"This wasn't the only thing that was bizarre about this hearing. Before it began, I, a videographer and another reporter waited in the hallway near the elevators and close to the courtroom, where signage expressly permits filming, hoping for an image of Akodad, who has no pictures online."

"A man approached and tried to tell us who we could film. When asked who he was,  he replied, 'Don't worry about who I am'."

"Later, I learned the man was El Amine Serhani, director of the Listening and Assistance Centre for Maghrebi People in Quebec. The same organization lists Akodad's lawyer Saaty as a 'citizen mentor' and his father Fouad Akodad as a 'human pillar'."

"All three were present in court. The scene grew even more bizarre when the court constable shook Serhani's hand after the hearing." 

Terry Newman, The National Post

The accused, Mohamed Ilyess Akodad, said he accepted a $15,000 contract to set fire to Congregation Beth Tikvah on Dec. 18, 2024. (Simon-Marc Charron/Radio-Canada)

 

On Thursday in a Montreal courtroom, Mohamed Ilyes Akodad, 21, appeared in court for his sentencing after having pleaded guilty to firebombing a synagogue and Jewish community centre. He had, he said, no idea that the two buildings had Jewish occupancy. He and his layer, Nazar Saaty, earnestly addressed the judge with the difficult-to-believe claim that Akodad was merely carrying out a business agreement, a paid contract for 'three barbecues' arranged through Signal and FaceTime for unknown locations.

 

The court was informed that the job accepted by Akodad presented when he attended a party with a friend that took place somewhere his memory failed him to identify, as a result of undue stress experienced at the time along with the desensitization of time and place due to drug use. The job for which he was to be paid a princely $15,000 entailed fire-bombing three locations. Duly early morning of December 18, 2024, Akodad smashed the windows of the Federation CJA's West Island offices in Dollard-des-Ormeaux with a hammer.

 

He followed that  up by crossing the street to Beth Tikvah synagogue to set a fire, located next to a Jewish day school awaiting the arrival of children that morning. About four months later he was arrested. While he asked for release at his first bail hearing a month later, he was denied bail, and has been in custody since that time. Pleading guilty to three of the six arson-related charges, along with the intentional or reckless damage caused by fire or explosion to property, mischief respecting property with a value exceeding $5000, and arson by negligence, the maximum sentences reflecting such offences are 14, 10 and 15 years respectively.

 

A firefighter on the scene after a firebomb was thrown at Congregation Beth Tikvah, Montreal, Dec. 18, 2024. (Credit: Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs)

 

That aside, following the hearing of last week, reporters were informed by Crown prosecutor Christopher Hadjis-Chartrand that a two-year prison sentence is sought by the Crown even as Akodad's lawyer has recommended a sentence of nine to 12 months under condition that his client enter therapy, perform community work and apologize to the community. The actual sentencing decision will not be delivered until September 10 when court reconvenes. However, taking into account time already served Akodad could be released that very day.

 

The court heard of the difficult childhood experienced by Akodad leading to low self-esteem and problems with drug addiction. There was also a complaint about "difficult conditions" his pre-trial detention had exposed him to, with limited family visits, placement with gang members, a situation  so very difficult for a man like Akodad who has been convicted of car thefts. That is another story, that criminal gangs pay young men willing to steal vehicles that are then shipped abroad with the profits realized used to buy and smuggle guns from the U.S. into Canada.

 

During his testimony, Akodad's mother wept while his father testifying in support of his son berated him in a demonstration that it could not possibly have been the way he was raised that turned him to crime. He had agreed to the offer by a stranger to commit to three criminal acts which, when videoed as proof that he had carried out the mission as per contract would net him $15,000. The 'three barbecues' mission did not go off directly as ordered, and in the end he was given a mere $2,500 for an incomplete job. 

 

Now, with Akodad claiming he had no idea that his targets had anything to do with the Jewish community, his lawyer argues the arsons were strictly a business proposition, his client earning a fee, and there was no hate motivation involved, and in the absence of proof beyond reasonable doubt, that the miscreant had any knowledge it was Jewish institutions he was to target -- for that, he should be granted "benefit of the doubt".

