Everyone is talking about Mount Sinai but no politician has addressed this blatant #Islamophobia at yesterday's Palestine rally in Toronto pic.twitter.com/BUHaJSLUjB
— S pro (@Protonz7vn) February 14, 2024
“Oct 7 2023”
NDP pushing Liberals to recognize state of Palestine as U.K., U.S. signal openness
New Democrats are calling on the Liberal government to have Canada formally recognize Palestine as a state, saying it would help advance peace in the Middle East.
“It’s time for Canada to do more, to build a peaceful resolution for the people of Palestine and the people of Israel,” NDP foreign affairs critic Heather McPherson said Tuesday.
McPherson will table a private member’s motion in the House of Commons that would recognize Palestinian territories as a sovereign state.
Has Joe Biden finally had enough of Benjamin Netanyahu?
Has Joe Biden finally had enough of Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and, if so, will he take any action beyond swearing about him?
On Monday it was widely reported the US President had described the Israeli leader as an “a–hole” and might start to dial down the flow of American aid and weapons to Israel.
Mr Netanyahu’s rejection of Hamas’s contribution to the ongoing peace talks as “delusional”, his fearsome calls for “total victory” and his threatened assault on Rafah, where over a million displaced are sheltering, appeared to have finally cut through.
Trudeau’s both-sides games on the war in Gaza are repugnant
Last week, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly announced that Canada was sanctioning 11 Hamas leaders for their participation in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel – a redundant and pointless gesture, since Hamas is considered a terrorist entity by the Canadian government. The ministry’s own news release acknowledged the superfluous nature of the announcement, noting that members of terrorist organizations are inadmissible to Canada and that their property is subject to forfeiture.
It was a little bit of security theatre by the Canadian government, part of its continuing effort to demonstrate that it cares deeply about Israelis/Gazans/Jews/Muslims/whoever’s turn it is next, even if it was announced four months after the Hamas attack. Indeed, one would think that the time for such wholly symbolic gestures was on Oct. 8, not months later.
22nd Anniversary of a Journalist’s Beheading
On 23 January 2002, American journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped by Islamic terrorists in Pakistan. Pearl was an accomplished journalist for The Wall Street Journal, where he had worked since 1990. Starting in 2000, he served as the newspaper’s South Asia Bureau Chief, based in Bombay, India. As part of his journalistic responsibilities, he traveled throughout South Asia and occasionally ventured into Pakistan. On 1 February 2002, he was decapitated for being both American and Jewish.
Swiss antisemitism shock at Davos shop sign saying no skis for Jews
Swiss police have opened an investigation into a ski hire shop’s announcement it would no longer rent skis and sledges to Jewish customers.
The shop, in the famous resort of Davos, has now reversed its decision.
It has taken down the signs, translated into Hebrew, which informed customers of the ban.
But many have argued the case is a clear violation of Switzerland’s laws against discrimination and incitement to racial or religious hatred.
Sorry, but There Is No Two-State Solution
Pretending there is a deal to be done with the Palestinian leadership only opens the door to another October 7. Israelis won’t be fooled.
I don’t fault any Zionist or ally of Israel for having embraced the two-state solution, as I did for many years. No other peace plan could reconcile self-interest and lofty principles so seamlessly. No other plan could offer a better way to transcend the contradictions that reality imposed on Israelis, by making a Zionist argument, no less, for Palestinian statehood. Far more powerful than a mere solution to a problem, the idea of two states was, for many of us, an irresistible form of seduction—a promise that partition could make Israel whole.
Platitude of the day … Trudeau calls demonstration outside Mount Sinai a ‘reprehensible’ display of antisemitism
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a demonstration outside of Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital on Monday a “reprehensible” display of antisemitism.
Trudeau posted a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, in response to reports of a protest outside of the institution, which was founded by the Jewish community in Toronto over a century ago.
With permission:
A female Jewish doctor who was trying to drive home when the protest in front of Mount Sinai Hospital started said that her car was stopped by the crowd.
There were demands by protesters that she honk her horn in support. When she asked protesters to move, they… pic.twitter.com/vzo7cx69GB
— David Jacobs (@DrJacobsRad) February 13, 2024
h/t Sweetpea
Aroma Cafe, Mount Sinai, Davos, Crowncrack.com, Soho Theatre and many more instances of anti-Semitism reported in just the last 48 hours.
