"Palestine Action Canada targeted GeoSpectrum Technologies in Peterborough."

"[GeoSpectrum's site is] not just a design and testing facility for 'maritime surveillance and exploration' systems; it is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems, Israel's largest weapons manufacturer."

"There is no company that profits more off of the genocide of Palestinians." 

Palestine Action Canada Instagram post 

A video provided by a group claiming to be Palestine Action Canada showing red paint being splattered on the entrance to GeoSpectrum Technologies Inc. on Whittington Drive in Peterborough in the early morning hours of October 12, 2026. (kawarthaNOW screenshot)

An Ontario business in Peterborough, Ontario has been vandalized, leading the Peterborough Police Service to investigate the event as a hate crime. Not too big a stretch of the imagination, since an anti-Israel group that has been outlawed in the United Kingdom under their terrorism laws, has quite publicly claimed credit for splashing red paint on  the building exterior of GeoSpectrum Technologies Inc. The company specializes on producing underwater acoustic systems, is headquartered in Nova Scotia, with a facility in Ontario.

Contacting the police, a concerned Peterborough resident informed them that there was "red paint and writing" on the building. On arrival at the site, police found damage on the building exterior, and further inspection revealed damage to a communication box on the GeoSpectrum property. The Peterborough Police Service brilliantly deduced that GeoSpectrum might have become a target as a result of its being a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, an Israeli defence technology company. 

A video posted on Instagram by Palestine Action Canada was proud to take responsibility for the damage inflicted on the property they connect to Israel's military-production establishment. In the video a masked individual is shown cutting wires in a dark room, a flashlight illuminating the scene of the crime. Additional footage is that of a masked man standing beside the entrance of a building splashing red paint on its front. 

A video provided by a group claiming to be Palestine Action Canada showing a masked individual interfering with unidentified equipment in the early morning hours of October 12, 2026. Peterborough police said an outdoor communications box was damaged at GeoSpectrum Technologies Inc. on Whittington Drive in Peterborough. (kawarthaNOW screenshot)

Blame is cast by the anti-Israel group on Canada for its purported role in support of the parent company of GeoSpectrum. "And our own settler-colonial state, so-called Canada, trades, buys and invests in Elbit. We will not stop until Palestine is free!" concludes the post. Or until they are brought to account, as a terrorist entity operating illegally in Canada. 

This is not the first and only time that Palestine Action Canada acted against a Canadian company it claims has connection to the Israeli defence industry. The group claimed responsibility for targeting a manufacturer in Concord, north of Toronto, when Dishon Limited was also vandalized. The activities of this  group have prompted calls on the federal government to recognize Palestine Action Canada as a terrorist entity and designate it as such under the Criminal Code.

The federal government was called on to designate the group for what it is, through a House of Commons e-petition that closed in September. The July event that involved Dishon Limited was presented in the petition as evidence of the campaign of direct action -- violent action -- against businesses in Canada, Palestine Action Canada operating as a terrorist group in Canada. 

"The appropriate authorities have been notified, and we are working with them as we assess the extent of the damage", a spokesperson for GeoSpectrum confirmed, in validating the occurrence of the vandalism, courtesy of the Palestine Action Canada group. Jewish advocacy group B'nai Brith Canada urged the federal government in May to take action against the group following its release of a map of locations to "target", citing ties to Israel, within Canada.

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According to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Palestine Action "has supported numerous acts of terrorism since July 2020". Sanctions were issued against the group in the United States. Canadian authorities are in no great hurry to sanction the group that has clearly committed violent criminal activities, threatening even greater such unlawful actions crying out for arrests, and judicial proceedings including both prison sentences and deportation when appropriate. 

 

"Energy security can't be taken for granted."

"The events of recent weeks are serious, our response must be equally serious."

"For Saudi Arabia, these circumstances have tested our infrastructure, our institutions, our people, and our resilience."

Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, Saudi energy minister 

 

"[They -- Houthis -- will] face consequences [for their repeated attacks on the kingdom]."

"The Kingdom will not allow any threat to its security or to freedom of maritime navigation in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait."

Saudi Arabian Cabinet 

 

"[The warning and the attack show] the Saudis’ aims of upping the ante and striking deep in the heart of Houthi-controlled territory while attempting to control the narrative by presenting themselves as more careful and humanitarian actors than the Houthis."

"It may be a warning -- or it may be a sign of things to come."

