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Saturday, June 29, 2024

Links - 29th June 2024 (2 - Hamas Attack Oct 2023)

Should governments legislate 'bubble zones' around places of worship? Some say yes - "the Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council called for city council to undertake more consultation with the Muslim and Arab communities, saying establishing a 100-metre buffer zone around places like schools and places of worship needs to allow for what the Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects as peaceful assembly. The letter also raised concern about the zone capturing other activities and questioned what enforcement could look like, underscoring it should be "proportional and non-discriminatory." "Proceeding with the law as is in the current context of the war on Gaza will only be perceived as an attempt to limit freedom of speech and silence pro-Palestinian voices," it wrote"
Of course, if you protest outside a mosque, that is Islamophobic hate speech and you need to be arrested

LILLEY: Canadian Jews have to take unreal steps to feel safe, that's wrong - "Imagine having to corral a dozen or more cops to hold a news conference in public on a busy Toronto street – or having to ensure that police and private security are at every single community event you hold. That’s the reality for Toronto’s Jewish community. It was like this, to a degree, before Oct. 7, but it has only increased since then. I’m not sure people who aren’t Jewish can understand the lengths their fellow citizens need to go to in order to feel safe these days. As a non-Jew who has been to several events, synagogues and community meetings over the last several months, it’s quite shocking. A point I keep making is that I’ve been going to Mass at Catholic churches across the country my entire life, I’ve never seen a cop at Mass unless they were attending. Most Canadians don’t see cops in their places of worship, but for Canada’s Jews it’s now standard – people don’t think about it but they should... The news conference was just over a week after a Jewish girl’s school in the north end of Toronto had several bullets shot into it. There have been multiple synagogues attacked, Jewish businesses attacked and that is on top of the attacks on individuals ranging from young students to senior citizens."

Forever the victim: Even if Hamas is defeated, Palestinians will blame external powers - comment - "The anti-Israel response to the IDF rescue of four hostages on Saturday suggests that haters of Israel will learn nothing from the eventual defeat of Hamas in Gaza. It seems they will engage in conspiracy theories and victimhood narratives rather than advocating for peace with the Jewish State. The end goal for anti-Israel factions has long been the abolition of the Israeli state and the establishment of a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea.” Despite the failure of Arab legions to destroy Israel over the past 75 years, mainstream anti-Israel contingents have never faltered from this ultimate goal, be it expressed through the veneer of a demand for a Palestinian right of return or the framing of complete “decolonization.” While protesters post-October 7 have called for an immediate “permanent ceasefire” in Gaza, they do not use the word peace, explaining through common chants that there is “no peace on stolen land,” and “we don’t want two-state, we want 48.” The unfettered pursuit of Israel’s elimination is informed by intricate conspiracy theories to explain the failure of the tired armed approach. Usually, anti-Israel activists blame outside powers for interfering in wars and conflicts. Thus, if Israel hadn’t been helped by Britain, the French, or the Americans, surely Israel would have been defeated in all the previous wars. Each time, victory had been within reach, yet stolen away. These theories about how Palestinians and Arab actors were cheated out of victory are coupled with narratives of victimhood to not only explain yet another defeat, but to justify the righteous fury that fuels the desire for nothing less than maximal demands. Poor, unorganized, Arabs who welcomed Jews as guests were unable to defend themselves against proto-Israelis armed by the British. In 1967, Israelis only won the Six-Day War because they were flying