Something's Happening Here -- What It Is is Quite Clear

"It's dangerous for Israel and it may also be dangerous for Canada [growing incidence of anti-Israel extremism in Canada]."

"It's a wake-up call for the international communities that something is happening here."

"Within the international context, it's dangerous."

"The most important and prevalent feeling you'll encounter among any Israeli is that we want to have our hostages back. Everybody is looking for this situation to end."

"Israel wants peace. Israel wants to live in peace with its neighbours."

Iddo Moed, Israeli Ambassador to Canada

 

"While we are relieved that no innocent lives were lost in this attack, we are deeply shocked that a Canadian citizen would travel to Israel and retraumatize the Neti Ha'asara community already devastated by the twenty lives stolen in Hamas' murderous rampage on October 7."

"This incident highlights the potential consequences of pervasive misinformation and disinformation surrounding Israel's conflict with Hamas -- where Israel is demonized and held solely responsible, and where Hamas has been absolved of responsibility for the impact on Palestinian civilians of the war they started."

"When demonstrations glorify terrorists as martyrs and call for global intifada without condemnation from our political leaders, it sets the stage for tragedies like today's attack in the Israeli town of Netiv Ha'asara."

David Cooper, vice-president of government relations, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs

The Canadian passport of terrorist Zachareah Adam Quraishi  IDF

 Netiv Ha'asara in southern Israel is a communal agricultural community, a Kibbutz located in the Negev desert some 6 kilometres south of Tel Aviv. It abuts the northern border of Gaza. During the October 7, 2023 incursion into Israel of thousands of Palestinian terrorists coordinated by Gaza's governing Hamas group, some twenty of its residents were killed. Communities such as this one were swarmed with terror operatives in a well-planned mass atrocity of truly savage proportions. 

On July 22, a young Arab Canadian, born in Canada, who had travelled to Israel on a student visa, arriving the day before the attack at the village, rented a vehicle and drove to the commune. He had parked his vehicle at a compound close to where Israeli guards were stationed. His suspicious behaviour had alerted the guards, and as he left the parked car and ran over to the men on guard, attempted to stab them. He was shot dead before he could consummate his intended carnage.

According to reports from eyewitnesses, he shouted "free Palestine" as he ran toward the Netiv Ha'asara security personnel with a kitchen knife. The attack had been videoed and was released by the Israel Defense forces. Armed guards are shown patrolling the fortified front gate of the community. It showed Quraishi charging the guards before he was shot dead. He had arrived at the town in a white Hyundai rental car.

Since the notorious October 7 attack by Palestinian terrorists orchestrated by Hamas, the Arab Muslim propaganda machine has gone into overdrive with a vengeance, portraying Israel as the aggressor intent on committing genocide against the Palestinians. Throughout the Western world crowds of Muslims claiming to represent the human rights interests of Palestinians, decrying their victimization and oppression by Israel, have organized anti-Israel, pro-Hamas rallies.

They have been joined by fellow travellers, sympathizers of the 'cause' of decrying Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, along with Canadian antisemites for whom any cause that vilifies Jews is a just one for them to dedicate their time and energies to. They have marched through city streets, closed down highways, set up encampments at colleges and universities to demand divestment from Israeli companies and the enforced isolation of Israeli academics, while generally threatening local Jewish populations.

 

In most European countries action has been taken, however belatedly, to shut down these hateful displays of social dysfunction, but not in Canada, where ongoing protests continue to shut down bridges and highway overpasses, carrying signs that demonize Israel and lionize Palestinian 'resistance', of which the sadistic savagery of October 7 is a symbol of righteousness over domination of an imperialist nation against a vulnerable population. The inversion of victim and victimizer while distorting reality has become a popular rallying cry against Zionism.

Chants of 'Intifada', 'From the river to the sea', 'final solution' and 'we are all Hamas', are code for the destruction of Israel, a Western democracy seated within a geography of anti-democratic tyranny. These Jew-demonizing, threatening 'protests', illegal in every sense, morally and under criminal law, are permitted to roil the streets and byways of Canadian cities. Criminal acts of bombing synagogues, defacing Jewish social centres, marching threateningly through Jewish neighbourhoods, all illegal under Canadian law, see no government opposition.

The growing radicalization of Muslim-Canadians is palpable and augers a boiling cauldron of antisemitism preparing to explode. Yet no authorities at any level, no police services, no justice system, no religious institution, no corporate interests, no legacy media appear inclined to interrupt this orgy of Jew-hate and bring order and security back to Canadian cities. Jewish institutions continue to be vandalized, rallies and demonstrations continue to be held, without government intervention.

