You’re more likely to see a protest against Hamas in Gaza than in London. For brave, spirited agitation against this army of anti-Semites that murders Israelis and oppresses Palestinians, forget Britain’s activist class – they’re too busy frothing about the ‘evil’ Jewish State morning, noon and night. Look instead to the bombed-out Gaza Strip itself, where, finally, fury with Hamas is bubbling over.
US President Donald Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, said last week that he does not rule out the possibility that the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas could be politically active in the Gaza Strip after it disarms. “They [Hamas] need to demilitarize, and then they might be politically involved in Gaza,” Witkoff said in an interview with Tucker Carlson that was aired on March 21.
They reduced Jews to ashes. In 2023, a fascist army burnt Jews to death. The Jews’ names were Ram Itamari, 56, a transportation manager, and his wife, Lili Itamari, 63, a schoolteacher. They were in their home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza in southern Israel on 7 October 2023 when the unit of anti-Semites showed up. The gunmen saw the Jews through a window so they set fire to the house. It burned at such a scorching temperature that when the Israeli authorities finally went in, they found not one trace of the couple’s bodies. It took archaeologists three weeks of sifting through the soot to discover a sliver of bone. It was DNA-tested. It was them.
Talk about a dubious distinction for a big city with world-class aspirations. I’m increasingly asked by people both in Canada and abroad about Toronto’s antisemitism problem. Indeed, at conferences I attended in New York and Ottawa earlier this month, many delegates, Jews and non-Jews alike, commiserated with me over this deplorable situation.
… What Jews are now facing in Toronto shouldn’t be happening in this city. Not in 2025. Jews shouldn’t be living in fear, compelled to hide their identity for their safety. Lamentably, much to its own detriment, Toronto has changed when it comes to antisemitism. For this corrosive, downward spiral to end requires a commitment from non-Jews. How long are Jews supposed to wait? How long can we wait?
Toronto has changed when it comes to antisemitism. It is rapidly transitioning into a majority-minority 3rd world city.
Toronto’s new people are either by faith antisemitic or are indifferent to Jews at best sharing nothing of Canada’s Judeo-Christian tradition.
No one I know invited this deluge of incompatible cultures.
When I and others spoke against Islamist immigration we were called racists and Islamophobes by our government and also by some of the same people who are wondering about that wait.
Our white skin alone makes us some sort of Hybridized Islamophobic Nazis we’re told.
Our government and all the very best people say so.
What people? The ones who demand we protect the Jewish community from the Muslims they invited here. Our elites Dear reader!
The smart people aren’t waiting. They’re leaving. The GTA is lost.
Politicians and community leaders are warning that anti-Israel rallies planned for Al-Quds Day this Sunday could be filled with antisemitic chants and the glorification of terrorism, and they are asking law enforcement to do more to protect the Jewish community.
“There’s been a long history of concern about Al-Quds Day, which is an annual hateful protest, an event that calls for the elimination and eradication of the State of Israel,” Toronto city councillor Brad Bradford told National Post.
Good luck.
Israel’s defence minister said on Friday he had instructed the military to “seize more ground” in Gaza and threatened to annex part of the territory unless Hamas released 59 Israeli hostages still held by the Islamist militant group in the devastated territory.
Israel Katz’s warning came as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) intensified the new offensive launched on Tuesday, when a wave of airstrikes shattered the truce that had brought a fragile and relative calm since mid-January.
Further “non-stop” attacks took place overnight across much of Gaza. “It’s all day and all night. Drones, planes, artillery, tanks … all the time. It’s as bad as it’s ever been,” said one aid worker now based in Gaza City.
A Dutch criminal court on Wednesday sentenced four men behind the “Jew hunt” attack against Israeli soccer fans that rocked Amsterdam last November, though the lenient prison terms are drawing outrage from the Jewish community in Europe.
“The prison terms of the sentences are so mild that the Dutch legal system actually incentivizes the ‘Jew hunters’ for another round of hunting,” an Israeli-dutch parliamentarian, Gidi Markuszower, said in response to the sentences. “It’s very clear that mainstream media and mainly politicians from the left are more comfortable providing cover for their fellow antisemites than protecting the Jews here in the Netherlands.”
Palestinians are again paying a heavy price as a result of Hamas’s refusal to release the remaining 59 Israeli hostages (almost half of whom are believed to be dead) held in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023. On that day, thousands of Hamas terrorists and ordinary Palestinians invaded Israel, murdering 1,200 Israelis and wounding thousands others. Another 251 Israelis – alive and dead – were kidnapped to the Gaza Strip.
Since then, Hamas could have avoided much of the death and destruction it brought on the Palestinians by simply releasing all the hostages, laying down its weapons and relinquishing control of the Gaza Strip.
This time last year, a female pro-Palestine activist took a blade and a can of red spray paint to the 100-year-old painting of Lord Balfour in Trinity College, Cambridge. The perpetrator targeted the painting because Balfour was a signatory of the Balfour Declaration – the British Empire’s 1917 recognition of the aim to establish a Jewish state.
The federal government has some “legitimate concerns,” said Columbia University interim president Katrina Armstrong last week, after the Trump administration announced the withdrawal of $400 million in federal grants because, it claimed, Columbia had not addressed rampant anti-Semitism on its campus. Armstrong’s words suggest that Columbia received the message. But have other institutions of higher education?
On January 11, 2025, Amir Arvahi Azar, 32, of Toronto, was arrested. He has been charged with 29 criminal offences:
The Arab countries have finally come up with a plan for the Gaza Strip that aims to address the humanitarian crisis, restore essential services and rebuild. The $53 billion plan, announced in early March after an extraordinary meeting of the Arab League in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, did not come out of a genuine desire to help the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, but as a counterproposal to US President Donald Trump’s vision of relocating the residents of Gaza and turning it into the Rivera of the Middle East.
Mouhamad Rachini · CBC News – As Israel prepares to play 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, its soccer teams are facing calls to be banned from all competitions.
Soccer fans around the world have been chanting, unfurling banners and holding red placards demanding FIFA and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) “Show Israel the Red Card.”
“It’s amazing that it’s reaching this far,” Palestinian content creator Ahmed Bdair told CBC News. “All this kind of stuff has, honestly, pleasantly surprised me.”
From our CBC.
Mississauga Mayor Carolyn Parrish has come under fire for posing for a photograph with a controversial local anti-Israel activist who attempted to organize a vigil for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar last year.
Parrish attended a “multi-religious Iftar celebration” at Anatolia Islamic Centre in Mississauga on Wednesday evening, according to a statement on her X account. Iftar is the meal Muslims eat after fasting during Ramadan.
In early February, Ahmed Rashid Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, two Muslim nurses working at Bankstown Hospital in Sydney, Australia, were having an online conversation with Max Veifer, an Israeli. Here is some of what was said, captured on videotape. “Nurses’ full anti-Semitic rant revealed,” by Clareese Packer, NewsWire, February 14, 2025