French jets and caught Egypt by surprise. THE CAPTURE of Israelis as hostages has represented one of the greatest victories of the anti-Israel movement in years. Yet, an Israeli military success in the rescue of four hostages cannot be explained or accepted in the framework of a pending Hamas victory. According to the anti-Israel narrative, the IDF is composed of poorly trained killers who are only good at shooting unarmed children. Once again, the only explanation for Hamas’s failure is foreign intervention. Soon after the rescue of Shlomi Ziv, Andrey Kozlov, Almog Meir Jan, and Noa Argamani, Palestinian and anti-Israel pundits began to spread the theory not only that US special forces had aided in the operation, but the American humanitarian pier was used as a launching pad for the military forces. Once again, Western actors have deceived Arab peoples, this time by promising aid deliveries through the floating pier, only to use it to steal their prizes. THE UNFAIRNESS of this underhanded move is reinforced by claims that the IDF and US special forces conducted a massacre, slaughtering more than 270 Gazans and injuring 400 more – which is supposed to be taken as fact despite the refutation of other such massacres. The IDF’s brutal success not only took the lives of dozens of Palestinians, but, according to Hamas, more hostages were supposedly killed in the operation than rescued. To further cement the unfairness and victim narrative, anti-Israel activists claimed that the hostages were IDF soldiers, terrorists, and Nazis, making them legitimate prisoners of war. Anti-Israel actors like UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese, who had referenced the involvement of foreign troops, sowed a story in which Israel in its unfairness could have played according to Hamas’s rules and secured the freedom of more hostages through a ceasefire deal – but preferred to engage in mass murder instead... In 2023 and 2024 anti-Israel activists believed that victory against Israel had never been closer. In the hours after the October 7 massacre, anti-Israel activists took to social media to proclaim that the attack would be celebrated as a future Palestinian national holiday, signifying the supposed weakness and crumbling of Zionism. At the May 24 Detroit People’s Conference for Palestine, speakers bragged how Hamas was supposedly humiliating the IDF on the battlefield, transforming Gaza into “the graveyard of the Merkava tank, the Namer troop carrier, the D9 bulldozer, and the occupation.” The infamous chant “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free” has been regularly altered to “from the river to the sea, Palestine is almost free.”... Since the beginning of the war, anti-Israel operatives in the West have laser-focused on the complicity of the US and other countries by arming Israel. They have pushed for arms embargoes and boycotts because they believe that if they disconnect the US from Israel, then Palestinians will finally be able to achieve the victory that has been repeatedly stolen from them... Israel is an illegitimate, settler-colonial state, therefore its people couldn’t possibly have the will to match Hamas freedom fighters without US aid. Everyone and everything but Palestinian intransigence will be to blame for the inevitable defeat of Hamas. Lost in stories of foreign powers or Israeli brutality taking advantage of Palestinian vulnerability, there will be no reflection on how Hamas shouldn’t have slaughtered and raped its way through southern Israel, or shouldn’t have taken hostages, or ignored the opportunity available every day for eight months to surrender and release its captives. The path of compromise, of peace, of accepting that there is no Palestinian future in which Israel does not exist alongside them, will never be considered, nor will be the consequences to be found on the path of violence be considered. Their suffering in the wake of a war Hamas began is not a consequence of its action, but one more bout of unfair victimization inflicted on them by Israel and the US – and so they will continue to endure them. Hamas supporters will forever hold onto the fleeting moment of October 7, and, as always, promise themselves that next time victory will be theirs, if only it wasn’t for those meddling kids in the White House."

