“Oct 7 2023”

Israel’s first nationwide general strike since the Hamas attacks of 7 October, which was convened in support of a deal to free hostages held in Gaza, has ended after eight hours with a court order for workers to go back to their jobs.

The strike was organised amid widespread public anger at the government’s handling of the war in Gaza after the discovery of the bodies of six hostages at the weekend.

It was called by Israel’s largest trade union, Histadrut, from 6am on Monday, closing government and municipal offices as well as schools and many private businesses. Israel’s international airport, Ben Gurion, was reported to have shut down at 8am local time (6am BST) for two hours.

🇮🇱 Watch: Half a million people have marched in the streets of Israel ahead of a nationwide strike

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— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) September 2, 2024

I am not sure what the strikers hoped to accomplish. A ceasefire simply tees-up renewed Hamas treachery.

Hamas has released a video on Telegram on Monday showing the six recently slain hostages speaking into a camera, while also announcing that it will release their “last message to the world” before they were killed.

Canadian post-secondary schools have made discrimination and ideological filtering a daily practice. It could be their downfall

This fall, as kids and parents contemplate the piles of cash they are about to fork over for this thing called a “university education,” they might be wondering if universities are getting back to normal. The past several years saw a moral panic of wokeness erupt in higher education circles in the wake of American Black Lives Matter race politics, Donald Trump and our very own alleged mass graves controversy in Kamloops.

Tens of thousands of grieving and angry Israelis surged into the streets of Tel Aviv Sunday night after six more hostages were murdered by Hamas at Gaza, chanting “Now! Now!” as they demanded that Prime Minister Netanyahu reach a cease-fire with the terrorists to bring the remaining captives home.

The mass outpouring appeared to be the largest such demonstration in 11 months of war and protesters said it felt like a possible turning point, although the country is deeply divided.

It is time to call out Western liberals’ craven silence in the face of Hamas’s fascism.

The discovery of the bodies of six Israeli hostages in a tunnel in Rafah confirms what many of us knew about Hamas – that it is a Jew-killing machine that masquerades as a national-liberation movement. That it has no purpose beyond the persecution and slaughter of the Jewish people. That its aim, for all the crowing of its useful idiots in the West about ‘resistance’ and ‘decolonisation’, is nothing more and nothing less than the fascistic terrorising of the inhabitants of the Jewish State. The ‘brutal murder’ of these six people, their only crime their Jewishness, is the bloodiest proof yet that in Hamas Israel faces not only a military foe, but also a virulently racist, existential threat.

The closet

I woke up in Kfar Aza on the morning of October 7 to the sound of Hamas rockets. I knew how the rockets usually sounded here, so I immediately realised something was different about these ones. I said, “Yes, a day off work! I can work from home.” Those were my first thoughts. I went outside to the neighbours: “Hey, good morning, good morning!” Outside, I heard boom-boom-boom, there were already gunshots in the kibbutz, and I was all like, “What’s up? Good morning!” We didn’t get it at all.

The bodies of hostages Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Carmel Gat, Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov, and Ori Danino were found in the Gaza Strip, the IDF said on Sunday morning.

The IDF retrieved the bodies of the hostages from a tunnel under the city of Rafah in Gaza.

They were likely slaughtered by Hamas shortly before the IDF got to them in Rafah.

When the culture wars started, I was frequently irritated and amazed by those who insisted it was all just Right-wing media provocation. It was blazingly obvious everywhere, from mandatory workplace unconscious bias training to increasingly illiberal student campaigns, to the deranged stunts carried out with increasing regularity by Greta Thunberg’s acolytes that it was anything but “just” that.

Even so, one could hide and take a break. One could go on a trip somewhere away from it all, leave London or student towns, turn off the news, change the subject.

MONTREAL—“One second we were talking and the next he was gone, I don’t think we will ever get over it,” Raquel Ohnona Look, whose son Alexandre Look, 33, was murdered at the Supernova music festival by Hamas terrorists, told JNS.

I have requested anonymity for this essay because there is intense social pressure on American Jews to be anti-Israel, especially on campuses. I am a professor at a liberal arts college where there is intense hostility toward Israel; my Zionism has already caused me to become a pariah on my campus.

If I was to publicly take the next logical step — conclude that drastic political changes are required to stem the public tide of Jew-hatred, even as drastic as supporting the presidential candidate “they” all uniformly despise — I sincerely believe my personal safety would be in question. That is why this essay both needs to be published and to be anonymous. The situation is that dire.

I suppose half-awake is better than not at all. The comments are very good. 

OTTAWA — With the Ahmed Eldidi case revealing gaping holes in the country’s immigration security backstop, a Canadian Jewish group is urging the government proceed cautiously as Canada prepares to welcome thousands of Gazan refugees.

Houthi rebels from Yemen have blown up sections of a hijacked oil tanker, prompting fears of a major oil spill and environmental disaster in the Red Sea.

Video footage shows an armed and masked Houthi rebel walking alone on the oil tanker Sounion, which was first attacked on Aug 22 with its crew forced to flee. The Houthi rebel plants what appears to be explosive devices on the Greek-flagged vessel.