"[A deal to bring peace to Gaza represents a] great breakthrough [despite signs from both Hamas and Israel that significant hurdles remained before a deal can be implemented]."

"It's a big step for the Middle East, and people are really impressed by it, and they're surprised by it."  

"[Israel is] very happy [about the deal]."

"Israel helped us, and they've been very good."

"Will it go through its ups and downs? It's a very complex situation over there."

U.S. President Donald J. Trump 

 

"Israel has conveyed its comments and concerns on the proposed framework to our American counterparts."

"The version that has been made public does not reflect Israel's positions."

Doron Spielman, spokesman, office of Israeli Prime Minister 

President Donald Trump gestures during a family photo during a summit to support ending the more than two-year Israel-Hamas war in Gaza after a breakthrough ceasefire deal, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, as Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani watch. In back are the Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Meshal Al Ahmad Al Sabah, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Netherland’s Prime Minister Dick Schoof (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

 

"[Hamas will not change its mentality and] resisting the occupation is its holy mission."

"This is an exceptional phase in Palestinian history. Because of forced necessity, the hard circumstances in Gaza, we accept this agreement."

"But I think that as Hamas, I can confirm that we didn't change our mentality, our goal to end the occupation, to continue to end the occupation with the Palestinian factions, because this is our holy mission."

Hamas's Ghazi Hamad 

Ghazi Hamad, member of Hamas Political Office, speaks during a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Beirut, Lebanon, October 29, 2023; illustrative. (credit: REUTERS/AMR ALFIKY)

 

U.S. President Donald Trump may make his triumphant 'peace' statements to burnish his efforts to be recognized as a global peacemaker, in the process leaving the most affected party to continue to cope with the fallout, but that doesn't mean that the nation whose existential future is impacted by such decisions must accept them. And Israel did not, voicing its objections over the plan promoted by Mr. Trump to bring an end to the Gaza war. 

 

Demanding "verifiable" disarmament by the terrorist group Hamas, which had declared for Western consumption that it was prepared to surrender its weapons under a plan supported by the American president, to a Palestinian governing committee yet to be established, Israel knows what the U.S. president prefers not to acknowledge. Any seeming cooperation on the part of Hamas to appear to be on board with that peace plan simply buys it more time to get on with its goal.

 

That time fruitfully used in restoring what it has lost, post October 7, 2023; weaponry, territory, trust of Palestinians in Gaza, and Hamas operatives lost to the Israel Defense Forces huntdown of Hamas members, hiding behind the civilian population in Gaza. The latest document the Board of Peace released calling for Israel to cease its military operations "without delay", for "phased withdrawal" from Gaza is a losing proposition.

 

In control of 60 percent of Gaza, Israel "will not retreat" -- stated an Israeli politician -- from its position in the Gaza Strip. Which essentially protects Israeli citizens --from a repeat of October 7, promised time and again by members of the Hamas politboro. Yet the Board of Peace insists: "We have provided a pragmatic path forward to transform Gaza by removing Hamas from power and seeing it hand over its weapons" said one of the Board's officials. The plan is meant to result in "improvement of life in Gaza and enhancement of security in Israel".

 

The 20-point plan focused on ending Hamas rule along with its stockpile of weapons to be replaced with a Palestinian government and police to enable reconstruction and reconciliation with Israel. Reconciliation means what...a recognition of Israel's right to exist, a fundamental issue the Palestinian Authority has never agreed to? 

 

Hamas to shed its heavy weaponry as part of a bridging proposal reviving the peace process following months of mediated negotiations in Cairo. Heavy weaponry...rockets and other violent propulsion systems, but arms so beloved by the Hamas rank-and-file, an issue set aside for the present... Pointing out that actions by Hamas since both signed that plan, signify unmistakably that preparations for "further October 7-type massacres", went nowhere.

 

Hamas has agreed to a disarmament plan, according to the Gaza Board of Peace, but only if Israel withdraws from the territory. Former Canadian ambassador to Israel Jon Allen is 'highly skeptical' about the deal announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, saying the president has made many promises, but significant controversy remains over the outcome.  CBC News

 

 

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights has unveiled a controversial exhibit on the Nakba, the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Still from video, CBC

 

"My dad [Izzie Asper] always said the most important asset you have is  your reputation."

