Israel-Hamas war: feasibility of two-state solution greater now, Joly says
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WATCH: Ami Horowitz Exposes SFSU Students’ Support to Kill Jews - "Filmmaker Ami Horowitz released his latest video on Thursday that shows several students at San Francisco State University (SFSU) expressing support — and even offering money — for killing Jews... Horowitz approaching students on campus and asking them if they want to donate “money for arms and weapons against the Jews” worldwide. “We want to fund operations against soft targets, schools, hospitals, Jewish cafes,” he can be seen saying to students. To another student Horowitz says: “All we have is rockets and suicide bombers, that kind of thing.”... “The rhetoric in demonizing Jews we have seen globally has led to this. Twenty-eight out of 35 people I engaged in conversation with expressed support for what I was doing. And 17 out of 35 — nearly 50% of the people I spoke with — offered me money to kill Jews.”... Horowitz chose to film at SFSU because “it is one of the most progressive schools in America” and has a reputation for being “anti-Israel,” though Horowitz clarified that being anti-Israel doesn’t necessarily mean someone is antisemitic. However, Horowitz contended there is an “overlap” between the two, but he’s not sure how much an overlap there is. He believes that antisemitism on the “hard left” — which Horowitz distinguished as being different from the “center-left,” who he believes would be appalled at the students in the video — is due to “a form of Marxism.” “They look at Jews as the most successful sub-group, and therefore in their paradigm, the only way you could be successful is by stepping on the neck of someone below you,” Horowitz said. “It’s the oppressor-oppressed matrix.”"
Of course, we will be told that these videos are deceptively edited and/or that this is just "anti-Zionism" and/or that this shows that we need to crack down on the "far right" and "white supremacists" who, as we know, make up the vast majority of university campuses in San Francisco
Pro-Palestinians ‘attack’ counter-demonstrator, Canadian flag at Toronto protest - "An Iranian-Canadian activist says violent pro-Palestinian demonstrators dislocated his shoulder and ripped away a flag at a protest in downtown Toronto... Video on social media shows Salman Sima, who has counter-protested at recent pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Toronto, struggling with protesters to keep his “lion and sun” version of the Iranian flag, used by opponents of the Islamic regime of Iran. Goldie Ghamari, an Ontario MPP, said the flag represents “freedom and democracy.” Other video shows a protester attempting to grab a Canadian flag from Sima, who also had an Israeli flag and a sign wishing people a Merry Christmas amid the large crowd of pro-Palestinian demonstrators. “They’re not just attacking other countries. They’re attacking the Canadian flag. On Canadian soil,” Ghamari, an Iranian-Canadian who is a staunch supporter of Israel as it seeks to eliminate Hamas following the Oct.7 attacks, said on the X social media site. The Islamic regime is a key backer of Hamas. “I can’t believe this is happening in Toronto, Canada, in 2023 … This violence has no place in civilized society.”... “Today we stood against the radical jihadist antisemite mob in Toronto. They tried to intimidate us, they grabbed our sign, they attack us, they assaulted us,” said Sima, who said he got the lion and sun flag back. “We hold the line for freedom in Iran, we stood against the antisemitic mob in Toronto and we grab our flag back and hold the line for freedom in Iran. Peace, freedom and love for everyone. And merry Christmas.”"
Clearly, if you don't support the government of Iran, you are not just a Zionist but pro-colonialism and an Islamophobic bigot
If you say these people hate the country they live in, you're racist
Yam Peleg on X - "๐ฎ๐ฑ: Can you stop launching rockets?
๐ต๐ธ: No
๐ฎ๐ฑ: Can you recognize Israel's right to exist?
๐ต๐ธ: No
๐ฎ๐ฑ: Can you prevent terror attacks?
๐ต๐ธ: No
๐ฎ๐ฑ: Ok, we'll defend our citizens.
๐ต๐ธ: Genocide."
Dr. Eli David on X - "Priceless: A pro-Palestinian mob all wearing masks confronts a single pro-Israeli and call him a “coward” ๐คฃ"
The Associated Press on X - "Israel's military campaign in Gaza seen as among the most destructive in history, experts say"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "The Battle of Gettysburg, alone, killed 60,000 men in three days. WW2 was ended by the detonation of multiple sun-bomb nuclear weapons. Just stop it."
Rudolph Troha ๐บ๐ฒ๐ณ️๐ on X - "Israel is held to a different standard than any other country."