Adam Baron, fellow, Washington-based New America institute

Oil tanks seen at the Saudi Aramco headquarters during a media tour at Damam city. REUTERS/ Ali Jarekji/File Photo

 

Not entirely insensitive to the Israel Defense Forces' routine pre-warning of civilians in enclaves in the Gaza Strip where the Israeli military's strategy to respond to the 7 October 2023 by destroying Palestinian terrorists' military emplacements, their weapons depots, their broadcasting systems, their labyrinthine tunnels, their leaders and their operatives, starting with the Hamas governing group which infamously has always used the civilian population as shields, the Saudi military leading a coalition of forces Tuesday on Sanaa, pre-warned the population to flee for safety.

Following the Houthi weekend strikes on Riyadh's international airport on Saturday and follow-up strikes days later, which killed 18 people and wounded hundreds more, Saudi Arabia warned the Houthis of their intention to strike back. Before they did, civilians were urged to leave the site of the Yemeni Oil Company and its nearby storage areas. That they have finally struck, it is impossible to ignore that the Middle East crisis is expanding with this series of fresh escalations behind which can be discerned the malign influence of the Islamic Republic of Iran. 

A man looking over the skyline of Sanaa, Yemen, on Tuesday.  Credit...Mohammed Huwais/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

That the airport strikes in Saudi Arabia have added to the energy export crisis now looming over the global community with the world's top oil exporter having been targeted, the coalition's counter-targeting of Yemen's Houthi-controlled oil sites is certain to jolt the world to attention. The Yemen civil war has brought the poorest country in the environs of the Middle East starkly divided between the legitimate government, forced to surrender their capital Sanaa to the Houthi rebellion, into a crisis situation. The government supported by Saudi Arabia, and the Houthis by Iran spell the ultimate in tribal-sectarian hostilities.

 

In Saudi Arabia, operations remain suspended at the King Khalid International Airport on the outskirts of Riyadh. On Saturday, Muslim pilgrims wearing their typical religious attire were awaiting their flights in departure lounges when a sudden flash tore through the building and flaming debris rained down killing 13 outright. The Houthi drone and missile attacks had city residents sheltering for safety even as the Houthis threatened to continue targeting Saudi transit hubs as "a theatre of operations for our forces". This is the reality of a new, unequal form of conflict, where guerrilla forces of a poor nation can access killing drones to wage its war against a richer nation's conventional military's reaction.

 

Smoke over Sana’a during a reported Saudi-led coalition airstrike on the Houthi-controlled Yemeni capital on 9 October 2026. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Sunday evening also saw eastern Saudi Arabia's Dammam airport hit. A day later, the Saudi-led coalition revealed that it had "intercepted and destroyed" a Houthi ballistic missile headed for a major military base in the southern city of Khamis Mushalt. The Houthi foreign ministry, referring to Saudi Arabia as the "Kingdom of the Horn of Satan -- must realize that security, stability and sovereignty must belong to everyone; otherwise, no one will enjoy them." 

 

"I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal. For some reason [Zelenskyy] never does."

"[If I had been U.S. president in 2022], that war would have never started. There was no reason that that war with Ukraine and Russia started. It started due to incompetence."

"[Zelenskyy has] lost 30 per cent of your country and you've had over a million people go between the two of them, over two million people killed. That's a war that should have never started. And I think it's time for Ukraine to get a new president."

"I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia] to deliver millions of tonnes of diesel fuel over the next few months]."

"Diesel prices for Americans and, indeed, the world, will be COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST! Lower prices for Americans, especially our Great Farmers, Ranchers, and Truckers, is my greatest priority."

U.S. President Donald Trump 

 

"Today, Russia expressed its thanks for the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports by dropping five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia." 

"[The attacks show Moscow understands] any easing of pressure to mean they can keep fighting, to mean they can keep dropping bombs on cities."

"Russia's choice is war."

"[The diesel deal signalled to Moscow that] it is apparently permissible to continue attacking. And this needs to be corrected." 

"It plays into Russia’s hands — allowing it to kill more, wage war for longer, have even less respect for America, and inflict even greater losses and damage on the world."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Zelenskyy and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrive for a news conference on Oct. 4. Zelenskyy on Saturday criticized the new U.S.-Russia diesel deal. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)

 

"Propping up Putin’s war economy is morally wrong as he uses that money to bomb cities."

"The President’s policies towards Russia and Ukraine are failures. We need moral clarity not moral ambiguity."

