Earlier this month, the Biden administration floated a trial balloon, suggesting “senior officials across several federal U.S. agencies have discussed the practicality of different options to resettle Palestinians from Gaza who have immediate family members who are American citizens or permanent residents.”
Justin is no doubt enthralled.
“It started with a fellow pupil saying ‘Heil Hitler’ to my son – in the classroom, the school corridor and the playground.” Sarah’s* teenage child didn’t want to go to school the day after this happened. “He was very upset,” she says. “He was also worried about reporting it and being seen as a snitch. There are incidents all the time and it’s not a nice environment for him.”
Sarah’s son attends a state secondary school in Surrey. As a Jewish pupil, he had experienced one incident of anti-Semitism there before Oct 7 last year. But since Hamas’s terror attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza, the British schoolboy has found himself at the sharp end of an escalation in anti-Semitic abuse from his peers, some of whom have taken to incorporating the word “Jew” into his name.
A Palestinian student who said she was ‘full of pride’ after Hamas launched its attack on Israel has declared ‘I don’t regret it’ after the Home Office revoked her visa.
Dana Abuqamar, 19, a law student at the University of Manchester, attended a pro-Palestine protest just one day after Hamas carried out its horrific October 7 attack.
During the demonstration, Ms Abuqamar, president of Manchester Friends of Palestine, was filmed saying she was ‘really full of joy’ and ‘proud that Palestinian resistance has come to this point’.
Palestinian Manchester Law student Dana Abuqamar, 19, has her student visa revoked, this is a reminder what she said on 7 Oct.
Hamas were "actively resisting.. we are full of pride, we are full of joy."
The people discussing to at the end are @RitaPanahi & @darrengrimes_. pic.twitter.com/hmtdVb951I
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) May 17, 2024
University administrators seem unsure about how to respond to anti-Israel encampments. Last week in Calgary, police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the occupiers. In Edmonton, police went in with batons over the weekend. McGill sought an injunction to clear its camp but on Wednesday, it was denied. In Ottawa and Toronto, administrators have opted for negotiations. One reason for hesitancy by some leaders may be concerns that giving the occupiers the boot would violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
TDSB investigating incident of alleged antisemitism at North York school following community rally
The Toronto District School Board is investigating an incident that sparked a community rally outside a North York school Friday morning in support of a Jewish student.
In a letter sent home to parents Friday afternoon, Principal Katia Robles said the rally “was related to serious allegations involving students.” She said it was reported to administrators that “a small group of students were throwing stones, among other items, at each other at various times during the day” on Thursday. The letter does not specify further details about what happened or why.
Rally attendees, however, say that the student they showed up to support was targeted because he is Jewish and the victim of antisemitism and bullying.
The prison van attack is just the beginning
The cold-blooded execution of two prison guards at a Normandy motorway toll on Tuesday has shocked France. It is for many commentators and politicians incontrovertible evidence of the ‘Mexicanisation’ of the Republic.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has told the escaped prisoner and his accomplices that they will be hunted down and punished, but it better be done quickly. With every passing hour that they remain at liberty it reinforces the image of a state that, in the words of Senator Bruno Retailleau, ‘has lost control’.
Other politicians are talking of a ‘war’. Eric Zemmour told an interviewer the country was engaged in ‘a civil war’, while Francois-Xavier Bellamy of the centre-right Republicans said that the ‘state is in the process of losing the war’.
🇫🇷 Gangster freed like in a movie!
Gunmen wearing balaclavas ambushed a prison van in northern France on Tuesday to free a drug dealer known as "The Fly," killing two prison guards, severely wounding three and triggering a major police manhunt.
The brazen, morning attack at a… pic.twitter.com/vNVX3qDsMS
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) May 14, 2024
McGill University says it’s going to court again to dismantle the pro-Palestinian encampment that has been set up on its downtown Montreal campus since late April.
Earlier this week McGill failed to convince a Superior Court judge that the situation at the encampment was sufficiently urgent to justify a provisional injunction.
