What does a bullet do to the body of a four year old child?

If it’s fired from a handgun, as many shots were this weekend at Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School in North York, it can often be fatal. A bullet can kill them with much more efficiency.

Medical studies show that when a child under the age of six has a gun shot wound, they are much more likely to be killed or experience long term damage. Their bodies are so tiny, so frail, bullets can do far more damage than in an adult.

That’s what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in 2012. Twenty children between the ages of six and seven years old were killed in a massacre using a gun. After that bloodbath, an American physician told the National Library of Medicine what a bullet can do: “As [the] bullet penetrates a human body, the energy of the bullet tears and shreds through tissue and bone, resulting in fractures, ruptured livers, and swollen brains, leading to hemorrhage, shock, and death.”

The Toronto Police Service hasn’t said what caliber bullets were fired at the Jewish school attended by children as young as the age of four. But, as they sit around their kitchen tables Sunday morning, debating whether to send their child back to Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School on Monday morning, parents won’t be weighing that so much.

They will be wondering what a bullet could have done to their little girl. They will be wondering if its time to move away. They will be wondering what happened to Canada.

Bais Chaya Mushka is a school for girls. Israeli government policy isn’t decided at Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School, nor does the IDF conduct operations out of there. It’s a school for girls.

On the weekend, two men stepped up to the fence at the front of Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School and fired off several  bullets. They then sauntered to a waiting car, where a third man drove them away.

No Jewish child was struck by a bullet this weekend at Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School. The Jew-hating gunmen carried out their terrorist attack early in the morning. But that is small comfort for any parents who send their kids there. Those parents are wondering what those bullets could have done to the bodies of their daughters.

After the terrorists shot up the school, Mayor Olivia Chow and several Toronto councillors issued lots of tweets of the “thoughts and prayers” variety. But the fact is – and history will record – that, just days before the attack, they voted against creating protective security zones around faith-based institutions. Like Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School. Like a synagogue. Like a mosque. Like a church.

Why did they vote against that? They said they did it because they believe in free speech, but that’s a lie. Speech ends when someone picks up a gun. Free speech doesn’t stop a bullet aimed at a four-year-old.

Here are the names of those who voted against providing some extra protection for places like Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School. Remember their names.

• Mayor Olivia Chow

• Councillor Paul Ainslie

• Councillor Alejandra Bravo

• Councillor Shelley Carroll

• Councillor Paula Fletcher

• Councillor Kandavel

• Councillor Ausma Malik

• Councillor Josh Matlow

• Councillor Chris Moise

• Councillor Amber Morley

• Councillor Jamaal Myers

• Councillor Gord Perks

• Councillor Anthony Perruzza

Those politicians didn’t just vote against protecting religious places in Toronto. They voted to send out an unsubtle message: some citizens are less equal than others. In Toronto, Jews are now less equal.

Chow and those councillors don’t seem to care so much what has been happening to Toronto Jews since October 7, when the world went mad. They had an opportunity to prevent the terrorist attack that took place at Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School. And they didn’t. It’s fair to say that they painted a target on that school.

They’d strenuously object to that, of course. They’d say that they oppose the Jew hatred now seen all over Toronto, for many months. But, again, they’re lying.

By their actions, not their words, we will know them. And, by their actions, we now know what they think about what a bullet can do to the body of a four-year-old.

They don’t care.

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A school for Jewish kids get shot up in   Toronto.

Keep that in mind when you remember the names of the members of city Council who voted against providing protection around faith-based institutions.

These politicians are the ones who effectively voted to declare open season on Jews.

• Mayor Chow
• Councillor Ainslie
• Councillor Bravo
• Councillor Carroll
• Councillor Fletcher
• Councillor Kandavel
• Councillor Malik
• Councillor Matlow
• Councillor Moise
• Councillor Morley
• Councillor Myers
• Councillor Perks
• Councillor Perruzza

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Benjamin Netanyahu is not an extremely likeable person.

