Anti-terror probe launched into Oxford Union Israel debate which labelled Israel an ‘apartheid state responsible for genocide’

The Oxford Union has a reputation as one of the world’s most prestigious debating societies and is a bastion of free speech.

But it has found itself at the centre of a censorship row after publishing muted footage of a debate on genocide.

Jonathan Sacerdoti, a Jewish journalist and Oxford alumnus, was heckled and abused during a speech opposing a student motion branding Israel an ‘apartheid state responsible for genocide’.

h/t Auntie Polly

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Trump more popular than Trudeau in Canada, survey shows

OTTAWA—As Canadian politicians jockey to position themselves as the best to deal with a mercurial incoming U.S. president Donald Trump, a wary Canadian public is cool to any compromises and supports a tough approach, according to a pair of new polls.

Many Canadians — 40 per cent — are prepared to cut Mexico loose in any trade talks Canada has with the United States, and most — 56 per cent — are not prepared to welcome any influx of migrants fleeing northward to escape Trump’s threatened mass deportation orders, according to an Abacus Data poll over the last week shared with the Star.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Conrad Black: Biden about to be relegated to the dustbin of history where he belongs

Most of the current international problems in the world are directly traceable to the vacuous ineptitude of the superpower. Despite the remarkable development story of China, there is only one superpower and for the past four years the United States has been somnambulating through a nightmare of millions of desperate illegal immigrants streaming across the border. Despite warnings even from his own supporters, the senescent outgoing president poured gasoline on the fires of inflation and allowed the United States to fall behind China and Russia in the development of hypersonic weapons (though it remains in other respects the world’s greatest military power — that couldn’t be so quickly squandered). U.S. President Joe Biden’s ambiguity about Russian designs on Ukraine was an invitation for a Russian invasion and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, who should have been court martialed for incompetence and insubordination, confidently told lawmakers that the Russians would capture Kyiv within a few days.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden"

Move over schools, DEI is taking over the world of video games

Donald Trump has vowed to dismantle as many DEI programs as possible when he returns to the White House. Yet, there’s one domain where diversity, equity, and inclusion aren’t just surviving—they’re thriving. The world of video games.

“Call of Duty,” one of the most iconic gaming franchises in history, recently introduced Rossi, its first nonbinary character with they/them pronouns. Some might dismiss this as mere virtue signaling, but it’s part of a far larger agenda.

As mainstream media declines, gaming — a market of 212 million US players —has become the perfect platform for DEI tenets to flourish.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"DEI - Code For Anti-White Racism", "DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion"

Mother ‘walked through fire’ to save son from burning house

An Ottawa woman “walked through fire” to save her youngest son from their burning house earlier this week, her mother said.

Stephanie McDougall, 43, was seriously injured in the fire on Twyford Street on the night of Dec. 3. She remains in hospital.

McDougall’s mother Beth Conway described her daughter as a “gentle soul” who is devoted to her three sons. When the fire broke out, McDougall “had to cross the path of the fire” to reach the bedroom of her 11-year-old, her mother said.

McDougall then collapsed in the kitchen where she and her son were found and rescued by firefighters.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inA Slice Of Life

Trump Urges U.S. To Stay Out Of Syria’s Collapse; Israel Agrees

President-elect Donald Trump weighed in on the seemingly imminent collapse of Syria on Saturday afternoon, saying that the U.S. should not get involved in the mess.

In just a little over a week, terrorist rebels have conquered Aleppo in northern Syria and have quickly moved south, capturing Hama, and are now moving through Homs toward the country’s capital city of Damascus.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inDonald Trump, Syria - disintegrating

Trump Targets Canada With Tariff Threats—and Trolling

Canada and its prime minister, Justin Trudeau, have a Donald Trump problem.

The pair had an at-times rocky relationship during Trump’s first term in the White House, and the president-elect couldn’t resist getting in a dig last week during their impromptu meeting over dinner at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida estate.

Trudeau was complaining about the impact tariffs would have on Canada’s economy, according to people at the dinner, when Trump interjected. If Trudeau didn’t like it, he said, Canada could become America’s 51st state.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, President Trump, USA

Why Didn’t Someone Wake Up America on This Day 83 Years Ago?

How three humble privates sounded an alarm only to have it ignored by their immediate superior and America wake up in the middle of World War II.

Today Americans mark 83 years since the Empire of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor at Oahu, Hawaii. Many will quote President Franklin Roosevelt and call it “a date that will live in infamy.” Few will remember three humble privates raising an alarm or apply their lessons today.

“Why,” asked a journalist with the AP, Harold “Hal” Boyle, in 1951, “didn’t someone blow a bugle at Pearl Harbor 10 years ago and wake up America?” It turns out that someone did, but that reveille was ignored by their immediate superior, and America woke up in the middle of World War II.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWW II, WW II History

End of Syria’s Assad?

BBC – Rebels say Syria free of Assad after reports he has fled

Al Jazeera – Syria war live news: Opposition declares Damascus ‘free of tyrant al-Assad’

Guardian – Syrian rebels enter Damascus: everything we know

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSyria, Syria - disintegrating