Summary
In this episode of A Bad Hijabi Walked Into a Room and Laughed, Bad Hijabi discusses several topics, ranging from women's rights and cultural commentary to the failures of academia and personal reflections on gender politics. Bad Hijabi also touches on current events, including Israeli hostage situation and the political dynamics surrounding the hostages and their families, as well as the exploitation of vulnerable individuals in public discourse. Your hostess shares insights from a recent lecture on legal measures against antisemitism and concludes with personal anecdotes about daily life. In this conversation, Bad Hijabi touches on a few themes, including personal social media behaviour and consumption, the challenges faced by progressives in expressing their views, the implications of gender identity on society, and the need to prioritize domestic issues over foreign conflicts. Bad Hijabi critiques the current political landscape, emphasizing the importance of cultural identity and the role of myths in shaping societal values. The conversation also covers on the impact of social media on personal growth and the dangers of groupthink.
The week in review March 23rd podcast
Sunday — Azelia Banks and JK Rowling. KaiyaVilla and JK Rowling ( “he didn’t beat you enough”).
Monday — Doctor gets deported from the USA for supporting Hezbollah. DEI academia at Virginia University talking about armed resistance and how a gun means the oppressed is free. Academia is a cult of subversion and hatred—higher education is not higher anymore. Bibi wants to fire the head of Shin Bet. Ireland is cancelled because it doesn’t welcome Zionists so eff saint paddy’s day. St Gertrude feast day she’s the patron saint of cats. Shlomo’s 87th birthday today so everyone have ice cream. Book Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic is frustrating and painful and riveting. Carney meets the king before he meets parliament or Trump. He’s like a teenager getting the keys to his new Ferrari. Netanyahu chooses Ben Gvir over the hostages. Ceasefire is over and Gaza is getting bombed. Hamas threatens to harm the hostages. Reports coming out that hostage families have been threatened to stay quiet or their family members will be harmed.
Tuesday — Hostage survivors and families oppose war. Hasbara assholes monger for war. “Let’s win this sh1t” — Eve Barlow. Barlow was challenged by some Israeli men.
“Everyone in israel opposes war doesn't change the fact we have to fight one. We aren't the ones who started this on October 7, Gazans did.” — Emily Schrader
“Netanyahu for his personal reasons is endangering living hostages in Gaza endangering lives of IDF soldiers for his personal throne as PM Netanyahu again is betraying the Israeli nation.” — Yehuda Cohen.
Gila Fine Off The Daf Book Club. I cried when I first heard her speak. She verbalises the struggle I feel so articulately. It doesn’t comfort me and I don’t think I want to be comforted I want to be treated like an intelligent human being. Sasha Carney and Elston’s the anti wokerati’s flying monkeys.
Mark Sandler Using the Law to Combat Zionism — the four measures of hate in criminal code; there are more legal ways to address the antisemitism — intimidation and blocking roads etc; private property ____; unlawful assembly; hate speech versus protected speech; freedom of assembly and speech protected under charter robust criticism of Israeli government conduct IHRA definition. Zionist used as a proxy for Jew in hate speech and expression does it immunise anyone from criminal prosecution. Demonise people for a supporting Israel and supporting Zionism.
What is contemporary antisemitism? Apart from the traditional tropes. Resistance to the IHRA definition because it addresses of anti Zionism as a form of antisemitism. Non criminal litigation (similar to Harvard lawsuits). Dealing with jihadists and terrorists in our midst. Education is important to move minds which are humane and want to seek collaborative solutions. Respectful dialogue in the discourse led by skilled lawyers. Combatting ignorance about what’s happening to address antisemitism and what’s being discussed and taught and shared about Zionism and Jewish self determination and to combat the indoctrination happening at all levels of pedagogy.
Start with Municipal policy makers. Bubble legislation is needed and it’s not unconstitutional. Ban hatefests on municipal property. Example Quds Festival. Minimal intrusive constitutionally permitted policy.
Provincial government.
Federal government consistency in addressing antisemitism.
Charges are being laid we don’t hear about it.
Create political will to do the right thing and address antisemitism.
Lawfare to address failure of municipality to protect the Jewish community from hate and hate festival.
Could the IHRA definition be used as a measure to fight antisemitism to inform whether charges are to be laid?
Canadian government has adopted IHRA.
How can we employ the IHRA definition?
We are playing whackamole. There is a lot of hate.
NECA and Queens University re BDS and divestment from Israel. Academic neutrality and freedom. New report and decision from Queens University.
Discussion paper re defunding colleges and universities — Sandler. Measured or conditional funding to address college indoctrination and hate.
