Living the Dream in Assadville

Syria's warlords were nobodies. Now they are rich men with sex slaves

Elizabeth May "Ponders Future" In Light of the Greens Becoming Canada's First Official Israel-Hate Party

Not only is she going to "ponder," she's also planning to "reflect":

Elizabeth May says she's going to reflect on her future role as leader of the Green Party, after its members voted in favour of a resolution supporting sanctions against Israel, despite her own opposition to it. 

The Greens became Canada's first federal party to endorse the so-called Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement during the party's biennial convention in Ottawa over the weekend. Some Canadian Jewish groups denounced the Green Party for supporting a boycott policy against Israel. The House of Commons condemned the movement in February. 

"I'm going away for the first week off I've had off since Christmas and I will be doing a lot of reflecting," May said Tuesday morning in an interview with CBC Radio's On the Island. 

"It's only been since the convention that I've been wondering what's the best way to get this position reversed so that in the next election Green Party candidates across Canada are not facing a complete distraction of an issue," she told CBC's Khalil Akhtar...

"The best way to get this position reversed"? In the words of Jewish canary Carole King (nee Klein), it's too late, baby.

Life in Gaza: Swimming Pools. Movie Stars

Well, maybe not movie stars. But the Gaza that's depicted in a Hamas election video sure looks a lot more like Beverly Hills than it does an Auschwitz.

World Social Forum 2016: Just Another Joke of an International Gathering that Gets Its Jollies By Trashing Israel

The goal of the World Social Forum 2016, which gets underway in Montreal today, is

to gather tens of thousands of people from groups in civil society, organizations and social movements who want to build a sustainable and inclusive world, where every person and every people has its place and can make its voice heard.

According to a report in the National Post, however, there's one wee nation which these virtuous ones wish to exclude from their avid inclusivity (my bolds):

Along with eco-responsibility, accessibility and security, the Forum has identified “non-apartheid” as one of its four key commitments, promising to censor pro-Israel viewpoints. “We have already taken a stand to exclude all people, organizations or activities that promote any kind of oppression, supporting Palestinians and all the people struggling for their emancipation and freedom,” its website says. An accompanying document advises the boycott of academics, artists and products it links to “Israeli apartheid.” The CIJA has identified 28 separate events that it says target Israel. Two of the event’s 21 major sessions deal with “Israeli apartheid.”

Because of the deranged focus on Israeli malfeasance, as well as the presence of an egregiously anti-Semitic cartoon on the WSF site, the Canadian government has now rescinded its support:

MPs Anthony Housefather, representing the Montreal riding of Mount Royal, and Michael Levitt, representing the Toronto riding of York Centre, also took exception to the World Social Forum’s heavy emphasis on the anti-Israel BDS movement. 

“The Prime Minister, the Government of Canada, and the Canadian Parliament have been very clear that we oppose the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement and that anti-Semitism is never acceptable,” the MPs said in a statement. 

Forum organizers cancelled a session that had been scheduled to show how Islamist terrorists are “in the service of world Zionism-capitalism.” The page for the event had featured a cartoon of a hook-nosed orthodox Jew with a Star of David on his hat, a drawing that Reuben Poupko, co-chairman of Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) Quebec, said was “not so different from those that appeared in Nazi papers.”

Not surprisingly, the chap behind the cancelled session is in major freak out mode (a la an irate Al Quds Day "protester" at Queen's Park):

For an event to be removed it has to violate the Forum’s principles, which prohibit proselytism, violence and political partisanship. Seyyed Ali Mousavi, organizer of the workshop that featured the offensive cartoon, was livid that his event was judged to contravene Forum principles. 

“World Social Forum is occupied by Israeli tanks and petrodollars Saudi Arabia,” he wrote on the Forum website. 

Hey, tell us something we don't know, Seyyed.

If Seyyed is an example of the sort of "inclusiveness" aficionado who will be participating in this event, the government should have done some due diligence before granting its imprimatur. Now that the chat is out of the bag re the forum's mindset, there is absolutely no excuse for these organizations/institutions, including the Quebec government and McGill University, to continue their partnership.

Update: From the sounds of it, this is a Marxist-Islamist jubilee (and, yes, both Naomi Klein and Harpoon Siddiqui will be speaking here).

World Social Forum 2016: Israel-hate is in the air

and on the agenda.

Meet Another Disgusting Useful Jewish Idiot--Author Ben Ehrenreich

As a piece in Tablet recounts, Ehrenreich has written a much-praised book (praised by the usual high profile anti-Israel news outlets, that is) expressing sympathy for the Sbarro bomber and his clan:

“Fire was lit in the body / Don’t just stand by perplexed / Remember the day the restaurant burned / Remember the day the roof flew away / What prevents honor from returning? / What prevents the rebels from laughing?” These are the first lines from a rhyme by Ahlam Tamimi, the proud mastermind of a bombing targeting a Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem 15 years ago, on Aug. 9, 2001. The terror attack claimed the lives of seven children and eight adults, including a pregnant woman; 130 people suffered injuries; one young mother was left in a permanent vegetative state. 

