Canada is losing friends, and it’s not just India

Blame it on its liberal immigration policies and weak counterterrorism laws

On the outskirts of Castlegar, a little town in British Columbia, a statue of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy stands tall in the garden of the Doukhobor Discovery Centre. Much before Khalistani terrorists brought a culture of guns and gangs to British Columbia, the province became synonymous with the nonviolent and pacifist ideals of the Doukhobors. A small ethno-religious group of Russian origin, the Doukhobors fled to Canada in the 1890s, fearing persecution from the Russian church and state. Tolstoy is said to have assisted in their mass migration, and his statue stands testimony to his efforts and Canada’s tradition of welcoming refugees.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Israel declares siege on Gaza as Hamas claims Israeli strikes killed captives … 800 dead

Israel has declared a “complete siege” on Gaza and launched hundreds of strikes on the Palestinian enclave as Hamas claimed Israeli bombings had killed Israeli hostages being held there.

Palestinian militants are believed to have abducted more than 100 people during a surprise multi-front attack in which they killed more than 700 – making Saturday the deadliest day in Israel’s history.

In response, Israel has launched hundreds of strikes from the air and sea, killing more than 500 Palestinians in Gaza, an area home to 2.3 million people with nowhere to flee.

Arutz Sheva – Live updates – Israel at war: At least 800 killed, Hamas claims over 100 in captivity

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHamas, Israeli - Islam Conflict

‘Police said I’m in danger’: Sikh activists on edge worldwide after Vancouver killing

Two months after the Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot and killed in a parking lot in suburban Vancouver, Canadian police showed up at the house of a close friend with warning: his life was also in danger.

Two officers – one of them from the federal national security team – handed Gurmeet Singh Toor a document known as a “duty to warn” paper. It required him to confirm that they had told him his life “might be in peril” – and to acknowledge that any attempt on his life might put his family at risk.

“I asked them who might be threatening me and why my life was at risk,” Toor told the Guardian. “They said they couldn’t explain the threats because of ‘security reasons’. But they told me they had information that I was in danger.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, India, Khalistan

British Jews braced for hate crimes as pro-Palestinian groups celebrate

Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters marched through Manchester on Sunday saying they were “full of joy” at the attacks on Israel, while British Jewish groups braced themselves for an increase in antisemitic hate crimes.

CST, a charity advising Jewish organisations on security in Britain, said it had already received several reports of verbal abuse against Jewish people where the attacks on Israel by Hamas militants had been mentioned.

The charity, which was consulted by the home secretary over the weekend, said that it feared a repeat of 2021, when violence in Israel and Gaza appears to have contributed to a record number of reports of antisemitism in Britain.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIslam and hatred of Israel, Islam and hatred of Jews, Israeli - Islam Conflict

Canadian among hostages held in Gaza amid Hamas attacks on Israel, former cabinet minister says

Hamas hostages.

A Canadian from Winnipeg has been taken hostage from Israel amidst the attacks by Hamas, former federal cabinet minister Irwin Cotler says.

In a posting on X, the former justice minister and attorney-general said Vivian Silver is being held hostage in Gaza.

Mr. Cotler said Ms. Silver was violently taken from her home in Kibbutz Be’eri in Israel and is being held captive. He said she is a renowned Canadian-Israeli peace activist and humanitarian.

Looks like a Hamas own goal.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsraeli - Islam Conflict

My terror as Hamas bombs fell on us at desert rave

Partygoers at a rave in the desert near the border with Gaza have told how the first hint of the horror raging towards them in the early hours of Saturday was a barrage of rockets roaring through the morning sky, as it emerged more than 260 people had died in the attack.

It was 6am. Most of the attendees, including a British and a German citizen, had not been to bed and were dancing to trance music under multicoloured tents set up for the Nova festival.

The music stopped briefly and they dropped to the floor – a well-rehearsed drill for Israelis in the south of the country used to frequent cross-border exchange of fire with the Hamas militant group.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHamas, Israeli - Islam Conflict

WARMINGTON: Jewish groups call for end to ‘heinous’ pro-Hamas rallies in Canada

Celebrating Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists’ evil slaughter of helpless victims in Israel is not protesting.

It’s backing mass murder and it’s dangerous.

I do not blame the Jewish community for asking for the ban but nothing will be done.

Things will almost certainly get as bad in Toronto as in London, Stockholm, Brussels, Paris or Berlin and they know that. 