Pe'er Krut: Anti-Israel tirade at Ontario high school shows Jews are targets wherever they go - "students at St. Theresa of Lisieux Catholic High School in Richmond Hill, Ont., were unwittingly ushered into an assembly where a guest speaker, introduced simply as a surgeon, projected graphic imagery from the Israel-Hamas conflict. Accompanying the visuals were a series of unfounded claims about the war, according to an anonymous letter shared by the Jewish Educators and Families Association of Canada. Students thought they were attending a mass. Instead, around 300 of them listened as the speaker engaged demonized Israel and fed them a steady stream of false and misleading information. After corroborating the story with several students, both Jewish and non-Jewish, I learned the extent to which students were shocked and disturbed by the assembly. Without warning, photos of children with their limbs cut off were projected on a screen. The speaker gave a one-sided perspective of the conflict, and presented opinions like, “Israel is the top-hated country in the world” as fact. The speaker further implied that the October 7 massacre was justified, stating, “When these children grow up, how do you expect them not to hate Israel?” The speaker’s appearance, unlike other assemblies at the school, was not listed on the school’s website or calendar."
If you oppose left wing indoctrination and incitement to hatred in school, you are not a decent human being

Trudeau fiddles as Canadian Jewish institutions burn - "Other than Trudeau’s social media posts talking about fighting Jew-hate, what actions has he taken to combat it? None. Instead, he has doubled down on his efforts to combat Islamophobia. And he has invited more Gazans into Canada, the overwhelming majority of whom support Hamas, according to a poll by a leading Palestinian research group. If any other minority group in Canada had their children’s schools intentionally shot at twice in one week there would be inquiries, task forces and a special rapporteur. But apparently not when Jews are the victims. There are, however, a number of steps that can be taken to protect Canadian Jews and denormalize Jew-hate. We need a parliamentary committee to investigate the funding sources of the groups supporting these illegal activities across Canada. Police departments throughout the country should be called on to actively enforce the law. Every Jewish institution should be given 24/7 armed protection. Every student in Canada should be afforded a proper education. Not just about the Holocaust — that should have been mandatory years ago. We need more history, less twistory. The history of Israel dates back to 1273 BCE. Canadians should also remember that they, too, have the power to make a difference by filing police reports when they see hate taking place in their neighbourhoods. Trudeau can say this is not who we are as Canadians. But when someone shows you who they are — especially when someone consistently shows you who they are — believe them."
Not that he made many posts anyway. Getting votes from Muslims and left wingers is more important than cracking down on hate and violence

A disturbed Canadian set himself on fire. Of course, Israel is blamed - "A prominent Manitoba Muslim group bafflingly pointed the finger at Israel after a tragic self-immolation incident at a Winnipeg mosque over the weekend, exploiting a troubled young man’s mental health to take shots at the Jewish state over its war against Hamas in Gaza. In a written statement released on Sunday, one day after a minor reportedly set himself on fire inside Winnipeg Grand Mosque, the board of the Manitoba Islamic Association wrote, “Though we cannot speak to the details of what occurred for this youth, what we can say is that (we) remai(n) increasingly concerned about… factors that may have impacted his well-being,” as well as mental health in the broader Muslim community... The group also insinuated that discrimination played a part in driving the youth to despair, writing “We cannot have mental health in the context of a racist, Islamophobic and genocidal world.” It encouraged politicians to “speak up against barriers to mental health care” for Muslim Canadians who’ve been traumatized by the scenes from Gaza. And while the Manitoba Islamic Association released a “correction” on Monday night apologizing for wording in the statement that “may (have) contribute(d) to misconceptions and misunderstandings,” the group’s immediate reaction to the suicide is still a worrying example of the “blame the Jews” reflex that has reasserted itself in some circles since Oct. 7. Interestingly, neither statement made any mention of the emotional trauma endured by Jewish Canadians, including scores of Jewish children, over the past eight months. Nowhere, for example, do the authors call out the spate of shooting incidents that have taken place at Jewish schools since Oct. 7, including two shootings in the span of five days to close out May. A recent survey of Jewish Ottawa area students in grades 6–12 found that seven in 10 felt unsafe at school due to their religious identity. Nor did the authors’ purported concern for the “mental health and well-being” of all Canadians stop them from peddling the very far-fetched genocide claims that have been weaponized by the roving thugs who’ve vandalized Jewish-owned businesses and tried to intimidate residents of predominantly Jewish neighbourhoods. The Islamic association’s insinuation, in its first statement, that Israel is committing genocide in the Palestinian-held West Bank, most of which lies more than 100 kilometres away from the theatre of war, was particularly outrageous. Curiously, the correction issued by the group on Monday made no apologies for misrepresenting details... Authorities had not, as of Tuesday morning, said whether they had found a suicide note at the scene or come across any material, such as social media posts, providing any insight into what motivated the young man to set himself on fire. However, the board of the Manitoba Islamic Association wrote in Monday’s corrective note that he “suffered from severe mental illness” and subsequently “experienced a mental health crisis which caused him to lose touch with reality,” suggesting that his challenges were known within the community... both self-immolation incidents south of the border took place near diplomatic missions of Israel. Conveniently, the first statement didn’t address the question of why a young man who was distraught over Israel’s actions in Gaza would instead choose a notable Muslim landmark as the site of his symbolic act of self-immolation. (The Winnipeg Grand Mosque is, in fact, Manitoba’s oldest and most historic mosque.) Further, it was highly irresponsible for the Islamic association to potentially plant a seed in the minds of other vulnerable youth by suggesting, without any evidence, that negative emotions over the war in Gaza drove the young man to take his life. Young people have been found to be especially susceptible to suicide contagion, a well-known phenomenon in which one suicide can trigger a spate of copycat suicides. If the group’s professed concern about the mental health of young Muslims is genuine, they certainly have a funny (and counter-productive) way of showing it."

