Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine students clash during ASU student government meeting - "A student government meeting at Arizona State University on Nov. 14 started with a clash between Israeli and Palestine supporters, and ended with police escorts home for the students... the item was never discussed, with the meeting called to end early after those in attendance heard rocks hitting the windows."
Weird how the violent attackers were not arrested
Send Mounties to investigate Hamas rapes, Canadian women leaders urge - "Canada should immediately send RCMP officers to Israel to assist in investigating the sexual violence committed on Israeli women by Hamas terrorists in the Oct. 7 attacks, according to a cross-partisan group of senior Canadian women politicians... “The next time a prominent man is accused, and you say “believe all women” or “me too,” you will not be believed, and future victims of sexual assault will be re-traumatized,” Wynne said. “It is incumbent on all of us to shine a light on these crimes against humanity, so that they never again happen to anyone.”"
Canada will support 'accountability system' to investigate Israeli military conduct, says Joly - "Canada eventually will support an "accountability system" to investigate Israel's military conduct during its war against Hamas, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said"
Despite the photo of multiple women holding "believe all women" signs, we will still be told that no one ever said "believe all women"
Of course, Joly credulously accepted Hamas figures on deaths
David Bernstein on X - "Telling that almost none of the people who were outraged that so many Gazans lived in poverty ever expressed outrage that Hamas stole aid money and goods and had enough of it to not only make tens of thousands of missiles and acquire various other weaponry, but to build a tunnel system that seems to rival some major cities' subway tunnels, minus the trains. It's almost as if they don't really care about the well-being of Palestinians, just fomenting hatred of Israel."
Tellingly, in the comments people were supporting this. Amazingly, one even drew a parallel to the siege of Leningrad
Libs of TikTok on X - "Pro-Palestine protesters threaten to k*ll people during a protest at a mall in Toronto. Police stand by and do nothing."
John Robson: Canadian police enabling antisemitic hate — someone's going to get killed - "Someone is going to get killed. It’s what happens when you abandon the rule of law. And as increasingly aggressive, openly antisemitic protests roil our cities, we now have video footage of a masked menace telling someone “I’ll put you six feet deep” in front of police officers who, after long sociological cogitation, declared it totally cool. And the “such things have no place in Canada” crowd seem to agree. The Toronto Police Association put out a belated mealy-mouthed excuse for a statement including “The victim chose not to pursue the matter.” As was immediately pointed out, it’s not up to the victim to determine whether charges are laid in serious matters... Back when the Emergencies Act was invoked many of us warned it set a terrible precedent. And not primarily of heavy-handed crushing of protest. In a country where public order is protected lightly and reluctantly, or for that matter sternly and quickly or even sternly but belatedly, you still have the rule of law. The big danger was we’d get one set of rules for people and causes the state likes, and another for ones it doesn’t. As we asked in real time, what happens next time an environmental, Aboriginal or other progressive protest blocks infrastructure, disrupts traffic or makes noise? We didn’t foresee “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” But otherwise exactly what we feared has happened. Remember, after the Keystone Kops failed to enforce parking and nuisance laws with existing powers, the feds declared Canada’s version of martial law and crushed the “Freedom Convoy” with riot cops on horseback, imported officers in old-style military green, and pepper spray. Even though no violence was committed or threatened, no weapons were found, and the protesters loved Canada and its traditional liberties even if they were sometimes addled and annoying. COVID-restriction protesters also found the