Q. Is a Screenshot evidence of social media hate?
A. Yes it is.
How do we address social media hate? Task force is being formed. Challenge of jurisdiction. International presence. Tracing financial support for social media and hate activism. Follow the Money Michael Bass. Work is being done to reveal transparency for financing higher education from foreign financing. Montreal is the most problematic jurisdiction. Lack of political will. Private complaints. Education and training. Montreal police need education. Anti Palestinian racism versus IHRA.
Wednesday — seeing the words “tiny sandwiches” on the Easter Sunday tea notice in the elevator made me want a tuna subway sandwich. Consent is on my brain. People really feel entitled to make a 24 year old poet and writer the symbol of the gender debate in Canada because she’s the child of the PM who wrote about her identity blah blah. It’s weird.
Duties of the Heart and prayer and longing of the soul for g-d ...yedid nefesh
Robert using his day off to do things for others when he won’t do things for me that I ask him. Going out, riding the bus with anxiety. Unable to go inside Metrotown. Safeway and Majid the clerk who was nice. The Uber driver Feguin was nice. Aleph Beta golden calf series overnight.
Thursday — progressives are whinging that they cannot speak freely for their cause célèbre…boo hoo. Women are fcuking angry at you dumb fcuks so cope with the system you created and enabled through your silence. I loathe progressive men and when you’ve told me my criticism of wokeness is hateful and unfriended me you definitely don’t get to address me under the cover of a public comment in a mutual friend’s Facebook page. Piss off because when you decided I was a hateful person you forever lost my ear and the privilege to address me.
Carney is gonna drop the writ we are hearing. Conservatives assholes still want to make Sasha Carney a symbol of what they dislike about gender self id and gender affirming care. The Israeli ambassador to somewhere thinks he can put the Israeli Netanyahu regime’s sh1t on everyone else’s ass. Eve Barlow misguidedly thinks Israeli men calling out her asshole war mongering tweet out is misogyny. Because naturally when you’re challenged on stupid sh1t you say publicly the thing to do is invoke victimhood. Yawn. Generally eff victimhood narrative management and narcissism.
Tesla being vandalized and set on fire by social justice warriors and environmentalists because Elon.
Friday — I don’t want to don’t care about foreign politics because I want to care about my own national political situation. These two are at odds right now. I don’t want to be held accountable for things I don’t influence or control. I don’t influence or control any MENA Region policies or politics. I have a vote in one country and that’s Canada. And I am responsible for my people — that’s primarily the Jewish community across Canada because they are under attack. It’s the Christian community across Canada because they are under attack and several of my family members are Christian, churches are being razed and Christians are being wrongfully accused of genocide like the Jewish people are. We have CCP and IRGC and we have American interference. Canadians are being brow beaten by all sides and we are living under a tyrannical authoritarian regime who hates us and wants to bleed us dry. I don’t care about any country beyond NA borders right now because I have to consider home first. It’s not rocket science.
The exploitation of antisemitism education and anti racism education to promote foreign interference propaganda is a liability for all. It’s absolutely not antisemitism education to exploit hostage suffering and rip hostage content to make domestic political theatre against pro Palestinian activists and monger for a war the Israeli people don’t want and then pretend it’s pro Jewish and pro hostage and pro Israeli. Fcuk off.
Carney canceled Capital Gains Tax. Except he’s cancelled a thing that died on the order table and the CRA was being legally challenged for its decision to continue the tax hike without a parliamentary mandate. Nothing-burger, sleight of hand politicking. Similar to signing the fake EO to cancel the consumer carbon tax.
Eli Sharabi UN address
Saturday — I took a break from my phone and from social media for Shabbat and it felt like a good break. Zach Ross wrote a thing on Substack about how Jews and Muslims aren’t Abrahamic siblings, ie he says that “nah, Muslims aren’t descended from Ishmael”, historical evidence doesn’t support that claim. Ok, willing I think that’s besides the point, we don’t go to sacred myths to learn history. For all that I could say that there’s no archaeological evidence to support the story of exodus. What would be the point? Myth is not historical scholarship it’s myth, designed to help us navigate life through story.
Gender critical journalists insist fixating on Sasha Carney is what’s required to force accountability on Mark Carney via a vis gender affirmation policy in Canada. The Carney’s are known acquaintances of Ghislaine Maxwell convicted child sex trafficker and close assistant and enabler of the late Jeffrey Epstein. Sex trafficking was described as a national crisis in Canada by the CBC in 2023. People who claim to care about human rights and women’s rights and young women and men being lured groomed and exploited seem awfully quite about the elephant in the room. Possibly low hanging fruit is more appealing to some.
Cairo Genizah collection
Links to Stuff I Mentioned
Mark Sandler Fighting Antisemitism Workshop
Duties of the Heart and the Longing of the Soul — Yedid Nefesh
Zach Ross Jews and Muslims Aren’t Abrahamic Siblings
Alan Mairson Response to Zach Ross
Cairo Genizah and Maimonides handwritten notes to raise ransom for captive Jews
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