Canada: Muslim family’s home set on fire due to support for Palestine - "Police in Canada are treating an arson attack on a Muslim family’s home as a hate crime as the family had been outspoken about their support for Palestinian rights... “It is indeed an Islamophobic hate crime, but it is also an anti-Palestine hate crime,” the owner of the home said. “It is sad to see our home in native Canada, our country, reach that dangerous level of taking away our freedom of speech.”"
If this is an "anti-Palestine hate crime", that means "anti-Zionism" is an anti-Israel hate crime

Jewish parents rally outside Toronto school board meeting on 'anti-Palestinian racism' - "Dozens of Jewish audience members chanted “shame” after the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) voted on Tuesday night to clear the latest hurdle incorporating the concept of anti-Palestinian racism within its broader anti-discrimination strategy... Larry Maher, a parent of TDSB students, said he was “speechless for once” following the proceedings. “The adoption of anti-Palestinian racism is going to enable those to weaponize against anyone that practices Judaism and or supports Israel. Regardless of ethnicity or religion. It’s a tool to silence!”... “Tonight, the TDSB approved a strategy for anti-Palestinian racism, and then immediately decided to send a letter to the Minister of Education asking for guidance on how to keep geopolitics out of schools,” Aaron Kucharczuk, a father of three children in the district, told the National Post by phone. Prior to the vote, hundreds of concerned Jewish community members rallied outside the TDSB main office, alleging they were denied the right to speak during the meeting on the negative implications of the term... “It seems apparent that the desire to include a definition on anti-Palestinian racism (and this urgently) is a virtue signalling move meant to further polarize and divide Israeli, Palestinian, Jewish and/or Arab students given that there is no indication that anti-Palestinian racism has occurred as a form of discrimination within the TDSB,” said Jess Burke, the director of diversity, inclusion and training, at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs... The concept of anti-Palestinian racism is of particular concern to Jewish activists because, according to Kucharczuk, there is no clear definition in the initiative of what constitutes anti-Palestinian racism. “The only definition of anti-Palestinian racism that I’ve seen, and it’s one that is frequently cited amongst advocates, says denying the Nakba or trying to silence or exclude Palestinian narratives is a form of anti-Palestinian racism”... “Adopting this definition of anti-Palestinian racism also means you’re going to have to adopt Nakba Day because any resistance to the idea that it should be taught in schools is racist; is a form of anti-Palestinian racism. So they are linked in that way,” said Kucharczuk... Schools have become a political faultline for many Jewish parents in the wake of October 7. JEFA has collected testimonials from students and parents who have been directly impacted by antisemitism in Toronto public schools. “Antisemitism has been a huge problem at the TDSB. Their own data says that last fall incidents of antisemitism tripled,” Kucharczuk said earlier this month. Regardless of the outcome of Tuesday’s meeting, Kucharczuk feels that the whole ordeal has been largely a distraction from the worsening situation of antisemitic hate crimes within Toronto public schools."
If you are against calls for Jewish genocide, or want accurate history about Palestine taught, this is anti-Palestinian racism
Weird how anti-Zionism is still not racism, though
Only "minority" voices need to be heard

TDSB seeks to enshrine anti-Palestinian racism concept - "When asked why enshrining a concept such as anti-Palestinian racism at a time when TDSB schools are experiencing skyrocketing antisemitism is a priority, Ryan Bird said the board was meeting a need. “We have heard from students and the community that there is no recognition in our resources on the lived experiences and identities of Palestinian students and staff,” Bird said. He said the board is considering a similar push to include anti-Israel racism within the update but has not yet made a decision on it... Kucharczuk lives near Faywood Arts-Based Curriculum School, a TDSB school that saw nearly 200 adults escort a Jewish child to class in May after he was subjected to harassment without intervention from administrators. The student’s mother told the Canadian Jewish News that her child was physically intimidated and told they would “do to him what Hamas did to Israel” and “We need to kill you all, and you need to bow down to us.” Schools have become a political faultline for many Jewish parents following the Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7. A coordinated string of anti-Israel walkouts in late October saw teachers look on as students chanted, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Other high-profile incidents include a Grade 9 student giving a Nazi salute and a female high school student being threatened because of the ongoing conflict. In February, a TDSB bathroom was graffitied with a swastika, “Hitler was right,” and “#KillTheJews.” “If anything, there’s lots of data to support lots of anti-Israeli sentiment in schools, and not really data to support anti-Palestinian sentiment in schools,” Kucharczuk said... Kucharczuk shared with the Post an upcoming presentation he plans to make before the board, which highlights the politicization of TDSB classrooms, such as handouts advocating for the sanctioning of Israel and teachers decorating classrooms with Palestine scarves. According to his calculations, antisemitic incidents comprise 15 per cent of total incidents within the TDSB despite Jewish students making up just 3.5 per cent. His presentation also points to books in TDSB libraries that feature graphics that have removed Israel from maps."

