Monday, January 12, 2026

Demanding Enforcement of Provincial Laws Against Hate-Mongering

"Recent incidents, including mob intimidation and harassment at the Eaton Centre just last week, as well as ongoing intimidating marches through residential neighbourhoods near Bathurst and Sheppard, are completely unacceptable."
"When such incidents occur repeatedly and without visible consequences, it substantially undermines public confidence in the rule of law and in the institutions responsible for upholding it."
"The responsibility now rests with police leadership to ensure that existing authorities to act are used promptly and decisively when criminal acts of hate and intimidation are taking place."
"Strong action is required to prevent further escalation and hold offenders to account." 
"These incidents have left many residents living in a state of heightened fear and anxiety, concerned about a lack of visible response and feeling unable to move freely and safely in public spaces."
Ontario Solicitor General Michael Kerzner        
 
"This is into its third year now, of these mobs on the streets of Toronto."
"De-escalation has not worked, strategic ambivalence has not worked, constructive engagement has not worked."
"So the time has come where you really need to push."
Coun. James Pasternak (York Centre)   
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Pro-Palestine protesters took to Toronto's Eaton Centre to demonstrate on Boxing Day. Friday, Dec. 27 (Courtesy: Instagram/@pymtoronto)
 
Finally, one level of provincial authority has responded to the never-ending harassment of Canadians by groups such as those representing Palestinians in Canada or their sympathizers who hold all Jews responsible for the plight of Palestinians in Gaza under fire manipulated by the terrorist government in the Territory for which they voted, Hamas. Palestinian terrorists in the thousands led by Hamas operatives streamed across the border into southern Israel on October 7, 2023, for the express purpose of mounting a mass atrocity. They succeeded with their goal to an excruciating extent, raping, torturing, looting, murdering in jubilation at their courageous enterprise against a civilian population.
 
These are the barbaric monsters that Palestinians hail as 'liberators' battling an 'occupation', which they define as the existence of the State of Israel on its own ancestral land which Palestinians insist is theirs and theirs alone. Arabs from Syria and Egypt who had migrated to the parcel of land named by Roman occupiers as 'Palestine', to expunge its true name of Judea (and Samaria) claim that the Jewish presence is that of an occupying force, when it is in fact those Arabs which have coopted the name of 'Palestinians' as their identity which comprise the true 'occupiers' of land not their own. 
 
Palestinian supporters hold a rally in downtown Toronto on Oct. 9, 2023.
Since the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza, Toronto police say officers have attended more than 800 demonstrations related to the conflict. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
 
For well over two years, Muslims who have immigrated, migrated, and been accepted through refugee programs into Canada in the past two decades now constitute a considerable number in Canada, five times greater than the Jewish presence which dates back over a hundred years. That presence has been  weaponized against the .9 percent of the Canadian population that is Jewish by the 4.9 percent of the Canadian population now Muslim. Canadian multiculturalism was not meant to pit one ethnic/religious/cultural/historical group against another, but to celebrate a mix of backgrounds living amenably among themselves. The presence of Muslims has changed that to an extent never anticipated.
 
Weekly demonstrations of  hordes of anti-Israel, pro-Hamas/Palestinian supporters have blocked city streets in Canada, disrupted public events, disturbed the civil ambience of a civilized society, preyed on an ethnic minority unceasingly, interrupted municipal meetings and federal conferences, intruded into private property, taunted and threatened Canadian Jews, boycotted and slandered Jewish businesses, vandalized synagogues, conducted mass public prayers while closing off ingress and egress, disturbed the public peace, and no government at any level has intervened, much less police forces. 
 
Finally, Ontario's solicitor-general has spoken, instructing the Toronto Police Service to step up enforcement of "hate, intimidation and harassment-motivated offences". A letter was forwarded by the solicitor general's office to Chief Myron Dimkew of the Toronto Police, a copy to the chair of the civilian oversight board, instructing them that remedial action must be taken. Evidently spurred by the Boxing Day anti-Israel protest mob occupying Toronto's downtown shopping centre.
 
The constant harassment of the Jewish community located around Bathurst and Sheppard where a large percentage of the city's Jewish community call their home, should have been enough to have elicited a rebuke to the police for their inaction in the face of ongoing events to shatter the peace of a community. Michael Kerzner is the MPP for York Centre riding, and is himself the highest ranking Jewish member of the government led by Premier Doug Ford.
 
He reminded the police force that the provincial government has equipped, trained and empowered Toronto police to respond to these and other such incidents to enforce provincial laws, broken with stunning regularity by such marches bombarding  the air with shouts to 'globalize the Intifada', and urging 'Final Solution', along with 'Palestine will be free from the river to the sea'. 
 
His intervention is not the only one recently undertaken by a concerned civic authority. Chief Demkiw and Mayor Olivia chow had received correspondence of a similar vein a month earlier, from York Centre Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament Roman Barber. 
 
