After the October 7 attacks, thousands took to American streets to celebrate. Some explicitly praised the heinous acts of rape, beheading, and kidnapping of civilians. Among these demonstrators were many noncitizens, including those on student visas. Universities such as MIT refrained from suspending students who neglected their classes in order to protest, seeking to protect those students’ immigration status.
Hard habit to break for our politicians, they like the votes.
Finally, back from their spring break, Monday was the first day the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View were able to spout off about the anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas encampments sweeping across college campuses. Staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host, Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) didn’t disappoint as she threw her lot in with the students chanting for the murder of Jews. She decried those who told the truth about the students and whined about the anti-Semitic designation.
Israel has reduced the number of hostages it demands to be released in the first phase of a hostage deal with Hamas to 33, according to a Monday Kan News report.
According to a New York Times exclusive, Israel initially sought to release 40 hostages, including women, children, the seriously ill, and female soldiers. However, a revision occurred partly due to Israel’s belief, as indicated by one official, that some of the 40 captives may have died while in captivity.
There is now a Frinkiac for Star Trek: TNG! Go check out @MemeItSo, who just hopped in my mentions from a year ago in response to a post begging for this very thing pic.twitter.com/dOWJV7o9nE
— Dylan Roth has a Patreon now (@DylanRoth) April 22, 2021
I’m a left-wing Jew. I’ve never been to Israel. I’ve abhorred Netanyahu for years. I’ve always wanted peace to prevail. And here’s how 7/10, yhe war, and the way “peace protestors” have changed the way I see things permanently….
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— SK Tedeschi (@skedeschi) April 29, 2024
Read the whole thread.
I wish him well but frankly remain perplexed that there aren’t more like him.
h/t SweetPea
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.
There were reports of punches thrown as pro-Israel and Palestine solidarity protesters confronted each other at UCLA university in the US.
The university said a barrier that had been separating the two groups was breached ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/2FJYAcCyxq
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) April 29, 2024
Lots of give and take … UCLA
Today at UCLA: Zionists yelling “animal” “go listen to your master” and “fuck BLM” at Black pro-Palestinian protesters… but we’re the violent ones right? pic.twitter.com/9zlS40qUB0
— can i hear the lullaby… please? (@lowkeysim) April 28, 2024
Oh look, the inevitable has happened. The pro-Hamas terrorists have attacked a young, petite Jewish girl.
Massive lawsuits coming your way @UCLA for failing to protect Jewish students leading to them being physically attacked by these antisemites.
How many more attacks have… https://t.co/SNZZrg75x5 pic.twitter.com/k1Eyq94URO
— Natalie Z (@natalie_Zion_) April 28, 2024
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.
The Metropolitan Police have denied involvement in the decision to cover up London’s Holocaust memorial to protect it during pro-Palestinian protests.
The memorial in Hyde Park was covered in a blue tarpaulin on Saturday, as tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched from Parliament Square to a rally in Hyde Park.
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.
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?
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.
I had to listen twice to make sure I heard this right because it’s utterly repulsive. @IlhanMN casually calls Jewish students “pro-genocide or anti-genocide.”
That’s another way of saying “the unacceptable Jews or the acceptable Jews”pic.twitter.com/4ZCtYAx3MJ
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) April 27, 2024
… 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.
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.
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.
An encampment in support of Palestinians in Gaza on McGill’s university’s downtown campus was still going strong on Sunday morning.
Several tents went up after 1:30 p.m. on Saturday and a ring of more than 100 young people formed around the encampment and chanted slogans like “Palestine will live forever.”
So dull.
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…