police remarkably quick to strike hard. And like Tamara Lich, many were then subjected to classic “process as punishment” legal proceedings that drag on for years and leave you exhausted and bankrupt even if you win. Well, now what? Pro-Hamas protests have been permitted to block traffic, close stores and frighten patrons and owners, and vandalize property. And now we have explicit death threats in front of inert useless cops... People like our prime minister don’t think in terms of precedents and incentives because they are convinced their sublime moral excellence lets them cut through small-minded procedures and dispense true justice provided they’re not tied down by petty concerns like the “rule of law”. As Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin once burbled, “My job is simply to listen to what the parties have to say, and to do my best to understand the position, the ramifications of deciding one way or the other, to think about what’s best for Canadian society on this particular problem that’s before us.” Not about what the law says, or precedent, or those silly old individual rights. “What’s best for Canadian society on this particular problem.” Judges are social engineers, and police are sociologists with sidearms. Death to Jews. Sorry. Don’t know how that got in there. But it did. Especially given the recent arrest of a “minor” in Ottawa for “terrorism- and explosive-related charges targeting Jewish people.” In a classic touch, the National Post reported, “The youth’s father told Global News that he had warned his son to stay clear of extremists and had sent him to consult with an imam.” Those wacky kids, right? But where do they get these ideas? Oh. “The outlet also reported that a Facebook page that appeared to belong to the suspect’s father contained several derogatory posts about Jews and Zionists in Arabic, including one that called to get rid of all Israelis.” And did anyone check the imam’s feed? Or would that be “Islamophobic” like, say, prosecuting someone for proud public death threats? Don’t ask our deputy prime minister, who tweeted Monday, “Today, I spent some time listening to Muslim community leaders from the Toronto Islamic Centre in #UniRose. The rise in Islamophobic hate crimes has left many Muslim Canadians feeling unsafe. It is unacceptable. Islamophobia has no place in Canada — or anywhere.” As for bomb plots against Jews or public death threats, well um uh see you have to contextualize it like an Ivy League university president steeped in critical race theory. Occupation colonizer resistance to oppression blah blah blah. Someone is going to get killed."
Ottawa business owner pleads for 'understanding' following fundraiser controversy - "Nasr Nasr, owner of Juice Dudez, says he and his business have become the target of online hate since a Dec. 8 fundraising event that featured an appearance by the mayor."
Weird how Israel-supporters are not boycotting anyone who doesn't endorse their cause. Clearly it shows that they lack righteous anger to hate everyone else, so they must be on the wrong side
Jack Mintz: Calgary’s tone-deaf mayor stumbles again - "The terrible nature of any war is that civilians are killed and wounded. The key is to minimize the harm as much as possible, which can be done by evacuation or by armies separating themselves from civilian populations, which Hamas refuses to do. Would the mayor have supported the 2017 allied bombing of Mosul, Iraq, to eradicate ISIL, even though it led to civilian deaths estimated at anywhere from 9,000 (Associated Press) to 40,000 (The Independent)? It was a tough decision, but the allies rooted out ISIL to provide security in years to come."
Russ Roberts on X - "I watched two minutes. Yes, there are horrible things happening in Gaza. But this is not journalism. This is controlled by Hamas and censored by Hamas. It's a propaganda piece masquerading as journalism. I stopped listening when she said "the UN estimates that 2/3 of those killed in this round of the conflict are women and children." The UN does not make those estimates. They repeat what they are told from the Gazan Health Ministry which is run by Hamas. There is no reason to believe these estimates but she cannot say that or the piece would not air. (And yes, Israel also censors journalists in combat zones.)"
