Hatred and Incitement Target Toronto's Jewish Community

"This kook sounds like a Sacha Baron Cohen parody. But sadly, he is all too real. An avatar of the Islamist-left coalition that is fuelling out-of-control antisemitism, particularly at our universities and colleges."

"Cut funding for these colleges if he is not fired immediately. Charge him with inciting hatred under the Criminal Code. Revoke his visa if he is not a citizen. And hold the college administrators who hired this lunatic to account."

"No more BS from politicians that 'antisemitism has no place in Canada'. It has a large and dangerous place, including in many of our public institutions."

Jason Kennedy, former premier of Alberta 

 

"The British colonizers have planted this cancerous, false Zionist state of Israel in the Palestine and right in the heart of the Muslim countries and right in the heart of Islam."

"This is not coincidence. These Zionists have never had a country of their own, because of their mischief. They are the most kicked-out people in the world, for making black magic and horrible things."

"We can see the corruption crystal-clear in the Epstein island, where they have seduced leaders from all around the world, including Trump. They have raped and killed and ate children at the same time. They have done the unimaginable to blackmail them and control them." 

"That's why you can see now a guy like Trump, who causes genocide in Gaza, kidnaps the president of Venezuela, kills the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, may God sanctify his soul, and stays on the throne. It is because of them, the terrorist Zionists."

Abbas Hamze, Pro-Hamas Antisemite extraordinaire  

University instructor “Dr.” Abbas Hamze decided to take time from his busy schedule to make a speech at the Jewish neighborhood of Bathurst & Sheppard where he talked about Jews being kicked out of every country, their “black magic”, and how they rape, kill & eat children. Leviathan

 

This illiterate man with a known hate profile for Jews describes his professional credits on Linked In as: I  have five years of conscientious studies in Electrical Engineering, Master 2 research, and links himself to Georgian College in Barrie, Ontario, an hour's drive from Toronto. With the use of a bullhorn this past weekend he stood prominently with a keffiyeh wrapped around his neck, to promote the good work done by Hezbollah, the Lebanese-based Shia terrorist group, in opposing Israel's right of existence. 

 

He spouted  his racist slander in a carefully chosen location, the very heart of Toronto's North York Jewish neighbourhood. He was not the only one to do so; many previous Jew-hating groups also chose that location at Bathurst and Sheppard. That location is one that is commercially zoned. Others in the recent past have gone past that location to enter streets of mostly Jewish homes, to march through the streets shouting invective at the home-owners in the community. Activities that are clearly meant to be stopped in their promotion of hate and violence.

 

Eruptions of this nature, particularly targeting university campuses organized by Palestinian groups have been common in Ontario and Quebec and British Columbia since the slaughter of 7 October 2023 in southern Israel by Gaza's Hamas group, sworn to the eradication of Israel. A 'little brother' of the Muslim Brotherhood that has its tentacles world-wide in a vast caliphate scheme to delegitimize and destroy Israel through innuendo, slander, blood libel and threats, Hamas is the violent arm along with Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad, while the Brotherhood acts the 'diplomatic' role, subtly instigating virulent antisemitism in a multi-faceted infiltration/disarming role.

 

The past decade has seen Canada swamped with Muslim extremists through immigration, migration intake and refugee claims that the governing Liberal party has seen fit to encourage. The verbal assaults, threats and disorderly conduct exhibited by these Islamists contravene Canadian civil law, but an attitude of care not to contribute to 'Islamophobia' has stifled any governmental or security responses to restore order and civil respect to a country that has allowed itself to fall into a moral swamp of Islamist entitlement; their sheer numbers within the general population convincing politicians of their vote potential. 

 

The Toronto Police Service made it known that it would no longer tolerate the kind of action that allowed this unregenerated Islamist racist to spout his vitriolic fantasies. That they would take immediate action to head off or intercede when such public outrages occur in vulnerable neighbourhoods. After an initial show of doing just that a year ago, the Service appears to have slumped back to their holding position that pairs nicely with Toronto's municipal government's own lethargic-to-absent responses to such events where a deranged mind cab spout utterly incomprehensible absurdities. "Those Israelis on the other side of the street. Your mischief will cause your annihilation, and it is coming soon and as it is prophesied it will be from the north, from the resistance in Lebanon."  

"An individual who is reportedly a university instructor stood in a Jewish neighbourhood and repeated some of the oldest and most vile lies and conspiracy theories about Jews ... These are antisemitic blood libels that have been used for centuries to justify hatred and violence against Jews."

"There must be consequences for those who repeatedly use public demonstrations as cover to spread hatred, incitement and target Toronto's Jewish community."

"Allowing this behaviour to go unchecked is to normalize antisemitism as an everyday feature of life in this city."

Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs/B'nai Brith Canada/Canadian Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre 

Pro-Palestinian protestors gather across from a Hanukkah event on the corner of Bathurst and Sheppard in an earlier event. Photo by Getty Images

 

"The Hate Crime Unit is investigating comments made by a demonstrator in the Bathurst Street and Sheppard Avenue West area over the weekend."

"We are asking anyone who witnessed the incident or has additional information to contact police."

Toronto Police Service 

"It's been 21 years since I attended the first 'Israeli Apartheid Week' at the University of Toronto. Since then, I have been on the front lines witnessing countless demonstrations, anti-Israel speakers and even the now infamous 'boycott, divestment and sanctions' campaigns promulgating hate against the Jewish state and Jewish students. The situation has only gotten worse for our children."

"Who would have thought that the Palestinian flag would make an acceptable appearance at some graduation ceremonies this past spring?"

