"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.

 

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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