Trump's executive order banning "anti-Semitic" speech will be shot down by the courts and the First Amendment in the US. Is there any chance anything similar will happen in Canada? Serious question; I really don't know.
Think over 20 US states have anti-BDS laws (boycott, divest, sanction) regarding Israel. DeSantis, the governor of Florida, signed his state’s law while he was in Israel. Americans can do all these things regarding the U.S. but many can’t regarding Israel.
Who cares about such state laws? They can’t stop you from NOT buying something, are unconstitutional, and therefore not deserving of either respect of obedience.
Lebanon was the only Christian-majority nation in the Middle East.
It's where I was born.
We prided ourselves on inclusivity. Always welcoming Arab Muslim refugees from all over the Middle East.
We had the best economy despite having no natural oil. The best universities.
They called Beirut the "Paris of the Middle East" and the Mountains of Lebanon was a tourist destination.
My early childhood was idyllic, my father was a prosperous businessman in town and my mother was at home with me, an only child.
Slowly, the Arab Muslims began to become the majority in Lebanon and our rights began to wither away.
Soon, we would find ourselves unable to leave our small Christian town without fear of being stopped and killed by Arabs. In Lebanon your religion is on your government issued ID.
As the war intensified and the radical Islamists made their way south, my home was hit by an errant rocket and my life was forever changed.
We spent the next almost decade in a bomb shelter, scraping together pennies and eating dandelions and roots just to survive.
If it was not for Israel coming in and surrounding our town, I do not know If I would be here today.
Lebanon is now a country 100% controlled and run by Hezbollah. I lost my country of birth.
I thank God every single day I was able to immigrate to America and live out the dream that BILLIONS of people only dream of having.
Now here in America, my adopted country that I have come to love so much, I see the same threats and warning signs happening now that took place in Lebanon when I was a child.
This is my warning to you, America, reverse course now while you still can.
It's not too late to save our freedom and preserve it for the next generation.
Lebanon was the only Christian-majority nation in the Middle East.
It's where I was born.
We prided ourselves on inclusivity. Always welcoming Arab Muslim refugees from all over the Middle East.
We had the best economy despite having no natural oil. The best universities.
They called Beirut the "Paris of the Middle East" and the Mountains of Lebanon was a tourist destination.
My early childhood was idyllic, my father was a prosperous businessman in town and my mother was at home with me, an only child.
Slowly, the Arab Muslims began to become the majority in Lebanon and our rights began to wither away.
Soon, we would find ourselves unable to leave our small Christian town without fear of being stopped and killed by Arabs. In Lebanon your religion is on your government issued ID.
As the war intensified and the radical Islamists made their way south, my home was hit by an errant rocket and my life was forever changed.
We spent the next almost decade in a bomb shelter, scraping together pennies and eating dandelions and roots just to survive.
If it was not for Israel coming in and surrounding our town, I do not know If I would be here today.
Lebanon is now a country 100% controlled and run by Hezbollah. I lost my country of birth.
I thank God every single day I was able to immigrate to America and live out the dream that BILLIONS of people only dream of having.
Now here in America, my adopted country that I have come to love so much, I see the same threats and warning signs happening now that took place in Lebanon when I was a child.
This is my warning to you, America, reverse course now while you still can.
It's not too late to save our freedom and preserve it for the next generation.
Lebanon was the only Christian-majority nation in the Middle East.
It's where I was born.
We prided ourselves on inclusivity. Always welcoming Arab Muslim refugees from all over the Middle East.
We had the best economy despite having no natural oil. The best universities.
They called Beirut the "Paris of the Middle East" and the Mountains of Lebanon was a tourist destination.
My early childhood was idyllic, my father was a prosperous businessman in town and my mother was at home with me, an only child.
Slowly, the Arab Muslims began to become the majority in Lebanon and our rights began to wither away.
Soon, we would find ourselves unable to leave our small Christian town without fear of being stopped and killed by Arabs. In Lebanon your religion is on your government issued ID.
As the war intensified and the radical Islamists made their way south, my home was hit by an errant rocket and my life was forever changed.