It seems an international coordinated effort is underway to push the boundaries of publicly acceptable anti-Semitism.
Gone are the days when a Swastika or a chant of “From the river to the sea” were the “extreme”.
The goal now is to intimidate people and institutions with an implied if not actual threat of violence.
The brazen unashamed thugs tearing up hostage posters and the open support of Hamas atrocities as legitimate resistance were my first clues that a page had been turned.
Though the numbers of Pro- Hamas protesters marauding about are smaller today their choice of targets has succeeded in pushing the envelope and making the streets of Toronto “safer” for worse acts of anti-semitism to come.
Large-scale protests are inevitable and given the size of the GTA’s Muslim diaspora potentially very violent.
Will our police be prepared? I don’t know. This is a hot potato our politicians hope just goes away without having to risk the Islamist vote.
This is the Canada we live in. The Canada destroyed by identity politics and the mass immigration of incompatible cultures.
UPenn students, interim president slam professor’s ‘antisemitic’ political cartoons
The University of Pennsylvania is embroiled in yet another scandal in the wake of October 7: communications school lecturer Dwayne Booth is under fire for political cartoons that critics say are antisemitic.
One of Booth’s illustrations, entitled “Slaughterhouse,” shows Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu with red glowing eyes, covered in blood and holding a knife.
The controversial images were published on Booth’s personal website, crowncrack.com, where he uses the pseudonym Mr. Fish.
h/t CC
Walker: Canada has good reason to be cautious about refugees from Gaza
The following was written in response to “Canada’s temporary residence program for Palestinians from Gaza has serious flaws,” published Jan. 29:
In his opinion article, Matthew Behrens criticized federal government restrictions imposed on Gazan refugees who want to come to Canada under a temporary new immigration policy.
Behrens took issue with statements made by Immigration Minister Marc Miller, who, in a recent interview, used the words “terrorism” and “security” 11 times when talking about the program. Behrens wrote that, in doing so, the federal government has been “repeatedly painting Palestinians with the unfair brush of suspicion,” saying “that suspicion is also built into application forms that ask unprecedented questions about the origin of every scar … ”
Pro-Palestinian protesters ‘meant paraglider image as peace symbol’
Two women accused of sticking images of paragliders on their backs at a pro-Palestinian march were actually displaying a “cartoon parachute” used as a “symbol of peace”, lawyers have claimed.
Heba Alhayek, 29, and Pauline Ankunda, 26, allegedly wore the pictures of paragliders at a march in central London seven days after militants from Hamas used paragliders to enter Israel from Gaza on October 7.
A third woman, Noimutu Olayinka Taiwo, 27, is accused of displaying the paraglider picture on a placard at the protest.
Update: Women guilty of terror offence over parachute image at pro-Palestinian march
WTF?
This is Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada.
The hospital was established because Jewish doctors had no place to train or work due to anti-semitism.
Tonight a crowd is chanting for violence against Jews outside this place of healing.#antisemitism #BillC3 @SinaiHealth pic.twitter.com/YxiFumKVuE
— David Jacobs (@DrJacobsRad) February 13, 2024
Jews ‘hounded out’ after refusing to stand when comedian produced Palestine flag
Jewish audience members have said they felt “hounded out” of a West End comedy show after a row over the Palestinian flag.
Soho Theatre is investigating an alleged incident during comedian Paul Currie’s stand-up gig at the London venue.
Mr Currie produced a Palestinian flag during the show, after which a row is said to have broken out.
This is the comedian who incited the audience to turn on the Jewish man. Prior to performing at the @sohotheatre he appeared at a pro-Palestinian march where he appeared filled with hatred and anger screaming “Palestine will live forever.” pic.twitter.com/01XRqoR7sG
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) February 12, 2024
Rescued Hostages a Blow to Biden’s Effort to Thwart Israel
By carrying out a daring military operation in Rafah that rescued two hostages, Israel sent two important messages to President Biden. One, operations in Rafah are necessary to destroy Hamas. And two, hostages can be secured by military action, and not merely through negotiations that demand Israel abandon its war aims.
WTF?
Pro Hamas gangs paint "fu.k Israel " at an Aroma Café in downtown Toronto today. Where is the police. pic.twitter.com/AtKVy67iP8
— neveragainlivepodcast@gmail.com (@neveragainlive1) February 13, 2024