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ICC’S ISSUANCE OF ARREST WARRANTS FOR ISRAELIS

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As much as it may have been the wish of some signatories of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (“Statute” or “ICC”) that member states immediately accept, and / or comply with, ICC arrest warrants – that is simply not required. Leaving aside the precedence of member states not arresting accused leaders wanted […]

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Daily Briefing: TURKEY ON THE ASCENDENCY?

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“Western intelligence agencies are still trying to discern the nature of the relationship between Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), its leader Golani and Turkish President Erdoğan. There is no doubt about their cooperation in intelligence sharing, weapons transfers and long-term strategic goals. The question, however, is whether Turkey merely influences the new Syrian regime or exercises […]

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Sharia as a Weapon Against the West

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Sonia Bailley American Thinker, December 8, 2024 “Recent events in Montreal underscore this crisis, where each weekend pro-Hamas mobs, bolstered by the woke ultra-left, organize increasingly aggressive protests expressing fierce animosity towards Jews.” The global rise of antisemitism, particularly in Canada, is fueled by the expanding influence of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Sharia-driven agenda, which […]

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Canada’s Failing Multiculturalism Needs a Rethink

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Geoff Russ National Post, Dec. 15, 2024 “Some of our leaders, who espouse multiculturalism as the only pillar of Canadian society, have failed to distinguish between welcoming new people and allowing radicals to remake its culture and politics entirely.”   Support for Canadian multiculturalism is not a free-flowing fountain of unlimited harmony and goodwill. It […]

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The Explosion of Jew-Hate in Trudeau’s Canada

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Terry Glavin The Free Press, December 11, 2024 “Reasonable people can disagree about what to do in an intractable conflict, but the denying of what should be uncontroversial facts makes it impossible to have hope.” ‘The Denial Is What’s Painful’ For Sarah Rugheimer, a professor of astronomy at York University in Toronto, the first sign […]

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Respecting International Law Would Mean Disregarding ICC Warrants Against Israeli Leaders

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David Matas National Post, December 15, 2024 “The Government of Canada should reverse its stance on the ICC arrest warrants issued against Netanyahu and Gallant.” The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. Prime […]

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Daily Briefing: SERIOUS PROBLEMS ARISE IN TRUDEAU’S MULTICULTURAL CANADA

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Heartbreaking is a word that well describes the way Canadian Jews see their predicament these days. “I have never seen in all my life such a thing, such expressions from people of all ages, such expressions of apprehension, of isolation, insecurity, foreboding, expressed in different ways.  I see it when I meet with students; I see […]

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CANADA, THE RISE OF ANTISEMITISM AND THE WAR AGAINST JEWS

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By Jerry S. Grafstein* “Are some universities across Canada now quietly instituting “de facto quotas” against Jewish students?”   The roots of antisemitism in Canada are deep, tangled, and growing. Nowhere in Western democracies has the rise been so swift, obvious, and evident. The B’Nai Brith Canada annual report tracking anti-semitic incidents across Canada with […]

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Daily Briefing: THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGING – FAST

“The reality is that we are witnessing the complete and total unraveling of the disastrous foreign policy that began under Obama and was picked up again by Biden, the perverse effect of which was to strengthen both Iran and Russia.” – Niall Ferguson SHABBAT READING: Marat Kila’s Notes on Esau in a Supercommentary on Rashi:  […]

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How the Incoming Administration Can Restore Jewish Civil Rights

Tal Fortgang Mosaic Magazine, Dec. 2, 2024 “Hatred of Israel may be distinguishable from hatred of Jews in theory, but in reality they are inextricable.” As the fall semester comes to an end, there has been only modest relief for Jewish college students in America. A series of congressional hearings throughout 2023 and 2024 led […]

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The Vibe Shift Goes Global

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Niall Ferguson The Free Press, Dec. 12, 2024 “The vibe shift is, in essence, escalation versus de-escalation.” I am a 60-year-old Scotsman with a penchant for red suspenders, oolong tea, and the novels of Walter Scott—so no one will ever accuse me of being an arbiter of cool. But to understand politics and even geopolitics you […]

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Kafka’s Jewishness ‘Can’t Be Extricated from His Work’

Vita Fellig JNS, Dec. 5, 2024 The German-Jewish writer Franz Kafka, who died 100 years ago at age 40, is on the short list of people whose name has become an eponymous adjective. The term “Kafkaesque” suggests bureaucratic folly, but Kafka, whose life and work is being celebrated in major exhibitions in Israel, Germany and […]

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