“Oct 7 2023”

Support for Hamas originates in the heart of darkness of Western consciousness, There are more fans of Hamas in the West than in Gaza.

What is this strange evil that afflicts the West and for which the war in Gaza is both a pretext and a revelation? Self-hatred? Fascination with collective suicide?
Hamas is an Islamo-Nazi sect that intended to destroy Israel and its people before attacking the West when the time comes. But it found million of helpers among Western people. Sorcerers’ apprentices, new converts and useful idiots…

Their brainwashing is effective. Newsweek polls say that among young Americans, 48 percent are with Hamas. More than half – 51 percent – believe that the October 7 pogrom in which 1,400 Israelis were massacred was somehow justified. If we did the same survey in Europe we would get the same results.

OTTAWA – The head of the third-largest federal public service union resigned suddenly Monday, reportedly after a series of antisemitic social media posts allegedly written by him began circulating among members.

In a terse statement posted on its website Tuesday, the Canadian Association of Professional Employees (CAPE) announced that its president, Camille Awada, resigned from the top job on Monday. The union represents 23,000 members, including civilian employees of the RCMP, and employees at Statistics Canada and in the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s department.

I imagine our public service at all levels is peppered with diversity just like this.

The call to Mahmoud Shaheen came at dawn.

It was Thursday 19 October at about 06:30, and Israel had been bombing Gaza for 12 days straight.

He’d been in his third-floor, three-bedroom flat in al-Zahra, a middle-class area in the north of the Gaza Strip. Until now, it had been largely untouched by air strikes.

He’d heard a rising clamour outside. People were screaming. “You need to escape,” somebody in the street shouted, “because they will bomb the towers”.

Levi Salomon has been documenting anti-Semitic slogans and acts at rallies in Berlin for 25 years, but never had he experienced such virulent expressions of hate against Jews in post-war Germany until October 7.

On that Sabbath day, Hamas gunmen stormed across the border into Israel, killing 1,400 people, mostly civilians, in their homes, on the streets and at a rave party.

The most deadly attack since the founding of Israel had led it to declare war on Hamas, with Israeli forces heavily bombarding Gaza before sending in ground troops to destroy the Islamist movement. The Hamas-run health ministry said more than 10,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the territory.

TORONTO — As a comment-section editor, I spent more time editing and fact-checking opinion columns than consuming news in the immediate aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, and constantly found myself coming across claims that seemed far-fetched.

Young women raped next to their friends’ dead bodies? That can’t possibly be true. But it was.

Infant babies mutilated and killed in cold blood? Holy hell.

France has seen an exponential rise in antisemitic incidents since the attacks by the terrorist group Hamas on Jewish civilians took place a month ago in Israel, the AFP reports.

The figures were announced on Sunday by French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin.

“The number of anti-Semitic acts has exploded,” he told France 2 television, adding that 486 people have been arrested for such offenses, including 102 foreigners.

MONTREAL – The Montreal police department is investigating overnight firebombings at two Jewish institutions in the Montreal suburb of Dollard-des-Ormeaux.

Police spokesperson Sabrina Gauthier said Tuesday that incendiary devices caused minor damage to the front door of a synagogue and the back door of another nearby building that houses a Jewish organization.

Jewish advocacy group B’nai Brith Canada has identified the synagogue as Congregation Beth Tikvah. Across the street is the local office of the Federation CJA.

Toronto man arrested after police say a fight broke out over pro-Israeli posters being torn down

As if they read Phil Klein’s Corner post from October 25, progressive politicians and activists over the past few days have been on message, arguing that the phrase “free Palestine from the river to the sea” is, as Rashida Tlaib put it, “an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate.”

The British are among the most mild-mannered people in the world. We apologise to the waiter when the food is not up to snuff; we say sorry when others mumble and we cannot understand what they’ve said; we even offer a mea culpa to those who career into us along the pavement, as though it were somehow our fault for getting in the way in the first place. But there is a line, for anyone foolish enough to seek it.

One month on, the Hamas atrocities of 7 October are already being denied, obfuscated and forgotten.

7 October 2023 ought to be a date that will live in infamy. One month ago today, Hamas terrorists smashed through the Israeli border, killing, torturing and kidnapping innocent civilians in their path. Simply repeating the number of those murdered – now believed to be 1,400 – cannot do justice to the savagery and wickedness of this attack. Hamas butchers mowed down teenagers at a music festival. They paraded young women naked through the streets. They raped others next to their friends’ dead bodies. They slaughtered a grandmother in her home and uploaded a film of her murder to social media so her family could see it. They sliced open a woman’s womb and then stabbed her unborn baby. Some children were burned. Others were decapitated. The terrorists’ glee was visible in the depraved footage they willingly broadcast to the world.

In a series of mind-boggling claims, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has cast doubt on the events of October 7 when Hamas terrorists launched their slaughter of Israelis, even going so far as to say Hamas was justified in its attack, calling Israel an occupying force.

Hamas’s Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar has been ‘isolated’ in his bunker, Israel’s defence minister said tonight, as he confirmed IDF troops are in the heart of the terrorist’s ‘stronghold’, Gaza City.

War cabinet minister Yoav Gallant said in a televised statement that the Hamas leader ‘is hiding in his bunker and is without contact with his associates,’ but did not disclose where Sinwar’s bunker is located.

‘We are in the heart of Gaza City,’ Gallant told reporters. ‘Gaza is the largest terrorist base ever built.’

So far so good, casualties are light, progress is being made. I see no reason to listen to the Ceasefire crowd.

Protesters behind a “F— the Jews” pro-Palestine convoy are planning action on Armistice Day in London.

Organisers of the 2021 convoy, where some demonstrators drove through Jewish areas shouting anti-Semitic abuse, are planning a new protest.

The pro-Palestine convoy, which is proposed to travel from Bradford to London, is being promoted on social media and flyers amid growing fears of violent disorder.