 

A large Palestinian protest began on Parliament Hill on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024. Participants marched from the Hill to 50 O’Connor, the building housing the Israeli Embassy, and then proceeded through downtown Ottawa. Photo by Ashley Fraser /POSTMEDIA

"Canada has a history of having foreign fighters -- Canadian citizens go off to distant lands in the Middle East and commit egregious acts of violence."

"We were a country that garnered, and rightfully so international attention during allied operations to counter ISIS, because of how many Canadians have gone off to join the caliphate."

"You have people calling for the erasure of the only Jewish state standing in front of crowds of thousands calling for the death of Zionists -- which is just a code word for Jews -- you have decapitated mannequin heads of Bibi Netanyahu being kicked around like soccer balls in Toronto -- you have synagogues being burned -- you have Jewish day schools being shot at."

"When the overwhelming majority of this goes on without any repercussions, you allow these ideas to take root and become normalized."

Casey Babb, senior fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Canada's Contribution to Global Terror and Attacks on Israel

"It's dangerous for Israel, and it may also be dangerous for Canada."

"It's a wake-up call for the international communities that something is happening here. Within the international context, it's dangerous."

"The most important and prevalent feeling you'll encounter among any Israeli is that we want to have our hostages back. Everybody is looking for this situation to end. Israel wants peace. Israel wants to live in peace with its neighbours."

Iddo Moed, Israeli ambassador to Canada

"While we are relieved that no innocent lives were lost in this attack, we are deeply shocked that a Canadian citizen would travel to Israel and retraumatize the Netiv Ha'asara community, already devastated by the twenty lives stolen in Hamas' murderous rampage on October 7."

"This incident highlights the potential consequences of pervasive misinformation surrounding Israel's conflict with Hamas -- where Israel is demonized and held solely responsible, and where Hamas has been absolved of responsibility for the impact on Palestinian civilians of the war they started."

"When demonstrations glorify terrorists as martyrs and call for global intifada without condemnation from our political leaders, it sets the stage for tragedies like today's attack in the Israeli town of Netiv Ha'asara."

David Cooper, vice-president of government relations, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs

Security guards confront a charging attacker at the entrance to Netiv HaAsara, an Israeli community near Gaza. Photo by X.com

How could it be otherwise? A growing population of Muslims in Canada, encouraged by order of the government in preferential immigration and refugee intake, among whom there are invariably Islamists who percolate their version of Israel and Zionists as white colonial settlers with no business being in the Middle East, the cradle of Judaism, arguing that only the destruction of the Jewish state, and just coincidentally Jewish lives will do justice to the aspirations of Arab 'Palestinians' for a state of their own on traditional Judean geography.

Second generation Muslim-Canadians, long steeped in narratives of the evils that Jews bring to the world, in particular the Jewish scheme to exile Palestinians from what they claim is their sole territory, the map of Palestine dating back to the Roman era denoting the homeland of Jews, treated by Rome as an occupied provincial holding in their greater domination of the world during that era of Roman military and social might. Viral resentment at the United Nations' Partition Plan zeroed in on Israel as a threat to Palestinian Arabs whose leadership incited them to 'resist' the 'occupation'.

In Islamic centres, mosques, social gatherings, social media, an amplification of the traditional convention of Jew-blame and hatred has percolated to the top in the wake of the terrorist Hamas invasion of southern Israel on October 7 where mind-bogglingly gruesome sadistic savagery was  unloosed on unsuspecting Israelis and the military outposts on the border with Gaza. Outdoing even their grisly penchant for blood and slaughter, thousands of terrorists filmed themselves indulging in and celebrating a mass slaughter, rape, mutilations, abductions of innocent civilians.

Despite the horrors of inhumanity perpetrated by well-rehearsed operatives of Palestinian terrorist groups, dismayingly, the international community has been fairly receptive to Hamas supporters in their midst as citizens of Europe and North America claiming that their battle for sovereign status from under the repressive heel of a Jewish state engrossed in a mission of Palestinian genocide, championing and supporting terrorists as liberators. In Canada and elsewhere around the globe, Hamas sympathizers have roused the latent antisemitism in communities.

