Danielle Kubes: Naive western activists get a harsh dose of reality in Egypt - " Videos of sweaty and shocked western activists blew up my X and Instagram feeds this week, as they cried and shouted about how they’ve been treated in Egypt, while attempting to march to the Rafah border crossing to draw attention to the war in Gaza. “For love, for humanity, for Islam, stand with your Islamic people,” said one particularly earnest man facing a crowd of hostile Egyptians. A German man going by the name “Fabian, der Nervige,” who self-identifies as part of the far-left group Antifa, posted a selfie of himself on X, sunburned with swollen red eyes, with the caption, “We came to Egypt to ask for permission to walk towards Gaza. Now we are being treated like terrorists. They hijacked our taxi and held us for 5-6 hours and then deported my friend.” I have to admit, I took a large measure of satisfaction seeing these naive, self-absorbed activists leave their groupthink bubbles only to be confronted so harshly with the reality of the Middle East. That they actually thought the Egyptians would welcome a co-ordinated protest by foreigners against Israel’s war with Hamas — even though Egypt forbids unauthorized public protests, provides no protection for freedom of assembly and actually supports the elimination of Hamas — shows a fundamental lack of understanding of the politics of the region and a level of hubris that beggars belief. They came across not as peaceful protesters coming to rescue starving children, but as white-saviours coming to impose their own thoughts and feelings on a people they assume have no agency to solve their own problems. Instead of being met with open arms and a road paved to Rafah with gold and flowers, they were met by deportation buses and large-scale derision. In one video on X, you can see an Egyptian policeman say, “Please respect our country.… Your message has been already received and you can go back and turn back to Cairo.” “We can do it in America. Why can’t we do it here?” a protester in the crowd asks. “It’s our law,” the officer responds. These sheltered activists have so little understanding of what the world is like outside of their own democracies, where they have been given free rein to block traffic, occupy universities and picket outside synagogues. This is what happens to spoiled children when there are no consequences. They cannot fathom a place where they cannot do and act as they please. If they understood the harsh Middle Eastern landscape at all, which they so obviously do not, they would know that Egypt has fully participated in the blockade against Gaza since Hamas took power in 2007, is delighted that Hamas has taken a beating and shows very little sympathy for the Palestinians already in Egypt, and even less for those living in Gaza — Egypt refuses to take in any refugees. Egypt hates Hamas as much as Israel, because, like so many Arab countries, it is constantly trying to fight jihadist extremism. The Muslim Brotherhood, from which Hamas stems, was born in Egypt and is a major rival of the current government. A little history lesson for our delusional marchers: Egypt previously “occupied” Gaza from 1948 to 1967. It refused to absorb the territory, preferring to keep the Palestinians as forever refugees to irritate Israel, instead of providing them with citizenship and a chance at a real future. When the two countries signed a peace treaty in 1979, Egypt renounced any claims over the territory. Like most Arab countries in the region, Egypt uses the Palestinians as a tool against Israel, while denying them basic rights. As a matter of policy, the Palestinians who live in Egypt are severely discriminated against. They are still not considered citizens, are restricted from good government jobs and aren’t entitled to free health care or education. There’s quite a bit of anti-Palestinian racism in the culture, and the media often depicts Palestinians in an unflattering light, as revolutionaries or those who sold land to Israel. Although these activists would loathe to admit it, before Israel withdrew in 2005, the living standards for Palestinians was much higher in Israel-”occupied” Gaza than in Egypt. The Egyptian people may have sympathy for the plight of Palestinians during this war, but the Egyptian government wants complete separation from Gaza and will go to great lengths to maintain it. It has flooded cross-border tunnels with seawater and sewage, and keeps building additional layers of its massive border wall, with steel that reaches far beneath the ground and barbed wire on top, to ensure no Gazan can escape. The protesters probably haven’t heard much about it because the Egyptians haven’t faced any international condemnation. Faced with an unblinking line of Egyptian authorities, the organizers eventually called off their march Monday night, conceding that it had been an abject failure . Unfortunately, that means their schedule is clear to protest in their home countries."
