Canadian policy is in the hands of pro-Palestinian radicals: Ivison - "The idea of recognizing a Palestinian state has a long history. Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon raised the possibility two decades ago — but only if a Palestinian state agreed to demilitarize and give up claims to a “right of return” to Israel for Palestinians and their descendants... Chong said the committee has adopted “a radical position” that departs from Canada’s long-standing stance where recognition can only be achieved as part of a negotiated agreement. He said the move would isolate Canada from its allies and make it the first legislature to advocate for recognition in the G7 and among NATO’s founding members. “To veer from (Canada’s traditional) path would reward violence and authoritarianism as a path to achieving statehood,” he said... It is significant that both Russia and China are in favour of Palestinian-state recognition, which should tell us all we need to know about its prospective impact on democracy, the rule of law and human rights in the region. It is discouraging to watch Canada’s slide towards capriciousness and moral relativism at the hands of the Liberals, aided and abetted by the NDP and the Bloc... Statehood has long been viewed as an incentive to bring the Palestinians to the table, not something to be handed over pre-emptively. Even if it were granted, would it hasten progress to (almost) everyone’s desired outcome — the fabled two-state solution? That is unlikely because, as Alghabra noted, Palestinians have been clear their goal is a one-state solution “from the river to the sea.” It is one thing when the domestic agenda is hijacked by the progressive left, creating a nation of bankrupts, albeit with better teeth and sick-leave coverage. But it is quite another when the radicals start fashioning their own foreign policy, particularly when it breaks with our allies, tradition and common sense."
Selina Robinson: NDP's cynical ploy to gain Muslim votes by championing the Palestinian cause - "I served as minister of finance and held other cabinet portfolios in British Columbia’s New Democratic Party governments over the past seven years. Ostensibly, for my impolitic words about the state of the land that became Israel, I was fired from cabinet by David Eby, who hopes to be elected B.C.’s premier next Saturday. My experience with the provincial NDP is a lesson for Jews, for other Canadians, and — although they seem unlikely to learn from it — the New Democratic Party itself. My memoir, which will be released next month, addresses the specifics of my firing from cabinet and my resignation from caucus. It also contains lessons for the federal party, as well as important considerations for Canadians struggling to decide which party would be best to lead Canada into the future in an election that could happen at any time, considerations I feel are too important to wait for the release of my memoir to share. The federal New Democratic Party has used Israelis and Palestinians as wedges in an attempt to gain political advantage. In March 2024, the NDP Foreign Affairs critic Heather McPherson led what must be one of the most acrimonious, damaging attacks on our multicultural harmony a political party has ever perpetrated. McPherson put forward a motion to recognize Palestinian statehood, suspend the sale of military equipment to Israel, and generally declare Israel bad/Palestine good. The content of the motion, eventually watered down by more than a dozen amendments, matters little. It was a non-binding motion and neither Israelis nor Palestinians, to be frank, really care much what Canada’s parliament has to say about their situation. The motion had zero practical impact on the conflict in the Middle East. What it did was exacerbate the conflict among Canadians. We were five short months after the horrors of October 7 and in the midst of a tragic, bloody war that started that day — and the NDP caucus in parliament used this excruciatingly painful conflict for crass political advantage. McPherson, leader Jagmeet Singh, and the rest of the NDP caucus looked at Canadian multicultural communities in pain and decided to try to score some points off them. It made me ashamed to be a New Democrat. The situation, as everyone knows, is that the federal NDP caucus was unified on one side of this issue. The federal Conservatives were unified on the other. The Liberal government and caucus were deeply divided. And so the NDP thought it would be fun to watch the Liberals squirm. What the NDP did was take an issue that was explosive and agonizing for (at least) two cultural communities in our country and poured salt all over it. They ensured that people — no matter which side they were on — became