"It is our ethical duty to speak out against the genocide being committed against the Palestinian people."

"I was born in apartheid South Africa where my family were lesser humans under the law. Our freedom is incomplete without freedom for the Palestinians."

"I did go to a small number of protests on work days but would take vacation days for that."

"I could no loner bring myself to give my labour to a workplace where people were targeted for speaking out against a genocide, including the bombing of hospitals and the murder and abduction of our Palestinian colleagues."

Kavita Algu, one-time palliative care MD, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto 

 

"Sinai Health is committed to fostering a respectful, inclusive and professional workplace where all our people feel supported, and patient care remains our top priority."

"We don't share details or comment about our employees, physicians, scientists, learners or volunteers."

"Our highest priority is to ensure accessible and safe care for all."

"[We take] any concerns related to workplace culture, professionalism, or discrimination seriously and address them through established policies and fair, confidential processes."

Mount Sinai Hospital spokesperson 

Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto

 

Dr. Algu worked at Mount Sinai Hospital as a palliative care doctor for a decade. Then came October 7, 2023, and she became an instant advocate for Palestinian rights when Israel responded to the massacre, rapes, mutilations, hostage-taking by Palestinian terrorists flooding into southern Israel from Gaza, led by Hamas. All the propaganda of Palestinian victimhood by a racist-occupying Jewish state that was propagated in the West by willing news media convinced many people, validated by Palestinian student groups marching through Canadian cities to label Israel genocidal, set the stage for savage harassment of Canadian Jews.

 

Mount Sinai Hospital was created in the early 20th century by Jewish-Canadian doctors and other Jewish health-care professionals who found themselves locked out of Canada's health and medical institutions at a time of severe national antisemitism. The hospital gained a reputation as an outstanding institution delivering top health care. And nor did it confine its services to the Jewish-Canadian population; anyone could be treated there, and in time staff expanded to include non-Jewish health practitioners.

 

Dr. Algu resigned from her post at the hospital months after October 7. A result of the palliative care department being roiled with disorder stemming from her anti-Israel activities condemning the Jewish state as genocidal. The hospital administration, alarmed at the sudden dysfunction among formerly collegial medical staff called in a a workplace investigator when Dr Algu lodged a complaint of discrimination. The investigation found that she was disruptive, unprofessional and her disproportionately negative impact in the workplace culture was injurious to the delivery of health care. 

 

 

Some unit physicians declared their feelings of antisemitism within the discord; this when Jewish healthcare workers in other hospitals reported rising prejudice and trauma dismissal resulting from the Hamas attack in Israel, within clinical, academic and social-media institutions. While divisions within the Mount Sinai palliative care unit deepened, departmental heads attempting to be fair and supportive to all, hesitated to delineate clear expectations and boundaries, according to a separate workplace assessment.

 

Deep divisions arose among some hospital staff in the wake of the Israel-Gaza conflict. An open letter was signed by some doctors including Algu's supervisor from the palliative care unit stating that accusing Israel of "apartheid" or "genocide" was untruthful and antisemitic. In response Dr. Algu wrote an open letter of her own, invoking the Canadian government's intervention to broker a ceasefire and support access to medical aid in Gaza.

 

Another doctor at the palliative care unit, Hershl Berman, posted a screenshot of an earlier tweet by Algu on X. She had demanded the University of Toronto stop investing in companies profiting from what the International Court of Justice "has already deemed plausible genocide". Dr. Algu's name and profile photo appeared on Dr. Berman's post, with the caption: "Just because a loud racist minority is yelling hate and lies does not mean U of T has to bow to their wishes even if those people are doctors". 

 

Another of Dr. Berman's X posts stated that people who would avoid a Jewish doctor who supports Israel were fee to find other doctors, given that there were ample nonracist patients to look after. Dr. Algu stated that the post targeted her specifically, creating an "unsafe professional and academic environment". One that she contended violated Sinai Health's respectful workplace policy, forbidding "any act of discrimination, harassment, bullying, or incivility toward any of Sinai Health's people".

 

The environment assessment found Sinai Health leadership failed to manage challenges relating to the expression of views around Israel-Palestine as the leaders had practised a "softer, compassionate approach" and did not clearly and decisively communicate expectations and boundaries during a complex geopolitical situation. The report concluded that Dr. Algu appeared to have a "disproportionately negative impact" on the workplace culture.  

 

A letter was sent to Dr. Algu by the hospital referencing concerns that she posed a risk to safety, including the investigator's assessment of unspecified colleagues who said her social media advocacy was "irresponsible" and inconsiderate of the impact it had on them. She was notified of potential consequences such as sanctions or penalties that could impact the scope of her practise or ability to work in the health system. 

