Ottawa mayor wants ‘bubble bylaw’ for city as protests increase - "anti-Israel protestors descended upon the Soloway Jewish Community Centre, directly across from the Hillel Lodge, a long-term care facility housing seniors. “There is no reason for protesters to be going to long-term care facilities to intimidate our seniors,” Coun. Allan Hubley, set to move the motion, told National Post."
Meme - Possum Reviews: "New conspiracy theory just dropped."
Oliya Scootercaster: "BREAKING: the moment protesters BREAK THROUGH the first DNC Fence during "Shut Down DNC" March in Chicago - NOW"
Luka K MD: "These people ae geting paid by Trump."
"I am over these motherfuckers, Bring out the police vans & start throwing them in. Enough already. Breaking fences is NOT peaceful protest. NOTICE how none of them showed up at the RNC. They are [MAGA funded-without a doubt. Prove me wrong or sthu, #DNC"
Awesome Jew on X - "Why is @FamilyFeud, which is meant to be an American TV show, allowing families to wear the keffiyeh? After the October 7th massacre in Israel, the keffiyeh has become a symbol of terrorism and antisemitism. Why is Family Feud permitting this?"
Starmer calls for return of the 'sausages' when referring to Gaza hostages
Hillel Neuer on X - "They shot at the Montreal synagogue where I had my Bar Mitzvah. They shot at my brothers' Hebrew school. They're attacking Jewish community institutions from Toronto to Vancouver. Hard to believe: my native 🇨🇦 is now one of the most dangerous countries for Jews in the free world."
The Infantile Style in American Politics - The Atlantic - "he addressed a pro-Palestine rally and insisted that there was “no evidence” Hamas attackers had raped Israeli women. That, he said, was an Israeli “lie.” It was a stunning moment, not least because the evidence of sexual assaults by Hamas is copious. Many constituents, including quite a few who’d voted for him in previous elections, would describe recoiling at this rhetoric. Only when trailing in polls last week—seven months later—did Bowman finally offer a brief apology for those remarks. In Yonkers on Election Night, Bowman used his concession speech to rumble about the ostensibly nefarious involvement of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and affiliated groups, which, according to The New York Times, spent about $15 million opposing him. He never mentioned Latimer by name. “Our opponent may have won this round in this place,” he said. “We should be outraged … when a super PAC of dark money can spend $20 million to brainwash people into believing something that isn’t true.” The possibility that some voters might have had honest objections to Bowman’s views or rhetoric barely registered with him or the left-wing groups supporting his candidacy. After his lopsided loss, a spokesperson for the group Justice Democrats declared: “Jamaal Bowman is a model, not a warning, for what political leadership can look like.” Too many on the left wing of American politics have become inured to the effect of their overheated rhetoric and histrionic displays of fealty to in-group norms... Bowman’s supporters sought easy explanations for his defeat, including that redistricting had shifted his district northward out of much of the Bronx and into Westchester. But Bowman in fact had fared well in the predominantly Democratic suburban county in his 2020 and 2022 campaigns... Bowman’s rhetoric was undisciplined and incendiary, while Latimer was a popular local politician whose internal polls showed him leading by double digits before AIPAC spent anything. For weeks, prominent left-wing organizers on social media slammed Latimer, a centrist liberal, as a reactionary white man backed by billionaires. The New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, which endorsed Bowman, decried Latimer as an AIPAC-picked, MAGA-bought racist. In most of the country outside of left-wing precincts, the claim that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza—as opposed to aggressively prosecuting a war that Hamas started and has the power to end—is highly contested at best. But using the term genocide has become de rigueur for candidates seeking an endorsement from DSA and Justice Democrats. Bowman obliged, repeatedly. Bowman also indulged a penchant—again shared broadly on the anti-Israel, anti-Zionist left—for performative and self-righteous politics. In 1964, the American historian Richard Hofstadter wrote a celebrated essay in Harper’s Magazine titled “The Paranoid Style in American Politics.” A modern left-wing update might be titled “The Infantile Style in American Politics”—as the