more entrenched and divided on an already deeply painful issue. I have often wondered what benefit the federal NDP sees in poking sticks around this particular conflict. If it were a genuine concern for Palestinian well-being, the NDP would not be promoting a polarizing, one-sided narrative. They would be encouraging dialogue and coexistence. So I assumed it must be an ideological motivation driving this, a simplistic binary that powerful Israel is oppressing powerless Palestinians. But a third possibility exists, and McPherson’s deplorable motion convinced me this is the likeliest explanation. The Canadian Jewish community is small — and, as a proportion of the population, shrinking. Moreover, as it has gone from being a mostly immigrant community to a more established ethnocultural group over the decades, many Jews have shifted right economically and politically. (Aided, of course, by NDP policies that make us feel unwelcome in the party.) The Canadian Muslim community is now about five times the size of the Jewish community — and growing fast. New Democrats can read those tea leaves. Voting numbers matter. The federal NDP, I think, has made a crude political calculation. It may be the same calculation B.C. Premier David Eby made when confronted by imams and Muslim organizations threatening his party’s access to Muslim voters unless I was fired. While this might seem like a wise political calculation, there is a problem. Like evangelical Christians, many religious Muslims are deeply conservative on social issues. They are, according to opinion polls, however, deeply invested in the Palestinian cause... They may create a schism in the party that could blow the entire enterprise wide open. It’s possible they may come for the Palestinianism, but they’ll also stay for the debate on queer rights, reproductive freedom, women’s roles in society, and funding for religious educational institutions... The NDP has already demonstrated no loyalty to the thousands of Jews who invested decades to build the left in Canada. Their commitment to fighting antisemitism is limited to hollow words — if that. If we cannot trust the NDP to stand firm against antisemitism, can we trust the party to be any more loyal to the other things we consider inviolable to the left today? If the party becomes addicted to the votes of religious conservatives who hate Israel, what else will they sacrifice to keep those voters and activists happy? Gay rights? Feminism? Inclusive curricula? Separation of religion and state?"
The Life-Giving Sword๐คบ⚖ on X - "Asmongold is on the internet apology march after saying "vile" true things about Palestinians, but Twitch is aggressively promoting Muslim/Arab Neo-Nazism, so apologizing for calling out their evil-stupid culture as evil and stupid keeps his platform & creator circle intact."
doubleshine ๐ฆ on X - "Asmongold's channel has been banned ~ genuinely insane that twitch bans for this when he's already issued an apology meanwhile terrorist propaganda is broadcasted with 0 recourse"
Bill Maher says Chappell Roan would be thrown ‘off a roof’ in Gaza after singer shows support for Palestine - "He continued: “Chappell, if you think it was repressive growing up queer in the Midwest, try the Mid East. “You’re a female drag queen and you sing, ‘I f***ed you in the bathroom when we went to dinner, your parents at the table.’ Yeah, that wouldn’t fly in Gaza. Although you would, straight off a roof. The same goes for ‘knee deep in the passenger seat and you’re eating me out.’ Yea, my guess is the morality police would figure out that one’s not about the drive-thru and kill your feathered boa-wearing ass. You know when you sing that ‘LA is where boys and girls can all be queens every single day’? You’re welcome, but offer not good in the West Bank.” Roan, 26, recently criticized the Democratic party over its support of Israel, telling fans on TikTok the party has “failed people like me and you. And more so Palestine. And more so every marginalized community in the world.”... On his show, Maher praised Roan for criticizing both sides of the political spectrum, but argued that her support for Palestine was born out of TikTok “propaganda.” “Chappell, you’re not wrong that oppression is bad, or that Palestinian and many other Muslim populations are oppressed and deserve to be freed. You just have it completely ass-backwards as to who is doing the oppressing,” he said. “Hamas is a terrorist mafia that took over Gaza… these are the oppressors. And when you make it all about Israel, you take the pressure off of them. You enable them. “You’re a singer, and you’re advocating for a place and a culture you would never want to live under. Gender may not be binary, but right and wrong is,” Maher concluded."