 

"It was  difficult to walk away from a career path I had invested so much into, and a team I genuinely loved."

"I left accepting that I may no longer get to practise in palliative care."

"I lost my job over Palestine, but I found a deeper commitment to life and justice."

Kavita Algu 

 

"Footage from a protest shared by Sa’d showed Algu speaking, apparently in support of activists arrested for their involvement in Palestine Action, a banned terrorist group in the UK."

"Just before she spoke, Tsabar and another protester were bellowing “long live intifada” on bullhorns. The intifada was a period of Palestinian terrorism from 2000 to 2005 which killed around 1,000 Israelis, mostly civilians."

"The intifada was perpetuated largely by Palestinians in the “West Bank” (Judea & Samaria), though this has not stopped Algu from claiming there is “no Hamas” there, a brazen falsehood."

"Algu practices medicine under Duncan Algu Medicine Professional Corporation, alongside Dallas Duncan, an cardiac anesthesiologist at Toronto General Hospital and assistant professor in the Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine department at University of Toronto."

"Like Algu, Duncan is a prolific social media user, repeatedly demonizing Israel online."

"Algu wrote that the world is “witnessing — a livestreamed extermination of Palestinian life.” As evidence, she cited a United Nations report making those scandalous accusations, evidently expecting readers to be impressed by the magnitude of her source. But her evidence is lacking. It was a measly three authors who authored said report: anti-Jewish conspiracy theorist Miloon Kothari, longtime vocal anti-Israel activist Navi Pillay, and Chris Sidoti, affiliated with the anti-Israel boycott movement."  

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"[Joint statement announcing the signing of the] Mecca Joint Defence Agreement."

"[A] shared commitment to further strengthening collective security and to promoting peace, security and stability in the region and beyond."

Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan 

 

"The agreement does not represent an effort to establish a military axis or a sectarian bloc."

"Nor is it linked to any nuclear ambitions or arms race. Rather it is focused on building sustainable capabilities."

"[The agreement] does not constitute a threat to the security of any country in the region."

Saudi Deputy Minister for Public Diplomacy Rayed Krimly 

 

"[The alignment] is clearly oriented toward Iran and meant to address Iran's new strategic approach which is geared toward dominance of the broader Gulf region."

"[The fact that Turkey and Pakistan border Iran means they could exercise a different kind of leverage [on Tehran]."

Umar Karim, Saudi foreign policy expert, University of Birmingham, England

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif sign a trilateral joint defense agreement Friday in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.  Murat Cetinmuhurdar / Anadolu via Getty Images

 

What an alliance. Saudi Arabia, the keeper of the holiest site in Islam; Mecca. Turkey, with its second-largest military within the membership of the North American Treaty Organization. And Pakistan, the sole Islamic country that possesses nuclear weapons. Saudi Arabia has been confronted by Iran over its custodianship of Mecca. Since Turkey is a member of NATO, should it be attacked by a regional antagonist like Iran, would that bring the NATO alliance into conflict to protect one of its members? As a nuclear power, Pakistan is not exactly the most stable of countries, beset by its own version of the Taliban. 

 

What an alliance of insecure, tribal, sectarian, ancient-antipathies-alive-to-the-present we have here. A trifecta of genuine Islamist Sunni states prepared to confront the Iranian Shi'ite Axis of 'Resistance'. Mind, they do have a lot in common. Each of those Sunni nations view the presence of a Jewish state in the Middle East as a grave offence against Islam's most sacred concept, that land once consecrated to Islam can never return to the aegis of another religion. Never mind that Judean ancestral heritage long predated the appearance of Islam by millennia.

 

As though to emphasize that the Sunni alliance is meant for the promotion of peace and stability in the region, only a few days earlier, Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif, stated that his country considers that "Israel is a threat to the entire Muslim world", calling for "a united military front" against it, just a day after Pakistan signed the joint defense agreement with Saudi Arabia and Turkey. "In the context of Israel, all Muslim countries must unite. I have no doubt about this" said Asif.

 

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis attacked a Saudi Aramco refinery on Sunday, two days after Saudi Arabia forged a defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan. The alliance pledges mutual defense, which means an armed attack on any one member counts as an attack on all. But after Sunday’s attack, it was not immediately clear whether Turkey or Pakistan would respond.  Democracy Now

 

Not to be outdone by Pakistan, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan always has an opinion about Israel, with his opinions anything but friendly in the least, despite his sanctimonious statements in support of peace and stability in the region. Obviously peace and stability does not include Israel's presence. The champion of Hamas who celebrates the terrorist group's role in 'resistance', claims that Turkey feels threatened by Israel's attacks on Syria and Lebanon. In the former event, protecting the Syrian Druze community against deadly aggression, and in the latter, fighting back against Hezbollah terrorists sending rockets into Israeli communities in the Golan.

