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Unsurprisingly, last weekend's Muslim Brotherhood conference at the City of Toronto-owned Exhibition Place discussed building a "Jew-free" Canada. Will the Mayor finally apologise for allowing this illiberal hatefest to proceed in a City building?

Trial for Obstruction of Justice begins tomorrow, May 25, 2026. Trial for Weapons Dangerous and Common Nuisance continues June 1, 2026.

@redamon8 @khalidi79397 Obama outsourced the policing of violent Islamist entities in the middle east to the IDF, which was his purpose in striking the Memorandum of Understanding. That's something of a gift to the US and others that's not openly acknowledged.

@tepermanle @khalidi79397 The aid is paid by American taxpayers. Israeli taxpayers should pay for weapons going to Israel, period. Otherwise it's a gift.

A genocide is happening in Gaza, they tell us. Then scroll your feed: Comma Cafee, just opened in Gaza City. Espresso machines, plated desserts, dim lighting. Vanilla Café. Upscale, glass facade. Nova Restaurant in Khan Younis: sleek wood interior, beachfront seating. Named, apparently without irony, after the music festival where 364 Israelis were slaughtered on October 7. O2 Restaurant. pizza, ice cream, milkshakes, TikTok food porn. Open-air markets in Gaza City with apples, avocados, oranges, bananas. Supermarkets stocked for Ramadan with imported goods. A "Gaza Coffee" brand selling 100% Arabica premium beans, taking online orders, with five-star reviews dated this year. Even Al Jazeera's writer concedes the cafes "were built with expensive materials, carefully painted, furnished with tables, sofas, and elegant chairs, with glass facades and shining lights." Now hold that next to actual genocide. Rwanda, 1994. 800,000 Tutsi murdered in 100 days. ~8,000 per day. Hutu radio read names of neighbors to be hacked apart by morning. No one opened a café. Cambodia, 1975–79. Khmer Rouge emptied Phnom Penh at gunpoint in 72 hours. Currency abolished. Markets abolished. Eyeglasses got you killed. Two million dead. The Holocaust. Warsaw Ghetto: 92,000 dead of starvation and disease before the deportations even began. Auschwitz processed 6,000 people a day into smoke. There were no glass-facade espresso bars in Łódź in 1943. Srebrenica, July 1995. 8,372 men and boys executed in days. No restaurants reopened. They were in mass graves. Armenia, 1915. Death marches into the Syrian desert. No imported avocados. The common thread of genocide is that the targeted population is not allowed to exist. Not in cafes, not in markets, not in their homes, not anywhere. The perpetrator's entire project is their absence. Gaza in 2026, by every honest description, is something else: a brutal war zone, partially destroyed, with a population suffering real hardship and simultaneously a place where new businesses open, beachfront restaurants serve customers, and a post war economy is being written about in business pages. Both things are true. That is what war looks like. Lebanon 2006. Mosul 2017. Mariupol 2022. Aleppo 2016. Civilians die and life adapts around the destruction. It is not what genocide looks like. So why the word? Because "genocide" is the most powerful word in the post-WWII moral vocabulary. It triggers automatic legal obligations, suspends normal debate, and short-circuits proportionality analysis. Apply it successfully and your adversary loses the right to defend itself before the argument even begins. That is exactly why it is being deployed by a side that started a war on October 7, took hostages, embedded itself in hospitals and schools, and now needs the West to force a ceasefire it could not win on the battlefield. It is asymmetric warfare with a thesaurus. The rockets failed. The tunnels failed. The word might not. Coffee in Gaza doesn't prove there is no suffering. It proves there is no genocide. Those are not the same claim and the people conflating them are counting on you not to notice.

@redamon8 @khalidi79397 Three ministers and all could end up out of office in the fall. I'm sure you know full well that the "aid" is almost entirely spent inside the US and extremely valuable technology gets developed. Hamas is indeed proscribed in the US, but not its supporters who are US citizens.

@tepermanle @khalidi79397 What's insane is that you don't think Israel's Ministers represent Israel's government. Hamas is a terrorist organization already sanctioned. What's a scandal is that American taxpayers are forced to fund criminals like Smotrich, Ben-Gvir and Netanyahu.

New charge issued against Adam Al-Karim JANMOHAMED relating to the protests against the 2025 UJA Campaign Fundraiser Assembly at Meridian Hall.

The Crown laid an additional Section 319(2) willful promotion of hatred charge this week.