We spent the next almost decade in a bomb shelter, scraping together pennies and eating dandelions and roots just to survive.
If it was not for Israel coming in and surrounding our town, I do not know If I would be here today.
Lebanon is now a country 100% controlled and run by Hezbollah. I lost my country of birth.
I thank God every single day I was able to immigrate to America and live out the dream that BILLIONS of people only dream of having.
Now here in America, my adopted country that I have come to love so much, I see the same threats and warning signs happening now that took place in Lebanon when I was a child.
This is my warning to you, America, reverse course now while you still can.
It's not too late to save our freedom and preserve it for the next generation.
When the Christian Europeans pushed the Jews into Palestine, and the Jews pushed the Palestinians into Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and elsewhere, it stands to reason the Christians were displaced too. Like dominoes, there tends to be a knock on effect.
What a bunch of garbage. You are upset that you can’t get enough support as the world’s favorite victim so now you cry that you can’t spread more lies. Pathetic.
I didn’t accuse you directly. However, those on the left stood silent or cheered, when their political rivals were silenced, demonetized and banned. Covid would be a reference point to start.
Lebanon was the only Christian-majority nation in the Middle East.
It's where I was born.
We prided ourselves on inclusivity. Always welcoming Arab Muslim refugees from all over the Middle East.
We had the best economy despite having no natural oil. The best universities.
They called Beirut the "Paris of the Middle East" and the Mountains of Lebanon was a tourist destination.
My early childhood was idyllic, my father was a prosperous businessman in town and my mother was at home with me, an only child.
Slowly, the Arab Muslims began to become the majority in Lebanon and our rights began to wither away.
Soon, we would find ourselves unable to leave our small Christian town without fear of being stopped and killed by Arabs. In Lebanon your religion is on your government issued ID.
As the war intensified and the radical Islamists made their way south, my home was hit by an errant rocket and my life was forever changed.
We spent the next almost decade in a bomb shelter, scraping together pennies and eating dandelions and roots just to survive.
If it was not for Israel coming in and surrounding our town, I do not know If I would be here today.
Lebanon is now a country 100% controlled and run by Hezbollah. I lost my country of birth.
I thank God every single day I was able to immigrate to America and live out the dream that BILLIONS of people only dream of having.
Now here in America, my adopted country that I have come to love so much, I see the same threats and warning signs happening now that took place in Lebanon when I was a child.
This is my warning to you, America, reverse course now while you still can.
It's not too late to save our freedom and preserve it for the next generation.
Read your history. What you call Lebanon was part of the Ottoman empire for hundreds of years with the christians prospering relatively in that part of the empire…until the western Europeans took over and all hell broke lose. First in Palestine then the sikes picot carved lebanon specifically to make it majority christian….now we see the results of western civilized management.
You would have been better off under muslim empire
In the 1930s and 40s western powers, including Canada persumably, were silent about the European Jews. Now everyone is very very busy about being seen to be loudly concerned about anisemitism. Better late than never. Of course then it to took courage to speak out for Jews. Now it pays to.
The first law passed after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia was an anti-Semitism law, punishable by death. 2/3 of the Bolshevik Russian government were Jews. To be anti-communist was considered to be anti-Semitic. Look what that government did in Holodomor and elsewhere. The government was cruel.
Anti-semitism laws are not about protecting people; it’s to give the powerful a weapon.
My reading of history was that nobody wanted an influx of European Jews into their (Christian) country and when the western heads of state fell upon the little known Zionist movement, their prayers were answered.
All the anti-semites got together and basically said "Let's give them their own country and solve the Jewish Question once and for all". After the end of WWII someone found an old memo from 1917 by Lord Balfour saying that Britain would not object to the Jews taking the Palestinian territory off their hands, Israel was born and the Jewish Question was solved.
The Arab nations were glad to be rid of the British and French occupiers and expected Palestine would be returned to Arab control, but no one told them the Jews would be arriving en masse.
Now we have Trump thinking he can just give away the Gaza Strip to make room for more Jews and the neighbours will absorb 2 million Palestinian refugees (or else). SMH
Lebanon was the only Christian-majority nation in the Middle East.
It's where I was born.
