Jeff Markus

Hubby of 1 & Daddy of 2...and...Movember!

[Toronto Police Operations @TPSOperations]

MISSING: (LOCATED)
-Esther, 14, was located by police and is safe
-More information will be provided at the Command Post in Earl Bales Park at 3 pm
#GO1005716
^jl

[Sheila Katz @SheilaKatz1]

Over 24 hours later, this did not make national news.

Beth Israel Congregation in Mississippi was set on fire on Shabbat. Two Torahs were destroyed. The fire department ruled the fire arson. Police and the FBI are investigating.

This is the same synagogue that was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967.

Regardless of the findings of the investigation, this is what it means to be Jewish in America right now: antisemitic violence and attacks on synagogues and Jews are so common that they barely register beyond local news, and the people most often naming it, mourning it, and sounding the alarm are Jews themselves.

It also means this: the Jewish community in Mississippi will come together. They will support one another and be supported by Jews they don’t know around the country and the world. They will rebuild. They will continue to celebrate Jewish holidays and live Jewish life with joy.

A Torah rescued from the Holocaust and kept in a glass case inside the synagogue was not damaged. I am holding on to that. Like that Torah, the Jewish people will persist, as we always have.

[Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬 @michaelzlin]

Our NIH grant to discover coronavirus antiviral meds was terminated today.

With this grant, we had developed a better SARSCoV2 inhibitor than Paxlovid, and we recently discovered an improved drug that looks better than Pfizer's own second-generation inhibitor.

[Jeff Markus @Jeff_Markus]

@elderofziyon https://t.co/MuXYzTTotP

[Toronto Police @TorontoPolice]

News Release - Missing Youth Steeles Avenue West and Hilda Avenue area
https://t.co/wCyRpIYHYv

[Toronto Police @TorontoPolice]

News Release - Missing Youth, Bathurst Street and Finch Avenue West area
https://t.co/J0YC9pMSRk

[Jeff Markus @Jeff_Markus]

How Israel worked to renew Gaza’s water supply amid the war, with help from locals https://t.co/fPS2nQ5oNo via @timesofisrael

[Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic]

The Ontario government is shutting the Science Centre today citing an engineer’s report – which does *not* say the place must close or that all work is urgent. What a betrayal.

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

Not in #Israel, not in #Gaza, but in #Sudan: since April 2023, 150,000 have been killed, 9,000,000 forcibly displaced, and 5,000,000 are starving. Every day, the Muslim Brotherhood-led Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) conduct airstrikes on hospitals, schools, churches, and mosques, destroying 86% of them. Why does the world refuse to protest or condemn these atrocities? Why aren't there cries of "From the river to the land, Sudan will be free" or "Free, free Sudan"? Do those students even know where Sudan is? How about "Black Lives Matter," "Africa matters," or "Muslim lives matter"? Sudan embodies all of these causes, yet it receives zero attention, allowing Muslim Brotherhood terrorists leading the army to kill people daily. Do you think the International Criminal Court will intervene, or are they too busy with Israel and Jews alone?

[Amy Spitalnick @amyspitalnick]

Last night, the homes of the @brooklynmuseum director and multiple Jewish board members were vandalized.

Make no mistake: this is vile antisemitism and it is making Jews - and everyone - unsafe.

[Jeff Markus @Jeff_Markus]

@tomlotzy @TheMossadIL Toronto, Canada

[Eitan Chitayat @EitanChitayat]

You’ll never forget this

#humanity

[TDSB Tamil @TDSB_Tamil]

The holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution & murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Today, on January 27, we observe the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

On Holocaust Memorial Day remember that the Holocaust was a genocide aimed at Jewish people. Yes there were other victims of the Nazis and there were other genocides.

But the Holocaust is the genocidal event that targeted Jews.

Stop erasing that.

[Aizenberg @Aizenberg55]

🧵Critical Thread. Close review of Gaza casualty figures reported by UN OCHA based on daily Hamas “Ministry of Health” numbers proves they are FALSIFIED. Women & children are grossly inflated. This is easily proven but media ignores. See detailed expose below: 1/

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Shocking news about disruption of Ottawa pro-Israel rally

[Steve McDonald @koshermcdonald]

I can confirm this is true.

@UJAFederation booked 72 buses through various companies. One was responsible for 17 buses. They wanted full advance payment, which we did.

They didn’t show up. No explanation. Silence.

Sickening and outrageous. And our lawyers are very much on it.

[David Jacobs @DrJacobsRad]

17 buses did not show up today to bring children from Jewish High Schools to Ottawa for the Rally for the Jewish People.

The same thing happened in Washington DC.

This is anti-semitism and there should be repercussions.

#Antisemitism #Cdnpoli

[Yoni Freedhoff @YoniFreedhoff]

Today there is a rally against antisemitism in Ottawa. Whatsapp chatter from Toronto reports this morning a bus company cancelled 17 buses that had been charted to bring some of Toronto's Jewish community to Ottawa. Tell me again how antizionism isn't antisemitism.

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

The Story of Palestine Free from the River to the Sea:
In Dec. 1973, Egyptian president Sadat realized that the Arabs could never defeat Israel militarily (after their success in the 1973 war that was reversed). Saudi Arabia also understood that it couldn't twist West's arm economically through the oil boycott, which it ended in March 1974. The two Arab powers decided to sue for peace with #Israel and accept Israel's 1967 proposal of land-for-peace: Israel implements UNSC 242 by withdrawing to Armistice Line as it stood on June 4, 1967. Egypt and Syria would get their territory back, Palestinians would build their state on West Bank and Gaza.
Instigated by crazy radicals like Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, and Syria's Assad, Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) met in Cairo in 1974, declared opposition to a final settlement per 242, said will take 1967 territory to build a Palestinian state, from which they would continue the struggle until they "fulfilled the liberation of all the Palestinian soil as a first step toward total Arab unity" (i.e. 22 states merging into one).
This PLO statement publicized the phrase "All the Palestinian Soil," which was hard to chant in rallies, so the protesters came up with an equivalent: From water to water, Palestine [will always be] Arab. On posters, the two slogans merged into "All the #Palestinian Soil, From the River to the Sea." These slogan mean the totaly elimination of Israel and its replacement with an Arab Palestine that merges into the Great Arab State (wishful thinking).
The most famous "All Palestinian Soil" was drawn as a cartoon by caricaturist Naji Al-Ali, a hand writing the word Palestine with a bullet on top of "All the National Soil."
From the River to the Sea has ONE meaning only: Destroy Israel and replace it by Palestine. If you say otherwise, you either don't know or know and lie.