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Levanette retweeted
This is the paramount problem.
“We have to separate Judaism and the Jewish people from Israel”
If the former is true than so is the following:
“We have to separate Muslims and the Palestinian people from
Gaza and the West Bank”
Or
“We have to separate Muslim people from Islam and its teachings.
Israel is intertwined with Judaism. It’s not the same as Christianity and Islam. Israel is the central pillar of Judaism. You can never separate the two. One can not live without the other. Every prayer is connected to Israel. If you aren’t Jewish, you wouldn’t understand. And if you are Jewish and think it is not connected, you have probably never read the prayers or sat at the Seders.
Nobody will define our identity, but us. And us is the majority of Jews. Don’t tell US what Israel means to us. It isn’t just a country, it’s our heart.
Levanette retweeted
Dentist/professor who used gross medieval caricatures of Jews in the PPTs he taught at the U of Toronto was demoted from being dean but paid in full; no real punishment.
A professor at the U of Guelph who objected to a fellow professor - me - repeatedly engaging in Hitlerite descriptions of Jews was left completely untouched, while I - who complained about it was fired for “reprisal?”
Welcome to Canadian academia, where supporting Jews is now a crime. No paywall. All documents attached.
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Levanette retweeted
Breaking: I've uncovered an apparently unreported 2012 Al Jazeera article coauthored by Abdul El-Sayed that praises the Muslim Brotherhood's electoral success in Egypt and portrays the Islamist movement in remarkably flattering terms.
At the time, the Brotherhood-led bloc had just won approximately 47% of Egypt's parliamentary seats, while the ultraconservative Salafist Al-Nour bloc secured another 24%.
Together, Islamist parties controlled roughly 71% of the elected seats.
Yet El-Sayed and his coauthor (a Harvard scholar, because of course) enthusiastically described Egypt's political transformation as looking "more promising than ever."
They also argued that the Islamist parties' electoral successes reflected their domestic platforms and "histories of social justice" more than popular support for their Islamic ideologies.
El-Sayed wasn't merely celebrating the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak. He was expressing optimism about Egypt's political future AFTER the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists had overwhelmingly won the parliamentary elections.
Levanette retweeted
U of T's dentistry dean taught with antisemitic cartoons for years. His penalty: a training course, tenure intact.
I answered a man calling for Israel's eradication. My penalty: fired — for "reprisal."
The letters, side by side 👇
Muslim Feelings Are Still Sacrosanct at the University of Guelph, OPSEU, Humber College, the University of Toronto and Sheridan College open.substack.com/pub/paulfi…
Levanette retweeted
The German police have banned Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi from speaking about a massive anti-Islamic regime rally tomorrow in Frankfurt.
The German police say that they can’t guarantee the security of the event as the Islamic regime has threatened with violence, so the police will stop the Crown Prince if he tries to speak
Levanette retweeted
Listen to my brother Larry.
So the University of Toronto wants us to believe the dean of dentistry had "limited knowledge" of antisemitic imagery and theories to go with. Come on.
The same lecture, with the same images, had been given to second-year students for several years as noted by the Jewish Medical Dental Association of Ontario as reported by CTV. That's not a slip. He picked those cartoons, put them in his slides, and kept using them year after year. One of them was a beak-nosed caricature sitting in a tub of money, which is about as old and recognizable as this hatred gets. So I'd like someone to tell me what, exactly, Dr. Kishen thought he was looking at. What did he think that image depicted? What "visual analogy" was he drawing? The provost's letter never says. It just asks us to take "limited knowledge" on faith, and I won't.
And who gave him this antisemitism training? The letter says he "has undergone training" and "learned a great deal." Learned from whom? How long was it? Who vouched for it? Without that, it's PR dressed up as accountability.
Then there's the line that he'll "remain a tenured faculty member" and be back to full duties in 2027-28. Who cares that he's tenured? Tenure exists to protect academic freedom, not to shield a man who put classic Jew-hatred in front of students, Jewish students among them, calling it a learning experience. He should be terminated. The university's own letter admits the slides contain antisemitic imagery and that the Faculty is deeply divided over it. Giving him a quiet year off and a comeback is not a consequence. A resignation from a job he already stepped away from in February isn't a sanction either.
Let's not call this a win against antisemitism. It's a university protecting its own. Jewish groups, the Jewish dental community included, shouldn't thank anyone for this. They should demand his removal from the institution entirely, and accept nothing less.
And here's what should concern everyone, not just Jews. If this is the standard, a few training sessions, a "limited knowledge" excuse, and a comeback after a year off, then that's the standard for everyone. Any other religion or culture that finds itself targeted by a faculty member at U of T shouldn't expect anything more than this. No firing, no real consequences, just a letter about "learning" and "healing." The university has now shown exactly how far it will go, and that's the bar it has set for every community on campus.
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Cyprus has begun forcibly returning Syrian nationals whose asylum applications were definitively rejected, becoming one of the few European Union countries carrying out compulsory returns to Syria.
Deputy Migration Minister Nicholas Ioannides confirmed on November 3 that the first deportations had taken place in cooperation with Cypriot police and other government agencies.
More than 5,000 Syrian asylum applications have been rejected since December 2024, while approximately 6,000 Syrians have already returned voluntarily and another 6,000 have expressed their intention to leave.
Cypriot authorities are also accelerating the rejection of unfounded asylum applications and withdrawing subsidiary protection from individuals who no longer qualify.
The government previously introduced financial incentives for voluntary returns, including €2,000 per adult and €1,000 per child under a program launched in 2025.
Ioannides announced that inspections targeting illegal residence and undeclared employment will intensify in the coming months, with employers and landlords urged to cooperate with authorities.
