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Friday, June 13, 2025

Links - 13th June 2025 (2 - Hamas Attack Oct 2023)

Love My 7 Wood on X - "I was at a Bat Mitzvah this evening at a synagogue in Toronto I will leave unnamed. Before beginning the service, the Rabbi said that in case of emergency the two nearest exits were behind her. Then she gave instructions should a Code Red be called. Code fucking Red! In Toronto. In Canada. Why? Because we are Jewish and Jew-hating mobs are given free rein to hate and intimidate with absolutely no repercussions. The shame falls on politicians and police who are too afraid to call out or arrest the mobs out of fear of being tarred as Islamophobics so they let antisemitism explode instead. And they are too stupid to be ashamed of their actions. I’m talking about you @MayorOliviaChow  @fordnation  @TPSMyronDemkiw  @MarkJCarney"

Police confirm investigation into Leeds student group's ‘armed resistance’ call - "West Yorkshire Police is reviewing whether a criminal offence was committed after a Leeds-based student group called for “armed resistance” and a “global siege” ahead of a protest in the city centre.  The demonstration, held on Saturday 10 May by leedsstudents4palestine, went ahead days after the group published a graphic Instagram post urging followers to “let our collective rage erupt” and “strengthen unity around armed resistance”. "
More censorship of "pro-Palestinian" speech! This is a chilling attack on freedom of speech. The police need to stop wasting time persecuting people and go back to arresting people for "transphobic" tweets

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: A new wave of Gazans has just landed at Sydney Airport—granted instant entry, thousands in government aid, and citizenship. While Arab nations won’t take a single Palestinian, Western leftist governments are opening their borders and committing national suicide."

Greg Price on X - "In the year 2023, a huge crowd of people holding Palestinian flags outside the Sydney Opera House in Australia are chanting “gas the Jews.” They’re just resisting occupation, guys!"
Merve Karataş on X - "Things that make you a "Nazi" according to Western liberals:
- Opposing race or gender based quota systems in workplaces and schools.
- Claiming that there are two genders.
- Arguing that IQ tests can be used to measure mental ability.
- Wanting Islam to be criticizable, just like any other religion.
Things that do NOT make you a "Nazi" according to Western liberals:Another one of the authors, Nader Ibrahim, posted this back in the day.  I don't even know what the hell this is.
- Chanting "GAS THE JEWS"."

Israeli Woman on Her Way to Give Birth Is Killed in West Bank Attack - The New York Times
U.S. Senator John Fetterman on X - "The depravity to target and celebrate killing a pregnant woman as a “heroic operation.” Call that what it is and pick a side in this existential war. 🇮🇱"

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll on X - "Yuval Raphael survived the Nova festival massacre by playing dead while hiding under the bodies of her friends slaughtered by Hamas terrorists. She survived to sing and represent her county in Eurovision but she is under threat by "human rights activists" in Switzerland who want her dead"

No evidence of genocide in Gaza, UK lawyers say in arms export case - "No evidence of genocide in Gaza, UK lawyers say in arms export case  Palestinian rights organisation Al-Haq has launched high court action over carve-out of F-35 fighter jet programme Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor Tue 13 May 2025 19.51 BST  No evidence has been seen that a genocide is occurring in Gaza or that women and children were targeted by the IDF, UK government lawyers have claimed, as a high court case opened into the handling of arms exports controls to Israel.  They also suggested there was no obligation placed on the UK to make other states comply with international humanitarian law but only to ensure that no breach occured within its jurisdiction... “No evidence has been seen that Israel is deliberately targeting civilian women or children. There is also evidence of Israel making efforts to limit incidental harm to civilians.” Government lawyers also stressed that the international court of justice last year had not found there was a plausible risk of a genocide occurring."
But if aid to Palestinians is used by terrorists like Hamas, there's no problem, because all "resistance" is justified

