Sadiq Khan has apologised to the chief rabbi for suggesting that Jewish leaders only criticised his call for a ceasefire in Gaza due to his Muslim-sounding name.
The mayor of London called for a ceasefire early in the conflict in Israel and Gaza, but was criticised by Sir Ephraim Mirvis, who said in November that Khan’s call was “irresponsible” and that a ceasefire would be “a stepping stone to yet more Hamas brutality”.
Makeshift slaughterhouse in a residential garage points to growing concerns about illicit meat sales
Inside a garage in an established Edmonton neighbourhood, animals were being slaughtered and the meat was advertised for sale to consumers, a CBC News investigation has learned.
Police entered the rented garage in the quiet residential Woodcroft community in February 2023. Images shared with CBC News show piles of goat carcasses, tubs of blood and the remains of a skinned baby goat on a makeshift slaughter table.
Neighbour John Bos told CBC News that the sounds of bleating goats first alerted him to unusual activity in the garage.
There is no future for our civilisation if universities’ totalitarian indoctrination of the young continues
There is a fatal contradiction at the heart of Western societies, a nihilistic impulse, a pathological self-loathing that threatens to destroy our way of life. We live in the freest, wealthiest, healthiest, fairest and most technologically advanced polities in history, and yet millions of young people are being taught to hate the West, to despise the liberties that make their lifestyles possible, to tear down every institution and tradition.
Some members of a Toronto-area public sector union say it has become an unsafe space for Jews after their union president wore a keffiyeh during a video meeting and then muted fellow union members who raised objections to her “political” attire.
The news comes as the Ontario legislature is embroiled in a fractious debate about whether the keffiyeh — a traditional scarf often worn by Palestinians — is acceptable clothing to wear within Queen’s Park.
Today, a simple question for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Does he agree with his anti-Islamophobia adviser, Amira Elghawaby, that the only problem with what we’ll laughably call a “pro-Palestinian” demonstration in Ottawa last weekend was that, as she put it on ‘X’, “a few individual protesters engaged in problematic speech?”
A Moroccan asylum seeker, who claimed he was acting in revenge for the Israel Hamas conflict has been convicted of murdering a pensioner in Hartlepool.
Ahmed Alid, 45, stabbed Terence Carney, 70, to death just days after the October 7 terror attacks last year.
Alid was also found guilty of the attempted murder of his housemate Javed Nouri, 31, who he knifed in his bed minutes before attacking Mr Carney.
The last Canadian woman trying to return home from a detention camp in Syria for captured ISIS members is a national security risk because police lack evidence to arrest her, according to internal documents.
A Public Safety Canada memo obtained by Global News said the RCMP was unable to either charge the Montreal woman, referred to only by the initials F.J., or restrict her movements with a peace bond.
Following in the footsteps of the European capitals of Paris and Brussels, Rome is fast emerging as a place where would-be Islamists are made, an undercover investigation by the conservative daily Il Tempo reveals.
Several underground mosques in the Eternal City, the report states, are spreading hatred for the Western world, its values, and its people.
Described as “hidden places of worship,” these underground mosques—initially founded to serve the increasing number of Muslim immigrants following the 2015 European migrant crisis—are seen as potential hotbeds for radicalization, with fears that individuals may be indoctrinated into extremist ideologies, posing security threats to society.
The southern French cities of Nice and Béziers are imposing night-time curfews for children under 13 amid rising public concern over youth violence, which has become a national political issue.
There have been a series of recent assaults involving minors. Two teenagers were charged with beating a 22-year-old man to death last week in Grande-Synthe, a suburb of the northern city of Dunkirk. Three weeks ago a 15-year-old boy died after being attacked by youths on his way home from school in Viry-Châtillon, a Paris suburb.
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An ugly scene unfolded on Saturday, as dozens of anti-Israel demonstrators clogged the streets of downtown Ottawa, shouting genocidal slogans like “long live Oct. 7” and “from the river to the sea.”
The open intolerance on display in our nation’s capital played into a broader trend on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border: protesters across the continent are increasingly dropping any pretense of civility and behaving in an overtly hateful manner. This is a trend that has no doubt been abetted by leaders who have overlooked, or downplayed, the growing hatred.
Renowned Canadian Jewish author and columnist Naomi Klein called for an “exodus from Zionism,” denouncing the ideology as a “false idol” that has strayed from the core values of Judaism, in an op-ed for The Guardian.
In her piece, Klein used biblical allegory to draw attention to the recent conflict between Israel and Gaza, condemning Zionism for turning the “transcendent idea of the promised land” into a “deed of sale for a militaristic ethnostate.”
Klein’s piece directly challenged the traditional view of Zionism as a movement for Jewish liberation, instead portraying it as an ideology that has justified oppression, colonialism, and violence in the name of Jewish safety.
The Israel-Hamas conflict is now as much an intramural affair as religious war.
We need an exodus from Zionism – by Naomi Klein
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… This shift has notably affected disciplines like American Studies, which have become distinctly anti-American, Oren continued. He also pointed out that even some Jewish academics have joined the anti-Israel chorus, failing to recognize the potential negative consequences for themselves. “They fail to see that this path also ends badly for them.”
Reflecting on Passover, Oren cited the Haggadah’s story of the Wicked Son, which he believes mirrors the stance of those who don’t identify with their own people and criticize Israel’s defenders. “It’s the best image for these people who keep saying that if you defend Israel, you’re a bad Jew. Eventually, they’ll become one of the bad Jews themselves. This movement is a deep-seated cultural trend that has taken decades to evolve, and undoing it may also take decades,” said Oren.
Around half of the remaining Israeli hostages abducted by Hamas have been killed in Gaza, an Israeli-American captive said in a rare proof-of-life video.
Hamas released a two-minute video on Wednesday night showing 24-year-old Hersch Goldberg-Polin appealing to the Israeli government to bring him home.
Ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas that would have included a hostage swap and pause in fighting have collapsed.
The video of Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 24, who was kidnapped during Hamas' October 7 attack while at an outdoor rave near Re'im in southern Israel. pic.twitter.com/X6BueZSO3l
— Quique Kierszenbaum (@Quique_K) April 24, 2024
Late in the afternoon on Saturday, April 13, massive street parties popped up in Toronto, Montreal and elsewhere in Canada, celebrating the launch of over 300 ballistic missiles and attack drones by the Islamic Republic of Iran targeting sites in Israel.
On Oct. 7, 2023, while Hamas terrorists were still slaughtering, mutilating, burning and kidnapping civilians in Israel, spontaneous parties across Canada were in full swing. They were ecstatic, openly calling for the destruction of Israel and the killing of any and all Jews.
In a lengthy social media post, Elghawaby referred to the chant as “a few individual protesters engaged in problematic speech” — and said that it was “patently false and harmful” to insinuate that the chant was representative of the protest as a whole. Most protesters, she said, were peacefully trying to stop the “decimation of an entire population in Gaza.”
SYDNEY (AP) — Australian police arrested seven teenagers accused of following a violent extremist ideology in raids across Sydney on Wednesday, as a judge extended a ban on social media platform X sharing video of a knife attack on a bishop that started the criminal investigation.
The seven, aged 15 to 17, were part of a network that included a 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing a bishop in a Sydney church on April 15, police said.
Clips of the stabbing were taken from the church service’s livestream and subsequently made the rounds on X. An Australian regulator on Monday ordered the platform to take down the videos, an action the platform is fighting.
