Ottawa has been particularly critical of Israel recently, often moving in lockstep with European allies as the Trump administration’s relationship with the Netanyahu government deepens.
Last month, Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Israel against launching a “significant” ground offensive in Lebanon in a joint statement alongside European leaders. Just a few weeks later, he condemned the very military invasion he and Canada’s allies said should have been averted.
In a report attempting to diagnose skyrocketing attacks on Canadian Jews, the Senate of Canada didn’t once mention the role of Islamic extremism.
Fifteen Senators spent more than 17 months interviewing 44 witnesses as to why Canadian incidents of Jew hate have spiked to all-time highs in the wake of the Hamas-orchestrated terrorist attacks of Oct. 7, 2023.
It’s not “Islamic extremism” either, it’s Islam.
A would-be Palestinian suicide bomber was met with raucous applause as she appeared before University of California Berkeley law students.
Israa Jaabis, who was released from an Israeli jail in 2023 as part of a prisoner exchange for 26 hostages taken on October 7 of that year, made the virtual appearance as part of a ‘teach-in’ organized by the student-run UC Berkeley Students for Justice in Palestine.
The event, which came just one day before Israeli Independence Day, was described as a chance ‘to hear experiences of Palestinian torture survivors and prisoners of conscience.’
While Israel, nearly three years later, is still reeling from the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led invasion as well as defending itself from the Iranian regime and its terror proxies, European leaders are once again indulging in their dangerous fantasy of resurrecting the so-called two-state solution.
At a recent gathering in Brussels attended by more than 60 countries and several international organizations under the banner of the “Global Alliance for the Implementation of the Two-State Solution,” the European Union reaffirmed its support for the “two-state solution” — a formula that means establishing a Palestinian state — which has not the slightest intention of cohabiting with Israel — right at Israel’s doorstep.
On October 7, 2023, the moral corruption of Western politicians, journalists, radical feminists, and social commentators was exposed in all its fullness. On that morning, thousands of Hamas’s jihadists invaded Israel and murdered some 1,200 people and wounded thousands more, with many victims being raped or tortured. Defenseless civilians were slaughtered, including elderly men and women, and babies in their cribs. Hamas terrorists kidnapped 251 others and dragged them to Gaza’s terror tunnels as hostages; 85 of them did not survive.
Counter-terror police have arrested seven people suspected of plotting an arson attack on a Jewish target.
The arrests, in Harpenden and Stevenage, Hertfordshire, and in Birmingham, were part of a proactive investigation into an alleged conspiracy to commit arson.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said that while the intended target was believed to be related to the Jewish community, the specific location was not known.
Israel’s prime minister, foreign minister and military on Monday condemned the desecration of a crucifix smashed by an Israeli soldier in a southern Lebanese village home to Christians.
A photo that emerged online over the weekend shows a soldier taking the blunt side of an axe to a fallen sculpture of Jesus on the cross. It was posted by Younis Tirawi, who describes himself as a Palestinian reporter and has also posted images of Israeli soldiers’ apparent misconduct in Gaza.
Sigh …
Once again, large segments of the international community, from the United Nations to key European governments, appear either unwilling or unable to confront the basic and uncomfortable reality that the latest escalation in hostilities did not begin with Israel. It began with Hezbollah.
This silence — or at best, selective acknowledgment — when, without provocation, rockets were launched into Israel, stands in blazing contrast to the instant outrage when Israel responds. That imbalance is not just dishonest; it distorts the foundation of how conflicts like this are understood.
The death of another Palestinian “journalist” working for Qatar’s Al-Jazeera TV empire has once again triggered outrage and drawn condemnations from some in the international community. Yet those who rushed to denounce Israel for targeting the Gaza-based “journalist” are ignoring voluminous evidence that he and some of his Palestinian colleagues were, in fact, active members of terrorist organizations.
The jihad terrorist Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and its partner in crime, the “moderate” Palestinian Authority (PA), have just been hit in their pocketbooks.
The PLO is itself a terror group. The PA is a supporter of terrorism through its “Pay-For-Slay” program, that provides generous stipends to imprisoned terrorists, and to the families of terrorists who died while committing their attacks. In a suit brought by the families of Americans killed or injured in these terror attacks, a jury decided that the PLO and the PA were liable under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Israeli police protecting a cardinal vs. Islamic terrorists killing Christians. Who does the West villify? It’s the same perverse logic that turned Gaza into a global obsession while ignoring Chinese camps for Uyghurs, church burnings in India, beheadings in Somalia and Iran massacring protestors.
“If we do not wake up, Islam will impose its law and culture on us,” Cardinal Robert Sarah said on Le Figaro TV, appearing to be the last prelate in the Vatican still willing to speak uncomfortable truths.
But I fear Sarah is wrong. Judging by what happened last week, it’s not that we won’t wake up-it’s that the loudest part of us has already chosen to sleep deeply.
The death toll of Christians massacred on Palm Sunday in Nigeria rises to 53: just background noise in the global media chaos.
In a media release issued Wednesday, officials say investigators with the Integrated Gun and Gang Task Force, supported by the Hate Crime Unit and Counter Terrorism Security Unit, launched a probe into the incident.
On April 5, officers executed a search warrant in Brampton, in the area of Bovaird Drive East and Torbram Road.
As a result, 30-year-old Mohamed Mahdi, of Brampton, has been charged with multiple firearm-related offences, including discharging a restricted or prohibited firearm and possession of a loaded prohibited firearm.
Bet he’s shortlisted for the Diversity Ambassador post!
A gunman was killed and two were injured in a shootout near the Israeli consulate in Istanbul.
Two policemen were “slightly injured” in the gun fight, Turkish Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci said.
Ciftci said the attackers had come to Istanbul from the city of Izmit by rental car and that two of them were brothers.
In 2003, Limor Son Har-Melech was 7 months pregnant and driving home with her husband, Shalom, an ambulance driver, when Islamic terrorists attacked them. The car rolled over, killing her husband and injuring Limor. Seriously injured, the 24-year-old mother survived. So did her newborn daughter. Limor, still carrying the scars of the attack, married again, had children and decided to run for public office in Israel to protect others from what she had suffered.
A Muslim man argued he had First Amendment rights to call a Jewish family ‘dirty people’ at a Miami Beach park, prosecutors said.
Ahmad Zeeshan, 32, was arrested on Thursday after he allegedly approached a Jewish family at Stillwater Park and shouted anti-Semitic slurs at them, NBC Miami reported.
‘Are you guys Jewish?’ he allegedly asked, according to Local 10 News. After confirmation, he allegedly yelled: ‘Get the f**k out of here, you f**king dirty people.’