EXCLUSIVE: Former WA council candidate arrested, charged with assault of parent during school drop-off - "Ubax Gardheere, a former candidate for King County Council in Washington state who threatened to blow up a school bus filled with children, was recently arrested for assaulting a parent who was picking up his kids at a local school while yelling “Black Lives Matter” and “Free Palestine.” Bellevue Police were called to Tillicum Middle School after parents reported a tall female wearing a hijab causing a disturbance in the drop-off area. There were no officers on campus because the Bellevue School Board banned them as part of the "defund the police" movement... Gardheere’s uncle Yusuf Mohammed explained that she is bipolar and has not been taking her medications. He told officers that the day before she was taken to urgent care and had a similar “agitated incident.”... She was seen on the internal bus camera screaming at the kids about how she could have a bomb or a gun and they wouldn’t know. As the children fled the bus through the emergency exits, Gardheere can be heard screaming after them that they were cowards and that she was “prepared to die.” Responding officers arrested her... Even after the story went viral from footage obtained by the Post Millennial, local progressive elected officials still endorsed Gardheere including Democrat State Senator Rebecca Saldana, former Seattle City Council Member and activist Mike O'Brien and socialist Seattle City Council Member Tammy Morales, who advocated for looting during 2020's unrest. Morales, even after the original story regarding Ghardeere went viral, still endorsed the candidate, as did another local progressive Varisha Khan of the Redmond City Council. Gardheere also received support from left-wing organizations such as the local SEIU and ironically, the Transit Rider’s Union, a radical public transportation activist group, that has a bus in its logo. She also received a large amount of campaign contributions from outside her district from the district of Rep Ilhan Omar (D-MN) as well as the area’s Democrat party and local Democratic officials. In May 2021, Gardheere posted a video from an event that was held in Seattle which she appears to have attended, lamenting the failure of the attempted genocide of Jews in the Middle East. After the bus story went viral during the campaign, Gardheere blamed the incident on mental health problems from post-partum depression in interviews with local outlets. At the time, the Somalian immigrant was the Equitable Development Division Director in the City of Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development earning over $130,000 a year calling herself a "bureactivist inside government." In the position, she co-wrote a letter that referred to ultra-progressive then Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan as a "dictator" stating, "We're done being women of color bearing a disproportionate emotional labor burden in our civilization's collective reckoning with our mid-life (or is it end-of-life?) crisis. We can tell you more about all of these things, in due time. For now, we're taking some time off to reclaim our mental health.” She claimed, "Our current economic system requires hierarchy, oppression, and extraction to operate and maintain itself. It divides people according to race, class, ableism, and gender, and often treats Black Indigenous People Of Color (BIPOC) people, people who identify as LGBTQ+, poor people, immigrants/refugees, undocumented immigrants and refugees, people living with disabilities, and the natural environment as expendable resources." Gardeere also advocated for the radical Green New Deal claiming "Climate change and growing inequality are among the greatest threats to our nation and County.""
If she keeps going off her meds and menacing people, she should be institutionalised to protect others
Bill Ackman on X - "Now I am a white supremacist apparently. Am I also antisemitic because I suggested that @MIT ’s Kornbluth should resign or be fired? Am I anti-Christian because I said @Penn ’s Magill should be fired? Why must one be deemed a racist or white supremacist when one raises legitimate criticisms about a leader who comes from a minority community?"
Dr Jordan B Peterson on X - "In the the postmodern meta-Marxist world, everyone is either victim or victimizer: @BillAckman Guess which one you are And everyone in the modern world should ask themselves the same question Particularly those who regard themselves as victims: What makes you so sure you won't be suddenly put on the other side of the moral divide? Because you will be At the drop of the God-damned hat"
LBC News on X - "The Met Police says there has been a 650% increase in reports of anti-Semitism over the last two weeks compared to the same period last year."
From October 13. Of course, they knew that Israel was going to counter-attack and commit "genocide", which is why the "peaceful protesters" were anti-Semitic anti-Zionist to prepare
Oakland cafe apologizes after workers make anti-Israel remarks, block woman from restroom - "An Oakland coffee shop is apologizing for an incident after hate-speech graffiti was found in a restroom and how staffers handled a customer who tried to document it. Last week, a woman recorded employees of Farley's East coffee shop blocking her access to the bathroom, while making anti-Israel comments... Eventually the woman is let in, and she records images -- including the message "Zionism is fascism" written below a bathroom mirror. The staffers also appear to dismiss the woman's concerns and say, "Free Palestine" as she leaves."
