“Islamophobia”

The IDF on Wednesday night released a recording of a conversation between a Hamas commander and a Gazan citizen revealing how Hamas takes fuel from hospitals in the Gaza Strip.

🔴IDF exposes a conversation between a commander of Hamas’s Western Jabaliya Battalion and a Gazan resident, with the participation of the director of the Indonesian Hospital about how Hamas steals fuel from hospitals at the expense of Gazan civilians pic.twitter.com/nZZ8Det6DH

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You might have a difficult time convincing Olga Goldberg there is no anti-Semitism in 2023 Toronto.

One bruise is on her face where she was punched. Another, figuratively, at least, is in her heart because she never thought her beloved hometown would become unsafe simply because she’s Jewish.

But that’s what has happened in Toronto. It’s a dangerous place for Jews now.

Hamas poses the greatest terror threat to the West since Islamic State, the director of the FBI has said, amid fears that the Gaza war risks radicalising a new generation of Jihadists.

Christopher Wray told the US Senate that Hamas’s attacks in Israel would serve as an “inspiration” to terrorists across the world.

The Biden administration also warned that the dire humanitarian conditions inside Gaza are allowing Hamas and its allies to position themselves as “saviours” inside the strip.

Hamas apologists are entitled to free speech, too.

Virulently anti-Semitic speeches and demonstrations celebrating the massacre of Jews demand more from free-speech advocates than reflexive calls for ‘freedom for the speech you hate’. They demand empathy for the fearful targets of murderous hate, who cannot understand our defence of the right to indulge in it. But a commitment to free speech values everyone’s freedom of conscience, and it is threatened by extreme efforts to punish pro-Hamas protesters for their political advocacy, however inhumane. People have a right to hate.

It was an anti-terrorism bill that was derided as authoritarian, “dangerously vague” and borne of Conservative paranoia. And one of the first acts of the Trudeau government was to make do on a campaign promise to rewrite it.

But in hindsight, 2015’s Anti-Terrorism Act seems almost tailor-made to combat Canada’s sudden new reality of having explicitly pro-terror rallies regularly hitting the streets of its major cities.