Republican Congressman Don Bacon, Nebraska  

Mercurial isn't quite the description of President Trump's instant thought process as he sets about in his typically idiosyncratic way solving problems whose details he doesn't quite grasp, offering solutions to conflicts startling in their simplicity, entirely lacking common sense. With an ego as wide as the Pacific Ocean and a belief in his persuasive impulses as a reflection of his genius for getting at the heart of the matter and arriving at a brilliant point where he personally and his political cronies stand to gain financially, and placing him once again on the short list for next year's Nobel Peace Prize, he is unstoppable.

 

The world balances itself on tenterhooks over what this man straddling the most powerful nation on earth's foreign political decision-making, volatile enough to take a U-turn at any moment, the reliable old international world order now stumbles into a future of growing uncertainty. What is certain is this man's fascination with the kind of power wielded by tyrants, an admiration for strongmen whose casual disregard of human rights and international treaties are appealing to a man who himself shreds signed and sealed agreements with impunity. 

 

That Mr. Trump has difficulty distinguishing allies from enemies, treating the former as hostile to his world view and proclivities, and the former as collegial think-alikes, puzzles both allies and enemies. And while allies have been forced by new circumstances beyond their control that is the sole agency of one single man to form new coalitions under the grave reality that dependence on the United States is no longer an option for the free world, countries like Russia and China whose hostility to the United States, vying against it for great power status find themselves honoured guests by an amiably-inclined American president. 

 

Trump rewards Putin and betrays Ukraine with Russia diesel deal - The Latest

 

A president who prefers to view victims as guilty of allowing themselves to become targets of aggressive warmongering territorial imperialists. The failure to use the power of his position to intimidate the Ukrainian president into submitting to his aggressor's demands to allow the evisceration of his country's geographic assets infuriated Mr. Trump while confusing Mr. Zelenskyy with its unreasonableness, even as he steadfastly refused the absurd recriminations tied to his government's counteroffensive against their mortal enemy rather than submit to Mr. Putin's demands.

 

Then came the news of the U.S.-Russia agreement of immediate supplying diesel fuel to the United States and to relieve global markets of its diesel shortage. Mr. Trump's calculated political imperative is to reduce the U.S. public's low approval rating of their president on economic grounds at a time of an increased cost of living, further aggravated by the on-again, off-again war on Iran and its effect of depleting the world supply of energy through the Persian Gulf, aligned with a similar situation with Russia's 'special military operation' in Ukraine.

 

The manipulation of public opinion at a critical time in the United States, with the approach of November 3's congressional elections to determine which party will control Congress, uppermost in the president's mind. So his 'highly successful' agreement where Vladimir Putin has agreed to supply an initial over 300,000 tonnes of diesel to U.S. and global markets, convinced Mr. Trump that the 'good news' would be universally welcomed. News, with its implied, if not actual forced surrender of Ukraine to Russia's ongoing predatory plans that served to stun an already-Trump-cynical world audience.

 

Washington had just latterly enacted additional sanctions on Russian energy producers, yet this latest scheme to isolate Ukraine and feed it bit by bit to the rapacious territorial appetite of Vladimir Putin to salve his own political future with a voting public irritated beyond end by the volatility and insensibility of their president as a prudent move, is destined for complete failure, adding another nail in the coffin of this president's reputation and historical legacy. 

Police officers standing next to the covered bodies of people killed by a Russian strike on a five-storey residential building in Zaporizhzhia. Photograph: Ukraine national police/AFP/Getty Images

A further one million tonnes are to be made available to the U.S. under the newly-minted general licence the U.S. Treasury Department issued to allow the importation of Russian diesel dating to April of 2027. Greater amounts would follow "based on the condition of their diesel refineries", damaged by Ukrainian attacks, noted Mr. Trump. Excoriating Ukraine for those attacks and demanding that they cease forthwith in Ukraine's response to Russia's unending attacks on Ukrainian civil infrastructure and energy depots to deprive the population of winter heating and cooking in a demoralization drive. 

"I said it to President Trump … to his team and to his people several times: we want peace, we are ready for [a] ceasefire, we are ready to begin from any kind of steps of de-escalation."

"And if the Russians want us not [to] attack their diesel, their refineries and etc., we are asking President Trump, give them signal not attack energy infrastructure of Ukraine."

