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The streets and campuses: "Shots fired at Jewish elementary school in Toronto on morning of Yom Kippur" (https://nationalpost.com/news/this-is-terrorism-firearm-discharged-at-jewish-elementary-school-in-toronto-on-morning-of-yom-kippur)

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Terry Glavin at https://therealstory.substack.com/p/yom-kippur-toronto-shots-fired-again/: '“Why all of a sudden has such hatred found a home in Canada?” Poilevre asked. His answer: “This ideology that seeks to divide our people based on race and ethnicity that has led to these horrifying outbursts of hatred are not from the bottom up, they are from the top down.” That’s true enough, except for the “all of a sudden” part. The Trudeau government’s “postnational” insistence on national masochism by immersion in the polemics of white supremacy, Islamophobia and decolonization certainly provide the cultural petri dish and the federal subsidy incentives for “anti-Zionism” and antisemitism to flourish.'

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Dear Professor Farrow, thank you for this. And I would just add that although the State of Israel is not explicitly religious, I think their military does in fact do everything they can to not target civilians. They are not indiscriminate in war.

Thank you again.

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Sorry professor, but I lose my stomach when you speak of the Jewish people of today as though they are a Christ figure. I couldn’t finish, and I need to unfollow.

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I'd be interested to know what you mean by 'Christ figure': that's not something I said, though it is something that might be said, if said properly.

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And while we are on the subject, let's also increase our reporting on & abhorrence of the apartheid Zionist project and the growing Israeli state genocide that continues unabated, with shameless Western support.

What is the ‘Generals’ Plan’? Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza, explained

The ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza as part of the so-called “Generals’ Plan” isn’t new, but the only thing standing in its way is the will of 200,000 Palestinians to stay in the north and refuse displacement.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/10/what-is-the-generals-plan-israels-ongoing-ethnic-cleansing-of-northern-gaza-explained/

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The difficulty, for the vast majority of us, is access to accurate accounts and trustworthy interpretations. I am not myself a reporter; nor do I assume the integrity of a given report or reporter without evidence thereof. I continue to hold that Hamas must be destroyed and its supporters defeated, which is not the same as approving of the methods or goals of this or that element in Israel. And I agree with this note of caution from Andrew Fox, on the basis of ample evidence past and present: https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/10/17/we-need-to-be-far-more-sceptical-of-hamass-propaganda/

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