"The consequences of these sobering statistics are transforming how Jewish students live and learn as they and their parents worry for their safety, given the report's finding that 22 percent have experienced some sort of physical violence."

Avi Abraham Benlolo, CEO, The Abraham Global Peace Initiative 

Arab Israelis make up: 22% of Israel's population   David Jacobs, X

 

Jewish-Canadian students are preparing to return to their university studies for the 2026 school year. The past three years, since October 7, 2023, academic attendance has taught Jewish students, all the way from elementary school, up to high school and post-secondary institutions that they are very special indeed. They are the only minority group in Canada that has been exposed to raw hate, from their teachers, through an altered curriculum, and from their non-Jewish classmates. School trustees rather than focus on academic performance and excellence in the role of schools in teaching a new Canadian generation have been involved in identity politics. School administrations wanly reject antisemitism, but not without pairing it with 'Islamophobia'.

 

What no one seems to want to mention is that these waves of torrid hate toward Jews long kept under wraps within the civilized society Canada once prided itself on being, has been unleashed by Palestinian students with support from the larger Canadian Muslim population involved in the slander of Israel and the none-too-subtle harassment of Canada's Jewish population, with an especial focus on the most vulnerable; the children of Canada's Jewish community. A community dwarfed in size by the presence of a much larger Muslim population which over the last decade has grown enormously through immigration, refugee intake and acceptance of illegal migrants. 

 

For three years and counting, Jewish students and Jewish faculty members of universities across Canada have had to cope with campus encampments dedicated to validating, supporting and mounting campaigns addressed to maligning, belittling, isolating the presence of Jews on campus as dread and unforgivable 'Zionists' who support the right of Jews to favour and defend the Jewish homeland of Israel, the Jewish state reborn on its ancient ancestral geographic footprint in the Middle East. 

 

A sign is seen urging the university's pension plan to divest from companies that do business with Israel, at the encampment set up at the University of Toronto in May 2024. Photo by Jesse Kline/National Post

• A professor wrote that we need to kill all Zionists, that she had worked with them and saw how evil they were.
• I was told by a professor, in class, in the middle of the lecture, that Jews belong in Poland and need to go back.
• I faced extreme pressure from other student organizations to release a statement against Zionism in my position as president of the (redacted) student union, and had my name placed on a list circulating on and off campus as a 'known Zionist'.
• Professor assigned us to listen to a podcast that discussed how Zionism was similar to Nazism, which was  unrelated to the course.
• I was harassed online ... She went as far as spamming my art page for five days straight, sending me radical reels, calling my elderly family 'killers'.
• Residents at my on-campus residence started rumours about me that I am a child killer, white supremacist, racist, and Zionist, all because these people found out that I was Jewish.
• Jews were described as greedy for money in a lecture.
• In a course that had nothing to do with Israel, my professor spent three weeks talking about Gaza and the creation of the State of Israel. He never mentioned the Holocaust as a precursor to its founding, repeatedly calling the state a 'Zionist political project'.
• When discussing characters in a book, my professor described one character by saying that 'based on his last name, he is clearly Jewish and probably has a hooked nose'.
• Working in my labs, I have had people refuse to work with me due to my Jewish identity and purposely try to mess up my data.
• Several faculty members in my program minimized the Holocaust or used it to condemn the Israeli response immediately after October 7.
• Shortly after October 7, I told my PhD supervisor that I did not feel safe on campus and she replied: 'Well, you should see the other side'.
• A member of my anti-racism research lab at the university minimized the impact of the Holocaust while the other lab members remained silent. For example, she said: 'The Holocaust was not the first time gas chambers were used. They were first used against Indigenous peoples in Canada.' When I raised this with my research supervisor, now tenured, her reaction was to protect the student responsible. For example, she said: 'What happens in the lab stays in the lab'.

National Post Staff 

"Over the past few weeks, CAUT has become aware of a number of disturbing cases in which university administrations have limited or suppressed debate on controversial issues. Whether it is banning posters or noisy demonstrations, we believe such heavy-handed actions constitute a clear threat to the purpose of post-secondary education."
"Not surprisingly, the failures involve bitterly contentious issues. One is Middle East politics. Last month Carleton University and the University of Ottawa banned a student organization poster for Israeli Apartheid Week because the universities felt it too provocative. The poster, by noted political cartoonist Carlos Latuff, shows a stylized Israeli warplane firing a missile at a child holding a teddy bear and standing on ground emblazoned with the word “Gaza.” York University has gone even farther, invoking a noise policy to justify handing club suspensions and fines to student organizations that held counter-protests for and against Israeli government policies."
"In invoking the need to be “respectful” and “civil” and to avoid “provo­cation,” too many universities are suppres­sing free speech and freedom of expression. Some universities are even stretching to invoke hu­man rights’ codes to justify suppression when these codes typically address the right to be free from discrimination in employment and in access to services and accommodations and are not meant to silence cam­pus discussion and debate."
"Our institutions must remember the integrity of their central mission, which is so aptly described in the University of Toronto’s statement of institutional purpose: that “within the unique university context, the most crucial of all human rights are the rights of freedom of speech, academic freedom and freedom of research,” and affirms that “these rights are meaningless unless they entail the right to raise deeply disturbing questions and provocative challenges to the cherished beliefs of society at large and of the university itself.”"
"The statement concludes: “It is this human right to radical, critical teaching and research with which the University has a duty above all to be concerned; for there is no one else, no other institution and no other office, in our modern liberal democracy, which is the custodian of this most precious and vulnerable right of the liberated human spirit.” "

The Canadian Association of University Teachers