President Biden has ordered the military to begin an emergency mission to build a port on the coast of Gaza and accelerate the supply of aid to the stricken Palestinian territory.
When completed in the coming weeks, a temporary pier will allow hundreds of lorryloads of food to be shipped daily. The plan is to be announced by Biden in his annual State of the Union address on Thursday night.
The French Senate just made public the findings of a parliamentary inquiry launched in the wake of the murder of Professor Samuel Paty by an Islamist terrorist. The findings on the state of French schools are alarming and show that the situation has been steadily worsening for several years. The senators have put forward a number of recommendations in an attempt to curb the phenomenon.
It has taken the United Nations five months to finally report on and acknowledge what most reasonable people have known since Oct. 7 — Hamas raped, gang-raped, butchered, burnt and often defiled the corpses of women in a campaign of deliberate and co-ordinated sexual violence.
Disturbingly, a UN report also says that Israeli hostages taken on Oct. 7 have been raped and sexually tortured while imprisoned and that such inhuman and cruel treatment is likely ongoing.
Since October 7, antisemitism has metastasized, growing from chants and signs held at rallies to violence and threats against Jews. This is by no means an exhaustive list — sadly, the incidents are likely too great in number to catalog — but it is a window into the conditions Jews have faced in America and the West since Hamas attacked Israel and antisemites celebrated. We will update this list as necessary, and unfortunately, it seems like it will be necessary.
Counter-extremism tsar Robin Simcox warns of ‘permissive environment for radicalisation’ developing in UK
Pro-Palestinian protests are turning London into “a no-go zone for Jews”, the counter-extremism tsar said as he warned that extremist groups have “gone unchallenged for too long”.
Writing for The Telegraph, Robin Simcox, the Home Office’s independent adviser on extremism, said the Government and its agencies had powers to combat extremism but had failed to tackle groups that “lurked” just below the threshold of being terrorists.
He issued the warning after Rishi Sunak urged protesters last week not to “let the extremists hijack your marches”, and with Michael Gove preparing to announce a broader definition of extremism.
They called captive women “sabaya” – “sex slave” – in keeping with Islam.
One should beware of any group in the West which is advocating for the reinstatement of funds to UNRWA. Hamas and UNRWA are intertwined, as UNRWA’s Commissioner General, Philippe Lazzarini has indicated: “Our employees are part of the social fabric in Gaza and its ecosystem. And as part of the social fabric in Gaza, you also have Hamas.” As more information comes to light to expose the Palestinian propaganda war against Israel, in a rare move, Israel has chosen to release actual audio recordings of UNRWA staff who participated in the savage October 7 attacks, to further impress the truth about UNRWA upon a willfully blind world.
Violence broke out at the protest. The Hamas supppeters came across the protest lines to wreak havoc. pic.twitter.com/1Sdj7zPGSk
— Menachem (((Menkah))) Feuer (@menachemenkis) March 7, 2024
Middle aged Jewish Woman arrested
Arrests made at demonstration outside Israeli real estate event hosted by Beth Avraham synagogue.#cdnpoli #Thornhill #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #ProtestMania pic.twitter.com/C1UEFadrFf
— Caryma Sa'd – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) March 7, 2024
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday his government isn’t ready to announce it’s restoring federal funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the UN agency that has been delivering aid to the people of Gaza.
“We’re not making any announcements today but we will continue to make sure Canada does the right thing in this situation and puts the protection of civilian life at the forefront,” Trudeau said at a media event in Toronto about his government’s pharmacare plan.
For the prime minister’s security detail, this was a slippery slope.
Sure the polls may show the prime minister going downhill, but this was one case where he was doing it with style!
Yes, that was Justin Trudeau on a snowboard being accosted by pro-Palestinian demonstrators on a skill hill. But the prime minister gave them, and his close protection team, a little demonstration of his own – his wicked snowboarding skills.
Justin getting harassed while skiing in T-Bay by a couple of the pro-Hamas crew.
I guess none of his 12 dozen+ security detail don’t ski?
Diversity is no longer Justin’s ‘strength’.— CrazyWoman/Sanda (@CrazyWomanFU) March 6, 2024
As others have noted this seemed almost staged, as if Trudeau’s security detail was warned not to offend the Muslims.
Emotions flare between protesters and counter protesters as crowds thin. #cdnpoli #Thornhill #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #ProtestMania pic.twitter.com/0xquN2zbrg
— Caryma Sa'd – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) March 8, 2024
Pro Hamas supporters threatened violence against the BAYT Synagogue in Thornhill pic.twitter.com/8mENsfR0sI
— neveragainlivepodcast@gmail.com (@neveragainlive1) March 7, 2024
The few enquiring minds still left occasionally ask me what the most underreported stories of the current Israel-Hamas conflict are. I tend to reply that there are two.
The first is the issue of Israeli refugees. They are not called that inside Israel, where the authorities prefer to refer to them as ‘internally displaced people’. But while the world rightly concerns itself with the internally displaced people inside Gaza, the lack of notice paid to this other story is strange.
Despite the presumed murder of more than 31 of the roughly 134 hostages remaining in Hamas captivity and the continued refusal of Hamas to free any more, the Biden administration nevertheless continues, embarrassingly, to thank the Islamist, terror-sponsoring Gulf state of Qatar for its “efforts” since October 7.
In December, US Vice President Kamala Harris thanked Qatar’s Emir, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, “for his efforts in securing a deal between Israel and Hamas that provided an extended pause in the fighting which resulted in the release of more than 100 hostages, including Americans.”
Former British Columbia cabinet minister Selina Robinson has quit the NDP, citing antisemitism in the ruling party’s caucus.
Robinson, who is Jewish, says she can no longer remain in the party because it is not properly addressing antisemitism in the province or among her former colleagues.
Robinson told an impromptu news conference in a hallway of the B.C. legislature that she will now sit as an Independent.
When Flavio Volpe’s Uber pulled up at the AGO on Saturday evening to attend an event with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni, he immediately sensed there was going to be trouble, he says.
Unlike the heavy security normally seen at events involving heads of government, the streets had not been blocked off and police presence was minimal. There were protesters everywhere.
“I fully expected there would be hundreds of protesters there, the prime minister is a legitimate target (of protest),” said Volpe. “But I also expected police to have secured the site to provide safe passage for guests.”
An imam who compared the October 7 attacks to Jews breaking out of concentration camps during the Second World War has been reported to the police for alleged hate speech.
West Yorkshire police confirmed it was making inquiries into comments by Sheikh Jaffer Ladak, the imam of the Baab-Ul-Ilm Centre in Leeds.