 

For his part, Crown prosecutor Hajis-Chartrand questioned the claims that Akodad was  unable to recall details of the events that occurred as a result of stress and drugs, suggesting he had been able to plan, recall details, carry out the acts and then film them as proof. Pressed whether he hadn't realized these were Jewish institutions Akodad lashed back that he "wasn't stupid" and could recognize what the Star of David represented. 

 

Cantor Henry Topas, centre, and Rabbi Emeritus Dr. Mordecai Zeitz, right, at the firebombed entrance to Congregation Beth Tikvah in Dollard-des-Ormeaux on Dec. 18, 2024. (John Mahoney / Montreal Gazette files)

 

Montreal police take cover during the shooting. Photograph: Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press/AP

 

"Behind the uniform was an exceptional and a dedicated police officer, a loyal friend, a loving partner, and an extraordinary father. Today, he leaves behind a pregnant partner who was preparing to build a future with him, and a young child of only 3 years old who will grow up without his father."

"[...While no amount of money can fill this immense void [it hopes to] ease the burden now on [Benredouane's] family and offer some support during this heartbreaking ordeal."

"It is with immense sadness and heavy hearts that we launch this fundraising campaign to support the family of our friend, colleague, and brother-in-arms who tragically died in the line of duty."

Montreal Police Brotherhood, GoFundMe campaign 

Residents of the Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood are mourning the death of 34-year-old Montreal police officer Mohamed Lamine Benredouane who was killed in a shooting Monday. A civilian and the suspect also died that day.  CBC

 

"Born in Lebanon, Michel eventually made his home in Israel before settling in Montreal. He remained deeply devoted to Israel throughout his life, maintaining close ties to his children and family there. Almost every year on the anniversary of his father's death he travelled to Israel."

"It is therefore especially heartbreaking that violence would ultimately claim Michel's own life here in Montreal. Having already borne the pain of losing loved ones to conflict overseas, he himself became the victim of senseless violence in the city he called home. His passing is a reminder that hatred, wherever it appears, knows no borders and spares no innocent."

Beryl P. Wajsman, president, Institute for Public Affairs of Montreal

Sixty-eight-year-old Michel Mizrahi is being remembered as a generous and committed community member, especially at his synagogue in a Montreal suburb. Mizrahi was killed Monday in the shooting that also took the life of a Montreal police officer.  CBC

 

Michel Mizrahi, 68, a Montreal businessman, was the lone civilian killed by a gunman who suddenly appeared Monday morning in a newly developed commercial hub in Cote-des-Neiges, central Montreal, an area known as a Jewish district. The shooter, dressed in military fatigues and carrying a long gun, opened fire, shooting in all directions, while the busy thoroughfare quickly relinquished its many passerby to a desperate rush to shelter from the gunfire. A 911 call to police saw a response within minutes, police squads on the scene swiftly become the target of the shooter.

 

As a passerby, Mr. Mizrahi was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Born in Lebanon, he was remembered by those who knew him well, as a kind and gentle man. A man who had suffered his own losses in the near past, when his father was killed in a missile attack during the Gulf War, in 1991, in Israel. Another staggering blow arrived on the news that one of his siblings' child had been slaughtered on October 7, 2023 at the Nova music festival during the Palestinian invasion comprised of thousands of terrorists, led by Hamas.

 

The police officer victimized by the gunman was 34 years of age, Mohamed Lamine Benredouane, a member of the Montreal Police Force since 2021. Not scheduled to work on Monday, he had decided to take an overtime shift. Benredouane went to school in the neighbourhood where he was killed. "You have someone that grew up in the neighbourhood and decided to serve his community in the way that he did, by ultimately losing his life. It was an act of heroism that I can't highlight further",  said Notre-Dame-deGrae borough Mayor Stephanie Valenzuela.