In Israel, where this writer met with many people earlier this month, Israel’s Prime Minister was reviled across the ideological spectrum, from Left to Right. His failure to anticipate and prevent the October 7 massacre will never be forgotten or forgiven by the Jewish state. When the war ends, so too will his tenure in power.

But, one, should Netanyahu be the subject of an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC), before a trial has even taken place? Two, does Israel’s Prime Minister, as dislikable as he is, lose the presumption of innocence?

And, three, while we are on the subject, should the ICC be referring to Israel as “the territory of Israel” – and the Gaza Strip as “the State of Palestine?” Fourth and final question: has the ICC ever sought an arrest warrant for Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, whose regime has killed 306,000 Muslim non-combatants?

The answer to all four questions is no. No, no, no, no.

The fact that a publicity-seeking prosecutor associated with the ICC is condemning Netanyahu before trial – which President Joe Biden, no less, called outrageous – is symptomatic of the age in which we live. So, too, the ICC’s relegation of Israel to a mere “territory,” and Gaza to a “State” (capitalized, no less). And letting genocidal monsters like al-Assad off the hook? Again, it is another sickening reversal of reality.

This sort of upside-down-ism is representative of a unique (and evil) phenomenon that is emerged since October 7: Holocaust inversion. Where everything – history, decency, truth – is turned on its head, essentially.

Holocaust inversion is depicting Jews, and the Jewish state, as Nazis. It is turning victims into predators. It is a willful and disgusting distortion of history. History shows, as indisputable fact, that six million Jews were slaughtered by Adolf Hitler’s regime during World War Two, It shows that Jews needed to re-establish their ancestral homeland, to be safe.

Holocaust inversion is like Holocaust denial, but qualitatively worse. The Holocaust deniers that this writer has interviewed, over many years, deny the Holocaust to whitewash the sins of Hitler and his evil regime. Those who practice Holocaust inversion – since October 7, too many Muslims, too many on the Left and, now, the ICC – don’t merely want to exonerate the likes of Hamas or Hezbollah. They want to falsely accuse Jews, too, of mass murder.

As British writer Howard Jacobson recently wrote for The Guardian, the objective in Holocaust inversion is there for all to see: “Charging Jews with genocide is a sophistication on that theme, painting them as perpetrators of the very crime that killed them in their millions, as a consequence of which that crime is abrogated.”

He continues: “There is a sadistic triumphalism in charging Jews with genocide, as though those making it feel they have their man at last. The sadism resides, specifically, in attacking Jews where their memories of pain are keenest. By making them now the torturer and not the tortured, their assailants wrest their anguish from them, not only stealing their past but trampling on it.”

And, now, we have the International Criminal Court’s Karim Khan doing precisely that from his perch in the Hague (aided and abetted by Amal Clooney, it has been reported): making a Jew the torturer, and not the tortured.

But, but, but some will say: Israel has committed genocide! Netanyahu must pay for that? Well, no.

It bears repeating: we don’t come here to praise Benjamin Netanyahu. But nor should we condemn him with arrest warrants when no genocide has taken place. The Population Reference Bureau and the Census Bureau in then United States, say this: “The Palestinian population growth rate is among the highest in the world: 3.4 per cent in the West Bank and 4.0 per cent in Gaza.  Life expectancy at birth, too, is “high,” say the agencies.  And, year over year, Palestinian population growth outstrips Israel’s by nearly 35 per cent.

If that is a genocide, it is fair to observe, it is a genocide that has completely failed.

The arrest warrants claiming Benjamin Netanyahu should fail, as well. They are based on a falsehood.

And they are trying to invert history – and reality.

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If you are a Canadian Jew, or you are one of the many who supports Canadian Jews and Israel, it’s been a bad week.

The mayor of Canada’s largest city refused to attend the raising of one (1) Israeli flag at City Hall, because it was too “divisive.”  McGill University failed to get an injunction to remove a weeks-long anti-Israel, pro-Hamas encampment.