"I think that this exhibit [Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present] is going to have a lot of people lose faith in the museum's trustworthiness for being an honest purveyor of accurate historical and current-day information."

"[The museum piece] deliberately omits key, relevant facts about the conflict [that are crucial to understanding its full context]."

"It's inaccurate, and in my opinion shows bias on the part of the curators of the museum, and is not at the level of scholarship befitting a federal institution." 

Gail Asper founder, Canadian Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg 

Photo: CMHR, Aaron Cohen

 

"The story of the Nakba is a complex one. It's not reduced to a quick little sound bite. There's a lot of nuance with it, there's a lot of history that preceded it and a lot of history that developed over the years of the Nakba."

"Hamas terrorists launched the greatest large-scale massacre against Jewish civilians since World War II, where over 1,150 or so Jewish babies and children and mothers and young people were brutally murdered in the most horrific fashion."

"The failure to describe that horror, and then simply say, Oh, ya, these people were displaced', is an error in judgment."

Mark Berlin, former CMHR board member

 

"The frame, or the scope, of the exhibit is to centre Palestinian experiences of forced displacement. So it's told through their stories, through their lens, and that's an approach the museum takes in a variety of other places."

"Every word in the exhibit is backed up by credible research. We had our research sources academically reviewed internally, and then we took an additional step to have them reviewed externally." 

CMHR chief Executive Isha Khan

A multimedia gallery on the museum's second floor that introduces visitors to a timeline of human rights acknowledges 'hundreds of thousands of people became refugees' in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, including Palestinian Arabs and Jews from surrounding Arab countries. (Tyson Koschik/CBC)

 

The Canadian Human Rights Museum, established in Winnipeg, was the brainchild of Israel (Izzie) Asper, former Canadian media magnate. The initial $24 million required to move the idea of the museum to its actual presence was donated by the Asper Foundation. There was also a public subscription, and later financial support from the federal government. From conception in 2003 to opening in 2014, the museum set out to inform the public of human rights and the world's most egregious assaults against human rights. There were ten permanent exhibits when the museum opened, the Holocaust among them.

 

Most recently the seven-story museum has mounted a Nakba exhibit that includes a collection of photos, video testimonies family heirlooms and artworks to portray the experience of Palestinian Arabs who fled conflict in the area. Keys to Palestinian homes that had been left are among the exhibits. Beginning at the Arab-Israeli war in 1948 when Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and Syria attacked the fledgling Jewish state to destroy it in response to the Partition Plan offered by the United Nations empowering Jews to return to their ancestral home, 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled.

 

Most left on the promise by the invading Arab armies that when Israel was destroyed they could return to claim the entire territory; others fled to escape the incipient war situation while others still were forced to leave as enemies of the new state. Over a million Palestinians chose to remain, where there are now 2 million Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel. Concurrently with the re-establishment of the Jewish state, surrounding Arab countries forcefully expelled their Jewish residents who had lived there since antiquity, confiscating their properties. 850,000 Jews found themselves homeless, more than balancing the number of Palestinian Arabs who became refugees through an event they named their Nakba (catastrophe).

 

The exhibit makes no mention of the expulsion of 850,000 Jews from the very Arab countries that went to war on Israel, amidst others. In this mass displacement, the Jews found homes for themselves in Israel or elsewhere in the greater diaspora. The Palestinians who settled in refugee camps in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon were there ostensibly on a temporary basis; none of the neighbouring Arab/Muslim countries offered them permanent status, much less citizenship.

Palestine Uprooted at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Photo: Annie Kierans. Courtesy the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

 

And while there is mention of the infamous October 7, 2023 massacre in southern Israel led by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, joined by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Fatah alongside the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, along with ordinary Palestinian/Gaza citizens, it fails to identify the victims of that mass atrocity as Jews, only as 'people'. That 'people', the Jews and their country, Israel, responded to that horrific event as any other country would do to protect its own, by invading the area responsible -- Gaza -- in search of the murderous terrorists.

