Crackdown on extremism to tackle ‘permissive environment’ for anti-Jewish hate

Move could see funding to charities and mosques whose leaders or guest speakers have voiced hateful views cut off

Michael Gove and Suella Braverman have ordered a crackdown on extremism amid warnings that Britain has become a “permissive environment” for anti-Jewish hate.

Civil servants in the department run by Mr Gove, the Communities Secretary, are drawing up a new official definition of extremism. The move could see Whitehall, councils and police forces cutting off funding to charities and mosques whose leaders or guest speakers have voiced hateful views.

Separately, Home Office officials are believed to be examining potential changes to terrorism legislation, such as the expansion of some definitions in existing laws.

Should have been done years ago.

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UN aid warehouses looted by thousands of desperate Gazans

Thousands of people broke into aid warehouses in Gaza to take food and “basic survival items”, a UN agency said on Sunday, in a mark of growing desperation and the breakdown of public order in the enclave.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, said its warehouses and distribution centres were looted by people grabbing flour and “basic survival items”.

UNRWA provides services to hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza. Its schools across the territory have been transformed into packed shelters housing Palestinians displaced by the conflict. Israel has allowed only a small trickle of aid to enter from Egypt, some of which was stored in one of the warehouses that was broken into, the agency said.

Hamas is just fine thank you. – As Gazans Scrounge for Food and Water, Hamas Sits on a Rich Trove of Supplies

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Meanwhile in France …

Thousands of demonstrators join banned pro-Palestinian march in Paris

Very little news coverage of the Paris march to date.

h/t Mauser

Meanwhile in the restive backwater of Toronto: Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters take over downtown Toronto streets

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Is This Where US Media Got the Claim 500 People Were Killed in the Hospital Blast?

Gaza Hospital missile hit car park

“You’ve probably heard by now if you’re a regular reader that the immediate claims that 500 or more people were killed in the Gaza hospital explosion last week has not held up to scrutiny. Hamas eventually settled on the figure 471 but western estimates have ranged from 100-300 or, from a separate estimate, maybe closer to 50.”

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Why is the West confused about backing Israel?

The new definition of racism blinds people to injustices against any group that is perceived to be dominant

When two planes flew into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the world stood in solidarity with the United States. In London, “The Star-Spangled Banner” was played at Buckingham Palace. “We are all Americans,” declared Le Monde. In Berlin, 200,000 people took to the streets to express their sorrow. This makes it all the more striking how different — and how morally obtuse — the reaction to Hamas’s slaughter of around 1,400 Israelis has been.

Major news outlets were strangely reluctant to dwell on the horror before jumping straight to the Israeli response. Instead of declaring that we are all Israelis, Le Monde editorials fulminated against Israel’s “desire for vengeance.”And when huge demonstrations filled the streets of Berlin, London, Paris and Brussels, they were not in solidarity with those who’d been brutally murdered, but in support of the terrorists.

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Hamas Doesn’t Hate Jews Because They Are Colonialists but Because Allah Tells Them To

Radical left-wing politicians and their puppets in the mainstream media are currently working around the clock to convince the masses that Israel was, is, and will probably continue to be, a nation of colonialist invaders who are oppressing the Arab Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, having pushed them off land that rightfully belonged to them. This, for many of these individuals, justifies the use of terrorist tactics — or at the very least, excuses them — against the Israeli people, more or less pushing the narrative that they are reaping what they have sown.

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What is Israel’s next move?

The first wave of the invasion has begun

The news that mobile networks had gone down in the strip was the clue that something was imminent. Then, last night, just under three weeks after the 7 October Hamas massacres, Israel announced that its ground forces were “expanding operations” in Gaza. Aerial bombardment of the strip was heavier than anything since the war began; more ground troops are pouring across the border.

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$15 million class-action lawsuit filed against York University for antisemitic incidents

TORONTO — York University and its students union are facing a $15-million class-action lawsuit related to decades of alleged antisemitic incidents.

Representing current students, recent alumni and attendees from 1998-2021, the lawsuit targets both York University and the York Federation of Students.

The lawsuit alleges that the plaintiffs have been made to feel unsafe on campus, including being forced to hide their Jewish identity and threatened with physical violence.

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‘We don’t want to turn our communities into fortresses’: How Torontonians are grappling with safety amid the Israel-Hamas war

In the wake of the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas, Toronto has experienced a wave of tension leading to widespread safety fears.

Jewish, Palestinian and Muslim communities have long been the subjects of discrimination and hate, and for many Torontonians, the threat is suddenly front of mind.

I want the crocodile to eat the Star first.

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About 57% of American Muslims said they believed Hamas “was justified in attacking Israel as part of their struggle for a Palestinian state,”

NYC street vendors cheer Hamas terrorism on Israel: ‘Leave our land’

Their views are hard to swallow.

New York City’s omnipresent halal and other street vendors expressed near universal support for Hamas with many telling The Post the terror group’s Oct. 7 attack in Israel which killed roughly 1,400 people was justified.

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Federal government to match donations for aid to Gaza, West Bank civilians

The Canadian government will match donations made to the group Humanitarian Coalition as part of its campaign to help Palestinian civilians in Gaza(opens in a new tab) and the West Bank.

A news release provided by Global Affairs Canada(opens in a new tab) on Friday said the move would support the Gaza Humanitarian Emergency Appeal(opens in a new tab).

The federal government plans to match every donation made retroactively from Oct. 7 to the end of the campaign on Nov. 12, up to $10 million maximum.

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Hate crime soars in London during Gaza conflict

Antisemitic hate crime has continued to soar in London, with 408 offences recorded so far this month compared to 28 in the same period last year.

Islamophobic hate crime is also on the rise, up from 65 offences last October to 174 so far this month.

The Metropolitan Police says it has made 75 arrests linked to the Israel-Gaza conflict, and is investigating 10 potential breaches of terrorism laws.

A large pro-Palestinian protest is expected in London on Saturday.

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