No Country For Anyone

From a country that lets its churches burn to the ground:

B’nai Brith Canada says more than 100 Jewish institutions received an identical email at 5 a.m. ET threatening explosions including at their offices in Toronto and Montreal.

Synagogues, Jewish community centres and hospitals in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa are among those which confirmed they have received the threat.

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Ottawa police say they are on site at several hospitals in the capital but indicated the RCMP is taking the lead on the investigation.

A spokeswoman from the Queensway Carleton Hospital in Ottawa said the police determined the situation was “low risk” but an extensive sweep had been carried out at the hospital and grounds.

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The Jewish National Fund is asking a federal judge to review an August 10 ruling by the Canada Revenue Agency that stripped the longtime charity of its tax status. The Fund best known for its fundraising Negev Dinners attended by successive Conservative and Liberal cabinet members alike said it was singled out by auditors: “That is an egregious mistake.”

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Canada has not exported lethal weapons to Israel in six years, Department of Foreign Affairs documents show. Shipment records were compiled at the request of New Democrat MP Heather McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona) who claimed Canadian weaponry “killed over 12,000 children” in Gaza.

 

(Sidebar: how many legs did Omar Khadr blow off?)

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Ibn Warraq was right:

The Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association in a brief submitted to the Commons Justice Committee Canadians complained anti-Israel street protestors have been facing workplace shaming. 

Pro-Hamas demonstrators face blacklisting and workplace reprisal, the association said. The brief follows complaints by a cabinet advisor that employers won’t hire activists,” according to Blacklock’s Reporter. 

Reprisals included “public shaming,” “workplace bullying and harassment,” “poor performance reviews,” “unwarranted investigations” and “threats of contract non-renewal,” wrote lawyers. It detailed “persistent misconduct by co-workers and supervisors including verbal abuse, threats and hostile work environments.”

The association said its Muslim Legal Support Centre received 330 requests for aid in eight months compared to 22 in the same period last year. “The Legal Support Centre has handled 123 cases of individuals who were unjustly dismissed without proper cause or notice as well as 45 employees who were placed on leave for the same reason,” it wrote.

 

The self-pitying aside, no one wants to work with an anti-semitic @$$hole.

So there's that.