“Israel is a country that has no place in our land,” Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told the Middle East’s LBC International news network on Tuesday. “We must remove that country.”
“It constitutes a security, military, and political catastrophe to the Arab and Islamic nation and must be finished.” Hamad added, completely unnecessarily after the attacks on Israeli civilians we all witnessed on the weekend of October 7, “We are not ashamed to say this, with full force.”
Hamas’ brutal attack on Israel on Oct 7 has understandably been described as Israel’s ‘9/11’ moment.
Leaving more than 1,400 people dead, it was in fact many times worse than al-Qaeda’s terror attacks in the United States two decades ago. In the wake of those attacks in 2001, fuelled by a desire to destroy terrorist threats and assert strength on the international stage, the US invaded Afghanistan and later Iraq.
While those wars raged, eventually leaving at least 400,000 dead, the terrorism threat metastasised, growing in scale, scope and sophistication across the globe.
Police in New York have arrested a Cornell University student who is accused of posting violent threats to Jewish classmates over the weekend.
In a series of posts to a website called Greekrank, a user with the name “hamas” threatened to shoot Jewish students at the prestigious university.
Patrick Dai, 21, is in his third year at the university.
Police say he made threats to bring a gun to campus and rape Jewish women and “behead any Jewish babies”.
You might have a difficult time convincing Olga Goldberg there is no anti-Semitism in 2023 Toronto.
One bruise is on her face where she was punched. Another, figuratively, at least, is in her heart because she never thought her beloved hometown would become unsafe simply because she’s Jewish.
But that’s what has happened in Toronto. It’s a dangerous place for Jews now.
Every target in Gaza struck by Israeli jets has been assessed in advance to minimise civilian deaths, the chief of staff of the air force has said in its highest-level defence of the scale of Palestinian casualties.
Brigadier General Eyal Greenbaum said every strike went through 11 or 12 stages of approval before it was authorised. He insisted that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) were closely following rules of war that demand the rate of civilian deaths be proportional to the importance of the military target being struck.
Yesterday another activist shouted ‘free Palestine’ before emptying a box full of rodents into Perry Barr McDonald’s, also in Birmingham. And the day before, a different McDonald’s was targeted by the mice-hurling yobs in an incident which saw horrified diners flee the restaurant.
It comes after a slew of vile mice attacks by pro-Palestinian activists who have accused McDonald’s of supporting Israel’s war against Hamas, the band of terrorists who slaughtered more than 1,400 Israeli civilians and kidnapped more than 220 more on October 7.
The attacks follow calls to boycott Starbucks and McDonald’s following claims they have backed Israel amid the crisis. Last month, Starbucks sued its union, Starbucks Workers United, after the labour organisation posted a since-deleted message on X expressing solidarity with Palestinians.
More Palestine and Hamas supporting scum throw mice into McDonalds in Small Heath, Birmingham. With extra cruelty they are thrown up in the air.
They oppose McDonalds' links with Israel. pic.twitter.com/stPhs1JNln
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) November 1, 2023
Becoming a thing …
This is #Erdogan's #Turkey & Turks are becoming more radicalized everyday! Today, this Islamist attacked a McDonnald's Branch in #Mersin while was chanting "Allahu Akbar". They believe all famous American brands such as McDonnalds, Starbucks, Pepsi, Coca Cola belong to #Israel! pic.twitter.com/MjsyqK7QZ5
— Babak Taghvaee – The Crisis Watch (@BabakTaghvaee1) October 28, 2023
Ryan Albom, 22, was standing just outside the student centre of York University’s Keele St. campus, watching a pro Palestinian rally last Monday when one of his friends pulled out an Israeli flag — and held it up.
At first, no one seemed to notice. Or care, says Albom, a student president of Hillel York, the Jewish students union. But as the rally drew to a close and the crowd disbursed and thinned, one of the protesters turned around, he said, and called Albom and his friend “terrorists.”
“We just stood there,” Albom said. “It was scary and we just didn’t feel comfortable saying anything.”
