It was never promised that certain paths would be easy.
Cases in point:
Canada will abide by all rulings arising from South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), officials at Global Affairs Canada have told CBC News.
The clarification, issued Monday, comes after days of confusion following verbal and written statements issued Friday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly in response to South Africa's claim that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza in its war against Hamas.
Trudeau's and Joly's statements were widely misreported in mainstream media and on social media as dismissing the South African case and taking the side of Israel. In fact, their statements carefully avoided either rejecting or endorsing South Africa's case against Israel.
In short, cowardice and saving face.
That doesn't make Jusitn look better or even impartial.
It makes him look craven and like an enormous, jowlly pansy.
Justin can't afford to alienate everyone, even though, if he could, he would chuck the Jewish vote aside.
(Sidebar: not even your girlfriend is safe, Justin.)
Liberal Jews, one reaps what one does sow.
Never vote for these robber-barons again.
Also:
A Liberal MP is calling on her colleagues in the Trudeau government to officially support the prosecution of Israel for genocide by backing a controversial action brought by South Africa at the top United Nations court.
“I call on Canada to support South Africa’s application to the International Court of Justice regarding the current conflict between Israel and Hamas and the impact this conflict is having on the people of Palestine,” Toronto-area MP Salma Zahid wrote in a statement posted on Twitter on Tuesday.
Some Toronto-area synagogues are finding themselves shut out of a federal program meant to fund security measures for targets of hate crimes, despite a worrying spike in antisemitism in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks in Israel.The allegations are contained within a letter sent Wednesday to Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc from Conservative party deputy leader Melissa Lantsman — calling on the federal government to put their money where their mouth is on protecting Canada’s Jewish communities.“Synagogues, Jewish schools and community centres, Jewish businesses and even Jewish homes have all come under attack,” read Lantsman’s letter, a copy of which was obtained by the National Post.“We have witnessed firebombings, shootings, blockades, and calls for the annihilation of Jews internationally, and sadly on Canadian streets.”According to the letter, a number of Toronto-area synagogues had applied for funding under the federal Security Infrastructure Program (SIP) managed by Public Safety Canada and were subsequently rejected.Created in 2007, the program provides a matching grant for funding up to 50 per cent — to a maximum of $100,000 — for projects such as lighting, fences, cameras and alarm systems.
Burn, fat boy, burn!:
Jewish community asks @marcomendicino about Trudeau’s hypocrisy freezing the Truckers bank accounts despite not threatening anyone and allowing Hamas supporters to terrorize our country.
— Daniel Bordman (@Ranting4Canada) January 12, 2024
It does not go well for him pic.twitter.com/qHXND7NSQ7
Oh, it must be an election year:
The protests that have intimidated Toronto’s Jewish community by congregating on the Avenue Road overpass will no longer be allowed, Toronto police announced on Thursday.
Also:
Hundreds, sometimes thousands, participate. They’ve got professionally-rendered signs and banners. They’ve got transportation, and food and drink. And they’ve got organizers who wear uniforms and control the crowds.
And who distribute the cash.This week, this newspaper was alerted to the fact that a Victoria, B.C., organization was distributing thousands of dollars to anti-Israel protestors. The Plenty Collective, as it calls itself, created what it called a “Solidarity Fund” for Victoria-area “folks or groups” to pay for “costs related to supporting or organizing actions in solidarity with Palestine and Palestinian people.”Said the Plenty Collective: “This fund is to help cover costs incurred when organizing or participating in local actions. This can include, but is not limited to, the costs of lost wages, supplies, items for fundraising, paying speakers, etc.”Priority was given to Palestinian, Black or Indigenous people. And thousands have been paid out for weeks now — typically close to $20,000 every month. The Plenty Collective did not respond to multiple attempts to seek comment.
The video was the first sign of life from the three hostages since Oct. 7. It is not clear when the footage was captured. They are seen introducing themselves and pleading for the Israeli government to do everything possible to ensure their freedom.Argamani was filmed being taken into Gaza after being abducted from the Supernova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im. She is seen screaming, “Don’t kill me! No, no, no,” as she’s taken away on a motorcycle by Hamas terrorists, while her boyfriend, Avi Nathan, is pushed around by gunmen.A spokesman for the terrorist group claimed on Sunday that many of the hostages were killed in Israeli strikes and that the group has lost track of many of the abductees.The Hamas statement came on the 100th day of the war, which included a 24-hour rally in Tel Aviv organized by relatives of the hostages. Tens of thousands joined them at “Hostage Square” to demand their release.