Oversight needed after rally diverts ambulance in Toronto - "The emergency for Toronto may not just be that an ambulance with a child on board was blocked from getting to a hospital by a pro-Gaza protest, but that the demonstration is considered by the city to be a higher priority. An ambulance responding Saturday to a child in medical distress needed to use a detour to get around a pro-Palestinian protest at Yonge and Bloor Sts. and was forced to find another route to a hospital upon loading the stretcher-bound child.  “It was shocking,” said journalist and lawyer Caryma Sa’d, who said paramedic sources expressed their anger that there was difficultly responding to a call for a child facing a medical issue because of a blocked intersection. “I fully expected the ambulance would be able to get through the intersection, as I have seen happen at other demonstrations.”... this large crowd, which routinely blocks the intersection and other roadways since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel, was given courtesy over an ambulance transporting a child...  It’s mind-boggling that anti-Israel protesters continue to control Toronto’s streets. They are given too much leeway. They go where they want, intimidate who they want and sometimes use troubling language to rally their supporters.  Whether it be sparking a smoke grenade on the street or calling for escalation in support of Hamas’s war with Israel or now diverting the route of an ambulance trying to transport a child to a hospital, the police and city have lost control of the streets. No matter the excuse, police would not tolerate this from anybody else.   It it were a Christian pro-life protest or a trucker rally, none of the things the pro-Palestinian demonstrators do weekly would be tolerated. In every case, these protests do not have permits to clog roadways and are not asked to cover the cost of the policing like the Jewish community is asked to do for the Walk With Israel, which is also required to have provisions in place for emergency calls... With so many hospitals downtown, it has never made sense that protesters take precedence over patients in ambulances."
The people who endorsed freezing the bank accounts of the Freedom Convoy even though they said to keep lanes clear for emergency vehicles and disrupted the country (and indeed the world) for a shorter period of time don't care about this

Toronto Police direct a paramedic driving an ambulance to make a U-turn and take a detour, as Yonge Street is blocked north of the Bloor & Yonge intersection due to the demonstration. : r/Ontario_Sub - "The police, directed by left-wing municipal governments, see their job as protecting the demonstrators, not only from interruption or being pushed aside, but from anyone who might dare criticize them. Protesting is a sacred right - unless you try to protest against the Palestinians. Then you'll be arrested."

Caryma Sa'd - Lawyer + Political Satirist on X - "Protesters attempt to block my videographer from filming a woman giving a speech while the demonstration halts traffic on Bay Street.  They strike him with flagpoles and call him a “Zionist,” despite the fact he has only ever identified as Jewish-Canadian.  Ironically, the speaker was denouncing infringements on protesters’ rights while her comrades harassed my videographer for exercising his own civil liberties.  #cdnpoli #Toronto #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #ProtestMania"

Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: Thousands of Palestinians in Khan Yunis have taken to the streets, demanding that Hamas surrender. Why does the Western media refuse to report this?"

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib on X - "Thousands of courageous anti-Hamas Gazan protesters are screaming "Hamas get out, we want to live, damned are Hamas's leaders, children have a right to live"! Will anyone listen? Will pro-Palestine activists, NGOs, politicians, journalists & online personalities take notice?!💔🙏"
Roya Hakakian on X - "In the past few weeks, thousands of headlines have been written about the food crisis in Gaza and not a word about Gazans protesting against Hamas in the leading press. It's clearly far more important to these journalists to disgrace Israel than to let voiceless Gazans be heard."

Ihab Hassan on X - "Unbelievable: under constant bombardment and Israeli airstrikes, people in Gaza still found the courage to rise up and protest against Hamas.  Yet the protests were overwhelmingly ignored by major pro-Palestine voices, accounts, and media outlets that claim to support Palestinians. The bravest act of defiance—dismissed, simply because it didn’t fit their narrative.  What’s worse is that many didn’t stop at silence. They went further—smearing these courageous protesters, accusing them of betrayal, and lecturing them that Hamas is “resistance.”  You’d think the harshest backlash against anti-Hamas protesters in Gaza came from Palestinians loyal to Hamas—but it didn’t.   It came from abroad: pro-Hamas voices in the West and keyboard warriors, thousands of miles away, sitting comfortably as they preach “resistance” while Palestinians bleed.  Those who did this aren’t pro-Palestine—they’re pro-Hamas. They’re indifferent—because they’re not the ones paying the price, but Palestinians in Gaza."

