"I'll never forget the moment Kohli left it up there."

"I told him, 'You're making a huge mistake. this is going to go very badly. You have to bring that generator down."

"You can't leave plutonium by a glacier feeding into the Ganges!"

"We were trained to do it fast [unloading seven radioactive fuel capsules powering an electric generator]. At the time, I didn't quite grasp the importance."

"The Sherpas loved them. They put them in their tents. They snuggled up next to them [for warmth]." 

Jim McCarthy, lawyer, American rock climber 

 

"Maybe two or three people in the entire [Indian] government knew about this."

"[The government's intense fear that China was going nuclear led it to acquiesce]. You see, we had just lost a war to China -- no, not just lost, we had been humiliated." 

R.K. Yadav, former Indian intelligence officer

 

"I told them whoever is advising the C.I.A. is a stupid man."

The C.I.A. kept us out of the picture. Their plan was foolish, their actions were foolish, whoever advised them was foolish."

"The whole thing is a sad chapter in my life." 

"Even if the device doesn't explode, it is still out there, and that in itself creates a sense of fear." 

Captain M.S. Kohli, high-ranking Indian naval officer 

 

 

"Come back quickly. Secure the equipment. Don't bring it down", ordered Captain M.S. Kohli, monitoring a special mission from advance base camp led by the C.I.A. with Indian collaboration, in 1965. They had trudged up Nanda Devi carrying with them an antenna, cables and a SNAP-19C portable generator designed in a top-secret lab, powered by radioactive fuel. They planned to set up a surveillance device to spy on China's mission control, for intelligence on their nuclear program. 

 

The 23-kilogram, beachball-sized nuclear device would produce the electricity to operate the device. The team of American and Indian climbers had struggled their way up the mountainside in September, in a howling wind, crampons clinging to the ice, a 600-meter drop below, just before the onset of the dangerous winter storm season. Just as the climbers meant to push for the summit over the razor-sharp edge, in swept a blizzard bringing whiteout conditions. 

"We were 99 percent dead [when the blizzard hit]. We had empty stomachs, no water, no food."

"The snow was up to our thighs."

"In a situation like that you can't carry an extra needle." 

Sonam Wangyal, Indian intelligence operative 

Nanda Devi peak in India

 

Captain Kohli gave instructions to leave the generator behind to save the lives of the climbers. They secured the gear on an ice ledge, tying it down firmly, before descending down the mountain, fatigued and desperately anxious to survive. The nuclear device they left behind contained close to a third of the total amount of plutonium held in the Nagasaki atomic bomb. And that was the last time anyone saw the abandoned generator containing Pu-239, an isotope and larger amounts of Pu-238, a highly radioactive fuel.

 

No one outside those directly involved had any idea of this drama and how it played out. Until the late 1970s when an investigative reporter dug around for details and published his discovery. To the present, people in India demand answers;  high in the Himalayas villages in remote settlements -- and environmentalists and politicians fear that the nuclear device could slide into a stream of icy water and dump radioactive material into the headwaters of the Ganges, the sacred Indian river that hundreds of millions of people depend on. 

 

The question remains How dangerous is the missing device? Could it poison the headwaters of the Ganges, one of the world’s largest rivers?  India Today

 

 The plan was to set up  a secret sensor at the top of a mountain to intercept radio signals from Chinese missile tests launched from the Lop Nur testing grounds, some 1,500 kilometers away in Xinjiang. Nanda Devi stands 7,815 meters in height; a mere handful of people had reached its summit located within India, towering above the Chinese border; a strategic location. In mid-September the American and Indian climbers flew by helicopter to the foot of Nanda Devi,  around, 4,570 meters above sea level.

 

They faced an ascent of over 3,000 vertical meters along a knife's-edge ridgeline. A time shortage to carry out the mission before winter storms led them to bypass acclimatizing, the result of which was  altitude sickness striking the climbers. The porters were all  eager to carry the plutonium capsules, for the warmth they generated. No one ever explained to them what a deadly threat they represented. The climbers themselves were never warned about the radioactive material. 

 

Pushing the abandoned generator into an ice cave, everything was tied down with metal stakes and nylon rope. In spring of the following year Captain Kohli and another C.I.A. team returned for the device. When they scaled Nandi Devi there was no generator. The entire ledge of ice and rock was no longer there, likely sheared away by a winter avalanche. Captain Kohli organized search missions in following years using alpha counters to measure for radiation, telescopes to scan the snow, infrared sensors to pick up any heat and mine sweepers to detect metal. Nothing was revealed. 

 

Then in February of 2021 a massive rock wedge broke from a mountain close by Nanda Devi, unleashing a surge of water, mud, ice and more rock thundering through the narrow Rishiganga gorge. Over 200 people were killed in the landslide, many of them employed at a hydropower dam. The water surge was so gigantic the dam was swept away. "It has to be that generator. What else can there be?" stated Captain Kohli, noting the heat it generated to melt the ice would allow it to sink deeper and deeper and cause geological instability. 

"The radioactive material is right there, inside the snow."

"Once and for all, this device must be excavated and the fears put to rest."

Satpal Maharaj, Uttarakhand tourism minister 

Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks in Uttarakhand, India, are UNESCO World Heritage Sites celebrated for their breathtaking natural beauty and biodiversity.

Ariana News

"Strong combat broke out in numerous areas of the 2,600-kilometer Durand Line in early October 2025, especially in the vicinity of Kunar, Spin Boldak–Chaman and the Kurram tribal region. While Kabul denounced Pakistan’s retaliatory airstrikes in Kandahar and Paktika as flagrant violations of sovereignty, Pakistan accused the Taliban government of providing sanctuary to Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants responsible for deadly raids inside Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. Numerous people were killed in the fighting, which also blocked important commerce routes and interfered with humanitarian supplies."