 

That time and place in more recent history was included as illustrative of ongoing Palestinian suffering at the hands of Israel's military 'occupation'. It is disingenuous for the chief executive of the museum to declare that there was academic scholarship involved in the setting up of this one-sided, dreadfully canted exhibition in its obvious obfuscation of cause-and-effect, showcasing Palestinian victimhood by a heartless, 'genocidal' neighbour.   

"I think that the board clearly didn't understand the risks of doing inaccurate exhibits on volatile subjects."

"They didn't understand the impact it could have on their reputation, or they were indifferent, or they were too deferential to management."

Gail Asper 

Protesters gathered outside the Canadian Museum for Human Rights on June 26 to protest the Nakba exhibit. (Rudi Pawlychyn/CBC)

 

"Among the several commitments Canada has made to Qatar in the hopes of convincing the Gulf autocracy's ruling Al Thani family to double down on its energy investments in Canada is a June 25 memorandum of understanding between Canada's Public Safety ministry and Qatar's Internal Security Force. It's also under wraps, like the RCMP agreement with Beijing's Public Security ministry."

"The deal is supposed to extend Canada's co-operation on a variety of law enforcement portfolios, including money laundering, financial crime and terrorism."

"This will be unavoidably awkward, owing to the Al Thani family's conviction that the terrorist front Hamas, the Palestinian offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, is merely a national liberation movement."

"Qatar is already notorious in Canada's national security circles for the hundreds of millions of dollars it lavishes on the Muslim Brotherhood and its Canadian fronts and affiliates."

Terry Glavin, journalist, National Post  

Carney is greeted by Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani as he arrives to Amiri Diwan in Doha, Qatar. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)

 

Canada is at an impasse in attempting to deal with mercurial U.S. President Donald Trump, wedded to the big stick he wields with wild abandon, striking friend and foe alike with threatening tariffs geared to make them tremble in trepidation over the suddenly-wobbly state of their economy. The entire world economy is shaken to its foundations when America suddenly becomes unreliable, both in its trade and commerce cooperation with allies and competitors alike, ditching diplomacy for belligerence in expressions of bad faith and contempt toward other nations.

 

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Trade dependency on a geographic neighbour may make common sense when one country is viewed as the junior, valued for its abundance of natural resources, prepared to continue its trade relationship with the other whose appetite for energy and mineral extraction is boundless. The exchange of raw resources with finished products has always been reflected in the trade relationship. Advanced to the junior partner in later decades through the sharing of production to the benefit of both. 

 

Canada's standard of living reliant on the good graces of its neighbour, received a shock when that neighbour suddenly began growling and grumbling about being taken for granted, insufficiently adored for its generosity, and become fed up with being milked in unfair trade practises. And the trade deficit!!!Then the junior reeled back in dismay at the very pronouncements of a trade-enforced geographic-sovereign-lost-merger, genially imposed by its powerful neighbour. 

 

Trade-diversion and -diversity imposed becoming the order of the day, the month, the year, stretching into infinity. Pierre Elliott Trudeau back in the distant past embarked on a similar adventure, but it somehow never progressed to the point of being. Canada's new foreign-policy trade agreements under current prime minister Mark Carney, a self-professed economic genius, now has his turn. Jean Chretien in his day made frequent exploratory-trade visits to China with a full regalia of government ministers and corporate elites in tow.

 

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Diana Fox Carney disembark a government plane in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, July 7, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

 

In a year-and-a-half, Mr. Carney and his ministers have gone to 29 foreign capitals to drum up trade agreements with countries Canada has much in common with; Liberal democracies, and unsavoury others as well. He launched a "new world order" partnership with China, opening Canadian manufacturing and vehicle production in particular, to the trade-predatory Chinese Communist Party in Beijing. Taking no notice at the same time of China's human rights record on Tibet and Xinjiang.

