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Posted by: canada
« on: January 14, 2024, 05:11:50 pm »

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/three-anti-israel-protesters-arrested-for-defying-bridge-demo-ban

Anti-Israel protesters strike Joly's home; three arrested for defying Toronto bridge protest ban

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Anti-Israel protesters once again attempted to occupy the Avenue Road overpass in Toronto on Saturday

Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw announced last week that demonstrations would no longer be permitted on the bridge, and that future protesters would face arrest.

Despite that warning, protesters began arriving at the overpass — located amid Toronto’s largest Jewish neighbourhoods — Saturday morning, where police were waiting.

The Avenue Road bridge is located in Canada’s largest and most diverse Jewish communities, within a kilometre of nine synagogues and several Jewish businesses, homes, schools, daycares and community centres. Protesters and their advocates insist the demonstrations are meant to inform rather than intimidate.

Protesters on the bridge were seen carrying signs depicting Adolf Hitler and related Nazi imagery.

Jewish residents have said they felt intimidated and harassed by the protests.

Anti-Israel activists soon began picketing outside of Jewish-owned businesses and community centres, and targeting politicians they perceive as being pro-Israel.

Protesters set up a noisy demonstration outside of the Montreal home of Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly on Saturday morning, a day after she issued a government statement that rejected the claims by South Africa at a UN court accusing Israel of “genocide.”

About three-dozen protesters appeared at Joly’s home, setting up a tent as well as a loud speaker, and accused her of complicity with the alleged “genocide.”

Anti-Israel demonstrators were expected to disrupt a number of events on Sunday.

A Toronto anti-Israel group planned to sabotage a Sunday afternoon family ice skate at Mel Lastman Square, hosted by Toronto City Councillor Lily Cheng, Liberal MP Ali Ehsassi and Ontario PC MPP Stan Cho.

Anti-Israel protesters were also expected to disrupt a vigil marking the 100th day of Israeli hostages being held captive by Hamas, scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. Sunday at Nathan Phillips Square in downtown Toronto.

Two anti-Israel groups were also planning a 4 p.m. rally at the Israeli consulate at Bloor and Yonge streets.

In addition, starting at 7:30 p.m., a rally of community leaders and politicians in support of Israel will take place at Toronto’s Congregation Habonim to mark the hostages’ 100 days of captivity, near Bathurst Street and Glencairn Avenue.




Posted by: canada
« on: January 09, 2024, 05:03:53 pm »

https://globalnews.ca/news/10213076/hate-motivated-assault-vaughan/

4 Jewish people assaulted after walking home from Vaughan synagogue: police

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York Regional Police say four people who identify as Jewish were walking home from a synagogue when they were allegedly assaulted by a man who was later arrested by officers.

The victims felt intimidated by the manner in which the suspect operated the bike in their presence,” police said,

Investigators said there was an argument and the man on the bike allegedly spat on the victims and made anti-Semitic comments before he rode away. Police have deemed the assault hate-motivated.



https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/windsor-jew-israel-gaza-palestinian-protest-march-demonstration-1.7077679

Pro-Palestinian march in neighbourhood group says is historically Jewish sparks criticism

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"Hebrew Heights." That's how Dan Brotman, executive director of the Windsor Jewish Federation, describes Victoria Boulevard — a residential neighbourhood in South Windsor.

The federation has issued a public statement expressing fears and concerns about a pro-Palestinian demonstration that included Victoria Boulevard in its marching route on Dec. 31.

Organizers say they weren't aware they were marching in a Jewish neighbourhood. But Brotman believes it was a form of deliberate intimidation.

"I can say that many members of our Jewish community felt unsafe and felt targeted, because that area has historically been known as a Jewish area. It is symbolic of Jewish Windsor," Brotman told CBC Windsor.

Brotman said there are 40 to 50 Jewish homeowners in the area of Victoria Boulevard.

There's no evidence, he said, that the route was planned for that reason.

