'Canada Has Disgraced Itself'

"To my mind, Canada has disgraced itself in the last 18 months by showing that the anti-Jewish hatred is permissible and is tolerable in a way which hatred of no other group would be."

"I would submit that if there were a large number of protests across Canada calling for lynching of black people or Indigenous people or gay people or anything else, that all of the strength of government and civil society would condemn the people doing that. Swiftly, too."

"This is the great shame of Canada, that synagogue after synagogue and Jewish school after Jewish school across Canada should have been attacked, fire-bombed, shot at."

"Canada's politicians, if they care about Canada's view in this world, should address this."

Douglas Murray, journalist, author, anti-Islamist 

Douglas Murray, pictured at Kibbutz Nir Oz, Israel, in November 2023, delves into the aftermath of the October 7 attacks in Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization. Photo by Moshe Mizrachi

 

When Liberal Cabinet ministers along with the prime minister Justin Trudeau, made statements in condemnation of Israel on the basis of charges uttered by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, despite that group having a place on Canada's list of terrorists, choosing to give credence to accusations of Israeli responsibility of a bomb dropped on a Gaza hospital, injuring hundreds of civilians, it wasn't long before an 'official' of Hamas thanked the Liberal Canadian government for its discerning side-taking.

 

This is a different Canada from the one administered by former Prime Minister Stephen Harper under the Conservative Party, when Israel was assured it had Canada's complete support and cooperation. Under the successor Liberal government of Justin Trudeau that support crashed when Canada began voting against Israel at the United Nations. And it descended even further when Canada stated it would have no problem supporting South Africa's charge to the International Criminal Court to investigate Israel for crimes against humanity.

 

Without a vestige of doubt, Israel is the sole country on the planet which, when attacked by thousands of Palestinian terrorists, launched a military defence and has been denounced -- not only Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the PLFP and Fatah, but ordinary Palestinian citizens who grasped at the opportunity to flood across the border from Gaza into southern Israel on October 7, 2023 -- to launch an unspeakable orgy of primitive sadism and savagery, mutilating and raping women, slaughtering entire families and taking 250 men, women and children of all ages hostage after killing 1,200 people. 

 

Palestinian terrorists move towards the border fence with Israel from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 7.   Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images

 

After decades of relentless suicide bombings, lone citizen attacks on Israelis, terrorist-launched thousands of missiles and rockets, threats contained in the charter documents of total eradication of the Jewish state, and failed attempts to negotiate peace accords and recognition in the interests of agreeing to a Palestinian state alongside that of the Jewish state, and each in turn failing because the Palestinians would offer no concessions to their goal of achieving possession of the entire geography, the finishing touch was the savage barbarity of the October 7 invasion.

 

The government of Israel stated its clear intention; to entirely demolish the military apparatus of the terrorist groups that have proven time and again that each deadly attack was only a prelude to another and another and another until their goal of destroying Israel had been achieved, when it entered Gaza in search of, and with the intention of destroying the terrorist groups at their own hateful game. What it met was more threats, this time to murder the hostages whom the Israel Defense Forces attempted to free, and more rockets into Israel.

 

The Palestine Youth Movement held a downtown rally from Yonge and Dundas Sts. to the Israeli Consulate on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, before shutting down the intersection to traffic. Photo by Caryma Sa'd /Special to the Toronto Sun

 

Palestinian terrorists have made it clear they are perfectly comfortable in sacrificing the lives of ordinary Palestinians in lieu of their own lives, to deter the Israel Defense Forces from reaching their goal of annihilating the terrorists. While many of their leaders did meet their fate, the sheer numbers of terrorist operatives hiding amongst the population, securing themselves in the vast network of tunnels in Gaza, operating out of hospitals, launching rocketry from mosques, storing weapons in UNRWA schools, presented an obstacle to reaching Israel's purposeful invasion's goal.

 

The West in general, quickly got over its initial shock at the scale and barbarity of Hamas's October 7 atrocities. With Palestinian propaganda working overtime and making swift inroads in inciting latent antisemitism at academic institutions throughout Europe and North America, and launching endless well-attended 'protests' by Hamas-admiring, anti-Israel groups, the slanderous fiction of Israel committing a 'genocide' against Palestinians was adopted and led to campus protests and shut-downs, as well as threats against the Jewish diaspora.

 

In France, Britain, the United States, Germany, Ireland, accusations of disproportionate violence by the IDF against Palestinians in Gaza redound. The protests grew more numerous, louder, bolder, and more threatening. In Canada, unlike elsewhere, governments at every level looked on, and did absolutely nothing to secure the safety of their Canadian Jewish populations. Police tended to overlook threats, violence and clear instances of law-breaking in what looked like solidarity with the pro-Hamas groups.

 

As a large number of Windsor police officers kept an eye out, dozens of pro-Palestine protesters shouted slogans and waved flags to passersby on Tecumseh Road East outside Windsor’s Caboto Club on Thursday during the Jewish National Fund’s Negev Dinner featuring former prime minister Stephen Harper as keynote speaker. Photo by Trevor Wilhelm /Windsor Star

When Jews grouped to launch counter-protests, they were warned by police that their actions were provocative and were further informed that they should disband, and were often escorted by police away from public venues, leaving the 'pro-Palestinian' groups free to continue their disturbances, including en mass prayers in the streets. It quickly became clear to Canada's Jewish population that they were on their own; in a country of guaranteed equality rights through the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Jews were exempt.

 

A new government has been voted in; yet another Liberal government, this time under a long-time Liberal central banker, Mark Carney as prime minister. Whose culture, values and playlist are no different from the previous one which gave Canada ten years of divisiveness, social engineering, ethnic strife, engorged immigration rates, falling economic status, a failing universal medical system, inefficient government, an extreme housing shortage, high unemployment, and ongoing Islamist ownership of the streets.

 

Canada badly needs rescuing, its hostilities between provinces, with the east and central Canadian provinces favoured by the Liberals and the Western provinces held to strict federal government-imposed strictures over matters that should by Canadian law and convention be decided by the provinces themselves, with environmental issues eclipsing all other considerations, another four years of the same Liberal government is destined to drag the country further into ignominy and self-ruin.

 

Anti-Israel protesters hold a news conference at Queen's University in May 2024. Photo by Peter Hendra/The Kingston Whig-Standard/Postmedia Network