Having done plenty to irritate his supposed allies in Israel—in particular by undermining efforts to free the remaining hostages—French President Emmanuel Macron has found new friends in Hamas.
The terror group on Thursday praised the president’s proposal to recognise a Palestinian state, in the fanciful hope of getting Iran to recognise Israel, telling AFP this was an “important step.”
Montreal police are investigating an act of vandalism after windows were smashed and graffiti sprayed at Concordia University’s Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies on Thursday night.
The incident took place around 9 p.m. on April 10 at the university’s building in downtown Montreal, though police were alerted through a non-emergency 911 call several hours later, according to Montreal police spokesperson Véronique Dubuc.
A US judge has ruled the Trump administration can deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate detained last month over his role in pro-Palestinian protests.
Mr Khalil, a permanent legal US resident, has not been charged with a crime. In a letter written from the facility, he has said his “arrest was a direct consequence” of speaking out for Palestinian rights.
The government has cited a Cold War-era immigration law, declaring that his presence in the US was adverse to American foreign policy interests.
Pro-Palestinian protesters were pelted with eggs as they blocked traffic in central London.
Youth Demand activists with orange flares and banners reading “Free Palestine” and “Stop Arming Israel” took to the streets in the Moorgate district, Farringdon Road and Fenchurch Street.
Passers-by threw a “shower of eggs” at the crowd of activists in Farringdon Road and a truck attempted to drive through them, according to Youth Demand, which organised the protest.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted to comments made by Canadian Prime Minister and Liberal Leader Mark Carney during a political rally this week, when he commented on the situation in the Gaza Strip.
“Canada has always sided with civilization. So should Mr. Carney,” Netanyahu wrote in an April 10 post on the social media platform X. The Israeli prime minister’s comments appeared on a repost of an excerpt of the video taken during Carney’s rally in Calgary on April 8.
France plans to recognise a Palestinian state by June, when it will co-chair an international conference on a two-state solution with Saudi Arabia, President Macron has said.
In return, he suggested that Saudi Arabia and other countries in the Middle East that have not already recognised Israel could do so.
“We must move towards recognition and we will do this in the coming months,” Macron told France 5 television.
WASHINGTON — A billionaire Palestinian-American developer accused by Oct. 7 victims’ families of “aiding and abetting” Hamas has resigned from his position on the dean’s council at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, The Post can reveal, with the school acknowledging the civil complaint “raises serious allegations.”
Bashar Masri stepped down from his post at the Ivy League university days after nearly 200 family members of victims of the deadly attack in Israel sued him in Washington, DC, federal court for allegedly aiding the construction of tunnels and rocket launchers at Gaza-based properties.
There is a row of metal bollards at the synagogue’s entrance, guarded by security.
Inside, Temple Sinai’s team of spiritual leaders and staff have recently started doing active shooter drills.
“It’s not to make us feel safe,” said Rabbi Michael Dolgin during a recent interview in his office at the synagogue, where he’s served since the early 1990s.
“It’s to keep us safe, because we are not.”
The same man who was kicked out of the Schwartz/Reisman Community Centre in Vaughan is allegedly a well known agitator who was spotted doing nazi salutes a few months ago in Toronto pic.twitter.com/TPJFSgpErw https://t.co/tPGE8DzKj0
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) April 8, 2025
H/T MP & Sweetpea
Mark Carney has torn off the mask—revealing not just cowardice, but a disgraceful betrayal of moral clarity. By siding with a heckler and endorsing the false, slanderous claim of 'genocide' in Israel, he has shown himself unworthy of leadership or respect. For any Jew who values… pic.twitter.com/4y9UZqya1w
— Mayor Jeremy Levi (@jerlevi) April 9, 2025
h/t Mauser
OTTAWA — Canada saw a big jump in antisemitic hate in 2024, according to an annual audit.
As documented in B’nai Brith’s annual audit of antisemitic incidents, 6,219 incidents of hatred against Jews were reported in 2024 — a worrying trend which saw a 7.4% increase from 2023, and a 124% increase since 2022.
Fearing legal repercussions, online harassment and professional consequences, student journalists are retracting their names from published articles amid intensifying repression by the Trump administration targeting students perceived to be associated with the pro-Palestinian movement.
Editors at university newspapers say that anxiety among writers has risen since the arrest of Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, who is currently in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention fighting efforts to deport her. While the government has not pointed to evidence supporting its decision to revoke her visa, she wrote an op-ed last year in a student newspaper critical of Israel, spurring fears that simply expressing views in writing is now viewed as sufficient grounds for deportation.
I’m all busted up about this.
Instagram has reportedly removed the account of Columbia University Apartheid Divest. A rabid anti-Israel group that helped orchestrate disruptive, and often illegal, demonstrations on Columbia’s campus, CUAD had posted on the social-media site regularly, providing critics with evidence of the group’s radical and lawless conduct. But in response to some pro-Israel groups, which pressured social-media platforms to crack down on anti-Semitic accounts, Instagram deleted the page.
The IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) announced on Friday that, earlier in the day, they struck and eliminated terrorist Mohammed Hassan Mohammed Awad, a senior commander in the Military Intelligence Array in the Gaza Strip, affiliated with senior commanders of the Palestinian Mujahideen terrorist organization.
Toronto police spent nearly $20 million to secure protests related to the Israel-Hamas war and to conduct community outreach within the city’s Jewish and Muslim communities last year, a new report shows.
“Maintaining public order is integral to core service delivery and adheres to provincial standards of adequate and effective policing,” the report, which will go before the Toronto Police Services Board next week, states.
The report says that in 2024, the service responded to over 2,000 “unplanned events” and that more than half of those were associated with Project Resolute, which was launched after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and saw police ramp up their presence throughout the city via command posts and community engagement.
It’s not as if the city rolled out the welcome mat for Hamas.
h/t Patti Jo
Professors moved classes online and protesters blocked access to classrooms at McGill University this week as a three-day student strike kicked off.
“Anti-Israel protesters are physically blocking access to lecture halls inside the Bronfman building and disrupting classes, preventing fellow students from accessing their right to education,” wrote the pro-Israel advocacy group B’nai Brith Canada on X on Wednesday.
BREAKING: Islamists at McGill University are going classroom to classroom, disrupting lectures and telling students not to attend class.
The administration’s response? An email merely “urging respect.” How is this even legal?pic.twitter.com/tobk39P79k
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 3, 2025
