“The warning lights are blinking.”
Two recent interviews — one with former Navy SEAL and Blackwater founder Erik Prince and one with Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., — pointed to the gathering threat of terror violence inside the country this year.
Aside from these two and a few more, though, there seems to be scant attention being paid to the likelihood that a confluence of threat indicators will erupt into street violence on a scale we’ve not seen since the summer of 2020.
A New Generation of Islamist Political Power
The response in state legislatures to the Hamas Islamic terror attacks of Oct 7 showed how thoroughly Islamists have infiltrated our political system and the threat that they pose.
In Delaware, Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton, the first Muslim elected in Delaware, heckled Vice President Kamala Harris at a Christmas party, demanding that Israel stop attacking Hamas.
OTTAWA – Fewer than half of Canadians believe the federal government’s plan to regulate social media sites will make platforms safer, a new survey suggests.
Polling firm Leger recently asked Canadians about the Liberal government’s proposed Online Harms Act, which contains a suite of measures meant to make social media platforms safer, particularly for children.
A Palestinian citizen of Israel is to be granted asylum by the Home Office on the basis that he has a “well-founded” fear of persecution if returned to Israel, because of his campaigning activities in the UK.
The 24-year-old, known only as “Hasan”, claimed he faced an increased risk of persecution because of his Palestinian solidarity activism in the UK and his anti-Zionist political opinions.
He alleged Israel maintained an “apartheid” system where Palestinian citizens were oppressed.
City council in Surrey, B.C., says it is restricting public access to its meetings after persistent disruptions from pro-Palestinian protesters.
Mayor Brenda Locke began the Mar. 11 meeting by announcing that the public would be allowed to attend meetings on city premises, but outside the gallery.
She told the meeting that council had adopted provisions for registered members of the public to speak on items on the agenda.
NEW DELHI (AP) — India has implemented a controversial citizenship law that has been widely criticized for excluding Muslims, a minority community whose concerns have heightened under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government.
The rules for the law were announced Monday. It establishes a religious test for migrants from every major South Asian faith other than Islam. Critics argue that the law is further evidence that Modi’s government is trying to reshape the country into a Hindu state and marginalize its 200 million Muslims.
At a Dutch museum dedicated to preserving the consequences of Jew-hate, a small girl got to experience that hate, too, as baying mobs waving Palestinian flags screamed out their hatred for Jews at the child.
So now we know. If you’re from a working-class background in a Red Wall constituency and you think Islamism is a big problem, the Tories are not the party for you. That’s the takeaway, surely, from Lee Anderson’s flight from the Tories into the welcoming arms of Reform UK following the confected media stink over his brash comments about Sadiq Khan being too cosy with Islamists. The optics of this are awful. A former miner turned Tory MP pipes up about radical Islam and the eye-wateringly wealthy Rishi Sunak effectively kicks him out? Yikes.
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada is pledging $1 million to support victims of sexual violence by Hamas in Israel during last October’s attacks.
The funding comes with an offer of RCMP support for investigations three months after a group of women who hold political office in Canada called on Ottawa to provide this type of support.
I think of the job of acting as inhabiting a situation or identity significantly different from my own. As a rabbi, acting is not really in my wheelhouse. However, when I was cast in a commercial sponsored by the Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism (FCAS) to play a rabbi whose synagogue receives a bomb threat during a Bar Mitzvah ceremony, I found it was a familiar role.
Rabbi Michael Dolgin is senior rabbi of Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto and is actively engaged in interfaith dialogue.
Fireworks were ignited and eggs thrown as pro-Palestinian protesters gathered in Amsterdam where a new National Holocaust Museum has been opened.
The Israeli president’s visit to the newly-opened National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam has sparked protests in the city.
Thousands of protesters were heard chanting “never again is now” and “ceasefire now” at Waterloo Square in central Amsterdam, near the museum, which held an opening ceremony on Sunday and invited guests including the Israeli president Isaac Herzog and Dutch King Willem-Alexander.
BREAKING: Pro-Palestine protests take place outside the opening of a National Holocaust museum in Amsterdam, where Israeli President Isaac Herzog is in attendance. https://t.co/PAiZ4D1jU3
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— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 10, 2024
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Three years in prison for a predator – Attacks worthy of “women’s worst nightmare”
“No one deserves to be harassed and disfigured. To be afraid of losing your face,” whispers Cassandra*. This Montrealer, like four other women, experienced horror at the hands of an extremely violent sexual predator. The young foreign student was sentenced Monday to three years in detention and will be deported from Canada.
…El Mehdi Badi has time to attack two other women before attacking Cassandra, his last victim. The attack is particularly violent. “You like that, you’re looking for that,” El Mehdi Badi says to her when she tries to push him away. The woman suffered two concussions. She thought she would die at that moment.
“I was disfigured because he tried to tear my lip off with his teeth,” says Cassandra, on the witness stand, staring at her tormentor in the box. Impassive, the young man stared at the ground in silence.
Note – Google Translate
Palestinian demonstrators have taken over Wellington Street and are setting off smoke grenades.
They have a massive sound system built on scaffolding in the middle of the road and they are calling out @JustinTrudeau, saying that he is complicit in genocide. pic.twitter.com/9Avwt1hwAO
— Dacey Media (@chrisdacey) March 9, 2024
What’s most striking when first meeting Philippe Lazzarini is that he is completely alone.
Sat in the dated lobby of Hotel Cornavin, a stone’s throw from Geneva’s central train station, the 60-year-old is fiddling on his phone, head down, glasses on, anonymous.
I look around for a press officer, the scourge of any good interview, but there seems to be none. His staff, Lazzarini soon says, are thousands of miles away – in Jordan, Gaza, and Madrid, his next destination after a whistle-stop trip to southern Switzerland.
The Canadian government has confirmed it will restore funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.
International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen confirmed the move at a press conference Friday in Mississauga, Ont.
Canada suspended funding to UNRWA in January after Israel alleged 12 employees of the aid agency were involved in some capacity in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
What a sleazebag.
