“Oct 7 2023”

Imagine sending your child to school expecting them to learn basic subjects like math, science and languages, only to find out they attended and perhaps even participated in a political protest.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published a statement Sunday urging the United Nations to withdraw so-called “peacekeeping” troops from Lebanon because they were acting as “human shields” for Hezbollah terrorists.

h/t patthedog

It’s open season on Jewish people and Jewish targets in Toronto – even on their holidays.

Another day, another hate crime directed to Jews in the city. Shooting up a Jewish school not once but twice is horrific, but to do it at Yom Kippur – the holiest day on the Jewish calendar – is diabolical.

However, this is the Toronto we now live in. When it comes to the treatment of Jews, it is ugly, violent and dangerous.

It is one of the clear signs of the aimlessness and moral decay of a society when large and representative groups of its intellectual class vocally support disreputable or even evil causes. In the same measure, it is a sign of a society’s fundamental strength when its intellectual leaders defy the majority and at some risk to themselves support righteous causes when they are oppressed by the authorities. In this last category are such heroic figures as Edmund Burke approving the American revolutionaries and disapproving the French revolutionaries, Wilberforce and Lincoln championing the emancipation of slaves, Emile Zola and Georges Clemenceau upholding Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, and the many culturally prominent supporters of civil rights in the United States from Dorothy Parker to Leonard Bernstein. A special case, commanding respect, are those eminent intellectuals who remain fundamentally loyal to a regional or national civilization even as they recognize that it is in important respects morally insupportable. This would apply to Albert Camus in respect of French Algeria, and William Faulkner in regard to the white Mississippi of olden times. (Both authors were awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.)

It’s called the world’s oldest hatred for good reason because antisemitism goes back to the beginning of the 6th century with the birth of Islam, in what is now Saudi Arabia.

That is why Arab-born Troy Media columnist Gerry Chidiac’s assertion in Debunking the myth of Arab antisemitism that “the belief that we [Arabs] are inherently antisemitic and have been in conflict with Jews for centuries” is one of “many common misconceptions about Arabs” is itself a misconception, even though it is endlessly repeated by other Arab activists and their supporters.

The Guardian has slammed a 7 October documentary for its depiction of the pogromists.

A new Channel 4 documentary about the events of 7 October lays bare the brutality that was meted out on Kibbutz Be’eri – one of the communities savaged by Hamas a year ago. Unsettling but important viewing, you might think. And yet the documentary has been criticised by the Guardian for ‘demonising Gazans’ – seemingly because it dared to depict Hamas’s horrors. The article has now been removed ‘pending review’.

September 1. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announce that the bodies of six hostages, who were abducted alive by Hamas on October 7, were recovered from a tunnel in southern Gaza’s Rafah. All of them had received recent gunshot wounds to the head.

Several Israeli politicians did not incriminate Hamas. Instead, they tried to incriminate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — as many, both inside Israel and outside it, have been trying do since he won election two years ago.