Ademọ́lá. on X - "The people that are funding and supporting the genocide in Gaza are trying to tell us there’s a genocide in South Africa."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Everything a leftist says is flipped reality. It's funny when you see it."
mark on X - "Gosh you'd think people who hate whites as much as these scholars do would be thrilled to see them go."

Thread by @GAZAWOOD1 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Yesterday’s post about the Gaza café with all the ice cream and Nutella got mixed reactions. Some were happy, others asked if it’s really Gaza and recent. Quick follow-up: life’s tough there, but cafés, ice cream, Nutella, Wi-Fi, and pricey laptops aren’t hard to find. 🧵
Here’s why there were doubts: people saw the area destroyed on Google Maps — that’s correct. Part of the area is destroyed, but the café reopened after renovations around March 2025. Here’s a video from after, with surrounding buildings still partially destroyed👇 In this video, you can see supplies being brought to the café — salad fridges and probably the ice cream itself. Part of the video shows destroyed buildings nearby, but the people look great… and the ice cream looks even better.🍨 Some people need to see renovations happening, or nothing counts. So, here you go — renovation phase video included.  And some people need to see the Nutella being delivered, with the same people and the same half-destroyed buildings in the background — or they just won’t believe it. And some people… well, they also need to see the Nutella after it’s been eaten — or nothing will ever convince them. Oh, and you can see activist Yatsentyk Elena visiting the lovely café just a few days ago — while also posting a video where she’s buying wood by weight from laughing children because “there’s no gas in Gaza.”
Bonus video, filmed a day ago — nothing too important. Anyway, I hope @CommunityNotes takes a quick look; it might save them a few discussions. And @Grok, here’s the thread I promised you. I do wonder why people are still surprised… haven’t you checked out @imshin's account?
🔍 Some stories aren’t what they seem. With your support, we can keep asking the right questions and uncover what’s real. ☕️ Help us continue — because truth matters. 👉"

Anita Anand debuts at foreign affairs by doing publicity for Hamas - "A day after being sworn in as foreign affairs minister, Anita Anand lashed out at Israel proving, yet again, that the Liberals are oddly concerned with keeping the support of those who sympathize with terrorists.   When asked by a reporter about Israel’s blockade of Gaza, Anand could have pointed out that Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group that governs the enclave, had been stealing aid and reselling it for profit. She could have pointed out that it was Hamas that refused to continue a ceasefire with Israel that would have ended the war. She could have pointed out that Hamas continues to hold hostages, or that it routinely inflates casualty numbers and obscures the number of fighters killed to leave the impression of higher civilian deaths. Finally, Anand could have pointed out that Hamas started the war with Israel by committing the October 7 massacre. She could have pointed out any number of those things, but instead, Anand chose to attack Israel. “We cannot allow the continued use of food as a political tool,” she started, conveniently ignoring Hamas’s routine theft of aid. The terrorist organization has profited at least US$500 million from stolen aid since October 7, funds it has used to bolster its ranks. For example, in October Hamas was caught on camera hijacking 47 aid trucks in a convoy of 100. After Israel started its blockade in March, however, Hamas started to struggle to pay its terrorist fighters, as funds from stealing aid began to dry up.  Chastising Israel for using food as a “political tool” while overlooking the fact humanitarian aid has been used to fund Hamas’s own war effort, demonstrates an appalling level of bad faith on the part of the foreign affairs minister. Anand then summed up the war as one entirely of Israel’s making, while simultaneously accepting Hamas’s dubious casualty count. “Over 50,000 people have died as a result of the aggression caused against the Palestinian and the Gazan people in Palestine,” she said... Repeating Hamas’s casualty numbers without at least distinguishing between Hamas fighters and actual civilians is repeating terrorist propaganda.  Anand also said “we need to continue to work towards a ceasefire,” but, again, it is not Israel that is standing in the way of an end to hostilities. After the end of a 42-day ceasefire in March, Israel had agreed to a U.S. proposal to move to a second phase that would have eventually led to the end of the war. It was Hamas that refused in part because it didn’t want to agree to be disarmed.  Anand’s blaming of Israel, while ignoring the actions of Hamas continues the regrettable pattern of her predecessor, Mélanie “have you seen the demographics of my riding” Joly. Under Joly’s “leadership,” Canada continued funding UNRWA, despite the fact some of its employees took part in October 7, an arms embargo was implemented against Israel, and Canada supported a UN motion calling for a ceasefire that placed no conditions on Hamas. Joly’s department condemned an Israeli attack on a school that never occurred, just as Joly herself condemned Israel for an explosion at a hospital that was committed by the Palestinian side.   Again and again, the Canadian government’s position could be summed up as: Israel has a right to defend itself, so long as it doesn’t use its army. The terrorists who started all this? Well, they are the victims of “aggression,” according to Anand."