Possible Pro-Hamas Rally at Nathan Phillips Square Toronto 2PM Thanksgiving Day.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Anti-Semitism and the Left, Canada, Hamas, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Israeli - Islam Conflict

A Brief Education in What Just Happened in Israel

Hamas’ terrorist attack this weekend took everyone by surprise, but it did not occur in a vacuum. How did we get here?

Here’s a brief annotated reader.

First, let’s look at the last major Gaza war, in 2021, which started, not coincidentally, shortly after Joe Biden took office:

As with the conflagration before that, in 2014, the strategic backdrop for the war was simple: the foreign policy pivot, initiated by Barack Obama and revived by Biden, to create a “realignment” in the Middle East by partnering with Iran. Four days before the rocket fire started, Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, gave a triumphalist speech, declaring that “the balance of power has swung.” The Iranian framing of a new “balance of power” fits seamlessly with the U.S. administration’s declared priorities. As part of its regional realignment doctrine, the Biden administration has moved away from the Abraham Accords as fast as it can. As all the actors involved understood, the Abraham Accords represented the framework for a U.S.-led camp of regional allies to cooperate in the face of common challenges, specifically those posed by Iran. This security architecture is what Team Obama-Biden’s realignment doctrine fundamentally rejects. The point of realignment is to create the opposite regional order of that imagined by the Abraham Accords.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsraeli - Islam Conflict

CUPE Deletes Statement Praising Palestine ‘Resistance’ in Wake of Terrorist Attacks After Wide Condemnation

A branch of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, CUPE Local 3906, has deleted a social media message it had posted a day earlier to celebrate Palestine “resistance” following terrorist attacks by Hamas in Israel that killed over 350 people.

“Palestine is rising, long live the resistance,” the union local, which represents academic workers including research assistants and sessional faculty at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Oct. 7.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAnti-Semitism and the Left

Number of kidnapped Israelis may be higher than previously believed

In the last few hours the government authorities have begun contacting the families those whom have been abducted to Gaza.

According to the information provided by Kan News, the government is concerned that the number of hostages is above 130, the number provided yesterday by Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Sasha Aryev, whose sister is missing, said that during the night, she received official notification that her sister has been kidnapped.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHamas, Israeli - Islam Conflict

She buys all her groceries across the U.S. border — and finds big savings

With the average grocery bill rising despite slowing inflation, Canadian shoppers are doing whatever it takes to lower food costs, including, in the case of one B.C. mom, making a run for the U.S. border.

Brandi Dustin lives in Roosville, B.C., which is located just a 15-minute drive to a supermarket in Eureka, Mont.

Even with the weak Canadian dollar and the gas she spends crossing the border twice a week, Dustin says she saves about $300 a month buying all her food in the United States.

I’m surprised Justin hasn’t called her a white supremacist.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Goal of ‘Death to Israel’ Will Be Tested in Coming Weeks, as War Is Laid to Effort To Foil Prospects for Peace Between Saudi Arabia and the Jewish State

“Death to Israel,” an ideology and goal shared by Iran’s Islamic Republic, Hamas, and Hezbollah, will be put to the test in the coming days and weeks — and America is yet to fully connect the dots, which may include the much-advertised drive to promote Saudi-Israeli peace.

“We haven’t yet seen direct evidence that Iran was behind this particular attack, or involved,” Secretary Blinken told ABC News, adding, however, that Iran’s support of Hamas over the years “is clear.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsraeli - Islam Conflict

Hamas Confirms Iran Backed and Supported Surprise Attack on Israel

A spokesman for Hamas confirmed to the BBC that the terrorist group received aid from Iran. The invasion has been interpreted by many observers as an attempt to scuttle the ongoing peace talks between Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the wider Middle East.

The revelation has led Republicans in both chambers to denounce the Biden administration for its ongoing talks with the Islamic Republic, including unfreezing $6 billion worth of Iranian assets in early August in exchange for five imprisoned Americans.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inHamas

A couple of possibilities to explain Israel’s (and America’s) intelligence failures

For a sneak attack of the size Hamas launched against Israel to have happened (5,000 rockets, parachuters, towns infiltrated, Iranian and, possibly, Ukrainian involvement), there must have been an absolutely epic intelligence failure both in Israel and, to the extent the U.S. helps Israel with information, here in America, too. I have two ideas about how that could have happened, both of which are premised on significant problems within the two country’s intelligence services (especially Israel’s). I’ll start with the one that bespeaks actual evil and then get to the more likely one, which reflects human nature.

Some local colour …

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIsraeli - Islam Conflict