conspiratorial mixes with obstinacy and braggadocio... At the rally, Bowman, a former college linebacker, hopped onstage, lifted a stool, and shook it at the audience. “We’re going to show fucking AIPAC the power of the motherfucking South Bronx,” he bellowed. “What am I supposed to do? You coming after me, you coming after me, you coming after my family?” He added, “We are going to show them who the fuck we are!” Bowman lives in Yonkers and does not represent the South Bronx. The Bronx rally offered a glimpse, too, of the sectarianism that routinely afflicts the left. Pro-Palestine protesters from Within Our Lifetime showed up and beat drums and chanted throughout the rally, doing their best to disrupt the proceedings. They denounced Bowman, Ocasio-Cortez, and Sanders as “Zionists” who backed “Genocide Joe” for president. The protesters reached an impressively overwrought peak with the chants: “AOC, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide.” At rally’s end, protesters charged the candidates’ bus and defaced its flanks with stickers and handwritten slogans. In recent years, the progressive movement has made impressive inroads within the national Democratic Party, which has shifted noticeably leftward. In New York, left-wing politicians backed by DSA and the Working Families Party have scored victories on such issues as rent control, affordable housing, and bail reform. Yet these victories coexist with a growing shrillness and insistence by many on the left upon political purity. So longtime liberal Democratic politicians find themselves denounced as pro-genocide for supporting Israel and Biden’s position on the Gaza conflict. Just two years ago—in an episode all but forgotten during the recent campaign—DSA’s political committee debated whether to expel Bowman for the perfidy of voting to fund the Iron Dome, the defensive system that lets Israel shoot down rockets from Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran before they strike civilian homes... Politicians and movements are most successful when they try to win people over, and change course when they fail—rather than chiding voters for being brainwashed."
The left used to say it was racist to talk about Jewish influence
There's no clearer evidence that the left is against Jews defending themselves. Self-defence is "genocide"
Pro-Hamas group that helped organize college protests is a 'sham charity,' Treasury says - "In a joint action by the U.S. and Canadian governments, the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, or Samidoun, was sanctioned by the Treasury Department and listed as a terrorist entity by the government in Canada, where it is based... the Treasury Department said on Tuesday that Samidoun serves as a front organization and fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which the U.S. deemed a terror organization in 1997 and 2001. “Organizations like Samidoun masquerade as charitable actors that claim to provide humanitarian support to those in need, yet in reality divert funds for much-needed assistance to support terrorist groups,” said Bradley Smith, the acting U.S. under secretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial terrorism."
Amy Hamm: Cities should rescind ceasefire motions in light of Samidoun’s terrorist designation - "In Surrey, B.C., Mayor Brenda Locke told local news that the anti-Israel protestors were angry and verbally abusive when she suggested that a call for peace, rather than a ceasefire, would be more meaningful. “I was shocked, to be honest, that they were so angry,” said Locke. “Some of the stuff they were yelling at us, calling us murderers…” In New Westminster, the group accused the city’s only Indigenous council member, Daniel Fontaine, of being a “not so subtle” racist. He left the building that particular night with a police escort for his own safety. The group derailed three separate council meetings and had one adjourned entirely. This occurred when Saeed Naguib — whose face can be found at virtually every Samidoun-organized anti-Israel event across the province — refused to leave the public delegation desk after shouting and arguing with the mayor and council. The latter responded by walking out of city chambers for an hour before coming back to ask Naguib, politely, to leave. He refused, of course. The entire meeting was then adjourned. Another night, the group lied about their intention to speak to municipal affairs, monopolizing the city’s public delegation spots only to pivot each topic to their fever dreams about genocide. On their way out, they shouted, “From the river to the sea,” with fanatical zeal."