 

China's predation is right out there in plain sight; countries that have imported cheaply-produced Chinese products valued by global consumers for their low prices have seen their own industries eviscerated,  unable to complete with the low wages and CCP subsidies to make Chinese goods preferable to their own. Europe's vast trade deficit with China was exemplified by the president of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China commenting on the situation comparing it to a "400-metre-long giant container ship loaded with 24,000 containers going to Europe, and coming back almost empty". 

 

Mark Carney — pictured with Chinese President Xi Jinping — reached a 'landmark' trade deal with China. (Sean Kilpatrick/Reuters)

 

Volkswagen's plans to rescue its Osnabruck plant along with 2,300 jobs y converting to production of components for Israel's Iron Dome defence system met a roadblock when Qatar objected, since the Qatari sovereign wealth fund purchased 10.4 percent of Volkswagen shares and 17 percent of its voting rights. Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Turkey is another potential trade partner for Canada under Mr. Carney's wide-ranging plans of rescue from the American trade orbit. 

 

Turkey's Erdogan is committed to the reestablishment of a Global Caliphate. Achieved perhaps, in a trifle more sophisticated way -- without the beheadings and crucifixions seen exercised by the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, but equally devoted to its inevitability, with the considerable assistance of the Muslim Brotherhood globally, and regionally the MB offshoot, Hamas in Gaza. Only two weeks earlier Mr. Carney announced Ottawa's negotiations with Ankara toward a free trade agreement.   

"Last year, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy [ISGAP] published an in-depth study of the reach of Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood in Canada, recommending that Canada's intelligence agencies keep much closer tabs on Qatar's promotion of extremist ideology and support for extremist organizations in Canada:

"'It is imperative to assess their level of penetration, areas of influence, and long-term goals in order to effectively manage the risks posed to Canada' [ISGAP]."

Terry Glavin  

Another opportunity for Canada's Liberal Carney government arose with discussions on a free trade agreement with the 11-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc of which Myanmar is a member, albeit a police state. Myanmar is listed among three other countries -- Iran and North Korea -- on the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force. Details, inconvenient details, so inconsequential, no need to bother with them. 

 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan gifted Prime Minister Mark Carney and other NATO leaders a custom revolver with each recipient's name engraved on the barrel during the alliance's summit in Ankara, Turkey. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

 

"So it's all well and good for Canada to be looking for deep-pocketed police state investors and maybe even some customers beyond the United States, at least for now."

"But the lasting damage to Canada's national security, diplomatic sovereignty, moral conscience, democratic alliances and international reputation might also be taken into account from time to time."

Terry Glavin, journalist extraordinaire, National Post 

"[The deal] took months of very difficult negotiations."

"What happens next maters even more. Implementation and verification have to be real."

"Withdrawal must move in lockstep with decommissioning."

Nikolay Mladenov, Board of Peace high representative for Gaza

 

"[The movement -- Gaza -- was making] concessions for the sake of our people in the Gaza Strip."

"Israel will not intervene in the issue of disarmament. The National Committee [National Committee for Administration of Gaza (NCAG)] is the body that will undertake this task." 

Ghazi Hamad, member Hamas negotiating team 

 

"The only good news in recent days is the announcement by the U.S. president of an agreement for Hamas to relinquish their weapons and for Israel to withdraw its forces from Gaza."

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres 

Palestinian Hamas terrorists keep guard on the day Hamas hands over deceased hostages, identified at the time by Palestinian militant groups as Oded Lifschitz, Shiri Bibas and her two children Kfir and Ariel Bibas, seized during the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, to the Red Cross, as part of a ceasefire and hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip February 20, 2025. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed/File Photo

 

Western news media have published the story that Gaza's terrorist-governing Hamas -- an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood whose radical Islamist program of enduring jihad by polished 'public relations' that appeal to the Western press, and liberal-minded Western governments have given them entre to Democratic-liberal countries failing to recognition the stealth infiltration-by-diplomacy and the threat it ultimately poses to their foundational cultures and values and systems of justice, also by extension give credence to Palestinian terrorism as a 'liberating' force from 'occupation' -- is prepared to surrender its arms. 

