A Palestinian terrorist expected to be released in the hostage exchange controversially demanded Israel pay for her plastic surgery after injuring herself in an attack.
Asraa Jabas, 38, was seriously disfigured after a gas cylinder exploded during an attack in 2015 in the West Bank which also left a policeman badly hurt.
She was sentenced to eleven years but since being convicted has successfully applied twice for funding to have plastic surgery – sparking outrage.
Chants of jihad at pro-Palestine marches can be prosecuted as encouraging terrorism, the Government’s adviser on counter terror legislation has said.
In a report published on Wednesday, Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said he did not believe there was any need to toughen anti-terror laws in the wake of the national pro-Palestine protests.
He said current legislation gave police sufficient powers to take action against “encouraging terrorism” such as calls to jihad and any changes would have unintended consequences that could damage freedom of speech.
The Oct. 7 genocidal Hamas/Islamic Jihad attack on Israel had the silver lining of producing moral clarity. Which might seem poor compensation but when things are bad and getting worse fast, it’s vital to see them as they are. Including the perplexing fact that so many western feminists went off the deep end, or revealed themselves as having long since done so, to the point of denying that the jihadis committed savage acts of rape and butchery not merely from general depravity but as a preplanned weapon of terrorist genocide.
A rising star has lost a coveted film role, Susan Sarandon has been dropped by her talent agency and Tom Cruise is said to have stepped in to protect his agent as Hollywood faces being torn apart by war in the Middle East.
The American entertainment industry is famous for its political uniformity and on the vast majority of issues A-listers, executives and below-the-line workers speak with one voice.
A four-day pause and the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners. Seen from London or New York, this seems like a reasonable measure to secure the return of 50 Israeli hostages. Pause the fighting; allow humanitarian aid to reach Gaza; satisfy the Americans, who were reportedly pushing hard for the deal; get a good number of your citizens back. What’s not to like?
Now Bethnal Green schoolkids are chanting anti-Semitic slogans – and no one seems to care.
The London I love, cherish and grew up in feels like it is about to disappear.
On Thursday last week, 400 children skipped school to march through Bethnal Green to protest against Israel. The marchers demanded a ‘ceasefire’, but made no reference whatsoever to the act that started Israel’s assault on Gaza – Hamas’s murder of Israeli civilians and taking of hostages on 7 October.
Ever since Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists, along with ordinary Arab Muslims from Gaza, invaded Israel, murdered, raped and kidnapped women and children, the debate has been about how innocent they are. And how easy Israel should be willing to go on them.
Biden’s pro-Israel stance is more rhetoric than reality
Last Wednesday, several dozen pro-Palestinian activists, their faces obscured by keffiyehs and Covid masks, attempted to block the entrance to the Democratic National Committee Headquarters in Washington, DC. Reports of a riot may have been hyperbole, but footage showed a chaotic demonstration reminiscent of the racial justice protests of 2020. The organisers later accused the police of attacking the “non-violent” protestors; Capitol Police claimed that six of its officers were assaulted.
In the aftermath of Oct. 7, the terrible prospect of an “ocean of red” opens up before us.
The great Xingtai earthquake, registering 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale, struck Hebei province at 5:29:14 on the morning of March 8, 1966. Seismic shockwaves tore through the foothills of the Taihang Mountains, opening up yawning fissures in the landscape, while landslides, sand eruptions, and torrents of floodwater erased entire villages in a matter of moments. Five further earthquakes would follow, the strongest taking place on March 22, and the last on March 29. Three weeks of unrelenting tremors and aftershocks left the region, which had no prior instrumentally located seismicity, in a state of total devastation. Some 5 million homes were destroyed or damaged, and an estimated 8,000 lives were lost, mostly in the rural communities outside the prefecture-level city of Xingtai. Another 38,000 men, women, and children lay grievously injured, and hundreds of thousands more were rendered homeless and destitute amid the wreckage of their annihilated farmhouses and villages.
In some parts of the country, standing up for Israel is controversial, even dangerous.
On the campuses of places like Harvard, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, anyone who dares to wave an Israeli flag — or, increasingly, wear a kippah in public — is at risk of being assaulted by angry mobs of people with their faces covered.
In Los Angeles, a pro-Israel protester was allegedly killed by a pro-Palestinian computer-science professor.
A Quebec Superior Court judge has ordered McGill University’s student union to not adopt a contentious pro-Palestinian policy voted on this week until a legal challenge on the matter can be heard in the new year.
The court order was issued Tuesday after B’nai Brith Canada, a Jewish advocacy organization, filed an injunction seeking to halt the vote on the policy amid rising tensions on campus.
New images released from the aftermath of the Nova music festival massacre in Israel on October 7.
⚠️ Warning Graphic pic.twitter.com/3P7jlWZ3e8
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) November 22, 2023
First responders were still struggling to identify the charred remains of Israeli civilians butchered on Oct. 7 when Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario president Fred Hahn boasted of the atrocities committed by Hamas as the “power of resistance.” Hahn’s comments came as Zaka, an Israeli volunteer emergency rescue group, sometimes only found the teeth of terror victims; at other points, MRI imaging revealed a parent and child in a death embrace, their spines inseparably twisted like barbed wire as they were ignited in flames.
… CAA also dropped Saira Rao and Regina Jackson — who co-wrote the 2022 book “White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better” — over their social media posts. Rao had written on X, “Zionists are starting to panic that more and more of the world sees them for the bloodthirsty genocidal ghouls they are.”
Rao tells Variety that Hollywood is “punishing people of color for speaking out.” She adds, “It’s disgusting. The genocide is indisputable. You can watch it on live TV. CAA will be on the wrong side of history. And shame on CAA for doing that to Maha.” A CAA spokesperson says Rao was not dropped for supporting Palestinians but for posts deemed antisemitic.
I just don’t understand Sarandon’s comments at all, they make no sense.
Great news – Susan Sarandon has been DROPPED by top Hollywood agency UTA after her atrocious statement of Jews finally “getting a taste of how it feels to be Muslim in America”. pic.twitter.com/2NFNH4mLa1
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) November 21, 2023
On Thursday, November 9, an aging Right Honourable Brian Mulroney stood before the World Jewish Congress in New York to accept the organization’s highest honour, the Theodor Herzl Award, in recognition of his efforts to combat antisemitism and his unwavering support for Israel and the Jewish people. A shadow of his former prime ministerial self, he spoke with humility and wisdom but also the conviction of experience when he said, “The prime minister sets both the agenda and the tone in Ottawa.”