"Don't attack us. Don't kill our children. We will stop attack[ing] your diesel. And I think it's [a] fair, fair deal."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

"Yes, I've taken a loss tonight, but our movement is so much bigger than one election or one motion."

"I put all my energy into the race in Holborn and St Pancras, despite Labour choosing the polling date so close to our conference, because I know that ultimately electoral success is how we drive change. I know, though, that some feel let down by that decision – and I hear that."

"[I would have voted against the motion but I agree] with the substance [and have no intention of  resigning]."

"It has been difficult knowing how to approach this imperfect motion, because its substance chimes with my understanding of Zionism as the ideology that underpins the displacement and genocide of Palestinians."

"This is something I share with many other Jewish people, including Stephen Kapos, the Holocaust survivor who was one of those supporting the motion."

"At the same time, Zionism is not easily defined, and I know for many Jewish people it is bound up with identity, safety and belonging. In my view it’s not the job of a political party to tell people what to believe – and a narrow focus on definitions is neither desirable nor strategic."

"There are also elements of the motion that I don’t agree with, such as dictating the future shape of a state in Israel and Palestine. While many people understandably see the idea of a two-state solution as standing in the way of concrete action to end the unbearable status quo, I believe it is not up to the British government – let alone the Green party – to decide the future for Israelis and Palestinians."

"Our party democracy must now evolve to meet that – creating wider engagement for members, giving leaders more responsibility to set the party’s strategic direction, and making our processes as robust and accessible as possible."

"What I'm experiencing is the immense amount of people who are saying they've never been prouder to be a Green Party member."

Zack Polanski, leader British Green Party

 

"I would have hoped he would have been a very strong critic of this motion."

"I want him to show the leadership that was frankly missing on Sunday."

"[I think the jury is out about whether he will do that, but I very much hope he will."

Former British Green Party leader Caroline Lucas 

Did the Zionism row lose it for Zack Polanski? | Politics Weekly

 

The parliamentary by-election lost by the Green Party was most definitely not good news for either Zack Polanski or the party; its temporary rise in the esteem of a greater proportion of the British electorate that inspired hope in the party that its performance would continue to find favour with the voting public has been dashed in the reality of waning support that followed the euphoria felt of a growing popularity, under former Prime Minister Keir Starmer. 

 

The party's recent conference which resulted in the adoption of a new Israel policy labelling Zionism as racist, calling for a single Palestinian state to engulf and destroy Israel has now to be dealt with to the satisfaction of its internal critics. His year-old leadership when the 43-year-old's easygoing manner helped it gain popularity, leading to its February by-election win as well as the May local elections when the party racked up hundreds of council seats had given the party new confidence.

 

Its membership soared to over 200,000 from its previous 68,000 when Greens support stood at 21 percent in opinion polls, almost equal in public opinion with the ruling Labour party. Polanski's own inattention to details and public perception stood him in ill stead when he reposted on social media a photograph of a T-shirt subtly encouraging the untimely death of Reform U.K. leader Nigel Farage. As an outspoken critic on the Gaza war, accusing Israel of committing genocide, the motion passed at last month's conference did not stray too far from his personal sentiments.

 

At the conference where the party's membership, not its leader, is permitted to establish policy, 1,022 members (0.4% of total membership) responded favourably to a motion that declared Zionism as a form of racism and calling for a single Palestinian state. Five of the party's MPs opposed the motion that drew the European Green party's notice, which supports a two-state solution. Despite which the motion passed by 1,022 votes to 813. Prompting the Greens' Westminster leader Ellie Chowns to point out the risk of extremists and racists capturing the party, demonstrating a vital need to modernize policymaking.

That the leadership of the Green Party in Britain is a Jew, raised in a conventional Jewish household, finding it in himself to acquiesce to the ideological philosophy of racists interpreting the reestablishment of the State of Israel on its own ancestral geography as being a racist apartheid enterprise, prepared to support a motion that would destroy the state in favour of handing it over to the colonialist enterprise of Arabs from Syria, Jordan and Egypt who claim the land as its own, speaks volumes of his warped mind

 

Citing the opposition to a Jewish state by a former child Holocaust survivor, makes one feel a similarity strangely shadows the proceedings, between the Kapos who during the Holocaust handled the Zyklon B-asphyxiated Jewish victims to shovel them into the gaping maw of the incinerators, to prolong their own lives, as Nazi enablers of the Final Solution, and one whose vehement denial of Zionism whose name bears a striking resemblance.

