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Paramount Foods was in damage control following reaction Monday to a now-deleted tweet from founder Mohamad Fakih, suggesting he doesn’t “need” money from someone who “supports baby killers.”

The member of the Order of Canada and CEO of Paramount, which operates dozens of restaurants and has an arena in Mississauga named after the company, made the controversial comments in X posts. He was responding to a poster named Eugene who wrote, “I’ll never set foot in Paramount Foods ever again” and “terrorist sympathizers don’t deserve my business.”

h/t Sweetpea

We thought we were at home in America, but no such luck.

This is a tough time for American Jews. Antisemitism has erupted to an unprecedented extent. We thought we were at home in America, but no such luck.

A few months ago, following the Oct. 7 massacre, a friend who is a major donor to Jewish, Israeli and American organizations said to me that Jews might have to leave America, just as we have left—willingly or unwillingly—many countries in the past. Another friend told me that he and all of his liberal friends are being forced to rethink what it means to be a liberal Jew in America.

South Africa’s government defends chants of ‘Kill the farmer!’ but insists that Israel is committing ‘genocide’ in Gaza.

At a massive Johannesburg rally in July 2023, Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters party, grabbed the microphone and began to chant. “Kill the Boer! The farmer!” he bellowed. The crowd of 100,000 joined in the song, an old “anti-apartheid” ditty titled “Kill the Boer,” a reference to the white Afrikaner population of South Africa who are the descendants of Dutch settlers centuries ago. Progressive activists and academics immediately insisted that the song, in which the refrain “shoot the Boer” appears 20 times, should not be taken “literally”—although the crowd did not appear to be aware of this as they pointed their fingers in the air like guns for each chorus.