Man accused in Holocaust Memorial vandalism is City of Ottawa lawyer on leave

… In a post on X on Saturday evening, Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe said while it was encouraging to see that the police investigation into the incident has progressed, he was “very disturbed to learn that the person charged is a city employee who was on leave. As a community and as an employer, the actions at the Monument do not represent our values.”

The Mayor’s statement implies the perp was already on leave. Bet mental health issues ahead.

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Four arrested on terror charges after Palestine Action RAF base break-in

Counter-terror police investigating an incident at RAF Brize Norton have arrested four people.

A woman, 29, of no fixed abode and two men, aged 36 and 24 from London, were arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism, contrary to Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

Another woman, 41, of no fixed abode, was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.


Palestine Action was just declared a terror group but I doubt the Brits will come down too hard on those arrested.

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‘Terrorist’ protest group Palestine Action clash with police as government tries to ban them

Palestine Action activists have clashed with police in ugly scenes during a mass protest in London as the Government moves to proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation.

Hundreds of protesters waving Palestinian flags and holding placards gathered at Trafalgar Square today as the group’s leaders called for an ’emergency mobilisation’ in response to the Government’s plans.

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Israel says it struck Tehran’s Evin prison and Fordo access routes

The Israeli military has struck Tehran’s notorious Evin prison and damaged parts of the facility, which holds many political detainees, Iran’s judiciary says.

The judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported that the situation on the ground was “under control” following the attack. CCTV footage showed an explosion at one of the prison’s gates, while state TV pictures showed first responders carrying a casualty and searching for survivors under a flattened building.

Israel’s defence minister said it was hitting “regime targets and agencies of government repression” across Tehran, including Evin.

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Palestine Action ban is a warning shot for domestic extremists

In the early hours of Friday, activists from the protest group Palestine Action infiltrated RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. Using electric scooters, they navigated the vast airbase under the noses of unsuspecting security personnel. Brize Norton is a critical part of Britain’s defence infrastructure: a military Heathrow, used for trooping flights, freight and refuelling. The activists, who uploaded video footage of their raid to social media, subsequently vandalised two Voyager air-to-air refuelling tankers, damaging them with crowbars and spraying paint into the engine’s turbofans using adapted fire extinguishers. They claimed, nebulously, that their intention was to disrupt British military support for Israel.

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Will the Israel-Iran war turn into a boots-on-the-ground fight?

Beautiful downtown Tehran

From the very git-go, and certainly after a few days of Israel’s attack on Iran’s military and nuclear leaders and infrastructure, it was fully obvious and well-known that no “deal” could resolve the Iran nuke problem. Given what we have come to understand about Donald Trump’s modus operandi, he probably knew this also.

But despite the irrelevance of a “deal,” there was widespread and abundant confidence in Trump’s ability to get the job done, and this was confirmed by the Day Three announcement that the IDF had achieved air superiority over Iran.

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Adam Zivo: Canadians stuck in Israel abandoned by embassy that closes at 4:30 p.m.

JERUSALEM — After Israel closed its airspace last Friday due to the threat of Iranian missile attacks, about 40,000 tourists — including over 6,600 Canadians — were left unable to return home on their own. While many countries are scrambling to evacuate their citizens by land and sea, some Canadians say that they have been abandoned by their government and left to fend for themselves.

Carney sees opportunity in Islamist entryism.

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This activist spent 4 gruelling days in Israeli custody, but says he’ll try again to bring aid to Gaza

After four days in Israeli detention, Thiago Avila was relieved to be back in Brazil. He’d been taken into custody, along with 11 others, and spent two days in solitary confinement, after they’d tried to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza by sea. Their vessel, the Madleen, was intercepted leading to what he describes as a gruelling stay marked by inhumane treatment and a brief hunger strike.

And yet, he told CBC News from Sao Paulo, he chose to be detained rather than sign documents admitting to what he considered a false accusation — that they had tried to enter Israel illegally.


One of Greta’s Pals from the selfie cruise made a hero by the CBC.

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Rick Ekstein: A question for Mark Carney — what’s the future for Canada’s Jews?

On a recent mission to Israel, it broke my heart to hear a young Jewish Canadian question whether he had a future in Canada. One participant responded: “Only the Prime Minister of Canada can answer that.”

So, Prime Minister Mark Carney, I ask you plainly: Do Canadian Jews have a safe and secure future in this country? Because if the answer is yes — and I hope it is — then you need to start showing it. Now.

It will not get better.

