“Oct 7 2023”

Those who led an ‘intimidating’ rally at the JW3 community centre included a former civil servant, a male escort and a Just Stop Oil activist

Aconference at the JW3 Jewish community centre in West Hampstead, north London last weekend was met by masked protesters and a wall of sound. “You are mass murderers”, the crowd of 60 chanted, led by amplified voices: “Babykillers not welcome here.”

A Jewish pensioner was left in tears, while another woman could be seen crying as she asked a police officer for assistance while a young man shouted into a megaphone at her.

Do you think a far right mob blocking all entrances to a mosque and bellowing "Islam no more" would be allowed to get away with it?

Now see the JW3 Centre in London, last Sunday. pic.twitter.com/K5RhR5gTEn

— habibi (@habibi_uk) October 29, 2024

The most disgusting, aggressive scenes and levels of intimidation from “pro Palestinian” activists outside JW3, a Jewish cultural centre in London attended by children, young families. Very little police presence. pic.twitter.com/NfAlVlMCVI

— Sandy Rashty (@SandyRashty) October 27, 2024

United Nations special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese has withdrawn from a Montreal conference featuring Charlotte Kates, the founder of Samidoun, a designated terror group.

An updated list of individuals participating in the inaugural “Coordinating Council 4 Palestine” conference on Nov. 1 and 2 has removed Albanese’s name as the keynote speaker on Saturday evening after Jewish leaders decried her plan to speak at the event. There have also been calls for her to be barred from Canada because her remarks, including comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, have been deemed to be antisemitic.

In August, the second largest teachers union chapter in the country—there are more than 35,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles—met at the Bonaventure Hotel in L.A. to discuss, among other things, how to turn their K-12 students against Israel. In front of a PowerPoint that read, “How to be a teacher & an organizer. . . and NOT get fired,” history teacher Ron Gochez elaborated on stealth methods for indoctrinating students.

But how to transport busloads of kids to an anti-Israel rally, during the school day, without arousing suspicion?

Interesting read given the TDSB’s recent field trip to a hate march.

Following the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, documentary evidence has emerged confirming what many observers already knew: namely, that Sinwar weaponized the death of Gazan civilians, especially women and children.

He understood that the media would emphasize these civilian deaths, attribute them all to Israel, and increase the pressure on the Israeli government to satisfy Hamas’s unreasonable demands. This is how the Wall Street Journal put it, following a lengthy investigation.

After the death of Yahya Sinwar, the choir of blessed peacemakers resumed the refrain for an immediate ceasefire and a plan for “the day after.” Kamala Harris, the lead singer, glanced repeatedly at her politically crafted score that proclaimed, “it is time for the day after to begin without Hamas in power.”

What criteria determine when the day after a war begins? Harris claims it has come because “Hamas is decimated and its leadership is eliminated.” But Hamas has not yet surrendered, and even a significant reduction of military capability may not be sufficient. Sinwar’s younger brother Mohammed, who shares his brother’s hardline stance and brutality, will succeed him. This may only complicate the peace process.

TEL AVIV—Shortly before 2 a.m. on Saturday in Israel, airmen and women wearing bomber jackets bearing the Star of David climbed into the cockpits of about 100 jet fighters, spy planes and refueling aircraft at an Israeli military base. They were following commands from an underground bunker known as the pit.

Israel’s wartime leaders, who were gathered in the bowels of the military headquarters in Tel Aviv, had just given the green light for the largest attack against Iran in Israel’s history—and its most politically perilous. They called the operation “Days of Repentance.”

The assault was calibrated to punish Iran for an attack on Israel but aimed to avoid setting off a full-scale war between the two foes involving American forces and other countries in the region. The attack steered clear of the oil and nuclear facilities that Iran had warned would prompt a retaliation, and appeared to heed the caution urged by U.S. officials.

Some 33 people were wounded to various degrees, with one succumbing to his wounds after a truck rammed into a bus stop near Glilot in central Israel on Sunday, Israeli emergency medical service Magen David Adom (MDA) reported on Sunday.

The Sourasky Medical Center said one of the wounded in the attack, whose condition had deteriorated, was subsequently pronounced dead by medical staff.

Police are securing the scene following a truck-ramming in central Israel. Preliminary investigations reveal a truck collided with a bus unloading passengers, injuring a number of civilians pic.twitter.com/1KGYa0ktK7

— Israel Police (@israelpolice) October 27, 2024

From the Middle East to climate change, every issue is now a battle between ‘good’ and ‘evil’.

We no longer live in an age of moral relativism, but one of moral absolutism.

That’s one observation made by Canadian academic Eric Kaufmann in his latest book, Taboo, published this year. It’s an arresting inversion of a long-held view. Everyone today does indeed seem to know what is ‘right’ and what is ‘wrong’.