A Jewish kid was beaten up by a Muslim kid at a Fredericton-area school, and teachers did nothing to stop it. Vancouver anrtists are being kicked out of exhibits for being Jewish. Canada, for the first time, showed its willingness to recognize a Palestinian “state” run by Hamas – a listed terror organization.

And, to top it all off, CBC broadcast a couple “facts checks,” as they called them, about whether the aforementioned encampments – the Infant-fada – were receiving support from outside.

The “fact checks” were so replete with errors, so completely unbalanced, we will not even link to them, because we have a policy against publishing fake news at this organization.  Suffice to say that the “investigative reporter” who broadcast the stories mainly relied upon (a) other CBC reporters (b) Israel-hating protestors and (c) an anti-Zionist professor for his sources.  Tells you all you need to know.

So, what is the truth?  Are the protests we are seeing on our university campuses, and in our streets – across Canada and the United States – planned and connected? Are they being funded by others?

Well, yes and yes.  As far back as January, this newspaper has published multiple sourced reports about “pro-Palestine” protestors getting paid to protest, from Victoria to Montreal.  We have documented that self-styled “progressive” organizations here and in the U.S. are using their non-profit status to pass along millions to those who despise Jews and the Jewish state. It’s all right there in Google, by us and other news organizations.

But perhaps CBC can’t afford Google.  Perhaps, too, they didn’t see a bombshell lawsuit that was commenced earlier this month – and well before CBC broadcast their fake news reports – in the Virginia’s District Court.  It wasn’t hard to find.  We certainly found it, within minutes.

That lawsuit, all 49 pages of it, lays out in granular detail the way in which the anti-Semitic American Muslims for Palestine (AMP, which isn’t as active in Canada) and the pro-Hamas Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP, which assuredly is, with 200 chapters here and around the globe) “serve as Hamas’ propaganda divisions” in Canada and the U.S. and elsewhere.

In Canada, some SJP chapters have taken slightly different names, like Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA), or Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR).  But they’re all branches of the same poisonous tree – about which the Anti-Defamation League has said: “Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and many of the organization’s campus chapters explicitly endorsed the actions of Hamas and their armed attacks on Israeli civilians…SJP chapters issue pro-Hamas messaging and/or promote violent anti-Israel messaging channels.”

So, SJP is here and they are very active on campuses – and they help oversee just about every anti-Semitic protest in this country.  What does the lawsuit say about them?  And who is suing them, and for what?

The lawsuit is brought by young people, mainly, who somehow survived the slaughter at the Nova Music Festival on October 7, or the mass-murder of innocents at Kibbutz Holit on the same terrible day.  Fifteen people were killed at the kibbutz, Israelis and non-Israelis alike.  At Nova, the site of the worst atrocities on that day, 364 mainly young people were killed.

Their lawsuit against SJP and AMP is a legal work of art, basically. It is a thing of beauty. It meticulously and surgically lays out the ways in which SJP and its allied organizations “provide on-campus management and control hundreds of university chapters of SJP.” Why? “To operate a propaganda machine for Hamas and its affiliates across campuses.”

The legal action has been brought by five of some of the biggest and best law firms in the United States.  It seeks a jury trial, and unspecified damages for the plaintiffs.  To date, representatives of SJP and AMP have not responded to multiple requests for comment on the lawsuit.

In the statement of clim, the victims write: “[SJP and its affiliates] provide ongoing, continuous, systematic and material support for Hamas its affiliates…by operating and managing Hamas’s mouthpiece for North America, dedicated to sanitizing Hamas’ atrocities and normalizing its terrorism.”

It’s all right there, page after page of it.  The allegations haven’t been tested in court yet.  But would it have killed CBC to, say, reach out to someone involved in the lawsuit, and try and get both sides of the story?

Apparently.  Perhaps they were too busy counting their taxpayer-funded bonuses to, you know, go out and do some real reporting.

No matter.  The rest of us know the truth: the Jew-hating protests, rallies and encampments we are seeing are funded, in whole or in part, by outside interests who do not wish to reveal themselves.  They are the hidden hand.

But the rest of us will not rest until the hidden hand is exposed.

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