We prided ourselves on inclusivity. Always welcoming Arab Muslim refugees from all over the Middle East.
We had the best economy despite having no natural oil. The best universities.
They called Beirut the "Paris of the Middle East" and the Mountains of Lebanon was a tourist destination.
My early childhood was idyllic, my father was a prosperous businessman in town and my mother was at home with me, an only child.
Slowly, the Arab Muslims began to become the majority in Lebanon and our rights began to wither away.
Soon, we would find ourselves unable to leave our small Christian town without fear of being stopped and killed by Arabs. In Lebanon your religion is on your government issued ID.
As the war intensified and the radical Islamists made their way south, my home was hit by an errant rocket and my life was forever changed.
We spent the next almost decade in a bomb shelter, scraping together pennies and eating dandelions and roots just to survive.
If it was not for Israel coming in and surrounding our town, I do not know If I would be here today.
Lebanon is now a country 100% controlled and run by Hezbollah. I lost my country of birth.
I thank God every single day I was able to immigrate to America and live out the dream that BILLIONS of people only dream of having.
Now here in America, my adopted country that I have come to love so much, I see the same threats and warning signs happening now that took place in Lebanon when I was a child.
This is my warning to you, America, reverse course now while you still can.
It's not too late to save our freedom and preserve it for the next generation.
Trump's executive order banning "anti-Semitic" speech will be shot down by the courts and the First Amendment in the US. Is there any chance anything similar will happen in Canada? Serious question; I really don't know.
Think over 20 US states have anti-BDS laws (boycott, divest, sanction) regarding Israel. DeSantis, the governor of Florida, signed his state’s law while he was in Israel. Americans can do all these things regarding the U.S. but many can’t regarding Israel.
Who cares about such state laws? They can’t stop you from NOT buying something, are unconstitutional, and therefore not deserving of either respect of obedience.
I’m assuming you are accurate in your Supreme Court prediction however almost 100 million from Miriam adelson will be trying its best to even the odds
Gabriel
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Lebanon was the only Christian-majority nation in the Middle East.
It's where I was born.
We prided ourselves on inclusivity. Always welcoming Arab Muslim refugees from all over the Middle East.
We had the best economy despite having no natural oil. The best universities.
They called Beirut the "Paris of the Middle East" and the Mountains of Lebanon was a tourist destination.
My early childhood was idyllic, my father was a prosperous businessman in town and my mother was at home with me, an only child.
Slowly, the Arab Muslims began to become the majority in Lebanon and our rights began to wither away.
Soon, we would find ourselves unable to leave our small Christian town without fear of being stopped and killed by Arabs. In Lebanon your religion is on your government issued ID.
As the war intensified and the radical Islamists made their way south, my home was hit by an errant rocket and my life was forever changed.
We spent the next almost decade in a bomb shelter, scraping together pennies and eating dandelions and roots just to survive.
If it was not for Israel coming in and surrounding our town, I do not know If I would be here today.
Lebanon is now a country 100% controlled and run by Hezbollah. I lost my country of birth.
I thank God every single day I was able to immigrate to America and live out the dream that BILLIONS of people only dream of having.
Now here in America, my adopted country that I have come to love so much, I see the same threats and warning signs happening now that took place in Lebanon when I was a child.
This is my warning to you, America, reverse course now while you still can.
It's not too late to save our freedom and preserve it for the next generation.
Gabriel
@ACTBrigitte
Subscribe
Lebanon was the only Christian-majority nation in the Middle East.
It's where I was born.
We prided ourselves on inclusivity. Always welcoming Arab Muslim refugees from all over the Middle East.
We had the best economy despite having no natural oil. The best universities.
They called Beirut the "Paris of the Middle East" and the Mountains of Lebanon was a tourist destination.
My early childhood was idyllic, my father was a prosperous businessman in town and my mother was at home with me, an only child.
Slowly, the Arab Muslims began to become the majority in Lebanon and our rights began to wither away.
Soon, we would find ourselves unable to leave our small Christian town without fear of being stopped and killed by Arabs. In Lebanon your religion is on your government issued ID.
As the war intensified and the radical Islamists made their way south, my home was hit by an errant rocket and my life was forever changed.
