BEIRUT — Fears of a widening conflict in the Middle East are growing as the Hezbollah terrorist organization in Lebanon fired today dozens of rockets at northern Israel — despite American efforts to limit the scope of the conflict.
The Iran-backed Hezbollah warned that the barrage was its initial response to the targeted killing, which is being widely attributed to Israel, of a top leader from the allied terrorist Hamas group at Lebanon’s capital earlier this week.
There has been an unprecedented 12-fold increase in hateful social media content being referred to specialist police officers since Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October, according to the UK’s Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit.
Once focused on propaganda shared by the Islamic State group (IS) and the fall-out online following UK-based attacks, much of the unit’s focus has shifted to assessing whether hateful and extreme social media posts breach anti-terror legislation.
The team says it has received more than 2,700 referrals from the public – shared via an online form – since Hamas attacked Israel, and Israel launched waves of air strikes on the Gaza Strip in return.
“Young Britons” are weaned on this stuff.
Rupa Marya, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, argued in a recent social-media post that the presence of “Zionists” in U.S. health care may be harming patients and should therefore be investigated.
Marya’s comments came in response to a post from “anti-racist” activist and former Democratic congressional candidate Saira Rao.
“Realizing how many American doctors and nurses are Zionists and genuinely terrified for Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, South Asian and Black patients — even more than usual. And usually it’s bad,” Rao wrote in a New Year’s Day post on X.
Chinese weaponry including assault rifles and grenade launchers is being used by Hamas to wage war in Gaza, Israeli investigations have revealed.
Stockpiles of hi-tech supplies uncovered by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) contained telescopic sights for rifles and cartridges for M16s as well as an array of communications equipment such as listening devices and tactical military radios.
Israeli investigators are now working to determine how the equipment made it into Hamas’s hands amid concerns Beijing may have been directly involved.
Even before the bodies of roughly 1,200 people in Israel , including dozens of children, were cold after being tortured, raped and massacred on October 7 by the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas, not just Palestinians and Arabs, but people in the West could be seen demonstrating in support of the torturers, murderers and rapists. Even the otherwise outraged hashtag women’s groups have yet to be heard from, with at least one politician in the US, a woman, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), actually “downplaying” the atrocities and other members of the public denying that they had even happened.
Who are these people and groups supporting a terrorist group, Hamas?
The Israeli defence minister has suggested that Israel would keep security control of Gaza after Hamas has been defeated with an undefined, Israeli-guided Palestinian body running day to day administration and the US, European Union and regional partners taking responsibility for the reconstruction of the territory.
Yoav Gallant revealed the plan to media on Thursday before a visit by Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, and after growing pressure from the US for Israel to make proposals for postwar scenarios.
Police and public officials have been remarkably tolerant of the demonstrators who have periodically occupied Avenue Road at Highway 401 in Toronto to protest the Israeli government’s attacks in Gaza against Hamas.
They weren’t protesting in front of the Israeli consulate, some nine kilometres to the south, or at a familiar gathering place such as Nathan Phillips Square at City Hall. They chose to make themselves seen and heard in a prominent Jewish-Canadian neighbourhood.
This is not protest. This is intimidation.
Trudeau, Singh and Chow certainly side with the Hamas supporters, Ford will continue to hide his head in the sand. They want Muslim votes.
The Police have received their marching orders, surrender our streets to the Islamist mob, the Jews or anyone else who objects are deserving of what’s to come.
Let’s not forget that the TPS has embraced DEI and BLM and so is probably edging closer to Gaza in it’s outlook & officer makeup than that of Canada.
For Jews throughout the world, Oct. 7 is a demarcation in our collective calendar. It marks a day of pure evil.
… She assured me repeatedly that the call was being made out of concern for my safety. But what about our collective safety as Jews, I asked her, in the wake of repeated and ugly encounters with the pro-Hamas, anti-Israel crowds whose hatred of Israel was well beyond that particular border, and was increasingly being activated against local Jewish businesses and individuals?