 

Montreal shooting leaves three dead including a police officer – video

Eyewitness videos posted to social media showed one police officer shot, as another, female officer crouched behind a waist-level concrete planter, exchanging fire with a man in camouflage. Another video showed the downed officer rolling on his back, then his stomach, in an effort to crawl away from the direct fire, where at least 30 shots were later documented. That officer in the end, died of his wounds; Mohamed Lamine Benredouane. And with him, Michel Mizrahi who had been standing beside the female officer who was also shot in the exchange, but survived her wounds in hospital.

 

The attack had taken place at the Hilton Hotel on the corner of De Courtrai and Trans Island avenues. On the arrival of police a lockdown was ordered, people warned to remain in their apartments, doors locked, nearby stores with shoppers the same. Police were uncertain whether there was a lone shooter, or another with him close by. The lockdown with people sheltering in place lasted in fear and confusion for hours before it was lifted with the assurance that one shooter only was involved, and he had been lethally shot by police at the scene.

 

Seth Hatfield, 25 years of age, from Alberta who had attended Lethbridge University, recognized as an outstanding student, who had set out to put into action a plan of vengeance against capitalists, the elite, and Zionists and Jews who were behind all manner of nefarious social constructs he set out in a lengthy manifesto which also extolled the virtues of communism and the evils of "high capitalist" societies, urging readers of his screed who shared his grievances to "Be unflinching, go forth, and KILL THEM ALL!"

 

The document this class-action terrorist left behind listed "valid potential class A targets", that included international real-estate brokerages, private equity firms, elite bankers and politicians, influential Zionists, private health and oil CEOs, plastic surgeons, cryptocurrency leaders, the headquarters of all corporations with ties to Zionism (IBM, Microsoft, Boeing) and "pick-up artists", as well as pornographers. Among other targets: "the headquarters of international pornography companies", and those who "actively promote pornography to the public".

 

Montreal police work the scene of a shooting, June 22, 2026. CHRISTOPHER KATSAROV / CHRISTOPHER KATSAROV/THE CANADIAN PRESS VIA AP

  

"[Montreal4Palestine has spend years raising awareness in Montreal, consistently working to] unite Montrealers of all religious backgrounds."

"[We have] stood firmly against all forms of hate, including antisemitism [and uphold] values of human dignity, freedom of expression and solidarity among communities."

"[We are] deeply concerned by efforts to falsely characterize a side-profile image of an effigy as depicting a 'man in a kippah.'"

"[The effigies displayed] were directed specifically at political figures [and] at no point were [they] intended to represent Judaism, Jewish people, or any religious, ethnic, or identifiable community."

Montreal4Palestine

Montreal4Palestine posted this image to Instagram on Wednesday in response to the public outcry, clarifying that the three figures hanging in effigy at a rally on Saturday in Montreal were directed specifically at political figures. (mtl4pal/Instagram)

 

"The incitement to violence, hate symbols, and displays of intimidation that we see in our streets are unacceptable."

"Images of hangings or effigies have no place in Montreal, nor anywhere else."

"Montreal must remain a city of dialogue, respect, and living together, where everyone can feel safe and treated with dignity."

Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrara 

 

"This is not a debate about the Middle East."

"Hanging effigies of Jews in the streets of Montreal evokes some of the darkest antisemitic imagery in history and is completely unacceptable."

"This is not 'peaceful activism.' It is the promotion of hatred and the incitement of violence that fuels the radicalization of our social climate."

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs 

A still from the footage that appears to show the effigy of a Jewish figure being hung (Photo: X)

 

The ongoing spectacles of Palestinian 'protests' alongside their far-left-wing supporters that denigrate the state of Israel as a genocidal entity with the usual chants of 'globalize the Intifada', 'Final Solution' and 'From the river to the sea!' do not, and cannot be construed as free speech, when a simple analysis of these chants reveal their true meaning; the 'final solution' hearking back to the Holocaust and the infamous Nazi final solution to the Jewish 'problem'; the bookending chants' meaning the destruction of Israel, the Jewish homeland. 