 

But for Erdogan it is Israel that is at fault for "aggression" that poses a threat to the world, and must be stopped. "If the Israeli thuggery is not stopped, the consequences will be borne by the entire region and all of humanity", Erdogan thundered in Turkey's parliament. "Israel must be stopped; this is the duty of humanity and the humanitarian front. History must not be allowed to repeat itself", he righteously spouted.

 

And as though modelled on NATO, the foreign ministry of Pakistan explained the pact would recognize that an attack on any member would be regarded as an attack on all; a rule that was "intended to strengthen collective deterrence". One, however, "not aimed at any particular country". 

 

This image taken from video broadcast by Al-Masirah TV, a Houthi-controlled news channel, shows an explosion at the Sanaa International Airport compound during what the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said were several Saudi airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, July 13, 2026. (Al-Masirah TV via AP)

 

Saudi Arabia is being attacked anew by the Houthis in Yemen. That terrorist group is yet another Iranian proxy, doing the work for the Islamic Republic, the head of the snake that calls itself the Axis of Resistance. Yet that attack has gone unaddressed by this new coalition. Saudi Arabia has responded to the Houthi attacks by counterattacking them, and not the source of their orders, which is Iran. Iran is the sole source responsible for the agitation, fear and absolute instability wracking the region.

 

Yet the regional powers that have been targeted by the Islamic Republican Guard Corps that really run the country now, while seeking to protect themselves and their geographic installations from the destructive Iranian missiles and drones sent their way, fail repeatedly to go on the offensive and counter-attack, putting an end to decades of insecurity wrought by Shi'ite Iran in its deliberate goal to entirely destabilize the region and ensconce itself as the Persian uber-nation in control of the Arab Sunni Middle East.  

"Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan are not trying to replace the United States. They are building the capacity to protect their interests when Washington cannot or will not do so."

"[Riyadh, in particular], wants several layers of security rather than one American umbrella [following the shock of the Iran war]."

Andreas Krieg, King's College London 

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, accompanied by their ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defence, pose after signing a joint defence agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, August 7, 2026. Saudi Press Agency/Handout via REUTERS

Russian Missile attacks on Kyiv, Atlantic Council

  

"The situation in Ukraine is difficult. There was another missile strike last night — ballistic missiles targeting our infrastructure. There were also attack drones."

"Ballistic missile interceptors could have saved the lives of those killed today. It is very important that our partners understand that delays in supplying them, or an unwillingness to provide anti-ballistic systems, lead directly to such horrific casualties and destruction."

"[The number of air defence missiles supplied by partners] has dropped threefold compared with 2025."

"Our partners do have the missiles. It is important that the necessary political decisions on supplies and the acceleration of production processes are ultimately made."

"[More sanctions are required to] prevent the production of these ballistic missiles [along with] anti-ballistic capabilities [and] interceptor missiles."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy  

Patriot missile battery: in simple terms, Ukraine does not have enough of them and their interceptors. TVP World

 

During the latest aerial bombardment of Kyiv and surrounding region, Ukrainian forces were unable to shoot down any of the missiles. A situation attributable to the lack of anti-ballistic systems supplied to Ukraine by its European partners in the conflict that Moscow has imposed against its neighbour. On August 5 as a result of a massive bombardment, 17 people were killed and 44 injured during the Kyiv attack. That Wednesday attack was the third in the space of a single week.

 

This, at a critical time for Ukraine's counteroffensive, when its president cautioned that his country no longer had any air defence interceptors. Overnight Wednesday Russia launched 24 ballistic and four hypersonic cruise missiles, accompanied with 115 attack drones. Constituting yet another war crime, by deliberately targeting civilian areas. A commission of outright criminal intent so normalized by Russian repeat performances that the targeting of civilian infrastructure no longer brings notice of international condemnation.

 

All of the missiles and drones struck targets. On the evidence, Russian forces appear to have expanded their civilian targets to now include Ukraine's major supermarket chains. The Russian Defence Ministry stated the "massive strike" it carried out resulted "in the destruction of transportation, logistics, and distribution centres in the city of Kyiv and the Kyiv region".  

 

Ukraine's reliance on the tried-and-true U.S.-designed Patriot air defence systems as its solution in shooting down Russian ballistic missiles gave it the success it required in intercepting a large number of them. Those very same interceptor missiles are now in short supply, partially as a result of the large numbers used during the war against Iran launched by U.S. and Israeli forces, and being carried on by the U.S. military.  

