Further thoughts on the reaction to the anti-Israel demonstration in Vancouver on the anniversary of the October 7 terrorist attack…
The vast, vast majority of people I’ve seen react online and talked to in person expressed their anger and disappointment over what was done that day. They agreed that declaring “We are Hamas,” burning Canadian flags, and chanting “Death to Canada” are all unacceptable.
After setbacks in Lebanon and Gaza, Tehran is finding new ways to go after Israeli interests
Iran and its allies, battered by Israeli attacks and the killing of Hezbollah leaderHassan Nasrallah, are running out of options to strike back without risking a regional war that could set them back even further.
But there is one area where Western security agencies and experts fear Iran will try to hit Israel: by hiring criminal gangs in the West.
Iran has long used local militias to pursue its goals across the Middle East. In recent years, Tehran has exported that model to Europe, allying with drug lords and gangsters to go after Jewish or Israeli targets and other perceived opponents.
Anti-Semitic hate crime rose at nearly nine times the rate of anti-Muslim offences in the wake of the October 7 Hamas terror attacks on Israel, official figures show.
The number of anti-Semitic hate crimes more than doubled, from 1,543 to 3,282 in the year to March 2024, a 113 per cent increase and the highest on record.
More than eight in 10 of the hate crimes were committed after the October 7 attack, rising from 95 recorded by police in September to 577 in October alone.
If you thought the Freedom Convoy types played a role in the last federal Conservative leadership race, just wait and see what the Hamas and Hezbollah types will do when the Liberals try to find a new leader.
Trudeau laid the groundwork for this and I don’t doubt it could happen.
The death of diversity is our strength
By failing to learn the lessons of history — that hatred against Jews never stops with the Jews — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals have destroyed the credibility of their claim that diversity is Canada’s strength.
… It soon became apparent that these demonstrations — though some within them were motivated by genuine concern for Palestinian suffering at least at the beginning— were in fact being driven by organizers who consider the terrorists of Hamas to be heroes.
Who hate Canada, hate our flag, and hate our way of life even though they were born here or chose to live here.
While the stated motive is combatting ‘honor-related’ oppression of women, marriages between close relatives are also twice as likely to produce children with genetic disorders.
An investigation commissioned by the Swedish government recommends banning cousin marriages and also proposes making marriages between close relatives—such as an uncle and his brother’s child, or half-siblings—illegal.
The investigation points out that cousin marriages are linked to honor-based norms, and that there is a specific risk of girls and women facing ‘honor-related oppression’ in these marriages. It also highlights that cousin marriages today happen to a considerable extent in Sweden.
Kelowna man pleads guilty to multiple thefts, break ins
A Kelowna man with a criminal record spanning two provinces and two decades pleaded guilty on Monday to a new set of offences.
Saeed Abbas, 44, admitted to a four part crime spree, including break ins, the theft of two Dodge trucks, a couple SUVs and even a possession of weapons charge. The criminal acts took place between September 2022 and January 2023, the latter date being when he started his incarceration.
… In making her case, Miller told the court that Abbas has a criminal record that started in 1999 when he was a youth offender in Calgary and since then, has amassed 25 convictions for offences including arson, theft, fraud, robbery, and vehicle thefts. He also has 22 breach charges.
… Miller also pointed out that the pre-sentence report that highlighted the trauma, racism, and poverty Abbas suffered since his parents came to Canada as refugees from Palestine is important to weigh into the equation.
h/t SweetPea
B.C. protester who praised Hamas allowed to attend rallies again
A B.C. woman who was recorded praising Hamas as “heroic and brave” can return to protest rallies, authorities confirmed this week.
Charlotte Kates was arrested following a demonstration outside the Vancouver Art Gallery back in April, where videos also showed her participating in a chant of “Long live Oct. 7,” celebrating the Hamas attacks on Israel.
Protesters have tried to paste a photograph of a Gazan mother and child over a Picasso painting at the National Gallery in central London to demand a two-way arms embargo on Israel.
Two supporters of Youth Demand entered room 43 at the gallery just before midday.
BREAKING: IMAGE OF PALESTINIAN MOTHER AND CHILD REPLACES PICASSO'S 'MOTHERHOOD'
❌ 16,000 children have been killed. When will @Keir_Starmer stop fuelling Israel's war machine?
From Nov 11, young people will be disrupting their cities. Join them: https://t.co/rqU3OswTSi pic.twitter.com/gsppgLqAzc
— Youth Demand (@youth_demand) October 9, 2024
Get a load of this.
“Free Palestine” idiot throws red paint at $24.8 million Picasso painting in the name of Gaza.
She somehow fucking missed pic.twitter.com/RDxXXVrenZ
— Kosher (@K0sher_C0ckney) October 9, 2024
The high cost of the modernist inability to take religion seriously.
Last week, Israel’s Minister of Defense, Benny Gantz, wrote an op-ed for the New York Times asking the question, “What were Hamas’s leaders hoping for, and what are Iran’s leaders seeking to achieve?” The answer began with a conversation that revealed the central problem with the West’s understanding of Islamic jihadism, one that still vitiates our foreign policy and plans for dealing with Muslim aggressors: our modernist inability to take religion seriously.
“MI5 has one hell of a job on its hands.” That was the warning yesterday from the agency’s Director-General, Ken McCallum, in a speech which touched on everything from Russian espionage to Iranian assassination plots, and from the present competition with China to the violent echoes of last century’s conflict in Northern Ireland.
On counterterrorism, McCallum gave the “headline split” of “75% Islamist terrorism, 25% extreme Right-wing.” Despite delving into the shifting ideological configurations of the violence, McCallum underlined that the threat of most concern is still that posed by al-Qaeda and Islamic State.
New political parties are pushing a sinister combination of anti-Israel activism and Muslim identity politics.
The Israel-Hamas war undoubtedly loomed large over the UK General Election in July. In constituencies around the country, a sizeable number of candidates ran on a pro-Palestinian platform. In some areas, campaigns were run on strictly religious lines, with groups like The Muslim Vote encouraging British Muslims to only use their votes on pro-Palestine candidates. The group had some big successes, with five ‘pro-Gaza independents’ now sitting in parliament – four of which managed to unseat incumbent Labour MPs.
They are on the losing side
One year after the October 7 massacre by Hamas in Israel, protesters chanting anti-Israel slogans stormed and smashed buildings at McGill, one of Canada’s premier universities. Later that same evening, on the other side of the country in Vancouver, pro-Hamas demonstrators burned Canadian flags on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery in downtown.
I am not optimistic.
Brothers convicted in the United States of helping Iran evade sanctions were allowed to legally adopt new identities in Ontario, records released to Global News show.
Amin and Arash Yousefijam were sentenced in Michigan in the fall of 2021 for using shell companies to illegally export sensitive manufacturing equipment to Iran, where they were born.
Far-right activists are trying to raise funds for people jailed over their roles in the summer riots, describing them as “political prisoners”, in an attempt to generate support by giving money to their families.
More than £14,000 has been raised by a leading group, which has been promoting the start of its “gifting” of funds to families of “political prisoners”.
One of the leaders of Patriotic Alternative (PA) recently met a teenager in HMP Hull who had been jailed for racially aggravated harassment during the disturbances, his wife told supporters.
OMG! Money is being given to families of people involved in riots whom far-right groups are calling ‘political prisoners’
Two tiered policing is not a myth in the UK.
