OTTAWA — Canada’s foreign minister says Israel’s invasion of the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip is “completely unacceptable,” and she’s holding out hope that ceasefire talks will prevail.
Israeli officials announced Monday that the country approved a military operation into the border city, and Israeli forces began striking targets in the area.
On Oct. 7, a cowardly, medieval, murder cult (campus heroes) Hamas took the lives of over 1,200 Jews.
Without warning, at a music festival; chased, toyed with; beating every Jew they could find; hunted them down, tormented them, raped them, shot them. A great insensate orgiastic jubilation over a massacre of innocent Jews of an intensity and enormity not seen since the demonic practices of Jew-hating, Jew-destroying Nazism. The greatest puncture in that useless lying balloon of “never again” since the failed slogan was first muttered. Jews massacred in their homeland. Jews killed again.
Meanwhile at U Of T. Can Keffiyeh Doug stop the encampment?
Jewish student ASSAULTED by Lynch Mob of masked anti-Israel activists at the University of Toronto.
Activists jumped the student and grabbed his Israeli flag whilst assaulting him and grabbing onto him, refusing to let him go.
🎥 @moshe_zelig1 pic.twitter.com/iDOArmcnca
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) May 6, 2024
An investigation into the witches’ brew of billionaires, Islamists, and leftists behind the campus protests
Over the past several weeks, Americans have witnessed what has seemed like a mass outpouring of support for terror on elite college campuses. At Columbia, Yale, Princeton, NYU, UCLA, Northwestern, Texas, and elsewhere, masked mobs have occupied schools with tent encampments, established self-proclaimed “autonomous zones,” clashed with police, harassed and threatened visibly Jewish students, and issued demands for their universities to divest from Israeli “genocide.” Politically, moreover, the protests have displayed an incoherent mix of campus progressivism, hardcore Islamism and Arab nationalism, and revolutionary anarchism and communism, including open praise for North Korea. The only unifying thread would appear to be opposition to Israel and its alleged imperial patron, the United States.
Since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has repeatedly spoken of the need for a “pathway” for the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem. According to Blinken, a Palestinian state would have two positive effects: First, it would pave the way for a normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and second, it would “isolate” Iran and its terrorist proxies, including Hamas and Hezbollah.
Video reportedly shows a group of rioters in Athens, Greece trying to break in and surround a hotel where they heard Jews are staying. This is a lynch mob. Terrifying. pic.twitter.com/3YJjbKtRGp
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 7, 2024
Hundreds of people who wanted to march to the Egyptian consulate in Athens to protest against the Zionist Israeli bombardment of the Rafah border in Gaza, where 1.5 million Palestinians have taken refuge since yesterday, were attacked by the police.#antireport #Athens #Gaza pic.twitter.com/ftJVViHQrE
— Partizan Yunanistan (@partizanGreece1) May 7, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
As pro-Palestinian protesters continue their encampments at universities across Canada and the United States, a new poll sheds light on what Canadians think about the value of protests, generally, and of their ability to effect change.
While the vast majority of respondents say protests are effective at raising awareness, far fewer say they believe the demonstrations can actually change the positions of governments or institutions — and even fewer say they think protests can sway the opinions of people on the other side of an issue, according to a new poll from the Angus Reid Institute released Tuesday.
Gee I am much more sympathetic to Hamas since they explained their baby killing.
British Columbia’s human rights commissioner is calling on universities and colleges to protect the rights of students and staff taking part in “peaceful encampments,” saying she’s worried about people who “speak up in solidarity with Gaza” being penalized.
Kasari Govender said in a statement Monday that campus communities have a right to “peaceful and lawful assembly and free expression.”
Anti-Israel protesters vandalized a World War I memorial in Central Park on Monday and burned an American flag after a mob of more than 1,000 marchers was blocked by cops from reaching the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the star-studded Met Gala was in full swing.
At least one America-hating vandal torched Old Glory at the site of the 107th Infantry Memorial, the base of which was defaced with graffiti reading “Gaza” in large black letters.
Israeli military forces have taken control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, a key strategic objective and the sole gateway between Egypt and Gaza for humanitarian aid, Israeli military officials have confirmed.
“At the moment we have operational control of the Gazan side of the Rafah crossing and we have special forces scanning the crossing … That is what is happening in the upcoming hours. The operation is not over … I can’t give a timeline,” a military official said on Tuesday morning.
The spokesperson for the Gaza border authority on Tuesday confirmed the presence of Israeli tanks at the Rafah crossing. Aid officials in the territory said the flow of aid through the crossing had been halted.
A leader of the pro-Palestinian activist group Samidoun, arrested last week by Vancouver police in connection with an alleged hate crime, took part in an online discussion with a spokesman of the terrorist group Hamas this week.
Charlotte Kates, who serves as international co-ordinator for Samidoun, took part in a May 5 discussion with Osama Hamdan. Mr. Hamdan has been a media spokesman for Hamas since the Oct. 7 mass killings in Israel and was formerly a representative for the group in Lebanon.
OTTAWA – Jewish leaders in Canada are warning of a national crisis as the number of hateful incidents targeting Jews doubled in one year.
B’Nai Brith Canada says it documented nearly 5,800 incidents of antisemitism in 2023, including acts of violence, harassment and vandalism.
In 2022 there were fewer than 2,800 such incidents.
There were 77 violent incidents reported in 2023, more than three times the 25 that were recorded in 2022.
A leftist-anarchist organisation has been encouraging students to escalate their anti-Israel protests on U.S. campuses and to use more violent methods, like arming themselves, intimidating the police, and hijacking university buildings. Media reports suggest that the pro-Hamas demonstrations are less than innocent, and have been infiltrated by professional radical protesters who are hiding behind students.
The protests have been staged in response to Israel’s offensive in Gaza, which it launched after Palestinian terror group Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th, brutally killing 1,200 civilians. Protesters have been calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, an end to U.S. military assistance for Israel, university divestment from arms suppliers and other companies profiting from the war, and amnesty for students and faculty members who have been disciplined or fired for protesting.
It is a sad state of affairs to read a Politico journalist say that it is “surprising” to learn that donors to Joe Biden also support the destruction of Israel and the killing of Jews
As May takes hold, the crisis brewing inside America’s political system shows no signs of abating; if anything, recent events have only confirmed how serious things have become. On May Day itself, the police moved in to quash the occupation at Columbia University in New York. Many miles from there, on the other side of the continent, their peers helplessly watched on as counter-protestors at UCLA set off fireworks and attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment.
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has said the operation in Rafah will go ahead and that a ceasefire proposal agreed to by Hamas does not meet Israel’s demands.
Hamas had earlier announced that it accepted the terms of a ceasefire deal in Gaza. Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s political leader, called Qatar’s prime minister and Egypt’s intelligence chief to inform mediators that the group accepted the ceasefire terms, Hamas said in a statement.
