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Wednesday, October 09, 2024

"Death to Canada, Death to Israel, Death to the United States"

"Decisions to place an entity on the terrorist listing are made based on the advice of our security and intelligence services, who are continuously assessing entities for possible listing."
"With respect to Samidoun Palestinian Solidarity Network, the Government of Canada is examining the evidentiary record available and considering all options."
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc spokesperson
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks in the House of Commons in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)

Marking the first anniversary of the Palestinian terrorists' hideously savage attack on Israeli civilians -- from infants to the elderly, women and girls to border-station soldiers, when thousands of Palestinian terrorists stormed farming villages and the Nova Music Festival in southern Israel, with no lack of evidence given the videos taken and proudly distributed by Hamas terrorists on social media of sadistic horrors being perpetrated -- Samidoun, a 'charitable' organization with status in Canada organized a protest marked for its vindictive hatred against not only Israel and Jews, but Canada itself.

Videos circulating online show a masked woman leading a crowd of hundreds at the Vancouver Art Gallery leading chants of "death to Canada, death to the United States and death to Israel", showing Canadian flags being burned and trodden upon. "We've seen what happens when these groups aren't taken seriously", said Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. He has promised that if his party is elected in the next general election, as Prime Minister, he would outlaw the group and place them on Canada's terrorist list alongside Hamas and Hezbollah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which he adds Samidoun is a front for.

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Anti-Israel protesters burn a Canadian flag outside the Vancouver Art Gallery on Monday, October 7, 2024. Photo by @MelissaLantsman/x.com

Public Safety Canada defines the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine as an "Islamist communist group" for which establishing a Palestinian state and "the destruction of Israel" is their reason for existence. It further notes that this was the first of the Palestinian groups to form "suicide squads". Samidoun, posing as a charitable group, has been given charitable status by Revenue Canada despite Jewish community groups pointing out the obvious, that it shills for the PFLP.
 
Through its chapters established across Canada, Samidoun gains attention through its public statements and the actions taken by its supporters, championing Hamas and the attack of last October in southern Israel. Charlotte Kates, the group's international coordinator, delivered a speech directly following the October 7 pogrom in which she praised the attack as "heroic and brave". She was arrested and directed that she must not participate in rallies or protests.
 
Outside the House of Commons, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre highlighted her comments, mentioning she had appeared on Iranian television to repeat her statements in support of terrorism against Israel. Following which she visited Tehran where she was applauded and awarded a 'human rights' recognition award. Her very words and sentiments are in direct quotation of the Islamic Republic of Iran whose proxy militias include Hamas, Hezbollah and the Yemen Houthis; all of whom, in her opinion are 'heroes'.
 
Samidoun, Mr. Poilievre said to reporters, is prohibited in Germany, and acts as "a front for an already banned terrorist group", in reference to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The Samidoun website identifies as a network of "organizers and activists working to build solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in their struggle for freedom". It isn't that long ago that one of the Liberal government's scandals hit the front pages when it was revealed it had signed a contract with Khaled Barakat, a director of Samidoun, and Kates's husband, whom Israel's secret service identifies as a senior figure in the PFLP. Hired by Heritage Canada to lead discussion groups on human rights.

Mr. Poilievre challenged the government of Justin Trudeau to list Samidoun for what it is: a terrorist entity. Listed, a group's assets become frozen and it then becomes a crime for anyone to assist them in their mission. He then accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of doing precisely nothing in the face of flourishing hatred directed against the Canadian Jewish community by organizations such as Samidoun. 
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly, he pointed out, had refused to condemn phrases such as "from the river to the sea", despite their obvious intents.

The slogan has a readily defined purpose, referring to the destruction of Israel, thus freeing up Israel's ancestral geography to be entirely taken over by the Palestinians who themselves have made it clear they have no intention whatever of suing for a two-state solution; their solution is one state, and it is all Palestinian. The phrase "from the river to the sea", claims supporters of Palestine, is nothing other than a call for freedom for the Palestinians.

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Protestors wave Palestine flags outside Queen’s Park during demonstration. (OTR/Laviza Syed).

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Saturday, June 15, 2024

The Civilizational Enemies Within WHERE IS TRUDEAU?!!!