Update: Oakland cafe workers say owner knew about anti-Semitic graffiti - "According to the statement issued by a group of former and current baristas at Farley's East, six workers are no longer working at the location after video of the confrontation with the customer was widely shared on social media. Three of the workers involved in the confrontation were fired and an additional three employees quit following the incident, the statement said. It also attributed the firings and subsequent resignations to "the unwillingness and refusal of both Farley's East owners' (Chris and Amy Hillyard) to protect their longtime staff after a right wing doxxing campaign targeted our fellow coworkers with violence and hatred."... The workers additionally accused the coffee shop owners of releasing false statements that justified "the harassment of the staff in the video and places the blame entirely on staff members."... The coffee shop owners last week released a statement saying in part, "Though all employees are entitled to hold differing viewpoints, they are not entitled to express themselves on the job in ways that are disrespectful and hurtful to anyone.""
If you don't let staff harass customers and impose political views on them, or worse, you criticise these staff, you're on the far right
Oakland's Lake Merritt menorah destroyed, vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti - "Representatives with the San Francisco Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SFBA) also issued a statement condemning the vandalism. "We are profoundly saddened and outraged by the vandalism of the Lake Merritt menorah. Such an act is not only an attack on the Jewish community but an affront to all who stand for religious freedom. "The incident is indicative of a broader pattern of religiously motivated hate crimes. The rise in incidents targeting both the Jewish and Muslim communities calls for a collective response against all forms of bigotry. We stand in solidarity with our Jewish neighbors against anti-Semitism, just as we fight against Islamophobia. Hatred against one community is a threat to all." Oakland has been a flash point for controversy regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict ever since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel... There has also been outrage over last week's teach-in held by some members of the Oakland Educators Association that focused on Palestinian resistance and liberation... the Oakland City Council passed a resolution calling for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza after hours of fiery public comment. But unlike Richmond's inflammatory resolution in October that pointed the finger at Israel, accusing it of an "ethnic cleansing campaign," Oakland's statement recognizes the losses on both sides without really taking a side."
Weird. I thought "All Lives Matter" was wrong
Imam of Peace on X - "It is very concerning that Antisemitism and genocidal calls against Jewish people are only deemed condemnable by governmental and religious figures if it is coupled with a denunciation of Islamophobia. Such conditional condemnations appear as mere political maneuvers, coated with empty lip-service. The Antisemitism we are witnessing today is clear advocacy for another Holocaust, where all Jews are being targeted. While acknowledging the existence of daily attacks against Muslims, the comparison fails, as there is no movement seeking the erasure of 1.8 billion Muslims from planet Earth. Insisting on condemning Antisemitism only if Islamophobia is condemned is dangerous because Islamophobia doesn’t come from Jewish people, and Antisemitism is of many flavours. Islam is not at war with Judaism; instead, both Jews and Muslims confront the threat posed by Islamist terrorists. Each struggle is unique, and imposing conditions on condemnation diminishes the struggles faced by innocent victims from different communities. You cannot compare a genocide, to an attack on a Mosque. When was the last time you heard of an interfaith event to condemn Anti-Black Racism… on the condition that Anti-Asian Racism is also condemned. These are two different struggles, and Asians in America did not live the painful history of African Americans or the slave trade. It would be an insult to the entire Black American population. To truly combat bigotry, we must unequivocally condemn each form without diluting their significance through false comparisons and misleading headlines. If you condemn Antisemitism, then condemn Antisemitism. Thank you and God Bless."
Harvard Grad Union Endorses BDS and Calls for Ceasefire, Drawing Member Criticism - "“It doesn’t make any sense to me, it doesn’t make sense to anyone at least that I’ve spoken to why we would condemn one but not the other,” Ne’eman said of Islamophobia and antisemitism, respectively."