Tasha Kheiriddin: Carney Liberals give Hamas a pass - "the collective amnesia is mind-boggling — and highly selective. We don’t blame Ukraine for fighting Russia after it invaded their country... Hamas knew its act of war would produce a severe counter-reaction, and that by not releasing the hostages, they would give Netanyahu every reason to continue fighting. That fighting would inevitably lead to mass casualties among the Palestinian population, which would produce a reaction in the rest of the world: the revival of antisemitism. And that was the true goal of October 7. Hamas is the proxy of the Iranian government, whose stated goal is the destruction of the state of Israel. But Iran knows they cannot achieve this goal alone. They need the rest of the world to turn on Israel... The number of reported cases of hatred targeting Jews is up 124 per cent in Canada since 2022, to seventeen cases a day. Where is our government’s outrage on that? Answer: nowhere. Instead, our new foreign minister, Anita Anand, on her first day in office, went on a tear about Israeli “aggression” with no mention of the hostages. And now, a week later, Canada issues its statement, condemning Israel for fighting an enemy that seeks its annihilation."

Canada's Israel statement garners Hamas praise, condemnation from Jewish, Israeli groups - "Deputy Conservative Party Leader Melissa Lantsman pointed out this was the second time Canada’s Israel policy earned praise from Palestinian terrorists — with senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad praising Canada’s support of a non-binding 2023 UN ceasefire resolution ... “If Israel were to cease targeting Hamas, hostages would remain chained in tunnels and Hamas would repeat the October 7 massacre — as it has explicitly vowed. If Hamas were to release the hostages and cease targeting Israel, this war will come to an end. That is why thousands of Gazans are in the streets today bravely protesting Hamas rule.” Hamas routinely hijacks Israeli aid coming into Gaza and diverts it to fund its terror campaign against Israel. As well, the Israeli government has furnished proof that important NGOs operating in Gaza, namely UNRWA, act as tools of the Hamas regime — using the agency as a de facto education ministry, and using UN infrastructure and resources to further its goals. Gerald Steinberg, founder of Jerusalem-based think tank NGO Monitor, said billions of dollars of taxpayer-funded aid from western nations helped build the massive terror network used to carry out the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks."
When you're being praised by a terrorist group your yourself acknowledge is one, you know you're doing the right thing

Michael Dickson on X - "Hamas just turned down an offer to end the war - they felt emboldened by support from the leaders of France, the UK and Canada. Their leaders - Macron, Starmer and Carney - helped prolong the war today and keep the hostages in captivity."

Meme - Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby: "Did I somehow miss the letter from France, Canada, and the UK condemning Turkey for cutting off water to a million Kurds just a few months ago?"
"Turkish strikes in Syria cut water to one million people"