Time for the activists to blame white people and/or Jews
I saw a terrorism supporter claim that Egypt's fortified border with Gaza was justified because if Gazans left Gaza, Israel would just take it over (I've seen this claim in the past too). Weird how the Egyptians don't seem to think that way. And presumably Israel isn't allowed to fortify its border because terrorist supporters think Palestinians should occupy the whole territory of Israel
Alternatively, terrorist supporters could see how Israel isn't fighting back against Egypt and Jordan and conclude that it's not because they're not attacking Israel but because they're puppets of the "Zionist regime"
@amuse on X - "FAFO: Democrats arriving in Egypt planning to ‘March to Gaza’ in solidarity with the Palestinians are being attacked and thrown out by Egyptians who won’t tolerate Palestinian sympathizers."
@amuse on X - "FAFO: Even Egyptian children are joining in to drive out the Democrat-aligned Palestinian sympathizers, some wielding little whips of their own."
Anti-Israel activists beg their 'genocidal' government for rescue - "the Global March to Gaza — a foreign-organized demonstration setting out from Cairo — had been swiftly met with arrests, detentions and passport confiscations by Egyptian security officials... Among them was Toronto-based comedian Nour Hadidi. In a Friday Instagram video, Hadidi said “we were stopped at a checkpoint, they took our passports, they have detained us.” She added, “they have put us in a barrier like animals.” Hadidi then followed up with an appeal for supporters to petition Canada’s Egyptian embassy for help. “As a Canadian citizen, I am reminding you of your duty to act when Candian (sic) are in danger in Egypt,” read the suggested text. The official Instagram account for Canadian participants in the Global March for Gaza complained of “harrowing” treatment for its members. The account quoted an unnamed “member of the Canadian delegation” who alleged that participants were forced onto waiting vans after refusing to board them voluntarily. “They eventually dragged us up violently into vans. They treated my black Muslim sisters horribly especially,” it read. The account is in line with other activists reporting rough treatment from Egyptian authorities. In one widely circulated video, German organizer Melanie Schweizer described activists being allegedly “pushed” and “dragged” onto deportation buses. “They have beaten people; I have seen one woman that was beaten in her face in front of me,” shealleged. Egypt also detained Yipeng Ge, an Ottawa physician prominent in the anti-Israel community who as recently as January was describing Canada on social media as a white supremacist “settler colonial state” that needed to be destroyed... Ge posted letters of support from two NDP MPS, Leah Gazan and Alexandre Boulerice. In an appeal to Egypt’s ambassador to Canada, Ahmed Hafaz, Gazan not only asked for the Canadian activists to be released, but to be allowed to continue their march through the Sinai peninsula right up to the Egyptian border with Gaza. The Global March to Gaza was intended in part as a critique of Egyptian government policy. Egypt maintains a heavily fortified border with Gaza, and activists were open about their intention to pressure Egypt into opening it. On the Global March to Gaza’s official website, it warns that if Egypt were to foil the march, it “would create unprecedented pressure and severely damage the country’s image.” Egypt’s foreign ministry, by contrast, issued a statement in advance of the march warning that Egypt retained “the right to take all necessary measures to preserve its national security, including the regulation of the entry and movement of individuals within its territory, especially in sensitive border areas.” Thus far, the Canadian government has seemed content to allow Egypt to carry out the deportations without interruption. As of Sunday, activists had already begun arriving back in Canada following their detention in Egypt. This included University of New Brunswick professor Jeff Houlahan, who spent weeks last summer ignoring an eviction order to maintain a “Free Gaza” encampment on university property. In Egypt, by contrast, Houlahan arrived on June 12, and was on a deportation flight headed back to Canada by June 15... “Several people had their phones taken then returned,” said Houlahan. “We suspected they have installed new SIM cards with spyware.” Prior to the march, Global Affairs Canada issued a travel advisory specifically telling Canadians to avoid the area being targeted by activists... Palestine Vivra Montreal was urging supporters to contact their MPs to press for the release of any Global March for Gaza participants being “repressed” by Egypt. The message was a sharp contrast from earlier this year, when Palestine Vivra Montreal had endorsed a campaign to harass Canadian MPs at their constituency offices. In March, Palestine Vivra’s official Instagram account promoted the “Chase your MPs campaign” with the slogan, “If we don’t get no justice, they don’t get no peace.” Palestinian Youth Movement, one of Canada’s most active organizers of anti-Israel blockades and protests, was also urging supporters to petition the Canadian government for help. In a Sunday “emergency call to action,” they provided contact information for Canada’s Egyptian embassy and for Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand. That would be the same Anand who only a few weeks ago had her offices targeted by Palestinian Youth Movement picketers accusing her of complicity in genocide."
