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A reminder that Jews, across the ages, have tried to relinquish their Jewishness to placate the gentile majority, and it always ends badly.

Even if you accept the most anti-Israel version of history and pretend that hundreds of thousands of Jews suddenly arrived in Palestine out of nowhere, the “settler” argument still falls apart. Ugandan Zohran Mamdani, British Indian Mehdi Hasan, and Somalian Ilhan Omar can come to America, become Americans, and not be considered settlers. Nobody calls Trump a settler because his grandfather came from Germany. Nobody calls Americans settlers because their grandparents came from Italy, Ireland, India, or Somalia. The same standard applies to Jews in Israel whose grandparents immigrated there. Of course, the reality is that Jews never “appeared” there in the first place. Jewish communities existed in the land continuously for thousands of years, long before modern Zionism. Either immigration creates legitimate national communities everywhere, or it doesn’t. No double standards.

You don’t have to love Elon Musk to recognize what this headline says about us. A country that spends more time criticizing wealth creation than encouraging it sends a clear message to builders: your success is tolerated, not celebrated. Canada should be the best place in the world to build ambitious companies. Headlines like this make us look like we’re not quite ready for that.

Why is Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow so eager to support a Somali soccer referee who, in addition to having suspected terrorism ties, allegedly wrote that Jews drink the blood of Muslims and Arabs? Is this her idea of diversity and inclusion? #topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli

The new GG's installation speech was a decent example of something that keeps bothering me. Arbour told young Canadians "don't underestimate how lucky you are to grow up here" and described a country "pretty well on the way" to being perfect. Canada is still, on the whole, a good country. But that is a very particular perspective. It is the perspective of people for whom Canada works. And there's a growing tendency among those people who are comfortable, credentialled, institutionally secure to treat any honest reckoning with where the country is falling short as a kind of disloyalty. Mention that the economy is sclerotic, housing is broken or that the healthcare system isn't delivering or that living standards have stagnated, and you're either being unpatriotic or importing MAGA talking points. The effect is to make criticism of real problems socially impermissible among exactly the people with the power to address them.

“Netanyahu” today functions as a boogeyman. He is a hated figure on the world stage because he plays the role of the Jewish villain in the antizionist universe, not unlike the role Baron de Rothschild played in the antisemitic universe. He serves as a scapegoat and a figure of blame. References to “Netanyahu” are regularly invoked to justify and avoid discussion of the explosion of antizionist hate that followed October 7. Rather than confronting the ideology itself, attention is displaced onto a single individual, as though the harassment of Jews, the normalization of antizionist hatred, and the global mobilization against Israel can all be explained by one man, which is irrational and nonsensical.

Many in the international community often do not waste breath to condemn Israel. Will they now also condemn the Iranian regime for raining down a wave of ballistic missiles at Iran, gravely escalating the calm and endangering peace negotiations?

This is an argument that has been repeated often for many years, and here's the thing: Everyone on all sides of the conflict knows deep down that this is 100% true.

On June 7, 1967, the Jewish people returned to the heart of their ancient capital. Jerusalem was reunited in a moment of historic joy and liberation. For 2,000 years, Jews kept Jerusalem alive in their prayers, dreams, and collective memory. Yet for 19 years (1948–1967), the city was divided, and Jews were barred from the Old City and the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray. Since that historic day in 1967, Jerusalem has remained open to all faiths, guaranteeing freedom of worship and access to holy sites for everyone. Jerusalem is the eternal, undivided capital of Israel. 🇮🇱✨

Canada has abandoned a Canadian citizen, Huseyin Ceilil, to life in a Chinese prison on trumped up charges. The neglect of his plight is a national disgrace. Prime Minister Harper raised his case repeatedly, both in public and directly with Chinese leaders. He also met with Huseyin’s family (I set up the meeting, much to the dismay of the mandarins at DFAIT / GAC.) But since 2015 his case has, by all appearances, been treated as an embarrassing inconvenience by the federal government.