Terry Glavin: The curious case of Khaled Barakat - "He’s a high-ranking member of a Palestinian terrorist organization best known for dramatic airplane hijackings, suicide bombings and a 2014 massacre at a Jerusalem synagogue that left several worshippers severely injured and five dead, including Toronto-born rabbi Howie Rothman. That’s how Israeli intelligence agencies describe 51-year-old Khaled Barakat, who has lived in Canada off and on for nearly 20 years and currently resides in Vancouver. Article content It’s not how Barakat’s supporters describe the man. Barakat’s associates say he is a Palestinian rights activist and a freelance writer who is being victimized by an Israeli campaign to intimidate human-rights organizations.".. Israeli intelligence agencies are not alone in situating Barakat in the upper echelons of the PFLP’s chain of command. He is described in several Palestinian news websites as either a “leader of the PFLP” or a member of the PFLP’s governing central committee. Israeli intelligence agencies say they have intercepted PFLP documents that also identify him as a key operative in the organization. Article content All this has been made known to Canadian intelligence agencies, law-enforcement authorities and senior federal politicians. Still, for years now, Barakat has been appearing at rallies and meetings across Canada. He’s travelled to and from Europe several times as well. Barakat’s lawyers are currently engaged in a court battle in Germany, seeking to overturn a four-year ban on entry imposed on him two years ago after he was detained in Berlin in 2019, and later deported, owing specifically to what the German Interior Ministry called Barakat’s proclivity for violent, antisemitic rhetoric. An association of lawyers opposing Germany’s actions in the case says there is “no evidence that Khaled Barakat is an official of the PFLP,” and that Barakat denies it. In December, 2015, Barakat was in Brussels, Belgium, for demonstrations to mark the anniversary of Israel’s Operation Cast Lead, a particularly bloody episode in the on-again, off-again war between Israel and Hamas, the terrorist organization that controls the Gaza Strip. Barakat attended the Brussels events in his capacity as the coordinator for the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat, the PFLP secretary-general currently serving a 30-year jail term in Israel arising from his 2008 conviction on a variety of terrorism offences... Just last October, Barakat travelled to Madrid to help organize the “Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement” conference, bringing together militants devoted to a rejection of the Palestinian Authority’s cooperation with Israel and the “resistance by any means necessary” standpoint counselled by the PFLP. Established as an armed Marxist-Leninist movement in 1967, the PFLP’s hard-line opposition to accommodation with Israel has left the organization on the outer fringes of Palestinian militancy ever since the Palestinian Liberation Organization signed the Oslo Accords in 1993. The PFLP’s main financial and political backers nowadays are Bashar Assad’s regime in Damascus, Khomeinist Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Barakat is intimately associated with an organization called the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, an organization Israeli intelligence agencies call a PFLP “proxy” that functions as the terror group’s overseas recruitment, fundraising and propaganda arm. And here’s where you’d think things get especially awkward for Barakat and Samidoun, and Canada, too... Samidoun’s partner organization in France, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra (CPV), was disbanded by a decree signed by French President Emmanuel Macron. The group’s dissolution was authorized under sections of the French security law banning groups that provoke discrimination, hatred or violence based on ethnicity, nationality, race, or religion and engage in acts that incite terrorism. Israeli authorities say Shin Bet obtained PFLP documents during a raid of the PFLP’s offices in Ramallah in 2019 that suggest the PFLP expects its association with Samidoun to be more or less clandestine. According to those documents, the connections in Canada are so close that that Barakat was reprimanded by his PFLP comrades for insufficiently distancing the PFLP from Samidoun."
From 2022. Weird how "Palestinian rights activists" so often turn out to be terrorists
B.C. Conservatives stand by candidate who called Palestinian children 'inbred' - "The British Columbia Conservatives are standing by a candidate who called Palestinian children “inbred” and “time bombs,” remarks that NDP Leader David Eby describes as "criminal hate speech." Conservatives Leader John Rustad says he has accepted the apology of Surrey South candidate Brent Chapman and won't ask him to step down, but Eby says a candidate engagd in such speech should be fired."