Teachers will be given protection from claims of blasphemy by religious groups under proposals set out in a government-commissioned report.
Legal guarantees upholding teachers’ rights to freedom of expression should be introduced, according to the recommendations. Schools would also be barred from automatically suspending staff or pupils in response to blasphemy complaints.
New guidance to all schools would also make clear that unlike sex education, schools have no obligation to consult parents on content that may insult certain religious groups nor do they have a duty to consult religious or community groups.
I can’t wait for the Gazan refugee influx.
Who let him in?
“This is what your ancestors did, came to this country (Canada) and disrespected everything in sight”
This guy says that if he doesn’t act arrogant towards white Canadians, they win.
He sees immigration as revenge on whites. pic.twitter.com/LIKOMxE6ZF
— LΞIGH (@LeighStewy) May 13, 2024
Federal intelligence agencies are warning that this year’s Pride Month may be targets for terrorist organizations.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security released a public service announcement last week titled, “Foreign Terrorist Organizations and their Supporters Likely Heighten Threat Environment during 2024 Pride Month.”
OTTAWA – Canada is providing $40 million to help Palestinians in the Gaza Strip amid concern over what it calls a catastrophic humanitarian situation, worsened by an Israeli ground offensive in Rafah.
Ottawa says the funding will support the provision of food, water, emergency medical assistance, protection services and other life-saving assistance in the region.
The money will go to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, as well as trusted partners in the region including the Canadian Red Cross and other Canadian non-governmental organizations.
French police shot and killed an armed individual who reportedly intended to set fire to a synagogue in the northern city of Rouen, France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Friday.
“National police in Rouen neutralized early this morning an armed individual who clearly wanted to set fire to the city’s synagogue,” Darmanin said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
Fdesouche ID’s the perp.
According to a source close to the case, the suspect in the synagogue fire, shot dead by the police officers whom he then threatened, was a 29-year-old Algerian national, under an OQTF (obligation to leave the French territory) “ for less than a year. But this was not enforceable because he had initiated an appeal before the administrative courts .”
An expert on Islamism has highlighted the dangers to Europe of the Muslim Brotherhood through its emphasis on legal rather than ‘terrorist’ methods. Dr. Lorenzo Vidino told a recent European conference how the Brotherhood is a “social network,” united by ideological and economic ties, and heavily financed by Qatar.
It facilitates Islamist radicalisation while impacting the discussion of human rights and democracy—which it wishes to abolish in favour of establishing a global caliphate: i.e. theocratic rule by a caliph, the recognised successor to the prophet Muhammad.
A Florida dentist is facing urgent calls to have his license suspended after going viral with a vile sermon calling Israel’s military “worse than the Nazis” — and begging Allah to “annihilate” the Jews.
Dr. Fadi Kablawi, who is also a Miami imam, sparked horror with the sermon in which he called on Allah to “annihilate the brothers of apes and pigs,” according to a translation by MEMRI TV, the media arm of the Middle East Media Research Institute.
Florida Imam Dr. Fadi Kablawi in North Miami Friday Sermon Accuses Israel of Organ Theft, Trafficking, Prays: Oh Allah, Annihilate the Tyrannical Jews, the Brothers of Apes and Pigs #antisemitism pic.twitter.com/4XAcqxkRJM
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 13, 2024
A Quebec Superior Court judge has rejected a provisional injunction request by McGill University to remove pro-Palestinian encampment activists from its front lawn in downtown Montreal.
Justice Marc St-Pierre said in his decision issued Wednesday morning that the university failed to justify the urgent need to dismantle the camp.
McGill made the injunction request on Monday. In the request, the university’s lawyers argued that the encampment was unsafe, posing a risk of escalating tensions on campus and preventing McGill from holding its convocation ceremonies at its usual outdoor location.
Random stabby guy attempts to make Swiss cheese of some some Swiss in #Zofingen https://t.co/8t4aKQe74h
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) May 15, 2024
