He was a fat bloke with a swastika tattooed on his beer belly and a teardrop inked beneath his eye. Let’s call him the cartoon fascist. The Guardian describes another: “a Port Vale fan supping a can of Stella Artois.” There were several hundred of them on Saturday, boorishly shouting “En-ger-land” around the Cenotaph. East to spot, easy to despise. And I do.
“Has died.
She didn’t drop dead mysteriously, she was gruesomely murdered by Hamas terrorists. https://t.co/SdVI2k6cpP pic.twitter.com/Fpjc7nRm8T
— ~Jachnun Supremacist~ נפתלי בן מתתיהו (@JachnunEmpire) November 14, 2023
We are approaching a tipping point: what unites us may soon be weaker than what we disagree about
Over a weekend that felt like the last days of Weimar, “patriots” chanted “England till I die” at the Cenotaph, and a pro-Palestine marcher declared that “Hitler knew how to deal” with the Jews. These thugs do not speak for the thousands who protest in good faith on either side. But hate speech will be used to smear each cause, posted as proof that it is out for blood. Meanwhile, millions of us feel paralysed by the moral complexity of the Israel-Gaza conflict, and silenced by fear of causing offence.
If you say “I sympathise with you, but…”, you’ll likely get called a coward, for the marchers see no “but” – not a glimmer of light on the other side of the argument, not a shadow over their own. London has become the theatre for a new wave of tribal politics.
Events around the world, arising out of the Oct. 7 pogrom in southern Israel, have exposed multiculturalism’s core weakness, namely that ancient hatreds prevalent in certain cultures do not dissipate in the journey from there to here. Normally dormant, a trigger thousands of kilometres away can activate them. Jews are the primary target of angry Islamists’ hatred, but we are also witnessing a disruptive ripple effect that spreads in every direction, turning public spaces into contested cultural terrain.
This contest, best exemplified in London, England, in recent days, is played out in small ways and large.
The Washington Post’s deletion of an anti-Hamas cartoon has exposed the moral depravity of the left.
Last week, the Washington Post published a cartoon which featured senior Hamas member Ghazi Hamad with women and children tied to his body as human shields. The cartoon featured a speech bubble, in which Hamad says: ‘How dare Israel attack civilians.’
The Jews. The Jews.
It is always, so sadly, the Jews. Always.
There is not a humiliation, a torment, an affliction or misery, not a savagery, or horror, either contemplated or put into merciless execution, known to the human mind in its darkest most ungoverned contemplation — none — that with full rage-powered hate and sadistic purpose has not been visited on the Jewish people.
The White House says that a three-year-old American whose parents were killed by Hamas is among the hostages in Gaza.
President Joe Biden raised the issue of hostages, including the toddler, with a call with Amir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani of Qatar on Sunday.
It comes as the White House says “urgent” efforts to free hostages taken after the 7 October attack by Hamas are continuing.
The “pro-Palestinian” demonstrations that have taken place in the US and some European countries over the past few days are all about hating Israel and Jews, not about helping the Palestinians – especially those who have been living under the rule of the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group in the Gaza Strip since 2007.
People who are really pro-Palestinian would be demonstrating for them to have leaders that do not siphon off billions in international aid, or who shoot at them when they try to flee to safety, or who do not store weapons and ammunition in and near their homes and schools.
The protests against Israel around the world purport to be demanding a ceasefire, but that is not their real agenda. The not-so-hidden agenda is a demand for the end of Israel and support for Hamas. The protests began the day after the Hamas massacres of 1,200 Israelis and the kidnapping of more than 200.
This week, more than 700 Canadian lawyers, law students, law professors and other academics signed their names to a petition saying that Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacres should be placed in their proper “context,” rather than condemned. “We reject the notion that it is antisemitic, hateful, or illegitimate to contextualize the October 7th, 2023 attack,” they wrote.
Israel has revealed documents it says belong to Hamas which suggest the terrorists had planned to ‘systematically rape women’.
The documents allegedly belonging to the terror group contain an Arabic-Hebrew glossary with sexual terminology including ‘take your pants off’.
Israel shared some 50 translations on its official X account and claims the statements within the pages are ‘evidence’ of Hamas war crimes.
Does the UK know something of the terrorist threat to Canada that we don’t?
We in Canada are very fortunate to belong to a club called the Five Eyes. This is a post-WWII collection of like-minded (well, mostly like-minded most of the time) Anglo countries—Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and the United States—that share very sensitive intelligence among themselves. The agreement to do so stems from a variety of factors: shared history and culture, common experiences in wartime and peacetime, the English language, and an overall sense that we are all on the “same side” on many matters.
With Israeli forces now on the ground fighting Hamas terrorists in Gaza, the Government of Canada cannot afford to repeat its recent mistakes, when numerous ministers — including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — helped popularize the myth that Israel bombed the Al-Ahli hospital.
Suella Braverman has said weekly pro-Palestinian marches that have “polluted” the streets with hate “can’t go on”.
The Home Secretary claimed London’s streets had been used to “valorise terrorism” and “further action” was necessary.
Mrs Braverman said some of the placards and chants in evidence on Saturday’s march in the centre of the capital were “clearly criminal”.
OTTAWA — An Ottawa man was arrested near Toronto this weekend after he was allegedly caught on video inciting hatred and expressing antisemitic views.
Ottawa police have charged Mohammed Assadi with breaking several bail conditions and hope to keep him in jail while Toronto’s hate crime unit investigates.
