MPs who’ve been looking into Canada’s role in fostering peace in the Middle East will have their work cut out for them as they prepare a final report after a contentious study that saw witnesses shunned and disinvited.
The committee, which is chaired by Liberal MP Ali Ehsassi (Willowdale, Ont.), held four meetings in October and November to look at the ways Canada can advance recognition of a State of Palestine as part of a two-state solution.
US Senator Lindsay Graham will introduce legislation … https://t.co/ADvx2JV7MX
— Jim Horne (@jimfhorne) November 21, 2024
Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and former defence minister, as well as Hamas’s military commander.
A statement said a pre-trial chamber had rejected Israel’s challenges to the court’s jurisdiction and issued warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.
A warrant was also issued for Mohammed Deif, although the Israeli military has said he was killed in an air strike in Gaza in July.
Thirty Canadian MPs — including NDP and Green leaders Jagmeet Singh and Elizabeth May, and four members of the governing Liberal caucus — have joined forces with counterparts in New Zealand and Australia in support of recognizing a Palestinian state.
In an open letter published on Wednesday, more than 100 parliamentarians from nine political parties urged their governments to join the 146 countries which have recognized Palestinian statehood.
Benjamin Netanyahu has a couple of peeves to get off his chest. Now that the American electorate has retired Joe Biden and the Obamaite foreign-policy establishment, the Israeli PM suddenly feels free to do so — and to do so publicly.
Palestinian Canadians have renewed their calls for Canada to take concrete action to get their loved ones out of the Gaza Strip amid Israel’s unrelenting bombardment, slamming a temporary Gaza visa scheme launched earlier this year as a failure.
Omar Omar, a representative of the advocacy group Gazan Families, said on Tuesday that he has been trying to get his relatives out of Gaza for months.
The House of Commons rightfully erupted after the NDP drew a comparison between the poppy used to honour our fallen with another symbol.
This is a continuation of what we saw when they tried to glorify Hamas terrorist leader Yahya Sinwar in Mississauga with the poppy. Shameful. https://t.co/Ex8RNSaNH6
— Kevin Vuong (@KevinVuongMP) November 18, 2024
This is the Canada that the Liberal Party and the NDP envision. Get used to it. h/t Patti Jo
The Ottawa school that drew wide public attention for playing an Arabic song associated with Palestinian protest for Gaza as the music at its Remembrance Day service for students was hit with graffiti calling it “Hamas High.”
Jews and gay people should hide their identity in parts of Berlin with large Arab populations, the German capital’s police chief has warned.
“There are areas of the city, we need to be perfectly honest here, where I would advise people who wear a kippah or are openly gay to be more careful,” said Barbara Slowik.
“There are certain neighbourhoods where the majority of people of Arab origin live, who also have sympathies for terrorist groups,” she said, adding that they were often “openly hostile towards Jews”.
Other minorities abandoned the Left
On 28 June 1969, patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, fought back against the police harassing them. This was the signal event in the formation of the modern Gay Rights Movement. More than half a century later, homosexuality, then illegal, is now an accepted part of American Life.
On October 7, 2023, savages murdered, raped, and kidnapped 1,200 Israeli citizens. American Jews reacted by voting for the Democrats.
This November, blacks, Hispanics, gay and straight Americans decided they’d had enough of Government corruption, incompetence, malversation, contempt, and crime and voted for a return to common sense and the protections of the Constitution. They forsook identity politics, save to identify themselves as Americans. Absent from the roll call of groups rebranding themselves as citizens were the Jews.
Amsterdam Mayor Femka Halsema said she regretted calling the riots in Amsterdam a “pogrom” because this was being used to discriminate against the Moroccan-Muslim population of the city, Dutch media reported on Monday.
The riots that erupted following an Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv game led to mass violence throughout the city. Large groups attacked people they suspected were Jewish or Israeli, often demanding to see their identification to confirm their ethnicity.
