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Woke up to this news bulletin: "Kenya has recorded its first case of Ebola after the virus was diagnosed in a man who had arrived from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the government announced on Tuesday. Congo has suffered a severe outbreak of Ebola, the second-largest on record, after cases began spreading, as early as January. More than 4,000 people have died of Ebola in the country since May, according to official figures. The case in Kenya, found in a man who died on Mo

This week, it was the biggest story in the world. A Flydubai passenger jet was hijacked on its way to Israel early on Wednesday morning. One of the pilots had attacked the other pilot with a knife - and was trying to crash the plane. More than 170 people were aboard. The Boeing 737 plunged toward Earth - dropping more than 14,000 feet in less than 30 seconds. People started screaming and praying. Luggage flew out of bins. And, at the rear of the plane, parts of the rudder bro

It ain't working in B.C. or Quebec!

Warren Kinsella (right) speaks to an audience member holding a copy of The Hidden Hand, the recently published book by the political consultant, lawyer and columnist. Kinsella spoke about Hamas's disinformation campaign to an audience of 150 gathered on the Queen's campus in Kingston on Monday, Sept. 28, 2026. (Photo by GARE JOYCE/KINGSTON WHIG-STANDARD) By Gare Joyce As political events and book tours go, Warren Kinsella’s appearance on Queen’s University’s campus generated

PICTON - Members of what is presently the best-known congregation on Earth gathered here last night, to celebrate the annual Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot. And, for once, they got some good news. Belleville Police Const. Jeff Smith - one of two officers who had risked his own life to save 25 Jewish congregants during a terror attack at Sons of Jacob synagogue on Sept. 20 - was up and about in his hospital room, we were told. He was recovering from his gunshot wounds, and

Last night, E. and I were at Queen's University in Kingston for a terrific event hosted by the Jewish Law Students' Association, with support from B'nai Brith, the Network of Engaged Canadian Academics and the broader Kingston Jewish community. About 150 people attended - and many more watched online, I'm told. I was honoured to be there to talk about my book The Hidden Hand, (now number two on the Amazon political bestseller lists) and our documentary The Campaign (which has

My book has been a bestseller for months, on Amazon and elsewhere, and it's now in its fourth printing, and is about to be published in Spanish. Grateful to all of you who have picked it up. Here's some of things that people have said about it so far: David Frum, The Atlantic: "Just finished reading Warren Kinsella's remarkable book-length investigation of coordinated campaign of anti-Israel defamation since 10/7. Israel was targeted for genocide. When it repelled the genocid

YOU ARE ON THE WRONG SIDE. That’s what they scrawled on the window of my partner’s business, below a Palestinian flag sticker. Earlier, they had worked to remove her from charities she’d supported for years. She was inundated with hateful messages when she took some of her mother’s ashes to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Around the same time, we heard there was a “Jew list” circulating in Prince Edward County, and her business - a coffee shop and bakery - was

CBC has pulled a veteran journalist off-air - and hit him with disciplinary action - simply because he filmed a protest taking place outside a Jewish religious service earlier this week. Neil Herland is an award-winning senior CBC journalist and producer with three decades’ of experience reporting news across North America. He is also a Jew. A few days ago, CBC management quietly pulled Herland off the air - because he had documented a newsworthy event. One they apparently d

Things were running a bit late. When the shooting started, when the bullets were hitting the beautiful old stained glass windows on one side of the Sons of Jacob synagogue, the people - about two dozen of them - were already inside. The congregants were just outside the sanctuary, getting ready to go in for Yom Kippur services. Fatefully, they weren’t in the sanctuary yet. Things had been running a bit late. Had that not been so, Rabbi Oded Peles said, a bullet would have hit

BELLEVILLE — The scourge of violent Jew hatred has seemingly come to the Friendly City. On Sunday night, with Yom Kippur being celebrated as the holiest and most solemn day of the year in Judaism — the Day of Atonement — shots rang out at Sons of Jacob synagogue in Belleville around 7 p.m. One Belleville police officer was hit and was later rushed to a hospital. While at least two dozen members of the Jewish community gathered for services, shots were heard and went “for at l

Mark Carney famously loved the Clash. So, at least once when he was Governor of the Bank of England, did our Prime Minister ever hum along to the British punk band’s song, Safe European Home? The tune is about the band’s first big trip to Jamaica, which wasn’t everything they had cracked it up to be. On the chorus, Joe Strummer sings: “Sitting here in my safe European home, don’t wanna go back there again.” Strummer was referring to Jamaica, and he didn’t mince words about th

For those who were blessedly unaware of Benjamin Hammond Haggerty’s existence, like me, a refresher. Haggerty performs (checks notes) rap music under the name “Macklemore.” He grew up in a Seattle neighbourhood where homes routinely fetch around $2 million (Cdn.). He went to one high school where the median household income was about $200,000 a year. Coincidentally, the high school Macklemore attended has been sued at least twice for Jewish students being terrorized by others

David Frum has given me a great honour by designating The Hidden Hand as his book of the week. Here is a link to his show - the discussion of the book is at about the 50-minute mark, but I encourage you to listen to all of it, because the show is about the misuse of the word "genocide," an important theme I've written about extensively - and below are some of the things David has to say. Thank you to David Frum for reading the book and recommending it - and to all of you who

At the U of T "encampment," showing how the Hamas red triangle is a symbol marking Jews for death. Review from Australia's Jewish Affairs Council, here. Snippets from their review: "Directed by Kari Hollend and Cristina Bishai, and led by Canadian political strategist, lawyer and author Warren Kinsella, The Campaignexamines the information war that erupted alongside the physical war following the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023. The central theme of the documentary is not wh