Sign petition e-4802 to call on our government to reinstate UNRWA funding and advocate for other countries to do the same. There was no basis for this funding to be pulled. We must demand this decision be reversed.https://t.co/TCJsWZmG4T
— Toronto4Palestine (@Toronto4P) February 18, 2024
A straight-A student who tried to assassinate an MP with two kitchen knives could rot in a maximum security prison for the rest of her life after her bid to be moved to an open prison was blocked at the last minute.
Al Qaeda-inspired Roshonara Choudhry, then 21, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey in 2010 for trying to murder Labour MP Stephen Timms in Newham, east London.
She attacked him with a three-inch kitchen knife at a constituency surgery on May 14, 2010, to ‘get revenge for the people of Iraq’ – to the shock of friends and teachers who had seen Choudhry as a star student and aspiring teacher.
What lies ahead for our way of life in what has become a civilizational struggle?
First, some context. A poll released in December by Palestinian pollster Khalil Shikaki found that 57 per cent of respondents in Gaza and 82 per cent in the West Bank supported Hamas’ decision to attack Israel on Oct. 7. It is not the case, as their apologists claim, that Hamas is holding Gazans hostage. Gaza largely is Hamas, voted for it in in large numbers and the group continues to be widely popular there. Indeed, it is far more popular among its citizenry than are most governments, including our own. And that is despite the fact — perhaps because of the fact — that it makes no secret of its terrorist ideology. Yet Justin Trudeau has moved, with no tenable protection for Canadians, to admit an unlimited number of Gazans into this country, as long as they can show any extended family relationship with a Canadian.
Ottawa sees 19 per cent increase in reported hate crimes in 2023, police say
The number of reported hate crimes in Ottawa increased 19 per cent in 2023 from the year before, according to Ottawa police.
The Hate and Bias Crime Unit investigated 460 reported incidents in 2023, including 344 criminal and 116 hate-motivated incidents. That’s up from 377 total incidents, including 300 criminal and 77 hate incidents, reported in Ottawa in 2022.
Police say the groups most victimized were Jewish (92 reported incidents), LGBTQ2+ (65 reported incidents), Black (59 reported incidents) and Muslim (21 reported incidents).
That’s gotta sting!
The RCMP announced Friday they are laying two additional charges against a young person the force arrested in late December on terror-related charges for allegedly plotting an attack on the Jewish community.
They have also charged a second young person as an alleged co-conspirator, the force said in a statement.
Malmö, the third largest city in Sweden, has been notorious for years as a particularly dangerous place for people who don’t happen to be Muslim. Now comes the news that it’s not terribly safe for dogs, either. More on this in a moment. For now let’s just point out that this makes sense, given that the creatures who, in the Western world, are known as man’s best friend are, in Muslim societies, considered unclean.
A series of gangland-style killings in inner-city Brussels has highlighted the city’s continued descent into narco-terrorism, with one local mayor warning that drug gangs have “taken the city hostage.”
Police descended on the southern municipality of Saint-Gilles early on Wednesday morning as locals reported the fatal shooting of a local dealer by rivals just hours after a similar gun attack in the same area.
The country’s self-image as tolerant, decent and hard-working is being smashed. It’s only going to get worse
Britain’s decline over the past 25 years has been staggeringly rapid. Almost everything is getting worse, and almost nothing is getting better. Our public and private institutions are broken, presided over by an incompetent, selfish and narcissistic ruling class. Living standards, when adjusted properly for living and property costs, are declining.
Even the simplest things don’t work any longer. Queuing, scarcity and congestion are rife, our infrastructure is embarrassingly poor, and the honest and hardworking face endless bureaucratic battles to obtain what they are due. Free riding, crime, disorder, fraud, littering and generalised rule-bending are rife, and all too often tolerated by apathetic citizens and an indifferent state. Britain’s residual virtues, our individualism, independence of mind, tolerance and openness, uniquely appealing features of our national character, are fading.
Read this and sub Canada for Britain.
Sometime after October 2015, Hamas, following a high-level meeting between South Africa’s governing party ANC and Hamas leaders, opened an office in South Africa.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said at the time that Hamas was going to “learn a lot” from the South African government.
A family who left a young bride in a vegetative state after she was poisoned with prescription pills and doused with a corrosive substance have been jailed for seven years.
The victim, Ambreen Fatima Sheikh, 39, originally from Pakistan, was “tricked or forced” into taking glimepiride — a drug used to treat type 2 diabetes — in July 2015 because she had “not lived up to expectations” following her arranged marriage to Asgar Sheikh.
A row has broken out after a judge who decided to let three women wearing parachute images at a pro-Palestine march walk free admitted to liking a social media post branding Israel a ‘terrorist’.
Tanweer Ikram is facing calls to be investigated for a conflict of interest after he liked a LinkedIn post calling for a ‘free Palestine ‘ by a barrister who had previously promoted conspiracy theories claiming that Israel allowed the October 7 attack.
The senior district judge admitted to liking the post ‘by mistake’ three weeks ago, but was told by the Judicial Office that the matter would not be investigated further.
Pro-Palestinian protestors removed from Parliament after interrupting proceedings
This fence sitting is really working out well for Trudeau.
Free-Palestine protestors disrupt Question Period https://t.co/SYg7Qgu3PR pic.twitter.com/UOGNXyw3D0
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) February 14, 2024
h/t Sweetpea
Here is a @PoliceScotland officer asking a Jewish bystander to hide his Star of David & identity, to avoid “triggering” the “peaceful” mob.
Jewish people shouldn’t need to make adjustments due to emotionally unstable cranks. This is a cowardly approach.
pic.twitter.com/fHoGyGlGla— Chris Rose (@ArchRose90) February 14, 2024
h/t SweetPea
A man is standing outside his home filming & calls the Palestinian demonstrators "racists", adding "you're not in Palestine this is England."
A police woman from @metpoliceuk says he has no right to film. He points out women & children were raped in Israel.#TwoTierPolicing pic.twitter.com/aZYCqjbrhJ
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) February 14, 2024
The federal government paid to have a “high-speed” ship on stand-by to evacuate Canadians in Lebanon, then later canceled the $440,000-a-week contract after five weeks, deciding it wasn’t needed after all, officials say.
Joining with one or more other countries to put the ship on retainer — and later scrapping the deal — underscores the tricky logistical and political challenges Ottawa faces around the conflict on Israel’s border with Lebanon.