In Canada in particular where the reigning Liberal government of Justin Trudeau feels itself heavily dependent on the goodwill of Muslim voters as a bloc that responds to the Liberal message, the message is that there will be no repercussions for the verbal violence claiming the need for a 'final solution' to the Jewish question, for the liberation of Palestine, for a global intifada. Characterizing the Palestinian 'protests' roiling society as merely free speech in action, deliberately overlooking the calls to destroy Israel and kill Jews, the Trudeau government sees nothing amiss.

Predictably, the same organized Palestinian students who planned and carried out protests and university campus encampments with the aid of foreign funding and non-university Palestinian groups whose format of slander and abuse upset normalcy in the social order, seeing no action taken by any level of government, giving them free rein to do as they would in clearly unlawful and criminal acts of intimidation and violence, would feel free to escalate.

Leading someone like Canadian citizen Zachareah Adam Quraishi to up the ante by travelling to Israel for the express purpose of committing violent extreme acts of antisemitism in Israel. A tourist visa gained this man entry to the country where he undertook to rush guards outside a southern Israel town to knife them, shouting "free Palestine!" at Israeli security guards who met him on his own terms and shot him to death as he was attacking them.

The town was Netiv Ha'asara, a farming community, one of many devastated by the terrorist attack of October 7, where in Netiv Ha'asara, twenty of its residents were murdered. Despite Jewish Canadian groups appealing endlessly to the federal government to put an end to the violent rhetoric and escalating violence against Jews in Canada, there was no response from the federal government, itself content to allow the anti-Israel protests to continue and as they did, create predictable escalation.

"Canada has a history of having foreign fighters -- Canadian citizens go off to distant lands in the Middle East and commit egregious acts of violence."

"We were a country that garnered, and rightfully so, international attention during allied operations to counter ISIS, because of how many Canadians have gone off to join the caliphate."

"You have people calling for the erasure of the only Jewish state standing in front of crowds of thousands calling for the death of Zionists -- which is just a code word for Jews; you have decapitated mannequin heads of Bibi Netanyahu being kicked around like soccer balls in Toronto; you have synagogues being burned; you have Jewish day schools being shot at."

"When the overwhelming majority of this goes on without any repercussions, you allow these ideas to take root and become normalized."

Casey Babb, senior fellow, Macdonald-Laurier Institute

And Now, For Jewish Life In Canada....

"The core thing that we have continued to call for is an end to hatred and intolerance in Canada, whether it be antisemitism or Islamophobia."

"We are seeing that events overseas that are devastating and incredibly difficult to watch should not be spilling over into Canadians hating on other Canadians. We are all united in our strength and diversity and our desire for a better country in a better world."

'I'm of course, relieved that no one was hurt [when a Jewish parochial school in Montreal was shot at]. I'm disgusted by these vile and despicable acts of antisemitism. It needs to stop now."

"To Jewish parents and students across the country, we stand with you. We will always work to safeguard your right to live proudly Jewish lives in Canada."

"[The federal government working with local law enforcement will use] all available federal resources to ensure that the perpetrators are held to account."

"We cannot and will not let this antisemitism stand in Canada."

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Here is a man with the political and moral authority to put a stop to the ongoing rancid threats against the well-being of the Jewish community in Canada and he has, to date, over months of illegal, law-breaking 'pro-Hamas-protests' -- occasionally chided the crowds of masked, keffiyeh-clad Palestinians, Muslim citizens of Canada and their racist-embracing colleagues who identify the treasured victimhood-state of Palestinians by blocking access to public roads, protesting and blocking entry to municipal offices, hospitals, shopping centres with their loud accusations against Israel and posters recommending its demise while shouting choruses of 'Intifada now!' and 'From the river to the sea', along with 'Final Solution' -- done exactly nothing to put a stop to it all.

Police services perform the barest necessity of upholding law and order, even when an effigy of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hung at a university campus occupation. Jews are told to 'go back to Europe', that they have no place in 'Palestine' and, for that matter, Canada too. The authorities tsch-tsch and deplore the sturm und drang but fail to authorize police forces to make appropriate arrests and lay charges for threatening, violent behavior. We are informed that investigations are underway, that due process must be followed, and nothing interrupts the university encampments and the protestors' sense of entitlement to refuse entry to Jewish students and faculty.

So, on the clear evidence, Canada under this prime minister has not at all seen the safeguarding of a Jewish right to live proudly in Canada. And although he declares the tumult, the threats and the violent antisemitism 'must stop' he does nothing whatever toward achieving that end. Most infuriatingly, whenever he speaks of antisemitism, it is prefaced by references to 'islamophobia'. That, when the reality is that Muslims are at the forefront of the drive to threaten Jewish life in Canada, leading the marches, spewing and spouting slanderous lies in support of their claims of genocide against 'Palestinians'.