Weird how these activists don't know that the border with Egypt needs to be kept shut so Israel can't occupy Gaza
Jesse Kline: Shame on Liberals for sanctioning democratically elected Israeli politicians - "The rebuke of Ben Gvir and Smotrich would, of course, have more weight if the countries now chastising foreigners for inciting violence hadn’t spent the better part of two years sitting idly by as anti-Israel protesters turned central London into a “ no-go zone for Jews ” on weekends and repeatedly called for genocide against Jewish people in Canadian streets. It would have seemed a little more even-handed if those same governments had sanctioned the leaders of the Palestinian Authority for running its so-called pay-for-slay program, which rewards terrorists who murder innocent Israelis, or for failing to hold legislative elections for the past 20 years. They would have had more gravitas if they had levelled concurrent sanctions against members of the Qatari government, who spent years funding Hamas and allegedly supporting its genocidal ambitions behind the scenes. Instead, Ottawa and its allies have essentially given these dictatorial regimes a free pass, while singling out members of a democratically elected government. This point is important... if Canada’s Liberal government and its overseas friends want to influence Israeli policy, they will have to deal with the current cast of characters in Jerusalem. This will now be harder to do since we barred Ben Gvir and Smotrich from setting foot on Canadian soil and basically threatened to arrest Netanyahu if he ever shows his face here again... This isn’t diplomacy intended to achieve meaningful results, it’s performative political theatre intended to appease left-wing westerners who have become increasingly hostile towards the Jewish state and seem to have a newfound love for colonialism — when it’s used to support their anti-Israel agenda, that is."
Discrimination and double standards are only bad when they are against who the left consider "minorities"
Left wingers love proportional representation, but ignore the instability it leads to. Or maybe that's the point
Hillel calls on TMU to discipline interim dean over anti-Israel posts - "One message Hillel highlighted from the account concerned a post about Noa Marciano, an Israeli intelligence soldier abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, during its invasion of Israel. Marciano later died in captivity. “This is what is so scary about people like her,” the TMU professor wrote beneath a graduation photo of Marciano, which claimed she was killed in an Israeli airstrike. “They look so normal and innocent, but they hide monstrous killers in their sick, brainwashed minds.” Marciano’s friend, Ori Megidish — another hostage rescued by Israeli forces in late October 2023 — said she was killed by a doctor in al-Shifa hospital. Her parents said the same thing in subsequent interviews... El-Masri has continued to post about the conflict on the X account, which remains open to the public. “Israel is a baby killer state. It always has been,” he wrote on June 6, a day after the Hillel notice... On May 7, 2025, El-Masri commented on a photo of a proposed humanitarian zone in Gaza. “The irony of history: The last time such a concentration camp was erected, it was by the Nazis!”... He has also downplayed the role of Hamas in the conflict on several occasions. “This is NOT a war against Hamas. This is a genocidal war against the very existence of the Palestinian people,” he wrote in August 2024. In May 2025, he argued that “‘Hamas’ is the zionists’ code word to dehumanize the Palestinian people.” National Post reached out to El-Masri for comment but the professor responded with an email ordering the Post not to contact him anymore. He described the allegations around the content of his social media account as a “smear campaign.”