Progressive groups and Arab American grassroots organizations in Michigan are taking their protests over President Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war to the ballot box ahead of the key battleground state’s primary later this month.
A concerted effort is underway to sway Democrats away from voting for Biden on Feb. 27, with some groups urging their supporters to cast their ballot for “uncommitted.”
A statue of Jewish singer Amy Winehouse wearing a Star of David pendant has been “defaced” with a pro-Palestine sticker.
The sculpture, which depicts the late star with a hand on her hip, was unveiled in Stables Market, Camden, close to where she lived in her last few years.
Optometry students at the University of Waterloo raised funds for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) amid allegations that some employees of the UN agency aided Hamas during the Oct. 7 atrocities.
Continuing a Valentine’s Day tradition of picking a charity to support, third-year students chose UNRWA and posted a group photo shared across the program’s social media channels. The image was later deleted, Stan Woo, the director of the School of Optometry and Vision Science, told the Post in a statement.
Sign petition e-4802 to call on our government to reinstate UNRWA funding and advocate for other countries to do the same. There was no basis for this funding to be pulled. We must demand this decision be reversed.https://t.co/TCJsWZmG4T
— Toronto4Palestine (@Toronto4P) February 18, 2024
During the night of Oct. 7, my wife Laureen woke me to show horrifying images from Israel appearing on her cellphone. Like millions in Israel and around the world, we were shocked and sickened on multiple levels.
We had already spent a year and a half watching the unprovoked onslaught of the Russian military on its peaceful Ukrainian neighbour. We had seen the dead bodies, the broken families, and the shelled-out communities. It is sadly, only one of many violent conflicts in the world today. Each such image wounds our hearts.
Oh my.
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Israel is ignoring the tremendous toll of homegrown pro-enemy propaganda on Israel’s diplomatic and military position abroad and at home. Why is this allowed during a war?
The most frustrating aspect for a Gentile of defending Israel is realizing that the nation one defends is shamelessly defamed by its own citizens. That is the reason I suspended my Hasbara engagement on social media and why a pro-Israel Pakistani friend did likewise, considering absurd the danger of drawing the attention of his country’s secret police in order to defend a foreign country that tolerates a fifth column.
Imagine defending Great Britain in America at the height of the London Blitz, while London’s most prestigious newspaper claims that Winston Churchill is a warmonger; that successive British governments rebuffed any reasonable accommodation with Hitler; and that British racism is even worse than Nazi racism.
This is an interesting read. We’ve commented before on North American Jewish organizations embracing CRT/DEI and signaling out White people as Jew hating supremacists simply because they hold scary “right-wing” views like opposition to mass immigration. Meanwhile the anti-semitism of the left was given a pass and the threat posed by the Muslim diaspora played down. It’s no wonder people may second guess their support.
I don’t know that these “anti-Zionist” attitudes can be reversed and suspect the propagation of these views is driving decisions being made by governments. The Canadian contingent of this 5th column combined with a Muslim disapora of nearly 2 million significantly outnumbers Canada’s Jewish population which 5th Column included is said to number about 315K. Europe is even worse being on a path to Islamic colonization. Politicians pay attention to votes not principles.
I don’t consider any poll to be the last word and these were conducted prior to Oct. 7 which certainly served as a 911 moment for some. They may indicate ongoing trends however.
Poll shows young American Jews losing connection to Israel
WASHINGTON — Jewish parents are increasingly sending their children to Jewish camps and day schools, but the younger generation is less connected to Israel and Jewish identity than its predecessors, a new survey released Tuesday revealed. The self-selected poll of 1,874 Jews, which was conducted by Laszlo Strategies for Jerusalem U, indicated that while the majority of the youngest generation of identified American Jewish adults attended Jewish summer camp and 81 percent had a bar or bat mitzvah, their connection to Israel – and to Jewish identity – is weaker than their parents or grandparents.
The generation gap in opinions toward Israel
A survey commissioned by the Jewish Electorate Institute, a group led by prominent Jewish Democrats, found that 34% of Jewish respondents agreed that “Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is similar to racism in the United States,” 25% agreed that “Israel is an apartheid state,” and 22% agreed that “Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians.” When broken down by age, 43% under 40 agreed that “Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is similar to racism in the United States,” among 40-to-64-year old’s 32% agreed with the statement, and among those over 64, 27% agreed. When prompted with the statement “Israel is an apartheid state,” 38% under 40 agreed, compared to 23% of those 40-64, and 13% of those over 64. Finally, the statement “Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians” resulted in 33% of those under 40 agreeing, in contrast to 18% of those aged 40-64, and 15% of those over 64.
Additionally, the poll found that 9% of Jewish voters agreed with the statement, “Israel doesn’t have a right to exist.” Among voters under 40, that proportion was higher with 20% agreeing.