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Vivian Bercovici: Iran could fall any day, and Carney could not be more irrelevant

SDEROT, Israel — On Feb. 1, 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, stood at the top of the stairs of an Air France jet that had just landed in Tehran. This stern, robed man had been whisked from his country villa provided by the French government (then led by President Valery Giscard d’Estaing) to a waiting jet. During his 14 years in exile, Ayatollah Khomeini was treated reverentially by the French. Before descending the stairs, the 40 year old cleric paused, triumphantly.


I think Carney is where he wants to be.

Shoring up the Muslim vote and waiting for profitable opportunities to arise.

Israel will become less viable for business as it becomes increasingly isolated and subject to additional sanctions while the Islamic world will open to their new BFF Carney.

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Congressman claims he was run off the road by pro-Palestine protester

A Republican congressman has claimed he was run off the road by a “deranged” pro-Palestinian protester.

Ohio lawmaker Max Miller said he was forced off the road on his way to work by a man who issued death threats against him and his family before waving a Palestinian flag while driving off.

Mr Miller, who is Jewish, recounted the incident in a video on X and pledged to hold the perpetrator responsible, saying: “I will not hide in the face of this blatant anti-semitic violence”.

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Trump approves Iran attack plan but has not made final decision, reports say

Donald Trump has approved plans to attack Iran, but has not made a final decision on whether to strike the country, the BBC’s US partner CBS reports.

The US president held off from initiating strikes in case Iran agreed to abandon its nuclear programme, a senior intelligence source told CBS. Trump is reportedly considering a US strike on Fordo, an underground uranium enrichment facility in Iran.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday rejected Trump’s demand for unconditional surrender, as the US president said his patience had run out.


Beneath Israel’s bombs lies an unpopular and repressive Iranian regime that has spent billions of dollars on a nuclear program and on projecting the Islamic Revolution through armed regional proxies, while presiding over a domestic economic disaster and stifling paralysis.

An 86-year-old autocrat, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, rules this restive nation, as he has for 36 years, in his role as guardian of the revolution, a conservative calling at which he has proved adept. The supreme leader is no gambler. But his system, remote from a youthful and aspirational society, looks sclerotic to many, and he is now up against the wall.

Must be getting tense in Tehran …

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Greta Thunberg’s Excellent Adventure

The media circus she was desperately hoping for never materialized.

Greta Thunberg’s Excellent Adventure and Media Event aboard the S.S. Narrenschiff has now ended. She had been joined in this publicity stunt by, inter alia, the Franco-Palestinian politician Rima Hassan, Thunberg’s BFF, who has attended pro-Hamas rallies in Jordan and blamed Israel for the killing of the Bibas family, including nine-month-old Kfir and four-year-old Ariel, who in fact were murdered — strangled — by Hamas in captivity. This ghastly crew also included the Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham, a German “self-described ‘activist’ who openly celebrates when Iran bombs Israel,” and Israel haters from a half-dozen other countries, including Brazil and Turkey. Videos show the commandos handing out sandwiches and water to the crew, and amusingly, Thunberg is captured on film eyeing hungrily the sandwiches about to be distributed by the Israeli commandos, just before the boat again got back underway to the Israeli port of Ashdod, where the boat will remain for now, and the dirty dozen of mostly dozy bints will now be flown home to their countries of origin. The Israelis did insist on doing one thing: they played for Thunberg and her fellow travelers a film showing the atrocities carried out by Hamas on October 7, 2023, no doubt hoping to educate some of those who are now so supportive of Hamas. One doubts, however, that anything could change their minds in the slightest. In fact, once they realized what it was, they refused to watch it.

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CUPE Ontario sponsoring ‘Hands off Iran’ rally outside U.S. consulate this Sunday

Fred Hahn Creepy as Fuck

The Ontario chapter of the Canadian Union of Public Employees is sponsoring a demonstration outside the American consulate in Toronto in protest of support for Israel amid its ongoing efforts to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities.

“Hands off Iran,” the advertisement for the Sunday event reads in all caps. Nearly a dozen sponsoring groups are listed on the poster alongside CUPE Ontario, including the Palestinian Youth Movement, an organization that has repeatedly expressed support for the October 7 Hamas invasion of Israel.

h/t DS

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The march of the useful idiots

In April 2017, thousands of wealthy Westerners headed to the Bahamas for Fyre, a luxury music festival. They expected villas and meals from celebrity chefs. What they got was soaked tents and cheese sandwiches. Watching the Netflix documentary, Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, it is difficult not to cringe as you see it slowly dawn on the privileged tourists that the whole thing is a con.

We saw a similar case of privileged Western delusion meeting reality in Egypt this weekend. Some 4,000 activists had descended on Cairo for the ‘Global March to Gaza’. They expected to take buses to Arish, a city in northern Sinai, before marching 30 miles to the Egyptian side of the Gaza border at Rafah. There they would break Israel’s blockade.


This is awful. Awful funny.

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