Weird. How come condemning Israel is not hate speech? It's almost as if the left is hypocritical and has double standards
Meme - Isaac Choua @ChouaIsaac: "I'm a Lebanese ๐ฑ๐ง Jew. The narrative often presented around this image is misleading: “These PLO fighters were protecting the synagogue.” This couldn’t be further from the reality faced by Jews living in Lebanon during that time. This was NOT their modus operandi. In fact, the Lebanese president deployed the army to protect our community during the Yom Kippur War (1973) — no aggression was directed at us. So, who would the PLO have been protecting us from, if not from themselves? One of the first Jews killed in our community was my friend’s great-grandfather. He was killed by a sniper while serving as the community’s gravedigger. His body lay unattended in the street for days, too dangerous to retrieve due to the sniper’s presence. The sight of animals desecrating his remains is a memory seared into my mother’s mind—a cruel irony given his role in the community. In the 1970s, Lebanon was engulfed in a brutal civil war, largely exacerbated by the PLO forces expelled from Jordan after Black September. They attempted to seize control of Lebanon, destabilizing Lebanon. Amidst this chaos, the PLO established strongholds and viewed us as enemies, simply because of our identity. We weren't their only target, but this is the Jewish perspective—from my family and from others who eventually found refuge in New York and Israel after passing through Lebanon. My family fled Lebanon in 1977 to escape the escalating violence, but my uncles remained. They witnessed Israel’s bombing of the Maghen Abraham synagogue in 1982—a devastating event for our community as this synagogue was our gem, our symbol. For my uncle, the relationship with Israel was deeply complicated and fraught with mixed emotions. The PLO’s presence in Beirut was not just political; it was deeply personal. In Wadi Abu Jamil, our Jewish neighborhood, they stored weapons in the very places we lived and prayed. Even the Maghen Abraham synagogue itself was used for storing arms. These weren’t rumors; these were events witnessed by the very people whose lives were threatened—my uncle among them. Beyond Lebanon, the situation was similarly dire. In Syria, Palestinians didn’t just fight against Israel; they became enforcers for Hafez al-Assad’s regime, targeting Jewish communities there as well. The New York Times reported in 1974 that Jews in Damascus were virtual prisoners in their own homes during the Yom Kippur War, fearing retribution from both Palestinians and Syrians. Many Syrian Jews fled through Lebanon en route to Israel - many at the time saw Lebanon as “Gan Eแธen” (Garden of Eden) and wanted to stay longer (I've heard this from multiple members of the community). But safety was an illusion. In the 1970s, my best friend’s family—Syrian Jewish refugees—were abducted right outside the Maghen Abraham synagogue. He was literally thrown into a barrel by Palestinians and held while the Jewish community negotiated his release for a large sum of money. Otherwise, he would have been sent back to Syria, where he would have faced torture or worse. This is just one personal story I'm sharing, with names and faces I can recall, but it’s emblematic of countless others. Another friend’s grandfather was robbed at gunpoint by PLO thugs in front of his children. To call these people “protectors” is beyond absurd. My father risked everything to smuggle community members to safety in the mountains, navigating through dangerous PLO checkpoints to reach places like Aley and Bhamdoun. You don’t have to believe me or these accounts. But these are not just stories; they’re the lived experiences of a community under siege. I know what my family and friends endured, and the scars that the PLO left behind are deep and lasting."
Meme - ashlee campbell: "nope. her management has ties to israel "
"we literally can't have anything"
ashlee campbell: "literally..."