Mikael Covey on X - "2,000,000 killed in the Mongol siege of Baghdad. (largest battle-death in history)"
Nianello6 on X - "At least 50,000 men were hacked to death, up close and personal, at the Battle of Cannae in the Second Punic War."
jp811_ on X - "The incendiary bombing of Tokyo was actually worse than the nuclear strikes for that matter. The people who write these headlines think history started in 1991."
Ian Miles Cheong on X - "It’s not great but let’s not whitewash what the US did to Iraq, Serbia, Vietnam, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the past 80 years alone. If we’re talking history, how about the entire history of Mongol and Roman conquests. Baghdad (again, thanks to the Mongols) Carthage comes to mind. Also Constantinople, Jerusalem, Acre and any number of medieval cities. But hey, “experts say.”"
The left are usually very eager to demonise the US, but Israel is their greater hatred so they have an interest in playing down the "US war crimes" they normally are obsessed about
Man accused of assaulting officer at Trudeau-Gaza protest in Vancouver granted bail - "Jakub Jerzy Markiewicz is facing charges of assaulting a peace officer, assaulting a peace officer causing bodily harm and resisting or obstructing a peace officer... A crowd of up to 250 people had descended on the venue calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict, with some protesters entering the bar and confronting the prime minister directly. Vancouver police deployed 100 officers to the scene, and allege one officer was punched and had her eyes gouged... Markiewicz, who identifies himself as a “photo-journalist, wedding photographer, and artist,” did not respond to an email or answer the intercom when Global News attended the Coquitlam housing coop listed as his current address."
A fascist government that supports genocide also attacks the press! No surprise there!
Wilfred Reilly on X - "I blame Hamas, pretty much entirely, for the tragic losses in Gaza. Hamas started the war, illegally entrenched itself among a civilian population, and refuses any surrender. You just clearly can't expect Hamas' military enemy not to fight them because doing so might hurt citizens of an enemy country. That is an objectively insane position."
Jacob Bloom on X - "That expectation actually appears to be part of Hamas's defensive strategy."
(((TANSTAAFL))) on X - "I spend way too much of my day arguing with people who claim exactly that argument. People have a very strange sense of what war is. I'm not sure if their acceptance that human shields should give Hamas immunity is because Hamas has hit on a nerve or if it's just against Israel?"
Cancellation Chronicles on X - "The government of Gaza also refused to allow non-combatants to use its extensive network of bomb shelters. It is difficult to comprehend that level of evil. Starting a war and then refusing to protect one’s own children?"
America First Joe on X - "Amazing how many people do not even comprehend critical war ending events of the last 100 years. Once men can be women other convenient fantasies come to mind."
Couple recounts being harassed by protesters at Yorkdale Mall - "Sarah Brown and her husband decided to have a date night last Friday. Their three-year-old was at the grandparent’s for the night, so the couple planned to go out for dinner and take their 8-week-old to the Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto for a photo with Santa... Brown, who is Jewish, suggested they leave but her husband pushed forward. “They were doing a demonstration of some sort, it wasn’t just a protest,” she said. “I gather they were upset about Zara’s ad campaign and that’s what they were demonstrating.”... As they attempted to navigate the crowd, Brown said they were shouted at and harassed and one protester put a megaphone inches from the stroller. “Imagine 50 people screaming at you, all at once, some with megaphones. All because you continued doing what people come to the mall to do, walk and patronize the mall,” she said. “It was scary. My husband just kept telling them to leave. Go home, get out of here, let us enjoy our time at the mall. Not like that’s going to do anything but that’s just what he kept saying over and over again. I just kind of was making my way through the protest. It was scary. 100 per cent it was scary.”... the protesters can be heard shouting “genocide supporters” and telling the couple they are “disgusting.” “Nobody was confronting them,” said Brown. “Nobody was yelling back. Nobody was walking through. Everyone was just standing, hundreds of people standing around, including the cops and the security.” Brown said that the response from security and police has left the couple concerned. Similar sentiments have been echoed in response to the other recent mall protests. “It was shocking, not so much the protests but the inaction on behalf of security and police. It was literally unbelievable to most people. That is the main reaction we are getting, bewilderment. How was this allowed on private property? How were all the protesters allowed to threaten bystanders and police and cover their faces? How were they able to lock human beings, and families with young children inside a store?” Brown said she has since written a letter to the CEO of Yorkdale and is in the process of filing a complaint with the United Jewish Appeal Federation of Greater Toronto. She said that she included Yorkdale’s code of conduct in her letter and noted that the protest violated those rules. “I reminded them how historically Yorkdale has not been shy about enforcing this code of conduct and that this protest went against not only laws in our country but almost every single facet of their code of conduct,” Brown said. Living just minutes from the mall, the couple became concerned about individuals following them to their vehicle as they made their exit."