Keffiyeh-clad kindergarten teachers create hostile school environment - "Problems with political activism and antisemitism seeping into Canadian schools came to the fore last fall after Toronto students were taken to a rally against environmental contamination on an Indigenous reserve that quickly descended into an anti-Israel hate-fest. But this was only the tip of the iceberg: our schools have become cesspools of Jew-hatred and woke identity politics, yet most of the time, the public never hears about it.    The elementary school in my urban Toronto neighbourhood, for example, is a microcosm of everything that’s wrong with our public-education system. On a tour of the facility last fall, every classroom I visited prominently displayed a Progress Pride flag. Many included other faddish political slogans like “Black Lives Matter” and “Every Child Matters.” Yet the closest thing I saw to a Canadian flag was a Maple Leaf embedded in Pride colours. In class, students spend an inordinate amount of time learning about the “bad white people” in residential schools and participating in mock protests, while completely ignoring all the things that make Canada great. Perhaps it should come as no surprise, then, that following October 7 — when thousands of Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, brutally raping and slaughtering 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking over 250 hostages — the school has become increasingly inhospitable to the neighbourhood’s Jewish community... a teacher added two keffiyeh — a symbol of violent resistance against Israeli Jews — to the Asian Heritage Month display last Friday, arguing that the Middle East is technically part of Asia. Islamic History Month, however, is observed in October, which calls the teacher’s motives for prominently featuring Palestinian jihadi symbols next to a Jewish cultural display into question. Either way, the effect was to politicize what was supposed to be an innocuous celebration of the school’s multiculturalism... Then, on Tuesday, the displays were abruptly moved to a remote corner of the library, where they cannot be seen by parents or other visitors. Books about Islam were also added to the exhibit, which can be seen from a photo. A number of Jewish families expressed concern to me, and in emails to the principal that I have viewed, that the decision may have been made because their cultural identity had become too controversial. The school’s principal refused to answer questions about why she made the call, and a Toronto District School Board (TDSB) spokesperson claimed that, “As both displays continued to grow, they were relocated to the library to better support student engagement.” Yet the new space is much smaller than the old one. This is not the first time something of this nature has happened. To commemorate the anniversary of the Quebec mosque shooting at the end of January, some classes attended a TDSB-sanctioned talk by children’s author and illustrator Hatem Aly, who’s listed as a participant in a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions. And the day after Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who masterminded the October 7 massacre, was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, two kindergarten teachers showed up for work wearing keffiyehs... although the scarf is a traditional Bedouin garment, it has long been associated with violent Palestinian attacks against the British, who controlled the area after the First World War, and the region’s Jewish inhabitants. It was used to hide the identities of Palestinian guerrillas when they launched assaults against the Brits in the 1930s. It was popularized in the West in 1969 as the garment worn in a widely circulated photo of Leila Khaled, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist who was one of the hijackers of TWA Flight 840 from Rome to Tel Aviv. In more recent decades, it became associated with the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, a man who turned down numerous viable offers for peace and Palestinian statehood in favour of two bloody intefadehs. And nowadays, it is the fashion choice of the thugs who occupy university campuses, picket outside synagogues and in Jewish neighbourhoods, and fill western streets with calls to “globalize the intefadeh” and wipe out all the Jews “from the river to the sea.”... “Palestinians (Gaza, West Bank) are considered to be a part of West Asia, including the Levant region, and as such cultural attire and other artifacts from that part of the world were represented in the Asian Heritage Month display.” (Though one can imagine the backlash from displaying an Israeli flag or Israel Defence Forces logo for Asian Heritage Month, even though Israel is technically part of West Asia, as well.)  School administrators, it would seem, are more than happy to sweep issues like this under the rug and pretend as though the problems caused by their wholesale buy-in to the identity-politics craze and blurring of the lines between education and activism don’t exist. But in this case, it would appear as though the keffiyeh was used, not as a means of expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people, but of antagonizing the local Jewish community and politicizing Jewish cultural expression.  This incident was orchestrated by those at the school who apparently could not stand the thought of elementary kids celebrating their culture without injecting Middle Eastern politics into the fray. It was aided and abetted by a school administrator who was unwilling to stand up to her own staff, creating a culture of fear among faculty, who are genuinely afraid to speak out. And we can be quite sure that similar things are taking place at public schools right across the country.   Unfortunately, the school board is unlikely to do anything to address issues such as this. While the TDSB’s inquiry into the field trip to an anti-Israel rally acknowledged “the deleterious effect on young minds of hearing chants that troubled them,” it spent more time criticizing the media for its coverage of the incident and painting the “TDSB’s Indigenous communities” as the true victims.  It’s high time for the provincial government to intervene and make it clear that politics has no place in the classroom — full stop."
Only left wing approved "minorities" get to feel "safe"