We spent the next almost decade in a bomb shelter, scraping together pennies and eating dandelions and roots just to survive.
If it was not for Israel coming in and surrounding our town, I do not know If I would be here today.
Lebanon is now a country 100% controlled and run by Hezbollah. I lost my country of birth.
I thank God every single day I was able to immigrate to America and live out the dream that BILLIONS of people only dream of having.
Now here in America, my adopted country that I have come to love so much, I see the same threats and warning signs happening now that took place in Lebanon when I was a child.
This is my warning to you, America, reverse course now while you still can.
It's not too late to save our freedom and preserve it for the next generation.
Who the hell starts a Bio with "I'm a Jew and grandaughter of Holocaust Survivors"? Is that the new Get-Out-Of-Jail-Card-Free?
Yes otherwise you are tossed into the “self hating Jew” category
Gabriel
@ACTBrigitte
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Lebanon was the only Christian-majority nation in the Middle East.
It's where I was born.
We prided ourselves on inclusivity. Always welcoming Arab Muslim refugees from all over the Middle East.
We had the best economy despite having no natural oil. The best universities.
They called Beirut the "Paris of the Middle East" and the Mountains of Lebanon was a tourist destination.
My early childhood was idyllic, my father was a prosperous businessman in town and my mother was at home with me, an only child.
Slowly, the Arab Muslims began to become the majority in Lebanon and our rights began to wither away.
Soon, we would find ourselves unable to leave our small Christian town without fear of being stopped and killed by Arabs. In Lebanon your religion is on your government issued ID.
As the war intensified and the radical Islamists made their way south, my home was hit by an errant rocket and my life was forever changed.
We spent the next almost decade in a bomb shelter, scraping together pennies and eating dandelions and roots just to survive.
If it was not for Israel coming in and surrounding our town, I do not know If I would be here today.
Lebanon is now a country 100% controlled and run by Hezbollah. I lost my country of birth.
I thank God every single day I was able to immigrate to America and live out the dream that BILLIONS of people only dream of having.
Now here in America, my adopted country that I have come to love so much, I see the same threats and warning signs happening now that took place in Lebanon when I was a child.
This is my warning to you, America, reverse course now while you still can.
It's not too late to save our freedom and preserve it for the next generation.
When the Christian Europeans pushed the Jews into Palestine, and the Jews pushed the Palestinians into Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and elsewhere, it stands to reason the Christians were displaced too. Like dominoes, there tends to be a knock on effect.
You missed the point
Perhaps you are obtuse
Perhaps you are an Islamic deflectionist
Jews have yearned to dwell, be in and return to Israel ever since they were expelled by the Romans.
Reread the article perhaps you might absorb some truth instead of reinforcing your agenda
What crap is this? War is wrong. Hamas terrorist attack oct 7 was wrong. I’m finished with nonsense like this commentary. GTFOH back to Gaza
There is no basis for his arrest.
What a bunch of garbage. You are upset that you can’t get enough support as the world’s favorite victim so now you cry that you can’t spread more lies. Pathetic.
“the test of democracy is freedom of criticism.” David Ben-Gurion.
“the test of democracy is freedom of criticism.” David Ben-Gurion. Funny, Dahlia must of missed this quote.
Leftist hate it when the laws they promoted, are used against them.
I have never once promoted censorship against any kind of political ideology.
I didn’t accuse you directly. However, those on the left stood silent or cheered, when their political rivals were silenced, demonetized and banned. Covid would be a reference point to start.
Gabriel
@ACTBrigitte
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Lebanon was the only Christian-majority nation in the Middle East.
It's where I was born.
We prided ourselves on inclusivity. Always welcoming Arab Muslim refugees from all over the Middle East.
We had the best economy despite having no natural oil. The best universities.
They called Beirut the "Paris of the Middle East" and the Mountains of Lebanon was a tourist destination.
My early childhood was idyllic, my father was a prosperous businessman in town and my mother was at home with me, an only child.
Slowly, the Arab Muslims began to become the majority in Lebanon and our rights began to wither away.