CBC blames teleprompter after reporter says Israel started the war - "A CBC X account that is no longer active made its first post in more than seven months to “clarify” that a teleprompter error was to blame for a reporter stating on-air that “Israel started the Hamas war.” Guest host J.P. Tasker made the statement during a recent episode of CBC’s Power & Politics, a weekday show that focuses on national politics... It added that the script read: “‘That’s just the latest protest taking place in Canada, since Israel declared war on Hamas following the October attacks that left 12-hundred dead.’ The error was not intentional.” That response has drawn further ire on X. “If the teleprompter was cut off why is the wording different?” responded the X account that shared the original clip."
Clearly, this shows that we need to shut down X for allowing the "far right" to spread "misinformation", and that CBC Media Bias is a myth
Dumisani Washington on X - "So, pro-#Hamas supporters out in these streets storming private Black events, beating Black people, and calling them n*****. I guess Dr. King and the old-school civil rights leaders really did know what they were doing when they stood with Israel and the Jewish people. Note: Y'all go pull up on the wrong ones in a minute..."
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Manga El: "They are doing much more. I wished that hirer finished them all, but he left some just for the world know why he did I that to them"
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When the mask drops, we see the anti-Semitism and Jew-hatred, as usual
Blinken calls out other countries for not demanding Hamas surrender and ‘stop hiding behind civilians’ - "Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday called out other countries for not demanding Hamas surrender. “What is striking to me is that even as, again, we hear many countries urging the end to this conflict, which we would all like to see, I hear virtually no one saying – demanding of Hamas that it stop hiding behind civilians, that it lay down its arms, that it surrender. This is over tomorrow if Hamas does that. This would have been over a month ago, six weeks ago, if Hamas had done that,” Blinken said during a press briefing at the State Department Wednesday. “How can it be that there are no demands made of the aggressor and only demands made of the victim,” Blinken went on to say."
Muslims have no agency. They cannot control themselves and will always be terrorists. So no demands can be made of them
Palestinians support Hamas decision to go to war with Israel, survey suggests, with no political solution on horizon - "almost three-quarters (72%) of all respondents believe Hamas’s decision to launch its attack on Israel on October 7 was “correct.”... Hamas, unsurprisingly perhaps, finds growing support, especially among West Bank Palestinians. Backing for the militant group as a political party has increased there nearly four-fold (from 12% to 44%) in the three months between September 2023 and December 2023. In besieged Gaza, by contrast, support has remained relatively stable with 38% support in September and 42% in December... people believe the only way to get Israel to end the occupation is by inflicting pain and suffering on Israelis, Palestinians see Hamas as the party most capable of delivering violence effectively, Shikaki says. On the other hand, “if and when you give the Palestinians the option of negotiating a permanent end to Israeli occupation and the creation of a Palestinian state … support for Hamas will probably decline to below where it was before the war,” he says."
We keep being told that ordinary Palestinians don't support terrorism
Given that the Palestinians keep saying no to any offer they get, they're going to be supporting terrorism for a long time
Hamas thanks Canada for backing ceasefire in Gaza: 'We welcome these developments' - "“ Despite the United States’ position, the Hamas movement is watching the growing cause by several Western governments to end the aggression on Gaza,” he said in the five-minute video... In the video, consisting of Hamad standing in front of a still image of the Al Aqsa Mosque, he described Israel’s attempt to eliminate Hamas from Gaza as a “genocide.”... Just weeks after that attack, Hamad told Lebanese TV news that Oct. 7 attacks would be repeated until Israel was destroyed... He said that Hamas “must teach Israel a lesson,” and said that everyday Palestinians are willing to “pay the price.”"
All the terrorism supporters are naive, duplicitous or both
Weird how terrorism supporters claim history didn't start on October 7th. But of course now, history started on October 8th, which is why Israel is the "aggressor"
Destroying a terrorist organisation is "genocide" - this explains why terrorism supporters keep using that term
Foreign Affairs Minister evades funding question in ceasefire debate - "Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister evaded a question from The Globe and Mail reporter on Tuesday about why the government’s position on a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas War has changed. The exchange took place in the foyer at the House of Commons after a brief statement by the Minister. Political reporter Marieke Walsh asked: “Is the only reason why you’re calling for a ceasefire because you’re losing Muslim support and donors in Canada? What is the change on the ground in Israel that changes your government’s position so dramatically from a week ago?”"