Liz: "do you have anything that shows this? I haven't been able to find anything"
ashlee campbell: "someone else told me about it. don't really care to look into it. i believe it's the truth and idc"
This is a great illustration of how terrorism supporters think. Don't think - just blindly believe what you hear
Meme - "How to get stoned without weed
*Rainbow flag with mosque* "# Allah loves equality"
*White woman with Iranian-style headscarf and brown man*"
Rachel Streich's answer to Why did Britain not give the land of Palestine to any other Arab nation, even though it was originally theirs? - Quora - "They did. They installed a Hashemite king on the throne of 77% of Mandatory Palestine, populated by Palestinian Arabs, to create the Kingdom of Transjordan. The remaining 23% was meant to be a homeland for the region’s indigenous population, the Jews, because it was originally theirs, not the Arabs’. Even so, the United Nations proposed in 1947 to further divide that remaining 23% into a Jewish state and another Arab state. The Jews accepted the UN’s proposal even though it was only half of what they were promised; the Arabs turned it down because they were butt-hurt that the Jews were offered any land at all. Instead, the Arabs went to war to destroy the Jews and steal their land, but they lost, and lost the land they would have had if they’d simply accepted the UN’s proposal. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes."
Aviva Klompas on X - "In 2000, two Israelis accidentally drove into Ramallah and were lynched by a mob of Palestinians. Abdul Aziz Saleha was one of them. He became infamous for a photo that showed him raising his bloody hands for all to see. @MEMRIReports located this video of Aziz Saleha laughing about his role "I killed one of them...I stabbed and strangled him...I raised my hands with the blood in the window so that the people could see." Abdul Aziz Saleha was recently killed in an airstrike in Gaza."
Richard Hanania on X - "The Washington Post on how Hamas built a war machine. Practically everything they had to build their weapons came hidden or labeled for civilian use. “But even homemade weapons require parts that must be brought in from the outside. Hamad said getting components past the Israeli blockade was a constant challenge. Almost every facet of weapons production, from machine tools to agricultural chemicals for explosives, was either labeled for civilian use or hidden inside shipments of food or other everyday wares.” Recall that when Hamas was losing, the Biden administration made getting more aid into Gaza a priority. The Biden administration deserves most of the blame for the war not being finished and the continued existence of Hamas, and hopefully the next administration takes a different approach."
Meme - "Things that did not exist 55 years ago...
1. YouTube
2. Facebook
3. Twitter
4. Uber
5. Spotitty
6. Dropbox
7. WhatsApp
8. Airbnb
9. Snapchat
10. Instagram
11. palestinians"
Visegrรกd 24 on X - "Dictator and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave his first sermon yesterday in nearly 5 years. He stated: “God willing, we will destroy Israel.” Western policy makers should note that he didn’t say “God willing, we will have a two-state solution”"
Why don't the Zionists want peace?!
750,000 Israelis tonight, calling for hostage release and impeachment of Netanyahu & his government : r/Snorkblot - "Yes, but the West isn't supporting, trading with and donating to Hamas and Hezbola."
"Billions of dollars in stolen and misappropriated Palestinian aid money would like to have a word with you…"
UN Expert Warns Israel on Track to Exterminate Nearly Entire Gaza Population - 335,500 : r/anime_titties - "ah yes the famously reliable UN, the same UN who said Gaza would’ve been uninhabitable by 2020 yet look at Gaza now, well why the heck is Gaza is being inhabited?"
"You haven't read the lancet article. It blames israel for someone who drowned in the sea while partying drunk. Terrorist blew himself up while prepping a rocket? Yep that's israel. Guy fell down and hit his head from the morter he shot? Yup that's israel. Terrorist got his hand infected by cutting himself with the knife he was using to slaughter a hostage? Yep... Israel. Go read the article. It literally says it's a hypothetical scenario"
Hen Mazzig on X - "Saudi Arabia rejects Hamas rule of Gaza. Jordan rejects Hamas rule of Gaza. The UAE rejects Hamas rule of Gaza. Egypt rejects Hamas rule of Gaza. So why do so many Western activists who have never stepped foot in the Middle East support Hamas rule over the entirety of Israel?"