When Ahlam Tamimi posted her ghastly commemorative rhyme last September on her Facebook page—which is adorned with images of the suicide bomber who carried out the attack—she didn’t just wax nostalgic about a massacre of civilians she had planned and helped to perpetrate. She went on to urge Palestinians to intensify the wave of terror attacks that was just beginning: “Try and plan / Try and carry out / Prepare the [explosive] mix / Take the axe / What’s the plan?” One of the well over 100 “likes” for her incitement came from Tamimi’s Facebook friend and relative Nariman Tamimi—a person whom readers of Ben Ehrenreich’s widely praised new book The Way to the Spring got to know as an admirable activist, a devoted mother, a loving wife, and a gracious host. 

Nariman Tamimi and her husband, Bassem, are the first people Ehrenreich lists in his acknowledgements, thanking them profusely for their “abundant help, generosity, hospitality, kindness, laughter, encouragement, insights, and wise counsel.” A raft of highly positive reviews of the book attest to Ehrenreich’s ability to transmit his affection for the Tamimis:  

The New York Times described Ehrenreich’s book as a moving “love letter to Palestine” that is full of “heartbreaking and eye-opening” stories; similarly, The Economist praised Ehrenreich’s “elegant and moving account” and emphasized that “[it] is in the author’s descriptions of the Tamimis that the hope, and the love, are to be found.” 

For the families of the victims of the Sbarro bombing, it must be bitter to know that on the 15th anniversary of this atrocity a well-regarded American writer is successfully promoting a book that paints a glowing picture of the perpetrator’s relatives, who are to this day openly supportive of terror attacks, including the murders that Ahlam and other Tamimi family members were directly involved in.

 Do I smell a Pulitzer in the offing?

Why, yes; yes I do.

Update: Here's Ben "love letter" to Israel, penned back in '09.

WTF? Washington Times Article Tries to Drum Up Sympathy for World Vision Gaza Exec Accused of Engaging in Humaniterrorism

Is this one a function of the paleo-Right's anti-Zionism, perhaps?

Mohammed El Halabi, World Vision fixture and accused Hamas-funder,

schmoozes with some adorable Palestinian moppets in happier times.

Update: P. David Hornik writes:

However the case with Muhammad Halabi will play out, and whatever will or will not be revealed about World Vision’s relationship with this official, the problem with World Vision and many other aid organizations lies in a dogmatic insistence on viewing Palestinians as victims and Israelis as aggressors—a dogmatism that appears impervious to real humanitarian and moral considerations.   

In this case as in many others, as Israeli commentator Ariel Bolstein notes, “When devout Christian worshippers in churches across the U.S. donated a dollar or two to ‘those poor children,’ the smiling faces on the receiving end were Hamas terrorists in Gaza."

Green Party Signs Its Own Death Warrant By Embracing BDS

Just wanted to "salute" the Green Party of Canada for embracing BDS, the movement to punish Israel financially for the "crime" of failing to achieve the impossible, i.e. placate Palestinians and their self-righteous, usefully idiot infidel supporters by ending the "Occupation" (of Israel by sovereign Jews).

Instrumental in passing this pro-punishment resolution was a gaggle of Juden seeking to distance themselves from iniquitous Zion (a move reminiscent of German Jews who, in the Hitler era, sought--and failed--to distance themselves from Ostjuden).

These ardent individuals style themselves as "Independent Jewish Voices," or IJV. A more accurate name for them, though, is Anti-Zionist Jewish Quislings (AZJQ). And little do these "social justice"-loving fools realize that by signing up for Israel-hate, the Jew-hate of our time, they have ensured their own party's demise (history having demonstrated again and again that any version of "the longest hatred" is a corrosive which inevitably destroys its host).

Way to go Green Jews!

CBC Reporter Derek Stoffel's Pity Party for Palestinian Swimmer "Denied" Access to Israeli Pools Is--Yes--All Wet

A few days ago, Derek Stoffel, Ceeb mouthpiece for Palestinian suffering, reported on Mary al-Atrash. She's a Palestinian swimmer competing in Rio despite some hardships imposed by those rotten Joooos:

"It's difficult because of the lack of resources for us here. It will be very difficult to win a medal," Atrash said.

There is no Olympic-sized swimming pool in the Palestinian territories that Palestinians are allowed to use, so Atrash practises at the YMCA in Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem. The pool is 25 metres long, half the length of the facility she'll compete in at Rio.

'Harder to practise'

Most Palestinians are unable to travel into Israel, where sports facilities are larger and more modern, because of the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 

"Because of all the difficulties that Palestinians live under … it makes it harder to practise and compete in our sports," said Atrash.

Beyond travel restrictions, Palestinians face checkpoints and a scarcity of services such as sanitation, and in some areas clean water...

The reaction Stoffel is hoping to engender, obviously, is: Damn you, Israel! 