 

Hamas is the other face of the Muslim Brotherhood, the one dedicated to a different type of jihad, through violent force necessitated by the intent to produce mass murder.

 

That mass murder took place once again on a scale significant enough to persuade Israel that this time around there would be no negotiations with the terrorist entity for a break in hostilities. Each of those breaks between mass assaults on Jews in Israel had Israel breathe a sigh of relief in the belief that the fury of hate would be healed by the passage of time, while Hamas took those breaks as a traditional Islamist 'hudna', an opportunity to recruit, retrain, rearm, and return to the attack. 

 

That would be repeated time and again, between assaults-and-defence. The reality that the Hamas reason for existence is the elimination of Israel is one that human decency, where it exists, fails to fully grasp.

 

The Conversation

 

The Hamas charter is a pledge to eliminate Israel from its ancestral geographical heritage, as Judeans indigenous to only part of the land that the renewed state of Israel sits upon. In a fit of generosity, the UN General Assembly reached a consensus in 1947 to offer its Partition Plan, giving Jews the opportunity to establish their state on a tiny portion of its original territory -- and Palestinian Arabs a like opportunity on another portion of Judean heritage land, while Jordan occupied a major portion. While Israel reestablished its ancient presence in 1948, the Palestinians refused the offer. 

 

They have refused to recognize Israel's right of existence ever since. Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority have never resulted in that recognition, nor in the Palestinians accepting concessions from Israel for an agreement that would satisfy the aspirations of both in enabling the establishment of a Palestinian state next door to Israel's. Palestinians have been taught over the decades closing in on 80 years that the entire region belongs to them and that Israel's reestablishment is that of a colonial enterprise. That Israel must be destroyed, leaving Palestinians to claim 'their' geographical entitlement 'from the river to the sea'.

 

When Ghazi Hamad, negotiating for Hamas, speaks of "concessions for the sake of our people in the Gaza Strip", it is meant to appeal to the gullibility of a Western audience, the very liberal-left Westerners who ascribe an empathetic motivation for Palestinian violence against Jews, as a victimized people -- a designation cultivated by Palestinians to gather empathy for their 'cause' -- fighting back against their oppressors. The oppressors being in reality Jews who fight back to ensure their existential security against neighbours dedicated to their extermination.  

 

Two Palestinian youth react to the news of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas from Khan Younis. Ramadan Abed/Reuters

 

Hamas doesn't care one whit for the well-being and safety of Palestinians in Gaza, proven time and again their use as living shields, the outcome of which is Palestinian civilians dying, directly caused by Hamas deadly provocations against Israel; the greater the number of dead, the more emphatic those numbers become in seeking the sympathy of the international community, attributing those deaths solely to Israeli intentionality, not Hamas contrivance.

 

Hamas has no intention of surrendering its weapons, precious to them as the instruments enabling them to carry out their charter obligations in destroying Israel. Hamas demands the complete withdrawal of all Israeli troops before it will agree to finalize the surrender of its weapons. Without those weapons there would be no Hamas, completely emasculated of actionable intent. In that portion of Gaza where Hamas maintains its monopoly of complete control, it has reestablished itself as the sole authority, having overcome the resistance of Hamas tribal groups that had attempted to dislodge it from its primacy.

 

An Israeli military withdrawal from Gaza at this juncture would ultimately reward Hamas for its October 7 mass slaughter of Israeli civilians, with the assistance of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Fatah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and ordinary Palestinian civilians for their ravaging of southern Israel kibbutsim, the mass rapes of Israeli girls and women at the Noma Music Festival for Peace, and the hostage-taking of Jewish children, the elderly and infirm, entire families, women and men of the Israeli military and foreign farm workers.  

 

The October 7 War    International Affairs

 

  

"The DSA and others are saddling the Democratic party with nominees whose wildly unpopular positions will protect Republicans from having to pay the price of Donald Trump's corruption and economic incompetence."

"In November, a continued focus on defunding, decriminalizing and decolonizing will highlight cultural issues that alienate many Democrats, not to mention a huge swath of independents [who make up a record-high 45 percent of the electorate] and disenchanted Republicans." 

