Tuesday, November 12, 2024

No Country For Anyone

This is the new normal everywhere.

Instead of attacking the causes, we attack the victims:

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Eylon Levy, a former spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and now the head of an organization of citizens “speaking up for Israel and the Jewish People” since the October 7 attack, says Canada is in danger of being defined by hateful extremism.

In a post on his X account on Nov. 11, he wrote: “Canada has a domestic extremism problem.”

Levy is referring to anti-Israel protests in Canada, specifically to the mobs that appeared at two of his recent cross-Canada speaking appearances in Calgary and Montreal. In both instances, says Levy, protesters wore the Arabic keffiyeh and chanted “Allahu Akbar.” In its most benign expression, that merely means God is great. But at protests, says Levy, it’s a threat, “a jihadi war cry.”

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Herman Loonstein, a prominent Dutch-Jewish lawyer, accused the municipality of victim-blaming, telling JNS that the document suggests that “the Jews did it.”

The report, titled, “Violence in Amsterdam Around the Ajax-Maccabi Match,” was published ahead of a debate scheduled for Tuesday about the events of Nov. 7, when at least 100 Arabs perpetrated a coordinated series of assaults against Israeli soccer fans following a match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and the local Ajax team.

It was the largest-scale series of antisemitic incidents in the Netherlands since the Holocaust and one of the largest events of its kind in Europe in recent decades.

The report’s release coincided with a fresh wave of unrest in Amsterdam that featured the torching of a tram amid antisemitic shouts about “cancer Jews” and anti-Israel protest actions across Amsterdam and Utrecht.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog called the Nov. 7 event a “pogrom,” as did many locals, including Geert Wilders, the leader of the Netherlands’ largest political party and ruling coalition partner. Wilders tweeted following the tram’s torching: “First a Jew hunt, now intifada.” He has called for deporting all perpetrators of the Nov. 7 assaults.

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A senior Palestinian Authority official claimed on Sunday that last week’s antisemitic assaults targeting Israelis in Amsterdam prove that “the world is sick of the Jews,” the Palestinian Media Watch NGO reported Monday.

“What happened in the Netherlands two or three days ago is the best proof that the world is sick of the Jews,” Tayseer Nasrallah, a leading member of the Revolutionary Council of Fatah, the faction that controls the P.A., told Ramallah’s official Palestine TV channel in an interview.

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Clown world:

The Taliban will attend a U.N. climate conference for the first time since their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, the country’s national environment agency said Sunday.

The conference, known as COP29, begins Monday in Azerbaijan and is one of the most important multilateral talks to include the Taliban, who do not have official recognition as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan.

 

 

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