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
American Jews have watched with both alarm and enthusiasm as strong-arm tactics, including arrests of activists, have been deployed in their name.
Rabbi Sharon Brous was growing increasingly alarmed at the Trump administration’s strong-arm tactics, like its attacks on higher-education funding and bullying of law firms, all in the name of protecting Jews.
So early last month, she delivered an impassioned sermon titled “I Am Not Your Pawn” to her Los Angeles congregation. Hours later, the next shoe dropped. Immigration agents began detaining activists and foreign students who had been involved in pro-Palestinian protests.
“This is not going to protect Jews,” Rabbi Brous said in an interview. “We’re being used.”
You just can’t please some people.
Yesterday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced their commitment to “foil what they said was the Palestinian Authority’s scheme to seize land across Judea and Samaria.” Most of this vast, lawless land-grab, it turns out, has been energized and financed by the European Union (EU).
For decades, members of the media, activist groups, academics, international organizations, NGOs, and countless politicians have insisted that Jewish settlements in the West Bank are the primary obstacle to peace between Israelis and Palestinians. These settlements, the assumption goes, represent an illegal and inhumane “occupation,” and until they are dismantled and the territory handed over to a Palestinian state, there can be no resolution to the conflict.
Astonishing news out of Israel today and confirmed by at least one Israeli TV network that Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Gen. Esmail Qaani, commander of the crack Quds Force, is in Jerusalem after being identified as an Israeli intelligence asset.
h/t X — Formerly IB_Joe
Claims that 70 per cent of the fatalities are women and children are complete nonsense, says report
New research shows that Hamas has quietly dropped thousands of deaths from its Gaza war casualty figures.
Salo Aizenberg, from the US-based non-profit organisation Honest Reporting, said that Hamas’s March 2025 casualty update had removed thousands of people it previously listed as having been killed last year.
“Hamas’s new March 2025 fatality list quietly drops 3,400 fully “identified” deaths listed in its August and October 2024 reports—including 1,080 children. These “deaths” never happened. The numbers were falsified—again,” Mr Aizenberg wrote.
The recent anti-Hamas protests in the Gaza Strip are seen by some Western and Arab political analysts as a positive and encouraging development.
Those who are rushing to celebrate the protests in Gaza need to consider that they are most likely nothing but a show by the Iran-backed Hamas to fool the world into thinking that there is an uprising against the terrorist group.
