Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims in a phone interview with the pro-government Channel 14 that Iran tried to assassinate one of his two sons.
“Iran targeted one of my sons. Iran tried to kill, to murder one of my sons,” Netanyahu says, without providing further details.
h/t Patti Jo
A new Palestinian political alliance now taking shape should serve as a warning to the United States, Europe, and anyone hoping to see a moderate and peaceful Palestinian leadership emerge after the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led massacre in Israel.
On Saturday’s episode of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the host said the quiet part out loud about his own party’s relationship with Judaism. The exchange came after CNN anchor Dana Bash raised the case of Texas Democrat James Talarico, whose outspoken “Christianity,” she noted, means he “wears his faith on his sleeve” in a way Talarico believes could help him politically. Maher wasn’t buying the idea that all faith gets an equally warm welcome in the Democrat Party.
FACT CHECKED: CNN’s Dana Bash looks uncomfortable as Bill Maher says the Democratic Party is fine with faith “as long as that faith isn’t Jewish.”
BASH: “James Talarico wears his faith on his sleeve in a way that he believes will help him.”
MAHER: “Well, in the Democratic… pic.twitter.com/OcpfF4DNHD
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U.S. prosecutors say a member of Kata’ib Hezbollah told an undercover officer that his people were behind recent shootings at a Toronto synagogue and the U.S. consulate. The pro-Iran Shia militia based in Iraq is not on Canada’s list of terrorist entities.
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and the Canadian Families of Victims of October 7 want it added, along with Palestine Action Canada and Masar Badil, in a campaign launching Friday on the International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism.
None of the three is on the list, which Public Safety Canada last updated July 28.
Nearly three years after Hamas’s October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel and following the devastating war in the Gaza Strip, one might have expected a fundamental change in Palestinian public opinion.
Palestinians might have turned away from Hamas, terrorism, and the Iran-backed “Axis of Resistance.” Palestinians also might have demanded new leaders committed to democracy, reform, an end to corruption, and peaceful coexistence.
The latest Palestinian public opinion poll, however, presents a disturbing picture.
Toronto Metropolitan University has a problem that no diversity statement can solve.
Its own independent review, headed by a former Ontario Court Of Appeal Justice, contains evidence that Jewish faculty members, staff and students have become afraid to be visibly Jewish at work.
The cesspit of antisemitism that has been permitted to fester at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) is laid bare in a just released report by former Ontario Appeal Court Justice Mary Lou Benotto.
Jewish students spat on, pelted with sour milk, intimated, harassed, threatened, and living in fear because a university was unable to tackle the scourge of antisemitism that swept through its halls after Oct. 7, 2023.
The Muslim Association of Canada has released an update following an incident that occurred during its convention in Toronto in May when the phrase “Jew free” was shown on a word-cloud screen of submissions during a seminar session.
“First, MAC wishes to re-iterate that this phrase is offensive and hurtful to Jewish Canadians, to Muslim Canadians, and to anyone committed to a pluralistic society,” MAC says in the August 12 statement, adding that it “is unequivocally against Islamic teachings.”
TMU struggled to police campus protests over Middle East tensions, a report found. Here’s what it says needs to change
Toronto Metropolitan University needs to tighten its code of conduct and make clear that intimidation and discrimination won’t be tolerated when it comes to protests, says an independent report that looked at growing tensions on campus over the Middle East.
“What began as a review and investigation into two specific events quickly revealed a broader institutional issue: a deeply polarized campus environment shaped by the aftermath of Oct. 7, 2023, and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” retired Justice Mary Lou Benotto wrote in her
“The review concludes that the two incidents under review were symptoms of a deteriorating campus climate that, absent decisive institutional action, are likely to recur,” she wrote, referring to an on-campus forum and an off-campus event targeted by student protesters that led to arrests as well as misinformation and outrage on social media.
A measure of how seriously Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals take the unprecedented explosion of Jew hatred across Canada is indicated by their leisurely response to it.
On Feb. 4, they announced the creation of a “Ministerial Advisory Council on Rights, Equality and Inclusion” to replace the offices of the “Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism” and the “Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia”, created by Justin Trudeau.
45% of Canada’s Jewish community voted Liberal in the last federal election according to the main post-election survey of Jewish voters.
Is Hamas preparing to contest the Palestinian parliamentary election scheduled for late November? If so, the United States and its European allies need to make one thing clear immediately: Hamas must not be allowed to participate.
The Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group that carried out the October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel cannot be permitted to reinvent itself as a legitimate political party. After October 7, Hamas has no right to exist as a military organization. It should have no right to exist as a political organization either.
Former Liberal transport minister Omar Alghabra is defending his inclusion on—and the mandate of—the government’s new anti-hate advisory council after renewed criticism over its perceived lack of urgency from opposition critics and American officials.
“If people have criticisms of the council, its function, or even [my membership], that’s fine, but to use slander and falsehoods … it’s beneath the office that they possess and the seriousness of the issue,” Alghabra said in an interview with The Hill Times last week, calling Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s (Battle River–Crowfoot, Alta.) allegation that he lobbied on behalf of a terrorist group “absurd … political gamesmanship.”
Foreign ministers of Arab and Islamic countries gathered in Jordan on August 5 and 6 to issue yet another series of condemnations of Israel. Reading their statements, one could easily conclude that there is only one party responsible for violence, instability, and suffering in the Middle East: Israel.
Hamas? Barely relevant. The Hamas-led October 7, 2023 massacre? Apparently not worth mentioning. Palestinian terrorism and incitement against Israel? Not on the agenda. The need to dismantle Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups? Evidently not a priority.
Police say that they have made a third arrest in connection with shootings at synagogues in Toronto and Vaughan in March and are no longer seeking additional suspects.
The shootings took place over the span of about 20 minutes in the late hours of March 6 and the early hours of March 7.
… That suspect has been identified as Chris Perreira, 23, of Barrie.
OTTAWA – Alexa Barett-Taller says she experienced a number of antisemitic incidents during her time at Ottawa’s Carleton University, but one stands out in particular – as it involved her professor.
“The professor actually decided to explicitly say that the Jewish people were to blame for Oct. 7,” Barett-Taller said in an interview with CTV News.
This was in the aftermath of the 2023 massacre of Jews by Hamas, and Barett-Taller says she had specifically approached her professor ahead of the class to ask that the topic be discussed with “care and nuance.” She felt her concerns were never heard.
Interesting. @fancypants_s https://t.co/w23V1CFIJL
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) August 8, 2026
Will it get better? No it won’t. Not without remigration. h/t Patti Jo
