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Hamas invaded Israel 2023

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For example, here's an example of CUPE Head Shed saying CUPE Ontario Boss should step down following a recent social media ... misjudgement ....
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Ooopsie ....

That guy is an embarrassment to that union. I struggle to understand how he gets reelected.
 
Not sure if this is exactly the right place, but it. is anti-Jewish terrorism in Canada ... from the Globe and Mail:

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Multiple Jewish organizations across Canada receive bomb threats, police evacuating some buildings​


Police in multiple cities across Canada are responding to bomb threats that were sent to Jewish organizations, synagogues and some hospitals on Wednesday morning.

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

“It’s incredibly disheartening and concerning for Jewish institutions across the country to wake up to a bomb threat saying an explosive device will be detonated at their institutions,” said Richard Robertson, director of research and advocacy at B’nai Brith Canada.

Mr. Robertson said the mass e-mail warned institutions that black backpacks containing explosives had been planted and would be set off in a matter of hours.

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

With the investigation continuing, Mr. Robertson was unable to share the entirety of the e-mail but said a portion of it read: “You will all end up in a pool of blood, none of you deserve to keep living.”

In a post on X, Toronto police said it was aware of the threats and has taken the precaution of evacuating a number of buildings in the area of Bathurst Street and Sheppard Avenue West.

“We are continuing to address the possible impact in Toronto,” the police service said in its post. The Globe and Mail has reached out for further details.

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.


Mr. Robertson said although law enforcement became immediately involved to ensure the safety of the community, now is the time to ensure something like this doesn’t happen again.

“It’s important that people understand the gravity of this threat. It’s incredibly callous in nature,” he said.

More to come.

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Of course there are many non-Muslim anti-Jewish organizations, too, including e.g. Diagolon.
Robyn Urback, writing in the Globe and Mail, chimes in and says it's a very Canadian thing:

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A mass bomb threat against Jews? Who could have seen that coming?​

If only there were signs.

If only we could have foreseen – somehow – that the climate in Canada would become so toxic toward Jews that now, in August of 2024, more than 100 Jewish institutions would receive a bomb threat, warning that the buildings’ occupants “will all end up in a pool of blood.”

“None of you deserve to keep living,” it read.

How did we get here?

If only there were signs. Like, say, weekly protests that regularly included antisemitic chants about sending Jews back to Europe or celebrations of terrorist groups.

If only there was a way to know that the most extreme rhetoric expressed by participants – including those who shouted “Long live October 7″ and “October 7 is proof that we are almost free” – were not simply errant opinions. Maybe we would have noticed it if some people cheered, in Vancouver and Ottawa, when speakers celebrated the deaths of Israeli civilians. Or if a gathering was held in Toronto on Oct. 7 “to honour and celebrate the Palestinian resistance.” Or if, after Israeli forces killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, a group assembled in Ottawa to engage in a “prayer in solidarity with our assassinated resistance freedom fighters.” Perhaps then we might have seen that a rogue voice expressing hatred for Jews wasn’t actually so rogue after all.

If only there were signs that Canadian Jews were being maligned for the actions of a foreign government. Like if, for example, protests against Israel somehow routinely ended up on a highway overpass in a heavily Jewish community in Toronto, or if they migrated outside a Jewish community centre. Or if Jewish-owned restaurants in Montreal were listed for boycott. Or if a menorah was destroyed outside a Toronto Jewish cultural centre. Or if Jewish kids were being bullied at school.

Maybe we could have foreseen that things would get violent if someone shot at a Jewish school in Montreal in November, or firebombed a Montreal synagogue that same month, or vandalized a Fredericton synagogue in January, or shot at a Jewish elementary school in Toronto in May, or shot at a Jewish school in Montreal days after that, or lit the door of a Vancouver synagogue on fire the following day, or threw rocks through the windows at two Toronto synagogues one month later. Maybe then this mass bomb threat wouldn’t be so shocking.