Pope Francis is calling for an investigation to determine if Israel’s attacks in Gaza constitute genocide, according to excerpts released Sunday from an upcoming new book ahead of the pontiff’s jubilee year.
It’s the first time that Francis has openly urged for an investigation of genocide allegations over Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip. In September, he said Israel’s attacks in Gaza and Lebanon have been “immoral” and disproportionate, and that its military has gone beyond the rules of war.
Rosie DiManno: We need to hear more from Mississauga’s mayor on Hamas controversy
Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish is no stranger to contempt-signalling.
She’s called Americans “bastards,’’ referred to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq as a “coalition of idiots,’’ stomped on a George W. Bush doll and was kicked out of the Liberal caucus for describing then-prime minister Paul Martin as “weak.’’ That was in her MP era.
Which is merely to suggest that theatre of the absurd is right in the mayor’s wheelhouse.
This is a good rant by Rosie DiManno of the Star against Mississaugastan Mayor Carolyn Parrish but as I posted on X it misses the mark.
Where DiManno and others go wrong is in their refusal to recognize that Parrish isn’t the problem her constituents are.
Instead we get over the top outrage at the Nelson Mandela slur and a recitation of the memorial creators prolific Islamist lunacy.
Parrish and Firas Al Najim are good lightening rods for Rosie’s Two Minute Hate but they’re the symptom not the disease. Islam is.
Parrish is loathsome but she’s not stupid and knew her Islamist support base would back her against demands to ban the Sinwar memorial and nothing says that better than yesterday’s videos of the Sinwar celebration (See below).
I can’t wait for Justin Trudeau’s statement of outrage.
If Oct 7 has taught us anything it is that support for Israel’s destruction has deep and wide support among the Muslim diaspora, our schools, universities and the political elites.
Will anything be done about Carolyn’s constituents?
You know the answer.
The elites who enthusiastically imported and continue to coddle the Islamists now cosplay their support for the Jews while simultaneously condemning our Islamophobia.
You and I are expected to serve as props in what amounts to an elite power struggle.
No thanks. I refuse to be cannon fodder for an elite who have demonized me as an Islamophobe and smeared me as a racist oppressor in their DEI struggle sessions.
Word of advice, fear who may follow Parrish as mayor and make sure any solution you offer to deal with Carolyn’s supporters includes Mass Deportation.
Hamas supporters in Mississauga join Firas Al Najim supporting Antisemitic Mayor Carolyn Parrish honoring Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar at Celebration Square today. This gathering is against the Criminal Code of Canada because it calls for the destruction of Jews. pic.twitter.com/TjPl8SdkVS
— Israel Now (@neveragainlive1) November 17, 2024
Calls for Jihad were made in Arabic en mass in Mississauga yesterday following the approval of its Mayor, Carolyn Parrish to hold a vigil for Hamas Yahya Sinwar, despite cancellation.
“Jihad Is Our Path”
“Our Purpose Is Allah”
“Death In The Way of Allah Is Our Best Aspiration” pic.twitter.com/SDT1yMHq6Q— Leviathan (@l3v1at4an) November 17, 2024
PS. I get Mandela is a Liberal Totem* but please. h/t Patti Jo for the vids.
A police force refused to prosecute a man who sent an image of the Star of David intertwined with the Nazi swastika to a Jewish students’ organisation, on the basis it was not offensive enough.
Cambridgeshire Constabulary concluded that the image, sent on social media to the Union of Jewish Students, was not “grossly offensive” and therefore not a crime, it has emerged. As a result, the incident was reported as a non-crime hate incident (NCHI).
I don’t believe the Hibachi girl was bothered by the TPS.
Suicidal Empathy and the Decline of the West
h/t Patti Jo
A week after Israeli soccer fans were attacked in the streets of Amsterdam, triggering damning accusations of a “Jew hunt” in a city with an ugly history of antisemitism, a clearer picture of what happened that night is slowly emerging.
It suggests a far more nuanced take on events than Dutch authorities had initially indicated.