"After the two regimes declared an emergency ceasefire on October 19, Qatar and Turkey mediated the conflict in Doha. Both governments promised to stop the attacks, restore communication channels, and set up verification processes. Although the truce provided temporary respite, it revealed underlying structural divisions, especially in relation to Pakistan regime’s demand that Taliban regime stop TTP activities and the Taliban’s insistence that Pakistan respect Afghan territorial integrity."

Australian Institute of International Affairs 

 

The U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 under UN approval in the wake of 9/11, saw a multitude of countries joining Operation Enduring Freedom, mostly NATO members. At that time Pakistan aligned itself on the surface with the U.S.declaring itself part of a coalition fighting terrorism. While in actual fact, the Taliban was given haven in Pakistan, as was Osama bin Laden, living at Abbottabad not far from a Pakistan military base. Pakistan's own Taliban was just getting started, inspired no doubt, by the Afghan Taliban.

 

Fast forward to the present, and Afghanistan now governed by the fundamentalist Taliban. Pakistan's designs on controlling Afghanistan, and keeping India out of the country have rather soured now that the Taliban for better or for worse -- and as it happens, much worse -- is in power and Pakistan now struggling against its very own terrorist Taliban, blames the government in Afghanistan with sheltering Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, and for its troubles having Pakistan penalize it by cutting off a vital trade route.

 

One of the largest, once-bustling markets in Peshawar where thousands of shops owned by Afghans selling a wide variety of consumer goods is now a wan image of itself with the closure of hundreds of Afghan shops. A deep chasm has resulted between Afghanistan and Pakistan with their traditional trade routes impacted with cross-border trade having been cut by Pakistan as punishment for the Taliban administration failing to cooperate with Pakistan's demands it stop giving haven to the terrorists that have attacked and killed members of Pakistan's military.

 

Millions of farmers, traders and communities in both countries have been impacted by the suspension of  trade. Trucks carrying coal, cement, pomegranates, cotton, medicine and other goods valued to $2 billion in bilateral trade have been held up for months. Pakistan's 250 million population represented a plentiful consumer base for Afghanistan. But they and access to India -- vital to the Afghan economy -- have been hit a powerful blow for the Taliban government, already suffering from the forced return of over 2.5 million of its nationals from neighbouring countries, and the damage inflicted by two deadly earthquakes.

 

Hundreds of trucks and trailers have been standing idle since October 11 near the busiest border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan, after deadly clashes resulted in suspension of trade |Photo: Reuters

 

Hundreds of trailer trucks have been parked along the road running through the border near Peshawar, since October 11. Most crossings have been barred by Pakistani border guards, with the exception of Afghan nationals returning home. "When they stopped us here, it was still summer. Now winter is right upon us", moaned Abdul Wakeel at the Torkham border crossing. Although the Taliban denied supporting Pakistani Taliban, Pakistan expelled over a million Afghans and carried out strikes on Kabul and Kandahar, resulting in the deaths of dozens of soldiers on both sides.

 

Over half of Afghanistan's 42 million people require humanitarian assistance, while containers brimming with aid stand blocked at the border. Pakistan itself faces a rising poverty rate of 25 percent; the trade standoff benefits neither country. Peshawar, about 48 kilometers from the border with a sizeable Afghan population among its two million residents, has been struck particularly brutally by the situation. "We're caught in between the politics of two countries", observed Syed Naqeeb Badshah, president of a lobby group representing Afghan traders in Pakistan, resignedly. 

 

These trucks are loaded with the belongings of Afghans attempting to return to their country after Pakistan closed border crossings with Afghanistan. They were pictured at the border crossing in Chaman, Pakistan, on Oct. 16.  Reuters

The Jew-Baiting Islamists at Canadian Universities

"[University campuses] are the places where there's been an ideological picture that incorporates anti-Zionism into the fold, so it emerges from -- I think it's driven by -- a lot of faculty who have very strong ideological positions on this stuff."

"We're [Network of Engaged Canadian Academics [NECA] 400 members across 53 campuses concerned about the safety of Jewish faculty and students and staff and combating antisemitism."

"[What's going on in campuses across the country is] really taking us away from the things that a university is supposed to be about."

"Basically, what we find is there are two groups of faculty; those who have experienced no antisemitism or very low, and those who have experienced really high levels."

"It seems to work through feeling that you have to support yourself, your Jewish identity; that you're vulnerable, and that you're  betrayed by your institutions, and your colleagues."

"In a very strategic and intentional way our universities are being used as a source of ideological propaganda. And there are bad actors who we know are doing that. [It makes sense if you are trying to get some] intellectual ideological capture; [ focus on university campuses -- where you have the most academic freedom]."

Carey Kogan, psychology professor, University of Ottawa

B'nai Brith

 

Professor Kogan co-founded the Network of Engaged Canadian Academics in 2022. He did so because even before the atrocity of Palestinian terrorists led by Hamas slaughtering 1,200 Israelis and taking another 240 as captives for barter back to Gaza, unleashing a storm of antisemitic vitriol against Jews in Canada by a number of Palestinian student 'activist' groups, the Jew-hating atmosphere in  Canadian universities was beginning to sear the lives of Jewish students and academics.

 

Following the barbarism of 7 October 2023, incitements to discrimination against Jews took to the streets of Canadian cities and on university campuses where tent cities sprang up with students as well as outsiders garbed in keffiyehs and masks harassing Jewish students, barring entry to their classes, chorusing epithets against Zionism, and chanting 'from the river to the sea Palestine will be free!' ad nauseum, while demanding that university administrations boycott Israeli academics and divest university investments from any links with Israel.

