“Oct 7 2023”

As students prepare to head back to post-secondary campuses for the fall term, tensions sparked by the pro-Palestinian protest encampments that cropped up at several Ontario universities over the summer break are lingering on for some.

Several students who supported or participated in the protests say they’re disappointed in how their schools handled the encampments, while some Jewish students say they’re anxious about returning to campuses where conversations about the Israel-Hamas war could be particularly charged.

Gaza is not only a problem for the Israelis but for much of the world as well. It is a telling fact that no Arab states have opened their doors to Gazan refugees, recognizing as did Jordan in 1970 during the Black September movement that the Palestinians were a destabilizing force. Jordan expelled the cohort to Lebanon where it has since effectively destroyed the country. The surrounding Arab states are no fools and want nothing to do with Gaza. To counter their indifference, the ever-credulous West has taken up the slack out of “compassion” or political calculation — more grateful voters.

The IDF and Hezbollah entered a new, much more dangerous phase of the conflict in the North early Sunday morning, with hundreds of air force jets striking thousands of Hezbollah rocket attack platforms.

With Israeli intelligence observing that Hezbollah was about to launch its largest attack of the current war, including to the Tel Aviv and central Israel areas, around 5:00 a.m., the IDF preemptively and independently struck targets where Hezbollah was on the verge of firing on Israel.

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— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) August 25, 2024

In the theatre of social media, most individuals who express views that are racist, sexist, discriminatory or out of sync with social norms are shamed into retracting their views — at least publicly. The exception to this rule seems to be Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario president Fred Hahn.

The policies of the Biden-Harris administration, including turning a blind eye to Iran’s nuclear advancements, its destabilizing actions in the Middle East and the release of billions of dollars to the Iranian terror empire, have undoubtedly empowered Iran’s regime, granting it the freedom to pursue its Islamist fundamentalist ambitions, including its ultimate goals of annihilating Israel and disabling the United States.

Almost 400 health-care workers have signed an open letter taking Ottawa hospital CEOs to task for withdrawing from Capital Pride events.

“As health-care workers at CHEO, TOH, and in the Ottawa area, we recognize that advocacy is a core tenet and duty of our roles” said the open letter, which was posted online Monday, only days after CHEO and The Ottawa Hospital announced they were withdrawing citing safety and inclusivity and the Jewish Federation of Ottawa said it could not support an event that “marginalizes Jewish 2SLGBTQ+ individuals and the broader Jewish community.”

The news that the national board of the Canadian Public Employees Union has called on its vice-president, Fred Hahn, to step down, after posting an antisemitic video, feels like a tipping point.

The union said in a release that it has lost confidence in Hahn, who is also president of its political wing, CUPE Ontario, for posting a digitally manipulated video that showed a Jewish Olympic athlete leaping off a diving board and turning into a bomb.

Canada’s public service unions appear to be infested with Fred Hahn types. They really need to smashed.