“Oct 7 2023”

Nearly three years after Hamas’s October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel and following the devastating war in the Gaza Strip, one might have expected a fundamental change in Palestinian public opinion.

Palestinians might have turned away from Hamas, terrorism, and the Iran-backed “Axis of Resistance.” Palestinians also might have demanded new leaders committed to democracy, reform, an end to corruption, and peaceful coexistence.

The latest Palestinian public opinion poll, however, presents a disturbing picture.

Toronto Metropolitan University has a problem that no diversity statement can solve.

Its own independent review, headed by a former Ontario Court Of Appeal Justice, contains evidence that Jewish faculty members, staff and students have become afraid to be visibly Jewish at work.

The cesspit of antisemitism that has been permitted to fester at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) is laid bare in a just released report by former Ontario Appeal Court Justice Mary Lou Benotto.

Jewish students spat on, pelted with sour milk, intimated, harassed, threatened, and living in fear because a university was unable to tackle the scourge of antisemitism that swept through its halls after Oct. 7, 2023.

TMU struggled to police campus protests over Middle East tensions, a report found. Here’s what it says needs to change

Toronto Metropolitan University needs to tighten its code of conduct and make clear that intimidation and discrimination won’t be tolerated when it comes to protests, says an independent report that looked at growing tensions on campus over the Middle East.

“What began as a review and investigation into two specific events quickly revealed a broader institutional issue: a deeply polarized campus environment shaped by the aftermath of Oct. 7, 2023, and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” retired Justice Mary Lou Benotto wrote in her

“The review concludes that the two incidents under review were symptoms of a deteriorating campus climate that, absent decisive institutional action, are likely to recur,” she wrote, referring to an on-campus forum and an off-campus event targeted by student protesters that led to arrests as well as misinformation and outrage on social media.

Is Hamas preparing to contest the Palestinian parliamentary election scheduled for late November? If so, the United States and its European allies need to make one thing clear immediately: Hamas must not be allowed to participate.

The Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group that carried out the October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel cannot be permitted to reinvent itself as a legitimate political party. After October 7, Hamas has no right to exist as a military organization. It should have no right to exist as a political organization either.

Foreign ministers of Arab and Islamic countries gathered in Jordan on August 5 and 6 to issue yet another series of condemnations of Israel. Reading their statements, one could easily conclude that there is only one party responsible for violence, instability, and suffering in the Middle East: Israel.

Hamas? Barely relevant. The Hamas-led October 7, 2023 massacre? Apparently not worth mentioning. Palestinian terrorism and incitement against Israel? Not on the agenda. The need to dismantle Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups? Evidently not a priority.

Police say that they have made a third arrest in connection with shootings at synagogues in Toronto and Vaughan in March and are no longer seeking additional suspects.

The shootings took place over the span of about 20 minutes in the late hours of March 6 and the early hours of March 7.

… That suspect has been identified as Chris Perreira, 23, of Barrie.

OTTAWA – Alexa Barett-Taller says she experienced a number of antisemitic incidents during her time at Ottawa’s Carleton University, but one stands out in particular – as it involved her professor.

“The professor actually decided to explicitly say that the Jewish people were to blame for Oct. 7,” Barett-Taller said in an interview with CTV News.

This was in the aftermath of the 2023 massacre of Jews by Hamas, and Barett-Taller says she had specifically approached her professor ahead of the class to ask that the topic be discussed with “care and nuance.” She felt her concerns were never heard.

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Interesting. @fancypants_s https://t.co/w23V1CFIJL

— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) August 8, 2026

Will it get better? No it won’t. Not without remigration. h/t Patti Jo

Kavita Algu, a former palliative care doctor at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital, recently quit after a workplace investigator found her to be disruptive and unprofessional, which the Toronto Star would like you to believe is some kind of injustice. Judging from the Star’s own “investigation” and Algu’s activism, this couldn’t be further from the truth.

According to the Star’s investigation, Algu “was never told specifically what she did wrong.” She was just a physician who engaged in Palestinian advocacy and “ultimately felt she had no choice but to leave a career she had spent years building.”

A national survey of Jewish post-secondary students has found that antisemitism at Canadian universities is not an isolated problem but a pervasive feature of campus life, with the overwhelming majority reporting they have experienced or witnessed it in the past year.

The Campus Antisemitism and Student Experiences (CASE) report, commissioned by the federal government and produced by the Association for Canadian Studies and the Metropolis Institute, surveyed roughly 900 Jewish postsecondary students. It found that 95.7 percent had experienced or witnessed at least one antisemitic incident in the previous year, and that 84 percent said antisemitism is now a serious problem on their campus.

Fish rot from the head down. This is the antisemitism of the elite in academia and government. (Alternate link)