Never underestimate the power of an administration’s single term or the harm that policies – whether constructive or poorly-informed — can have on the international stage.
As President Joe Biden’s administration approaches the end of its term, it is hard not to see the global volatility, emboldened adversaries, and fractured alliances.
Those are lessons to be learned about the costs of weakness in leadership and the consequences of strategic missteps in foreign policy.
On university campuses throughout the world, there have been chants demanding that the violent intifada – which killed thousands of Israeli children, women and other civilians – be “globalized.” Last week, we witnessed the first significant manifestation of that demand in Amsterdam, where large groups of predominantly Arab and Muslim rioters physically attacked Israelis and Jews who had been cheering for an Israeli soccer team.
Although some of the media tried to blame the attacks on Israelis, the evidence strongly suggests that this pogrom was planned well in advance and would have taken place even if there had been no provocation by Israeli fans.
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) and B’nai Brith both say they’re “alarmed” by news that “the government of Canada is considering a definition of anti-Palestinian racism.”
“Canada risks branding legitimate critiques of Palestinian political narratives as ‘racist’ or ‘discriminatory’,” B’nai Brith warned. “This dangerous expansion of the definition of racism will censor open discussion of Jewish identity, history, and the right to self-determination — core aspects of Zionism and Jewish identity.”
Hamas’ and Hezbollah’s financial tentacles span the globe and reach deep into Canada.
“War is a matter not so much of arms as of money,” according to ancient Greek historian Thucydides. Indeed, the gruelling year-long, multifront counteroffensive is costing Israel’s economy $260-million – a day.
The other side deals with a similar problem, which is compounded by the fact that Hamas has impoverished Gaza. Yet, until recently, Hamas seemingly had no shortage of cash.
UNRWA pays its employees in Gaza in USD. Shekels are used as local currency. To use their salaries, UNRWA employees must exchange the dollars for sekels, through Hamas. Hamas is paid a 25% fee. This is how UNRWA funds Hamas.
And Google funds UNRWA. https://t.co/BlHuusy0UN— Caroline Glick (@CarolineGlick) November 13, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
Vancouver police staged a raid Thursday morning at the home of a high-profile pro-Palestinian activist who is currently facing a hate crime investigation.
Neighbours awoke to the sound of a “bang” around 9 a.m., and were surprised to see an armoured police vehicle and heavily-armed members of the Vancouver Police Department’s Emergency Response Team outside the home near 1st Avenue and Victoria Drive.
h/t Patti Jo
“If we don’t get no justice, then you don’t get no peace.”
So chanted, squawked, and bellowed protesters called to “emergency action” by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) to “shut down” an event Tuesday honouring former prime minister Stephen Harper with the Defender of Israel Award under the Abraham Global Peace Initiative (AGPI.)
Rather than working toward a world in which everyone is treated with dignity based on their inherent human worth — not treated differently due to their religion or ethnic background — we are now locked in an arms race between groups seeking to define various forms of racism.
This process has been spurred on by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who seems to think that stuffy conferences and lengthy dissertations are the solution to the ever-growing levels of hate on Canadian streets.
Israel supporters were involved in serious clashes at the Stade de France during the powder-keg international against France in Paris.
Outside the stadium, a fearsome police presence surrounded pro-Palestinian demonstrations but skirmishes erupted in the stands during the match.
Fans wearing Israel flags were involved in confrontations broken up by under-cover French officers although it was not immediately clear whether they were fighting pro-Palestine protesters.
HAPPENING NOW: Middle Eastern migrants in the Stade de France have started attacking Israeli fans.
Europe must deal with the clear and looming threats of radical fanatics who bring violence everywhere they go.
pic.twitter.com/WI0vPBivCx— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) November 14, 2024
Parliamentarians are calling for an emergency probe into Canada’s vulnerability to Islamist terror after the RCMP foiled an alleged terrorist attack against a pro-Israel rally on Parliament Hill.
“It is becoming increasingly clear that Canada is a high priority target for ISIS inspired terrorists,” reads a Wednesday letter signed by Conservative members of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security.
Lss than 24 hours before the kickoff of the soccer game that will be held under unprecedented security and in the presence of the French head of state and senior officials, violent riots have broken out in Paris.
The UEFA game between France and Israel will take place this evening (Thursday) at the Parc des Princes Stadium, France’s national stadium. A demonstration of pro-Arab activists went out of control and turned into severe violent events and clashes between police and demonstrators.
