“Oct 7 2023”

In a part of the world that has long defied peacemakers, they are questions that bring deep furrows to diplomats’ brows. If Israel clears Hamas from the Gaza Strip, what kind of government will replace it? Will it be accepted by the 2.5 million Gazans who live there – and who will be its muscle if Hamas strikes back?

The favoured candidate for the job in the United States and the United Nations is the Palestinian Authority, or PA, which exercises limited self-rule in parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Last week, Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary-General, said that a “hopefully reinvigorated” PA was “the best-case scenario”.

On the same day that thousands of rockets rained down on innocent Israeli citizens, photos and videos emerged of people dancing in the street. This time, those images were not broadcast from Middle Eastern cities but instead filmed right here in the United States.

The examples are well-known. A man in Boston holds up a phone showing a beheaded baby and makes an obscene hand gesture to the camera, recording his laughter. A hijab-wearing woman at a Democratic Socialists of America rally says she’s glad for the Hamas attack and does not consider herself an American. Students in Cooper Union lead a pro-Palestinian rally brandishing anti-Zionist posters, shouting anti-Semitic slogans, and terrifying Jewish students barricaded in the library as anti-Israel protestors bang on the doors.

Hamilton – November 14 – a shocking video emerges where disgraced MPP Sarah Jama denies the rape of Israeli women on October 7th and accuses the “Zionist lobby” of “pressuring the entire government operation” to accept this “misinformation”

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— Documenting Antisemitism (@AntisemitismCA) November 14, 2023

Israel is deliberately using “disproportionate force” in Gaza and targeting “civilian infrastructure” in an effort to limit its own losses and showcase its “military force,” according to a confidential memo from the Dutch Embassy in Tel Aviv.

The memo, drafted by the Dutch defense attaché in the embassy and seen by Dutch outlet NRC, analyzes Israel’s military strategy in Gaza, where Israeli forces have been launching retaliatory airstrikes for over a month straight and conducting a ground invasion, killing more than 11,000 people according to the Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza.

Sound strategy IMO.

Several charged after Scotiabank Giller Prize gala interrupted during televised bash

Toronto police have charged three people accused of interrupting last night’s glitzy Scotiabank Giller Prize ceremony with an anti-Israel protest.

Investigators allege the three people, who range in age from 23 to 25, used forged documents to gain access to the invitation-only literary event at the Four Seasons Hotel.

All three face charges of obstructing property and using forged documents, and are due back in court in January.

Kudos to the Band drowning out the Hamas supporters

BREAKING: Anti-Israeli protesters interrupt the live ceremony of tonight’s @GillerPrize, which honours the best in Canadian literature. Audience boos in response and police escorted protesters out. pic.twitter.com/13tBtunqk0

— Neil Herland (@NEWSneil) November 14, 2023

Jewish-owned businesses in Montreal are being targeted and vandalized with antisemitic material, with the owners too scared to speak out publicly or complain to the police, the Montreal Gazette has learned.

Lists of such businesses are being circulated on social media, mostly on TikTok, urging people to boycott restaurants and other establishments that are owned by Jews or that are deemed to be supportive of the Israeli government in its war against Hamas in Gaza. But protesters are not simply boycotting businesses; some are visiting them and vandalizing company property.

The brother of a British-Israeli man murdered by Hamas has told the BBC he has never been more fearful of antisemitism in the UK.

Bernard Cowan, from Scotland, was killed by Hamas gunmen in his home on a kibbutz in Southern Israel during the 7 October attack.

The 57-year-old left his family in Glasgow when he was just 19 to move to Israel.

His brother Colin says he “is filled with dread” as a Jew living in Britain.

We know the causes. Islamist immigration, a sick and twisted left wing education system, multicult, DEI and cowardly politicians.

The Montreal police have launched an investigation after more than a dozen métro station entrances were covered with posters early Tuesday condemning Canada for being “complicit” in the “genocide” in Gaza.

Montreal police spokesperson Sabrina Gauthier said multiple 911 calls were received around 5 a.m. Tuesday reporting the presence of the posters referring to the Israel-Hamas war at 16 métro stations. She said apart from the messages condemning Canada’s position, the posters also provided links to various websites and referred to planned demonstrations.

TikTok has said that younger generations are simply more likely to be pro-Palestinian than older people as it hit back at claims from US politicians that it is “brainwashing” the youth against Israel.

The video app pointed to polling data showing that millennials in the US are significantly less sympathetic to Israel than their parents. TikTok denied that its algorithm, which chooses what videos people see, is manipulating users.

Two Liberal MPs are part of a Canadian delegation in the U.S. capital on Nov. 13 to join a multilateral effort to combat the rise in antisemitism.

Mental Health Minister Ya’ara Saks and Montreal MP Anthony Housefather are taking part in two days of meetings as part of the International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians.

Could have saved a lot of money by just reading this blog.

Best video you will see all week. pic.twitter.com/OqBONIBkP7

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) November 13, 2023

The plight of families desperately seeking the return of their loved ones abducted from Israel on Oct. 7 is painfully familiar to Aviram Shaul.

His brother, Oron Shaul, was serving in the Israeli army when he was killed in 2014, during the last major war in Gaza. Israel says Hamas still has his body, along with that of Hadar Goldin, who was killed in the same war. The group is also believed to be holding two living Israeli civilians, Avera Mengistu, who crossed into Gaza in 2014, and Hisham al-Sayed, who entered Gaza in 2015. The Israeli government has said both suffered from mental health issues before they crossed out of Israel.

By and large, Biden administration officials have said all the right things about Israel’s obligation to neutralize the intolerable threat posed by the Iranian proxy groups on its borders. But that resolve dissipated rapidly when Israel embarked on its mission to destroy Hamas, which suggests the Biden administration supported it only in theory.