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Jewish-owned restos in Toronto attacked almost two days ago. Sleepy PM @MarkJCarney finally got around to slapping together a few words. He's "appalled."
He's also full of crap. Carney has thrown Canadian Jews to the dogs. He's an Islamist sympathizer.
Two. Days.
A young Muslim woman growing up & living her whole life among Jews in Israel tells a vastly different story than kids her own age on campuses around the world. Different than western media & politicians, too. Weird that they know better than her โฆ
BREAKING ๐จ Bill Maher: โI live here in Hollywood. I have to live amongst people, most of whom think it's cool to wear the Kufiya to the Oscars and to say, โFree Palestine.โ As if Palestine would be liberated by living under Hamas. By the way, Israelโgeniuses educated on TikTokโwas liberated in 2005 by Israel. Israel gave it back and said, โHere you have your land again. You do something with it.โ And this is what they did with it... It could have been Dubai.โ
HAMAS BURNT HER TO DEATH
Shani Gabay (25) was shot in the leg then burned to death in the October 7th terror attack. Her body was so badly burned by Hamas that her body melted into another women's body, causing a tragic mix-up no parent should ever have to endure onto of losing their child.
As long as her family is still hurting for her loss, we will remember her.
๐ฏ๏ธShani Gabay
This is a true story. Google it. Copy and paste this for your own social media accounts. Don't let Shani's light go out.
Heartbreaking ๐ 32-year-old Benayahu Melat is the man who was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist today when he rushed to help Israeli hikers as they were attacked by Palestinian terrorists in Samaria.
He leaves behind his wife and two young daughters.
A beautiful and unexpected gift arrived today.
Ashley Jackson โ daughter of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson โ has converted to Judaism.
She wrote it herself, with grace and honesty, in the Washington Post. Her father, a Baptist minister with a complicated history with our people, blessed her choice. He saw her soulโs journey and said yes.
As a Black and Jewish woman she now claims what she calls a โtwin inheritance.โ
And we claim her.
Not as a political statement.โจNot as a headline.โจAs family.
Every soul that finds its way home to the Jewish people is a quiet miracle. Every conversion is a reminder that belonging is not only blood โ it is also choice, courage, and love.
We open our arms wide.
Welcome home, Ashley.โจMay the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob hold you close.โจMay the Jewish people surround you with warmth, community, and pride.โจMay your dual inheritance become a living bridge in a world that desperately needs them.
Am Yisrael Chai.โจAnd today, that โChaiโ just grew a little brighter
https://t.co/ak7JHK6gDI
This letter is one of the best responses Iโve seen..
Dear Mayor Mamdani,
I'm writing from Canada, which means I have no vote, no dog in your reelection, and no reason to care about your press strategy. Except that I do, because it's hard not to notice a mayor treat foreign policy like it's the only portfolio he actually wants.
I'll be honest about how this started. When the video first crossed my feed, I assumed it was fake. Not in the "bold move" way, in the actual "someone ran this through a deepfake generator to make a point" way. A sitting mayor, on camera, gravely announcing he'd exhausted every legal avenue to arrest a foreign head of state, only to concede he never had the authority in the first place. I sat there looking for anything that would let me file this under a bad prank instead of a real statement from a real sitting mayor. Then I found the CNN piece, the NPR piece, the France 24 piece, all reporting it straight, and had to sit with the fact that this actually happened, on purpose, from the mayor of New York City.
So now I'm just curious, genuinely, no axe to grind, from way up here with no stake in your reelection. Whose mandate is this? You ran for mayor of New York. Housing, transit, safety, the budget, childcare, groceries people can actually afford, that's the job description. Nowhere in there does it say "unofficial spokesperson for the International Criminal Court" or "designated antagonist of the Israeli government." Nobody voted on that. There was no ballot line for it. So who exactly gave you the right to carry this out on the city's behalf, and in whose name are you actually doing it? From where I'm standing, this mandate doesn't look like it belongs to the people of New York at all. It looks like it belongs to Hamas, Hezbollah, and the IRGC.
Here's the part that makes it feel less like conviction and more like theatre. Ask yourself the question your video conveniently skipped. If the head of the IRGC landed at JFK, would there be a video? If a Hezbollah commander wanted a night out in Manhattan at some swanky club, would you tell him, with that same solemn cadence, that he's not welcome? If someone from Hamas's political bureau, the men who actually planned October 7th, decided to visit, would you even flinch? Somehow I doubt it. The cameras only seem to come out for the one target that plays well to a specific room, and I notice, from all the way up here, that the room never asks about the others. It makes a person wonder who this performance is actually for.
You don't owe me an answer. I can't vote, I can't donate, I can't even yell at you at a town hall. But the question doesn't need an American passport to be obvious. It's obvious from Canada. It's probably obvious from the moon.
With all the respect you've earned, which is none.
Francine Goldberg
We Jews are forever grateful to the non-Jews who have stood with us since the beginning of this war.
Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts. Israel does not stand alone.