... “TMU’s decision to promote Dr. El-Masri, despite his extensive history of promoting antisemitic and extremist content, is egregious”... Leach initially challenged Hillel’s press release, claiming the organization was mistaken and El-Masiri was not an assistant dean. When asked if El-Masiri had ever held the position of assistant dean, interim or otherwise, Leach wrote the Post that he had not. Her response was contradicted by Hillel, who shared with the Post an email sent in early June apparently from the Faculty of Community Services dean announcing El-Masiri’s appointment... Steven Tissenbaum, a recently retired TMU business professor, said the university’s failure to properly deal with allegations of antisemitism has coloured life at the downtown Toronto campus since the October 7 massacre. He called the administration’s failure to discipline dozens of law students who signed a letter defending “all forms of Palestinian resistance” days after the Hamas atrocities “the real defining moment” for him. “Jewish professors at large recognize that TMU is not a place to be,” Tissenbaum told the Post, explaining this realization is spreading to Jewish students and families as well. Two other academics from TMU reiterated Tissenbaum’s point but wished to remain anonymous because they are still actively teaching at TMU. “I am writing to let you know that it is worse for faculty and staff,” one tenured academic, who wished to remain anonymous, wrote the Post after an earlier story chronicling the harassment Schwartz and other Jewish students experienced on campus was published. “Faculty who are demonstrably Jewish have been attacked, harassed, and threatened, and some have even resigned.” Tissenbaum taught at TMU for nearly three decades and said the university has grown increasingly insensitive to the concerns of Jewish academics and students. He was particularly alarmed by the university’s faculty association passing a motion in May recognizing anti-Palestinian racism (a new term which advocates for the dismantling of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism) at a time of increased Jew hatred. “The undercurrents of antisemitism have been there,” he said, recalling a time in the nineties when someone drew a swastika on his desk. When he raised the incident during a university diversity and equity session, Tissenbaum says he “was ghosted” and that no one responded to his concerns. “It’s always been there, but what’s happened since October 7 is that it provided a spark for people to be outwardly aggressive with their antisemitism.” Tissenbaum decided to retire early from TMU. He stepped away in August 2024. “I retired primarily due to the increased antisemitism being experienced on campus due to the lack of administrative support from the president down,” he wrote the Post. Although Tissenbaum said he did not feel physically threatened on campus, he believes the treatment Jewish students have endured in recent years is not conducive to a healthy learning atmosphere. The entrepreneurship professor sees TMU’s troubles since the October 7 terrorist attacks as part of a broader national malaise. “What’s happening in TMU is a microcosm of what’s happening everywhere else. Canada is not a safe place,” he said. “TMU is not a safe place for Jewish students. It’s not a future.”"
If you see a humanitarian zone and think of a concentration camp, it reveals you just want terrorists to run amok and brutalise the population
Ironic, given that "Zionists" is terrorism supporters' code word to dehumanize Jews
Hamas executed gay members who raped Israeli male hostages, shocking document reveals - "during the October 7, 2023 attacks, Hamas fighters reportedly committed sexual assaults against male Israeli victims, including those held captive afterwards. A source close to the Israeli Knesset noted these incidents weren't widely publicised in Hamas' propaganda due to religious taboos."