 

Jews, points out Professor Kogan, represent a mere one percent of the Canadian population yet 70 percent of religious-motivated hate crimes target Jews in Canada. Jews are 25 times likelier to experience a hate crime than anyone from within the general population. "We need to move to action, where people are taking a stand, being vocal about this. We can have people talking about, even protesting war. That's fine. We can have people asking for rights for Palestinians. Absolutely fine. But we can't have this kind of identity-based hate movement being taught in classrooms, being propagated through motions at university, faculty unions, student unions and all of that".

 

The Network of Engaged Canadian Academics Dr. Kogan is part of represents a defence against campaigns that target Canadian universities "with a high proportion of Jewish students and faculty, like the University of Toronto" or campuses where media attention is likely to be drawn for publicity. Canada has more than adequate laws to deal with these situations, but has yet to enforce those laws and rules. There is insufficient transparency on foreign donations to universities, there needs to be an improved collaboration with federal intelligence agencies in an era when leadership is wanting, not leading. 

Anti-Israel protesters march at McGill University on Oct. 7, 2025. Photo by Allen McInnis/Postmedia/File

 

"I mean, faculty were helping students with these encampments, helping students write these reports, make these statements, and I think there are unions, both student and faculty unions, supporting this ideological position. It became harder for certain leaders to actually make clear statements, and there was a double standard in terms of implementing policies, more than in any other minority group experience.The biggest or the most painful thing for Jewish students is the double standard. 

 

"They're avoiding campus, taking courses online, they're hiding their Jewish identity.  Their behaviour is changing as a function of the hostility. They won't talk about their opinions on things They're put on the spot asked to speak for the Israeli government, like absurd, absurd kinds of things that we would never see other minority groups be subjeted to."

 

Matters may yet escalate with ongoing negotiations with Hamas, and journalists reporting on the level of destruction in Gaza. Dr. Kogan points out that the entire area of Gaza was honeycombed with tunnels where underground military bunkers housed and protected Hamas operatives and weaponry. In bombing the tunnels and targeting Hamas terrorists, the Israel Defence Forces had little option, after instructing civilians to leave the areas before assaulting the structures, but to destroy the tunnels. 

 

Between January 1944 and 1945 the Royal Air Force and the U.S. air force conducted air raids over Germany where American planes alone made 744,000 sorties and dropped 1.4 million tons of bombs with inaccurate aerial bombing, dropping loads indiscriminately in and around major German cities. The result was Allied bombing that killed up to five hundred thousand German civilians. Allied raids destroyed between 4.5 and 5 million homes. How's that for perspective?

 

As for the level of institutionalized and casual Jew-hate, the former the result of an enormous intake of Muslims into Canada in the past several decades, the latter the always-present but generally underground antisemitism that always hovered in the air among the general Canadian population: "It's deep, it's structural, it's embedded, it's years old, it's informed by religion, it's informed by culture. And so it's not going away any time soon. But I think we can bring the temperature down, if we have strong leadership", ventured Professor Kogan. 

 

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Islamic State Thrives and Lives On Globally

Twenty-one years after its founding in 2004 and eleven years since declaring a caliphate in 2014, the Islamic State’s territorial presence in Iraq and Syria has diminished significantly. At its height, the organisation fielded up to 80,000 militants, including more than 42,000 foreign terrorist fighters from over 120 countries. In contrast, by mid-2025, estimates suggest only 1,500 to 3,000 fighters remain active in Syria and Iraq.  

Despite the Islamic State having shrunk in the Middle East, its global presence has expanded significantly, and by the end of 2024, the Islamic State remained the deadliest terrorist organisation in the world. Since the loss of its self-proclaimed Caliphate in Syria and Iraq in 2019, and some 60,000 combatants, the organisation has undergone radical structural and operational changes. In 2025, the Islamic State relies primarily on a dynamic network of regional affiliates who operate with a greater autonomy of action than ever before."

The Islamic State’s digital operations in 2025 remain a key pillar of its strategy to maintain global influence, project power, and advance its ideological and operational goals. The organisation  effectively exploits social media platforms and encrypted messaging tools to disseminate propaganda, radicalise, and recruit supporters, particularly targeting younger demographics who are both most active online and vulnerable to radicalisation. 

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism

AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed

 

"With the events of last weekend — an Islamic State (IS) attack in Palmyra, Syria that killed three Americans and an IS-inspired (or directed, pending further investigation) terror attack in Sydney, Australia targeting a Hanukkah celebration that killed 15, the Islamic State is once again back in the headlines."

"One of the most frequently asked questions from journalists and the media was, does this suggest the beginning of a new wave of IS attacks across the globe? In truth, nobody knows."

"But the attacks were less about a resurgence of IS, and more a reflection of a longstanding reality — the group has not been defeated and will remain a major counterterrorism challenge for the foreseeable future."

The Soufan Center 

One of the three men arrested in Toronto charged with hate-motivated extremism targeting women and members of the Jewish community last week, 26-year-old Waleed Khan faces ISIS-linked terrorism charges. Khan conspired with "persons known and unknown" in Toronto and elsewhere in Ontario to commit murder, according to the RCMP. It appears fairly reasonable to comprehend from this that Islamic State-linked extremists dedicated to jihad make their homes in Canada. 

 

Earlier occurrences in Montreal and Newmarket respecting ISIS-related arrests, make this most recent one in Toronto, a third in what appears to be a growing series where since 2023, 23 such arrests have taken place in Canada. Mere days ago an ISIS attack in Syria killed three U.S. soldiers, while an ISIS-inspired attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney saw 15 people killed and 40 wounded. A reminder to the world that the Islamic State Caliphate has morphed from a since-routed territory within Syria and Iraq to the far more difficult-to-expunge minds of aspiring Islamist jihadists where the Internet plays a central role in radicalizing young Muslims.