New campus protest rules spur an outcry from college faculty
Weird. I thought hate speech was not free speech, and minorities needed to be protected. Without double standards, the left would have no standards at all
Some Jewish voters in presidential swing states reconsider their longtime devotion to Democrats - "Steve Rosenberg, of Philadelphia, who voted for Trump in 2016 and then Biden in 2020, will vote for Trump in 2024. In large part, Rosenberg sees Biden's lifting of Trump-era sanctions on Iran as providing the cash for the Islamic Republic to finance a war against Israel. Trump imposed the sanctions after voiding a treaty the Obama administration had reached to slow Iran's progress toward nuclear weapons, which he called a bad deal. “The question is, ‘Who is better off today than four years ago?’” Rosenberg said. “And the answer is Iran and the mullahs and their proxies, and it's because Biden and Kamala Harris have capitulated to Iran.”"
Kamala’s Hubby Accuses Trump of Anti-Semitism—While Daughter Fundraises for Hamas - "Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, attacked former President Donald Trump, dubiously accusing him of being a “known anti-Semite.”... Doug Emhoff claimed: “The last person I’m going to take advice from as a Jewish person is a known antisemite who’s had dinner with antisemites, who said there was ‘good people on both sides’ after Charlottesville.” The second gentleman’s attacks against Trump seem contradictory, especially considering his daughter’s troubling association with fundraising for radical pro-Palestinian groups, some of which have direct ties to Hamas, the terrorist organization ruling Gaza. Ella Emhoff has faced scrutiny not once, but twice, for her involvement in fundraising for extremist groups suspected of supporting Hamas terrorists. In a now-deleted Instagram post, Ella Emhoff shared a link to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The post was removed only after the New York Post raised questions about UNRWA’s connections to Hamas, prompting action from the Biden administration, which halted U.S. funding to the Hamas-tied group. Ella’s involvement in promoting Hamas-linked organizations doesn’t stop there. In November 2023, she was part of an $8 million fundraiser for the Gaza Strip, currently under the control of Hamas terrorists. Critics noted that the fundraiser conveniently omitted any mention of Hamas’s brutal attack on Israeli citizens on Oct. 7, 2023. “Vice President Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff is helping raise money for a Gaza fundraiser that could end up in the hands of Hamas,” wrote Collin Rugg, a Twitter personality at the time. “Not surprising considering her step-mom is one of the most incompetent people in Washington DC.”"
Gaza war: Freedom of expression threatened, UN expert says
Naturally, this is not about Hamas intimidating dissenters. And the fact that she claims there're double standards when terrorism supporters are wreaking havoc worldwide while being treated with kid gloves is galling
Amy Hamm: I’ll take political apathy over shilling for terrorism, thanks - "The most civic engagement I have witnessed in Canada has been over the last year. Sounds lovely, right? It sounds suggestive of a much-needed renaissance within Canadian civil society. But alas, it was not... The most people I’ve ever seen fill the gallery of my city hall, and spill into the overflow gallery, for weeks on end, were there to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. Most got up and left as soon as they spoke, not staying to engage in municipal affairs. They were there for Hamas, not their community. In my city (New Westminster, B.C.), they sniggered and laughed at a Jewish woman who said she felt unsafe over rising antisemitism. Once, they refused to leave chambers, grinding city council to a halt because of a terrorist-initiated war in the Middle East, thousands of miles away. The largest Canadian campus protests I have ever observed occurred over the year following October 7. Pro-Palestine tent encampments stood for months on end on campuses. The students (and others) inside called themselves the intifada: the Arabic word for uprising. Canada could use a good uprising for our own domestic crises: unchecked opioid overdose deaths; poverty and homelessness; our healthcare system in its