@whereisjarule_ @periodicaudio @khalidi79397 Yes, there are scholars like Omer Bartov who has decided for ideological reasons to damage his formerly good reputation. So? A Blood Libel at Penn - Tablet Magazine share.google/FirrVaGUmBUUeg…

@tepermanle @periodicaudio @khalidi79397 Here's a list of scholars that have labeled Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide, including Israeli holocaust scholars x.com/i/grok/share/3…

@whereisjarule_ @periodicaudio @khalidi79397 What do you think that the International Court of Justice meant when they ordered Hamas to release all the hostages abducted into Gaza "immediately and without condition" in its Jan. 26/24 interim ruling? The ICJ still hasn't issued a final opinion on SA's genocide application.

@periodicaudio @khalidi79397 What do you think the word means bro?

@redamon8 @khalidi79397 One cabinet minister who doesn't set military policy, isn't "Israel's government". The entire leadership of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iran's assorted Iraqi proxies and the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran are all, to a man, dedicated to annihilating Jews.

@khalidi79397 Let's ask Israel's government what they think about it:

@abbyinmaine @EFischberger Claims of being sexually assaulted by a dog in a manner deemed anatomically impossible by experts tend to be "disbelieved" with good reason.

@EFischberger I'll just choose #3 for now: it's widely acknowledged that victims of sexual assault don't always report it initially, b/c it forces them to relive the experience and also b/c of shame and fear of not being believed

Not only does the NYT response fall woefully short — it actually strengthens Israel's legal case against it. 1. Kristof minimizes Euro-Med's chairman as someone whose views "can't be taken lightly" — while failing to note a documented record that includes an Israeli anti-terrorism order against Abdu personally, and a brother-in-law who was a senior Hamas military commander. 2. Kristof cited peer-reviewed medical literature as scientific validation for the dog rape allegation. But that literature documents human-initiated bestiality and one accidental pet incident. Not one paper describes a dog trained to assault a human on command. 3. One of his only two named sources filed a petition with the Israeli Supreme Court after his detention, with lawyers, complaining about the food. He never mentioned rape. The Times calls this "additional details over time." That's not how things work. 4. Former PM Olmert accused Kristof of misrepresenting his words in the original column. The Times response doesn't mention him once. 5. The Times confirmed its legal team reviewed the column before publication. Those internal communications now potentially exist for discovery. The Times thought this response would put the story to bed. But what it actually does is hand Israel's lawyers new material on a silver platter.

@Michael___1967 @kinsellawarren Muslims support Hamas unconditionally, therefore Islamophobia is justified and necessary. 🤡

@kinsellawarren Jews support israel unconditionally, therefore antisemitism is justified and necessary.

Denying the Holocaust. Pushing lies about world Jewish control. Denying their right to self-determination. Dehumanizing, or justifying harming, Jews. Blaming individual Jews for Israel's government. Comparing Jews to Nazis. All are antisemitism. Don't be antisemitic.

@putICEontrial @judeanbloke @HenMazzig A week is a long time in politics, let alone predicting the outcome of November 2028.

@judeanbloke @HenMazzig You have no idea how much I will enjoy the year 2029 (:

No, I cannot believe I have to write this. “Second time.” You cannot be voluntarily kidnapped, and definitely not twice. And being sent away a few hours after doesn’t meet the definition either. Kfir Bibas was kidnapped. Hersh Goldberg-Polin was kidnapped. You bought a ticket. They did not get to come back alive and write an op-ed.

Every country has a right to VBSS (Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure) a vessel in international waters for the purpose of enforcing its own established military blockade. Yes, every country. Including Israel. The Flotillatards make their intentions clear that they plan to breach. The Flotillatards are lucky they get sent back home (at the expense of their fellow taxpayers in their own country, I might add) instead of prosecuted and imprisoned. Stop acting retarded.

@HenMazzig She sailed right into the waiting arms of her "kidnappers" although there were many warnings that the flotilla was breaking a legal military blockade —twice. Now, she's the victim, calling the Israelis "increasingly desperate" but it's the flotilla folk who are acting that way.

@capedjoosader @HenMazzig @slipkn0t8 Haven't the people of Syria and Lebanon suffered enough already?

@HenMazzig @slipkn0t8 can’t they just be put on a bus and dropped off at the syrian boarder? let them find there own way home

Only sick & vile terrorists would attack a house of worship that also has a daycare full of children because they have issues with the faith or due to political conflicts at home or abroad, whether at a Muslim Center in San Diego or a Jewish Synagogue in Michigan. Stop the hate💔

What in the heck is "free Palestine from the river to the sea" if not trying to reverse the course of history. That's literally the whole point, trying to reverse 1948!

English Wikipedia’s normalization of terrorists Izz al-Din al-Haddad, commander of the Al-Qassam Brigades, is repeatedly described as a “leader,” whitewashing his role in terrorism. By contrast, German Wikipedia calls him what he was: a terrorist. Language matters.