No Country For Anyone

The world should be ashamed of itself:

On October 7, 1,200 Israelis were massacred by Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic terrorist group that seeks to perpetuate a genocide against the Jewish people with the violent destruction of Israel, just as the Nazis attempted 80 years earlier.

Although Hamas has made no effort to hide its genocidal intentions — and, in fact, actively shares it with anyone who will listen — far too many news outlets in Canada and abroad have framed the terrorist group as a “resistance” movement, whose dispute with Israel is purely territorial in nature, not existential. In this view, Jerusalem simply needs to vacate some of its historic lands and the conflict will abate.

This is pure fantasy. Hamas, in both deed and word, makes clear that it will stop at nothing until the State of Israel — home to nearly half the world’s Jews — is utterly destroyed. Hamas makes no distinction between civilians and combatants, nor between children and adults: they are all marked for death in the eyes of this terrorist group.

Hamas is just one cog in a much larger wheel, all originating in the Islamic Republic of Iran, which arms, funds and trains terrorist groups, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen.

There is, quite literally, absolutely nothing Israel can do that would possibly pacify Hamas, but that has not stopped countless pundits, commentators and columnists from demanding that Israel effectively surrender to a demonic death cult that seeks the genocide of millions of people.

 

Hamas could always be destroyed. 

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As Jewish students gathered at the Fair, proudly proclaiming their cultural and religious pride, they were singled out and accosted by a group of angry protestors chanting hateful slogans with a megaphone and holding up signs reading “Zionism off our campus.” The terms “Zionism” and “Zionist” are now commonly used as antisemitic slurs when referring to Jews. 

Let me be clear: targeting Jewish students on campus in Canada because of your hatred for the State of Israel is antisemitism, and substituting “Zionists” for “Jews” does not make antisemitic slogans any more acceptable or less bigoted.  

Protesters could have easily chosen to picket in front of the Israeli Consulate several blocks away from TMU. But they didn’t. They chose to come to a campus program, to stake out space directly across from a Hillel gathering, to try to drown out expressions of Jewish pride and to harass and intimidate Jewish students (and those who support and socialize with them).  

This is untenable, and the TMU administration – and university administrations across the province – must take immediate steps to ensure that Jewish students do not face another year like the last one.

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If it makes you feel better, JNF, the Canada Revenue Agency doesn't like anyone:

Documents obtained by the National Post show that Canada Revenue Agency wouldn’t meet with senior officials at the Jewish National Fund for years as it tried to bring itself in compliance with the agency’s rules for charities.

The papers detail a mostly one-sided series of correspondences between 2019 and 2023, in which the CRA didn’t respond to efforts on the part of the JNF’s leadership to fix issues identified in the agency’s final audit of the Jewish charity.

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“The Charity, and its counsel, noted the unusual refusal by the CRA to meet with the Charity despite several attempts,” wrote a lawyer representing the JNF in a letter dated Oct. 24, 2023.

The JNF’s legal team suggested three years earlier that CRA officials meet virtually with the fund’s CEO and CFO, noting in a correspondence dated Oct. 28, 2020 that the two parties had “not had any direct contact… outside of written correspondence” since the audit started in 2016. (COVID restrictions in effect at the time precluded an in-person meeting.)

“Please let us know if you would be open to a brief teleconference or video conference with (CEO Lance Davis) and (CFO Edit Rosenstein) on a day and time that suits you,” concluded the October 2020 letter.

It wouldn’t be until May 2024, just three months prior to unilaterally pulling the JNF’s charitable status, that the CRA would finally give an audience to fund executives. The 11th-hour meeting proved fruitless.

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Oh, dear ... :

Some police officials have accused the IDF and the Shin Bet of withholding security threat information overnight between October 6 and 7, which, if it had been shared with the police, could have saved the lives of 364 civilians who were killed at the Nova party and 44 hostages who were taken.

First reported by Channel 12 at the end of the weekend, acting police commander for the Negev area Eyal Azulai is quoted as saying that the police had always been unsure about the safety of the Nova party attendees and that if they had known about the enhanced security threat, they might have ended the party before the invasion took place.

The warnings that Azulai was referring to led to at least two consultations among and between the Shin Bet and the IDF in the middle of the night between October 6 and 7.