We're still told that there is no evidence Hamas raped anyone
Steven Wernick: The double standard that treats Modi like a hero and Netanyahu like a villain - "Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose government faces credible allegations of orchestrating the political assassination of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil, was welcomed by world leaders at the G7 summit in Canada without hesitation. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — who’s controversial, but is the leader of a democratic state that’s under attack — is threatened with arrest by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for defending his citizens after one of the most horrific terrorist attacks since 9/11. This is not just hypocrisy, it’s a distortion of justice. Of course, no democracy is above scrutiny. Legitimate criticism of Israel’s wartime conduct — its proportionality, its humanitarian policies, its political leadership — is not only warranted, but necessary. Democracies thrive on accountability. But there is a profound difference between such critiques and the morally bankrupt equivalence that treats a sovereign state defending its citizens as indistinguishable from terrorists who deliberately target civilians. Let’s be clear: Netanyahu is far from a flawless leader. His judicial reform agenda has shaken Israeli democracy, and his coalition includes extremist elements that many Jews find abhorrent. He deserves political accountability. But legal accountability for war crimes? That’s a bridge too far — especially when the ICC treats a country defending itself from terrorism as morally equivalent to a terror group that proudly live-streams its own atrocities... The ICC’s pursuit of Israeli leaders while delaying full investigations into far more egregious violations by Russia, Syria and others undermines its own credibility as an impartial institution of justice. The current war is not the product of some ancient cycle of violence. It is the result of Hamas’s rule in Gaza — 18 years of foreign aid spent not on roads, hospitals or schools, but on tunnels, rockets and indoctrination. Calling this a genocide is not just inaccurate, it’s obscene. It weaponizes the memory of the Holocaust and erases the moral distinction between attacker and defender. As the prophet Isaiah warned: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil; who put darkness for light and light for darkness.” But the double standard goes even further. Greta Thunberg, a global voice once synonymous with moral urgency, has refused even to view the documentary footage of the October 7 attacks. Activists set sail on ships to Gaza claiming humanitarian motives, yet say nothing of the hostages being still held there. They speak of “resistance,” while ignoring mass rape and torture. They equate lawful arrests by Israel with the deliberate abduction of civilians by terrorists. This isn’t activism — it’s propaganda. Worse, it’s cruelty disguised as compassion. Contrast that with how Canada has responded to India’s alleged assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia. Former prime minister Justin Trudeau bravely called it out. Yet when Modi is received at international summits, no arrest warrants await. Trade deals are signed. Photos are taken. Everyone moves on. Israel, by contrast, faces isolation, boycotts and courtrooms — simply for surviving."
Samidoun exposes failures in Canada’s anti-terror efforts - "On Oct. 15, 2024, Canada finally added Samidoun to its list of terrorist entities under the Criminal Code. Many observers had long called for this important step, given the group’s well-documented ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a terrorist organization listed in Canada since 2003. The designation came only after mounting public pressure and disturbing events, including a Vancouver rally in which Samidoun-affiliated demonstrators chanted “Death to Canada” and burned our national flag. Rather than signalling a firm stance against terrorism, the delayed listing highlighted Canada’s reluctance to act until the political cost of inaction became too high. To make matters worse, eight months later, Samidoun continues to enjoy the privileges of a federally registered non-profit... A terrorist designation does not automatically trigger the revocation of a group’s corporate or non-profit status, as it should. Far from being a bureaucratic technicality, this disconnect has real-world implications. It allows listed entities like Samidoun to continue to benefit from the legal protections and legitimacy of a registered non-profit, even as their assets are meant to be frozen and their activities shut down. The longer Samidoun retains its status, the more it casts doubt on Canada’s resolve — and capability — to enforce its own national security laws. Samidoun has operated openly in Canada for years, despite credible concerns about its affiliations and activities. Political and bureaucratic reluctance kept it off the terrorist list until public outrage erupted. Even now, no charges have been announced in Canada against key figures like Charlotte Kates or Khaled Barakat, despite their prominent roles in the organization. As far back as 2016, Barakat publicly shared in a video interview: “I am here to express the views of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.” Israeli authorities have reported that he has been involved in establishing terrorist cells in the West Bank and abroad. His wife, Kates, publicly applauds Hamas as “heroic and brave” and proudly attended the funeral of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut last year. None of this information is a secret to Canadian authorities."