Of course, if you had a resolution condemning Islamophobia, trying to add a condemnation of anti-Semitism to it would be condemned as whataboutism and derailing, because of the Progressive Stack
Disingenuous for protesters to call for ceasefire Hamas doesn't want - "Hamas was supposed to hand over a list of hostages it intended to set free by 7 a.m. But an hour before the deadline, Hamas sent several volleys of rockets over the border. And instead of handing over the list when the clock struck 7, even more rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip. Still, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) held off on resuming its military campaign, hoping that a last-minute deal could be reached. It never was, because that’s not what Hamas wanted... it’s very possible that Hamas didn’t want to set the last of them free because it doesn’t want their stories of rape and torture at the hands of their captors to go public at a time when there’s a concerted effort within some sections of the international women’s movement to deny Hamas’s sexual crimes. (Those who were released were reportedly drugged to make them look happier for the cameras, no doubt to give ammunition to Hamas’s useful idiots in the West who deny the terror group’s atrocities.)... Of course, this is not the first time Hamas has broken a ceasefire with Israel. It should be remembered that Israel ended its occupation of Gaza in 2005, and a ceasefire was in place from the end of the last Israel-Hamas war in May 2021, right until Oct. 7, 2023, when thousands of terrorists streamed across the border, indiscriminately shooting civilians in the streets, burning homes to the ground, turning a music festival into a killing field and violently raping young women. These are not the actions of a group that wants to make peace or is simply struggling for a free Palestinian state, as some people here at home would like us to believe. Quite the opposite, in fact. Oct. 7 was the culmination of an internal struggle within Hamas over whether it’s fundamentally a governing body or a terrorist organization intent on destroying the State of Israel. Ultimately, that identity crisis was settled by Yahya Sinwar, an OG Hamas member who spent two decades in Israeli prison for butchering four Palestinians he suspected of collaborating with Israel and was released in 2011 as part of the prisoner swap for IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. Sinwar took control of the terror group in 2017, vowing to get more Palestinian terrorists released through similar means. But he bided his time, twice refraining from entering into conflicts with Israel alongside Palestinian Islamic Jihad, while negotiating deals to get more aid into the territory and increase the number of work permits issued to Gazans. But this was merely a feint intended to setup a knockout blow. All the while, Hamas’s leadership was working on a plan that would “change the entire equation,” as Khalil al-Hayya, a senior Hamas official, told the New York Times. They were angry that the Palestinian Authority was seen to be working toward a two-state solution, which was regarded as a betrayal by the genocidal Hamas, and that Arab countries were increasingly normalizing relations with the Jewish state, pushing the Palestinian question onto the back burner. Negotiating for aid and economic opportunity was merely intended to trick Israel into assuming Hamas was interested in providing a government to serve its people, thus lulling Israelis into a false sense of security, bringing in money to fund Hamas’s terrorist operation and providing it with a network of spies disguised as labourers. In reality, “Hamas’s goal is not to run Gaza and to bring it water and electricity and such,” said al-Hayya. “This battle … did not seek to improve the situation in Gaza. This battle is to completely overthrow the situation.” Indeed, Israel’s full-scale assault on the territory was not an unintended consequence. “We knew there was going to be a violent reaction,” Hamas official Basem Naim told the Washington Post. That was the entire point. Hamas knew it would “pay a price” for its actions and was “ready to pay it,” said Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas leader, in a television interview. “We are called a nation of martyrs, and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs.” The goal was to spark a war that would engulf the entire region and once again unite the Arab armies against the Jewish state. As Hamas spokesman Taher El-Nounou put it, “I hope that the state of war with Israel will become permanent on all the borders, and that the Arab world will stand with us.” And Hamas has repeatedly vowed not to end its attacks until it has achieved its aim of driving all the Jews into the sea... Either the protesters in Ottawa and other cities are wilfully ignorant of what the people they are supporting are actually saying they want, or the pro-Palestinian movement has exposed the fundamental lie at the heart of its message: it doesn’t want a ceasefire; it wants the Palestinians to be able to slaughter Jews with impunity, and doesn’t want the Jews to fight back."