Rahm Emanuel 

 

"Socialism has become increasingly popular among Democrats, but it is a much tougher sell in the rest of the electorate."

"There is a reason why Republicans nationwide are licking their chops, and why there are at leas some Democrats who are a little bit worried."

"Because what is true in New York City in a Democratic primary ain't necessarily true nationwide with the general electorate."

Harry Enten, Senior Data Reporter, CNN  

 

"The Democratic Socialists of America [DSA] is drawing new scrutiny after more than 35 DSA-backed candidates won primaries heading into the November mid-terms, forcing what analysts call an identity crisis inside the Democratic Party."

"[The DSA calls for government expropriation of  private corporations, state-owned housing, racial reparations], universal health care at no cost to individuals, [abolution of the Senate, and] a free Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital [following the end of] all military and economic aid to Israel."

NewsNation  

According to The New York Times, these are plans requiring government officials to seize a much larger portion of Americans' wealth, so they can enforce policies and target enemies. With their "influence on the rise", DSA candidates "are eager to tax the rich and enact anti-Israel policies". 

 

Radical candidates have tapped into an ideological shift among Democratic voters, and this accounts for their wins. A June YouGov/Economist poll showed that 58 percent of Democrats have a favourable opinion of socialism, and 62 percent would vote for a "Democratic Socialist" candidate. Senator Eugene McCarthy must be twisting in agony in his grave. 

 

In AP-NORC polling, 58 percent of Democrats feel the U.S. is "too supportive" of Israel and among them 52 percent feel that Israel committed genocide in its  defensive war against Hamas. "An ascendant faction of the left ... sees opposition to Israel as a Democratic litmus test", according to CNN. Also according to CNN, many Jewish Democrats grapple with loyalty to the extent they have crossed the line toward explicit antisemitism: "They point to references to Jewish or Israeli interests nefariously controlling politics with money or suggesting that Jews aren't fully loyal to America or to Democratic values." 

 

AP-NORC further found that "Republicans have shifted in the opposite direction, with a majority now claiming U.S. support for Israel is about right". Among GOP voters just 13 percent, and 31 percent of Americans overall accept the charge that Israel has engaged in genocide. For their part, mainstream moderates among Democrats view an opportunity slipping away while their party slithers toward hate and economic authoritarianism. 

 

Demonstrators hold a "Democratic Socialists of America" banner ahead of a vote by the Rent Guidelines Board at el Musseo de Barrio in New York, July 25, 2006. Adam Grey, Bloomberg/Getty 

 

Democratic-aligned Americans who identify as democratic socialists:

• Tend to be younger (59% are younger than 45, compared to 46% of non-democratic socialists aligned with the Democratic Party) and are more likely to be White (57% to 49%)
• Are less likely to have a college degree (66% to 54%) and more likely to earn less than $100,000 a year (76% to 65%)
• Are more likely to say they are extremely motivated to vote this year (66% of those who are registered voters say so, compared to 57% for non-democratic socialists), though both groups overwhelmingly support Democratic congressional candidates (99% of democratic socialists and 94% of non-democratic socialists)
• Are more positive toward the Democratic Party. They are more likely to hold favorable views of the Democratic Party (68% to 60%) and its congressional leaders, and more likely to have negative views of the Republican Party and its congressional leaders 

CNN Poll 

"The deadly reality of antisemitism that Jewish communities worldwide confront at levels unprecedented since World War Two [is the] picture that emerges from this report, both sobering and urgent."

"Extremists are targeting Jews in every aspect of society, from Jewish camps to allies who stand against hate. Activists across the country are working to push Jewish presence out of public life -- from unsuccessful attempts to exclude Jews from participating in Pride celebrations, to the deliberate targeting, harassment, and violence against our community members at schools, summer camps, community centers, in our workplaces and in unions."

JT Annual Report on Antisemitism for 2025 

 

"Canada remains one intelligence failure away from a mass casualty event, and ... the Jewish community is keenly aware."