 

Australian PM: Bondi Beach Atrocity inspired by ISIS

 

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) has ventured an estimate of at minimum 200 individuals with connections to Canada travelled overseas to serve as fighters, recruiters, fundraisers and propagandists in league with Islamic State in its heyday. The agency warned early in 2025 of its "increasing...concern" for the risk of ISIS-inspired attacks at  home. A Canadian has been identified as one of the group's most notorious online propagandists. The kind of propaganda appealing to restless young man prone and prey to self-radicalization as "lone-wolf" terrorists eager to make their mark striking anywhere.

 

The psychologically corrosive allure of violent action in a cause believed to be divine, with the faithful of Islam responding to one of the major faith edicts of jihad, promises a role for those willing and able to weaponize the grievances of victimhood and nowhere at present is that target of lethal vengeance more alive than in Israel's military response in Gaza to the Palestinian terrorist attack of 7 October 2023; a flashpoint of rage and retribution. 

 

Waleed Khan, Osman Azizov and Fahad Sadaat are facing a combined total of 79 charges according to police, including attempted kidnapping with a firearm and sexual assault with a weapon, police say. Khan is also accused of funding ISIS and aiding terrorist activity, the RCMP said. (Toronto Police Service/YouTube)

 

As the most recent arrests to take place in Canada demonstrate, terrorism's allure is increasingly for the young to incite violence within their own areas of domicile where governments tend to be lenient in their response to the destabilizing, socially divisive solitary and group actions of the disaffected demographic that reacts compulsively to the prods of incitement that claim Israel has mounted a genocide against the people of 'Palestine'. Clamouring for Israel's destruction from afar has its satisfying long-range echoes, but Jew-hate can be practised anywhere and in Canada, the ongoing 'pro-Palestinian', anti-Israel marches target the Jewish contingent in the country for a 'Final Solution'. 

 

Deviations from a crowd mentality are those lone wolves who strike out to commit violent acts of terror; acts as wide-ranging as fire-bombing synagogues, firing at Jewish parochial schools, vandalizing Jewish community centers and Jewish businesses, and now the most recently revealed pursuits, hunting down Jewish women with the intention of kidnapping and sexual assaults. Petty and disturbing incidents of ripping mezuzahs (small metal lozenges containing sacred scrolls) commonly placed on Jewish door posts, are disconcertingly frightening for the elderly residents in targeted homes.

 

And yet, through all these warning signs, along with the rising decibel of fear and loathing, Canadian authorities at all levels cling to inaction. Failure to make use of existing laws against public disorder, threats, violence and instigation of acts of violence have served to embolden those who continue to slanderously stigmatize others, threaten their peace of mind and deviate when it suits them from targeting Canadian Jews, to harass shoppers at Christmas markets, or enter Jewish-owned businesses to confront those shopping there. 

 

The Government of Canada recently announced additions to its terrorist list. A year ago it added Samidoun, yet it still permits the terrorist entity to operate its foreign affiliates out of Vancouver. 

 

The Government of Canada is taking action to counter terrorism and violent extremism, in particular the radicalization of young people online, by adding four new organizations to the Criminal Code list of terrorist entities. These measures help protect Canadians and communities from intimidation, hate, and acts of violent extremism and terrorism.

Today, the Honourable Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Public Safety, announced the addition of the following groups: 764, Maniac Murder Cult, Terrorgram Collective, and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, also known as Daesh) affiliate Islamic State-Mozambique.

Under Canada's Criminal Code, these organizations are now legally defined as "terrorist groups". This gives Canadian law enforcement and security agencies stronger tools to prevent and disrupt terrorist activity. Key implications include:

• All property owned by these groups in Canada must be frozen and reported to CSIS or the RCMP.
• It is a criminal offence for anyone in Canada and Canadians abroad to knowingly deal with property belonging to a listed terrorist group.
• Providing property or financial services that benefit these groups is also prohibited.
• Immigration and border officials can use this listing to inform decisions on admissibility under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

764, Maniac Murder Cult and Terrorgram Collective are transnational ideologically motivated violent extremist (IMVE) networks. They use social media and online gaming platforms to recruit and radicalize individuals, spread propaganda and violent extremist narratives, and incite violence both online and offline. Canada is the first country to list 764 as a terrorist entity, taking a leadership position in combatting the significant threat of IMVE and fighting against emerging terrorist trends. Listing these groups helps Canada protect the safety and security of Canadians, including children and vulnerable populations, against terrorism and violent extremism.

Islamic State-Mozambique (IS-M) is an official ISIS branch. It is an armed insurgent group based in Mozambique seeking to replace the governing authority with Sharia-based governance by seizing territory, infiltrating civilian populations and security forces, and committing violent acts of terrorism.

Listing these entities will help Canadian security, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies in combatting their crimes and terrorist activities, and make our communities safer.

Government of Canada, December 10, 2025

 

Washington Institute for Near-East Policy

 

 

"Antisemitism in Canada has reached a crisis point. Jewish schools, community centres, and synagogues are being  targeted by gunshots and Molotov cocktails."

"Swastikas are openly displayed, while mezuzahs are torn from the doorways of Jewish residences."

"Chants glorifying terrorist violence against Jews are heard on streets and campuses, without consequence."

"Jewish students are afraid to go to class."

"The Government of Canada must act decisively to confront the alarming rise in hate threatening Jewish Canadians and Canada's inclusive, democratic society."