death throes; the erosion of our Charter rights and freedoms; foreign interference — my god, things are bad — or any other Liberal scandal that has scarcely registered in the minds of our citizens over the last decade. Where the hell are Canadians? Are we a nation of fools that shows up to march in the streets not for ourselves, but for terrorists — Hamas, or Samidoun, or Hezbollah? For the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps?... We have lost our way. We’ve proven ourselves to be a population susceptible to well-funded foreign astroturf movements. There is nothing grassroots about “Free Palestine” or their infiltration of western nations, where collecting shiny and new social justice causes is apparently as irresistible to many as the latest iPhone model... Many of our own politicians proudly demonstrate that they’ve fallen for the propaganda of Qatar-funded Al Jazeera and the like. New Democratic Party member of parliament Niki Ashton posted a video on X claiming that “Canada used to be a champion of peace and justice.” Is Ashton angry about the Canadian citizens now marching in our streets daily, calling for the destruction of Israel? Is she angry about the unprecedented antisemitism within our borders following October 7? Nope. Canada is “failing to stand up to Netanyahu’s far right, genocidal government,” Ashton said with not a hint of irony. “Canada must act for Peace now. No to War,” she posted. Absent from Ashton’s rant: any mention of the terror and violence inflicted by Hamas or Hezbollah... “Just play nice and stop fighting” is the argument of a child — and now, apparently, of some of Canada’s elected politicians. How did our nation become so waylaid by thoughtlessness? In the aforementioned conversation with Bari Weiss, journalist Douglas Murray lamented the same idea. “We’re weak and we’re silly and we’re drunk on peace”"
Thread by @Mr_Andrew_Fox on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "So, a day of hysterical reactions to events like the one below. And, as I’ve been saying all day, once again we can’t trust a damned thing coming out of Gaza. Let’s look at the reports from both sides. A little thread 🧵
Here’s an initial take: “horrific massacre”, “massive number of martyrs”. Standard propaganda account take. This is the dominant narrative. Here’s MSF’s report and one from a reliable open source account. The number of dead match. Contrary to the hysteria this morning, and Mr Corbyn, no children identified. But here’s the usual Hamas exaggeration. Mr FAFO comes out to add the usual propaganda spin. The second you see this guy, anyone’s bullshit antennae should be swivelling. Something’s up.
Standard pattern: bad thing happens, Hamas propaganda teams swoop in to give it the worst possible spin to condemn the IDF.
Both MSF and open source agree that there are only 5 dead. Not the massacre Hamas portray it as, no evidence of children dying. So we know Hamas are lying. So, we all agree 5 dead and a good few casualties. We’ve seen Hamas’ take. So what’s the IDF’s?
Here it is: Hamas were the target. So how plausible is this? Well, two of these things have happened before. We have witness evidence and multiple videos and the whole second Al Shifa raid to prove that Hamas use hospitals to hide amongst civilians. So that’s plausible. We also know that in Rafah we’ve seen secondary explosions causing fires after IDF strikes. So that’s also plausible. Any other evidence? See next post.
Secondary explosions. Check out the Big Bang in this video. That is not an oxygen tank. So, in sum:
- MSF and open source evidence agree only 5 casualties, no evidence of children dying thus far (may change with updates, who knows).
- The above is clear evidence Hamas and their allies were lying in their propaganda vids/posts about a massacre.
- Previous history of Hamas using hospitals and substantial secondary explosions causing fires check out with the IDF version of events.
Is this conclusive? Nope. But - as I say every time, and have been saying all day - you can’t trust a damned thing on the internet that comes out of Gaza. It’s an information war designed to get emotional overreactions. So, so many people got suckered today - this was a bad one. War is hell. Appalling things happen. Terrorists should not use hospitals as cover... More evidence of secondary explosions."
