As the encampment at McGill’s downtown campus by pro-Palestinian protesters entered its 50th day, the university on Tuesday announced it is withdrawing an offer of amnesty to students involved in the protest and reminded all levels of government and police that “the encampment and related, harmful activities cannot be dealt with by any university on its own.”
🔥 Take 6 minutes to watch @DouglasKMurray debate if anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism pic.twitter.com/f0wyj8Maj0
— Joel Weingart (@JoelWeingart_) June 18, 2024
I like Douglas Murray. I am glad for the result.
However I can’t help but think it’s just another virtue signal that really isn’t going to achieve much in the here and now.
Those attending the event no doubt left with the chest puffing certainty that they have done their bit.
I bet few if any in this Toronto audience would dare publicly state that immigration from Muslim states to Canada should be ended and those “residents” found expressing hate for this nation should be expeditiously deported.
The IDF on Monday said that its Division 162 has defeated half of Hamas’s battalions in Rafah, including killing at least 550 terrorists, as well as destroyed around 200 tunnel shafts, and eliminated the terror group’s last major rocket inventory.
Further, the IDF said that within a couple of weeks it would likely be in control of all of Rafah and that the final battles with the remaining two Hamas battalions in parts of Tel al-Sultan and the eastern part of Shabura are already underway.
The federal Education Department said Monday that two universities failed to adequately protect both Jewish and Muslim students in the heated days after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and during the war in Gaza that followed.
Both the University of Michigan and the City University of New York (CUNY) and several of its affiliated colleges agreed to reexamine some past cases and to conduct training, among other actions, to resolve federal investigations into student complaints amid the Middle East conflict. Jewish and Palestinian students have described harassment and other incidents of discrimination, with reports of hostile language, disrupted classes, vandalism and more.
As elites wring their hands over a moribund far right, surging middle-class anti-Semitism gets a free pass.
Former Tory PM David Cameron, aka Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton, has gone on the offensive against Nigel Farage and Reform UK.
In an interview with The Times last week, Cameron accused Farage of using ‘inflammatory language’ and promoting ‘divisive policies’. Citing the Reform leader’s claim that Tory leader Rishi Sunak ‘doesn’t understand our culture’ after he left the 80th anniversary D-Day commemorations early, Cameron claimed Farage was deploying ‘dog whistle’ politics designed to appeal, presumably, to Britain’s racist masses. Apparently, Reform-curious, working-class voters are only a Farage quip away from beating up British Asians. (Cameron launched this attack despite Farage making it abundantly clear at the time he made them that his comments had nothing to do with race.)
To the outside world, they were a physician, a journalist. No one suspected their apartment had become a prison.
The 73-year-old general practitioner Ahmad Al-Jamal was a fixture of his community.
He worked mornings at a public clinic in the Gaza Strip refugee camp of Nuseirat and afternoons at his own small private clinic, where residents turned to him for procedures such as circumcisions. He also was an imam at a local mosque, where he was known for his beautiful voice when reciting the Quran.
But for the past several months, when he finished his duties each day, he would return home to the apartment he shared with his son, his daughter-in-law and their children—and the three Israeli hostages they were hiding there for Hamas.
It was common knowledge in Nuseirat that the Al-Jamal family was close to Hamas, according to local residents who spoke to The Wall Street Journal. But they said few people in the densely populated area in central Gaza knew of the secret locked in the small, darkened room in the family’s apartment.
On Monday, June 10, Toronto police announced they had charged 32-year-old Lou-i Bou-Chahine with public incitement of hatred, under Section 319(1) of the Criminal Code. He allegedly stomped on an Israeli flag at Sunday’s reportedly 50,000-strong Walk for Israel march.
It should be an interesting case to watch. With respect to alleged expressions of hate, Canadian politics has developed a rich lexicon of wishful thinking masquerading as fact since the October 7 terrorist attacks against Israel, and the ensuing and often antisemitic anti-Israel protests.
Stomping a flag? Sounds condescending frankly.
How protesters and the university each see their fight
Inside of the University of Toronto protest encampment — marked by a tall fence reinforced with zip ties and guarded by bouncers — there was an art installation.
Using invasive plant species like the “dog-strangling vine,” a local florist was creating a “symbol of ongoing colonialization.”