Coalition of Jewish leaders press release 

Hundreds of demonstrators blocked access to CANSEC, North America’s largest weapons and military technology expo, in protest against what they call Canadian complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

 

Since the Palestinian terrorist atrocity committed on October 7, 2023, when thousands of terrorist operatives led by Hamas swarmed out of Gaza across the border into southern Israel to rape, maim and murder over a thousand Israelis and kidnap hundreds more into Gaza, Jews in Canada have witnessed an almost-overnight change in their status as loyal Canadian citizens. Suddenly government leaders at all levels from municipal, provincial to federal, and their policing forces appear to have forgotten the values and customs and laws of justice and equality. Jews are left to fend for themselves against a phalanx of Jew-haters loudly and confidently making their presence known. 

 

No sooner had news erupted out of the Middle East that a mass pogrom had taken place, leaving Israel traumatized, and the expectation that this declaration of war by Palestinian terrorist groups would be confronted by an Israeli military response, Muslim Canadians launched demonstration after  demonstration, accusing Israel of 'genocide', while slandering Jews in Canada and calling for a global intifada, chanting 'Final Solution!', 'Jews go back to Poland' with the obvious message of another Holocaust.

 

Gathering in Place des Arts in the heart of downtown Montreal, demonstrators showed their support for Palestine (CBC)

 

Canada has laws against criminal behaviour; hate-mongering to the extent of inciting to murder -- threatening an identifiable demographic, interfering with people attempting to enter places of worship, defacing buildings with offensive messages, entering private property to harass clients, disrupting legal social gatherings, marching through ethnic-specific neighbourhoods to threaten residents -- are all criminal acts for which the law has remedies. But they have never been enforced in the case of Muslims vs Jews.

 

While governments at all levels intone formulaic rejection of antisemitism, there is no comfort in words which lack relevant action to put a stop to the incitement and the threats. Nor is it particularly comforting that authority figures condemn antisemitism, and in the same breath add 'Islamophobia', when it is in fact those faithful to Islam who primarily threaten and slander Jews, while advocating for the general public to join them, which some are willing to do now that overt antisemitism appears to be normalized in Canada.

 

(JERRY ZHANG/ THE EYEOPENER)

 

Ongoing for two years, with no stop to the constant haranguing, intimidation, and threats, episodes become more violent and openly aggressive. Jews must now build physical barriers around their community centres, synagogues and parochial schools for protection, employing security guards and  hoping this will forestall the events that have seen synagogues firebombed and vandalized, along with privately owned Jewish businesses, and Jewish elementary schools shot at. 

"Since the Hamas-orchestrated October 7, 2023 massacre, Canada has experienced a dramatic increase in violent antisemitism.¹ This dangerous spike is concurrent with an increase in activity by an interconnected and coordinated network of NGOs, whose campaigns of anti-Israel demonization, antisemitism, and intimidation create a hostile environment throughout Canada. A number of the leading groups are linked to Palestinian terror organizations and hide their sources of funding." 

"NGO Monitor’s mapping of Canadian anti-Israel groups, partnerships, and funding shows the extent of NGO cooperation in advancing their agendas of isolating Israel and attacking the Jewish State’s supporters (and perceived supporters). This NGO network is responsible for violent public events, student encampments, statements, and legal actions. Ominously, many of these groups have publicly celebrated the Oct. 7th atrocities, and expressed support for Hamas and other Canadian-designated terrorist organizations."

• There is a blatant lack of transparency regarding the funding sources that enable the NGOs in the network. 
• 38 out of the 111 groups are registered with Canada Revenue as a business or charity. 29 organizations are known to have received some funding from the Government of Canada or provinces.
• Samidoun – a Palestinian terror-linked NGO with chapters in Vancouver, Toronto and Ottawa – is one of the key groups promoting hate and incitement in Canada through its planning and promotion of numerous antisemitic events and extensive partnerships across the country.
• Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), which claims to have 9 university and 18 regional chapters, has the most connections, partnering with 76 out of the 111 groups.
• While small in numbers, campus organizations are prominent in the network and have partnered with many NGOs, including those that receive Canadian government funding.
• On the cluster map, organizations are situated closer to other organizations with which they have more links (“force-directed layout”). Legal NGOs appear to be fairly central and connected, suggesting  that they are providing important services to many of the activist groups.

NGO Monitor 

 

If the federal government's inaction when Canadian Jews are relentlessly targeted leaves those Jews with the impression that they have little option but to leave the country they have lived in for centuries, they may succeed, even as the federal government welcomes immigration and refugee and migrant intake of Muslims fleeing violence in their countries of origin, bringing with them traditions of maliciously dangerous Jew-hate. 

 

Among Canada's lengthy list of proscribed terror groups, Hezbollah and Hamas have an honoured place, as do other groups such as the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. Canadian Intelligence has warned that members of Hamas and Hezbollah have a presence in Canada, diligently working to undermine safety for Jews by inciting to violence. They alternately turn to harassing people at shopping centers and at Christmas Markets. Samidoun's leader and co-founder, Charlotte Kates established Vancouver as her group's national headquarters. Despite advocating against Israel as well as Canada's legitimacy, burning a Canadian flag at a demonstration, no lasting charges of hate-mongering resulted.

 

 The Canadian Integrated Threat Assessment Centre stated the "realistic possibility" of a violent attack against Jews in Canada, following the Bondi Beach atrocity in Australia, since both countries now share a progressive-left ideology that sacrifices the safety and security of their Jewish populations, while catering to the 'Islamophobia' myth that censures any criticism of Islamist threats and violence. This latest assessment is certainly not the only one acknowledging Canada's dysfunctional response to Islamist violence, awaiting the sudden occurrence of an Islamofascist attack on a Jewish event in Canada.