Meme - Kamel Amin Thaabet @K_AminThaabet: "If you showed this to an average New Yorker on September 12, 2001 and told them this would be NYC in little more than two decades, they would have been in utter disbelief"
Open Source Intel @Osint613: "NYC: A mob has flooded the streets of NYC, waving Hezbollah and Hamxs flags. A new generation has been born."
Meme - "DON'T WANT WAR? DON'T ATTACK ISRAEL."
Clearly, this "Zionist" blackmail proves the perfidy of the "Zionists"!
Meme - Drew Pavlou ๐ฆ๐บ๐จ๐พ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ฆ๐น๐ผ @DrewPavlou: "In this “heartwarming” video, Hizb ut-coTahrir operative Luqman Muqeem mimes smashing a church window before calling on the British people to realise the true enemy is “Zionism.” Hizb ut-Tahrir is a designated terrorist organisation in the UK - it is a far-right Islamist fundamentalist cult group which calls for the overthrow of every democracy on Earth in favour of a caliphate. Muqeem has openly praised Hamas for fighting the “Jewish enemy” and he recently reposted Tweets opposing democracy in Bangladesh in favour of an Islamist dictatorship."
Drew Pavlou ๐ฆ๐บ๐จ๐พ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ฆ๐น๐ผ on X - "Hamas just executed a Palestinian aid worker in Gaza: Islam Hijazi, the Program Director of the Heal Palestine organization. Is this “resistance”? Are these your freedom fighters?"
Hamas terrorists murder Gazan mother after refusing to give charity funds - "Hamas terrorists on Thursday killed Islam Hijazi — program director of the Heal Palestine organization working to medically support the Strip — near a hospital in Khan Younis after she refused to hand charity funds she collected over to the terror group... Iyad Khader, a Gaza resident, posted on social media following the murder, writing, "A mafia has recently been established in the southern part of the Strip to loot, kill, steal and terrorize the residents. War must declare war on them immediately." "This isn’t the first of such a case,” said Hussein Jamal, a political researcher from Gaza. “The truth is that civilians are murdered daily and no one talks about it. Hijazi was unfortunately well-known; otherwise, no one would have known the circumstances or details of her death.""
wanye on X - "What Israel-Palestine has always boiled down to for me is this: what if all fighting, all sanctions, all borders, all walls, all travel restrictions were lifted tomorrow? Which side would move forward, creating a shining example of democracy and technology and creativity in the region? And on the other side what would Palestine do? I know the answer to that question, you know the answer to that question, the Palestinians know the answer to that question, and Israel goddamn sure knows the answer to that question. Until the answer to that question changes, things will be as they’ve always been."
Thread by @wanyeburkett on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App- "No, it’s literally the only way to evaluate it. Israel every single day has to decide if they’re going to give the Palestinians more freedom to operate with the full knowledge that doing so means they will try to use that freedom to exterminate the Israeli state. That’s just the facts of the matter. That’s just reality as reality actually exists. And it’s the core consideration, even if that seems mean or whatever. I realize that this makes some peoples brain short circuit, because we are committed to the proposition that everybody should have freedom, that everybody desires freedom, that what everybody really wants to do with their freedom is live long, happy, productive lives. But those things just simply aren’t true of the world and you either face that or you don’t, I guess. “What would the Palestinian people do if they had the full power to do it?“ is of course the only question that matters. We will remain in the situation until the answer that question changes."
Tcho on X - "If israel killed 1000 random palestinian civilians in response to Oct 7th that would be a monsterous affair. Instead, they have been dismantling the deeply entrenched terror base in the strip which has netted civilian casaulties, "proportionate response" is about military object. The question here isn't "how many people did israel kill" but "if Hamas was as strong as the IDF and Israel as strong as Hamas, what would result" and the answer is that far more than 40-100 thousand people would die"