The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) trustees have voted 15-7 to add “anti-Palestinian racism” to its updated 2024 special program, Combatting Hate and Racism-Student Learning Strategy: “TDSB trustees vote to adopt ‘anti-Palestinian racism’ term”, CBC, June 20, 2024: ….The board’s learning strategy already addresses antisemitism and Islamophobia. If the board accepts the updates in the report […]
The IDF Has Rafah In Its Grasp
A famous story: When British General Charles James Napier conquered the Indian province of Sindh, he wittily sent a one-word message back to his superiors in London: Peccavi. (“I have sinned” in Latin, which every educated Englishman would have understood). No, sorry. That’s just the story that many thought was true, but it isn’t. This […]
A Former Hostage Reconsiders Her Belief In Peace with the Palestinians
Ada Sagi is an Israeli woman who was kidnapped on October 7 from her home in the Nir Oz kibbutz, and held for 53 days before being released in the November hostage-for-prisoner swap. All her adult life she had been a peace activist, a woman of the left who believed that Israel and the Palestinians […]
Coca-Cola distances itself from Israel, falsely claims it has factory in ‘Palestine’
Since October 7, “dozens of companies, including Coca-Cola, have seen a decline in sales in Muslim-majority countries, with consumers calling for a boycott of firms believed to have links with the Israeli government and military.” So now Coca Cola has taken the art of pandering to Muslims to a whole new level. The company launched […]
How the Washington Post Reported on the Closing of the Rafah Crossing, and Why
Here’s the headline of the Washington Post report on the closing of the Rafah crossing in Gaza: “With Rafah crossing closed by Israel, Gazans have no way out,” by Miriam Berger and Hajar Harb, Washington Post, June 15, 2024: Israel’s offensive in Rafah, aimed at eliminating Hamas’s last battalions, has dashed any hope of escape […]
Biden officials call for ‘urgent’ de-escalation and ceasefire as ‘all-out war’ against Hizballah is ‘very close’
Israel’s defensive war against Hamas and Hizballah is a proxy war with Iran, the biggest funder and front-line player in the jihad war on Israel. Now that Hizballah is escalating, along comes the Biden administration yet again to give advice that it practices as policy itself: appeasement. Nasrallah boasts today about filming the ports of […]
In Gaza, The Famine That Never Was
The world’s media have for months been proclaiming that Gaza is “on the brink of famine,”and that Israel is deliberately preventing food from entering the Strip, that thousands of Gazans are dying of malnutrition. But there is not now, and never has been, a “famine” in Gaza. There is, however, a problem with the distribution […]
Israel: Netanyahu dissolves war cabinet as Benny Gantz quits, ‘no affect on chain of command’
According to the New Yorker: Riffing on the Prime Minister’s motto of “total victory” against Hamas, Gantz claimed that “Netanyahu prevents us from progressing to real victory.” As a result, he said, “we are leaving the emergency government today with a heavy but whole heart.” A Guardian report stated that Bezalel Smotrich slammed Gantz, saying “there […]
Al-Jazeera Caught Censoring Gazans Who Dare to Denounce Hamas
Al-Jazeera is owned by Qatar, that provides Hamas with both money and sanctuary for its leaders, who live luxurious lives in Doha. So it is no surprise that Al-Jazeera reporters in Gaza are determined not to report any negative views expressed by Gazans about Hamas, cutting off interviewees who express anger at the terror group. […]
More On How They Did It in Nuseirat: ‘Fluent Arabic with a Perfect Gazan Accent’
Now that the four hostages recently rescued by the Israelis from their imprisonment in the homes of “innocent civilians” in the Nuseirat refugee camp are safely back home with their ecstatic families, the detailed story of how their rescues were planned and executed can be told. You can find more about the rescues here: “The […]