"We can't prove it.
But what we can say is that this is a strategy being used by the pro-Palestinian movement in other parts of North America, including in Toronto."

He says he doesn't believe that organizers did not know the area was home to a number of Jewish homeowners.

"Anybody who is from this area usually knows it," Cheifetz said. "I can't argue with what they say, but I don't believe it."

But Rasha Zaid, an organizer with Windsor4Palestine, bristled at the WJF statement, describing it as "inaccurate" and "insensitive."

"We are not a mob," Zaid told CBC Windsor. "We are protesters that speak the voice of humanity. We want nothing but peace on every land existing."

"It's not just me," Zaid said. "Many members that actually live and grew up in Windsor had no idea (that area is Jewish)."

"We do not want to see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict imported to Windsor-Essex," Brotman said.



Posted by: canada
« on: January 07, 2024, 07:52:45 pm »

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/1/5/drop-the-charges-against-indigo-peace-11-protesters

Drop the charges against Indigo ‘Peace 11’ protesters

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People peacefully protesting a Canadian business for openly supporting the Israeli military as it commits egregious war crimes should not be branded antisemites and treated like common criminals.

On November 22, Canadian police conducted coordinated pre-dawn raids on seven homes across the greater Toronto area and made 10 arrests. They broke doors, ordered suspects out of their beds, and went on to completely ransack every single room and confiscate computers, cars and other private property, in some cases in the presence of terrified children and the elderly.

The suspects, known to their supporters collectively as “the Peace 11” – including one that was arrested separately on November 14, were professors, community organisers, legal workers and labour activists, targeted for the ostensibly dangerous offences of plastering posters and splattering washable red paint on the window of a Toronto branch of the Indigo book store chain.

 They had taken action against the store, like hundreds of others across Canada, to protest the material support Indigo’s owners have long been providing to the Israeli military.

And these early morning raids, during which peaceful protesters were treated as violent criminals and humiliated in front of their family members, are not even the most troubling aspect of this intimidation campaign.

The media coverage of the protest action and its aftermath, the nature of the charges, and the police messaging on the case, raise serious questions about abuse of police powers and systemic anti-Palestinian discrimination in Canada.

It seems the raids were designed to terrorise, and scare into silence, Canadians who have been taking to the streets in large numbers in Toronto over the past few weeks to call for an end to Israel’s war on Gaza.


https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/383208

Police serve hot coffee to anti-Israel protesters in Toronto Jewish area; sparked outrage

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Anti-Israel protesters blocking a bridge within the largest Jewish community of Toronto, the capital of Canada's province of Ontario, were served hot coffee by the local police.

When one of the protesters was asked how he got coffee from the police, he replied: “It’s not from the police. Someone brought it for us, and the police won’t let them in. So, the police have become our little messengers.



https://globalnews.ca/news/10209484/toronto-mayor-interrupted-protest/

Mayoral event in Nathan Philips Square interrupted by demonstrators

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Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow held the annual Mayor’s Skating Party in Nathan Philips Square Sunday, which was interrupted by demonstrators.

While addressing the media about the free skating event, Chow was interrupted several times by protestors with megaphones waving Palestinian flags.

Several security guards stepped in to create a barrier between the mayor and the demonstrators.

After she exited the rink, demonstrators could be heard saying to skaters “while you’re skating, bombs are dropping.”


Posted by: annoying
« on: January 03, 2024, 09:30:40 pm »

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/this-is-the-tipping-point-canadian-jewish-business-firebombed-defaced-with-free-palestine-graffiti/

‘This Is the Tipping Point’ — Canadian Jewish Business Firebombed, Defaced with ‘Free Palestine’ Graffiti

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A Jewish-owned grocery store in Toronto was firebombed and defaced with “Free Palestine” graffiti early Wednesday morning.

“I’ve been a criminal investigator the vast majority of my career, and in most of those criminal investigations, there was a tipping point. This is this tipping point,” Toronto Police Service spokeswoman Pauline Gray said outside the vandalized International Delicatessen Foods building, which is located in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood.