"[Summer Youth Program to begin Monday; first week focus is] The History of Palestinian Resistance."
"We pledge to educate the  youth of Montreal and redefine McGill's 'elite' [institutional] legacy by [transforming] its space into one of revolutionary education."
"The daily schedule will include physical activity, Arabic language instruction, cultural crafts, political discussions, historical and revolutionary lessons."
Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights
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"SPHR is promoting terrorist propaganda images as part of a summer camp program the group plans to hold at the McGill encampment."
"This cannot happen in our city."
"[We call upon McGill] to immediately end funding for SPHR."
Federation CJA
 
"This is appalling. Look at how they have moved the goalposts. First, they started holding demonstrations every week, despite their tendency to spout violent and antisemitic slogans. Then, they illegally occupied the campus, bullied Jewish students, harassed McGill administrators at their homes, and broke into university buildings." 
"Now, we have a 'summer camp' openly being advertised with images of masked men holding weapons."
"Is McGill going to allow its campus to be used to brainwash youths into thinking that terrorism is acceptable?"
Henry Topas, Quebec regional director, B'nai Brith Canada
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At the camps, Palestinian children learn the art of guerilla warfare.
 
Seriously, this summer 'camp' program is set to progress. Presumably the invitees are children. Youth whose parents, one would imagine, are anxious for their children to be grounded in an 'early-education' ideology of divisiveness and hate, one that nurtures a simmering antisemitism justifying violence of every description from rape to torture to mass murder ostensibly liberating children's minds from the concept of 'doing unto others'; in fact reversing it. 
  • Week 1: “The History of the Palestinian Resistance”
  • Week 2: “The Ongoing Nakba”
  • Week 3: “Different Fronts of the Movement”
  • Week 4: “Media after October 7th”
The summer months are to be segmented into camps 1, 2, and 3 for a complete introduction, education and matriculation in terror. The initial semester to take place from June 24 to June 28; that programming week titled "The Ongoing Nakba", referencing the 1948 establishment of the State of Israel and the alienation and exile from the land (sometimes forcefully but mostly voluntarily) of Arabs calling themselves Palestinians for whom Israel's presence is a 'disaster'.

The second installment of the 'summer camp', from July 1 to July 5 entitled "Different fronts of the Movement" meant to bring the impressionable and eager-to-learn students up to speed on the intricacies of violent antipathy emanating from Israel's 'victims', and the resolve by those victims to 'resist' the 'occupation' that their ongoing violence against the Jewish state and its people has engendered as their target has its own rationale for push-back: survival.

The third and final segment wrapping up the summer camp anticipated to become a roaring success, held from July 8 to July 12 addresses "Media after October 7th". That proverbial fly on the wall will be glued in  absorbed fascination at the spin given the sadistic savagery accompanying the pathological terrorism these students will be taught to cherish and emulate.
 
There can be little doubt but that the 'revolutionary youth summer program' has been inspired by Hamas's own such summer programs benefiting the youth of Gaza where they too are exposed to the detestation with which they must approach the presence of the Jewish state next to their own allotted geography, both situated on historical ancestral Judaic land. What Gaza's children were exposed to and are proud to be part of, is commitment to martyrdom where they are programmed to anticipate their futures as proud footsoldiers in the destruction of Israel.
 
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The UN Relief and Works Agency provides summer camps for children of more than 5 million descendants of Arab evacuees of the 1948 war.
Modelling will no doubt be taken from Hamas summer camps where Palestinian youth are taught how to handle weaponry and how to use those weapons to best advantage in destroying Jewish 'Zionist' lives. Taught to aspire to the glories of martyrdom for which they and their families will be handsomely paid not only in celebration and hero-recognition, but in actual cash funded generously by the West through victim-compassionate generosity and by oil-wealthy Qatar and Iran.
 
The Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, describing itself as a student-led group at McGill University, posted its announcement of its summer camp program on Instagram. Along with the details of its proposed summer camp's highlights there is an accompanying image of Palestinian members of Hamas clad in keffiyehs, clutching machine-guns. These men are what the children to be enrolled will be taught to admire and conform their future thoughts and expressions toward. And what could be more appealing to young boys than the excitement of handling weapons?
 
Typically, while the parents of such children feel they are preparing their children to take their place in a world which their minds inhabit in pathological derangement, Jews are not too thrilled with the prospect of children on Canadian soil, with Palestinian and Arab/Muslim groups committed to destroying Zionism in all its forms being taught by proxies of Qatar/Iran/UNHCR to aspire to terrorism.
"[The classes that will be planned for their implementing of the romance of 'resistance' and 'martyrdom' are to include "Axis of Resistance"."
"An apparent reference to the Islamic Republic of Iran's network of proxies dedicated to destroying Israel and the United States."
B'nai Brith Canada
 