Meme - The Associated Press @AP: "An Israeli strike on Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital's courtyard in the Gaza Strip killed at least four people and sent flames sweeping through a camp for people displaced by the war, leaving more than two dozen with severe burns, according to Palestinian medics."
ronin @pccs1: "footage of Pallywood's emergency team, led by Mr. #FAFO,capturing secondary explosions from an ammo depot in Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital.Their filming confirms IDF claims about a terror command center using patients as human shields and reveals a significant ""
"THROUGHOUT ALL THE VIDEOS, NUMEROUS SECONDARY EXPLOSIONS ARE BOTH SEEN AND HEARD, INDICATING TERRORIST WEAPONS DEPOT GOING UP IN FLAMES. From GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga"
Meme - Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger: "This post definitely ruffled some feathers. So let me break it down: Yes, the IDF confirmed the strike. Yes, civilians may have been killed. But countless videos from the scene show secondary explosions—meaning terrorist munitions and rockets were being stored at the hospital. And more importantly, Mr. FAFO is a well-known Hamas figure who's posed as a journalist, a lab tech, and even appeared in Jihadi music videos. The fact that he was there during the strike is proof that Hamas was on site. This isn’t up for debate. Take the L, folks."
Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger: "I saw the scenes out of Gaza last night, of a patient allegedly burning alive outside of Al Aqsa Hospital, and like any normal person, my initial gut reaction was one of distress and pain. But then I saw Mr. FAFO."
Donations to Harvard’s Endowment Drop by More Than $150 Million - "Harvard’s fundraising crisis now has a price tag: $151 million. Total philanthropic contributions fell by 14 percent in fiscal year 2024 as several billionaire donors publicly severed ties with Harvard over its response to campus antisemitism. The $151 million decline marks one of the most significant year-over-year drops in donations in the past decade."
Eitan Fischberger on X - "The Devastating Story of Fawzia Amin Saydo: Handed plates of meat, she and dozens of other desperate women and children realised something was wrong as soon as they started eating. Having been barbarically left without food for days, they had little choice but to accept it. As a feeling of sickness consumed them, murderous ISIS thugs revealed the truth: they had been eating the meat of slaughtered babies. But that was just the beginning of the unimaginable suffering and inhumane conditions Fawzia was forced to endure for a decade. Once in Gaza, Fawzia was subjected to vile treatment from her dead husband's family. She was regularly beaten and - under Hamas' reign - was virtually imprisoned in their home. Fawzia told how she was treated as a "sabaya" - or slave - by Hamas. After Hamas' atrocious massacre in Israel on October 7 and abduction of hundreds of hostages sparked Israel to invade Gaza, Fawzia was sent to work as a slave in a hospital. She said: "All hospitals were being used as Hamas bases. "They all had weapons, everyone had weapons everywhere." Fawzia's rescue from Gaza was months in the making in a complex operation orchestrated by several individuals as well as authorities in Israel, the US, and Iraq - risking her life by communicating with them while locked in a terrorist state. On October 1, she was finally freed from terrorists' chains and eventually reunited with her family in Iraq. Fawzia Amin Saydo said there was "no difference" between the two terror groups"
ISIS sex slave who was kidnapped at 11 reveals she was fed cooked babies before being kept prisoner by Hamas in Gaza
Damn Zionists!
Meme - "Miracle in Gaza; A human corpse came to life and took the phone, probably, to check how many likes he gained on social networks"
Meme - Andy Ngo 🏳️🌈 @MrAndyNgo: "Ngo investigates viral video: A woman recorded herself vandalizing a Greek restaurant in Montclair, N.J. after confusing the Greek flags for Israeli flags. The attack happened back in March but the video is only now going viral. The restaurant’s owner filed a police report at the time but no charges were ever filed against the woman, who is a sex worker, Palestine activist and social media influencer."
"The time I mistakenly thought the flag for Greek was for Israel and took the restaurants flag down OMG"
Meme - Drew Paviou @DrewPaviou: "They keep telling us who they are. Believe them"
Maitreya Bhakal: "Next time you see a Zionist jerk off at how Israel took out Hezbollah's entire leadership within just 9 days and how this is simply unprecedented in history - tell them that Nazis took out 6,000,000 Jews within just 4 years."