Soon, we would find ourselves unable to leave our small Christian town without fear of being stopped and killed by Arabs. In Lebanon your religion is on your government issued ID.
As the war intensified and the radical Islamists made their way south, my home was hit by an errant rocket and my life was forever changed.
We spent the next almost decade in a bomb shelter, scraping together pennies and eating dandelions and roots just to survive.
If it was not for Israel coming in and surrounding our town, I do not know If I would be here today.
Lebanon is now a country 100% controlled and run by Hezbollah. I lost my country of birth.
I thank God every single day I was able to immigrate to America and live out the dream that BILLIONS of people only dream of having.
Now here in America, my adopted country that I have come to love so much, I see the same threats and warning signs happening now that took place in Lebanon when I was a child.
This is my warning to you, America, reverse course now while you still can.
It's not too late to save our freedom and preserve it for the next generation.
Read your history. What you call Lebanon was part of the Ottoman empire for hundreds of years with the christians prospering relatively in that part of the empire…until the western Europeans took over and all hell broke lose. First in Palestine then the sikes picot carved lebanon specifically to make it majority christian….now we see the results of western civilized management.
You would have been better off under muslim empire
I posted history
Completely off topic. I go blind reading white on black.
I find the article interesting and would love to read more .....but my eyes just can't!
I like the white on black, but I've had enough people say this to me that I suppose it's time to change it.
My eyes say Thank You!!
My eyes are grateful to see an audio play button ;-)
In the 1930s and 40s western powers, including Canada persumably, were silent about the European Jews. Now everyone is very very busy about being seen to be loudly concerned about anisemitism. Better late than never. Of course then it to took courage to speak out for Jews. Now it pays to.
The first law passed after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia was an anti-Semitism law, punishable by death. 2/3 of the Bolshevik Russian government were Jews. To be anti-communist was considered to be anti-Semitic. Look what that government did in Holodomor and elsewhere. The government was cruel.
Anti-semitism laws are not about protecting people; it’s to give the powerful a weapon.
My reading of history was that nobody wanted an influx of European Jews into their (Christian) country and when the western heads of state fell upon the little known Zionist movement, their prayers were answered.
All the anti-semites got together and basically said "Let's give them their own country and solve the Jewish Question once and for all". After the end of WWII someone found an old memo from 1917 by Lord Balfour saying that Britain would not object to the Jews taking the Palestinian territory off their hands, Israel was born and the Jewish Question was solved.
The Arab nations were glad to be rid of the British and French occupiers and expected Palestine would be returned to Arab control, but no one told them the Jews would be arriving en masse.
Now we have Trump thinking he can just give away the Gaza Strip to make room for more Jews and the neighbours will absorb 2 million Palestinian refugees (or else). SMH
Gabriel
@ACTBrigitte
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Lebanon was the only Christian-majority nation in the Middle East.
It's where I was born.
We prided ourselves on inclusivity. Always welcoming Arab Muslim refugees from all over the Middle East.
We had the best economy despite having no natural oil. The best universities.
They called Beirut the "Paris of the Middle East" and the Mountains of Lebanon was a tourist destination.
My early childhood was idyllic, my father was a prosperous businessman in town and my mother was at home with me, an only child.
Slowly, the Arab Muslims began to become the majority in Lebanon and our rights began to wither away.
Soon, we would find ourselves unable to leave our small Christian town without fear of being stopped and killed by Arabs. In Lebanon your religion is on your government issued ID.
As the war intensified and the radical Islamists made their way south, my home was hit by an errant rocket and my life was forever changed.
We spent the next almost decade in a bomb shelter, scraping together pennies and eating dandelions and roots just to survive.
If it was not for Israel coming in and surrounding our town, I do not know If I would be here today.
Lebanon is now a country 100% controlled and run by Hezbollah. I lost my country of birth.
I thank God every single day I was able to immigrate to America and live out the dream that BILLIONS of people only dream of having.
Now here in America, my adopted country that I have come to love so much, I see the same threats and warning signs happening now that took place in Lebanon when I was a child.
This is my warning to you, America, reverse course now while you still can.
It's not too late to save our freedom and preserve it for the next generation.
whoa