 

The Franco-Italian SAMP/T system could help fill the Patriot hole but comes at a cost.  TVP World

 

For their part, European governments which have been the chief military backers for Ukraine, are themselves wary of handing over more of their own Patriots in concern that to do so would certainly impact their own defences. Several European countries were prodded by the Trump administration early in the year, to deliver their Patriot missiles to Kyiv; some of whom declined, reflecting their unwillingness to find themselves short on self-defence.

 

Production of the U.S.-made batteries and other air defences, according to NATO officials, lags behind the pace of global conflict, a situation that affects not only the United States but other countries as well. A month earlier, a partial solution seemed in the offing when President Trump agreed to provide Ukraine with licenses to produce their own interceptor missiles, only to have the agreement rescinded, on second thought.

 

Stating that "a significant share" of the components used by Moscow and obtained abroad for its ballistic missile production were not under sanctions, President Zelenskyy called for Ukraine's allies to impose additional sanctions to rectify the situation. This latest attack destroyed commercial civic warehouses and logistics centres of some of the largest retail companies in Ukraine.

  

Police officers and security guard at the site of the building of a supermarket warehouse hit by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 5, 2026. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

 

"Today I was supposed to post about Rozetka turning 21. To thank our customers, partners, and team for this long journey we have travelled together."

"Instead, at night I watched as my life's work burned down after three ballistic missiles hit."

Iryna Chechotkina, co-founder, Rozetka, Ukraine's largest online marketplace  

A distribution warehouse in the Kyiv suburb of Brovary, where more than 100,000 orders were processed daily for Rozetka, Ukraine's largest online marketplace, was completely destroyed, with no hope of restoration possible. On the other hand, in recent weeks Ukrainian drones have bombarded warehouses operated by Russia's largest e-commerce marketplace, Wildberries.

 

Ukrainian drones on Wednesday attacked a facility in Russia's central Tula region, according to local officials and Telegram channels.  "Fire crews are working at the company’s logistics facility in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk region, where a fire broke out as a result of the attack. The facility was evacuated in advance. Acceptance of current deliveries has been temporarily restricted, and they are being redirected to other facilities", stated Wildberries.

 

Smoke rising from a Russian Wildberries logistics hub in Yekaterinburg, Russia’s Sverdlovsk region, August 7, 2026. (Source: Polkovnik Gsh)

"In Canada, temperatures have increased by more than one degree Celsius, and in the north, where those fires are having huge consequences, many of those areas have warmed more than two degrees Celsius."

"Doing those improvements [suppression and Indigenous burning practices] isn't going to stop wildfires."

"We are going to be living with more and more fire on our landscape."

Lori Daniels, professor of forest and conservation sciences, University of British Columbia

 

"Thinning and prescribed burning helps us with some particularly problematic components of that fuel equation."

"[Instead of doing what's needed], the fuels have just continued to accumulate [for lack of budgets, commercial markets, liability concerns and insufficient numbers of trained professionals]."

John Bailey, associate forestry professor, Oregon State University 

 

"There are ways that we're having to pay that debt [of tardy forest management]: We're getting bigger fires, more extreme fires, a lot of smoke."

"If we want to pay down the debt, we have to invest in restoration." 

"Even if Canada was doing everything right with climate change, there are things that are going to burn hotter and more aggressively than they used to."

Robert Bonnie, former undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation, U.S Department of Agriculture

 

"The United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air."

"[This is] wilful negligence. [Canada is] not properly maintaining [its forests]."

U.S. President Donald J. Trump 

Firefighters and first responders wait in line for dinner at the Spokane County Fair and Expo Center which is being utilized as a base camp for firefighters on August 5, 2026 in Spokane, Washington. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

 

Wildfires are ablaze in Washington State, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, California and Utah, placing communities, building infrastructures and residential homes -- not to mention the firefighters dispatched to fight those blazes, at high risk. In Canada too, there are wildfires in Ontario, Quebec and the Northwest Territories, and the worst-hit of the Canadian provinces, British Columbia. Smoke wafts everywhere, a threat to human health. Just as the smoke from Quebec and Ontario wildfires float over to the northern U.S. States, smoke from wildfires in Colorado, Oregon and Washington State waft over to British Columbia.

 

Smoke from Canadian boreal forest fires swept into the United States, resulting in air quality alerts for over 120 million Americans. Air quality in New York and Chicago was heavily compromised with smog blanketing their regions. Canada was accused by four Republican lawmakers of failing to prevent wildfire smoke from covering areas in the United States; that "continued inaction" was "unacceptable", they huffed in concert with President Trump's fuming condemnations. 