This is very telling. Terrorism supporters see all Jews as terrorists. So much for "Zionists" being the "problem" - it's always been the biggest dog whistle around
Opinion | College Officials Must Condemn Support of Hamas Violence on Their Campuses - The New York Times - "These were not isolated occurrences. The Anti-Defamation League estimated that similar protests and language marred life at over 100 campuses in the United States. “At many of these events,” the group said, “protesters’ signs, clothing, flags, chants and speaker comments explicitly venerated Hamas’s deadly attack.” The Oct. 7, 2023, attack was the deadliest on Jews since the Holocaust... Certainly, there is an important conversation to be had about Israel’s actions over the past year, which has led to so much devastation and loss of life in Gaza. However, these demonstrations on campuses were not that conversation. They were largely the celebration of the coldblooded murder and torture of innocent civilians. Regardless of one’s views on the conflict in the Middle East, the celebration of mass murder can only be condemned. This support of violence is deeply disturbing. But so is the silence of school officials. Does anyone think the officials would be silent if there was a Ku Klux Klan gathering on a college campus celebrating white supremacist violence? We should expect — and demand — that campus officials respond to a celebration of Hamas in the same way they would to a Klan rally praising racist violence. The speech of those celebrating Hamas is protected by the First Amendment on public university campuses and at private universities that choose to adhere to free speech principles, because there is a right to express all ideas, even very offensive ones. But that does not mean universities can or should do nothing. Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits colleges receiving federal funds from discriminating on the basis of race, color or national origin. This includes prohibiting harassment, including when there is a hostile environment. Such an environment exists where there is conduct that is sufficiently severe, pervasive or persistent that it interferes with individuals’ ability to participate in or benefit from their college experience. The Education Department has made clear, as have the courts, that this conduct includes discrimination against Jewish students. Colleges can be in violation of Title VI if they determine that a hostile environment exists but don’t take steps to end the harassment or prevent it from recurring. The Education Department has identified several steps universities can take, including providing counseling and support to students affected by harassment and establishing “a welcoming and respectful school campus.” Perhaps more important, university officials can also fulfill their obligation under Title VI by using their own speech to express the values of their community and condemn hateful expression. As I listen to my Jewish students and their reaction to celebrations of Hamas, I have no doubt that they perceive a hostile environment. They do not feel comfortable walking across a plaza in the middle of campus where a sign says, “Israel deserves 10,000 October 7ths.” They understandably fear that the celebration of violence can too easily lead to violence. I understand the reluctance of university officials to speak out or take other actions. It is easier to do nothing than to say something that will upset some campus constituencies. But silence, too, is a message. And it is more. In the eyes of the law, doing nothing can be viewed as deliberate indifference, which violates Title VI and can lead to action by the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Education."
Steve McGuire on X - "🧵NEW: Princeton is holding a special faculty meeting today, possibly to consider making a political statement against Israel. Professor Dan-El Padilla Peralta was among those who led the vote to call the special meeting. He was one of the “non-participant faculty observers” who entered Clio Hall with the students who occupied it last spring. Many of those students are still facing criminal charges. Dr. Peralta is not. In any event, another group of faculty have proposed for consideration today a new policy stating that the faculty senate should not make political statements on matters beyond university governance. Several of them also wrote an op-ed publishing and defending their proposal (which is posted below). In response, several faculty who are presumably in favor of making a political statement, are sharing a response among Princeton faculty. It is signed by, among others, Dr. Peralta and Professor Ruha Benjamin (another “non-participant faculty observer” who entered Clio Hall but was not arrested or charged when her students were). Here is their response in full with signatories. They accuse their colleagues of “fear-mongering,” accuse them of not caring about the “humanity of Palestinians,” and accuse them of wanting to “repress dissent.” You’ll note that they continue to defend the occupation of Clio Hall. Read the proposal and op-ed below and judge for yourself!"