 

Holocaust Survivor Stephen Kapos meets Francesca Albanese SOAS 11.11.24

 

As for the two-state solution; it had its time in history. For over a lifetime of events one generation after another, Israel waited for the Palestinian leaders to acknowledge the internationally legal, immovable presence and right-of-existence-sovereignty of the State of Israel -- without which no formal agreement on statehood for Palestinians side-by-side with Israel would be possible -- in vain. While repeatedly attesting to the international community that Palestinians wanted peace along with their own state, among themselves they spoke an entirely different language of 'resistance to occupation'.

 

From the Palestinian refusal in 1947 to the United Nations' offer of Partition, with Israel accepting its geographic portion, a narrow strip representing a slender proportion of original Judaic territory dating back millennia in ancient history of the Middle East, the leadership of the Palestinians consistently, turned down all succeeding offers that would have resulted in the state they demanded, holding out for the state they envisioned they were entitled to, 'from the river to the sea'. 

 

There is no honour among those who view Israel, Zionism and the existential-need of a Jewish homeland as 'racist' and irrelevant in the greater need to accommodate Arabs calling themselves Palestinian, when they could just as well rename themselves "Jordanians" in reflection of a country where they form the majority, yet ruled over by a Hashemite kingdom, which keeps a wary eye out to ensure there is no repeat of 'Black September'.  Ironically enough, it was Mandate Britain that administered the territory and which failed to respect history, heritage and honour; the Green Party has picked up where Mandate Britain left off.

 

 

The Impartial, Principled Navanethem Pillay, Nobel Laureate

"[The Nobel Peace Prize winner, Navi Pillay] contributed to strengthen the institutions of international law.'"

"Her independence, expertise and steadfastness have made her one of the most respected international jurists of our time."

"In awarding this year’s Nobel peace prize, the Norwegian Nobel committee wants to remind the world that the rule of law – national and international – underpins the system we have set up to ensure peace and resolve conflicts non-violently."

Nobel Committee 

 

"I don’t know about it so much. The question is: is it true? Being a lawyer and a judge, I still want to verify it [whether she was to be awarded the prize]."

"The last thing I did was the report on Gaza naming what’s happening there as genocide."

"One of the main reactions to that report was people [complimented] me for my courage. You can imagine how surprised I was. Why would you need courage to speak the truth. You interpret the law. You look at all the facts, so it’s an impartial decision."

Navanethem (Navi) Pillay, Nobel Laureate  

Navi Pillay, then-U.N. high commissioner for human rights, addresses the ninth session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, September 2008. Credit: Jean-Marc Ferré/U.N. Photo

 

 The inventor of dynamite felt so conscience-stricken over his genius invention that of course had peacetime applications, but would also and obviously be used in conflict situations, blowing up both enemy installations and innocent civilian lives, that he felt he had to somehow make amends. The hugely respected Nobel prizes in recognition of human endeavours in the fields of medicine, science, the arts and the art of peace salved his conscience. While he was the discoverer of a means to end lives, that was clearly not his intent. Now he is known as one whose legacy is that of a truly noble endeavour; to recognize and reward human intelligence, ingenuity and genius.

Yasser Arafat, Palestine Liberation Organization, Egyptian Palestinian Leader, Nobel Peace Prize1994

 

In being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, this accomplished lawyer, human rights advocate and internationally respected past director of many United Nations committees upholding all the qualities that the international body has traditionally promoted, respected and supported, this woman stands out as an icon of courage to many, and inchoate hateful bigotry to others. Just as the United Nations has chosen to make an exceptional example of the tiny state of Israel as a human rights denier for refusing to allow itself to be threatened with annihilation, citing a plethora of 'human rights violations' it attributes to a genuinely dedicated democratic state for which human rights is inviolable, so too has Ms. Pillay distinguished herself by her contemptuous regard for Israel, naming it for what it most positively is not -- genocidal.

 

On the surface, Ms. Pillay's extensive experience in international law and human rights prepared her for the recognition that is now universally held to be her right. Now 85, she is a former UN high commissioner for human rights. In her role as chairwoman of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, inclusive of East Jerusalem and Israel, her commission issued a 72-page report in 2025 whose conclusion was that Israel was guilty of committing genocide in Gaza against Palestinians. 

"[Awarding the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to Pillay represents a] grotesque weaponization of an award to legitimize anti-Israel hatred and prejudice."

