OTTAWA — Canadians are split over the federal government’s plan to take in 5,000 Gazan refugees and doubtful that the newcomers are being thoroughly screened by government officials, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll.
Forty-two per cent of Canadians support the government’s decision to raise the cap on refugee admissions in response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, while 44 per cent oppose the action. Sixteen per cent say they don’t know enough about the policy to support or oppose it.
The armed wing of the Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) announced on August 26 that five of its members were “martyred while performing their combat duty in the West Bank.” One of the gunmen, Yazan Daraghmeh, a commander of the Tubas Battalion militia, was killed in a “work accident”: while planting an explosive device that was supposed to be used against Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers in his hometown of Tubas in the northern West Bank. The four other gunmen, Oday Abu Naasa, Ahmed al-Anteer, Taher Raddad, and Mosab al-Muqasqas, were killed in recent clashes with the IDF. They belonged to similar armed groups in the cities of Jenin and Tulkarem, also located in the northern West Bank.
The IDF conducted the most extensive counterterror operation in the West Bank in several months, the military reported on Wednesday morning.
The Israel Border Police, the ISA, and the IDF initiated a counterterrorism operation in Jenin and Tulkarem in response to the attempted suicide bombing attack in Tel Aviv on August 18. The operation involved hundreds of IDF troops with extensive coordinated air support.
The IDF launched a major military operation that includes the landing of special forces in #WestBank, #Jenin
If you are asking why? check the videos below
👇👇👇👇👇👇Activity against terrorist cells operating to carry out terrorist attacks in the territories of Israel and… pic.twitter.com/j2T33hNIhw
— Elly 🎗️Israel Hamas War Updates (@elly_bar) August 27, 2024
A prominent Jewish human rights group is calling out a UofC professor for posting what it says are inappropriate and “troubling” online posts it says are “unbecoming” of the institution.
According to B’Nai Brith, faculty member Prof. Tawab Hlimi has spread “misinformation and hatred causing stress and confusion” to the local Jewish community.
Canadian Jewish organizations are denouncing Fred Hahn’s refusal to resign as vice president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), over an antisemitic video he shared on social media, with a protest planned for Tuesday afternoon outside the union’s Ontario office in Thornhill.
Hahn, who has also led CUPE Ontario, a political branch of CUPE National, since 2010, shared a video on social media earlier this month that has been widely condemned by Jewish communities and government officials as antisemitic.
65% of Muslim students either hate Jews or Israel.
Campus antisemitism is a problem, but reports focus on the experiences of Jewish students rather than the identity of the perpetrators. Media reports hesitate to name anyone. Jewish organizations zero in on campus hate groups like Students for Justice in Palestine, but that only tells us so much about why antisemitism has become so widespread at certain universities.
Since Hamas’s horrific assault on Israeli civilians on 7 October, we’ve been told again and again about a precipitous rise in anti-Semitism in the United States. Pundits, politicians, community leaders and influencers say that anti-Semitism has reached levels not seen in generations. The problem is, outside of elite circles, it’s just not true.
The IDF and the Shin Bet on Tuesday rescued Israeli-Bedoin hostage Qaid Farhan Alkadi, who was held by Hamas since October 7, from Rafah.
The operation was led by Division 162, Brigade 401, Yahalom anti-tunnel special forces, along with the Shayetet 13 naval commandos.
The hostage’s name is Kaid Farhan al-kaadi, age 52, from Rahat.
Early yesterday morning, Hezbollah fired a barrage of rockets and mortars from Southern Lebanon towards Israeli military positions along the border between the two countries. The group cited the strikes as revenge for the Israel Defence Force’s assassination of Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr last month.
Hezbollah claims it managed to fire 320 rockets and drones at Israel. The IDF asserts that the number is far lower, and responded almost immediately with artillery strikes targeting the launch sites in Lebanon and specific Hezbollah observation posts near the border.
When someone finds it necessary to repeatedly declare that he’s not an antisemite, he’s probably an antisemite.
When someone finds it necessary to repeatedly declare that his endless loathing for the state of Israel isn’t antisemitic, he’s probably an antisemite.
Sick of this creep.
The Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association in a brief submitted to the Commons Justice Committee Canadians complained anti-Israel street protestors have been facing workplace shaming.
Pro-Hamas demonstrators face blacklisting and workplace reprisal, the association said. The brief follows complaints by a cabinet advisor that employers won’t hire activists,” according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
Nihad Awad, the executive director of CAIR said in a statement on this organization’s website that the blasphemous acts and filming themselves while burning the Qur’an and destroying mosques once again showed that Israel’s war against Palestinians is also a war against Islam.
Awad called on the administration of US President Joe Biden to condemn the desecration of Muslim religious sanctities and suspend the transfer of arms to the Zionist regime to force it to end its campaign of massacre and starving people in Gaza.
A good day's work then … https://t.co/ocoQiSnvRx
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) August 25, 2024
On May 15, 1948, five Arabs armies started a war – and lost. From that time on, many Arabs have called this loss a “nakba” (“catastrophe”). Ever since then, they have been seeking sympathy for losing a war which they began. If they are unhappy, perhaps they should not have started a war in the first place.
On that May 15, forces from Egypt, Syria, Transjordan, Lebanon, and Iraq “swooped in… just hours after British forces withdrew from Palestine and Israel had declared its independence.” Until then, anyone born there was a Palestinian. Christians were Palestinians, Jews were Palestinians. The “place of birth” on every passport was stamped “Palestine.”
Five men involved in violent unrest at Makhachkala Airport in October have been sentenced to between six and nine years in prison by a court in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, its press service reported Friday.
… This was the first case brought against participants in the 29 October pogrom in Makhachkala, the capital of the Muslim-majority republic of Dagestan, in the North Caucasus, when a mob overran the airport, looking for “refugees from Israel”.
The pro-Hamas Muslim lynch mob at the airport in Makhachkala-Dagestan, Russia found its first “suspected Jew.”
He claims that he's Uzbek, but they don’t believe him and say to take his passport and to search his phone.pic.twitter.com/STBpjqxchg— Leftism (@LeftismForU) October 29, 2023
As students prepare to head back to post-secondary campuses for the fall term, tensions sparked by the pro-Palestinian protest encampments that cropped up at several Ontario universities over the summer break are lingering on for some.
Several students who supported or participated in the protests say they’re disappointed in how their schools handled the encampments, while some Jewish students say they’re anxious about returning to campuses where conversations about the Israel-Hamas war could be particularly charged.