"Folks, let's cut to the chase here. What lunatic goes around shooting up schools? That is just unacceptable. Imagine that, imagine a little kid in a school because they're from the Jewish faith, someone goes by and starts shooting through the school windows?"

"These guys need to be caught. They need to be punished. they need to be thrown in jail, and I'll tell you we have zero tolerance for this anywhere in Ontario."

"Ontario] will throw every single resource of increased funding for the police [and has committed to] thousands of dollars given to [protect] places of worship."

"Don't come to Canada if you're going to start terrorizing neighbourhoods like this. Simple as that. You want to come to Canada? You want to be a resident of Ontario? You get along with everyone. I don't care what background, what religion, what race you come from."

"We have 110 nationalities here in Ontario, 200 languages being spoken, and guess what? Ninety-nine percent of the people get along. There are wars going on all around the world. But we still get along."

Enough is enough. I've just had it up to here."

"People outside those communities, they've had it too. They aren't used to this happening here in Ontario. I'm done with this stuff."

Ontario Premier Doug Ford 

Ontario Premier Doug Ford (centre) delivers remarks while flanked by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (left) and Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow, during a news conference in Toronto on May 30, 2024. (Arlyn McAdorey/The Canadian Press)

 

Finally, an honest admission of the crux of the problem; the presence through immigration, refugee intake, illegal migration, of Palestinians, of Syrians, of Muslims from the Middle East and North Africa who have come to Canada to find a better life for themselves than they might envision had they remained in their countries of birth where antisemitism is inherent in their heritage, culture and ventilated as a remedy for their frustration over conditions of life that have absolutely zero reliance on the presence of Jews. 

 

 

Justin Trudeau, who has just had members of  his cabinet verify his government's plan to invite thousands more Palestinians from Gaza to join their family members already in Canada as a humanitarian gesture to remove them from the potential line of fire with the Israeli military fighting an existential war with their Gaza government terrorist rulers has chosen to add to the razor-thin sense of security forced on Canada's Jewish population by the venom of Palestinians already in residence in the country where Muslim numbers vastly outpace those of the Jewish population who have had a presence in Canada for  hundreds of  years.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow who deliberately missed attending diplomatic ceremonies marking Israel's Independence Day, remarking something to the effect that it was too controversial and had the potential to stir problems from within the wider community which is to say the Muslim component of the Toronto area's large Islamic demographic, said the city has been taking part in "safety walks" collaborating with police, local councillors and some communities. Those 'safety walks' have been imposed on the Jewish community to walk with Jewish children to ensure their safe arrival at school.

That given the toxic atmosphere prevailing since October 7 when Islamist, Hamas-supporting groups began organizing new boycotts and ongoing marches and public protests ending up before the Israeli consulate, in front of Mount Sinai Hospital, in front of Jewish community centres, on bridges leading to Jewish-majority enclaves, some places of worship or schools (read Jewish in both instances) might wish to consider putting in place shatterproof glass, fencing or new lighting as additional protective measures. The question is, why should they even be placed in such a security-compromised position?

To which suggestion, Premier Ford, to his credit responded: "We have to have this in Ontario schools, like where have we gone? Again, we're all just fed up with this nonsense. I'll tell you that. It shouldn't have to be that way." Yes, of course, it should not. Jews should not be forced by sources from within the very city where they have always lived, to feel threatened, worried about the welfare of their children, concerned over whether Jews still can consider Toronto, Ottawa, Halifax, Vancouver, Calgary, safe places to live and raise their families of loyal Canadians. 

 

Now, watch as Premier Ford is crucified by the legacy press, by unions, by the Muslim community...

"The number of antisemitic incidents in Canada more than doubled in 2023 compared with the year prior, according to an annual audit performed by Jewish human rights group B’nai Brith Canada released in May."

"In the audit, the group logged 5,791 incidents that meet the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism. That represented a 109 per cent increase over 2022, when there were 2,769 incidents."

"The bulk of the reported incidents — 4,847 — took place online in the form of harassment. For offline incidents, B’nai Brith said it tracked 77 reports of physical violence compared with 25 the year prior."

"In-person harassment and vandalism – ranging from instances of graffiti to arson – all saw increases over 2022 at 405 and 462 incidents reported, respectively."

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