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Susan Sullivan's avatar

How right you are! These weak leaders have appeased their Islamist communities constantly! The final disgusting act was recognising Palestine. The Islamists now smell weakness and will be emboldened. It is completely wicked an unforgivable act. These hate marches have to stop, arrests must be made, Universities must be cleansed and the recognition of Palestine must be rescinded. British people are trying to fight against this despicable left wing government. I must apologise on behalf of my Country. My prayers are with all the families that have suffered this evil attack. Also with all the British Jews, they must be terrified. 🙏

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

"Patrons of history know that antisemitism is a sign of a sick society, and it usually portends a steep decline in prosperity and influence...."

Before the epidemic of Jew hate sweeps through a society, another epidemic has preceded it: cowardice.

All of our Western countries have large, well-funded and well-compensated liberal classes—meaning politicians, teachers, writers, thinkers, journalists, profs and deans etc—who in exchange for their status are charged with protecting and defending liberal society, meaning that they should be recognizing and fighting against things that threaten the foundational values of free societies: tolerance, open debate, opposition to bigotry and violence etc.

But in the case of Israel and Jewish people, we've seen nothing but phony words designed to mean nothing but appease everyone: by 10/8 there were disgraceful pro-massacre protests across all our biggest cities and most prestigious universities, met by silence and/or equivocation; next followed the hideous spectacle of deranged zealots tearing down flyers showing kidnapped hostages, mostly ignored or lightly condemned; then of course came the campus intifada, the largest outbreak of brazen Jew hate in recent history, where Jewish students were menaced and Hamas propaganda was passed around like free birth control: and when the rich and coddled presidents of these famous colleges were asked how they were fighting this, they replied in unison that "context" was required—so our liberal class has decided that misgendering someone is a hate crime but marching to "Globalize the Intifada" is the price of living in a free society and must be tolerated.

And these are the same people who've spent their whole careers proclaiming, Never Again! And that they would always be there to make sure our streets aren't filled (again) with roving bands of Jew haters. But I guess that needed context too! Our liberal class are simply cowards at best or complicit with the jihadists of the Free Palestine cult, because confronting them would be too much of a threat to their careers, social status and political allegiances. They have failed all of us and brought great shame upon themselves and their institutions.

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.” CS LEWIS

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Helen Rauch-Elnekave's avatar

Brilliant and, unfortunately, frighteningly true.

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Richard Hacker's avatar

As I have said before in the commentary, where is King Charles? Where is the only person who can speak for all three countries and demand. "Enough!" Are the jihadists going to tell him to go f$%k himself? That I want too see. His mother and grandfather may not have loved Jews, but they would not have stood on the sidelines and watched their commonwealth disintegrate. They must be spinning in their graves.

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Not so young anymore.'s avatar

He’s another idiot for Islam

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Andrew Getraer's avatar

Name a country that has taken the antisemitic path and righted itself before disaster struck. Can’t think of one. It’s too late for the Commonwealth countries.

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Larry's avatar

Victoria Alexander Starmer is Jewish. Such a shanda - married to today’s answer to Neville Chamberlain. Her grandparents and her mother must also be turning over in their graves.

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Hamas thanks these useful infidel “leaders” and laughs all the way to the bank.

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Ronda Wells MD's avatar

“Behold, the Protector of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.” Psalm 121:4

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Reality Check's avatar

"When anti-Jewish protests began after the Hamas-led October 7th attack on Israel, the police should have stopped them early and used force if necessary. It has long been known that stopping antisemitism before it spreads is a key tool in combating it."

Today's attitude towards multiculturism and the blatant failure to stop the rise of antsemitism among these "progressive" western cultures are not only going to see their Jewish populations decline dramatically but also will see their societies plunge towards multicultural suicide and a loss of their own cultural identities. That threshold may have already been passed.

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Bonnie Geller's avatar

The RCMP have no role to play as police officers, except for very specific areas of the law, except in Western Canada where they do act as rural police for the most part, except in BC where some large cities use them as police. Please check your facts before spewing misinformation.

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