“We will leave no stone unturned. We will use all the resources available to us to investigate, arrest and prosecute who is responsible for this.”

Ya’ara Saks, the Liberal Party parliamentary representative for the district, condemned the apparent hate crime in a public note. “I have just learned the shocking news of the attack in #YorkCentre at the Jewish-owned local business International Delicatessen Foods. With each brazen act of incitement and of violence, the cycle of antisemitism and hateful acts increases. This must stop,” Saks, a minister in Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, wrote Wednesday afternoon.

“We are all witness to the frequency of these acts of intolerance targeting Jewish-owned businesses and Jewish neighbourhoods.

The attack drew the condemnation of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), a prominent Canadian Jewish lobbying group. “This is another sickening example of the escalation in #Antisemitism we’re seeing in cities across #Canada. Political & community leaders need to speak out loudly & decisively — this violence cannot be tolerated any longer,” CIJA wrote in an official statement on X.

Toronto has witnessed a spike in antisemitism since the Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7




Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: December 24, 2023, 06:20:40 pm »

Our enemies report:

https://vdare.com/posts/the-not-so-great-replacement-canadian-colleges-privatize-canadian-permanent-visas-by-promising-them-to-south-asian-early-education-majors

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Northern College traditionally drew its students from the province of Ontario’s vast, sparsely populated hinterland, a region dominated by miners and loggers. Today, a whopping 82 percent of the public college’s students come from abroad—nearly all from India.
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or students from abroad, the institutions can be a conduit to permanent Canadian residence, and for Canada, the students help reduce labor shortages and increase the country’s flagging productivity.
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despite many foreign students’ initial reluctance to study at a place as remote as Northern, Dr. Penner, the college’s president, believed she held an ace: Graduates of Northern and other public colleges may apply for a post-graduation work permit that could lead to permanent residence and citizenship.

“We can say, if you come here, we can pretty well guarantee that you could stay here and live and make a home for yourselves,” Dr. Penner said.
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Dozens of international students are immediately hired after graduating, allowing them to apply for permanent residence, Ms. Holmes said.

 :)
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: December 20, 2023, 05:14:55 pm »

Graph supplied by our enemies:

https://vdare.com/posts/justin-trudeau-is-jumbo-sizing-america-jr



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Canada’s diploma-mill colleges have been going all out getting temporary visas for South Asians who hope they can swing a temp visa into a permanent one and then, if Shiva be merciful, an American one. For example, obscure Conestoga College has grabbed over 31,000 temporary visas over the last 16 months.

WE WILL REPLACE YOU!
Posted by: canada
« on: December 19, 2023, 06:04:53 pm »

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/antisemitic-incidents-make-up-53-of-reported-hate-crimes-since-israel-hamas-war-began-toronto-police-1.7064086

Antisemitic incidents make up 53% of reported hate crimes since Israel-Hamas war began: Toronto police

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Antisemitic incidents are up 211 per cent since the Israel-Hamas war began over two months ago compared to the same time period last year, Toronto police Chief Myron Demkiw said Tuesday.

Demkiw rattled off new statistics about hate crime related offences in the city at the force's monthly board meeting, where he said antisemitism makes up 53 per cent of all reported hate crimes since Oct. 7.

"That's 56 of 105 total occurrences," he said.

"In terms of all hate crimes reported this year, antisemitism makes up almost 41 per cent of all these occurrences. That's 147 of 360."

The latest figures also show an increase in hate related graffiti.

here have been 159 hate crime graffiti occurrences reported since Oct. 7, 111 antisemitic occurrences


https://globalnews.ca/news/10180257/justin-trudeau-ottawa-terror-plot-charges/

Trudeau says antisemitism rise is ‘terrifying’ after teen terror charges

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the rise of antisemitism in Canada is “terrifying” after a 15-year-old was arrested late on Friday night in Ottawa and charged with terrorism-related offences.


