginable. This tale of two massacres, of the real and unreal, sheds a harsh and unforgiving light on anti-Israel sentiment today.
Sixty-eight percent of online antisemitism originates in Palestinian or progressive pro-Palestinian circles – according to a new report on the state of antisemitism, by the Diaspora Affairs Ministry, which was exposed by Minister Amichai Chikli during the cabinet meeting on Sunday morning.
Chikli said that “antisemitism is changing the way it manifests and it is increasingly focusing on hatred towards the Jewish state and the denial of its right to exist.”
That’s odd, we keep getting told it’s white supremacists who are responsible.
David Hofstedter: Antisemitic rot, on university campuses and in society, is worse than we thought
Recent examples of antisemitism in North America have exposed a horrifying and deep-seated prejudice that is far more dangerous (if that’s possible) than we already knew. You might think that post-secondary students and faculty members would be among the more enlightened people in the world when it comes to social and political issues. Think again. Neo-Nazism is on the rise on university campuses, including the University of Toronto.
… This level of antisemitism has been building up for years, manifesting itself in beatings and the desecration of synagogues. All of this is in the face of an increased effort to combat racism. Remember that the Nazi German culture was revered prior to the Second World War, despite the philosophy of white supremacy and hatred toward Jews and other minorities.
This is an an astounding piece of willful blindness and or outright deceit. In fact it seems born of ideologically driven extremism.
According to the author Anti-Semitism on college campuses is the fault of Neo-Nazis. Muslims & Islam aren’t mentioned at all. Nor is the Israeli-Islam conflict.
Neo-Nazis are the Big Man on Campus when it comes to anti-Semitism. Who knew?
Bernie Farber, well known Nazi Hunter in his own mind, lends his support. Why anyone would seek out Bernie’s thoughts are a mystery given his credibility is at virtual zero due to his association with the Antifa supporting far-left extremist group CAHN. But they don’t mention CAHN for some reason only Bernie’s previous role as head of the defunct CJC.
MPs condemn controversial publisher’s attendance at Parliament Hill reception
The Liberal MP who chairs the Canada-Palestine Parliamentary Friendship group is among multiple Canadian politicians condemning the presence of a man accused of being a “Holocaust denier” at a Parliament Hill reception held earlier this week to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
Salma Zahid, the Liberal MP who chairs the all-party friendship group, condemned the views of Nazih Khatatba, the publisher and editor of a Toronto-based Arabic-language newspaper, who Conservative MP Melissa Lantsman told the House of Commons Thursday was “a dangerous antisemite, Holocaust denier, and terrorist sympathizer.”
Bullshit, this is Laith Marouf 2.0. They’re apologizing because they got caught.
Get used to it multiculturalists, this is the diversity you wished for and you shall have it in ever increasing abundance.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said when he becomes Speaker of the House again he’ll boot “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar from her position on the House Foreign Affairs Committee over “anti-Semitic” remarks.
Canadian protesters against oppression in Iran were nearly car-rammed in Toronto on Sunday by an activist who had recently achieved notoriety for dressing as an orthodox Jew and harassing a Holocaust survivor about her position on the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