How could we have known that antisemitism would become so entrenched in Canadian society? Perhaps a clue would have been if a Victoria theatre cancelled a play set in Israel, or if a Vancouver comics festival banned an Israeli-American artist because of her past service in the Israeli Defence Forces, or if organizers of an Ontario International Women’s Day event disinvited a keynote speaker for the same reason. Maybe if pro-Palestinian encampments popped up at Canadian universities, where gatekeepers demanded ideological conformity for admission, and some called for globalizing the intifada. And maybe if this was just allowed, for weeks, as if it was normal and acceptable, we might have had some indication that antisemitism – even overt displays thereof – would be tacitly condoned.

Maybe if York University teaching assistants claimed in written materials that their university’s tolerance of the campus group Hillel, which engages in such divisive activities as hosting Shabbat dinners for students away from home, was evidence of its complicity in genocide. Maybe if the president of CUPE Ontario celebrated “the power of resistance” a day after Hamas’s mass slaughter of Israeli civilians, and if he shared an antisemitic video in August. Possibly then we might have been able to recognize that antisemitism had infiltrated some of our highest institutions.

But even then, what would have given someone such a sense of impunity that they would threaten 100 Jewish institutions at once? Was it Winnipeg’s mayor taking down the city’s menorah, or Moncton’s mayor doing the same? Or Calgary’s mayor skipping the city’s menorah-lighting ceremony, or Toronto’s mayor declining to attend the Walk with Israel? Was it the empty words offered by Canadian politicians, over and over again, in lieu of action each time a Jewish institution is attacked?

Or maybe these individuals were emboldened by the national indifference this country has shown toward the targeting of Catholic churches, dozens of which have been set ablaze over the course of the last few years? Maybe it was the constant dismissal of the concerns of Jews feeling unsafe in Canada, because, as many havetaken to saying now, why should anyone care about hurt feelings here, when people are dying in Gaza?

If only there were warnings, beyond the threats, violence, vandalism, harassment, cultural exclusion, institutional antisemitism, empty words and constant gaslighting. And when – not if – someone gets seriously injured or worse, we’ll wish there had been more signs, too.

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I agree with her.
 
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Maybe there is a bit of a reckoning happening. The Ottawa Pride Committee is finding out that a lot of organizations don't really support their support for Hamas.

 
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Maybe there is a bit of a reckoning happening. The Ottawa Pride Committee is finding out that a lot of organizations don't really support their support for Hamas.


There's also this...

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Not sure if this is exactly the right place, but it. is anti-Jewish terrorism in Canada ... from the Globe and Mail:

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Multiple Jewish organizations across Canada receive bomb threats, police evacuating some buildings ...​

More along those lines ....
 
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Maybe there is a bit of a reckoning happening. The Ottawa Pride Committee is finding out that a lot of organizations don't really support their support for Hamas.

For the record, here's the statement that got the whole thing rolling (also archived here) ....
As for the rationale for LGBTQ supporting Palestine in spite of Hamas et. al. not treating that group exceptionally well, this hardish-left piece has an interesting summary of one of the positions being taken by some groups:
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Riiiight ....
 
For the record, here's the statement that got the whole thing rolling (also archived here) ....
As for the rationale for LGBTQ supporting Palestine in spite of Hamas et. al. not treating that group exceptionally well, this hardish-left piece has an interesting summary of one of the positions being taken by some groups:
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As many have pointed out about Israeli genocide of Palestinians. That's been a big fail on the Israel's part.


If I was in Gaza, I'd bloody well leave. My ancestors have left numerous times for greener pastures and better times.
 
As many have pointed out about Israeli genocide of Palestinians. That's been a big fail on the Israel's part.


