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“I assume this is a different Zarah Sultana MP to the one who was recently filmed clapping along to loudspeaker chants for intifada, on a street in Surrey,” Rowling wrote.
“There is a general sense of uncertainty and concern about what’s happening right now, and you wonder what Jewish life will be like in Ontario,” Jason Cherniak, a center-left Liberal running for office, told JNS.
The French far-left politician has defended Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre.
A bill submitted by Yamil Santoro would change Estado de Palestina street to Familia Bibas street in honor of Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, dual Israeli-Argentinian citizens murdered in captivity by Hamas.
Hisham al-Sayed, who was freed after spending nearly a decade in Hamas captivity, “doesn’t know how to speak, he doesn’t have a voice, he doesn’t remember anything,” his father told reporters.
Although the far-right AfD won 152 seats and would give CDU leader Friedrich Merz a comfortable 360-seat majority, he has already declared he won’t form a coalition with the party.
The Saudi summit focused on an Egyptian proposal for the war-torn coastal enclave.
Israeli troops will remain in key territories in Lebanon until the Lebanese army fulfills the terms of the truce agreement, said the Israeli premier.
Israeli FM Gideon Sa’ar met with top officials from the bloc, despite protests by Amnesty and other hostile entities.
The Dutch government had sought to ban three Islamic “hate preachers,” but was overruled by a court in The Hague.
Helping Gulf countries transform their economies from fossil fuel-based to knowledge-based is part of the formula, Startup Nation Central head tells JNS.
The 37-year-old, who was on a terrorist watch list, shouted “Allahu akbar” before he assaulted a police officer and killed a passerby.
Hamas’s “despicable violation” of the deal “is a stark reminder” of its “barbaric nature,” Danny Danon wrote to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.