 

The usual commentary by government officials, decrying the obvious antisemitic and violent nature of such protests amount to public dressing and no more by authority figures who deny that antisemitism reflects the values of society, but their declarations of denials are pablum and nothing more. Disrupting the social order to the extent that has become so depressingly commonplace since the Palestinian terrorist attacks on southern Israel of 7 October 2023, with no penalties attached for those who slander, threaten, and aggressively harass Jews within their communities represents a blot of shame for both elected officials and Canadian police services for their inattention and inaction.

 

No segment of society representing an ethnic, cultural, religious group should ever be forced by government unwillingness to apply the law as it should be done, to be constantly victimized with no consequences resulting from their violently verbal attackers. The government leaders that prefer to turn a blind eye, blinkered by their own political animus against a legitimate democratic state constantly under attack by destructive and violent neighbours, prefer to do nothing rather than alienate a voting block of Muslim Canadians that have become through immigration, migrant and refugee intake, far larger than that of the Jewish-Canadian demographic with its much longer historical roots in Canada. 

 

Mock hangings at a pro-Palestinian event in Montreal on Sunday, May 24, 2026 appear to show effigies depicting U.S. President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. (Montreal4Palestine / Instagram)

 

Finally, the Montreal Police Service has announced an investigation following yet another anti-Israel march that saw the hanging of effigy figures on the May 24 weekend. Effigies purporting to depict U.S. President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir amused the crowd no end. But, claimed the protest organizers, there was nothing antisemitic about the spectacle, nothing at all. Islamists who have succeeded in infiltrating Canada know how to play the game of using Western social justice values to their advantage, mouthing denials and claiming adherence to human rights.

 

Montreal police emailed their intention to investigate these most recent examples of Montreal4Palestine honouring Canadian values. The matter, they declared, was being investigated by their hate-crimes unit, with further details to be released at a later date. "As city councillor, I reached out to the local commander and asked for the latest information on the protest. I had received a lot of complaints from people in my district", explained Leslie Roberts, a Montreal councillor whose district the protest rally took place in.  

"In my view, depiction of violence against anyone crosses the line. I contacted the police to find out if what they were doing was within the Charter of Rights [and Freedoms] or not."

"Depiction of a Jewish man hanging with a kippah, depiction of anyone hanging, is crossing the line, in my opinion."

Montreal City Councillor Leslie Roberts   

"Hanging effigies, burning effigies, that sort of thing, is a very common form of political protest. The courts have said over and over again that political speech is, in a sense, the highest form of free speech, because it engages with our understanding of self-expression, it engages with the broader public sphere", stated Pearl Eliadis, a lawyer and McGill associate professor at the Max Bell School of Public Policy. The exception under Canadian law, is when violence is used to foment hatred. And if this display fails to fall into that category, then what does?!!

 

The animus and hostility toward Jews is fully expressed by Montreal4Palestine and other like groups practising their very special brand of antisemitism in Canada. While the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms protect free expression, they do not extend that freedom to the expression of viral hatred of the depth and degree demonstrated at this May 24 rally featuring a hanging-in-effigy of world leaders and by obvious extension Jews in general, which the kippah-clad effigy represented.

 

 

"I was scheduled to participate and speak at a commemoration of the Shoah, the Holocaust."

"It was very disappointing that Vanier decided to cancel the commemoration in fear, I was told, of demonstrations and problems with agitators outside the college."

"When fear rules your decisions rather than conviction of what is right, that’s dangerous."

"We live in a very fractured world now, and I think that we have to remember our history. I think that an educational institution such as Vanier has an obligation to educate their students and help them see each other as human beings."

"My talk was really going to be about our responsibilities as human beings, about the importance of remembrance, and how if education is the only tool, are we using it to the best of its possibilities."

"If we don’t learn from our history, then we’re condemned to repeat it and we’re well on the way to repetition."

"I would hope that Vanier reconsiders this decision, if not for this year, then for next year, and allow students to learn from it."