A man walks down Bethnal Green Road E2, London, commenting on the road festooned with Palestinian flags. His most controversial comment is, "Let them come into the country & this is the shite they come up with."
He posted the clip to Facebook & the @metpoliceuk arrested him. pic.twitter.com/f0dHdM6vs3
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) November 1, 2023
Hamas poses the greatest terror threat to the West since Islamic State, the director of the FBI has said, amid fears that the Gaza war risks radicalising a new generation of Jihadists.
Christopher Wray told the US Senate that Hamas’s attacks in Israel would serve as an “inspiration” to terrorists across the world.
The Biden administration also warned that the dire humanitarian conditions inside Gaza are allowing Hamas and its allies to position themselves as “saviours” inside the strip.
Hamas’s atrocities already are being forgotten, interred in false equivalencies.
Every 9/11 memorial I’ve seen seems to include the words “Never Forget.” I remember that the phrase, so closely associated with the Holocaust, shook me up. But it also felt superfluous. I used to think: How could I? The September 11 attacks changed my country, changed the way we travel, changed our vocabulary. We still hear notices in Grand Central about unattended baggage. Everyone had a story about where they were, what their institution did in response, and even the conversations they had that day. It was also unforgettable because it was cinematic. The destruction of the towers, an iconic part of the New York City skyline, was broadcast. It was the closest thing to collective humanity walking onto the set of a disaster movie.
The Jewish Century is rapidly fading
It is a warm Monday morning in Rome, and the city’s ancient ghetto resembles an armed camp. As carabinieri line the streets, a cloud of melancholy hangs in the air: not only had more than 1,400 Jews recently been slaughtered in Israel, but the date — October 16 — marks the anniversary of its residents forced evacuation to the concentration camps. History, it seems, is repeating itself.
Societies that give up on freedom will soon find it replaced by violence.
Since the Hamas pogrom of 7 October, there’s been a storm of commentary on how unhinged campus culture in the West has become. Politicians and writers are bewildered that at universities where it’s a ‘microaggression’ to ask someone where they are from, and where you can be subjected to a Salem-like grilling for wearing an offensive Halloween costume, actual genocidal violence doesn’t seem to bother people. The same fresh-faced Maoists who will weep and stomp their feet if you say ‘women don’t have penises’ have collectively shrugged their shoulders over the mass murder of Jewish women and children. Some have even justified it. ‘Glory to our martyrs’, said a projection on to the wall of a building at George Washington University.
At a pro-Palestinian rally on Saturday, Dr. Natalie Knight, an English instructor at Langara College, addressed the crowd.
In her remarks on the Vancouver Art Gallery steps, Knight called the October 7 attacks by Hamas that left 1,400 Israelis dead and hundreds more kidnapped, “the amazing, brilliant offensive waged on October 7.”
The comment, which drew cheers from the crowd, horrified the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver.
Natalie Knight, who led illegal anti-LNG roadblocks in early 2020 in Vancouver resurfaced at today’s pro-Palestine rally in Vancouver. She called the Hamas terrorist attack on Israelis “amazing, brilliant.” (📹Bryton’s Thoughts/YouTube). #vanpoli #cdnpoli #October7massacre pic.twitter.com/JYDuWXG7Bk
— Bob Mackin – Happy Hallowe'en! (@bobmackin) October 28, 2023
The president of York University’s undergraduate students’ union says the university is trying to silence the student group by threatening to withdraw its certification in response to a statement that provoked widespread outrage after the Hamas attack on Israel.
Ashley D’Souza, president of the York Federation of Students, said he won’t retract the statement and won’t step down, despite the university’s demand that he and the entire student union executive resign. He said the YFS, which represents the university’s more than 50,000 undergraduate students, is consulting with lawyers as it weighs how to respond to the administration’s demands, which have triggered a process that could lead to the loss of certification for the union.
While many have condemned the Iran-backed Hamas terror group for the October 7 massacre that killed 1,400 Israelis and wounded at least 5,400 others, the fact is that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its leaders also bear responsibility for the carnage. The PA’s rhetoric and actions actively paved the way for the hell that Hamas unleashed on Israel.