“We are very frustrated and fearful,” says Ashli Waxman, 38, a cosmetics entrepreneur whose cousin, 19-year-old Agam Berger, is one of the hostages still being held in Gaza. “Personally I’m angry, too. We are worried. It has been raining and cold in Israel and every time it rains I think of Agam. She’s in a tunnel, I don’t know if she’s wet, or if she’s cold or if she’s alive. I don’t know if she’s getting food or in the dark. We don’t know anything.“On top of that, there’s the fear of sexual abuse. On October 7, everybody knows there was rape, but we also know from the released hostages that they talked about how people told them they were being sexually abused. With a 19-year-old girl, naturally that’s one of our biggest fears.”
Hamas claimed responsibility for the combined ramming and stabbing attacks in Ra'anana on Monday afternoon, which left over a dozen people wounded and one person dead.
A terrorist stabbed a woman while another terrorist stole a car and proceeded to carry out ramming attacks in several locations, Israel Police confirmed. The terrorist swapped vehicles three times after crashing, the police stated. The terrorists were Muhammad Zaidat, 44, and Ahmed Zaidat, 24, both from Hebron and were later arrested.
Two people were slightly injured after being run over on Haroshet Street, where a 66-year-old man was also seriously stabbed.
Harvard and York are not safe places for university students but Catholic universities might be:
Jewish students are being granted a warm welcome at Catholic universities, which are being deemed a “better option for Jews than an Ivy League school,” amid a surge in antisemitism on U.S. college campuses stemming from a convergence of radical anti-Israel Muslim and progressive groups in extremely tolerant atmospheres.
A recent letter published in the Wall Street Journal describes the decision of one observant Jewish family to send their daughter to Saint Louis University, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious Catholic universities, valuing its faith-centered environment where decency is respected.
“We are an observant Jewish family who chose the Catholic, Jesuit Saint Louis University for our daughter, and she has been delighted,” the girl’s father wrote. “She decided she’d rather be in an environment where strong faith mattered, and people walked the walk, rather than one where piety and morality are unimportant, mocked or even scorned.”
Surely that's an insurrection of some sort:
Anti-Israel protesters appeared to take that literally on Monday at a “Flood Manhattan for Gaza MLK Day” march for health-care event, during which they protested outside Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
“Make sure they hear you. They’re in the window,” one organizer said through a bullhorn, and another in the crowd chanted, about the cancer centre, “MSK, shame on you, you support genocide, too,” the New York Post reported. (The center’s mission—“ending cancer for life” — could be said to be genocidal only towards the disease.)
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Hundreds of people gathered in Toronto’s streets this weekend to enjoy the company of like-minded people in celebrating — get this — the Houthi faction of Yemen, which declared war on civilian cargo ships in November and has since taken innocent crewmen hostage.
“Yemen, Yemen, make us proud, turn another ship around,” chanted pro-Palestinian demonstrators as they marched through the city’s downtown Sunday morning. The tune was catchy enough that it was repeated later that evening as protesters gathered at the intersection of Bay Street and Bloor.
Also - bigotry is taught:
At least 30 Jewish families have transferred out of the Oakland Unified School District over fears of anti-Semitism during the Hamas-Israel war.
Jewish families in the Bay Area progressive enclave felt targeted by one of the Oakland teachers' union and the district at large after educators held a 'teach-in' that focused on pro-Palestine lessons.
Parents Rebecca and Isaac, who chose not to give their last names, told CBS News they made the decision to move their six-year-old out of the school district after what they saw as signs of anti-Semitism.
'There were lesson plans being taught that said, "draw the Zionist bully' or "I is for Intifada, J is for Jesus."' Rebecca noted of the teaching materials featured in the 'From Gaza to Oakland' teach-in. 'And to me, it felt like - honestly - we were being targeted and singled out and alienated.'
While the event was not officially sanctioned by the district, Rebecca said she did not want to take the risk of an educator with anti-Jewish views targeting her son.
The world is silent on the deaths of Christians, even those who should be speaking out:
The persecution of Gazan Christians by Hamas is what led to an 80% decline in the number of Christians, from 5,000 to 1,000, between 2005 and today. Yet in all that time, neither the Vatican, nor the Latin Patriarch in Jerusalem, uttered a syllable of protest at the mistreatment of Christians by Hamas. They no doubt believed that any protest would simply anger Hamas further, and lead to still greater persecution of the Christians in Gaza. But is that calculation correct? By never criticizing Hamas, the Pope leaves the Christians in Gaza without a champion. The Vatican might at least have tried, quietly, to protest the condition of the Christians in the Strip; Hamas, just as quietly, might have responded by promising to ease up on its mistreatment of Christians, in order to head off a public rebuke from the Pope. Why should the Papacy not have given it a try, instead of currying Hamas’ favor by blaming Israel for attacks on Christians it had nothing to do with?
CNN anchor Jake Tapper interviewed Dor Steinbrecher, the brother of hostage Doron Steinbrecher, a nurse and veterinarian from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, who told him that a Red Cross worker had dismissed a concern from their mother for needed medication, rebuking the family that they should be more concerned about Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
If this attitude is common among its number, find another organisation to donate to.
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