“What we’re seeing, particularly right now with the rise of antisemitism linked to what’s happening overseas right now, is terrifying

Many Jewish Canadians have said they feel that safety is being compromised, with instances of protesters targeting Jewish-owned businesses, such as bookseller Indigo and at shopping centres, as the Israel-Hamas conflict continues.


https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/ottawa-terror-arrest-shows-need-for-laws-targeting-online-hate-bernie-farber

Ottawa terror arrest shows need for laws targeting online hate, Jewish leaders say

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“Especially now, especially at this time of real danger, the government has to take this bull by the horns and put this legislation forward. Canadians need protection,” said Farber, who is now retired but has spent decades fighting antisemitism and hate.


Posted by: canada
« on: December 08, 2023, 09:15:01 pm »

https://calgaryherald.com/news/braid-gondeks-shocking-snub-of-hanukkah-turns-a-great-party-into-magnet-for-antisemitism

Braid: Gondek's shocking snub of Hanukkah turns a great party into magnet for antisemitism

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At the last minute, she said she wouldn’t attend this year’s menorah lighting at city hall, accusing Jewish leaders of tricking her about the “political” meaning of the celebration.

Will she now cancel Christmas, too? Stop attending Muslim events? I don’t think so.

Gondek’s snub has inflicted shock and anguish on Calgary’s Jewish community. It came out of nowhere after she had agreed to attend and a lot of work had gone into the event.

The mayor says she didn’t know support would be expressed for Israel. There was a “last-minute change” that “goes against the original intention” because the event was “repositioned to support Israel.”

That left her “feeling let down by (Jewish) leadership.”

Liberal MP Anthony Housefather, who is Jewish, said of Gondek: “You are sending a horrible message by not attending.”

The local federal Conservative caucus said in a joint statement: “Her decision to withdraw could dangerously normalize antisemitism at a time when across campuses and communities, Jewish Canadians are already feeling threatened.”



https://www.bnaibrith.ca/amid-unprecedented-surge-in-antisemitism-toronto-public-library-welcomes-radical-anti-israel-author-for-appearance/

Amid Unprecedented Surge in Antisemitism, Toronto Public Library Welcomes Radical Anti-Israel Author

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B’nai Brith Canada is urging the Toronto Public Library (TPL) to cancel its event, scheduled to feature a controversial American whose writings wrongly accuse Israel of manipulating the Holocaust to suppress criticism.

Norman Finkelstein, a former political science professor who has been denied tenure in the past over his extreme writings, has been invited to participate at the TPL’s Dec. 5 event – part of an “Intellectual Freedom” program series about free speech in academic settings.

The TPL has billed its conference as an opportunity to address the problem of faculty being “hemmed in or censored” for “unpopular or politically challenging” opinions and research. According to promotional materials, the goal is to “encourage universities to push boundaries and challenge the dominant narratives while at the same [time] ensuring that universities are safe spaces for everyone.”

accusing the global “Jewish Establishment” of weaponizing the collective memory of the Shoah

Last month, Finkelstein wrote a blog post lauding Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 assault -  as “heroic resistance.”

“The irony in the TPL’s decision to feature Finkelstein in their speaker series is that his anti-Zionist worldview already represents the ‘dominant narrative’ on university campuses,” said Michael Mostyn, B’nai Brith Canada’s Chief Executive Officer.

the TPL is contributing to the further marginalization of a Jewish community already under siege, and that is absolutely unacceptable.”



https://www.cp24.com/news/woman-charged-in-mischief-at-jewish-school-and-daycare-in-north-york-1.6679755

Woman charged in mischief at Jewish school and daycare in North York

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Toronto Police have laid charges in connection with an incident that saw a vehicle damaged with a rock outside of a Jewish school and daycare centre last month.

Police initially said they were treating the incident as a suspected hate-motivated offence. However they said Friday that following further investigation, that is no longer the case.


