The Metropolitan Police has blocked a pro-Gaza march that was set to go past a synagogue in central London amid fears that Jewish worshippers would be harassed by protesters.
Pro-Palestine demonstrators were due to gather outside the BBC’s headquarters in Portland Place on Jan 18 before marching to Whitehall.
But on Thursday, Scotland Yard said it had imposed conditions under the Public Order Act to prevent the rally from gathering in the area as it risked causing “serious disruption” to a nearby synagogue on a Saturday, the Jewish holy day, as congregants attend Shabbat services.
The family of a Palestinian female journalist has accused the Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces of killing their daughter in Jenin Refugee Camp in the northern West Bank. Shatha al-Sabbagh, 22, was reportedly shot in the head by a PA sniper on December 29, 2024, as she walked out of her home. PA officials have denied the allegation and claimed that al-Sabbagh was killed by gunmen in the camp.
President-elect Donald J. Trump has warned that unless the hostages being held by Hamas are released by January 20, the day of his inauguration, “all hell will break out.”
Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, is already in Doha, Qatar, negotiating. Not very astonishingly, the negotiations keep breaking down….
Joe Biden has failed to secure the release of any hostages held by Hamas in Gaza since November 2023 with the release of Abigail Naftali, the great-niece of Liz Hirsh Naftali. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Naftali is a major Democratic donor, a key Biden campaign supporter, a Biden appointee, and one of the buyers of Hunter Biden’s artwork.
Authorities in Toronto are appealing to the public for assistance in identifying a male suspect after two potentially “hate-motivated” vandalism incidents at a city synagogue.
The Toronto Police Service received two calls in December of mischief at a synagogue in the Bayview Avenue and York Mills Road area, police said in a Jan. 6 press release.
It was reported on Dec. 2 that a suspect vandalized the signs on the front lawn of the synagogue before fleeing in a newer model dark grey Ford pickup truck, police said. A second sign vandalism incident was reported Dec. 20.
Cultural appropriation of the Swastika and Kaffiyeh- a switch from love to hate.
Hard to believe that two of the most benign, ancient symbols of love have been culturally appropriated and turned into symbols of hate – toward the Jews: the Nazis with the Swastika and the “Palestinians” with the Kaffiyeh. Two barbaric civilizations took two symbols of peace and turned them into Jew-hating emblems. Both “civilizations” want the final Solution-the death of all Jews.
Toronto Police are now investigating after troubling flag emblazoned with two M4 carbine guns that represents a known Middle East terror group was displayed at a downtown rally on New Years Eve.
“The Hate Crime Unit is investigating this incident,” Toronto Police spokesperson Nadine Ramadan said Thursday.
Is it Chairman Chow calling the shots or that Muslim she appointed deputy mayor?
The founder of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, a prominent anti-Israel group in Canada, resigned from his post in late December, citing ongoing opposition to his leadership “as a non-Palestinian” among activists.
In a lengthy goodbye email to supporters, founder and president Thomas Woodley says that since the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, the anti-Israel activist movement has come to see Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) as illegitimate because of its non-Palestinian leadership.
The organizers and leaders of the anti-Israel protests in the US and Canada, including on university campuses, continue to ignore the real suffering of the Palestinians living under the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank and the Iran-backed Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
These Palestinians are living under two corrupt dictatorships, both of which place the interests of their leaders above those of the people.
We never hear the voices of these protesters when the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas commit human rights violations against their own citizens.
It has been a most difficult year for Selina Robinson, who was ousted from B.C.’s NDP cabinet for her comments during a forum on Israel. She says she had long known the NDP had an antisemitism problem but has become estranged from her progressive peers since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel.
Picking the Palestinian Arabs as your home team is like rooting for the Miller Gang against Gary Cooper in “High Noon.”
Israel is Gary Cooper. That’s a pure fact to people who understand that the world is made up of two sorts, good guys and bad guys. Woe to him who gets them mixed up, as you did, Mr. Biden. You started out fine after the October 7th massacre, but then you got confused and began telling Israel how to fight – and God forbid, lose – its existential war.
In my upcoming book, The Curse of the Bystander, advice is offered on how to avoid being haunted by the consequences of one’s actions or inactions when something terrible happens.
Something terrible is happening to the least amongst us, our Jewish citizens, who are being persecuted because of historical and current events. This, along with conspiracy theories that have plagued Jews worldwide for centuries, is inciting hate, violence, and discrimination that we, as non-Jews, cannot even begin to understand.
The author’s mixed messages sure ain’t helping …
“Antisemitism in the public sector, universities, teachers unions, and faculty associations is rampant, and in policing, antisemitic white supremacists have infiltrated the forces.
Perhaps the most significant reasons there are few non-Jews as allies is how DEI bureaucracies have hijacked the cultures in our educational institutions and workplaces. These organizations often refuse to recognize Jews as a minority, viewing them instead as part of the white colonizers and oppressors. Additionally, they and HR deny Jews the opportunity to express and resolve grievances related to discrimination, bullying, harassment, intimidation, and microaggressions. Cancel culture related to DEI has fueled hate, fear, polarization, resentment, and intolerance. It has also silenced bystanders who witness transgressions against Jews.”
He started out well but soon revealed it’s OK to hate White people as colonizers & oppressors so long as Jews are granted victim status within the racist DEI grift. Thanks for that and for the bit about white supremacist cops, I needed a diversity laugh.
Earlier he explained that Canadian Jews should not be held responsible for the actions of Israel. OK by me. But when it comes to White people it’s perfectly fine to beat them to death with the collective guilt stick since we’re the world’s only forever oppressors.
Again this is the elite attempting to fob off their crimes on the backs of ordinary Canadians. They imported the Islamists, ruined our universities and schools, infested our politics, implemented the DEI witch hunts and turned Canada into a progressive shithole. The elites with their Mohammedan allies are the source of latter day antisemitism in Canada. It rode in on the backs of White Canadians persecuted for the colour of their skin.
A great many of those calling ordinary Canadians “bystanders” were perfectly fine with DEI witch hunts so long as white people were the target, especially the lower classes. They supported mass immigration, multiculturalism and diversity at our expense and delighted in smearing us as racists & Islamophobes. This article will not win them any friends.
European authorities, as usual, refuse to fight the violence running rampant in their streets. Most recently, Amsterdam’s mayor, Femke Halsema, banned a rally against antisemitism at the central Dam Square; she said out of concern for Jewish citizens.
The Toronto District School Board controversially embraced “anti-Palestinian racism” policies in 2024, a move that Jewish activists say puts the country’s largest school board on a collision course with its own antisemitism policy — and offers a case study of a broader, divisive discussion unfolding across Canada.
If Western politicians and aid agencies want to apportion blame for the high death tolls in the conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon, then they need look no further than the Iranian-backed terror groups cynically risking the lives of innocent civilians to achieve their diabolical agenda.
From the moment Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists launched their deadly attack against Israel on October 7 last year, killing 1,200 people and taking another 250 or so hostage, Hamas terrorists have shown a wilful disregard for the lives and well-being of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
Authorities in Toronto are appealing to the public for assistance in identifying a male suspect after two potentially “hate-motivated” vandalism incidents at a city synagogue.
The founder of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, a prominent anti-Israel group in Canada, resigned from his post in late December, citing ongoing opposition to his leadership “as a non-Palestinian” among activists.
In my upcoming book, The Curse of the Bystander, advice is offered on how to avoid being haunted by the consequences of one’s actions or inactions when something terrible happens.
