Some faculty at the University of Toronto say the administration’s threat to discipline those who violate its trespass order and join a pro-Palestinian encampment has encouraged more professors to join the protest.
In a show of solidarity with student protesters, some faculty vowed Tuesday that if the university asks police to clear the encampment they would stand in the way to protect the students.
An Ontario mother has pulled her Jewish daughter out of high school fearing she is no longer safe, saying the school is allowing and encouraging pro-Palestinian activists to display and promote threatening antisemitic messages.
“I live in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, and my child is not in school because she’s Jewish. That’s insane,” said Anissa Hersh, after withdrawing her daughter from Burlington Central High School last week
The stampede in many Western countries to champion the Palestinian cause has been a thoroughly nauseating spectacle of misdirected righteousness, faddishness, and racist bigotry.
This past week, following the announcement that Ireland, Norway, and Spain proposed to recognize a yet-to-exist Palestinian state, Canada’s New Democratic Party proposed that this country do the same. This was just reflexive political opportunism by the NDP. It is a new variant on the cowardly Western practice of purporting to support both sides in a war of life and death that only one side can win.
The war in the Gaza Strip, which erupted after Hamas massacred 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023, is not limited to Israel and the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group. Other terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip are involved in the fighting against Israeli troops. Those groups also participated in the October 7 massacre. They include Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) — and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the Fatah faction headed by none other than the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas.
The Labour Party may have ejected Jeremy Corbyn, but the Green Party is now putting up aggressively Islamist candidates.
For years I’ve been oddly intrigued by those poor souls who somehow manage to run themselves over with their own cars, such as the pop singer Brian Harvey of East 17. I always think of this when I consider the Keystone Kommunism of Komrade Jeremy Corbyn.
He’s the little man who got behind the wheel of a vehicle far too large for him to handle and eventually went under it when, in 2019, he led Labour to its greatest defeat since 1935. Huge swaths of traditional working-class Labour heartlands — the Red Wall — opted for Boris Johnson.
Settlement offers have been made and rejected. Deadlines have come and gone. Convocation is around the corner. As the Palestinian solidarity camp at the University of Toronto stretches into its fourth week, all outcomes other than a police intervention appear increasingly unlikely.
With tensions stretching to their limit, representatives of workers have thrown their hat into the ring, pledging to support the student protesters till the end.
The IDF has released more information from its investigation into the strike in Rafah that eliminated two senior Hamas terrorists this weekend.
The IDF did not strike within the humanitarian zone. Hamas continues to lie about it.
The strike targeted a Hamas compound more than a… pic.twitter.com/36wfcyR4Ak
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) May 28, 2024
Democratic representative Rashida Tlaib, at a conference tied to terrorist groups, urged President Biden to adopt a “red line” on Israel’s military conduct in Gaza.
Four university presidents conceded to members of Parliament today that antisemitism is a problem on their campuses.
MPs questioned the presidents of the University of Toronto, McGill University, Concordia University and the University of British Columbia about their codes of conduct, responses to pro-
Palestinian encampments and efforts to include Jewish students in equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives.
Hey Tony your shit for brains vote whoring leader Trudeau just announced 5000 visas for atrocity loving Gazans.
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) May 27, 2024
Protesters were joined by unions during a rainy rally Monday morning as the University of Toronto announced that it would seek an injunction to remove the camp in the centre of campus after a deadline to accept an offer to set up a committee to consider the issue of divestment from Israel passed Friday at 4 p.m.
Students were then given until 8 a.m. Monday to vacate or suffer academic and legal consequences. This deadline also passed without protesters budging.
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged Monday that a “tragic mistake” had been made after an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah set fire to a tent camp housing displaced Palestinians and, according to local officials, killed at least 45 people.
The mistake only added to the surging international criticism Israel has faced over its war with Hamas, with even its closest allies expressing outrage at civilian deaths. Israel insists it adheres to international law even as it faces scrutiny in the world’s top courts, one of which last week demanded that it halt the offensive in Rafah.
Canada pledges visas for 5,000 Gaza residents related to Canadians
Canada said on Monday it would grant temporary visas to 5,000 Gaza residents under a special program for Canadians’ relatives living in the war-torn enclave, a preparatory move in case they are able to leave in the future.
That figure is an increase from the 1,000 temporary resident visas allotted under a special program for Gaza announced in December, the immigration ministry said in a statement, adding that many people had expressed interest.
For more than a month, anti-Israel protesters have established themselves on university campuses across Canada, but less than one-fifth of Canadians support them, according to a new national poll.
The poll, conducted by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies, shows that these protesters have the support of just 19 per cent of Canadians, although 21 per cent of people in metro Toronto and 25 per cent in greater Vancouver support the protesters’ aims. The support is dwarfed, however, by the 48 per cent of Canadians who oppose the encampments (including 45 per cent in Toronto and 34 per cent in greater Vancouver). Montrealers, at 49 per cent, are the most vehemently opposed.
I suspect this poll is off and support runs deeper than expected. People will often tell a pollster what they think they want to hear.
Islamic candidates won in British local elections because they are the majority. And the UK is not alone in that.
Political Islam candidates have won local elections in England in large numbers, simply because they had a majority. These are the consequences of uncontrolled Muslim immigration.
Dark times lie ahead, not just for Great Britain. And this, more than the low numbers of the flaccid Tories who deserved a sound defeat in the general elections, is the most incredible fact.
A Green Party candidate, Mothin Ali, shouted “Allahu Akbar!” after being elected to Leeds City Council, while his supporters waved the Palestinian flag and a silly Green politician clapped her hands.
A Foreign Office minister has claimed some Muslims in Britain “want to challenge” fundamental UK values.
Anne-Marie Trevelyan was responding to widely criticised comments made by Nigel Farage, the honorary president of Reform UK, who said on Sunday there was a growing proportion of people in the UK who “loathe much of what we stand for”.
Farage explicitly identified Muslims when challenged on the remarks, claiming polls showed 46% of British Muslims supported the terror organisation Hamas.
Islam is a 5th column. By inviting Islamists to settle in Canada our elites have done the equivalent of inviting a Nazi army to move in during WW II.
We’ve only been screaming this for the last 20 years or so.
