“Oct 7 2023”

A 69-year-old Jewish man died on Monday after falling and hitting his head during an altercation with pro-Palestinian protesters in California, according to authorities.

Paul Kessler succumbed to injuries sustained at dueling demonstrations on Sunday in Thousand Oaks and authorities are investigating his death as a possible hate crime, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office said.

Kessler, an Israel supporter, was involved in a scuffle with pro-Palestinian protesters around 3:20 p.m. when he suffered a head injury during the confrontation, authorities and family friends said.

“Dad, look at your WhatsApp. See how many I killed with my bare hands, Dad. Your son killed the Jews … I killed ten with my bare hands. Their blood is on my hands … I’m talking to you from a Jewish woman’s phone.”

When I’m asked — and the question is a blunt sword — what the difference is between Jewish children slaughtered by Hamas on Oct. 7 and Palestinian children torn limb from limb by Israeli bombs, my answer is this:

One is deliberate murder, the other is a horrific consequence of war.

The force’s employee reportedly said support for Israel should be seen as ‘extremist ideology’ and ‘inciting hatred against Muslims’

An employee of the Metropolitan Police is being investigated by the force for appearing to claim that support for Israel should be treated as “extremist ideology”.

Amina Ahmend, who is described on her Linkedin page as a leadership programme facilitator and project manager for the London police force, appeared to suggest that backing Israel in the conflict should be treated as a hate crime.

In a post apparently made by Ms Ahmed she said that those who support the war in Gaza “should be called out as Islamaphobic and inciting hatred against Muslims”.

Over the span of 43 minutes, I watched 138 humans be murdered or witnessed their corpses, many brutalized beyond recognition and others clearly tortured, in the direct aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel.

That’s 3.2 bodies per minute— and less than 10 per cent of the more than 1,400 people killed that day.

Palestinians are the only victims that matter

It’s almost like a religious ritual. Every Saturday since 7 October, central London has swollen with protestors waving the Palestinian flag and chanting “From the River to the Sea”. For the impartial and curious observer, two facts are immediately striking. The first is not all that mysterious: the protestors are disproportionately Muslim. The second is more of an enigma: why are they so young?

How the West’s woke radicals became Hamas’s moral spindoctors.

Is Hamas now getting its talking points from Harvard University radicals? Something’s going on.

On 7 October, the day of Hamas’s apocalyptic pogrom against the Jews of southern Israel, 34 student groups at Harvard rushed out an open letter absolving Hamas of guilt for the ongoing horror. We ‘hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence’, said the self-righteous mob from the leafy, luxurious, non-blood-spattered lawns of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Israel is ‘the only one to blame’ for what is happening today, they said (my emphasis).

Washington is frustrated that beyond bombing Gaza Netanyahu is failing to identify war aims the US thinks are attainable

An enduring British conceit, even after revelations about the ugliness of the 1950s anti-Mau Mau struggle, is that our forebears did imperial counter-insurgency nicely. In reality, while we were less cruel than the French and much less so than the Belgians, British operations relied more heavily upon force than hearts and minds.

In Kenya, though modern local estimates of 90,000 dead seem wildly exaggerated, a million people were relocated into “protected villages” and disease-ridden camps. It is sometimes claimed that we were victorious in Malaya thanks to Gen Sir Gerald Templer’s brilliant tactics. More important were Malayan loathing for the Chinese insurgents and London’s promise of independence.

If I were Israel I would not be providing the Biden regime with any more than the minimum needed.

The BBC must publish an internal report on anti-Israel bias that has been “suppressed” for almost two decades, a former attorney general has said.

Sir Michael Ellis, one of Britain’s most prominent Jewish politicians, made the demand in a letter to Tim Davie, the corporation’s director-general.

He warned that the broadcaster had “suffered worldwide reputational damage” over criticism of its reporting and its refusal to call Hamas terrorists.

The Biden Administration has been pressuring Israel to agree to “humanitarian pauses” in the war against the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group, whose members carried out the October 7 massacre in which 1,400 Israelis were murdered and thousands more wounded. Hamas has also kidnapped more than 240 Israelis into the Gaza Strip, including toddlers, women and the elderly.

By calling for “humanitarian pauses” in the war, the Biden Administration is throwing a lifeline to Hamas. A pause or a ceasefire would allow Hamas to regroup and prepare new attacks against Israelis.

“We must teach Israel a lesson, and we will do it twice and three times. The al-Aqsa Deluge (the name Hamas gave its October onslaught) is just the first time … Nobody should blame us for the things we do on Oct. 7, Oct. 10, October one-million. Everything we do is justified.”

— Ghazi Hamad, a member of Hamas’s political bureau and former Hamas deputy foreign minister, in an interview last week on Lebanese TV.

Another journalist whose bubble was burst. Shocked she is at the “Bigots” hatred for Israel.

We shouldn’t say we told you so, but we told you so.

Canada and other countries have seen a steady stream of protests against Israel and in support of Palestine since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and Israel’s subsequent declaration of war. Groups of various ideological mantles have been driving the movement, calling for the destruction of Israel and saying Canada is complicit in “genocide.”

Pro-Palestinian, leftist, and student groups are organizing actions, sometimes jointly, and use social media to announce events and share their messages.

A 30-year veteran of Canada’s intelligence community sees the scale and regularity of the protests as emerging from a combination of simmering discontent and skilled organizing.