Posted by: protests
« on: November 26, 2023, 10:01:55 pm »

http://english.news.cn/20231126/b00f4e0993644a75b8f13c57e8d06094/c.html

People participate in pro-Palestine rally in Vancouver, Canada

Posted by: canada
« on: November 26, 2023, 04:07:37 am »

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2415261/world

Thousands demonstrate in Canada for cease-fire in Gaza


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OTTAWA, Canada: Thousands of protesters on Saturday carried placards, waved Palestinian flags and chanted slogans before Canada’s Parliament in Ottawa, demanding a permanent cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas.

The diverse group included Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, Jewish, anti-war, labor and social justice organizations.

The rally followed an online petition presented to lawmakers on Friday with 286,719 signatures — said to be the most of any parliamentary e-petition — urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to press for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza.

“A pause is not enough,” said Yara Shoufani, a protest organizer, adding that “thousands of Palestinians have been killed and Gaza’s infrastructure has been destroyed.”
Protester Omar Yousif, 38, said he was taking part to “awaken the world” to the plight of civilians in Gaza.

Posted by: decolonization
« on: November 23, 2023, 08:54:02 pm »

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/americas/2023-11-23/ty-article-magazine/.premium/this-is-not-my-canada-were-experiencing-an-unprecedented-assault-on-jewish-community/0000018b-fbca-d473-affb-fbea01020000

‘This Is Not My Canada Anymore. We’re Experiencing an Unprecedented Assault on the Jewish Community’

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Veteran human rights warrior Karen Mock is in despair over Canadian reactions to the Israel-Hamas war. Jewish people ‘are feeling fear, pain, anxiety and uncertainty about the future – not to mention betrayed by our allies,’ she says


https://www.bnaibrith.ca/when-we-have-to-hide-who-we-are-we-disappear-canadian-jews-defiant-amid-rising-antisemitism/

“When we have to hide who we are, we disappear”: Canadian Jews defiant amid rising antisemitism

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 Jewish Canadians are feeling vulnerable following a series of antisemitic incidents across the country.

recent surge in violence expressed towards members of the Jewish faith has the community concerned for their safety.

Rich Robertson, B’nai Brith Canada’s manager of research, told True North that Jewish Canadians are experiencing unprecedented anxiety.

“Our community has gone from a period of devastation and mourning following the terrorist attack on the morning of the seventh, to facing unprecedented anxiety ever experienced by the Canadian diaspora.”

B’nai Brith operates an app, hotline and a website that allows Jewish Canadians to report and record acts or experiences of antisemitism.

Since the October 7 terrorist attack on civilians in Israel there has been an alarming increase of incidents directed towards Jewish Canadians.

To address the safety concerns of Jewish Canadians, officials should “mitigate incitement at pro-Palestinian rallies,” Robertson said.

“These rallies are fueling incitement

A few weeks ago, a group of pro-Palestinian demonstators swarmed the Israeli coffeehouse Aroma while slapping “boycott” stickers on its windows.

Last month, at a demonstration in Montreal, an imam, in Arabic, condemned “Zionist aggressors” and called on Allah to “kill the enemies of the people of Gaza and to spare none of them.”

Madi Foglia, an 18-year-old Barrie resident said, that a recent pro-Palestinian rally in the city “had the Jewish community questioning the safety they thought they had here.”

Last month Foglia had been putting up posters of missing and kidnapped Israeli women and children, when she noticed someone taking them down.

“There is this very twisted narrative that Jews are colonizers, that Hamas is only resisting occupation as a justification for the violence committed against communities world wide.”

“Historically when we are scared for our well being, when we have to hide who we are, we disappear, and no one pays attention to Jewish suffering.”


https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/r18plq004p

Antisemitism spikes in Canada: firebombing, attempted school shootings, pro-Nazi vandalism

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The Canadian Jewish community, the fourth largest in the world, has experienced severe hate incidents since the outbreak of the war, from vandalism to shooting incidents, particularly in Montreal and Toronto, home to the country’s two largest Jewish communities.

