Hamas stood firm Tuesday against global pressure that it accept the proposed three-phase deal, stressing that any deal which did not guarantee a permanent ceasefire from the start “was not an agreement.”
The Qatar-based Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh released the statement after his sister was killed during an IDF airstrike in Gaza, accusing Israel of deliberately targeting her to pressure the group to take the deal.
An article published in Politico on Saturday claims that the administration in Washington is worried about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address next month to a joint session of the U.S. Congress.
The reason for the anxiety—say the outlet’s White House bureau chief, Jonathan Lemire, and national-security reporter Alexander Ward, citing “senior officials” whom they “granted anonymity to speak candidly about internal deliberations”—is that “no one knows what he is going to say.”
According to the authors and their nameless contacts, the White House fears that Bibi might take the opportunity to (gasp!) criticize President Joe Biden for not sufficiently supporting Israel’s war effort.
Less than two weeks after the Oct. 7 massacre, 74 law students at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) signed an open letter that denied the very existence and legitimacy of the State of Israel. It claimed that “‘Israel’ is not a country, it is the brand of a settler colony.” It maintained that “So-called Israel has been illegally occupying and ethnically cleansing Palestine since 1948” and declared solidarity with “all forms of Palestinian resistance and efforts toward liberation.”
How can one explain the fact that a Canadian government that has been so quick to apologize for every blemish in our nation’s history has been so adverse to speaking out against the growing tide of antisemitism on display from coast to coast?
By now, the litany of incidents should be well known — Jewish schools shot at, Jewish religious institutions desecrated with racist graffiti, Jewish students being bullied and harassed. The list goes on. When these incidents began shortly after Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, one could reasonably claim that they were isolated. They have now become increasingly routine.
Poilievre will not take a stand against Islam’s pernicious influence.
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.
I don’t expect much improvement given the people in charge.
Israel’s Supreme Court has unanimously ruled in a landmark case that ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students must be drafted to the military.
There have long been exemptions for conscription for young men registered in full-time religious study, but a legal arrangement allowing the practice to continue had expired.
The move looks set to send shockwaves through Israel’s governing coalition, which includes ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, parties.
For the past six or so months, Liberal MP Anthony Housefather has been an accidental maverick in his own party. It’s an unenviable position – lonely, polarizing, controversial – and one that, by his own telling, he didn’t seek to occupy. Indeed, Mr. Housefather didn’t have much of a reputation for dissidence before, with the exception of matters of English language rights in Quebec. But the events of Oct. 7, and more specifically, his government’s shifting position on Israel, changed things. Speaking on The Line podcast back in March, he accused his own government of “changing foreign policy on the fly.”
“The lack of support that has been shown to Israel since November by the Canadian government, to me, is disappointing,” he said. “Jewish Canadians feel truly betrayed.”
An influential Muslim campaign group seeking to “punish” Labour over Gaza has endorsed candidates who have spread antisemitic conspiracy theories and appeared to justify the October 7 terrorist atrocity.
The Muslim Vote (TMV), which is promoting dozens of pro-Palestine candidates in the general election, is backed by a cleric who has spread misinformation online about the attack by Hamas.
A TMV adviser has said the government’s decision to proscribe Hamas was “entirely and completely wrong”, comparing it to how Nelson Mandela was once labelled a terrorist.
Jewish advocates have raised concerns with the Justice Minister about whether he fully vetted the new head of Canada’s human rights commission after it emerged that Birju Dattani posted links on social media to articles comparing Israelis to Nazis, and Palestinians to Jews incarcerated in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Shimon Koffler Fogel, president and CEO, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, met Justice Minister Arif Virani last week to express disquiet about his appointment of Mr. Dattani as chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) earlier this month. The commissioner would play a key role in combatting hateful posts under the government’s online harms bill.
New footage showing the kidnapping of three Israeli men on October 7 has been made public by their families in a desperate bid to pressure world leaders into agreeing a deal to secure the release of the hostages still being held in Gaza.
Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Or Levy and Eliya Cohen were among three of the hundreds of party-goers attending the Nova music festival when the Hamas terror group stormed across the border and attacked southern Israel last year.
The trio were captured from what later became known as the ‘death shelter’ – a bomb shelter in which several festival-goers hid as the attack unfolded.
⚠️ Graphic and disturbing
New footage sheds light on the brutal Oct 7 kidnapping of three men to Gaza: Eliya Cohen (26), Hersh Goldberg-Polin (23), and Or Levy (33).
They sought refuge in what became known as the "Death Shelter," a bus shelter that terrorists fired inside of… pic.twitter.com/iVvAMD6tmK
— Israel in Toronto (@IsraelinToronto) June 24, 2024
Pro-Palestinian protesters threatened my life, but the police who witnessed it told me to move along.
On June 9, along with 50,000 Canadian Jews, I participated in the annual Walk with Israel. The counter-protesters were light in number, but vile in behaviour.
As far as the White House and Democrats are concerned, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doing it again. Similar to multiple occasions during the presidency of Barack Obama, Netanyahu is not playing by the rules Washington and the foreign-policy establishment believe are laid down to govern the behavior of client states.
Imagine…
Imagine if the KKK went into South Central Los Angeles and tried to block parishioners from going into the First A.M.E. Church and then got violent. How fast would the police be there to arrest the agitators? How long would it be before cities across the nation were protesting and marching to demand police protection and the arrest of all KKK supporters? How many demonstrations would happen nationwide to empower (justifiably) black churches and demand their protection?
The video footage from the Palestine protest outside of a synagogue in LA are shocking.
Mob of protestors using violence against Jews in broad daylight.
How does this movement have any legitimacy? https://t.co/guPtwrHBG4 pic.twitter.com/5dNF3oOk8w
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) June 23, 2024
The intense part of the military operation in Rafah is almost over, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday night, explaining that the next goal is to bring an end to Hezbollah’s attacks along the country’s northern border.
“The intense phase of the war is about to end in Rafah,” after which the IDF will “continue mowing the grass all the time. We will not give up. We hit them hard,” Netanyahu said in a wide-ranging interview with Channel 14.
Leftist pro-terrorist propaganda is usually tethered to at least some kind of reality. When Hamas terrorists are killed, they describe them as civilians. A raid to free Israeli hostages is reinterpreted as a massacre.
The tactical purpose of this propaganda is to turn Israeli strengths into weaknesses by using fake atrocity claims to limit freedom of action.