This from the Globe is very good

If you can't even call out the problem, you ain't fixing it. The problem in Canadian is antizionism. An obsessive, violent annilationist hate movement worse than any we've ever seen.

Prime Minister @MarkJCarney’s speech yesterday addressing the “scourge of antisemitism” plaguing Canada included many pertinent points. The problem is that it largely avoided fundamental issues: why antisemitism has surged, how it has mutated, who is fueling it, and what concrete actions will be taken to confront it. The Prime Minister stood in one of Canada’s largest synagogues and admitted that “Canada’s civic compact is failing Jewish Canadians” and that “if that covenant fails for one of our communities, it fails us all.” He highlighted the important role that the @TheIHRA definition plays in identifying and addressing antisemitism - for if you can’t define it, you can’t combat it. While the Prime Minister may have hit some of the right notes, he ultimately failed to deliver where Canadians needed leadership most - to name and shame those fuelling and peddling antisemitism in Canada’s streets. There is no need for a Council to investigate this - five years of overt antisemitism, with the past two and a half featuring incessant hate rallies, shootings, and violence targeting Canada’s Jewish community and anyone who supports the Jewish nation state has made the perpetrators of anti-Jewish hatred known to all who wish see. Not once did the Prime Minister mention liberal values that have been hijacked, redefined, inverted, and weaponized to normalize ever-mutating lethal antisemitism. Not once did he refer to Islamic extremism and its role in the antisemitism crisis across Canada. He failed to mention the progressives who boast about diversity, equity, and inclusion yet keep Jews out of their spaces. He touted his own policies and praised police, instead of calling for the most basic laws to be upheld, and for perpetrators of crimes to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And he did not commit to utilizing his own government’s IHRA Handbook. He failed to look inwards, and consider the role his own government is playing in funding organizations guilty of peddling antisemitism, including terror-affiliated entities. While talking about “not importing foreign conflicts,” he failed to recognize the affect his government’s obsessive anti-Israel policies have on the Jewish community in Canada - from claiming Israel has a right to self defense even while cutting export permits for military equipment, to rewarding Palestinian leadership with recognition of a state in the wake of the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust without requiring any reform. Significant and troubling concerns have already emerged regarding the identities and backgrounds of several named members of the Council - one of the Prime Minister's flagship proposals. Most poignantly, while standing in a synagogue speaking about the 3,000 year old history of the Jewish people, he failed to mention the Jewish people’s millennia-old connection to the land of Israel, effectively attempting to erase Israel from Canadian Jewish identity. By missing these points, the PM’s statement will serve to continue the normalization of antisemitism. As Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z”l warned: “Antisemitism is a virus that mutates so that new antisemites can deny that they’re antisemites at all because their hate is different from the old. In the Middle Ages, Jews were hated for their religion. In the nineteenth and early twentieth century they were hated for their race. Today they are hated for their nation state, Israel. What all three have in common is that they are different ways of saying that Jews have no right to exist collectively as Jews with the same rights of other human beings… Anti-Zionism, denying Jews the right to their one and only collective home by misrepresenting Judaism, is the new antisemitism.”

UNRWA should be funded based on the number of refugees it has resettled since 1949. That number is 0.

'We weren't hanging JEWS in effigy, we were hanging a specific Jew in effigy!' It was always specific Jews. The Germans hanged Albert Einstein in effigy, the Rothschilds, Magnus Hirschfeld and Walther Rathenau (before they murdered him for real). Antizionists do Nazi stuff.

The same @nenshi but does exactly the same supporting the Khalistan , Tamil Eelam separatist movement calling it freedom of speech . One set of rules for Canadian separatists and another set for foreign separatists operating in canada ?

The UK government just released a statement slamming Israel for simply building homes. Meanwhile, they haven’t said a word about Afghanistan legalizing the selling of 9 year old girls to be sex slaves. Weird.