"If there were a prize for lies, hatred and blood libels, Navi Pillay would not merely be a candidate -- she would be the front-runner."

"Now that the Nobel Committee has rewarded the biggest lie of the 21st century, Joseph Goebbels is surely applauding from hell."

Israeli Foreign Ministry 

Grotesquely, ironically, Pillay spoke at the very same Nuremberg courtroom in Germany, the site of the trials held to hold Nazi leaders to account for the atrocities of the Second World War. Where death sentences were handed out to 24 of the 177 defendants, another 20 of whom were sentenced to life imprisonment. Of the total 98 others were given variable prison sentences, several were sentenced in absentia, while 7 including Hess and Speer were sent to Spandau Prison where the four wartime powers, Britain, France, Russia and the United States took turns guarding and caring for their welfare. History will also judge Navi Pillay. 

"At the Nuremberg Court ... I cannot think of a stronger symbol for the devastating collapse of the human rights institutions and principles you were entrusted to uphold and protect, equally and consistently."

"Never again is now."

Michal Cotler-Wunsh, Israeli special envoy for combatting antisemitism  

Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, Archives 1945

 

"The government has been taking actions at home to protect the Jewish community, protect all Canadians, but particularly the Jewish community."

"And it's above and beyond protection, it's about the ability to truly thrive, live their lives freely and openly and thrive as Jewish people in Canada."

Prime Minister Mark Carney

 

"[There will be] an increased police presence today and in the coming days [at synagogues and other places of worship]."

"We remain committed to working with communities across Toronto addressing hate, and ensuring people are safe."

Toronto Police Service statement 

 

"I'm thinking today of Jewish families across Toronto who have spent three years watching this kind of thing move closer to their homes, their schools and their synagogues, and who are tired of being told it's being taken seriously, while it keeps happening."

"Hate directed at any community is a threat to every community, and the people responsible for this [latest event, burning of Israeli flags on the anniversary of October 7] need to be found and charged."

Brad Bradford, Toronto City Councillor/Mayoral candidate 

 

"The hatred that fuelled October 7th did not remain on foreign shores."

"Right here in Canada, far too many synagogues, Jewish businesses and institutions have been the targets of harassment and hate." 

Conservative Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre 

Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke at Holy Blossom Temple on June 1, 2026, to announce new efforts to combat antisemitism. (Photo: Mitchell Consky/The CJN)

 

Sanctimonious statements of regret, condemnation, support and dedication to ensuring that Jews in Canada are treated with the same deference, security and equality as any other ethnic/cultural group is afforded somehow ring inauthentically when they're solemnly expressed by the very heads of government that belie their words of comforting reassurance by doing absolutely nothing within the laws of the land to ensure that those words carry on beyond verbal performance. The federal Liberal government, under its previous prime minister carrying over to the current office holder, Mark Carney has done nothing in the past three years to relieve Canadian Jews of the imposed burden of Jew-hate directed from identifiable sources.

 

Those are the very identifiable sources that make no secret of their hatred and contempt for the Jewish community in Canada, loyal citizens whose presence as Canadians were of a far longer duration than those who seek to harass and threaten them to the point of terrorizing them into leaving the country of their birth for other, less threatening havens. The Jewish record of citizenship in Canada is centuries old, helping to build the country, their entrepreneurship, loyalty and commitment unquestioningly bringing credit and prosperity to the nation. Later arrivals from sources of traditional, habitual antisemitism entering Canada have brought that 'culture' with them.

 

Prime Minister Mark Carney notes their presence with the startling statement that "Muslim values are Canadian values". Invariably, while condemning antisemitism, Mr. Carney, like his predecessor never fails to mention "Islamophobia" as a social menace alongside that of antisemitism, even as the truth cannot be evaded that those 'Muslim values' practised by all too many immigrants, refugees and migrants from North Africa and the Middle East motivate and engender endless 'marches' focusing on Jews and Israel needing to be expunged from existence through modes and methods including that of  'Globalize the Intifada', and 'Final Solution'.

 

Anti-Israel protesters were "parading in front of a synagogue founded by Holocaust survivors to protest a foreign conflict". The Lodzer Centre Congregation was founded by Polish Holocaust survivors in the 1950s. Photo by Google Maps

 

Canada's progressive-left, adhering to Critical Race Theory and DEI, promoted by the Liberal government has infiltrated academia, unions, corporations, government branches and those areas of the general public permeated with the ages-old pathology of Jew-hate. Vandalizing Jewish-owned businesses, firing at Jewish day schools, throwing explosives at synagogues in Montreal and Toronto, harassing and threatening Jewish students and professors at Canadian universities has become 'normalized' in Canada, propelled by the concerted action of Palestinian student groups and foreign actors. 

