As the world’s attention is focused on the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, including South Africa’s false “genocide” charges against Israel at the International Court of Justice, in Syria Palestinians are worried about a new government law that considers them “foreigners.”
By labeling the Palestinians as “foreigners,” the Syrian government is seeking to deprive them of the ability to purchase real estate. Like the majority of the Syrians, most of the Palestinians are Arab Muslims.
Hundreds of people gathered in Toronto’s streets this weekend to enjoy the company of like-minded people in celebrating — get this — the Houthi faction of Yemen, which declared war on civilian cargo ships in November and has since taken innocent crewmen hostage.
Oh nothing. Just a few peaceful demonstrators in @oliviachow’s Toronto cheering on Houthi terrorists and calling for the murder of Jews.
— Alan Fryer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@alanfryermedia) January 15, 2024
For years, the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival has been a highlight of Vancouver’s arts scene. I once called it a “beacon of avant-garde light in the dead of winter.”
I won’t be calling it that any more. The festival has now added to the darkness of this already tragic, oppressive season.
Last week, PuSh decided to cancel its planned performances of the Canadian play The Runner at the Simon Fraser University Woodward’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. The one-person play, written by Christopher Morris, has received rave reviews, including from The Globe and Mail’s J. Kelly Nestruck in 2018.
The Health Ministry on Monday instructed members of the healthcare system not to cooperate with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, citing its perceived anti-Israel stance.
In recent weeks, senior physicians and hospital staff who treated October 7 victims and released hostages have received letters and emails from the commission, which operates under the UN Council for Human Rights. The commission requested information and interviews for its investigation of international and gender-based crimes since the beginning of the current Israel-Hamas war.
OTTAWA – The security screening the federal government has brought in for people applying to flee the Gaza Strip is facing criticism from both lawyers who feel its questions are too invasive and others who think it should dig even deeper.
A special program that would allow up to 1,000 people in Gaza with relatives in Canada to apply for visas opened for applications last week, with the federal government seeking an extraordinary level of detail.
King’s College counterterrorism course, on contract to MoD, dangerously downplays extremism
King’s College London is the academic centre of Britain’s military and counterterrorism training. Its counterterrorism course, under contract to the Ministry of Defence, has been designed for civil servants and other professionals involved in this work from a number of government departments.
Now, questions have been asked in parliament after an account of the course written by a former civil servant, Anna Stanley, who participated in it a few months ago and who until this month was an open-source intelligence analyst at the Foreign Office.
An MSNBC producer called condemnation of Hamas’s violence against Israeli women “tone deaf” on Sunday and accused the IDF of perpetrating similar atrocities against Palestinians.
Nicole McReynolds, an associate video producer on Ali Velshi’s MSNBC show, scolded Big Time Rush singer James Maslow over an Instagram post that described Hamas’s murder, mutilation, and rape of Israeli women on October 7.
… But the Liberal Party since the days of Clifford Sifton in the 1890s has counted on immigrant voters for support. And between 2001 and 2021, the Muslim share of Canada’s population grew to 5 per cent from 2 per cent, even as the Jewish share of the population decreased slightly, to just below 1 per cent.
Mr. Trudeau’s promise during the 2015 election campaign to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada helped him win that election. Immigrant voters, many of them Muslim, in suburban ridings surrounding Toronto and Vancouver, helped the Liberals squeak through in the 2019 and 2021 elections. Now in the wake of the Hamas atrocities on Oct. 7 and the severity of Israel’s response in Gaza, the Liberal caucus is divided.
An extremist group which organised a pro-Palestine protest in which attendees chanted “jihad” is to be banned in Britain for allegedly promoting Hamas, James Cleverly has announced.
Hizb ut-Tahrir will join a list of more than 50 proscribed organisations which includes the Islamic State group, Al Qaeda, Hamas and the Russian Wagner mercenaries.
The move means it becomes an offence to be a member of the group or to support it and carries a maximum jail sentence of up to 14 years and/or fine of up to £5,000 for doing so.
A small North American footprint but nuisance enough to be banned in multiple nations.
Wresting control of Muslim institutions from the Islamist radicals who control them is crucial.
Something good happened this past week in south Florida. After being briefed and educated by activists affiliated with the Middle East Forum (MEF), a group of responsible public officials and business leaders prevailed upon a local hotel to refrain from hosting an Islamist-organized gathering of extremists slated to take place near Fort Lauderdale. The cancellation of the event, scheduled for the second weekend of January at the Marriot Hotel in Coral Springs, has prompted the all-too-predictable cries of bigotry and “Islamophobia” on the part of its organizer, the South Florida Muslim Federation (SFMF), which is now scrambling for another venue to hold its gala.
George Orwell wondered why it was that in decisive moments during the 1930s British statesmen always managed to do the “wrong thing with so unerring an instinct.”
The Trudeau government is treading in these footsteps.
It took the Liberals days to craft a statement on their position on Israel being accused of genocide by South Africa at the International Court of Justice.
Hamas has released a new video in which 26-year-old hostage Noa Argamani is forced to say two of her fellow captives are dead, allegedly killed by IDF strikes.
It follows a video earlier today where Hamas claimed they would reveal tonight if three hostages are alive or dead – including Argamani, whose abduction horrified the world.
🇮🇱🇵🇸 🔴‼️ BREAKING: HAMAS FINALLY RELEASED THE VIDEO
Only Nao Argamani is alive, the rest of the two hostages in the video have "Died as a result of Israeli airstrikes." https://t.co/A5r4RoRBac pic.twitter.com/9fGibbTuMu
— Lounge Digest (@loungedigest) January 15, 2024
🚨 WW3 HIGH ALERT 🚨
A US-owned cargo ship was just hit by a missile off the coast of Yemen ⚠️
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations security agency reported it as a "vessel hit from above by a missile" on its website.
According to Ambrey, a British maritime risk… pic.twitter.com/m2BanI1rzS
— Matt Wallace (@MattWallace888) January 15, 2024
Hamas claimed responsibility for the combined ramming and stabbing attacks in Ra’anana on Monday afternoon, which left over a dozen people wounded and one person dead.
A terrorist stabbed a woman while another terrorist stole a car and proceeded to carry out ramming attacks in several locations, Israel Police confirmed. The terrorist swapped vehicles three times after crashing, the police stated. The terrorists were Muhammad Zaidat, 44, and Ahmed Zaidat, 24, both from Hebron and were later arrested.
🚨Breaking News🚨
A man has stabbed a car driver, took their car, stole others and rammed 20 people in Ra'anana, north of Tel Aviv. One person is dead and multiple injuries.
Believed to be Hezbollah inspired, a man AlKhalil “Hebron” and has been arrested. pic.twitter.com/g4kvudKDgX
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) January 15, 2024
For the family and friends of the 132 remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza, the past 100 days have been an eternity. On October 7, when Hamas brought terror, horror and chaos to Israel, they seized an estimated 240 hostages and took them to the Gaza Strip. Yesterday, the agony of Israeli families deepened when Hamas said the fate of many remaining hostages had become unknown, and that some “may have been killed”.