The constable asked me for my plan. When I said I planned to walk back and forth across a crosswalk to delay this cavalcade, I was told that it is illegal to block roadways.
When I pointed out that over the past months Victoria roadways were blocked on a weekly basis, she replied, “We can’t arrest 500 people.”
She’s had her moment of clarity.
The police will not protect you if you attend a counter protest. You will be treated as a public nuisance and told to move along for your own safety.
As Israel seeks allies’ support against UN genocide charge, Canada won’t say whether it will intervene in case
As Israel seeks to mobilize its allies to oppose a genocide charge at the International Court of Justice, the Canadian government is declining to say whether it will support or oppose the case.
South Africa filed an 84-page legal brief at the United Nations court last week, seeking an urgent order declaring that Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza and its siege of the Palestinian territory is “genocidal in character” and a violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention.
A Jewish family is speaking out after their teen daughter faced antisemitic harassment for wearing an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) jacket to a New Jersey mall.
In the incident caught on video at American Dream in East Rutherford, Palestinian supporters are seen shouting expletive-laced messages while accusing Maya Vaxman-Magid of “supporting genocide.”
“You should be embarrassed,” one unidentified harasser shouted, going on to call the teen a “White piece of s–t” while declaring she is from Palestine and is “proud to say it.”
East Rutherford, NJ -a Jewish family of four, including a 12-year-old & a 16-year-old, faced verbal and physical assault at the American Dream Mall.
The 16-year-old daughter, donning an IDF sweatshirt, endured offensive screams, such as “you’re a whore, your mother is a whore,… pic.twitter.com/EiXKkwkKGm
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) January 2, 2024
A $77 million class-action lawsuit has been brought against McMaster University and the McMaster Students Union on behalf of Jewish students at the university.
The lawsuit alleges Jewish students have faced increased difficulties due to a rise in antisemitic rhetoric on campus since Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel.
A physician with the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Faculty of Medicine has quit, saying the school is not doing enough to deal with anti-Semitism on campus.
“I didn’t do it lightly,” Dr. Ted Rosenberg told The Epoch Times. “It was done with a very heavy heart. But I felt like I had no choice.”
Dr. Rosenberg is a geriatrician based in Victoria who has been a clinical professor at UBC for 30 years.
Internal communications leaked by a whistleblower reveal how employees of Amazon have been spreading pro-Hamas and anti-Israel messages at work. The revelation comes after the tech giant was itself accused of selling antisemitic materials online.
By leaking from one of the company’s internal Slack channels—an internal communications platform used by many businesses—an Amazon whistleblower has publicised messages that contain pro-Hamas sentiments and defamatory statements toward Israeli hostages captured by Hamas. Some employees shared posts accusing Israel of crimes, including organ theft, rape, and placing explosives in the belly of a child. Other posts claimed that Israeli hostages kidnapped by the Palestinian terrorist group on October 7th were treated well.
My grandmother used to talk endlessly of the old country. Her beautiful house, her St. Bernard dogs, hiding in the forest to escape the Germans …
When my grandparents and father came to Canada as refugees, fleeing authoritarian communism, life was hard. Yet their struggle mirrors the tens of millions of other refugees in the 20th century — working tirelessly to establish themselves, overcoming trauma and teaching themselves new customs. Now, my children and I are proud Canadians. The old country is just a memory of a memory, mostly captured in my grandmother’s cabbage rolls. Our lives are here now.
“Misinformation” about McDonald’s support for Israel is having a “meaningful impact” on its sales in the Middle East, the fast food restaurant’s chief executive has said.
Chris Kempczinski said calls from pro-Palestinan groups to boycott McDonald’s over the Gaza conflict were harming operations.
McDonald’s has been targeted by pro-Palestinan campaigners after photos and videos on social media showed franchised stores in Israel giving free meals to the nation’s soldiers following the October 7 Hamas attack.
The batshit crazy, pro-terrorist left now thinks @McDonalds is part of the Zionist conspiracy. pic.twitter.com/nmT9VQSNAj
— Richard Klagsbrun (@anunsafespace) January 2, 2024