Brendan O'Neill: Waving dead babies in the faces of Jews is blood libel - "It chills the blood to think of what we’ve witnessed in Britain these past 18 months. We’ve had people on the street hollering for the return of the Army of Muhammad to finish off the Jews.  Posters featuring the Jews kidnapped on 7 October have been savagely attacked. Everywhere I went I saw their remnants, scarred with the claw marks of the frenzied bigots who tore them down.  In a Jewish part of London, the faces of the three-year-old twins kidnapped by Hamas were daubed with Hitler moustaches. Denigrating Jewish infants? Branding them Nazis? You can call that anti-Zionism if you like — I call it fascism. There’s been a huge rise in antisemitic attacks. Things got so bad that students at the Jewish Free School in London were given permission to remove their blazers on their way to and from school. Kids hiding their Jewishness to guard against the invective and violence of the mob? England, what happened?  In the U.S., the reheated Jew hate is rampant on campus. Jewish students have been harassed. They’ve been told to go back to “f–king Berlin where you came from” — the dream of a Jew expulsion masquerading as opposition to Israel.   “Long live 7 October,” said a banner in New York City, as gross a statement as “Long live Kristallnacht” would have been in 1938. We’ve seen activists angrily searching for “Zionists” on the New York subway and on the streets — Jew hunts in all but name.  Jew hatred soars in Canada, too. As Casey Babb wrote last week, this is now “one of the most antisemitic countries in the Western world.” From October 7 2023 to the end of 2024, antisemitic incidents skyrocketed by an alarming 670 per cent...  The virus of Jewphobia reaches as far as Australia. A synagogue in Melbourne was burnt. A Jewish daycare center in Sydney was torched. Chants of “F–k the Jews” were heard at the Sydney Opera House just day after Hamas’s pogrom.  A car in a Jewish neighbourhood in Sydney was daubed with “F–k Israel” on one side and “F–k the Jews” on the other.   Boom. There it was, in black and white: the interchangeable nature of anti-Zionism and antisemitism. Brute proof that today’s voguish and demented hatred for the Jewish nation is really a hatred for the Jewish people.  Indeed, it is striking that all the things people once said about the Jews, they now say about the Jewish homeland.  Israel is uniquely murderous, the activist class insists. It loves to murder children. It bloodlets in Gaza. It controls our weak governments here in the West.  Every old calumny uttered about the Jews — they’re child-killers, blood-spillers, the sneaky puppet masters of earthly affairs — has been revived on the altar of Israelophobia. Those who still say “Hating Israel is not the same as hating Jews” deserve nothing but mockery at this point... Having educated the new generation to hate the West, to be skeptical of the very idea of civilization, we have no right to be surprised that many have fallen under the spell of barbarism."
Jews who do not actively and vigorously identify as anti-Zionist must be assumed to be Zionist, and it's good to attack them. But good luck if you similarly tar Muslims or other "minorities" with collective responsibility. Meanwhile the people who claim to be about "empathy" and "kindness" cheer them on

All charges over convoy who shouted 'rape Jewish daughters' are dropped - "All men arrested for allegedly being part of a convoy of cars that drove through London shouting hate towards Jews on a loudspeaker have had charges dropped.  The Crown Prosecution Service said there was not enough evidence to prosecute any of the four men detained.  Footage of the incident on Finchley Road in north London in March last year went viral, with even then prime minister Boris Johnson condemning the scenes.  The Metropolitan Police announced they had identified the vehicle and four men were arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated public order offences and were released on bail.  But the CPS took the decision not to prosecute two of the men in July with a further decision now made not to prosecute the remaining two suspects.  The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) has condemned the decision to drop charges... The videos showed a convoy of cars covered with Palestinian flags driving through north London, with passengers heard to shout offensive language and threats including ‘F*** the Jews, rape their daughters’... the group’s analysis of Home Office statistics showed that an average of more than five hate crimes are directed at Jews every single day in England and Wales.  He also said that Jews were more than five times likelier to be targets of hate crimes than any other faith group."

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