"Nothing could be more contrary to the spirit of Canada, let alone our universities, than that [Jewish students avoiding wearing symbols of their ethnicity, the majority of whom feel campus antisemitism is a serious problem they have experienced or witnessed]."

[But] in addition to continue to strengthen the response on campus and giving this a national effort on behalf of universities, it's going to require a much closer partnership between all the institutional players because antisemitism does not stop or start at the edge of campus."

"The one thing I've heard most consistently from Jewish students is that they want the same protections under the same policies that every student is entitled to on campus and that's something that universities have taken to heart."

Gabriel Miller, president, Universities Canada

 

"What the university can do is ensure that it has clear policies that are consistently enforced to ensure that people are behaving toward one another in the university environment in a way that's conducive to higher education."

"Ultimately Jewish people in this country are going to be driven out of public institutions, and out of society, in a very scary way that we've seen in other countries throughout history and that no one would ever think possible in Canada."

Noah Shack, CEO, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs 

The state of funding of universities that fail to comply with the Ontario government's directive to apply their own standards and policies will lead to the reduction of operational funding through a new directive of the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities of the province. The directive mandates that the institutions retain authority over (and responsibility for) student associations and groups operating on campus that promote antisemitism and hatred. This is the provincial government finally positively responding to the plight of Jewish students.

 

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the main campus of the University of Toronto are pictured on July 3, 2024. Demonstrators cleared the encampment on the university's grounds before the 6 p.m. deadline to avoid confrontation with police. (Alex Lupul/CBC)

 

The current mayor of Toronto, who stated on the anniversary of October 7 that: "I will never waver on my commitment to the safety of Jewish Torontonians. We will continue to invest in keeping communities safe and strong and will take action until every Torontonian can practise their faith without fear", should be struck by the lightning bolt of reality coming back to haunt her, through the upcoming municipal election. Mayor Olivia Chow, in fact, has stood by impassively while Jews in Toronto have been threatened by mobs of Jew-haters, even in their own neighbourhoods. Not once has she responded with the authority of her office to put a stop to the promotion of antisemitism.

 

She has stood, like the prime minister himself, foursquare with the Muslim community, appearing at their events in support and admiration, even to wearing the requisite Muslim garments for Muslim women as an indication of her comfort within the community. Not once has she moved herself to attend an event with the Jewish community in Toronto; doing all she could to evade a presence among Jews. During the mayoral election campaign she refused to take part in a discussion along with other mayoral candidates focusing on viral antisemitism in the city she governs. 

 

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"Putin has the view that by summer the situation in Europe will change and support for Ukraine will fall away."

"This gives the Kremlin the motivation to continue its brazen attacks."

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, exiled London opposition figure

 

"We will take the path of escalation [to deter Europe]. As well as strikes on Ukraine to take full advantage of the lack of missile defence." 

"[Efforts to restart peace talks were going] nowhere." 

Unnamed Russian official

 

"[Moscow was stepping up an aggressive] shadow war [against Germany to undermine its support for Kyiv]."

"Russia is putting us to the test and closely watching how we handle this situation."

"From the perspective of the Kremlin leadership, any sign of wavering invites them to further increase the pressure on Germany."

"We have to stand up to that."

German Federal Intelligence Service chief Martin Jaeger 

 

"Look at what's happening with the economy."

"Look at what's happening to social policy, with the living standards of citizens of the biggest European states."

"In these conditions they have to ... switch the attention of their citizens from internal problems to problems of an external nature."

Russian President Vladimir Putin

The Russian leader has set out his demands: Europe must bend the knee, or the war will go on and on and on. Center for European Policy Analysis

Europe has its growing problems that must be dealt with. That's the Europe that has been solidly behind Ukraine in its existential counteroffensive against Vladimir Putin's aspirational territorial goals. There is political upheaval in Germany, and France is faced with escalating violent student riots, and Britain seems increasingly politically unstable to name but a few. All of which lead the Russian president to believe that playing his cards right will result in the fatigue that is growing among Kyiv's supporters coming to a crisis level where they can no longer offer the munitions and the funding they've been doling out as generously as they can, over the past four years.