Rahim Mohamed: TDSB's 'anti-Palestinian racism' plan is unnecessary and troubling - "curious is the TDSB’s use of the term “anti-Palestinian racism” in lieu of the more inclusive “anti-Arab racism.” The Palestinian National Charter itself defines Palestinians as “those Arab nationals who, until 1947, normally resided in Palestine.” Statistics Canada concurs, classifying Canadians who self-identify as Palestinian as Arab visible minorities in its most recent departmental standard . What sense, then, does it make for Toronto-area schools to treat acts of prejudice against Palestinian students differently than, for example, acts targeting their Egyptian and Syrian classmates? In separating Palestinians from other Arab population subgroups, the TDSB is unwittingly perpetuating harmful anti-Palestinian tropes that are rife throughout the Arab world. Arab leaders have, for decades, leaned on the notion of Palestinian alienness to justify legal discrimination against Palestinian minorities. Singling out Palestinians as a racial community further perpetuates the notion that they are somehow different from other Arabs. Conceptual issues aside, it’s hard to discern what problem the TDSB is trying to solve with the changes. Palestinians are a microscopically small minority within Toronto, comprising just over 4,000 residents. There’s no indication that Palestinian students enrolled in the city’s public schools, who number in the low thousands at most, are currently discriminated against in any way. Meanwhile, Jewish students in Toronto and other major Canadian cities face almost daily harassment as antisemitism spikes across the country. Just last month, the story of Eitan Cohen, a Toronto teen who’d been harassed so badly that he needed to be escorted to school by other members of the Jewish community, made international headlines . Thousands of parents have complained to the TDSB of “ escalating antisemitism ” in recent months, with reported incidents including children taunting their Jewish classmates with Nazi salutes and drawing Swastikas on school property. The TDSB has now bafflingly chosen to risk fanning the flames of antisemitism even further. TDSB spokesman Ryan Bird conceded this week that there’s currently no universally accepted definition of anti-Palestinian racism, meaning what constitutes discrimination against Palestinians is subject to interpretation. School board officials haven’t said, for example, whether arguing against a two-state solution in class, or arguing Israel has a right to defend itself, would constitute discriminatory speech in violation of the new policy. What about arguing that Israel has a right to exist, given the false, but common, claim by anti-Israel protesters that Zionism itself is racist? Further, would the new anti-Palestinian racism provisions protect students harassing their Jewish classmates with objectionable slogans like “From the River to the Sea”? Again, by not even considering the possibility of such questions, the TDSB is opening the door to even more antisemitism in Toronto’s schools."