 

Waleed Khan, Osman Azizov and Fahad Sadaat are facing a combined total of 79 charges according to police, including attempted kidnapping with a firearm and sexual assault with a weapon, police say. Khan is also accused of funding ISIS and aiding terrorist activity, the RCMP said. (Toronto Police Service/YouTube)

 

"Our intelligence officials have made it clear that the ingredients that were in place in Sydney are also in place here in Canada."

"[The extremism that] fuelled mass murder on the beach in Sydney is present here in the GTA [Greater Toronto Area] and Canada and it is time for Canadians and Canadian leaders in particular to wake up before it is too late."

Noah Shack, CEO, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs 

 

 

"All of the women here are radical."

"But the bigger problem is that the mothers are educating their kids according to the Islamic State ideology."

Hokmiya Ibrahim, administrator, Roj camp, Syria 

 

"Repatriation is the priority."

"We are aiming to return people to their countries, not just in al-Hol, but for all the camps inside northeast Syria. Everyone should go back home."

"This camp is a ticking time bomb. We’ve received intelligence from our allies in the international coalition, led by the United States, and from the Iraqi government, that ISIS [the Islamic State] is planning something. But we don’t know whether it will be an external attack or an uprising from within."

"We’re trying to address this together with the National Security Agency and the [U.N. Refugee Agency]."

"[But on the part of the new government], no steps have been taken to relocate these populations."

"Humanitarian cases in al-Hawl need urgent referral to Damascus or elsewhere and, for the past month and a half, we’ve seen no positive moves." 

Jihan Hanan, co-head, al-Hol camp, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces

 

"Many international organizations have programs for al-Hol, but when it comes to actually moving and supporting families, there is no one there in practice."

"Given the scale of needs and funding constraints, no returnee receives a full package of support immediately upon return. Resources simply do not allow for that."

Mounzer al-Salal, director, Syrian NGO Stabilization Support Unit (SSU) 

Families prepare to return to their hometowns from northeast Syria’s al-Hol camp, 27 April 2025. Reuters

 

"A massive fence confines 39,000 people, 11,000 of whom are foreign nationals. Of these, 95% are women and children — mostly relatives of Islamic State fighters — along with a number of other civilians displaced by war. The camp is divided into six sections. Sections 1 through 5 house about 33,000 Syrians and Iraqis. Section 6, which the camp’s director described as “the most dangerous,” holds the families of foreign fighters from over 42 countries."

"There are 24,000 minors in al-Hawl. Many were born behind barbed wire and have never seen the world beyond the camp. Seven thousand of these children are under 12 years old. As we drive in, children hurl stones at the armored vehicles driven by our escorts from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led militia coalition that has battled the Islamic State for years. Others hide. One boy raises his right index finger — a gesture often associated with the Islamic State."

"Since 2019, over 150 killings have been documented inside al-Hawl; an average of more than two murders per month. A few weeks ago, authorities discovered the mutilated remains of a woman in Section 6, partly mummified and discarded in a ditch between tents belonging to extremists."

New Lines Magazine 

Mostly women and children live in the al-Hol camp    BBC

 

Most of the detainees in the Al Hol Camp located in northeastern Syria where a fence with barbed wire surrounds the immense compound, are family members -- the wives, sisters and children -- of the Islamic State fighters imprisoned nearby. Prisons close by the women's prison house over 8,000 of the ISIS fighters. Kurdish-led Syrian forces supported by the United States fought to reclaim land in Syria that ISIS had ruled for years as well as in Iraq, when it established its 'Islamic Caliphate', planning to conquer ever greater tracts of land until it was finally brought to heel.

 

The Kurdish-led forces that had protected the minority groups such as Yazidis, Christians and their own from the  brutal Islamists detained thousands of ISIS fighters and tens of thousands of their relatives, many women who had entered Syria from abroad responding to an appeal from ISIS for 'brides' for their terrorist fighting men. Ever since that wind-down of ISIS and the capture and imprisonment of their cohorts, the Kurds have been left to the task of guarding them. Despite years-long appeals to the international community by the Kurds to repatriate their citizens, few have complied.

 

The United States, allied with the Kurds, is now preparing to completely withdraw their presence and expects the new government of Syria to take responsibility for the thousands of residents in the detention camps, part of its plans to have the  Syrian Democratic Forces led by  the Kurds merge with the reconstituted military of the Syrian government under one-time ISIS affiliate, President Ahmed Al Sharaa, once known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani, in his earlier role as a bona fide jihadist. 

 

Although the Trump Administration has given the new Syrian administration a clean bill of health, that hasn't stopped the Al Sharaa military from aiding and abetting parts of its Sunni alliance jihadist militias in deadly reprisal attacks against the Syrian Alawites as well as Syrian Druze and Christians. Understandably, given the Kurdish experience with Sunni Jihadist militias and its battles over the years to free the geography from the hold of the Islamic State, the Kurds have little trust in the new government and its stated commitment to fight ISIS. 

 

The al-Hol camp holds families of alleged Islamic State fighters [Getty]

 

 Kurds view the likelihood that the former al-Qaeda-linked new government may turn the ISIS prisoners free, despite their public stance of battling ISIS. By no means is the Islamic State dead and gone as a violent ideological threat to global stability and security. It continues to target northeast Syria's Kurdish-led forces, expanding reach and frequency and lethality, reflecting the assessments by the UN and U.S. Two American soldiers were killed in one such attack in mid-December.

 

According to camp officials, ISIS operatives remain inside the camps, their focus that of radicalizing the children. Over 27,000 family members of ISIS fighters are held in Al Hol and nearby Roj camps. And while none of the women have been charged with  any crimes, the officials are under no illusion that many of these women are dangerous as ongoing proponents of the ISIS agenda, intent on teaching their children to become future acting members of the terrorist group. 