 

Waging war is never cheap, and Russia's own economy is struggling with the international sanctions that have dampened its economy; a yawning budget deficit must be met with some manner of solution; war funding on borrowed time and burdening future generations call for a scheme that can undermine the solidarity that Europe has shown toward Ukraine allowing it to fend off Russian attacks and to successfully mount their own within Russia. 

 

With the Russian military striking at Ukraine's civilian infrastructure; schools, power plants and bridges with their jet-powered drones and ballistic missiles, Mr. Putin feels in striking distance of his goal -- if he can only demoralize the Ukrainian public sufficiently, and with them the European public wearying of supporting beleaguered Ukraine. Russia's war-weary citizens, insecure themselves never knowing when a Ukrainian drone will strike even in Moscow, and the waning economy does not so much perturb Putin that he feels any need to curtail his ambitions, certain as he is that he is within striking distance of his goal.

 

Irritatingly, despite the Trump administration's lack of interest in supporting Ukraine, bolstering Moscow's own determination to proceed as charted, German Chancellor Friedrich Merez, visiting Kyiv unexpectedly, announced another $1.5 billion in funding aid to Ukraine. With the far-right Alternative for Germany opposing aid for Ukraine breathing down his neck, his own political future is uncertain.  "Promising further billions in German taxpayer money that is missing from the pension and health insurance funds, while Germany is mired in its worst energy crisis. It's all too much to fathom", wrote Alternative for Germany's co-leader Alice Weidel, in her criticism of Germany's leader.  

"Meanwhile, there is little for Moscow to celebrate on the battlefield. Ukraine has regained the upper hand in drone warfare, inflicting more fatalities on Russian forces. At the same time, recruitment of new soldiers is likely slowing, as even rising contract-signing bonuses may no longer tempt the shrinking pool of po    tential volunteers. As a result, Russia is beginning to struggle to replace its battlefield losses." 

"Ukraine also faces personnel shortages but has nonetheless managed to stabilise the front line, seize the initiative in some areas (such as around Huliaipole in the Zaporizhzhia region) and will now have the resources to strengthen its defences thanks to major new financial assistance from the EU."

Ondrej Ditrych, European Union Institute for Defence Studies  

Now, post-'election' and firmly back in his throne for another 30-or-some-odd years, Putin having spoken of returning to talks post-election, now claims that during the election, Ukraine's drone attacks were responsible for cancelling prospects for any new ceasefire talks. Moscow's actions, said Merz, signalled "Russia's desperation in the face of its unsuccessful war in Ukraine". Once again threatening attacks on Europe and nuclear warnings according to some analysts, signals Moscow's desperation, with its finances under strain. 

 

Claiming a week ago, spurred by a British documentary series that depicts a fictional war game exercise, that it had information that NATO was preparing an "air and naval blockade" of Kaliningrad, the Russian Foreign Ministry gave warning to the western alliance that his country was "prepared to respond to any efforts to isolate its Baltic enclave with all its arsenal, including nuclear weapons". In response, NATO accused Moscow of "irresponsible nuclear rhetoric". 

 

The Belgian Defence Minister predicted "a dark winter ahead", while Denmark's defence intelligence service gave warning of "a low but growing risk that Russia will launch a limited military attack against one or several NATO countries on its border in the coming months". Russia's hybrid attacks in its low-decibel shadow war against Ukraine's European friends and neighbours have made them all nervous, particularly the Baltics. 

"[Putin is counting on] crises mounting."

"And that the current leaders who are seen as anti-Russian and inadequate just won't be able to cope."

"[The Kremlin is operating on] the understanding that there are different forces in Europe, and that there are those who don't want the situation to escalate to nuclear confrontation."

"[Moscow's policy on Europe has become] schizophrenic. Putin is signalling that there is an official and unofficial line that we don't want to go to war with Europe [while warning that] we have nuclear weapons if you will continue arming Ukraine and build around us all kinds of military infrastructure and threaten Kaliningrd and so on." 

"[But all Putin really wants, is for Europe to become] more pragmatic [and follow the path taken by U.S. President Donald Trump]."

Tatiana Stanovaya, senior fellow, Carnegie Eurasia Russia Center 

Russia’s economy is not yet collapsing. Nor is its military campaign against Ukraine. But the Kremlin is mortgaging the country’s future as underlying structural weaknesses in the economy begin to emerge. European Union Institute for Security Studies