Green Party candidates ‘shared antisemitic slurs and conspiracy theories’ - "Green Party general election candidates have shared “antisemitic” slurs and conspiracy theories, backed pro-Palestinian protests at Auschwitz and justified the October 7 terrorist attacks on Israel.  On Thursday night party officials were examining a dossier featuring nearly 20 candidates who have shared offensive material online. Among them were individuals who compared Zionism to cancer and claimed the Hamas atrocities on October 7 were a false flag orchestrated by Israel... The Greens believe they are on course for their best general election result yet in their push to become a mainstream party, and are polling at 7 per cent, according to YouGov.  But the party has been battling claims of antisemitism since controversy erupted at the May local elections over statements by its councillor Mothin Ali, who won in a ward in Leeds.  On October 7, when Hamas launched a surprise offensive against Israel, involving the massacre of about 1,200 people, the vast majority of them civilians, Ali said that Palestinians had the right to “fight back”. He later apologised for the upset caused and said he did not support violence.  However, an analysis of prospective election candidates reveals that several others have made similar antisemitic comments appearing to justify October 7.  On October 7, Adam Pugh, the candidate for Deptford & Lewisham North in London, wrote on Twitter/X that “there is no peace without freedom. Resist”. He separately posted the image of a Palestinian flag and wrote: “You don’t have to be neutral when it comes to apartheid, colonisation and genocide.” Three days later Pugh complained about the BBC’s “gutter journalism” on the war in Gaza and said: “They have a clear agenda to dehumanise Palestinians and paint Israel as the victims here.” On October 18, before the full-scale invasion of Gaza, he described the Israel Defence Forces as “genocidal maniacs”.  When news broke on October 12 that the Royal Navy was sending two vessels to the Mediterranean to support Israel Pugh wrote: “I hope they sink.” Last week, when three other candidates were accused of antisemitism, he wrote: “Either they haven’t discovered my tweets yet or I’m not being vocal enough.” Kefentse Dennis, the Green equalities and diversity co-ordinator, and candidate in Birmingham’s Perry Barr constituency, said rocket attacks launched before the October 7 massacre were an example of “Palestine defending itself as it is legally allowed to”.  On May 6, when pro-Palestinian demonstrators disrupted a remembrance march to honour the victims of Nazi atrocities at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, Dennis wrote on X that “it’s because never again means never again”. He also called for a boycott of Israel in the days after the October 7 attacks. Simon Anthony, the Green Party candidate for Barking, east London, compared Hamas to the French Resistance and said the October 7 terrorist massacre was the “current Palestinian home guard outburst”.  In a post on Twitter/X from May 15, he wrote: “Hamas is terribly similar to what the ‘Home Guard’ and the French Resistance would have been called if the UK had lost the Second World War.”  He also liked a tweet marked by its author as “Hamas official statement”, and a message saying “every time the Palestinians fight back, they are accused of being ‘terrorists’”.  Nataly Anderson, who is standing in Woking, Surrey, shared her suspicions that the October 7 attacks were “orchestrated” and claimed that there were connections between human traffickers and the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. She said: “We are seeing links between the institutional kidnapping of children and the state of Israel. It is very unfortunate that the victims of the Holocaust turn into the predators.”... Nida Alfulaij, the Green candidate for Brent East, west London, and the chief executive of the People’s Trust for Endangered Species, a charity based in Battersea, liked posts online which suggested that Israel and the United States, but not Hamas, were terrorists.  She also liked a post which suggested the October 7 attacks were not antisemitic, criticised Jordan for shooting down Iranian drones which were heading for Israel, and praised George Galloway for his by-election win in Rochdale. Chris Brody, standing in Chingford & Wood Green, north London, shared an article on Facebook on October 21 which claimed the Hamas attack may have been a “false flag engineered to open the way to the genocide of the Palestinian people of Gaza”. The post has since been deleted... “I do not, under any circumstances, support violence of any type by anybody,” he said. “I condemn all forms of violence. Supporting a group does not and should never be used as an indication of support for every action taken by any member of that group.”... The Green Party website emphasises that its goal is to bring about a fairer, greener country (Fiona Hamilton writes). It highlights its concerns about the cost of living crisis and the climate and environment issues at the heart of its ideology. The party says that it stands for fairer and greener homes, schools, childcare, transport and water.  But for several months many of its councillors, members and now prospective parliamentary candidates have appeared much more focused on public statements about the crisis in the Middle East... Mothin Ali, who described getting a seat on Leeds city council as a “win for the people of Gaza”, had previously been involved in the harassment of a Jewish university chaplain driven from his home. He has apologised... Others appear convinced that Jeremy Corbyn, the former Labour leader, has been the victim of a smear campaign over his failure to address antisemitism in the party. It illustrates how some, dissatisfied with Labour’s crackdown on the issue, have shifted allegiance to the Greens.  Only last month the Board of Deputies of British Jews said it was increasingly concerned about the Green’s lack of due diligence around their candidates, adding that “if the Green Party does not start showing some principle on this, it risks its wider agenda sinking into a growing cesspit of racism”."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Jumps on Stage to Cardi B at Rally in Viral Video - ""We know that the absolute leveling of Gaza is being paid for with the funds that are being kept from our health care, our schools. We cannot support that anymore. We can't. It's not extreme. It's not fringe. It's not bigoted to want everybody to be protected."... A spokesperson for Latimer's campaign told The New York Times: "Jamaal Bowman's divisive and dishonest attacks, combined with his antisemitic dog whistles, are why voters are turning against him in droves.""
Of course, the US funding Palestinian terrorism is good, but funding self defence against terrorism is bad
When left wingers accuse other left wingers of using dog whistles. At least this is the first admission I've seen that "anti-Zionism" is a dog whistle

The legal hurdle the IDF faces in killing participants in October 7 massacre - "The report stated that the military interpretation of laws of warfare asserts that only those who belong to a combat force can be purposefully eliminated during a war."

Hamas fires at UNICEF mission for reuniting children with parents in Gaza
Why would the Zionists do this?!

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