Liberal Democracy means protecting terrorists and terrorist supporters facilitating violence, while arresting "incels" and "far right extremists" who say mean things online
Ontario teacher calls 6-year-old Jewish student half human - "A new survey commissioned by Deborah Lyons, Canada’s special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting antisemitism, notes that nearly one in six of 781 antisemitic incidents identified by parents were initiated or approved by a teacher or involved a school sanctioned activity. How is it possible that we have descended as a society to the point where an Ottawa teacher can tell a six-year-old girl “she is only half human because one of her parents is Jewish,” according to the survey? Why is it that antisemitism, of all the hatreds, causes people to act in such a monstrous and wicked way? To hate Jews is one level of depravity, but to hate six-year-old girls because they are Jewish is to plumb the very depths degeneracy itself. But it’s not just the teachers. The local education authorities couldn’t be bothered to investigate half of all the recorded antisemitic incidents, says the survey. Sometimes the victim was punished by being permanently removed from school or forced to attend virtual classes. And parents who raised the mistreatment of their children in a more formal setting were met by school trustees sporting keffiyehs, prominently displaying where their sympathies lay. The rise of antisemitism since the barbarity of October 7 has been well documented: the repeated gunfire at a Jewish girls’ school; Jews harassed as they attended synagogue; firebombings at synagogues from Montreal to Vancouver; the B’nai Brith Canada report this year that said antisemitism had reached “perilous record-setting heights,” all leading to Israel’s National Security Council warning Jews to hide their identity in Canada because it was unsafe for them. This is to say nothing of the constant protests in cities across Canada where Jews are demonized, Jewish neighbourhoods are targeted and the destruction of the Jewish state is openly called for. And as Lyons’ survey makes plain, there is more behind this hatred than merely anti-war rhetoric prompted by the events of October 7 and the subsequent conflict in Gaza. “One is immediately struck by the high percentage of responses that have nothing to do with Israel or the Israel-Hamas war,” reads an analysis of the survey results. “More than 40 per cent of responses involve Holocaust denial, assertions of excessive Jewish wealth or power, or blanket condemnation of Jews — the kind of accusations and denunciations that began to be expunged from the Canadian vocabulary and mindset in the 1960s and were, one would have thought, nearly totally forgotten by the second decade of the 21st century.”... The survey reveals what it calls a “disjuncture” between schools desiring to be caring and respectful of students and the lived experience of Jewish pupils. The poll, by Robert Brym, professor of sociology at the University of Toronto, surveyed 599 Jewish parents who reported the 781 antisemitic incidents. Some of the details: more than 40 per cent of incidents involved Nazi salutes, assertions that Hitler should have finished the job; students removed Jewish symbols and items with Hebrew lettering to avoid being targeted; one in six parents removed their children from school because of the hate (some even moving house), and, not surprisingly, the most common reaction to the antisemitism by students was anger and fear. Antisemitism was particularly rife in the English public system. “In the public system, Jewish students are frequently ostracized, isolated, and assaulted verbally and physically. Jewish schools are targets of graffiti, vandalism, bomb threats, and shootings at school buildings. “In more than 4 of 10 cases, antisemitic incidents are Nazi-inspired, expressing the hope that all Jews will soon be gassed and cremated, for example.” The failure of the school boards to act must also be due to more than apathy. “Little is being done to resolve the crisis,” says the survey. “In about 6 of 10 reported cases, schools do not investigate, deny that the incident involves antisemitism, or effectively punish victims by recommending that they take remote classes or switch schools.” On a positive note, the survey says that many Jewish students banded together for comfort and safety, joined Jewish organizations and “otherwise added substance to Jean-Paul Sartre’s observation that the antisemite helps to create the Jew.”... We have seen the mobs on our streets and in Jewish neighbourhoods. They have revealed themselves with guns, firebombs, genocidal chants and Nazi salutes. But who knew there were so many in the classroom? And when the antisemite is a teacher, a school board member, or a trustee, how can their passion for hate not infect the upcoming generation?"