Posted by: canada
« on: November 23, 2023, 08:38:32 pm »

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/indigo-vandalism-charges-1.7037711

11 people charged in Indigo bookstore vandalism

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Eleven people have been charged with mischief following vandalism at an Indigo bookstore earlier this month, Toronto police said.

On Thursday, the force said officers arrested a 41-year-old on Nov. 14 and then subsequently arrested 10 others on Nov. 22. Police called the mischief "hate-motivated."

However, dozens of protesters gathered outside 52 Division on Wednesday, calling on police to drop the charges. They dispute that the alleged actions were "hate-motivated" and called for the release of those charged.

The police allege that those charged approached the bookstore (Indigo), glued posters to the windows and doors, and poured red paint on the nearby sidewalks.




Posted by: yemen
« on: November 20, 2023, 07:51:48 pm »

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/barbara-kay-how-quebec-turned-into-a-hotbed-of-antisemitism

How Quebec turned into a hotbed of antisemitism

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Multiculturalism's failures on display

"Allah, take care of these Zionist aggressors. Allah, take care of the enemies of the people of Gaza. Allah, identify them all, then exterminate them. And don't spare any of them," Adil Charkaoui told a crowd in Arabic at a pro-Palestinian protest on Oct. 28.


Posted by: canada
« on: November 19, 2023, 04:34:31 am »

https://thehub.ca/2023-11-16/he-is-risking-jewish-safety-five-tweets-responding-to-justin-trudeaus-statement-on-israel/

‘He is risking Jewish safety’: Five Tweets responding to Justin Trudeau’s statement on Israel

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On November 14, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered a prepared statement that called on Israel to exercise “maximum restraint” in its military response to Hamas’s terrorist attacks. He spoke of how “killing of women, children, and babies” in Gaza needs to stop.

The prime minister’s statement drew criticism from across the political spectrum in Israel (including the country’s three most recent prime ministers) and among domestic voices who accused him of unfairly targeting Israel

Trudeau’s polarizing statement drew several responses from Israeli leaders across the political spectrum who were united in their condemnations of the Canadian prime minister.

Yair Lapid, another former prime minister and now leader of the opposition party in Israel who has called on Netanyahu to resign from office, found common ground with his political opponent on this issue and released his own statement on X in an attempt to counter Trudeau’s talking points.

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, which represents Jewish federations across Canada, echoed the statements of Netanyanhu, Bennett, and Lapid by noting that Trudeau’s rhetoric is harmful in the way that it encourages Hamas.

https://www.bnaibrith.ca/pms-objectionable-gaza-remarks-fuel-misinformation/

PM’s Objectionable Gaza Remarks Fuel Misinformation Across Country

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B’nai Brith Canada is indignant that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau felt the need to indirectly accuse Israel of targeting civilians in Gaza in an emotionally charged Tuesday address in Vancouver.

“Unfortunately, the PM did not offer any constructive solutions to help people on the ground in Gaza,” said Mostyn, B’nai Brith Canada’s Chief Executive Officer. “Passionately conveying misinformation is especially irresponsible at a time like this, when antisemitism is spiking.”

Within the last two weeks, tensions spilling over from the Middle East conflict have contributed to hatred and even violence on our streets.

Surely the Prime Minister must understand the negative impact spreading misinformation about Israel has on the Jewish community in Canada.



Lying Jewry in Canada better think twice before trying to mess with me.
Posted by: canada
« on: November 19, 2023, 04:26:21 am »

https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/shameful-rise-of-antisemitism/

The shameful rise of antisemitism in Canada: Ken Coates in National Newswatch

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The outpouring of anti-Jewish hatred that has continued unabated since Hamas’ barbaric attacks Israel a month ago has baffled and dismayed many people in this country while emboldening antisemitic voices in unprecedented ways.