 

The most extreme of the detainees are those from countries outside the Middle East; Tajikistan, France and Russia; among them, about 6,000 women and children living separately in the camp, off limits to visitors. Violence and ill-health are the lot of the residents of the camp, where weapons are smuggled in and women and older adolescent boys attempt frequent escapes. Among the hundreds of vehicles entering daily with supplies, some carry human contraband out of the camp. 

 

"Every day people are fleeing, and it seems it is an organized operation", observed Al Hol administrator Jihan Hanan. 

  

All the residents at the camp are under indefinite detention, even though many have no links to the Islamic State and fled to the camp to escape the punishing U.S.-led bombing campaign. Photograph by Ivor Prickett

"Australia ... warns against any 'phobic' association of Islam with extremism. Indeed, in recent months, as the killers of Bondi were reportedly in the Philippines learning how to murder Jews, Aussie officials were poring over a new report titled 'A National Response to Islamophobia'."

"It proposes, among other things, challenging 'narratives that depict Islam as being 'intrinsically associated with ... extremism'."

"You couldn't ask for better proof of the moral corrosion and wilful blindness of the West than this vision of Australia's ruling class fretting over Islamophobia, as two men were plotting an apocalyptic act of Islamist violence."

"The fear of offending Muslims has had deadly consequences."

"Radical Islam directly benefits from this snivelling culture of cowardice. As we gag ourselves, it takes root and spreads. Our self-censorship creates the dark corners in which it can fester -- uncommented on,  uncriticized, even unnamed."

Brendan O'Neill, chief political writer, Spiked 

Candlelight vigil at Bondi Pavilion, December 16, Sydney, Australia,. Audrey Richardson, Getty Images

 

Naveed Akram made a brief video court appearance from the Sydney hospital while being treated for an abdominal injury. He has since been transferred to an unnamed prison. Australian police on Monday released documents outlining the two men, father and son, had recorded footage justifying the planned Bondi Beach attack that killed 15 people and wounded 40 others. Akram himself had been wounded on December 14 when the duo committed their mass atrocity while Australian Jews were celebrating the first day of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, at the popular beach.

 

The attack by the 24-year-old and his father began when they threw four improvised explosive devices at the crowd of families, children and friends bathed in a communal euphoria of remembrance that light dispels the darkness surrounding us. For the children it was the epitome of a joyous holiday, where sweets were in abundance, playgrounds beckoned, face-painting and animalia balloons were available and a general aura of peace and tranquility prevailed. The IED devices failed to explode. But the staccato of gunfire took their place, shocking the celebrants and killing some immediately.

 

The Bondi Beach shooting suspects seen leaving a rental in Campsie

New South Wales Police

 

The Islamist jihdists had rented a room in Campsie, a suburb of Sydney, for three weeks, refining their plans of attack. On the day of the attack they left for the short journey that would take them to the destination they had carefully chosen as their attack venue. CCTV revealed their arrival, bearing two shotguns, a rifle, five IEDs and two Islamic State flags wrapped in blankets. The IEDs were comprised of three aluminum pipe bobs and a tennis ball bomb filled with an explosive, gunpowder and steel ball bearings, described as 'viable' by police.

 

Images of the two killers shooting from a footbridge -- overlooking the beach below, which also provided them a raised vantage point, along with the protection of waist-high concrete walls -- were released by police. Akram was charged with 59 offences ranging from 15 counts of murder to 40 counts of causing harm with intent to murder and one count of committing a terrorist act.

 

Still from video

 

Draft laws were introduced by the New South Wales government to Parliament, promising to be the toughest in Australia, according to Premier Chris Minns. Among them new restrictions included a condition of qualifying for a firearms licence requiring Australian citizenship beforehand. Sajid Akram was an Indian citizen living in Australia on a permanent resident visa. He had purchased the six long guns in his possession legally. No word, however, of the Australian government's permissiveness of the years-long 'pro-Palestinian' marches to 'globalize the intifada'. 

 

The memorial that had quickly been mounted near the Bondi Pavilion as an expression of grief and mourning following the massacre, with thousands of mourners bringing flowers and cards as an expression of sorrow and solidarity, was no longer to be seen on Monday, removed as the beachfront returned to normal activities. The jarring vision of a memorial to murdered Jews no longer visible to shock the gaze of beachgoers. Part of the memorial is set to be installed at the Sydney Jewish Museum as a permanent exhibit. 

 

Birds fly over police cordons at the scene of the mass shooting at Bondi Beach on December 14, 2025 in Sydney, Australia.   George Chan/Getty Images

 

"[A video on Naveed Akram's phone shows him and his father expressing] their political and religious views and appears to summarize their justification for the Bondi terrorist attack."

"[The men are seen in the video] condemning the acts of Zionists [while they also] adhere to a religiously motivated ideology linked to Islamic State."

"[October video shows them] firing shotguns and moving in a tactical manner [on grassland surrounded by trees]."

"There is evidence that the Accused and his father meticulously planned this terrorist attack for many months."

New South Wales Police 

Agreement Value:

$471,842.00

Agreement Date:

Nov 30, 2021 - Mar 31, 2024

Description:

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. The National Council of Canadian Muslims will achieve this by addressing systemic employment barriers for Muslim women in Quebec. At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by collecting, examining and disseminating qualitative and quantitative data on the experiences of Quebec Muslims women whose employment opportunities have been dually impacted by discriminatory legislation, Bill 21, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Organization:

Women and Gender Equality Canada 

"We work with the government to challenge discriminatory laws, strengthen protections, and stop Islamophobia. Our FAQ answers common questions about our advocacy, your rights, and how we are fighting. If you don’t find what you’re looking for, reach out—we’re always here to help.

