You’ll stand up and cheer after seeing these Canadian trucker convoy videos
Image: The Freedom Convoy. YouTube screen grab.
Across the world, people are pushing back against COVID mandates. Monica Showalter wrote that “Europe’s COVID mandate protests are getting big and violent.” Europeans are doing that because they understand that, through the digital “vaccine passports” being enforced there, they are about to become slaves to a social credit system similar to the one used in China. But this post is about Canada, where protest has taken a non-violent but incredibly inspiring form, thanks to truckers who are pushing back against vaccine mandates and tracking.
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In a January 17, 2022 article on the English-language website Fanack.com, Kuwaiti writer and poet Nejoud Al-Yagout notes that, when, in December 2021, the U.S. embassy in Kuwait wished the local Jews a happy Hanukkah, many Kuwaitis responded with fury. They used the incident not just to troll the ambassador, but to express hatred for any and all Jews. Al-Yagout wonders where “this cringe-worthy fear” towards Jews comes from, and why Kuwaitis are not ashamed of it, given that their country prides itself on tolerance and coexistance. She notes that this antagonism has caused most of Kuwait’s Jews to emigrate, and the few who remain to hide their identity, which, she says, is a great loss for the country.
Israelis demonstrate outside the court as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial resumes in occupied east Jerusalem, on February 8, 2021. (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)[/caption]
