Barbara Kay: Let’s stop pretending the left’s disdain for Israel has anything to do with politics

… “In Canada, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network combats other hatreds from any quarter, but only deals with anti-Semitism if it emanates from white neo-Nazis. In the United States, the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith was, up until 2015, known for its legal work to fight anti-Semitism. Then, a new progressive executive director took over, described by one critic as a “Democratic party auxiliary that is increasingly overshadowing and marginalizing its still vital role as the nation’s guardian against anti-Semitism.”

Immigration policy has nothing to do with it of course. Queen’s Park Al Quds Day Hate Fest 2013

 

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Biden’s Palestinian Mission is Doomed to Fail

To judge by the jubilant Palestinian celebrations that greeted the ceasefire that ended 11 days of fighting in the Gaza Strip, US President Joe Biden’s belief that the agreement presents a “genuine opportunity to make progress” on resolving tensions between Israel and the Palestinians seems naively optimistic.

Moreover, the same can be said of the president’s pledge to provide Gaza with humanitarian and reconstruction aid to help the Palestinian residents in the wake of the latest outbreak of fighting between Israel and the Palestinians.

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Multiple people dead, injured in mass shooting at San Jose VTA light rail yard

Update: 8 dead including shooter who torched own home prior to killing spree

SAN JOSE — Multiple people are dead and others injured in a mass shooting early Wednesday morning at a Valley Transportation Authority light rail yard and the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office, according to authorities.

The shooter is also dead, authorities said.

Santa Clara Sheriff’s Office spokesman Russell Davis confirmed the shooter’s death but was unable to confirm the exact number of dead and injured. He said more information would be released later Wednesday morning.

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Riot erupts in Portland on anniversary of George Floyd’s murder

Militant protestors marked the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder with yet another riot in Portland, Oregon — smashing up local businesses and trying to burn down the city’s Justice Center, according to police.

More than 200 rioters — most fully clad in black and many wearing gas masks — trashed the troubled City of Roses soon after a peaceful march ended late Tuesday, according to the Portland Police Bureau (PPB).

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Alberta government introduces ‘turn-off-the-taps’ legislation to counter pipeline opposition

The Alberta government has introduced a revamped version of legislation that had given the province the power to restrict and control shipments of its energy exports as a means to “fight back” against other Canadian jurisdictions that oppose pipeline projects or otherwise block the province’s oil and natural gas.

The old legislation, which contained a sunset clause, expired last month with nothing immediately lined up to replace it – even though proclaiming the law was a key campaign promise of the governing United Conservative Party. The new version of the province’s “turn-off-the-taps” law will exclude refined products such as gasoline and diesel in a bid to shield it from future Constitutional challenges.

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The Future Is Now In Communist China! Your emotional state is under surveillance!

AI emotion-detection software tested on Uyghurs

A camera system that uses AI and facial recognition intended to reveal states of emotion has been tested on Uyghurs in Xinjiang, the BBC has been told.

A software engineer claimed to have installed such systems in police stations in the province.

A human rights advocate who was shown the evidence described it as shocking.

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UNRWA director apologizes for saying IDF strikes on Gaza were ‘precise’ and ‘sophisticated’ after Hamas complained

Why does UNRWA need to barricade it’s HQ and string barbed wire in Gaza?

The director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) apologized on Tuesday amid outrage from Palestinian groups after remarking on Israeli television that the IDF appeared “precise” and “sophisticated” when striking targets in the Gaza Strip.

Shortly after speaking with Israeli broadcaster Channel 12 earlier this week, Matthias Schmale was excoriated by the Hamas terror organization and other Palestinian groups who accused him of absolving Israel from the death of civilians during the 11 days of fighting that ended in a ceasefire last Friday.

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An open letter to Canada: It is starting to be unsafe to be a Canadian Jew

Dear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, premiers, mayors, university presidents and all Canadians of good conscience,

I write this letter today on behalf of Canada’s oldest grassroots Jewish community organization, B’nai Brith Canada, to our political and civil society leaders. In a broader sense, this letter is addressed to all Canadians.

France is cited as an example of things to come but Islam is never explicitly mentioned for some reason. If you don’t want to be France then you had better start talking about the Elephant in the room – Islam.

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Ontario reports 1,095 new Covid cases … and … government killed your Grandma but don’t be afraid of a return to normal

Ontario reports 1,095 new Covid cases … and … government killed your Grandma but don’t be afraid of a return to normal

Ontario reports 1,095 new COVID-19 cases; 23 deaths

Ontario reported 1,095 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, along with 23 deaths, as Toronto hit its lowest daily case total since the end of the second wave.

The provincial seven-day rolling average of new cases now stands at 1,622, down 70 from Tuesday.

Across the GTA, Toronto reported 257 cases, its lowest daily count since March 3.


Government killed Granny!

GOLDSTEIN: COVID killed thousands because Canada ignored SARS warning, says report

Thousands of Canadians died during the COVID-19 pandemic because federal and provincial governments failed to heed the lessons they should have learned from the 2002-2004 SARS epidemic, according to a Fraser Institute study released Wednesday.

52 % of Canadians are afraid of normal…

Instead of celebrating, half of Canadians (52%) and Americans (49%) are anxious about going back to how things were before the pandemic.

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Rep. Pressley: We Need Many Laws to ‘Affirm Once and for All that Black Lives Matter’

Pressley said, “Qualified immunity is an unjust doctrine that has been codified in statute after statute, that has allowed for law enforcement to operate with callous disregard for Black and brown bodies, with reckless impunity for our lives, without any consequences. George Floyd was brutally murdered. Why did that happen? It happened because we have to affirm the fact Black Lives Matter because our lives have not mattered. They have not been valued. There was no humanity, no grace extended or afforded to him. Black folks have been dehumanized.

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Tiny House Warriors on trial

The trial of three members of an outspoken First Nations protest group is a case about “suppression of Indigenous voices” and “over-policing” of Canada’s First Nations people, a judge has been told.

Nicole Manuel, Chantel Manuel and Isha Jules, members of the Tiny House Warriors, are facing charges of mischief, causing a disturbance and assault stemming from an altercation with security and police outside a December 2018 meeting about the ongoing Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

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Trump Supporters Unequivocally Support Extremism, According To Pentagon Official Overseeing Efforts To Root Out Extremism

Garrison is a vocal advocate for the 1619 Project, defending it against criticisms from historians in a 2019 essay calling extremism, racist policies and white supremacy existential threats to the nation.

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The Triumph Of Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell is one of the towering American intellectuals of our time. An economist trained at the University of Chicago and a social theorist of the first rank, he has been a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University since 1980.

He has written an astonishing fifty books (if you count revised and expanded editions), numerous essays, and a long-running, twice-a-week newspaper column. Extraordinarily wide ranging, he has covered everything from the rudiments of economics to race relations, the housing crisis of 2008 to late-talking children.

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