Jewish PSAC members concerned over union's increased Israel activism - "It took weeks for Fred Hahn, Ontario president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE,) to walk back comments he made on social media shortly after the Oct. 7 attacks, celebrating Palestinian “resistance.” Canadian Association of Professional Employees president Camille Awada— another union representing public servants — stepped down last month after media reports uncovered antisemitic social media posts dating as far back as 2018. “The European Zionists are the true Aryan race. They look down at the world as if we are cattle,” Awada posted on Facebook in 2019, according to reports published in Le Droit. “Israel is the illegitimate Zionist terrorist apartheid state that is the root of all evil!”... “What is most troubling to me is not that PSAC doesn’t support Israel, but that it shows absolutely no compassion for its own Jewish members, many of whom have been deeply affected by what happened on Oct. 7 and the resulting rise in antisemitism,” said another Jewish member named Sarah, also not her real name. “There has been zero acknowledgement that we feel unsafe in our communities, and zero indication that our union is doing anything to protect us or advocate for our safety in the workplace.” A member of the Jewish Public Servants Network, Sarah spoke of anti-racism training seminars that Jewish members were concerned contained antisemitic material, and the indifferent response from officials when a colleague tried to complain. “He brought his concerns to PSAC and was told that they would not review the course materials, and were satisfied with the materials as they currently were,” she said. “In the current atmosphere, anyone who questions PSAC’s stance will be vilified and smeared.”... The fact PSAC members were hesitant to publicly denounce their union speaks to the severity of the problem, Marceau said."
Too bad "safety" is only important when it's the left pushing their agenda. Time to raise awareness of "Islamophobia"
Ottawa's Gaza donor aid included charities with terror links: report - "In the case of World Vision, NGO Monitor highlighted the conviction last year in Israel of the charity’s former program manager, Mohammad El-Halabi, for diverting US$48 million of donations to Hamas... a 2020 statement by the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism noted IRW leaders were spreading antisemitism and raised concerns about IRW’s charitable status... The NGO Monitor allegations against Save the Children rely on its links to sponsoring a 2018 teacher-training workshop at Dar al Huda kindergarten in Gaza. The kindergarten was later exposed for holding “graduation” ceremonies for children that included simulating attacks against Israelis."
Meme - "SO YOU WANT A "CEASEFIRE NOW" ... BUT NOT "HAMAS, FREE THE HOSTAGES YOU STOLE AFTER ALL THE KILLING AND RAPING" NOW?"
Lucas Lynch - "Twitter/X, which was a bad investment before Musk, and is now going into the toilet under Musk, is holding true to its principles, and it’s interesting what it is being punished for. Yes, musk has absolutely amplified some despicable right wing viewpoints. But the worst right wing viewpoint he has amplified doesn’t even come *close* to the insane cesspool of pizzagate-level leftist Jew hatred now everywhere on the site. You want any insane theory from supposedly respectable leftists justifying the Hamas serial rapists and baby butchers of October 7? It’s on offer in massive numbers, totally unrestricted. Don’t forget, none of these insane claims are what motivated Apple to withdraw its advertising. Again, feel free to condemn Musk’s amplification of “Jews will not replace us” right wing immigration tropes, by all means. None of that even comes close to all of the creative theories justifying barbarians rape women 15 times before shooting them in the head while still inside them - many of those women liberal peacenik kibitzim that would have been joining the picket lines in favor of Palestine. We live in a sick world with people operating on an insane moral operating system. It’s no mystery now. How people could have allowed the holocaust to happen. These otherwise respectable people, saying insane things, would gladly allow it to happen again today."