Damn Israel! Why would they force Hamas to do this by existing?
At least 10 freed hostages were sexually abused in Hamas captivity, doctor says - "At least 10 of the Israeli civilians released by Hamas, both men and women, were sexually assaulted or abused while in captivity, the Associated Press reported... a doctor who treated some of the 110 hostages released from captivity told the AP that at least 10 men and women among those freed were sexually assaulted or abused... The doctor’s comments corroborated similar accounts shared at a meeting on Tuesday. The meeting, held between the Israeli war cabinet and a group comprising recently freed hostages and family members of those still held in Gaza, featured firsthand testimonies from some of the released captives. These individuals detailed their experiences of sexual abuse during their captivity, participants said... US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller suggested on Monday that Hamas is holding onto the hostages because it does not want them to testify about the sexual abuse they experienced in captivity... Accounts given to The Associated Press, along with first assessments by an Israeli rights group, show that sexual assault was part of the atrocities-filled rampage by Hamas and other Gaza terrorists who killed about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, on October 7 and took more than 240 hostages... The group Physicians for Human Rights Israel, which has a record of advocating for Palestinian civilians in Gaza suffering under Israel’s longtime blockade of the territory, published an initial assessment in November. “What we know for sure is that it was more than just one case and it was widespread, in that this happened in more than one location and more than a handful of times,” Hadas Ziv, policy and ethics director for the organization, said Tuesday. “What we don’t know and what the police are investigating is whether it was ordered to be done and whether it was systematic.”... A combat medic told the AP that he came across half a dozen bodies of women and men with possible signs of sexual assault when he reached one of the attacked communities. One girl had been shot in the head and was lying on the floor, her legs open and pants pulled down, with what looked like semen on her lower back"
Clearly the doctor, hostages and eyewitnesses were forced to lie by the Israeli government!
Meme - "Notes suggesting context to be shown with the post
Shani Louk has not been "found dead". A skull bone fragment of hers was found and as such they have concluded from this that she is dead"
Talk about pedantry
Meme - Jest Heer @Heereet: "The majority of the American ruling class, indeed a majority of the ruling class in the West, supports this. *Topless Hamas prisoners, stripped so they don't hide suicide vests*"
Wilfred Reilly @wil_da _beast630: "I do indeed support killing, capturing, and detaining Hamas terrorists - like those responsible for the massacres and mass rapes of O7. You should quite seriously consider what has led you to the point where you don't."
Botted ShitLib Account @CitedNeed: "Taking prisoners alive? I hope so"
Shots fired at another Jewish school in Montreal amid tensions over Israel-Hamas war - "A Jewish school in Montreal was hit by gunfire, according to local media, marking the Canadian city’s third such attack in less than a week amid heightened tensions over the conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas."
If you condemn this, you are anti-free speech and oppressing pro-Palestinian activists
Israeli folk dance class part of efforts to 'promote racial harmony', say grassroot organisations amid online controversy - "An Israeli folk dance class that has been offered on the People’s Association (PA) online portal since 2022 is part of efforts to “promote racial harmony and social cohesion”, said the two grassroot organisations on Tuesday (Dec 19) amid an online debate about why there is a need for such a class. The OnePA website, which is meant to allow users to make bookings for PA’s courses and activities, originally displayed a listing of the Israeli Folk and Recreational Dance class, but the activity has since been removed. This came after Instagram user "sgpforpalestine48" posted earlier this week an image of a poster advertising the class on a notice board that was supposedly put up in Pasir Ris. Another image was a screenshot of the OnePA website, showing that there would be a class on Jan 18 at the Kampong Glam Community Club. The user, who frequently published pro-Palestinian posts about the Israel-Hamas war on the Instagram account, stated in the post’s caption that Singapore should not be promoting such a dance during the ongoing conflict."
When racial harmony and social cohesion are bad, it's quite clear what the motivation of the haters is. Of course, this is just "anti-Zionism"
