The anti-Israel group “Queers for Palestine,” whose members frequently demonstrate in the streets of US cities to criticize Israel for defending itself against Islamist terrorists, has probably not heard about the case of Ahmad Abu Markhiya, a gay Palestinian man from the West Bank city of Hebron. Even if the organization were aware of the case, it has done nothing to protest against the horrific death of Abu Markhiya.
A two-state resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a defeat for Hamas, US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew told The Jerusalem Post as the Biden administration is advancing a Saudi deal that includes a pathway for Palestinian statehood.
“I don’t think Hamas wants two states,” Lew said. “The only time they indicate they want two states is when they’re trying to put a little bit of a patina of legitimacy around their real strategy, which is the elimination of the State of Israel.”
The terrible events of the past few days in Rafah have inflamed the world. On X/Twitter the theme of “all eyes on Rafah” has commentators condemning Israel for the fiery deaths of 45 Palestinian Gazans. The evidence shows the Israeli airstrike was far from that location. None-the-less the human tragedy is horrible.
Ottawa’s waffling on Gaza makes commitment to human rights look shaky
If there is one word to describe Ottawa’s response to Israel’s war on Gaza, it surely is: waffle.
The Trudeau government’s politics of appeasement, rather than those of principle, have made its reactions to developments in the Middle East inauthentic to all sides of a divided populace. They have also thrown into doubt Canada’s commitment to an international human rights system.
h/t MP
In 2005, the majority of Israelis favored the establishment of a Palestinian state.
By 2013, just over 50% of Israeli Jews still favored a two-state solution, despite a growing wave of Palestinian terror attacks.
Just weeks before the horrors of Oct. 7, 2023, according to a Pew poll, it was already down to 32%.
You could consider Gaza a trial run of a Palestinian state and look how that worked out.
In the nearly eight months since Hamas, backed by Iran, attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, there has been some controversy, out of respect for the feelings of the victims’ families, about whether or not to publish images of the atrocities committed that day.
Weak turnout for a neighborhood harassment detail.
Pro Hamas gangs marching through the Toronto Jewish Community at Avenue Road and Wilson Avenue. The Toronto Police are allowing them to take over Wilson Avenue right now. pic.twitter.com/k6EBWZ6CC4
— neveragainlivepodcast@gmail.com (@neveragainlive1) June 2, 2024
Muzzissauga seems to need a boost.
"THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE ARAB-MAJORITY CITY. THE MUSLIM MAJORITY CITY."
Really? This is Mississauga. Just outside Toronto.
The Jew-hate rally leader tells everyone to "call an Arab friend" to help the Palestinians.
Why don't they call upon their Arab friends in Egypt,… pic.twitter.com/OFajYf96ME
— dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ (@DahliaKurtz) June 2, 2024
Members of Canada’s Jewish community expressed both anxiety and resolve on Saturday at Shabbat services held following a week of attacks targeting schools and religious institutions that have further stoked fears of rising antisemitism.
In Vancouver, the Schara Tzedeck synagogue held its first service since the building’s front door was charred Thursday night by what police say was an act of arson.
That anxiety will never leave entirely even after the current Gaza war is put to bed.
Muslims are taught to hate Jews. It’s their religion.
Their supremacist cult also teaches them to hate everyone else.
Unless our mainstream political parties wake up and ban Muslim immigration the level of violence will only increase.
I do not expect our political class to do the right thing.
Six Biden administration actions and policies subvert Israel’s right to self-defense. Whether analysed separately or all together, they make it difficult to avoid the conclusion that the administration’s ultimate end is to undermine to the point of ending Israel’s right to self-defense, and so end Israel’s sovereignty, for all intents and purposes.
On Israel, Justin Trudeau has found himself
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has found himself.
For a while, he was lost. But the Gaza war has given him an issue he can get his teeth into.
For much of the last year, Gaza and the Hamas war were seen in Liberal party circles as problems the prime minister would do well to ignore. That’s because they highlighted the fundamental split over Israel that bedevils the party.
If the government criticized Israel, it was called antisemitic. If it didn’t it was called anti-Islamic.
On Oct. 7, Hamas had a Plan A and a Plan B.
Plan A was to destroy Israel and kill all the Jews. Plan B was to pull back, stage ambushes and cry genocide while making up fake casualties and staging atrocities until its Islamist and leftist allies managed to save it, while using hostages and their bodies as negotiating leverage.
What this unidentified woman was holding in her hand at the Little Gaza encampment on the University of Toronto’s downtown campus is unknown at this time.
However, Toronto Police say they are “aware” of a strange video from Friday showing a woman pulling down posters from the fence of the encampment and then appearing to display what onlookers described as a knife.
Knife wielder identified.
======================Meet Deborah Maes — aka #KnifeLady — who teaches children music while thinking Black people should go back to Africa.
Earlier this week she was at the People’s Circle for Palestine at @UofT carrying an Israeli flag when she… pic.twitter.com/iHnacwgQre
— TheMuslimLawyer (@faisalkutty) June 2, 2024
Things that never happened for 500 Alex – My parents were brought here forcibly? Really?
This was day 29 of @occupyuoft & the pensioners came a packing this time.
Telling a Black woman to go back to where she came from ✔️
Pulling a knife on another woman ✔️
Vandalizing & destroying property ✔️
.@UofT has expressed no concerns about these violent agitators. https://t.co/CgPzoQTczW pic.twitter.com/5t8HFvm6nb
— Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا (@SMohyeddin) May 31, 2024
Immigration Minister Marc Miller says comments made by Ontario Premier Doug Ford that seemingly suggested immigrants were behind recent attacks on Jewish institutions are “dumb.”
“It’s a dumb thing to say, blaming immigrants. No one was blaming immigrants for the trucker convoy,” Miller said at a press conference in Montreal.
This past Friday, a Jewish synagogue in Vancouver was firebombed. Thankfully, there was minimal damage and no one was hurt, but it is the latest in a continued and ongoing escalation of targeted violence against Canada’s Jewish population. It is beyond appalling that such violence is occurring. But perhaps worse has been the feeble and flaccid response from our governments at all levels, when they can be bothered to respond at all.
He’s here, he’s there, he’s everywhere.
He’s shutting down city halls, he’s shutting down traffic, he’s shutting down campuses.
He’s in the streets preaching “armed resistance,” decrying “white supremacy,” denouncing “colonial oppression,” condemning “Zionists” and whipping up anti-Jewish hate.
