At least 42 people were killed in an attack in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, with Islamist rebels being the likely culprits.
The attack on the village of Mayikengo in Lubero territory in the eastern North Kivu province took place on Wednesday.
Last week, over 80 were killed in suspected Islamist rebel attacks on villages in the east.
Three acts of seemingly random—and certainly horrific—violence on Monday, June 10th, collectively raise the question: what is going on in Germany?
The country, which is about to begin hosting the European football championship, has seen around 60 knife attacks per day in recent years.
One of those which took place earlier this week was fatal. A 23-year-old woman was “suddenly” stabbed by a “previously unknown person” during an evening jog in Schermbeck on the Lower Rhine, according to national media. Officials are still appealing for information about the unidentified attacker.
After four weeks in court, the Crown has presented its final evidence in the trial of three men accused in a Mississauga restaurant shooting three years ago that left one man dead and left four others injured.
Naim Akl, 25, was killed in the May 29, 2021, attack in a restaurant called Chicken Land that was owned by his family. Akl’s mother, father, brother and a family friend were injured.
Jihad Akl, Naim’s father, was shot in the chest that night. It was busy at the restaurant when a man burst in and started firing, he testified in Superior Court in Brampton earlier this week.
WTF? I remember this video. I didn't know he was working with/for Chow, although it isn't surprising. @fancypants_s https://t.co/rQFipaAQs1
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) June 13, 2024
Hmmm
Canadian Favourability Of Israel:
Unfavourable: 55%
Favourable: 29%Angus Reid / May 28, 2024 / n=1603 / Online pic.twitter.com/URa2kYNw8N
— Polling Canada (@CanadianPolling) June 13, 2024
The European Parliament elections saw over six in ten Muslims in France back the far-left party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who like other leading leftists in Europe has faced accusations of antisemitism and of cozying up to radical Islamists.
A suspect is facing sexual assault charges in connection with an alleged child luring and Toronto police say they are concerned there could be further victims.
According to police, a 38-year-old man communicated with a child online via Snapchat, pretending to be a 17-year-old.
Police allege that the suspect, aware of the victim’s age, met up with them in person and sexually assaulted them.
Last night, I went to New York City’s Union Square to cover a rally against the “massacre in the Nuseirat Camp regions of Gaza.” That’s what pro-Palestinian protesters are calling the operation that freed four Israeli hostages and killed at least a hundred Palestinians—a mix of Hamas combatants and civilians caught in the chaos as Hamas fired RPGs at the hostages. All around the country, similar anti-Israel protests sprung up to rouse those furious at the hostage rescue operation.
I had been at this particular protest in Union Square for about 45 minutes, watching and taking notes, when a man wearing a neck gaiter, sunglasses, and a Hezbollah flag fashioned as a headscarf suddenly pointed at me. “She’s a Zionist!” he shouted. “Get her out of here.”
The Free Press reporter @Olivia_Reingold filed a police report after an anti-Israel mob swarmed her at a protest Monday in Union Square. While shouting “blood on your hands” and “genocide supporter,” they restricted her movement and blew air horns in her ears. One even grabbed… pic.twitter.com/991j0sMrmQ
— The Free Press (@TheFP) June 11, 2024
A recent survey has attempted to quantify what Belgians feel towards Jews, a small minority representing 0.3% of the country’s population.
According to an IPSOS poll, 14% of Belgians express an aversion to Jews, twice as many as the French. This figure rises to 22% in Brussels, the capital, which is also the capital of European Union, where 11% of the population have sympathy for Hamas.
Six Russian nationals suspected to have terror ties to ISIS have been arrested in a coordinated sting operation spanning Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia, The Post can exclusively reveal.
Two ICE sources confirmed to The Post they arrested the six people, who hail from Tajikistan, over the last week after the FBI contacted the agency to warn it.
Part of the investigation featured a wiretap which revealed one of the now-arrested individuals was talking about bombs, the sources said.
A Minnesota man is due in court Wednesday to be sentenced for fighting for the Islamic State between 2015 and 2019, before becoming an American asset.
The former Islamic State fighter, Abdelhamid Al-Madioum, was born in Morocco and raised at St. Louis Park, Minnesota, a town just outside of Minneapolis.
Al-Madioum says he was contacted by an Islamic State member in 2014, when he was 18, and recruited to join the extremist group. The next year, Al-Madioum, while on a family trip to Morocco, slipped away and traveled to Turkey. From Turkey, Al-Madioum made his way into Syria, where he became a fighter for the Islamic State.
The Ford Foundation has spent decades tearing the country apart, tax-free.
It’s November 2023, and, following the October 7 attacks by Hamas terrorists that killed some 1,400 Israelis and at least 31 Americans, thousands of demonstrators march through New York City, calling for the destruction of the Jewish state. Chants of “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” echo through the streets, along with “there is only one solution: intifada revolution.” Among the crowd is the infamous Palestinian American activist Linda Sarsour, who warns through a megaphone that a cabal of wily Jews has conspired to place “their little posters” (of kidnapped Israeli civilians) across the city, seeking to entice people to rip them down. While many onlookers might look like “ordinary people,” she says, the Jews have “their little people all around the city,” surveilling others. Sarsour is there to deliver such rhetoric in part because she’s been paid to be there: her nonprofit, MPower Change, has received $300,000 in grant funding from the Ford Foundation “to build grassroots Muslim power.”
The RCMP is warning of a growing number of cases of public speech that could incite hatred and is asking whether it has the legal tools to counter the trend.
RCMP Chief Superintendent Karine Gagné told Radio-Canada that while she wouldn’t comment directly on the case of controversial imam Adil Charkaoui — who gave a speech in Arabic in Montreal late last year in which he called on Allah to “kill the enemies of the people of Gaza” — she believes it may be time to revisit Canada’s laws on hate speech, which date from the early 2000s.
Following an RCMP investigation, prosecutors in Quebec chose not to charge Charkaoui.
Amid record-breaking levels of antisemitism across the Toronto District School Board, activists are demanding the definition of “anti-Palestinian racism” be included in the district’s anti-racism strategy because they fear it might hamper students’ ability to speak about Israel and Palestine.
At a board meeting on June 5 , the TDSB released the strategy Combating Hate and Racism: Student Learning Strategy Update 2024 , prominently featuring the term “anti-Palestinian racism.”
A vote to adopt it was scheduled for June 11, but concerned parent Aaron Kucharczuk said the TDSB has postponed the motion because it coincides with the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. Dozens of delegates critical of the new policy have requested to speak before the board to share their concerns about it.
There were 50,000 people who attended the Walk for Israel on Sunday, but Toronto’s mayor was not one of them.
Why?
She was just too busy.
I don't feel safe due to the mass importing of pre-civilisational barbarians from cultures which hate women, Christians, and Jews. My child and other children have been accosted at the local park which my property taxes pay for. I had a long conversation with a beat cop about the…
— Natasha Montreal Live Free or Die (@NatashaMontreal) June 10, 2024
I am sorry your wife has to deal with this too. It's not my genuine truth, it's the truth. My culture is incompatible with the culture of men who are raised to hate women and to treat white women in particular as unpaid prostitutes. This conversation needs to be had.
— Natasha Montreal Live Free or Die (@NatashaMontreal) June 10, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