Eva Kuper, 85, Holocaust survivor, volunteer, Montreal Holocaust Museum

Eva Kuper, seen at the Montreal Holocaust Museum in 2017, was scheduled to speak at Vanier College about surviving the Holocaust. Last week she learned Vanier called off the ceremony. Photo by Pierre Obendrauf /Montreal Gazette

"While the College was not the target of a specific threat, in light of the current geopolitical context and information provided by our security team, we elected to review the event’s scheduling and format to err on the side of caution."

"[We are] currently reviewing the format of [the] annual Holocaust commemoration ceremony. [An] important event [that] holds a significant place in our institutional history [as it] brings together a number of external guest and dignitaries, students, staff and members of the general public."

"We are working to develop an alternative that honours the significance of this historical event that aligns with our values of education, remembrance and community well-being."

Vanier College, Saint Laurent, Montreal 

SAINT LAURENT, Q.C. - Vanier College on March 24, 2026. Terry Newman/National Post

 

Vanier College in the Saint Laurent borough of Montreal issued a statement on Wednesday to the effect that its 34th Symposium on the Holocaust and Genocide is continuing as planned, but the commemorative event was postponed. This abrupt announcement took everyone involved by surprise, not the least the invited guests as well as the presenters. What had been a mainstay for decades has seen the 35th version of the Holocaust commemoration cancelled, evidently due to concerns over the perceived issue of its attracting a violent backlash from pro-Palestinian contingents that have been marching for over two years against the existence of the state of Israel, while intimidating the Montreal Jewish community in a replay of the very scenarios leading up to the Holocaust throughout the Third Reich.

 

Speeches scheduled for the commemoration of that signal event of historical horror, from Christian Wagner, consul general of Germany, Eliaz Luf, consul general of Israel, Eva Kuper, a Holocaust survivor, and two Vanier students, summarily cancelled. Memorial prayers and a candle-lighting ceremony, planned for the the event would obviously also not take place. During the college's 34th Annual Symposium on the Holocaust and Genocide, 17 allied events were scheduled between March 23 to 27.

 

An event meant to honour the memory of 6 million Jews who were murdered during World War II by a Fascist totalitarian government cancelled as the organizers cowered in fear that hateful mobs that call for another Holocaust might disrupt the proceedings, and conceivably overwhelm the security guards posted at the institute  for all events to maintain order and civility. For events such as this, however, where a whiff of Jew-hate raises its threatening spectre of violence and the possibility of a riot and injuries or even worse, tender souls shrivel in fear.

 

In contrast to the heightened trepidation and an enlarged number of security personnel for any event featuring a speaker in support of Israel, there are also anti-Zionist Palestine presentations, such as occurred at an International Women's Week event at Vanier College. Where there was a notable absence of security guards in numbers that might dissuade psychopathic reaction from disaffected outsiders. All those disaffected outsiders, in effect, were in attendance at the event. 

 

 

 

"[The situation has been a] misunderstanding, [the broader Holocaust symposium has gone ahead.."

"The Holocaust symposium has been unfolding this week as planned, with over 15 talks on different themes pertaining to the Holocaust and Jewish history."

"Most of those decisions are made by the executive team, composed of all the directors of all the departments, including the department responsible for the security. [The decision applied only to the commemorative portion of the event]."

"That came with parameters that we felt, given the geopolitical situation, were not optimal for us to ensure safety and security. We felt it would be best for us to explore alternatives to be able to hold it under safer parameters."

"I do understand that the misunderstanding that took place could have been very disturbing… and I’m sincerely sorry about that misunderstanding."

Benoit Morin, director general, Vanier College

 

"[This is a] disgraceful act of capitulation."

"When a Holocaust commemoration is deemed a ‘security risk,’ that is not a reason to cancel the event, it is proof that something has gone deeply wrong."

"One of the last living witnesses to history was ready to share her testimony, and an institution of higher learning decided that it was safer to cancel her than to stand behind her."