"We are grateful to our police and security agencies for disrupting at least four ISIS-inspired terror plots since October 7, 2023."

"But it should not take a Bondi Beach on Canadian soil before leaders at every level respond with the urgency this threat demands."

Noah Shack, CEO, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs 

On May 21, 2025, a gunman killed two young employees of Israel’s U.S. embassy outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. The next month, an 82-year-old woman was killed in Boulder, Colo., when Molotov cocktails were thrown at a group of people demonstrating in support of Israeli hostages. Two people were killed in an attack on a synagogue in Manchester, U.K., on Oct. 2, during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. Photo by Getty Images

 

An annual report on antisemitism in major Jewish diaspora regions worldwide point out that antisemitic attacks are now at their deadliest level in over 30 years. A combined 20 people were murdered in 2025, in antisemitic attacks that have taken place in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, representing a record number of hate-impact fatalities since the bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association in 1994 where 84 people were killed. 

 

No Canadians lost their lives to antisemitic attacks, but they were targets of 71 percent of religious hate crimes, according to Statistics Canada. In 2025, an Islamist killed two employees of Israel's U.S. embassy outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington. An 82-year-old woman was lethally victimized in Boulder, Colo., when Molotov cocktails were flung at a group of people demonstrating in support of Israeli hostages. Two more people died in an attack in Manchester, U.K. on a synagogue. In December two Islamists killed 15 people at a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach in Sydney. 

 

The J7 Large Communities' Task Force Against Antisemitism takes into account the seven largest Jewish diaspora countries represented by Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Britain and the United States. Over 23,000 Jew-hatred incidents were documented for 2025 across the region, comprising over nine=tenths of the diaspora population.   

"Antisemitism in our seven countries is no longer a surge; it is our new normal."

"Governments must stop reacting after Jews are attacked and start acting before, with real security funding, stronger laws and social media platforms that enforce their own rules."

JT Large Communities' Task Force Against Antisemitism  

While each of the countries involved still see antisemitic incidents dramatically above pre-October 7 levels, the sharpest rise of such incidents since 2021 (270 percent) took place in Australia, followed by Germany (215 percent), the United States (131 percent), and France (124 percent). The highest per-capita rate takes place in Germany with almost 70 incidents per 1,000 Jewish residents in 2025, some five times the rate of Australia, six times the U.K.'s and almost 70 times the rate in the United States.

 

Mourners gather by floral tributes at the Bondi Pavilion in memory of the victims of the Hanukkah shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney on Dec. 15, 2025. Authorities labeled it an antisemitic terrorist attack. (Saeed KHAN / AFP)

 

As for Canada's levels, there was a drop of 16 percent to 788, translating to roughly two reported incidents per thousand Jewish residents, from 943 incidents the prior year, yet antisemitic incidents remain 50 percent higher than they were in 2022. JT countries recorded a combined total between 2022 and 2025 of over 91,000 antisemitic incidents. A "persistent toxic environment remains on campuses", while public school classrooms can be "hostile" with "inadequate institutional responses". 

 

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs in Canada is calling for a new criminal offence to punish wilful promotion or glorification of terrorism, and for "consistent enforcement of Canada's existing laws", contending that "hate-motivated criminals" are most often released on bail, or are never even charged. Proactive measures that safeguard Jewish communities are urged by the J7, before incidents take place, rather than responding only following the occurrence of harmful incidents.

 

Anti-Zionism or anti-Israel activism, noted the report, were used as a "vehicle for antisemitic expression" in a sizeable number of incidents; 48 percent in the U.K.; 45 percent in the U.S; and 23 percent in Germany. "More than 53 percent of all incidents referenced Israel, Gaza, the war or October 7", states the report.  

 

 

"Canada has made important progress by investing in community security and strengthening hate laws."

"Those are important steps.While we strengthen our defence, we also need to go on the offence against violent extremism."

"That means getting tough on terrorism, deepening intelligence partnerships with our allies, giving police and security agencies the resources they need, and confronting the extremists who radicalize and incite violence here at home."

Noah Shack, CIJA CEO