“Oct 7 2023”

Since the massacre of over a thousand Israeli civilians by Hamas on October 7th, the number of antisemitic incidents across Europe has increased drastically as arson attacks have been seen in Austria and Germany, along with Italy, where stones dedicated to victims of the Holocaust were set on fire in Rome.

The two stumbling stones, stones bearing a brass plaque with the names of victims of the Holocaust, dedicated to Michele Ezio Spizzichino and Amedeo Spagnoletto, were damaged earlier this week by unknown vandals who apparently tried to set them on fire, Il Giornale reports.

After telling us for weeks that everyone in Gaza was dead or about to die of thirst, apparently the biggest problem in Hamastan, apart from exploding weapons caches in the kitchen, is losing internet access.

Hamas uses the internet for money, it’s financed partly by cryptocurrency from terror sympathizers, propaganda and communications. The Biden administration however insists that internet access is a human right.

Left-wing opponents of Netanyahu now support military action in Gaza

The debate within Britain’s Labour Party over whether to call for a ceasefire or vaguely termed “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza reflects a more painful situation on the Israeli Left.

From the centrist liberals who oppose Benjamin Netanyahu and support two states but accept the current occupation, to committed anti-Zionists who call for one state and a right of return to Palestinians, all have been shaken by the events of the past few weeks.

Meyer Lansky…. we could use him today at a time in America when Jews are under assault on and off campus.

Sparked by Israel’s war against the brutes of Hamas, the antisemitism is everywhere.

So it was in the 1930s when Lansky was Public Enemy Number 1, a so-called gangster, the main attraction for The Jewish Mob.

He ran the largest gambling operation here and everywhere and he had associates, men with guns and muscles, to see that all debts were paid.

A different world …

Marks & Spencer has apologised for posting a picture on social media that showed burning hats that resembled the colours of the Palestinian flag.

The retailer removed a post from its Instagram that showed an outtake from its newly released Christmas advert alongside the caption: “This Christmas, do what you love… like saying no to paper hats.”

The post prompted a fierce backlash on social media over claims it made a political statement because the red, green and silver hats appeared to reflect the Palestinian flag.

A civilizational darkness not seen since the Holocaust has fallen. Shamefully, much of it emanates from our own institutions of higher learning.

God, the prophet Isaiah taught, established the Jewish people as a “light unto the nations.” The light of the people of Israel—of justice and mercy, sober intelligence and hopeful faith—has always been one of freedom, shining amid the gloom of tyranny.

When the light was first kindled, the nation in deepest darkness was Egypt. Reliefs at Karnak depict the man-god Pharaoh—immense, archetypically impersonal, and stiff—looming menacingly over herds of human beings. The Bible tells us that a Pharoah solidified control of the land during the famine of Joseph’s time. The Israelites were later forced to make bricks under the Egyptian lash, while organized squads of laborers quarried and hauled massive stones for obelisks and pyramids. The pharaonic machine spent enormous material and social capital on monumental constructions and lavish jewelry meant to bedeck the tombs of dead royalty.

Germany’s deputy leader has said “too few” Muslims in the country condemned the Oct 7 attack Hamas inflicted on Israel.

Robert Habeck urged Germany’s four million Muslims to distance themselves from anti-Semitism, saying some have been “too hesitant” to condemn Hamas.

“Anti-Semitism should not be tolerated in any form,” the German vice-chancellor and Green politician said, adding that “the scale of the Islamist demonstrations in Berlin and other cities in Germany is unacceptable and requires a tough political response”.

Jewish people don’t feel safe in Canada anymore.

And there’s not enough outrage about the constant reminders of why they feel that way.

According to a Harvard/Harris poll, 51 percent of Americans ages 18–24 believe Hamas was justified in its brutal terrorist attacks on innocent Israeli citizens on October 7.

I read that statistic at a time where I thought I’d lost the capacity to be shocked. For weeks, I’ve seen the clips and read the firsthand stories documenting Hamas’s atrocities: burned bodies, decapitated babies, raped women, children tied together with their parents, mutilated corpses. I’d seen the rallies on elite campuses celebrating Hamas’s murderous cause, the faculty letters excusing the terrorists. I thought I had grasped the extent of the moral rot. I thought I had seen the bottom.

But I hadn’t.

Israel can only defeat Hamas by first grabbing Gaza by the balls.

If you get them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.” That’s one version. Another, from a veteran military adviser in Vietnam, turned it around: “It was hard to win the villagers’ hearts and minds when the VC had them by the balls.” As we hover on the brink of a full-scale Israeli invasion of Gaza, these wise words have never been more relevant and, sadly, never more likely to be ignored.

Much misfortune the woebegone couldn’t have seen coming: a raging fire in the house next door that spreads to yours. The invention of some kooky technology called ‘the internet’ that puts your travel agency out of business. Yet other calamities are foreseeable. If you suddenly stop filing tax returns without a good excuse – like, dying – it’s a virtual certainty that the all-seeing computer will come after you. So when compounding fees and interest leave you skint, our sympathies are apt to be scant. What did you think was going to happen? Or to up the moral ante: if you slaughter 18 innocents in a frenzy for no apparent reason, you have to expect that your own life will soon be effectively over, too – which is why last week’s shooter in Maine, despite Robert Card’s mental disarray, was still sane enough to eliminate himself voluntarily. What did he think was going to happen?

Since Hamas’s October 7 massacre, thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank have been taking to the streets almost on a daily basis to voice support for the Iran-backed terrorist group based in the Gaza Strip.

This is the same West Bank that the Biden administration and many Westerners are hoping will be part of a future Palestinian state next to Israel. Those who continue to promote the dangerous idea of a “two-state solution” are ignoring the fact that Hamas is sitting not only in the Gaza Strip, but in the West Bank as well.

As threats and violence against Jews escalate across college campuses throughout the United States in the wake of Hamas’ barbaric terrorist attacks, some in media choose to downplay or both-side the overall threat. Case in point, CBS News’ report on the arrest of a student that threatened Jews at Cornell University.

Editor. Of the Harvard. Law. Review. https://t.co/tOZ3cn2z4Q

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) November 1, 2023

Germany has announced a ban on Samidoun, a group that says it advocates for Palestinian prisoners, and imposed further prohibitions to stamp out support for the Islamist militant group Hamas, which Berlin already lists as a terrorist organization.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz had announced that the government planned to take action against the two groups in the days that followed the October 7 massacres in Israel that killed some 1,400 people.