OTTAWA — Canada saw a big jump in antisemitic hate in 2024, according to an annual audit.
As documented in B’nai Brith’s annual audit of antisemitic incidents, 6,219 incidents of hatred against Jews were reported in 2024 — a worrying trend which saw a 7.4% increase from 2023, and a 124% increase since 2022.
Fearing legal repercussions, online harassment and professional consequences, student journalists are retracting their names from published articles amid intensifying repression by the Trump administration targeting students perceived to be associated with the pro-Palestinian movement.
Editors at university newspapers say that anxiety among writers has risen since the arrest of Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, who is currently in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention fighting efforts to deport her. While the government has not pointed to evidence supporting its decision to revoke her visa, she wrote an op-ed last year in a student newspaper critical of Israel, spurring fears that simply expressing views in writing is now viewed as sufficient grounds for deportation.
I’m all busted up about this.
Instagram has reportedly removed the account of Columbia University Apartheid Divest. A rabid anti-Israel group that helped orchestrate disruptive, and often illegal, demonstrations on Columbia’s campus, CUAD had posted on the social-media site regularly, providing critics with evidence of the group’s radical and lawless conduct. But in response to some pro-Israel groups, which pressured social-media platforms to crack down on anti-Semitic accounts, Instagram deleted the page.
The IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) announced on Friday that, earlier in the day, they struck and eliminated terrorist Mohammed Hassan Mohammed Awad, a senior commander in the Military Intelligence Array in the Gaza Strip, affiliated with senior commanders of the Palestinian Mujahideen terrorist organization.
Toronto police spent nearly $20 million to secure protests related to the Israel-Hamas war and to conduct community outreach within the city’s Jewish and Muslim communities last year, a new report shows.
“Maintaining public order is integral to core service delivery and adheres to provincial standards of adequate and effective policing,” the report, which will go before the Toronto Police Services Board next week, states.
The report says that in 2024, the service responded to over 2,000 “unplanned events” and that more than half of those were associated with Project Resolute, which was launched after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and saw police ramp up their presence throughout the city via command posts and community engagement.
It’s not as if the city rolled out the welcome mat for Hamas.
h/t Patti Jo
Professors moved classes online and protesters blocked access to classrooms at McGill University this week as a three-day student strike kicked off.
“Anti-Israel protesters are physically blocking access to lecture halls inside the Bronfman building and disrupting classes, preventing fellow students from accessing their right to education,” wrote the pro-Israel advocacy group B’nai Brith Canada on X on Wednesday.
BREAKING: Islamists at McGill University are going classroom to classroom, disrupting lectures and telling students not to attend class.
The administration’s response? An email merely “urging respect.” How is this even legal?pic.twitter.com/tobk39P79k
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 3, 2025
American Jews have watched with both alarm and enthusiasm as strong-arm tactics, including arrests of activists, have been deployed in their name.
Rabbi Sharon Brous was growing increasingly alarmed at the Trump administration’s strong-arm tactics, like its attacks on higher-education funding and bullying of law firms, all in the name of protecting Jews.
So early last month, she delivered an impassioned sermon titled “I Am Not Your Pawn” to her Los Angeles congregation. Hours later, the next shoe dropped. Immigration agents began detaining activists and foreign students who had been involved in pro-Palestinian protests.
“This is not going to protect Jews,” Rabbi Brous said in an interview. “We’re being used.”
You just can’t please some people.
Yesterday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced their commitment to “foil what they said was the Palestinian Authority’s scheme to seize land across Judea and Samaria.” Most of this vast, lawless land-grab, it turns out, has been energized and financed by the European Union (EU).
For decades, members of the media, activist groups, academics, international organizations, NGOs, and countless politicians have insisted that Jewish settlements in the West Bank are the primary obstacle to peace between Israelis and Palestinians. These settlements, the assumption goes, represent an illegal and inhumane “occupation,” and until they are dismantled and the territory handed over to a Palestinian state, there can be no resolution to the conflict.
Astonishing news out of Israel today and confirmed by at least one Israeli TV network that Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Gen. Esmail Qaani, commander of the crack Quds Force, is in Jerusalem after being identified as an Israeli intelligence asset.
h/t X — Formerly IB_Joe
Claims that 70 per cent of the fatalities are women and children are complete nonsense, says report
New research shows that Hamas has quietly dropped thousands of deaths from its Gaza war casualty figures.
Salo Aizenberg, from the US-based non-profit organisation Honest Reporting, said that Hamas’s March 2025 casualty update had removed thousands of people it previously listed as having been killed last year.
“Hamas’s new March 2025 fatality list quietly drops 3,400 fully “identified” deaths listed in its August and October 2024 reports—including 1,080 children. These “deaths” never happened. The numbers were falsified—again,” Mr Aizenberg wrote.
The recent anti-Hamas protests in the Gaza Strip are seen by some Western and Arab political analysts as a positive and encouraging development.
Those who are rushing to celebrate the protests in Gaza need to consider that they are most likely nothing but a show by the Iran-backed Hamas to fool the world into thinking that there is an uprising against the terrorist group.
Almost six weeks before federal immigration officials detained Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, a group called Betar US said on its X account that it had put the pro-Palestinian activist on “our deport list.”
“It’s 10 p.m. and ICE is aware of his home address and whereabouts,” the group posted on Jan. 29 under a video of CNN interviewing Khalil at a campus protest, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “We have provided all his information to multiple contacts.”
And the Anti-Zionists aren’t “Militant”? It isn’t as if the Left hasn’t used this or similar tactics to silence opposition.
For four consecutive days, protesters in Gaza have risked their lives by taking to the streets, demanding an end to the war and the removal of Hamas, in the largest demonstrations of their kind since the start of the war.
With Israel blocking access to Gaza for international journalists, it is not possible to independently verify the scale of the protests. However, videos show protesters in the hundreds at demonstrations across different locations, suggesting the overall number is in the thousands.
HAPPENING NOW – Another anti-Hamas protest in Gaza
They wave White Flags and chant “Hamas Out”
Do you believe them?
Where are the “Pro-Palestinian” accounts sharing this?pic.twitter.com/OvTYmopKjz
— Kosher (@koshercockney) March 26, 2025
His party was founded by a convicted Holocaust denier and a former Nazi officer, but on Thursday evening Jordan Bardella posed for selfies amongst adoring followers in Jerusalem.
Ascending the stage at the International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism, the young president of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) must have known already that he was the star attraction.
“Since Oct 7 in particular, we have witnessed the deadly honeymoon between Islamism and the extreme Left,” he told the audience, an incongruous mix of Israeli politicians and other radical Right-wing Europeans.
Police services in Canada recorded a steep rise in hate crimes in 2023, with a significant amount targeting Jews, Statistics Canada reports.
There were 4,777 incidents reported, up 32 per cent from 3,612 incidents in 2022. It was the third steep increase in four years.