 

 

 

The U.S. President threatened new levies once again, this time imposed as punishment for the smoke Canada has allowed to drift over the U.S. He more recently announced the finalization of his plan to punish Canada for the smoke. This interpretation of natural events has forest management experts declaring the oversimplification of a complicated problem by the Trump administration. Robert Bonnie, for one, points out that the president's own decision-making has cut Forest Service capacity and  resources, under-investing in fire prevention and restoration.

 

Despite that both countries are facing similar fire pressures, Canada's forests are for the most part public lands that provinces and territories manage. There are far more private forestlands in the United States, with a fragmented federal-state system prevailing. And, as Lori Daniels of the University of British Columbia points out, both countries make use of similar suppression tools even while Canada has far more forest, fewer people and remote boreal areas where wildfires ignited by lightning can be dreadfully difficult to reach.

 

Residents look toward the Bald Range wildfire. (Jay Bertagnolli/CBC)

 

Thinning and prescribed burns are fundamental to fuel management in forests; reducing ladder and surface fuels to make it more difficult for fires to reach up to the mass of forest crowns, spreading the fires with the help of prevailing winds. "Thinning and prescribed burning helps us with some particularly problematic components of that fuel equation", pointed out Oregon State University's John Bailey.

 

The U.S., he points out, has been tardy to adapt that methodology at the required pace and scale, partially as a result of weak commercial markets for small-diameter wood, along with local and state smoke rules. "The fuels have just continued to accumulate", as a result, he added. Both countries, points out Lori Daniels, must move toward forest management, reflecting the hotter drier conditions of today's natural environment. 

 

The areas so susceptible to wildfires have seen multi-year droughts, and since Indigenous burning practices were banned while suppression took its place as the dominant policy, forests grew denser. "I don't think the problem is forest management. I think the problem is climate", stated Jonathan Boucher, researcher at the Canadian Forest Service. While he agrees that thinning out trees, adding fuel breaks, conducting prescribed burning, and producing defensible spaces near communities can be of help, they would not stop every fire. 

 

BCWS crews battling the Bald Range wildfire overnight.  Photo: BCWS

 

"Our agencies work together. We're going to throw smoke your way. You're going to throw smoke our way."

"Let's work together to make sure we can restore our forests in a way that we can contain this problem going forward."

Robert Bonnie, associate forestry professor, Oregon State University 

"[Our] findings indicate that many Jewish students face widespread and persistent antisemitism on Canadian campuses as a defining feature of post-secondary life that shapes their behaviour, their ability to fully participate in campus life, their safety, and their well-being."

"[The Campus Antisemitism and Student Experiences report] provides the most comprehensive national evidence to date on antisemitism in Canadian post-secondary institutions."

"These accounts reveal a university culture that is both not welcoming to Jewish students and actively and systematically trying to exclude and vilify them."

Jack Jedwab, Paul Holley, Association for Canadian Studies and the Metropolis Institute 

 

"What this study has confirmed is that Jewish students are being targeted simply for being Jews, and that is completely and utterly unacceptable."

"[I hope the findings will become a] wake-up call [for college and university administrators across Canada."

Jay Solomon, senior executive, Jewish student network Hillel Ontario 

Pro-Israel demonstrators protest outside a pro-Palestinian encampment set up on McGill University's campus in Montreal in the spring of 2024. A new national report says a vast majority of Jewish students have experienced or witnessed antisemitism on campus. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press)

 

According to a newly-released report commissioned by Heritage Canada, Jewish students in academic institutions throughout Canada face open hostility which has become a "normalized and systemic feature of campus life". Released on Wednesday, the Campus Antisemitism and Student Experiences (CASE) report concludes that over nine in ten Jewish students have experienced or witnessed campus antisemitism over the past year. In actual point of fact, the situation has been ongoing for the past three years, since the invasion from Gaza into southern Israel by Palestinian terrorists led by Hamas which resulted in a horrendous bloodbath. 

 

A survey of 900 Jewish students, along with 755 students from the broader campus population at over two dozen colleges and universities across Canada formed the basis for the survey conclusions. Over one in five Jewish students stated that they had witnessed physical violence targeting Jews, while seventy-one percent reported antisemitic graffiti on campus. Targeted incidents such as mezuzahs torn from Jewish dorm room doors in residence halls were reported. 

 

The survey results point unreservedly to a systemic crisis of antisemitism on the campuses of Canadian post-secondary institutions. "My sense is that, when you see such a high level of reporting of antisemitic incidents, the only way to describe it is systemic", cautioned Mr. Jedwab. Jewish students are not merely facing antisemitism from classmates -- points out a key insight of the report -- but also from professors and other university employees. 

