“Oct 7 2023”

US campus protests: Rival Gaza protest groups clash at UCLA

Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel groups have clashed at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as demonstrations over the war in Gaza continue across US campuses.

Nationwide rallies – during which there have been hundreds of arrests – showed no sign of stopping over the weekend.

At UCLA “physical altercations broke out” after a barrier separating the two sides was breached, an official said.

Lots of give and take … UCLA

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

SHOCKA! Polls reveal all the usual suspects hate Jews and or Israel!

Jamie Sarkonak: Canada not ‘engulfed’ in antisemitism — for the most part, study says

Aside from a few pockets, most of Canada is still morally calibrated against antisemitism.

That’s my takeaway from a study that came out earlier this month on Canadian attitudes toward Jews and Israel by University of Toronto sociologist Robert Brym. He found, through surveys taken in early 2024, that Canadians with the most negative sentiments towards Jews were Muslims, Quebecers and non-Jewish university students. Those with the most negative sentiments towards Israel, meanwhile, included Muslims and non-Jewish university students, as well as NDP supporters. The rest, not so much.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islamization of the West

Israel gears up for potential ICC warrants over Gaza actions

Israel instructed its embassies abroad to prepare for a severe antisemitic backlash should the International Criminal Court issue arrest warrants against top Israeli leaders and army brass over their actions in Gaza, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi.

Foreign Minister Israel Katz (Likud) issued messages on the matter both to Israeli missions abroad and to Jewish organizations, suggesting that the latter work with local authorities to increase security.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023"

Why Are Women in America Cheering for Hamas and Iran?

These pro-Jihad protests are one way to escape the ongoing female realities in the West.

Have you noticed that young women all across America are demonstrating for Hamas, Iran, and Palestine? Why would such privileged and educated women, the heirs to the #MeToo movement and to Second and Third Wave Western feminisms, cheer for male rapists and male killers, arguably the most blood-thirsty and sadistic misogynists this side of Ghenghis Khan? Why side with Islamist barbarians who have jailed, tortured, and executed their own women over a slipped Islamic veil, and who would forcibly convert their Western female admirers to Islam, veil them as well, and coerce them into polygamous marriages?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Batshit Crazy Feminists, Batshit Crazy Progressive Hypocrites, Islamization of the West, WTF?

Ilhan Omar: Jewish students should be safe ‘whether they are pro-genocide or anti-genocide’

In response to a question regarding how the protests at Columbia University would influence antisemitism on campus at Columbia University, US Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota referred to Jewish students as “pro-genocide or anti-genocide.”

Omar’s remarks about Jewish students came while visiting Columbia University on Friday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", USA

We must get US masses to care about Israel

… But most Americans are in the middle. They don’t care much about anything. They not only do not know where Gaza is, but they do not know what Hamas stands for, or what Hamas holds holy. If you told them, they would probably listen – just like they would listen to the detractors. And their takeaway would be that a keffiyeh makes a very attractive scarf.

When people stop caring, they stop caring about everything. “Right” and “wrong,” “evil” and “justice” become just words. Issues-based dialogue and decisions become less relevant, often even totally irrelevant.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", USA

New York City’s Jewish Population Under ‘Dark Cloud’ as Tensions Rise

The sense of opportunity Efraim Alkoby found in New York was rocked last month when someone splattered red paint on the kosher cafe he owns on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

Alkoby, who grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family in Jerusalem, said he learned to be tolerant during his 30 years in New York. Now, someone opposed to Israel’s war in Gaza wrote “form line here to support genocide” on the sidewalk outside Effy’s Cafe.

“There’s a very dark cloud over Jews,” Alkoby, 48 years old, said in an interview.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", New York City

DEI official who was fired after posing in front of Israeli flag with swastikas sues University of Minnesota

A former DEI manager and Instagram model is suing the University of Minnesota for firing her over a photo that showed her posing near an Israeli flag emblazoned with swastikas.

In the filing this week, Mashal Sherzad accused the school of violating her First Amendment rights as well as discrimination, the Star Tribune reported.

She also asked to have her job reinstated and wants more than $75,000 in damages.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Holocaust Memorial hidden as precaution while pro-Palestine protesters march

The Holocaust Memorial in Hyde Park had to be covered and guarded on Saturday as thousands of pro-Palestine protesters marched through central London.

The rock-shaped monument – the first public memorial to the atrocity in the UK – was obscured by a blue tarpaulin, with a police car stationed nearby.

Lord Mann, government adviser on anti-Semitism, described the precaution as “sad but necessary to avoid further offence to the Jewish community”.

Warning contains Naomi Klein Mention…

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Students set up ‘indefinite’ pro-Palestinian encampment at McGill University

Several tents have gone up on McGill’s downtown campus in what students are calling an act of solidarity with the Palestinian cause, joining a wave of similar protests taking place across U.S. campuses amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

On Saturday afternoon, organizers could be heard asking over loudspeakers that as many people as possible stay at the encampment overnight.

Protestors are demanding McGill and Concordia universities “divest from funds implicated in the Zionist state as well as [cut] ties with Zionist academic institutions,” according to a statement sent to CBC News by Zaynab Ali, a McGill student participating in the protest.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", WTF?

Anti-Israel protesters sue Columbia, claiming they’re the real victims

A pro-Palestinian group has filed a federal lawsuit against Columbia University — saying anti-Israel protesters with the extremist group Students for Justice in Palestine are the ones being harassed on campus.

The complaint comes as Jewish community leaders and Jewish students have spoken out to say they do not feel safe at the Ivy League school with hundreds of protesters camping out in tents on the lawn, prompting university administrators to allow students to take their classes online for the rest of the year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Dispatch: Jewish students confront extreme anti-Semitism at Columbia protest camp

Outside the gates of Columbia University on Friday afternoon, a man wearing a black balaclava was shouting about Jews.

Security guards, employed to guard the entrance after pro-Palestine students set up an “encampment” at the university in protest of the war in Gaza, looked unmoved by the man’s rant.

“Jews have total control of everything. Inflation is a result of greedy Wall Street Jews,” he shouted, holding a banner depicting an Israeli flag soaked in blood and the word “Nazis”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Israel rebukes US calls for investigation into mass graves in Gaza

Israel’s military says it already looked into reports of mass graves and found no wrongdoing by its forces, even as the Biden administration calls for an investigation into the matter.

Over the past few days, U.S. officials, including national security adviser Jake Sullivan, have called for Israel to “thoroughly and transparently” investigate reports of mass graves at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which Israeli forces last raided in February. The State Department came under fire from advocates for refusing to call for an independent investigation, instead saying the U.S. will press Israel for information.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", USA