Of course, the truth (also reality, also the facts), happens to differ entirely from Stoffel's awful twaddle, and his propagandistic reportage is criticized in this Tablet piece (although neither he nor the Ceeb is mentioned by name):

If we were blessed with journalists who had the ability to use advanced research tools like the Internet, we might’ve benefited from knowing that the Israeli government office for coordinating activities in the West Bank, or COGAT, issued a statement last month on its Facebook page, making it clear that it would’ve gladly considered accommodating al-Atrash had she bothered applying for a permit to train in Jerusalem—which, like Palestinian athletes before her, she refused to do—and wishing her the best of luck anyway. It might’ve also been helpful to note that plenty of athletes around the world, including here in the United States, train, like al-Atrash, in semi-Olympic 25 meter pools, and that to qualify for the Olympics al-Atrash had to have qualified in a regulation-sized pool, which makes the whole access question a rather minor one. But never mind all that, because the Palestinian Territories, you see, have not one Olympic pool but several.

There’s this luxurious one in Gaza, built, maybe, with some of the leftover cement Hamas could spare after squandering billions on its terror tunnels; there’s one in Nablus; and when I called the folks over at the Murad resort in al-Atrash’s native Beit Sakhour, they assured me that their pool, too, was properly Olympically endowed. Water water everywhere, then, and not a drop for swimming.

Maybe the deprived Ms. al-Atrash could get World Vision to sponsor her.

Update: Honest Reporting Canada has filed a complaint about Stoffel's biased coverage.

Syria's "Huddled Masses"...Hate Israel and the U.S.

Are these masses "yearning to breathe free or yearning to breathe sharia?," asks a very rude Arutz Sheva opiner (who must be a "racist" for daring to express such an un-PC thought). He continues:

Regardless, the Obama administration has fast-tracked some 10,000 Syrian refugees into the United States. 

Or rather, 10,000 more. 

Those that are already here will be permitted to stay and apply for benefits that normally go to actual citizens. Same deal for newer arrivals. 

Not all are Syrian, the number includes Afghans and Somalis, among others, but most are men, men without women, between the ages of 18 and 45. 

Liberals call it a humanitarian gesture. Trump and other conservatives call it “a great Trojan Horse.” 

“We don’t know who they are,” says Trump.

No, we don’t.

“We don’t know their intentions.”

True. However, we do know that over the years Syria was never a friend of Israel or of the United States. We know that when it was time to chant  “Death to Israel” and when it was time to burn the American flag, Syrians were among the first to join the performance.

There is no doubt that eventually they will be given a path to citizenship, which means a path to vote.

Which means a path to vote Democrat. That’s why Hillary Clinton wants even more of them.

Justin Trudeau, too.

Pakistan's Top Religious Body Insists That ALL the Koran's Jihad Verses Be Taught in School

I agree. Why try to hide things that are right there in the text? Why pretend that Islam is all about love and sunshine when, in fact, it's about conquest via holy war?:

Expressing concern over excluding proposed jihad verses from the school curriculum, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), top religious advisory body, has demanded the Pakistan Government to include the said verses. The concerns were raised during the CII meeting chaired by Maulana Muhammad Khan Sheerani earlier on Tuesday, reports the Express Tribune. 

The Federal Education and Professional Training Ministry had earlier finalised its proposed curriculum for public educational institutions in which it pitched to introduce teaching of the holy Quran as a compulsory subject from first to twelfth standard. The recommendations’ final draft was submitted to the CII for review, but when it found that the ministry did not include verses of jihad in the proposed curriculum, it irked the members who demanded the government to include the said verses in the syllabus. 

“484 verses of jihad are mentioned in the Quran but they were deliberately not included in the syllabus so students could not be taught about it,” said CII member Maulana Zahid Qasmi. 

Later on Wednesday the CII rejected the government’s proposal to include teachings of Quran in schools syllabus. The CII members said they found too many lacunas in the books and that they could not be incorporated in the schools syllabus.

"Lacunas"? Aren't those a type of fuzzy South American animal?

What the heck are they doing in Pakistan? ;)

Get out of those books, you fuzzy lacuna!

Lost In Translation: CBC Radio Renders the Traditional JIhadi War Cry in English

Today in Belgium, a jihadi wielding a machete attacked two female police officers. Here's how it's reported on the CBC News site:

Two female officers were attacked and wounded by a man wielding a machete and shouting "Allahu akbar" outside the main police station in the Belgian city of Charleroi on Saturday, police said. 

The assailant was shot by a third officer and later died of his wounds, authorities said. The attacker's identity and motive were not immediately known, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said, but added the "first indications" suggested it was an act of terrorism.

On CBC radio just now, however, the news reader said the man shouted--wait for it--"God is great."

Which, you have to admit, doesn't sound nearly as threatening (or as Arabic) as "Allahu Akbar," although it does sound really, really stupid (as does the contention that the man's "motive" is not yet known).