The Right to Intimidate - The Atlantic - "On university campuses and in many other places, anti-Semitic speech regularly crosses the line into threats, intimidation, and outright violence against Jews. University rules and local laws are intentionally violated because everybody knows that the rules and laws are selectively enforced... we have heard many stories of threats to pro-Palestinian free speech in the United States... Yet take a closer look, and something else is usually going on. Complaints that pro-Palestine speech has been curtailed again and again turn out to involve violations of norms, rules, and laws that have nothing to do with speech as liberal-minded people would define it. In New York City last week, pro-Palestine demonstrators attempted to disrupt the lighting of the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center. For fear of a repeat of such attacks, yesterday the state of California announced that its tree-lighting ceremony would no longer take place in person, and would be a virtual event. Rhetoric drawn from the Jefferson-Mill tradition is now being used to defend behavior that is meant to intimidate or harm. Important elements of our society have shifted from their former claim that speech can be violence to a bold assertion that violence should count as speech. A few days ago, Canada’s York University—the country’s second-largest college—suspended three academics who had been criminally charged for their anti-Israel activism. “You should consider defending speech as opposed to the Orwellian Toronto Police on this matter,” the Toronto-born writer Naomi Klein tweeted. What was this “speech” that Klein referred to? The three arrested academics had splashed red paint over the entrance of a downtown bookstore, then pasted posters all over the store’s windows bearing an (invented) anti-Palestinian quote they (falsely) attributed to the store’s owner, a prominent Jewish businesswoman. Rifle through the news accounts of the past few years and you find dozens, if not hundreds, of similar cases of vandalism, bodily interference, even outright assault as forms of anti-Israel expression. Only this week, the Biden White House and the governor of Pennsylvania issued statements condemning the mob action against a falafel restaurant in Philadelphia owned by an award-winning Israeli-born chef and entrepreneur. But such menacing behavior has become the preferred style of anti-Israel expression in the United States and Canada. Pro-Palestine advocates have built barriers to block people’s way as they tried to walk across a college campus or drive to work. They have padlocked doors to a university building to prevent students from taking a midterm exam. They have assembled slogan-chanting crowds outside businesses owned by Jews to frighten customers away. They have confronted and harassed shoppers in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood. They have defaced synagogues and damaged libraries named for Jewish donors. They have set off smoke bombs and thrown paint at the home of the head of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. In October, anti-Israel protesters at Harvard mobbed a student who tried to film them with his phone—something he was entitled to do at a public event. The protesters allegedly jostled and grabbed at him in an effort to prevent him from recording the encounter. On November 10, Columbia University suspended the local chapters of two pro-Palestine groups after both violated university rules and went ahead, despite warnings, with an event that involved “threatening rhetoric and intimidation.” In the worst cases, activists have escalated street demonstrations into physical fights that have left some Jews injured, in one case with a broken nose, and led to one violent death when a pro-Palestine protester struck a Jewish man in the face with a megaphone, knocking him to the ground so that his head hit the curb. As the sheer number and variety of these acts confirm, these are not occasional and unfortunate aberrations. In the words of a student activist at William & Mary in 2018: “By breaking down the notion of respectability, the Palestinians can and should demand that their oppression be taken seriously.” In 2021, the Palestinian American writer Steve Salaita mocked those who “speak of rights and democracy and civil liberties and then superimpose those categories onto Palestine. It doesn’t occur to them that Palestine has its own vocabularies of freedom worth forcing into the American conversation.”... At a New York City high school last month, students rioted against a teacher who had posted on social media about her attendance at a pro-Israel rally. Two dozen New York police and the city’s counterterrorism unit had to be called to protect the teacher and restore order at the school... The denial of speech rights to those who think incorrectly is not a marginal idea in American life. It commands wide support from some of the most celebrated American thinkers of our day. Ibram X. Kendi, for example, published an article in 2015 defending students at Wesleyan and Brown who had tried to shut down their campus newspapers for publishing opinions to which those students objected: in one case a defense of Columbus Day, in the other a critique of the Black Lives Matter movement... Endorsing 2021 demands that Netflix sever its ties with the comedian Dave Chappelle, GLAAD urged “accountability when content causes harm.”... Arguably, this way of thinking reached its culmination in the summer of 2020, when The New York Times allowed angry staffers to force the resignation of the editorial-page editor, James Bennet (a former editor of The Atlantic), for the offense of publishing an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton... According to this new code, rights vary according to the status of the rights-bearer... in 2021, MIT imposed a significant penalty on an academic who had broken no rule. In 2023, MIT waived the penalty for students who broke an important rule... In the 2010s, those progressives who urged universities to suppress unwanted ideas hoped that they could leverage their power within institutions of learning, communications, and culture to remake the rest of society. They scored considerable successes. But there was always something artificial about their project. The norms they sought to enforce were usually not shared... the revulsion against Hamas’s atrocities represents a genuine majority feeling in American society. Americans do not like terrorism, and they do not like excuses for terrorism. They do not like the heartless behavior and symbolic violence that is typically joined to the excuse-making. And so, anti-Israel activists who ripped down posters of abducted children found themselves named, shamed, and in some cases fired
This is just a particular case of left wing double standards, where speech the left disapproves of is hate speech and violence, but violence the left approves of is speech and suppressing it is violating their right to free speech. Speech is violence and silence is violence, but violence is speech