 

 

 

Faculty involvement in harassment and instances of pure antisemitic virulence was cited in 18 percent of incidents reported in the survey.  According to seven in ten Jewish survey respondents their academic institution failed to take antisemitism seriously. Teaching assistants or non-teaching staff were cited as being involved in antisemitic incidents by a further 14 percent of respondents.

 

Of those taking part in the survey, thirty-six percent had encountered antisemitic or biased course content or classroom discussions. Another 34 percent revealed that a professor brought up Jews, Judaism, Israel, or Zionism at times when such references were completely unrelated to the course subject. According to over three in ten students, consideration was given by them to leaving a course or their program as a result of antisemitism expressed by professors or other students.

 

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 In response to the report's findings, federal Heritage Minister Marc Miller characterized the situation as "alarming". "[The findings] echo what we are seeing across Canada. Statistics Canada's most recent data shows that 71 percent of all police-reported religion-motivated hate crimes targeted Jewish Canadians", he pointed out.

 

It is, needless to say, his Liberal government that bears a good deal of responsibility for the situation. The swell of antisemitism arising from the presence of Palestinian student groups on Canadian campuses joined by non-student instigators and prompted and paid for by foreign entities invested in maligning and isolating Jews through the medium of Zionism-slander masking their pure antisemitic hatred has never been addressed by the federal government.

 

The Trudeau, and then the Carney Liberal governments invested heavily in the trifecta of Critical Race Theory, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and 'progressive' left wokeism, to set the stage, filtering down through lower levels of government, businesses, unions; permeating throughout society where Canadians seemed to shrug with the notion that it was only Jews being targeted and they could look after themselves. That the entire society, its culture, laws, values and customs have been eroded when one community among all others becomes a target of hate seems to have eluded the consciousness of conscience.

 

 

If the situation is addressed at all by executive-level politicians, it is to express the formula of 'this isn't Canada', when it clearly is. Declarations of disgust with antisemitism come with no sustained institutional efforts to reverse the trend, even when laws are being broken. Politicians can't seem to be able to resist equating the scourge of antisemitism and its meteoric rise with the tepid rise of 'Islamophobia' which evokes a much stronger response from them. 

 

The most telling reaction, however, is municipal, provincial and federal governments' failure to speak of the obvious, a failure that communicates its message to Canada's police forces -- that it is from among the Muslim communities in Canada that the wave of hateful antisemitism arose and that the fundamentalist Islamists among them organized, perpetrated and perpetuated 'protests' against the Jewish community in Canada alongside disparagement and incitement against the state of Israel responding to a terrorism war of jihad against its very existence.

 

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"At a time when synagogues, Jewish schools, and Jewish-owned businesses are being shot at and firebombed, and when Jews are disproportionately the victims of hate crimes, this report makes clear that antisemitism has also taken root in our public institutions -- including our universities."

"We call on university leaders and governments at every level to carefully consider this report.The drivers of this hatred — including antizionism — are well known, and the time to act is now. We need concrete actions to protect Canadian students."

Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs

B'nai Brith Canada

Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center 

 

"They [Jews] have no problem in lining the pockets of the politicians. They don't need the politicians to believe in their causes. They just need to line their pockets so the politicians will ... advocate for them. And that's what I need you to think about."

"The Zionist lobby does this amazingly well."

Navaid Aziz, director, religious and social services, Islamic Information Society of Calgary 

 

"[Your friends] will either help [you] in life or encourage [you] to go down a path that is wrong and bad for [you] and there will be a point in time where our friends need to stop us from committing haram [sins and help [you] turn to Allah instead]."

"Your friends should be people who, when you look at them they remind you of Allah."

"Sometimes you find a brother who says, 'This is my girlfriend;. OK, that's weird, right. But we live in a society where yes, young brothers and sisters are going to school, going to university, and they have friends, and those friends get a lot closer to them and they become boyfriend and girlfriend, and that we know in Islam is not permissible, right?"

"I encourage youth, and adults as well, to respect the institutions of marriage and its sanctity."

Daod Butt, director of community outreach and education, Islamic Community Centre, Milton, Ontario 

 

"[Rules in western societies come from human legislators instead of Allah. Muslim youth have been] brainwashed [ by the western paradigm]."

"The reason why some individuals start thinking this way [to stand with the LGBT community is] because they have already been brainwashed by this western paradigm, and they are  trying to compare it with the Islamic paradigm, which they have no idea what it is."

"We should not go and join them [and should instead ] de-secularize."

