There is a sentence Canadian politicians repeat every time antisemitism erupts into public view: “Antisemitism has no place here.”
It is delivered after vandalism. It is delivered after threats. It is delivered after protests outside Jewish institutions.
Must be a cultural thing.
The Greater Toronto Area has been shaken to its core after gunshots were fired into two more synagogues.
Toronto Police and neighbouring York Regional Police were sharing information Saturday morning following two disturbing early morning Jewish synagogue shooting incidents in those jurisdictions.
The GTA shaken to its core because a couple of synagogues were shot up? No not really.
This is normal nowadays and barely cause for a raised eyebrow.
It is the inevitable result of an immigration policy every bit as criminal as the perps who shot up the synagogues.
It is time that those responsible for Canada’s nation destroying immigration policy are treated as the criminals they are.
Make no mistake: the importation of incompatible cultures is being done deliberately to undermine our society.
Toronto police are investigating after a synagogue in North York was struck by gunfire late Monday night.
Officers were called to Temple Emanu-El, which is just south of Bayview Avenue and Highway 401, for reports of gunshots being fired.
Shortly after airstrikes on Iran began on February 28, several Palestinian groups, including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), issued strong condemnations of Israel and the US and voiced support for the Iranian regime. They also called on Arabs and Muslims to stand united against Israel and the US.
Palestinian support for the Iranian regime did not come as a surprise. For decades, the Iranian regime had provided significant financial and military support to both Hamas and PIJ. This backing is a cornerstone of Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” strategy, which aims to project regional influence to counter Israeli and US interests in the Middle East.
Three slogans were scrawled on a bathroom stall at McGill University’s faculty of medicine earlier this month: “Free Palestine”; “Jews out of McGill Med”; and “Kill all Jews.” Whether composed by one person or several, their coexistence in the same vandalized space shows how anti-Zionist rhetoric sits comfortably alongside explicitly eliminationist language. At first glance, they might look like disconnected expressions of rage. In fact, they are a logical sequence, one that reveals something essential about what it means to hate Jews today.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, when he liberated Europe’s concentration camps, insisted that journalists and photographers document the atrocities immediately, or, he predicted, the world would soon say they had never actually happened.
In a few years from now, the last survivors of the Holocaust will have disappeared, and the memory of what happened will fade even further.
The Holocaust was infinitely more than an attack on “dignity and human rights.” It was a unique crime: the attempt at the total extermination of an entire people by industrial means in supposedly civilized countries of the West.
Left-wing activists are planning to stage a protest at the Buchenwald concentration camp on the anniversary of its liberation—accusing the memorial’s managers of not being “anti-Israel” enough.
The demonstration, organised under the banner “Keffiyehs in Buchenwald,” is set to take place on April 11th, the date the camp was freed from Nazi control in 1945.
The Palestinian National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), established last month in accordance with US President Donald J. Trump’s plan to end the Israel-Hamas war, is about to assume its responsibilities in the Gaza Strip.
The NCAG’s main mission is to manage the day-to-day operations of the civil service and administration in the Gaza Strip in the aftermath of the war, which erupted after the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led invasion of Israel.
While much of the world’s attention remains fixed on Iran and its Shi’ite axis, another geopolitical realignment is taking shape — more quietly, more pragmatically, and potentially just as consequential for the US, Israel and the Middle East.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has launched an ambitious diplomatic offensive aimed at unifying the Sunni world under Ankara’s leadership. The objective is not merely reconciliation with former rivals. It is the construction of a Sunni diplomatic and strategic “wall,” or “noose,” around Israel, replacing the Iranian “Shi’ite crescent” with a new configuration of Sunni power.
There were two events in Canada last week which may, viewed optimistically, constitute a turning point in the shameful and distressing flirtation that this country is having with antisemitism. There is widespread anecdotal evidence of discrimination against Jewish applicants for many categories of work and entry to exclusive professional occupations, including doctors and teachers. Antisemitic incidents are far more numerous than the police can make any pretense to respond to and include unprecedented levels of violence, car theft, and petty harassment such as ripping Mezuzahs off door-frames.
As the US is preoccupied with the crisis in Iran, the Palestinian terror group Hamas has again announced its rejection of President Donald J. Trump’s 20-point plan for ending the war in the Gaza Strip.
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani (D.) has appointed three officials who cofounded a Muslim group that blamed Israel for Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack to prominent roles in his administration. One of them is serving as Mamdani’s head of faith-based partnerships, another as his chief of immigrant affairs, and the third as the leader of his judiciary advisory committee.
The Ontario Camps Association is pushing back against a campaign targeting it, its executive director, employees and over a dozen Jewish camps throughout Canada for supporting Israel.
In a statement issued Friday, the OCA board of directors said it will not tolerate “harassment, intimidation, antisemitism or discrimination.”
The gunman accused of killing 15 people in the Bondi Beach terror attack is enduring “very onerous conditions” in prison, his lawyer said on Monday.
Naveed Akram appeared in an Australian court via video link in his first public hearing since the Dec 14 attack.
The 24-year-old faces 59 charges including terrorism and murder over the massacre, which targeted Jews celebrating Hanukkah on the beach in Sydney.
Police are investigating after a group of pro-Palestine canvassers were accused of engaging in a ‘Jew hunt’ as they went door-to-door asking locals to boycott Israeli products.
Campaigner Jean Hatchet and her partner confronted members of the Sheffield Apartheid-Free Zone (AFZ) campaign on Sunday as they went canvassing in the Woodseats area of the northern city.
The altercation turned ugly as Ms Hatchet and her partner yelled ‘Jew Hunt’ at the trio of men. One of the men appeared to headbutt Ms Hatchet’s partner.
That’s a bit Brown-Shirty I’d say.