Clearly, there's nothing wrong here, since this is just "anti-Zionism". Six year olds can be "Zionists" and thus contemptible, because all Jews can be assumed to be "Zionists" unless they prove themselves to be "anti-Zionist"
Ontario's schools shouldn't allow the bullying of Jewish students - "In one incident, a Grade 9 boy was personally accused of being a “terrorist, rapist, and baby killer”; in another, a 13-year-old girl was surrounded repeatedly by male classmates shouting “Sieg Heil!” while making the Nazi salute."
Israel doesn't want sympathy. It wants same rights as other nations - "Israel wants to live. Its enemies want it gone. That’s been true since 1948, and it’s still true today. Every time Israel defends itself, people are quick to condemn. Every time it fights to exist, critics demand it explain itself. But ask yourself honestly: what would you do if your neighbours wanted to burn your house down? From day one, Israel has been fighting for survival. The day it declared independence, five Arab armies attacked, not over borders or policy, but because they couldn’t accept a Jewish state. Israel won, barely. Then came 1967, the Six-Day War. Surrounded and threatened with annihilation, Israel struck first. It won again, then offered land for peace. The Arab world responded:”No peace, no recognition, no negotiations.” And the latest was so brutal and savage, and yet within hours, the world turned on Israel again... When Israel responded to rocket fire from Gaza in 2014, it was accused of using disproportionate force. When it targeted Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006, it faced global protests. Even after the October 7 massacre, when it struck Hamas strongholds, world leaders rushed to demand ceasefires — not justice. Critics raise their voices quickly and loudly, condemning every Israeli response as if it’s aggression, not defence. United Nations panels, human rights groups, politicians and celebrities line up to judge Israel by a different standard. They don’t ask what any other country would do if its civilians were slaughtered. They just expect Israel to take the punches and apologize for surviving. Why are the rules different?... Jews around the world, including in Canada, are feeling the fallout. Not because they’re Israeli, but because they’re Jewish. Hate crimes are surging across Canada. In 2023, police-reported religion-motivated hate crimes jumped 67 per cent to 1,284 incidents, with 900 targeting Jews — a 71 per cent rise year-over-year... many Jewish families are quietly removing their mezuzahs, the small prayer scrolls traditionally placed on door frames, so their homes no longer reveal that a Jewish family lives inside. Yet authorities fail to do very much to prevent it or to find out who’s responsible. “Let people express their views,” they say. But this isn’t about views. It’s about fear. It’s about Jews being told to hide who they are, stay quiet, and accept that, once again, they’re being blamed for a war they didn’t start... in war, sadly, innocent victims are inevitable. No one wants that, except Israel’s enemies, some of whom are willing to sacrifice their own people. Hamas has repeatedly shown it prioritizes its own military goals over civilian safety, often using people as shields. Israel discovered tunnels beneath hospitals and schools — including one under the European Hospital in Khan Younis, linked to the compound of senior Hamas commander Mohammed Sinwar. The group has stored weapons in civilian spaces and even positioned women and children at the front lines to deter attacks. This isn’t collateral damage, it’s deliberate: hostages being held in bustling residential areas further highlight how Hamas exploits civilians to mask its operations."
Former city lawyer who vandalized National Holocaust Monument pleads guilty - "A former City of Ottawa lawyer has pleaded guilty after defacing Canada's National Holocaust Monument. Iain Aspenlieder, 46, was charged last month with mischief to a war memorial, mischief exceeding $5,000 and harassment by threatening conduct."
How ignorant. Doesn't he know that it was an "anti-Zionist" protest, that by pleading guilty he was encouraging the suppression of "pro-Palestinian speech" and that criticism of Israel is good?!