Yasir Nadeem al Wajidi, founder, president, private K12 Islamic school, Illinois  

Segregated seating at the LIT Convention, Laval, QC, July 26, 2026. Photo by Postmedia

 

On July 26 in Quebec, the Montreal suburb of Laval hosted an Islamic convention titled "LIT", at the Embassy Plaza. At the website for the conference it was stated the convention's target audience was youth between the ages of 15 to 30. The purpose of 'Montreal's largest Islamic convention', was to "unify the Muslims", it further explained. That unification was scaffolded on lectures directing Muslim youth to detach themselves from mainstream non-Muslim society in every conceivable way. From understanding that Western societal mores and values were not those of Islam. 

 

The Qibla Foundation was the title sponsor of this event. A grant of over $20,000 was recently given it from the federal government. The event hall was duly reflective of Islamic values to the point of initial delivery when women and men were segregated in their seating accommodation -- with women on one side and their male counterparts on the other -- a curtain discreetly separating them physically. 

 

Speeches were delivered by eleven Islamic worthies for the one-day conference. Three in particular came right to the point. Navaid Aziz began his address by noting how pleased he was to see Halal food featured and available everywhere, although Quebec's laicite laws were "very, very disheartening". That regrettably, despite the robust and growing number of Muslims in the province, Muslims in Quebec "are still unable to protect" themselves. 

 

Sharia Portfolio document which was made available to attendees at the LIT convention in Laval, QC, on July, 26, 2026. Postmedia

 

Political aspirations among Muslim youth are commendable, noted Mr. Aziz but "there's a ceiling that Muslims will reach in the political sphere" which would inevitably lead to a situation where "eventually you will have to compromise on your beliefs". Muslims, he went on, should seek to amass wealth to enable the process of influencing politics; in that sense emulating the "Zionist lobby". A "circular economy", he went on, where Muslims patronize their own community is paramount to create wealth.

 

After all, he commented, for every dollar that Jews spend, 92 to 97 cents remain within the Jewish community. "At a time of rising Islamophobia, Canadian Muslims, like all Canadians, should consider buying Canadian first, and should also support businesses owned by disenfranchised communities", he later clarified when questioned by a skeptical journalist. When asked to explain his assertion about Jewish spending confined to Jewish-owned businesses, there was a flat response.

 

As for the speech delivered by Mr. Butt, the audience was warned that lifestyles and habits of their closest friends would invariably transfer to them; the solution to which would be to confine friendships to members of their own faith. Pressed by that same journalist (Terry Newman, National Post), his response was more equivocal: "I urge Canadians and especially young people to reflect on their friends, and whether their friends, both Muslim and non-Muslim, help them improve as ethical beings or are bad company that take them away from being the highest versions of themselves."

 

Speaker Yasir Nadeem al Wajidi argued that if  youth were struggling to change the framework in a country to an Islamic one, they would be viewed as terrorists, rather than political activists. Western man-made laws, it was emphasized to the Muslim youth attending the convention, are immoral. They would do best to operate in economic and social spheres that would minimize interactions with others among Canadian society, should they become interested in amassing wealth to exert political influence. 

 

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The 'Unnoticed' Presence of Islamist Terror Groups in Canada

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre

"Those allegations [accusations of paramilitary group Kata'ib Hezbollah linked to the IRGC] include two attacks here in Canada; the March 10 shooting at the United States consulate in Toronto and an attack against a Canadian synagogue."

"He [Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi] also allegedly said he was running multiple teams and sought help carrying out further attacks against Jewish and other targets in Canada and the United States." 

"There is no justification for the delay [in placing the group with Canada's terrorist list]."

"Jewish Canadians have watched their synagogues, schools and businesses targeted by shootings, vandalism, firebombings and threats."

"Iranian Canadians who escaped the brutality of the Islamic Republic have faced surveillance, harassment and intimidation from the same regime on Canadian soil." 

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, Parliamentary opposition

Counter-rally against the Al-Quds day event in Toronto  The Hub

 

The Liberal government of Canada -- under both prime ministers Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney -- has failed to stem the duress under which Canadian Jews have found themselves over the past three years, assailed verbally and physically, threatened and slandered by 'pro-Palestinian' groups in Canadian society led by Palestinian student groups supported by the Islamic Republic of Iran and funded by Qatar. Led by the fundamentalist Islamist focus on jihad. This is a jihad that penetrates Western society through sanctimoniously disingenuous diplomacy that government cannot see through, and the violent jihad of the terrorist battlefield. 