 
 

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Sunday, March 23, 2025

Seriously? Bail Given to Vicious Antisemitic Attacker

News Release
Man Charged with Advocating Genocide and 28 other charges in Hate Crime Investigation,
Willowdale Avenue and Parkview Avenue
 
The Toronto Police Service Hate Crime Unit has charged a man with 29 criminal offences, many of which are alleged to have been motivated by hatred toward the Jewish community.
With the consent of the Ministry of the Attorney General, two of these charges include Advocating Genocide and Wilful Promotion of Hatred—offences rarely laid in Canada.
All of the incidents are alleged to have occurred between April 26, 2024, and January 3, 2025.
Due to a court-imposed publication ban, we are unable to provide further details in this release.
On January 11, 2025, Amir Arvahi Azar, 32, of Toronto, was arrested. He has been charged with 29 criminal offences:
  1. Advocate Genocide
  2. Wilful Promotion of Hatred
  3. Public Incitement of Hatred
  4. Five counts of Arson
  5. Two counts of Mischief Under $5000
  6. Seven counts of Mischief to Cultural Property
  7. Utter Threats
  8. Criminal Harassment
  9. Three counts of Possess Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Knowingly not holding a licence and registration certificate
  10. Possess Firearm with Altered Serial Number
  11. Possess Prohibited Device
  12. Two counts of Possess Prohibited Weapon
  13. Possession of Proceeds of Crime Over $5000
  14. Possession of Credit Card Data
  15. Possession of Forgery Instrument
The accused has been released following a bail hearing with several conditions imposed. He appeared at the Ontario Court of Justice, 10 Armoury Street, on Monday, March 17, 2025, at 10 a.m.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-3500, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), or at www.222tips.com.
Toronto Police Service 
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Toronto police say Amir Arvahi Azar was charged for 29 criminal offences following a months-long investigation by the centralized hate crimes unit. (Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press)

"[The Toronto Police Service was able to lay these charges] because of the meticulous work of our centralized Hate Crime Unit."
"I would like to thank all of our members who worked tirelessly on this investigation over the span of many months."
"We know that these charges are very serious and that people are concerned. I want to assure everyone that we will continue to do everything we can to keep our communities safe."
TPS Deputy Rob Johnson
 A rare hate crime charge has been laid by Toronto Police Service against an accused synagogue attacker who had been caught with three loaded handguns and had been accused of an eight-month crime spree of vicious antisemitism. Toronto has been assailed, as has Montreal, Vancouver and other Canadian cities, with a series of vandalism against Jewish-owned businesses; synagogues have been fire-bombed, Jewish parochial schools have been shot at, and one of the criminals involved in these activities has been caught and charged. And then released on bail.
 
Charged with 29 criminal counts, 32 year old Amir Arvahi Azar has also been charged with "advocating genocide", a charge "rarely laid in Canada", Toronto police noted, under a section of the Criminal Code. Azar stands accused of five incidents of arson targeting Toronto Jewish sites, along with breaking windows, making telephoned threats, and posting a trail of online threats that met the threshold for criminal hate speech. 

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Damage to Pride of Israel synagogue in Toronto on June 30, 2024 that was allegedly part of an antisemitic hate crime spree by Amir Arvahi Azar. B'nai Brith Canada

The property crimes he was responsible for, all occurring during the last eight months of 2024 -- were among an uptick unprecedented in the city's history in vandalism, arson and shooting attacks that targeted Canadian Jewish sites following the October 7 Hamas-conducted terrorist massacres in southern Israel that slaughtered 1,200 people, and abducted 250 infants, women and men for use as pawns in a later exchange of innocent civilians for Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails for criminal acts against Israelis.
 
Most notably, Azar stands accused of breaking large front windows of the Pride of Israel synagogue on June 30; one of two antisemitic attacks he perpetrated over the long Canada Day weekend. The other was windows broken at Kehillat Shaarei Torah Synagogue. From both sites security footage recorded a man on a motorcycle, his identity hidden by a full-face helmet. Kehillat Shaarei Torah had been targeted by vandalism, graffiti or arson in eight separate events since October 7. 

The general vicinity of a perennial anti-Israel demonstration at Bathurst Street and Sheppard Avenue attracted many of Azar's attacks, as an intersection thought of as the heart of the Toronto Jewish community. The gatherings at the intersection were rife with chants for 'intifada', and on one occasion a demonstrator cosplayed as Yahya Sinwar, former leader of the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza.
 
Along with charges for arson, criminal harassment, threats and mischief, Azar was charged with multiple gun charges including two counts of possessing a prohibited weapon. Materials for forging illegal credit cards were also found in his possession by police. Yet, despite the seriousness of these charges, more specifics of the case could not be provided as a result of a "court imposed publication ban", the police statement revealed, concluding that Azar "has been released following a bail hearing with several conditions imposed".

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