‘Israel performing genocide like Hitler’ –President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
What will happen if Hamas is allowed to win this war? If Hamas is permitted to accomplish what it intended by its mass murders, kidnappings and rapes? If the victims of these atrocities — the people of Israel and all countries fighting terrorism — lose? If the prospects for peace in the region and the Free World are seriously damaged? If the relationship between the US and Israel, and the loss of faith in the US as the guarantor of freedom, continues to be fractured?
The social worker from the U.N. agency and another terrorist are seen stuffing the man’s body into the back of an SUV and driving off.
Jerusalem on Friday publicized a video showing a United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) social worker abducting the body of a murdered Israeli man during the Hamas-led massacre of Oct. 7.
Israel has revealed that the man seen here wearing black – who abducted the body of an Israeli from Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7 – is an @UNRWA employee. pic.twitter.com/Xcr3O83kqT
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) February 17, 2024
Toronto police have charged an Ontario man who allegedly threatened to harm protesters outside of a downtown hospital earlier this week.
In a news release issued Saturday, police said the accused called them on Feb. 14 to “express frustration” towards people demonstrating in front of a Toronto hospital, which they did not name.
Police allege that the accused, a man from Ontario’s Simcoe County, threatened to attend the hospital to harm the demonstrators.
Well that was easy.
Calls to ban Israel from international sport because of the Israel-Hamas war have grown ever louder in recent weeks, with a new petition gathering significant backing, a letter in the European Parliament and a row between Israeli and Irish basketballers posing serious questions for major sporting events and organizations.
The petition, by ‘The Democracy in Europe Movement 2025’, calls on Israel to be suspended from sports and has gained over 70,000 signatures, as of February 16. And, with the Paris Olympics starting in July and Israel’s male footballers facing playoffs in March to qualify for June’s European Championship in Germany, sporting administrators are under pressure to make a decision.
One of the co-organizers of the petition, Katarina Pijetlovic, believes it is time bodies such the International Olympic Committee (IOC), world football’s governing body FIFA and their European equivalent UEFA stepped in.
The head of the main United Nations agency supporting people in Gaza alleged that Israel is intent on “destroying” the organization along with the idea that Palestinians are refugees and have a right to return home one day.
Philippe Lazzarini accused Israel in an interview with the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger of having a “long-term political goal” of eliminating the U.N. aid agency he leads, which is known by the acronym UNRWA. It was created more than 70 years ago to assist Palestinians who fled or were forced from their homes during the 1948 Mideast war over Israel’s creation.
I just can’t imagine why.
Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital is now receiving increased police protection following a pro-Palestinian protest held outside its doors on Feb. 12. It was reported that protesters blocked access—an offence under the Criminal Code—and chanted in support of the terrorist group Hamas.
Organizers of the protest have denied that Mount Sinai was targeted because of its links to Toronto’s Jewish community (it was founded by the city’s Jews when Jewish doctors were facing public discrimination). However, that claim has been met with skepticism.
The Nazi-Soviet pact now playing out in America.
“In their many bloody clashes for dominance in Germany, the Nazis and Commies were virtually indistinguishable. Both were totalitarians, ever ready to brutalize to crush resistance to their respective ideologies.”
That was Hans Massaquoi, son of a Liberian father and German mother, in Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany. British author Paul Johnson didn’t grow up in Nazi Germany, but his landmark Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties, takes up the “virtually indistinguishable” theme in considerable detail.
The discovery by the Israeli Defense forces of comprehensive electrical and communications connections between the United Nations Relief and Works Agency headquarters in Gaza and a large Hamas terrorist barracks and command centre and tunnel complex immediately beneath it illustrated as brazenly as possible the hypocrisy and political corruption of the United Nations Organization. This conforms perfectly to the gradual degradation of the UN from a responsible international organization pursuing universal goals and particularly the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and providing a parliamentary forum where all states could be heard, to its present contemptible status.
What lies ahead for our way of life in what has become a civilizational struggle?
First, some context. A poll released in December by Palestinian pollster Khalil Shikaki found that 57 per cent of respondents in Gaza and 82 per cent in the West Bank supported Hamas’ decision to attack Israel on Oct. 7. It is not the case, as their apologists claim, that Hamas is holding Gazans hostage. Gaza largely is Hamas, voted for it in in large numbers and the group continues to be widely popular there. Indeed, it is far more popular among its citizenry than are most governments, including our own. And that is despite the fact — perhaps because of the fact — that it makes no secret of its terrorist ideology. Yet Justin Trudeau has moved, with no tenable protection for Canadians, to admit an unlimited number of Gazans into this country, as long as they can show any extended family relationship with a Canadian.
