“Oct 7 2023”

Today marks both the two month anniversary of the war in Gaza and the start of the Hanukkah festival period. For Jews worldwide, it is a sombre occasion as this is the first Jewish festival since the Oct 7 attacks that saw gunmen storm communities near the border with the Gaza Strip, killing hundreds of Israelis and taking hostages.

As the war has unfolded, both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia have skyrocketed. In the 61 days inclusive between the Hamas terror attack on Israel and Dec 6, Community Security Trust (CST) recorded at least 1,890 anti-Semitic incidents across the UK.

Not a good look.

“You can cry here,” the sign reads in pale blue lettering on a clean white background.

Beyond it, comfortable sofas piled with cushions are screened off from the rest of the room. It’s a safe, private corner where survivors of the Nova music festival can be with others who went through the same ordeal on 7 October, and get the mental health support many of them desperately need.

More than 360 young partygoers were shot, beaten or burnt to death by Hamas attackers, who stormed the festival site near the Israel-Gaza perimeter fence early that morning. Another 40 were taken hostage.

Many pro-Hamas demonstrations that have been taking place on US campuses since Hamas launched its war on Israel on October 7, when more than 3,000 Hamas terrorists invaded and raped, pillaged, murdered and kidnapped their way through the small communities of southern Israel, have reportedly been led by a radical organization known as National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), which, according to a report in The Atlantic, announced a “national day of resistance”.

Antisemitism on campus is intimately tied to the loss of viewpoint diversity which has occurred in the US, Britain and other parts of the Anglosphere since the mid-1960s.

Just days after the Moncton, N.B., city council drew nationwide jeers for cancelling its annual menorah display (a decision that was reversed on Monday ), the mayor of Canada’s fourth largest city looked to follow in their footsteps, announcing via a press release posted to X that she would not be attending the annual menorah lighting at Calgary’s city hall.

In a closed Facebook discussion group open only to educators with southern Ontario’s Peel District School Board, teachers were discussing how best to talk to students after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.

“Jews are the problem,” one teacher wrote.

Wow I never knew we had so many “far right white supremacist” teachers.

h/t MP

An influencer who mockingly asked what side dishes should accompany an Israeli baby who was reportedly burned to death in an oven has been given a ten-month suspended jail sentence.

Paris’ judicial court today handed 37-year-old Warda Anwar, also known as Haneia Nakei, the sentence after she was prosecuted for apologising for terrorism and publicly inciting hatred.

In a video published to the Parisian influencer’s Instagram account, which has nearly 11,000 followers at time of publication, she reacted to information reported by an Israeli rescuer, who claimed they found a baby placed in an oven by Hamas during the terror group’s incursion into Israel.

Huh?

The interns, who are paid, accused the Jewish state of committing “genocide.”

Agroup of 40 White House and Executive Office of the President interns sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday to shame them for supporting Israel and to demand that they call for a “permanent ceasefire” in the Israel–Hamas conflict. The interns deemed Israel’s actions in the conflict to be “an ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people” and said that they “will no longer remain silent.”

Since the painful testimony from three Ivy League university presidents took place Tuesday, social media has been awash with criticism for the women and the institutions themselves after they said that calls for the genocide of Jews had to be put in the proper “context” before action could be taken.

The chairwoman of the House Republican conference, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, asked the three presidents a fairly simple question: “Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?”

The presidents of @Harvard, @MIT, and @Penn were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism:

Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?

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— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) December 5, 2023

Israeli forces and Hamas are fighting house-to-house battles along the length of the Gaza Strip, with devastating consequences for the civilian population amid a complete collapse in humanitarian relief.

As the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been fighting their way through badly bomb-damaged urban areas in northern and southern Gaza, Hamas has increasingly relied on improvised bombs to inflict casualties and slow down the assault.

Gaza’s hospitals have reported a flood of civilian dead and injured, many of them women and children, as medical supplies dwindle, while the spread of ground combat to the south has stopped any delivery of humanitarian aid much further than the Rafah crossing point with Egypt.

Images have emerged appearing to show Israeli forces preparing to flood the labyrinth of tunnels used by Hamas under the Gaza Strip with sea water.

Israel is said to have completed installing at least five pumps about a mile north of the Al-Shati refugee camp that could move thousands of cubic metres of water per hour – meaning they could flood the 300-mile network of tunnels within weeks.

Their plan would be to drive out the terrorists from the tunnels and make them inoperable by flooding the system with seawater from the Mediterranean Sea.

On Saturday, the day after the week-long ceasefire in Gaza came to an end, protesters were back on Parliament Hill demanding that Israel cease all hostilities against Hamas. Yet this is not what Hamas’s own leadership wants.

Last week’s truce did last longer than many expected, with both sides agreeing to extend the initial four-day ceasefire an additional three days, but it could have continued if Hamas had wanted it to.

As readers have pointed out calls for a ceasefire are simply a ruse to save the murdering rapists of Hamas from destruction.

Israeli spies and military commanders held late-night meetings just hours before the October 7 attacks to discuss an imminent Hamas assault and knew of the threat to the Supernova music festival, according to an investigation.

The first meeting took place close to midnight and the second one at 3am but attendees concluded that Hamas was holding a training exercise on the Gaza border rather than preparing for a terror attack, according to Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper.