Someone is going to get killed. It’s what happens when you abandon the rule of law. And as increasingly aggressive, openly antisemitic protests roil our cities, we now have video footage of a masked menace telling someone “I’ll put you six feet deep” in front of police officers who, after long sociological cogitation, declared it totally cool. And the “such things have no place in Canada” crowd seem to agree.
Anti-Israel campaigners plaster stickers on products made in the country as they call for boycott
Pro-Palestinian campaigners are labelling pots of Israeli hummus stocked in British supermarkets as “profiting from genocide”.
The anti-Israel BDS movement – which stands for boycott, divestment and sanctions – calls for activists not to buy Israeli products in order to put economic pressure on companies operating in the country.
🇨🇦 PM @JustinTrudeau receives a bespoke video from senior Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad. He is so grateful for 🇨🇦 support of the UN Resolution calling for a ceasefire which mentioned neither Hamas nor the hostages it holds more than 70 days on. Such a proud moment for you as well,… https://t.co/8jNyEEH123
— Vivian Bercovici (@VivianBercovici) December 20, 2023
Israel has sought to justify arresting scores of medical staff in Gaza by posting a video that purports to show a hospital manager confessing to working for Hamas.
Ahmed Kahlot, head of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, was detained last week along with 70 other medical staff. It followed the arrest last month of Mohammed Abu Salmiya, director of al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest.
WATCH: A Gaza hospital director exposed Hamas during a Shin Bet interrogation: 'They brought a kidnapped solider to the hospital,'
He also confirmed the hospital was used as a military base controlled by the terrorist organization pic.twitter.com/bPMldR4vw1
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) December 19, 2023
It might not be the Grinch or Scrooge who steals Christmas this year.
It could be a meaner villian. It could be Hamas.
… Canadians who identified as Jewish were very likely to see antisemitism as a major problem (75 per cent). Of those who identified as Muslim, nearly half (48 per cent) perceived anti-Muslim discrimination as a serious issue. Half of Muslim respondents (49 per cent) identified antisemitism as a minor or non-existent issue while one in five Jewish respondents (19 per cent) classified Islamophobia as a minor or non-existent problem.
… “Views of religions were fairly static… with one notable exception,” the survey stated. “Canadians are now more likely to say Islam is damaging to Canadian society than they were in 2022. Now, more than two-in-five (43%) believe Islam to be a harmful presence to Canada, a figure triple the number who believe the religion to be a positive contributor.”
WASHINGTON — Police arrested “roughly 60” anti-Israel protesters inside the Capitol Rotunda Tuesday after a group led by controversial activist Linda Sarsour staged an illegal rally in the iconic venue.
“Not another nickel! Not another dime! No more money for Israel’s crimes!” chanted members of the group, holding “Stop Arming Israel” signs.
It is illegal to hold demonstrations inside the Capitol, though violators of the prohibition are inconsistently prosecuted by the DC US Attorney’s Office after being arrested.
Raging anti-Semite Linda Sarsour was arrested for leading this actual insurrection at the Capitol today.
Looking forward to her pretrial detention, conviction and lengthy prison sentence. pic.twitter.com/QXQY5KoouA
— Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) December 19, 2023
What happened to Canadian youth’s love-in with the Conservative Party? Last month, Gen Z couldn’t get enough of the Tories: an Abacus poll taken in late November found that 36 per cent of voters aged 18-29 would vote Conservative, compared to 24 per cent who would vote Liberal. This month, the bloom is off the rose: the latest Abacus poll shows Conservative voters bleeding to the Liberals in all age categories, but most noticeably among 18-29 year olds. Today, only 24 per cent of them would vote Conservative, compared to 32 per cent who would vote Liberal, a near total reversal.
The world’s lone superpower has been unable to protect one of the most important commercial arteries on Earth from a band of third-world rebels.
Welcome to the latest humiliation of a Biden-administration foreign policy premised on not being overly provocative toward our enemies.
Blockades by anti-Israel protesters have led the Canadian National Railway to lose millions of dollars and suffer “irreparable harm,” say courts in three provinces.
“I would have no difficulty in concluding that blockades of Canadian National Railway lines in New Brunswick would amount to irreparable harm to CN. It would amount to an unlawful trespass on CN’s property,” wrote Justice Robert Dysart of the New Brunswick Court of Queen’s Bench, as fist reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
Strip their citizenship then deportation.
Poll Finds Wide Disapproval of Biden on Gaza, and Little Room to Shift Gears
Voters broadly disapprove of the way President Biden is handling the bloody strife between Israelis and Palestinians, a New York Times/Siena College poll has found, with younger Americans far more critical than older voters of both Israel’s conduct and of the administration’s response to the war in Gaza.
Voters are also sending decidedly mixed signals about the direction U.S. policy-making should take as the war in Gaza grinds into its third month, with Israelis still reeling from the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, thousands of Palestinian deaths in Gaza and the Biden administration trying to pressure Israel to scale back its military campaign. Nearly as many Americans want Israel to continue its military campaign as want it to stop now to avoid further civilian casualties.
That’s gotta hurt.
From pre-K lessons on ‘ethnic noses’ to lectures on Israel as an apartheid state, students are learning that Jews are the enemy.
Last fall, Siriana Abboud put a new poster on the wall of her pre-K class at a public school in Midtown Manhattan that, she claimed, would teach her four- and five-year-old students about the human body.
The poster showed four sketches of differently shaped noses—two small, one hooked, and another with a nose ring.
“Why do people have different noses?” a headline above the drawings asked.
Regional politics and well-armed Houthi adversaries in Yemen are among the challenges facing U.S.-led naval force
Hours after the U.S. announced a multinational task force to protect commercial traffic through the Red Sea, shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk said it would send its vessels around the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa instead.
The message was clear: Jitters remain about a possible snarl to one of the world’s most crucial trade routes.
Attacks on merchant vessels by Houthi forces in Yemen, a militia group backed by Iran, continued this week—including two on Monday. The attacks have mostly taken place near the southern end of the Red Sea, called Bab el-Mandeb, or the Gate of Tears.
It is very hard, indeed it may be impossible, to disagree with the flood of online remarks asserting that the treatment of the pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protests differ rather troublingly from the treatment meted out to Canadian truckers.
I’m not aware that Tamara Lich at any point during the trucker’s sojourn in Ottawa, in full voice, and in direct proximity to police officers, gave vent to “I’ll kill you … I’ll put you six feet deep” to either a policeman or to a passerby. During the weeks of the Freedom Convoy protest, as far as I know, and equally as far as the authorities are aware, at no point did she express murderous intent, make explicit death threats, or act with grand insouciance while doing so in the presence of numerous police.
Trudeau says antisemitism rise is ‘terrifying’ after teen terror charges
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the rise of antisemitism in Canada is “terrifying” after a 15-year-old was arrested late on Friday night in Ottawa and charged with terrorism-related offences.
The RCMP say it’s alleged the youth, who cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, intended to target the Jewish community and is suspected of having explosive materials.