If I was in Gaza, I'd bloody well leave. My ancestors have left numerous times for greener pastures and better times.
To be fair, very few countries want them and for good reason, as most are toxic. Even the ones that aren't don't have the resources to leave. It's going to take 20 years with new leadership to undo much of the poison created by Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
 
To be fair, very few countries want them and for good reason, as most are toxic. Even the ones that aren't don't have the resources to leave. It's going to take 20 years with new leadership to undo much of the poison created by Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Three generations in my estimation if it’s started now with the newborn and very young
 
That guy is an embarrassment to that union. I struggle to understand how he gets reelected.
Every union I have been part of has a very small group of people dictating how things go. Basically most people don't participate which allows the few who do (generally people you wouldn't want in power) to get in power. A very limited number of members bother to vote.

Last generic union meeting I went to had 30 members at it. For a union representing 2200 employees. I was the only one there who wasn't a union steward or directly involved in running it. They can list and pass whatever motions they want in those meetings. The only time the general membership cares is the important meetings such as contract time. It is the sad reality for most unions.
 
Every union I have been part of has a very small group of people dictating how things go. Basically most people don't participate which allows the few who do (generally people you wouldn't want in power) to get in power. A very limited number of members bother to vote.

Last generic union meeting I went to had 30 members at it. For a union representing 2200 employees. I was the only one there who wasn't a union steward or directly involved in running it. They can list and pass whatever motions they want in those meetings. The only time the general membership cares is the important meetings such as contract time. It is the sad reality for most unions.

I've had the opportunity to work with a few union higher level and shop steward types and always found them fairly reasonable.

In general, in most businesses, where senior management is weak the union is strong - and vice versa.

Kind of like the dynamic between the Officers and SNCOs in any military unit ;)
 
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Maybe there is a bit of a reckoning happening. The Ottawa Pride Committee is finding out that a lot of organizations don't really support their support for Hamas.

And here's how it seems to have been sorted out ....
 
This, in this morning's Globe and Mail, is a big. political and diplomatic win for Bibi Netanyahu:

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Israeli forces free hostage in Gaza as war pushes Palestinians to tents on seashore​

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Israel said it had rescued Qaid Farhan Alkadi, taken hostage on Oct. 7, after a “complex operation” in southern Gaza. It said his medical condition was normal.

In recent days, Israel has issued several evacuation orders across Gaza, the most since the beginning of the 10-month war, prompting an outcry from Palestinians, the United Nations, and relief officials over the reduction of humanitarian zones and the absence of safe areas.
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Now, Bibi can say to Biden, Blinken, Harris and the global media that there are still hostages alive in Gaza and no country can blame Israel for doing everything in its power to rescue them.
 
This, in this morning's Globe and Mail, is a big. political and diplomatic win for Bibi Netanyahu:

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Israeli forces free hostage in Gaza as war pushes Palestinians to tents on seashore​

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Israel said it had rescued Qaid Farhan Alkadi, taken hostage on Oct. 7, after a “complex operation” in southern Gaza. It said his medical condition was normal.

In recent days, Israel has issued several evacuation orders across Gaza, the most since the beginning of the 10-month war, prompting an outcry from Palestinians, the United Nations, and relief officials over the reduction of humanitarian zones and the absence of safe areas.
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Now, Bibi can say to Biden, Blinken, Harris and the global media that there are still hostages alive in Gaza and no country can blame Israel for doing everything in its power to rescue them.
The 6 bodies they found, were murdered just days before.
 
The 6 bodies they found, were murdered just days before.
Yup, and the government has faced intense and widespread criticism over the policy choices that have led up to this. Israelis staged a general strike that had to be ended by court order. There are vociferous demands from large parts of the population to reach a deal to return the remaining hostages and to achieve a ceasefire. I think Netenyahu’s government is on borrowed time.

 
Yup, and the government has faced intense and widespread criticism over the policy choices that have led up to this. Israelis staged a general strike that had to be ended by court order. There are vociferous demands from large parts of the population to reach a deal to return the remaining hostages and to achieve a ceasefire. I think Netenyahu’s government is on borrowed time.

He has been on borrowed time for awhile. Crushing Hamas is the goal, getting back the hostages alive is a nice to have, making sure no one does Oct 7th again is more important.
 
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