The invasive species were meant to represent Zionists.
The paradox of this dehumanizing display, which sat underneath a Progress Pride flag, is that it was created in a place its architects say was founded on compassion.
Oh I’m sure everything will turn out just fine.
Islam is the religion of peace after all and I’ve been cured of my Islamophobia by Justin Trudeau’s shining example.
Reconciliation and mass slaughter will be just around the corner the minute Israel is dissolved.
With shots fired at two Canadian Jewish schools in late May, and an anti-Israel tirade waged by a guest speaker reported at a Catholic school, where should Jewish students turn? Where are we safe?
On May 21, students at St. Theresa of Lisieux Catholic High School in Richmond Hill, Ont., were unwittingly ushered into an assembly where a guest speaker, introduced simply as a surgeon, projected graphic imagery from the Israel-Hamas conflict. Accompanying the visuals were a series of unfounded claims about the war, according to an anonymous letter shared by the Jewish Educators and Families Association of Canada.
It is long overdue that blame be placed on our mainstream political parties for their callous import of Islamists. Why were they so cruel to us?
A top education ministry official has been fired after over a botched response to a dispute about academic freedom and the right to protest.
Sabine Döring was found to have explored a scheme to sanction, with financial cuts, university lecturers who spoke against the removal of a pro-Palestinian protest camp at a Berlin university.
Next year, Grade 10 students in British Columbia will be required to learn about the Holocaust as part of their coursework to graduate. It is content the provincial government added to the mandatory curriculum last October, weeks after the deadly Hamas attacks on Israel.
But internal communications among members of the BC Teachers’ Federation, as well as screenshots of deleted social-media posts obtained by The Globe and Mail, show deep division about the current conflict in the Middle East, with some Jewish teachers deeply offended by the actions of other teachers belonging to a social-justice group.
You knew that was coming.
University is supposed to be a time when we think critically about the world around us, learn how to conduct proper research, and formulate personal opinions. The disinformation being spread throughout campuses proves the exact opposite.
As a Jewish student at the Toronto Metropolitan University, I’ve noticed campus-wide propaganda and hateful rhetoric against Israel – including being compared to Nazi Germany – that has dehumanized the Jewish population. It has made me feel less safe when walking through the halls or attending classes, including the conflicting decision of whether to wear my Star of David or Hamsa in public.
MONTREAL — In a 2008 Commentary Magazine article , Ruth Wisse, who in her youth was a Jewish studies pioneer at McGill University, issued a warning to diaspora Jews: if Arab “rejectionism” of Israel’s legitimacy, including the need for Israel’s elimination, comes to be accepted as normal, then not just the Jewish state, but Jews everywhere, will be regarded as “politically idiosyncratic once again.”
That is exactly what has been happening in plain sight at our universities for decades. The October 7 massacre gave wings to the rejectionists, ripping away the coy, tissue-thin facade of anti-Zionism to reveal the coiled antisemitism it had barely concealed. As a result, since October 7, Jewish students who consider attachment to Israel a natural component of their identity haven’t known a full day’s ease on campus.
When war erupted in Gaza, some TMU law students signed an incendiary petition criticizing Israel. Then came the backlash – and an existential crisis about their school’s mission
When a new law school in Toronto opened its doors in September, 2020, its brochure promised an unapologetically “progressive” legal education.
Ryerson Law, as it was then called, embraced diversity, equity and inclusion. Technology would be central. The curriculum included professional placements, so students would graduate ready to be working lawyers. At its core, this new school – soon to be renamed the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University – promised to change the status quo.
“We are ready to engage with the most challenging legal issues of our time,” dean Donna Young, the only Black woman leading one of Canada’s 24 law schools, said at the launch ceremony.
A DEI law school is a dubious law school.
Lack of academic rigor encourages mindless, mirthless, and militant mediocrity.
Why the outburst of campus protests in recent years, culminating in the sizable and sometimes violent demonstrations at such prestigious universities as Harvard, Columbia, Northwestern, and Stanford? While many factors are at work, one that seldom gets mentioned: boredom. Students often have a lot of free time. TikTok, Instagram, drinking, sex, and internet porn do not provide adequate fulfillment.