An antisemitic riot broke out in Paris a few hours ago.
The French and Israeli national football teams will play each other in Paris today.
France has called in 4000 policemen in an effort to protect French Jews and Israeli visitors from antisemitic attacks pic.twitter.com/6UJh6o3e0s
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 14, 2024
OTTAWA — Jewish-Canadian groups are voicing concerns after special anti-Islamophobia representative Amira Elghawaby met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week to urge him to adopt a federal definition of “anti-Palestinian racism.”
Critics warn that embracing the concept could end up targeting Jewish Canadians by conflating pro-Israel speech with racism, while insulating pro-Palestinian interpretations of history from criticism.
A C.I.A. official has been charged with disclosing classified documents that appeared to show Israel’s plans to retaliate against Iran for a missile attack earlier this year, according to court documents and people familiar with the matter.
The official, Asif W. Rahman, was indicted last week in federal court in Virginia with two counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information. He was arrested by the
F.B.I. on Tuesday in Cambodia and brought to federal court in Guam to face charges.
A little news to establish the state of play …
Carleton fans the flames of toxicity by employing convicted terrorist
Ontario school played Palestinian protest song in Arabic as its Remembrance Day music
‘Hamas is applauding’: Mississauga mayor urged to stop vigil for terror leader Yahya Sinwar
In the @globeandmail: @IrwinCotler, @noahjlew and I explain why the Canadian Handbook on the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism is important and how Canadians can use it to recognize and counter Jew-hatred.
Dans le @globeandmail : @irwincotler, @noahjlew et moi-même…
— Deborah Lyons (@DeborahLyonsSE) November 12, 2024
Islamists own our streets.
Antisemitism common as litter in Toronto.
Two of our major political parties have significant numbers who support Hamas.
How did we come to this?
We can start with successive Liberal and Conservative governments who foolishly opened the gates to Muslim immigration believing Canada’s magic dirt would somehow cleanse Islam of its poison.
In a further fit of perverse faith our political class invited other incompatible cultures by the millions to settle here in the hope some sort of economic miracle would materialize.
Or so they told us.
But really mass immigration has been nothing but a scandalous abuse of Canadian’s goodwill.
The real goal was to enable the corporate class to depress wages, profit from shortages an unprecedented immigration spike would generate and allow the LPC to harvest grateful ethnic vote blocs.
Our elites conducted this assault on Canada without concern for the social and economic well being of citizens.
After all we’re just dumb yobs they can order about as they please and if they want to steal Canada from under our feet well they know best don’t they.
When we spoke up about Islamist immigration our government called us racists & Islamophobes.
To further reinforce their destruction of Canada racist DEI programs were implemented by our governments, public institutions & the corporate class that have deliberately attacked White people as immutably racist oppressors while our history, heritage and values were spit upon & relegated to the trash bin.
Thanks to our elites immigrants are taught to honour their cultures but not our own.
Now they seek our help to quell the rising tide of antisemitism.
They’ve even written a guide so we yobs can unnerstans why we so bad at helpin em.
But why is it our responsibility?
If you want to find the real source of antisemitism in Canada look no further than government, our universities, the public service and large swaths of the media.
We didn’t invite Islamists to settle in Canada our traitorous government did and the LPC coddles them like no other.
Our university elites are so elevated they unabashedly cosplay Nazis.
Our public servants are now so politicized they literally side with Hamas without shame.
Ordinary Canadians don’t need to be instructed on antisemitism and sorry to say but those wonderful superior cultures our elites swamped us with have little if any interest.
Mom and Pop Canada are not the latter day Brown Shirts currently taking over our streets.
But now we racist Islamophobic oppressors are being told to defend Jews from the very Muslims our elites imported.
How wicked is that?
Is it true there are no mirrors in Ottawa?
This is Mississauga. Not Gaza.
Seems some are having a difficult time understanding that.
In a mysterious video posted to social media, the supposed organizer of an upcoming martyr “vigil” for Hamas’s deceased leader — killed by Israel last month — promises it will happen at Celebration Square in Mississauga as if it was in Gaza.
Regina will hold a Palestine flag-raising ceremony, making it the first Canadian city to host such an event.
The Palestinian flag-raising ceremony takes place on Friday, marking a significant moment for local Palestinian terrorist supporters.