"[I have grave concerns regarding the Instagram post. It has been flagged along with] other recent activities [to public safety authorities] as matters of national security, and [I am] requesting all appropriate interventions to ensure the safety of our community."
"This is extremely alarming. It has attracted international media attention, and many in our community have understandably reached out to share grave concerns — concerns that I share. It should go without saying that imagery evoking violence is not a tool of peaceful expression or assembly. This worrying escalation is emblematic of the rising tensions on campuses across North America, where we have seen many incidents that go well beyond what universities are equipped to manage on their own."
"SPHR has invoked offensive antisemitic language and imagery, and claimed responsibility for the harassment of McGill community members. Their incendiary rhetoric and tactics seek to intimidate and destabilize our community. In recent months, some members of the McGill community have chosen to advocate for their views through open dialogue and peaceful protest. Regrettably, SPHR is not among them."
"[The university will increase the presence of security staff near the encampment and elsewhere on campus. McGill is pursuing legal action to stop the group from using “McGill” on social media platforms and elsewhere. We called on the independent Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU), which lists SPHR as an affiliated club], to publicly condemn this ‘summer program,’ sever their relationship with SPHR, cease any disbursement of funds to them, and affirm SSMU’s commitment to the well-being and success of McGill students of all identities, beliefs, and lived experiences. We have indicated that, should SSMU fail to take these steps, this will be interpreted as their endorsement of SPHR’s activities."
McGill University president and vice-chancellor Deep Saini

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Saturday, November 04, 2023

Condone Hamas : Consign Yourself to Lawful Ostracism

"I trust that the first question that we will ask any potential new hire or student from Toronto Metropolitan University is whether or not they signed the letter condoning Hamas."
"They should also be advised that if they lie in response to that question it is grounds for dismissal for cause."
Partner in Toronto law firm Levitt Sheikh
TMU Students hold signs at a rally outside Toronto Metropolitan University
Students at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) held a rally on campus in support of Palestine on Friday.  Sammy Kogan/TheEyeopener
 
Job interviews with students from Toronto Metropolitan University are being cancelled -- targeting those students who had been unwise and sufficiently unselective while planning a future in law to sign a clearly antisemitic letter in the guise of an October 20 petition declaring support for "all forms" of Palestinian resistance, while denying Israel's right of existence. In total 74 students at the university's Lincoln Alexander School of Law signed the letter that is now coming back to haunt them.

Those students have identifying names that once disclosed will feature prominently on a Google search. Prospective employers, even to accepting them as articling law students are highly unlikely to be impressed, envisioning how embarrassing it might be for their law firm to hire such impulsive people whose view of justice has been clearly corrupted by their underlying hatred of a minority who also just happen to feature prominently in the law profession.

There has been a frenzy of activity among many of the TMU law students, busy deleting their presence on social media in the hope that they can evade being identified. Their logic is also askew; should they not be clearly identifiable, all of the other law school students stand a risk of being considered to have taken part in this despicable display of anti-Jew hate, preferencing a terrorist group's sadistically gruesome murders to celebrate.

The legal community failed to be impressed when the university responded to criticism, assuring its many critics it plans to commission an investigation, and is committed to following any recommendations that may ensue from such an enquiry into the matter. Workplace investigations do not enjoy a high reputation. They are primarily viewed as time-wasters so that as time goes by the issues will be set aside, forgotten, scandal averted.

Committing to such investigations reveals the scenario of those appointing it, depending on the appearance of having done something about an unpleasant incident, the fallout of which they want no part of, viewing the necessity of distancing themselves from both the event and the responsibility that onlookers attribute to them. The fairly universal acknowledgement that investigators end up writing reports favourable to those who hire their services to ensure they will receive future assignments, relegates their findings to the dustbin.

The students who committed the rash decision to dignify a death cult and in so doing revealing their deep-seated problem of antisemitism have revealed character flaws that in and of themselves reflect a mind unsuited to the practise of law. Should they have been induced to sign the letter, just to have the approval of those they admire and like to be around, it would revealing of a similar lack of character, the incapacity to think logically and respect reality.

Those that join rallies or emphatically state their approval of them when chants of "From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free" are either unwittingly or knowingly extolling the virtues of the violent overthrow of a legitimate, democratic country. As such proving themselves ineligible to practise law. Particularly in a country where the terrorist group whose brutality they approve of and methods they extol appears on a national federally proscribed terrorist list.
"Our law schools . . . training the next generation of officers of the court, must not tolerate students who publicly justify the most heinous acts of terrorism."
"This hateful screed is antithetical to the rule of law and those who endorsed it must have no future role within our judicial system. We have written to TMU and fully expect it to do the only reasonable thing and expel all signatories to this despicable letter."
Michael Mostyn, B’nai Brith Canada CEO
The renamed Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), formerly known as Ryerson University in Toronto on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
The renamed Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), formerly known as Ryerson University in Toronto on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

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