“Oct 7 2023”

Did police overreach with charges that followed the pro-Palestinian protest against Heather Reisman? How the actions of the “Indigo 11” are being judged.

Under the cover of darkness, a group gathered in downtown Toronto with posters, paint and a plan.

The pro-Palestinian activists were there to make a splash — something that would visibly link an iconic Canadian business to the killing of thousands of civilians in the Gaza Strip.

They had picked a target long linked to support of Israel: Indigo and its CEO, Heather Reisman.

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Pro Hamas supporters are equating Jews with the Nazis in Toronto and the Toronto police do not enforce the law. pic.twitter.com/sIW9TvXtNT

— neveragainlivepodcast@gmail.com (@neveragainlive1) January 8, 2024

Like the Covid shutdowns and the riots of 2020 before them, the Hamas atrocities of October 7 revealed the ongoing moral and political catastrophe of the West. Hamas initiated a war against Israel that immediately turned into a war against Jews everywhere. That much was clear when its opening salvo—an orgy of rape, torture, murder, and kidnapping—received fervent support among leftists worldwide. From London to Sydney and points in between, the intifada, as Lee Smith observes, has gone global. 

Pro-Palestinian protests since the October 7th Hamas terror attacks on Israel have cost the British taxpayer over £20 million in policing expenses, a government review has found.

Hamas’s violent Oct. 7 attack against Israel has led to pro-Palestinian demonstrations of varying sizes around the world and a significant increase in antisemitism in Canadian cities, on a scale not witnessed since the end of the Second World War.

Toronto has experienced several pro-Palestinian demonstrations in front of the clothing chain Zara at the Eaton Centre shopping mall. It led to a tense verbal jousting last month between a masked demonstrator and passers-by, with the protester yelling, “I’ll lay you out on the floor” and threatening to put an unidentified individual “six feet deep.”

Pro-Palestinian protesters swarmed three bridges and the Holland Tunnel in Lower Manhattan, blocking off traffic and creating chaos late Monday morning.

Demonstrators from the “Shut it Down for Palestine” rally marched through City Hall Park before groups of them descended on the bridges and tunnels, police said.

Watching the terrified faces of the four bloodstained teenage girls being paraded by Hamas gunmen was beyond their parents’ worst nightmare.

The haunting images were taken just hours after they were kidnapped and Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Daniela Gilboa and Agam Berger appeared shadows of their former selves.

Three months have passed since that recording of them lined up against a wall in Gaza, their hands bound behind them – and still they are in captivity.

Hamas release video of 4 innocent teenage Israeli girls who have been held captive and tortured since Oct 7th.

Karina Ariev, 19
Daniela Gilboa, 19
Agam Berger, 19
Lili Albag, 18 pic.twitter.com/A2uUhdSUGZ

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) January 8, 2024

Hezbollah and foreign media reports claimed on Monday that the IDF killed Wissam al-Tawil, known as Jawad, a key operations commander in southern Lebanon, in an air strike in Khirbat Salem, Lebanon.

It was unclear if Jawad, a reportedly significant figure within Hezbollah, had been killed as part of ongoing exchanges of fire between the IDF and Hezbollah or whether he was specifically targeted.

The underground explosion, just before noon, could barely be heard, muffled by tons of earth covering the suspected Hamas tunnel.

On the surface in Gaza City the detonation of thousands of kilograms of explosives felt like a small earthquake. Even the heavy tanks securing the Israeli operational perimeter bounced from the shock. The effect on the buildings remaining nearby, however, was barely discernible.

Mayor Olivia Chow’s first annual skating party at Nathan Phillips Square was cut short on Sunday by demonstrators calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Chow had invited residents to celebrate the new year, along with city councillors and members of the new Professional Women’s Hockey League, at an event with free hot chocolate. But as soon as Chow took to the microphone to welcome attendees, she was interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters and was soon escorted off the ice.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow drowned out several times by pro-Palestinian demonstrators at a skating party at Nathan Phillips Square.

On Nov. 10th, Chow called for, “the immediate and unconditional return of all hostages and a ceasefire.” pic.twitter.com/8ojnGrRBTc

— Rahim Ladhani (@RLadhaniCTV) January 7, 2024

Toronto’s police chief apologized Sunday after a video posted on social media of officers handing coffee to protesters supporting Palestinians was criticized by politicians.

On Saturday, police closed the overpass on Avenue Road at Highway 401, saying on social media they were on the scene to keep demonstrators and passing traffic safe. Video from the overpass posted on Facebook by Palestine House, a community organization, shows protesters holding Palestinian flags and chanting “Free Palestine.”

Chief Demkiw of the Toronto Police issues a follow up statement. #Toronto #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #Hamas https://t.co/v7JBjHbGRY pic.twitter.com/Fu0SRSsuoh

— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) January 8, 2024

We are supposed to believe that overnight the PA has changed its spots. After all, Abbas wears a suit.

No more is it between good and bad. Now, for 2024 and beyond, it’s between bad and worse.

Take your pick. For instance, between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, which is better, which is worse?

Which terrorists, in other words, should get to run Gaza, “the day after?” Biden and his people prefer the PA…the lesser of two evils.