Jewish Community Council of Montreal 

Terminating Fascist Threats

"We found out at around 2 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. We actually talked to her as well. We basically said: 'Listen, we cannot allow this to happen. We spoke to our lawyers, and we prepared a press release. We could not send out the press release for a few hours, until the lawyers actually sent her a termination letter."

"[The company stands against such] violent and hateful [remarks]. Political views are up to individuals, but things like this? We can't tolerate that."

"Were going to figure out a way to reopen the stores quickly."

Foodtastic (Second Cup) CEO Peter Mammas

"This video is related to a franchisee of Second Cup, one of the private tenants operating within the Jewish General Hospital. We fully support Second Cup's decision to take swift and decisive action in this matter by shutting down the franchisee's cafes and terminating their lease agreement."

"Our CIUSSS [Integrated Health and Social Services Centres] is deeply committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and stands firmly against antisemitism and any other form of discrimination or hate speech."

Carl Theriault, spokesperson, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal

The Jewish General Hospital is seen in Montreal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson

 

On Thursday, in Montreal, a series of pro-Palestinian/hate-Israel groups conducted their usual peaceful marches with the good humour and attention to moral civility that is their hallmark  in Canada with a little different twist. Outside Concordia University a protest took place against the existence of the State of Israel and Jewish existence in particular. A woman, later identified by employees of a Second Cup shop located at the Jewish General Hospital as a franchisee, exercised her hateful spleen by exhibiting her prowess in giving a Nazi salute, aimed at the presence of counter-protesters.

To the Israel supporters and Jews standing there, as the event was being videoed, she addressed another type of salute, this one in reference to the Nazi Germany World War II Final Solution involved in the extermination of European Jewry. "The final solution is coming your way -- the final solution. You know what the final solution is?" A familiar phrase indeed to Jews still reeling from the most horribly despicable descent of humanity into the hellscape of genocide.

The revealing video swiftly made its way onto social media and the outcry was predictably outraged. Eventually, the incident, boiling away on social media, made its introduction to the awareness of Second Cup's corporate headquarters chief executive officer of the parent company. Clearly not very good public relations for the respected coffee chain. According to Foodtastic's Peter Mammas, after he confronted the  woman identified as Mai Abdulhadi over her incendiary remarks she did not deny being the author of the remarks.

 

The now-closed Second Cup cafe at the Jewish General Hospital

 

Following her termination, which includes her family, all of whom are linked to two Second Cup franchises at the Jewish General Hospital, she has busied herself seeking out legal counsel for herself and her family members, listed as Quebec business owners of two coffee counters. With the termination of the franchise leases for the family of Ms. Abdulhadi, the 12 employees in the two shops are set to continue being paid during a transition period when new licensees will take over the now-shuttered two Second Cup counters. 

 Students marched through downtown Montreal on Thursday in their tens of thousands to protest Israel's military activities in Gaza, claiming their universities are complicit with Israel's conflict against the terrorist Hamas group in Gaza. The following day, an anti-Israel, anti-NATO protest became violent when protesters, including 'outside agitators' clashed with police. Cars were torched, and windows were smashed in the Palais de Congres Montreal where the NATO meeting was taking place. Businesses alongside the conference centre also had their windows smashed.

In total three people were arrested. Protest attendees were mostly masked to avoid identification. Montreal Police stated that they anticipate that facial recognition techniques will aid in identifying others who will also be arrested for their violent contributions to 'peaceful' gatherings. They also noted that there are no plans to launch a hate crime investigation over the Nazi salute and other societal disrupting incidents since "we have not received any complaints yet". One can only hope that will soon be remedied.

The CEO of Foodtastic said the company's operations team reviewed footage from last Thursday's pro-Palestinian protest outside Concordia University. He says the person seen making the gesture is Mai Abdulhadi. The company says Abdulhadi owned and operated two of its Second Cup locations inside the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. (thestartupnation.ca/Instagram)

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"When officers were chasing some protesters, two Molotov cocktails were thrown in the direction of police."

"They didn't hit them."