Canadians mobilized against Islamophobia. Between sending emails, calling officials, engaging in positive dialogue with local elected representatives, we engaged over 1.2 million members of our community to get involved."

"Canadians mobilized against Islamophobia. Between sending emails, calling officials, engaging in positive dialogue with local elected representatives, we engaged over 1.2 million members of our "community to get involved."

The media, including both news and entertainment, plays a massive role in shaping Canadians’ attitudes about Islam and Muslims." 

National Council of Canadian Muslims  

National Council of Canadian Muslims/aka Canadian branch, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

 

"Queer Momentum applauds the Government of Canada's announcement of continued investment in gender equality and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities."

"[October announcement of multi-million dollar government] gender equality [funding, with over $10 million annually] to support LGBTQ communities." 

"This announcement wouldn't have happened without our collective advocacy."

"[The Conservative opposition to bar male offenders from women's prisons based on self-identified gender] if enacted, would place  transgender women at increased risk of violence and harm in an already-violent criminal justice system." 

Queer Momentum  

It is, then, just and proper for Canadian taxpayers to lift the spirits of the transgender community with public funding. This is a community representing a minority within the greater Canadian population. Their uplift comes at a cost to half of the entire population in Canada -- women. When males profess that biology is irrelevant and it is their choice to put science in the garbage can while presenting themselves as women, suddenly women's spaces are no longer reserved for women. From schools to workplaces to sport arenas, women's and girls' restrooms have become open to men guised as women.

 

Women's sports are no longer reserved exclusively for women who must now compete in the sport of their choice with biological males presenting as women. Their greater male strength, endurance and size give transgender 'women' a monumental physical advantage over biological women. In the prison system where 'equality' is also held to be sacrosanct at a security penalty for women, men can circulate within a women's prison, share intimate spaces and represent themselves as no threat to women, since they are also women, even if the criminal act that had them incarcerated was violent rape. 

 

The nation's leading trans advocacy group Egale Canada founded in 1986 as a charity launched to support equal rights for gays and lesbians -- as Canada's "leading organization for 2SLGQI people and issues" defending gender identity -- has mounted strong opposition to laws newly enacted in Alberta that bar males from women's sports and ban prescription puberty blockers for minors. Their funding from government represents fully 69 percent of their total revenue, with $4.2 million received in 2023. 

 

This government has fully invested itself in funding for causes that comfortably fit their progressive agenda focusing on Critical Race Theory, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and virtually anything that can be classed as 'woke' liberal-left. Gender equity, climate change and anti-racism ventures qualify big time. 

In the process, as with women being sacrificed to the 'cause' of transgenderism support, when government funds Muslim initiatives purportedly aimed at making the Muslim community more comfortable in Canada, the much smaller Jewish community -- though part of the Canadian population for hundreds of years, whereas decades of immigration, refugee intake and illegal migration has seen the Muslim demographic boom -- becomes the sacrificial lamb. 

 

Pro-Palestinian protesters chant during a demonstration protesters are calling a "National March for Palestine" near Parliament Hill on Saturday. (Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press)

 

The fly in the ointment of offering Canadian citizenship to people fleeing dictatorships, conflict, poverty and ideological/religious indoctrination incompatible with traditional Canadian values is that there is always someone well established that tends to suffer. While the federal government generously views Islamic issues favourably, the kind of fiscal and social caution that should be part and parcel of integration into Canadian society that should start with assessing the suitability of immigration prospects, sees in reality careless decision making.

 

As for example, in a climate of blatant, raging antisemitism linked to the presence of Palestinians and other Muslim groups in Canada, when the group Toronto Palestinian Families approached government for funding for a program they describe as "combating anti-Semitism and anti-Palestinian racism for all 2024", it was somehow overlooked that there were links with the Palestinian Youth Movement in Canada which openly celebrated the October 7 atrocity in Israel and  which has organized viral threatening street protests against Israel's linked conflict in Gaza, while also harassing the Canadian Jewish community. 

Dear Prime Minister Carney

"We are calling for Canada to stand on principle. By imposing sanctions on the Netanyahu government, Canada would simply be enacting its own commitment to uphold international law, regardless of whether the perpetrator is an ally. It is impossible to imagine that any other world leader could order the massacre of 400 civilians in less than 24 hours without facing international condemnation."
"Canada simply cannot allow the Palestinian people of Gaza to endure another period of relentless bombing and starvation at the hands of the Netanyahu government. Now is the time for definitive action."
Respectfully,
National Council of Canadian Muslims  

Muslim organizations in Canada lobbying for anti-Israel policies going so far  as to accuse Canada of complicity in the "genocide" that Israel is inflicting in Gaza, are not considered immune from government funding. The  website of the National Council of Canadian Muslims boasted that their lobbying succeeded in persuading Prime Minister Mark Carney to state his intention to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he set foot in Canada. Their lobbying extends to advocating a stop to Canada Revenue Agency's Research and Analysis Division which has kept a tight eye for links to terrorism by Muslim charities. 

 

The NCCM has been the recipient of ten grants since 2018. One, from Canadian Heritage in the amount of $451,158 was for "engaging schools, parents and communities against Islamophobia", (a program that also manages to malign Jews) this year. The Arab Canadian Lawyers Association earlier in the year published a guide to "anti-Palestinian racism" which deems it racist to link Palestinian politics to terrorism -- an absurdity in and of itself, given the plethora of Palestinian terrorist groups, many of which are identified as such on Canada's own list of terrorists -- writing that "jihad" is a benign  term  which the West has misrepresented. Heritage Canada paid $99,950 for that guide through its "Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program". 

 

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