“Oct 7 2023”

Entertainment industry leaders criticize TIFF’s handling of October 7 film in open letter

More than 1,000 entertainment leaders have signed an open letter released by the non-profit entertainment industry organization Creative Community For Peace (CCFP) critiquing how the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) handled the film, The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue.

The letter is a response to TIFF’s disinviting the film but then offering to work with the filmmakers, following a public backlash. TIFF later announced it would be an official festival selection.

And now back to our usual craziness … Trump Is Hitler!

A man has been arrested and will remain in custody after allegedly hurling abuse at a group of people in Montreal’s Saint-Laurent borough, including death threats, caught on video, towards a Jewish man.

…. The incident comes just a week after a separate case in which a 23-year-old man was charged with assaulting a Jewish father in front of his children in Montreal’s Parc-Extension neighbourhood. In another incident, a woman was arrested after throwing liquid that ‘smelled like urine’ at Jewish participants at the Montreal pride parade last Sunday.

More hate in Montreal, @spvm thanks for the arrest. @MarkJCarney @AHousefather @RachelBendayan @Val_Plante urgent action is needed. No more hate in Canada, Montreal. #polmtl #polcan pic.twitter.com/4eNo7M9Xw7

— Mayer Feig (@mayerfeig) August 15, 2025

They won’t name the Perp.

PS. Incognito

The international condemnation Israel has received after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his plan to assume control of Gaza overlooks one critical fact. Netanyahu has no option other than to embark on this course of military action because Hamas’s terrorist leadership has demonstrated unequivocally it has no interest in agreeing to a ceasefire in Gaza.

Former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler has joined thousands of Jews calling on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war and starvation in Gaza.

The longtime human rights activist is a staunch supporter of Israel and has faced death threats from Iran over his support for the Jewish state and democracy worldwide. He has signed an open letter saying Netanyahu is jeopardizing peace at home and abroad.

“The policies and rhetoric of the government you lead are doing lasting damage to Israel, its standing in the world and the prospects of secure peace for all Israelis and Palestinians,” the letter reads.

My bet is Netanyahu will remain in power at least until an Israeli made peace is accomplished.

I doubt Israel is much concerned with Cotler’s effort to remain on progressive invite lists.

Israel has announced it will build an enormous settlement in the West Bank to effectively “bury the idea of a Palestinian state”.

About 3,300 homes would built between Jerusalem and the Jordan border under the plans announced on Thursday, in direct response to British and French plans to recognise an independent Palestine.

Critics fear the “E1” project will effectively cut the West Bank in two, preventing a contiguous body of land that could form the basis of a viable Palestinian state.

Anas al-Sharif, the Palestinian “journalist” who was killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) this week, never concealed his affiliation with the Iran-backed Hamas terror group. Before and after his death, photos of al-Sharif continually socializing with top Hamas leaders appeared on social media platforms. Al-Sharif was also known for his public support for terrorism against Israel.

The television network al-Sharif worked for, Al-Jazeera (Arabic), has always served as the official mouthpiece of the Muslim Brotherhood organization and its affiliates, including Hamas.

A Montreal lawyer has filed a hate crime complaint after he and his wife, both Jewish, were confronted by a demonstrator at a Palestinian rally calling out “Heil, heil, heil” at them during their visit to Halifax.

Dan Goldstein, 51, had travelled from Montreal with his wife, Liat Lev-Ary, to visit Nova Scotia, and on Aug. 6, after touring the Halifax Public Gardens, they went for lunch. They followed their phone’s map to get to a restaurant, Goldstein said.

Though it is being widely attacked as an unjustified use of force, the announced Israeli intention to take control of Gaza and eliminate Hamas as a terrorist organization is eminently justified by Hamas’s outrages against Israel. It is also the only possible way of bringing peace to the Arabs and the Jews of the area.

There is perhaps some symmetry in the fact that these biblical lands provide—even in the 21st Christian century, and more than 5,000 years after the identifiable origins of the Jewish people—a place of severe contention and of almost impenetrable hypocritical posturing by a great many nations of the world. The neighbouring Arab powers make the usual formulaic statements of sympathy for the Palestinians, but because the Palestinian extremists are affiliated with terrorist insurgent organizations in their own countries, they will not receive any Palestinian refugees.