“Oct 7 2023”

Whatever follows Hamas’s bloody and terrible period of misrule can only be a relative improvement.

Western media has devoted prohibitive attention to the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip precipitated by the Hamas regime’s support for a complex military-style operation explicitly designed to kill as many Israeli civilians as possible. That sequence of events might convey to the casual observer that the conditions the Gazan people are presently enduring are a function of their government’s recklessness, inhumanity, and general commitment to maladministration. Maybe that’s why so many Western media outlets seem committed to advancing the notion that Gaza’s plight is a function of Israel’s response to the unprecedented butchery of over 1,400 of its citizens.

What United Nations secretary-general António Guterres said this week about Israel is a disgrace, a calumny and a lie, all rolled into one.

Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting, Guterres stated: ‘It is important to also recognise the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.’

A California city has become the first in the US to pass a resolution condemning Israel — accusing the Jewish nation of committing “ethnic cleansing and collective punishment.”

The resolution passed by the Richmond City Council around 1 a.m. Wednesday states, in part, that Palestinians in Gaza “are currently facing a campaign of ethnic cleansing and collective punishment by the state of Israel.”

We need to extinguish the fires of tribalism before they burn us all up.

These past few weeks, we’ve witnessed a new and terrifying phenomenon: The banlieue-ization of American cities and college campuses.

Just like the French suburbs that catch fire, quite literally, every time their disgruntled residents decide that they’re not fond of a particular policy or bit of breaking news, we now have bonfires in Bay Ridge and pinheads at Penn marching around and cheering on Jewish genocide. And just like those French suburbs, one major reason for this vile and violent degeneracy is a new generation of young people who no longer feel bound to their fellow citizens in any meaningful way.

My daughter is scared of the dark. We got her a nightlight—it glows purple—which helps. Still, she likes my husband or me to lie in bed with her until she falls asleep. She’ll wrap her arm around my neck as she drifts off, and whisper things like “I love you, Mommy” and “What are we doing tomorrow?” She is four and a half.

That Kumbaya Kool-Aid has a bad aftertaste I bet.

One of the most absurd arguments made by anti-Semites is that you can’t criticize Israel without being accused of anti-Semitism.

In fact, criticizing the ferocity of Israel’s response in Gaza to Hamas’ vicious terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, is not anti-Semitism.

Last week a group of pro-Palestinian protestors stormed the Cannon House Office Building and staged a protest inside the Rotunda. Protests are not allowed in congressional buildings, so they had no right to be there. Roughly 300 of these protesters were arrested for illegally demonstrating, and a few more were charged with assaulting police officers.

The protest, which promptly met the qualifications of an insurrection (according to Democrats), was organized by the supposed “Jewish” organizations Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and IfNotNow. How Jewish are these groups in reality? I dare say very little.

Israel has stepped up its operations to follow through on its promise to wipe out Hamas’s hierarchy and the people behind the October 7 attacks.

As tanks rolled into Gaza in the early hours of Thursday, the preparations for Israel’s promised ground invasion against Hamas began as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned “this is only the beginning”.

Experts told The National Israel will be making “no distinction” between Hamas’s political and military leadership and its hit list will be “exhaustive and ranked in value order”.

There’s division in the ranks after NDP Leader Marit Stiles dumped Sarah Jama from the party’s caucus for insubordination following two weeks of controversy over the rookie MPP’s statement about the Hamas-Israel war.

In a thread Wednesday on X (formerly Twitter), New Democrat MPP Jill Andrew — who, like Jama, is Black — said a statement from Stiles announcing the decision “went on to conjure what I feel were stereotypical tropes about Black people, especially Black women, who are perceived as difficult.”

Lots of love for Hamas in the NDP.

Harvard will establish a task force to support students experiencing doxxing, harassment, and online security issues following backlash against students allegedly affiliated with a statement that held Israel “entirely responsible” for violence in the Israel-Hamas conflict.

The new task force will be in operation until Nov. 3, at which point the task force will reassess its efforts to ensure that its work meets student needs, according to an email obtained by The Crimson. The message, dated Tuesday, was sent to doxxed students by Dean of Students Thomas Dunne.

h/t Mauser

Dozens of Ontario lawyers are demanding a Toronto law school take stronger action against law students who issued an open letter saying Israel is “not a country” and is committing genocide against Palestinians.

The Toronto District School Board says it is aware that there are some student-led walkouts planned for today over the Israel-Hamas war.

“It is our understanding that the walkouts are being organized by students in support of Palestinians,” the TDSB said in a statement. “The TDSB is not involved in organizing these walkouts, nor are we in a position to permit them or stop them from occurring.

After days of silence, a trio of York University student unions released a joint statement refusing to back down from its controversial position about the Israel-Hamas war.

In a post late Tuesday night, the York Federation of Students, York’s graduate student Union and Glendon College union reaffirmed the stance they took in an Oct. 12 statement about the conflict in the Middle East, calling the attacks on Israeli civilians days earlier an “act of resistance.” They also took aim at the university, rejecting York authorities’ demands for union executives to retract their original statement and step down.

A Palestinian man sought by Belgian police for having declared he “wanted to die as a martyr by explosion” was arrested on Wednesday, October 24th at a hotel in Anderlecht, a municipality in the Brussels Capital Region, Belgian media report.

He has been detained for questioning.