Jewish communities in Canada and elsewhere have been warning the world for years about the steady rise of anti-Jewish sentiments and antisemitic attacks.

the online gaming community has given digital camouflage to anti-Jewish hatred, steeping thousands of young people (my own son among them) in these toxic sentiments.



https://tnc.news/2023/11/16/levy-antisemitism-rampant-canadian-schools/

LEVY: Antisemitism is running rampant in Canadian schools

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A controversial queer activist has been suspended from employment at the Toronto District School Board – for the second time – over his obsessive anti-Israel and antisemitic posts on X.

Javier DaVila, who calls himself a “queer Latinx award-winning educator” is an equity program advisor with the TDSB.

He announced on Twitter Monday that he’d been suspended “minutes” after he called out the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) for allegedly making up lies about what students from Marc Garneau Collegiate said at a rally last Friday.

one student cried, “Judah, Judah, you can’t hide” – Judah being a highly antisemitic term for Jew.

The school board claimed at the time that they did not authorize or sanction his manuals and were also investigating his toxic tweets.

 he was returned to his duties a few months later

Prioritizing a relationship with a political lobby group for an apartheid genocidal state (that's not even Canada) over the safety, rights & dignity of racialized students who are demanding justice for Palestinians, is not a good look for any school board.

He appeared at another walkout this past Monday in which he claimed hundreds of students from the same high school walked to “demand a ceasefire, to end Israel’s genocide and to protest TDSB’s silence.”

In response to his announcement about being suspended, a number of activists and radical Muslim sympathizers came on his Twitter feed expressing outrage.

But DaVila, who appears to consider himself a Freedom Fighter, was tweeting obsessively before and since his suspension.

We resist genocide, settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing & apartheid. Our liberations are connected.

Davila, who is being represented by two lawyers who have defended antisemites in the past, has established a GoFundMe campaign to pay his legal bills against the B’nai Brith

Davila says he’s taking legal action against the “pro-Israel lobby group” B’nail Brith and its CEO Michael Mostyn for libeling him.

Fancying himself a martyr and a victim


https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-string-of-ottawa-events-linked-to-antisemitism-alarms-local-jewish/

String of incidents in Ottawa linked to antisemitism alarms local Jewish community

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A string of events in Ottawa linked to antisemitism is creating alarm among Jewish people in the capital city,

Another man is facing charges for what police are calling hate-motivated offences after an Ottawa rabbi received a threatening phone call.

And a man was charged with assault and criminal harassment in connection to an altercation at an Ottawa gas station that police say involved making antisemitic statements.

Sarah Beutel, the interim CEO of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa, says these incidents are disturbing

Beutel says hate toward the Jewish community in Canada has been building for years


https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-jewish-canadians-are-living-in-rising-fear-as-violence-and-vitriol/

Jewish Canadians living in rising fear as violence and vitriol increase

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the shots fired at schools, the assaults, the defacing of stores, the scrawled swastikas

So what is at the root of this rising hatred? In a conversation, Shimon Fogel, chief executive officer of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, and I discussed several possibilities.

One factor could be the arrival in recent years of tens of thousands of people who were victims of the Syrian civil war, the Taliban reconquest of Afghanistan and other calamities. These refugees come from a region where there is intense antipathy toward Israel.

“I don’t think it is universal, but certainly within the ideologically driven, Islamist ranks of the community, evidence of hate, from the pulpit to the grassroots level, is clearly present,” Mr. Fogel believes.

fundamentally we see Israel as a thriving democracy and a refuge for Jews

Mr. Fogel speaks of “this binary notion that the root of all ill and evil in our society is white privilege, and the Jews are the poster child for white privilege.”

The anger and emotion swirling online and in the streets over Jews and Israel threaten to undermine Canada’s multicultural consensus. Losing that consensus would be among the greatest tragedies that could befall this country.

Jews in Canada right now live in rising fear. Parents are afraid to send their children to school. College students face harassment and worse. Protesters are targeting Jewish businesses and community centres.

Jews know where this leads.