“Oct 7 2023”

The latest annual audit of antisemitic incidents in Canada shows an increase of almost 10 per cent since last year, driven by a spike in online harassments even as incidents of violence and harassment fell slightly.

B’nai Brith Canada’s League for Human Rights released its annual audit on Monday, documenting 6,800 incidents of antisemitism across the country, equivalent to an average of 18.6 incidents per day. This is the highest volume recorded since the audit began in 1982.

It’s the third time this popular Jewish gift shop has had its windows smashed by rocks.

But the owner of Aleph Bet Judaica store on Bathurst St. in North York said he will do what he did the last two times: He’s putting in a new window.

A Jewish student is suing Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) for more than $1.3 million, alleging the school created a “poisoned environment” and disregarded several instances of antisemitism and harassment following the October 7 terrorist attacks in Israel.

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.

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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.

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.