Jean-Pierre Brabant, Montreal Police spokesman

"A demo for Palestine attacked Concordia University Sunday evening. Many windows of luxury stores on Sainte-Catherine street were also broken."

"The police were kept at a distance with the help of molotov cocktails."

Clash MTL anarchist group

Maintenance workers board up broken windows at Concordia University's Hall Building in Montreal Monday Sept. 30, 2024. The windows were smashed during a pro-Palestinian demonstration Sunday evening. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette

"We express our deepest mourning & our highest salutes to the great leader, the martyr, inspiration of so many around the world, symbol & strategist of resistance, tireless anti-imperialist, anti-colonial liberator, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah."

Samidoun statement

In Windsor, Ontario, the Ahlul Bayt Mosque advertised an event for Sunday to "commemorate the martyrdom" of "The Great Martyr Sayed Hassan Nasrallah". This is the broken Canada of today where, although the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, just like the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, clients of the Islamic Republic of Iran, are officially listed as proscribed terror groups, their flags are flown in Canadian cities where pro-Palestinian protests take place, and Canadian Islamists mourn the passing of arch-terrorists as 'martyrs' of 'resistance'.  

Contrast that with the news of this arch-terrorist's death coming as a profound relief -- leading to hope for a new day to dawn without the malicious threats of psychopaths that roil the world order as they scheme to destroy Israel and set out on missions to slaughter Jews both in the Jewish state, and elsewhere across the globe -- to many Arabs in Syria and Lebanon who suffered from Nasrallah's malign agenda, and above all, to Persians in Iran for whom their theocratic government is a despised dictatorship.

 

Smashed windows in downtown Montreal on Sept. 30, 2024, a day after a protest. (Martin Daigle, CityNews)

 

But in Canada, given the inaction of the government of Justin Trudeau, the pro-Islamist, anti-Israel protest contingent, having suffered no lawful penalties of any substance, continue to feel emboldened to use louder, more violent tactics in their persecution of Canadian Jews. Extremist Islamists and their enthusiastic supporters for whom antisemitism is a cause they revel in, the lack of lawful intervention in their chaotic and threatening rallies has served predictably, to convince them there will never be any penalties for their unlawful, anti-human-rights bedlam.

They have graduated to attacking police as they wave the flags of terror organizations while promoting the destruction not only of Israel, but Canada, as well. Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante condemned "unacceptable" behaviour of yet another anti-Israel protest on Sunday when protest thugs took to breaking windows and tossing firebombs at police attempting to restore order.

Montreal's central core saw a group of some 60 protesters setting off fireworks, breaking shop windows, spray-painting graffiti on buildings. Saturday saw downtown Toronto facing a demonstration with thugs there hoisting the flag of Hezbollah, listed by Canada as a terror entity. The English-language state media outlet of the Islamic Republic of Iran carried the Toronto protest live on Press TV. Its correspondent Firas Al-Najim stated it is only as a result of the "Zionist lobby's" influence that Hezbollah is labeled a terrorist group.

 

Protestor waving smoke at protest on Saturday in Toronto. (OTR/Laviza Syed)

 

Mask-wearing protesters carried portraits of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, assassinated the day before by an Israeli airstrike, some wearing green headbands reflecting Hamas. A banner read Long Live Legal Armed Resistance to Occupation, an inverted red triangle on the banner; the triangle associated with Hamas which has popularized it as symbolic of its intentions as a marker identifying Israeli targets. 

Samidoun, based in Vancouver as a non-profit, has direct ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, yet another and even older active Gaza terrorist group, which on October 7 of 2023 took part in the Hamas-led surge of terrorists into southern Israel bound on a mission of savage atrocities. Samidoun issued a mourning message for the death of Hezbollah's Nasrallah; unsurprisingly since its co-founder refers to members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad as 'friends and brothers'; yet the Liberal government takes no steps to outlaw it in Canada, much less withdraw its charitable status.

A masked speaker in front of the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill tells a cheering crowd that they will fight until "this country crumbles to the ground." Photo by X.com/@l3v1at4an