 

While moderate Islamic governments in the Middle East recognize the Muslim Brotherhood and its many offshoots and associates for the threat they represent not only to the West but to their own governance and security, and have taken steps to outlaw it, the West is amenable to its presence, its infiltration through ingratiating itself as a reasonable, moderate representative of Islam to be respected and heeded as a portal to understanding and welcoming the presence of inordinate numbers of Muslims through immigration, refugee intake and migrant presence. 

 

The little-recognized presence of terrorist groups within Western society working to undermine democracy and to silence critics and opponents present the other side of penetrative jihad. These groups, like the members of the Islamic Republican Guard Corps whose presence in Canada affront and concern Canadian Iranians who fled their brutal dictatorial rule in Iran, operate with impunity, with little-to-no 'notice' taken of the menace they represent, by Canada's Liberal government.

 

Opposition Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre pointed out to Canada's Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree through a letter, that American authorities arrested Mohammad Baqer Saad Daewood Al-Saadi, senior commander of Kata'ib Hezbollah, accused of coordinating dozens of attempted and completed terrorist attacks in Europe and North America. 

 

Founded in 2007, Kata'ib Hezbollah, according to the office of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, has some 7,000 to 10,000 members. They operate primarily in Iraq with a purported presence in Bahrain, Iran, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. They were listed in 2009 as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department. Mr. Poilievre asked the Minister of Safety to investigate whether operatives for the group have established networks in Canada. To further investigate linkages between Iranian terrorist proxies and organized crime. 

 

Further, that it be disclosed the number of operatives connected to the Iranian regime and its proxies that have been identified, denied entry, investigated, detained or removed from Canada. Previously Minister Anandasangaree, pressed by the opposition why the government had deported only one Iranian official from among the dozens known to be present in Canada, the minister cited a requirement to follow due process, to explain the delay. The reality is that of 24 individuals identified as former IRGC officials, one only has been deported.

 

Iran-Inspired Al-Quds Day rally in Toronto    The Hub

 

The Liberals have failed to enforce Canada’s terrorist laws with the urgency and strength Canadians expect. Parliament did not list terrorist entities merely to put their names on a government website. Canadians expect their laws to be enforced to the fullest extent: terrorist assets frozen and seized, financing networks dismantled, and operatives stopped at the border or removed from the country. Yet Canadians have seen little evidence of serious enforcement against the IRGC and other listed terrorist groups threatening our people, our communities and our national interests. A terrorist listing is only as strong as the action that follows it.

Jewish Canadians have watched their synagogues, schools and businesses targeted by shootings, vandalism, firebombings and threats. Iranian Canadians who escaped the brutality of the Islamic Republic have faced surveillance, harassment and intimidation from the same regime on Canadian soil.

A year-long Global News investigation reported that upwards of 700 Iranian regime-linked associates were operating in Canada and threatening the lives of Canadians. The RCMP subsequently acknowledged receiving reports of foreign interference committed by, or at the direction of, the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Canadians deserve to know who these individuals are, how they entered Canada and what your government is doing to remove those who pose a threat.

The IRGC was finally listed as a terrorist entity only after years of pressure from Conservatives. Even now, your government has been unable to tell Canadians how many IRGC operatives have been identified, denied entry or removed from the country.

Listing the parent organization means little if its commanders, proxies, financiers and hired criminals remain free to operate here.

You must therefore:

• Immediately list Kata’ib Hezbollah as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code;
• Investigate whether its members, operatives, facilitators or financial networks are operating in Canada;
• Disclose how many individuals connected to the Iranian regime and its proxies have been identified, denied entry, investigated, detained or removed;
• Investigate and disclose any known links between Iranian terrorist proxies and organized crime in Canada; and
• Explain what action Canadian authorities are taking in response to the alleged Kata’ib Hezbollah-directed attacks in Toronto.

Canada must be a safe haven for Canadians, not for the terrorists, agents and proxies sent to silence the victims of the Iranian regime.

Canadians must be free to worship without fear of gunfire. Iranian Canadians must be free to oppose the regime without facing its enforcers here at home. All Canadians deserve a government that stops terrorists before they attack rather than making excuses after the damage is done.

Conservative Party of Canada  

Protesters and counter-protesters demonstrate by the U.S. Consulate during a rally for Al-Quds Day in Toronto, on Saturday, March 14, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sammy Kogan

 

"It is already impossible to imagine defence without drones, and the same applies to UGVs [unmanned ground vehicles]."

"Logistics on the front line, evacuation of the wounded, combat missions -- the use of UGVs is now expanding at the fastest pace."

"The future is already on the front lines and Ukraine is creating it."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy 

 

"At least 25 kilometres from the line of contact is effectively a 'kill zone', where the risks of casualties are extremely high due to the density of drones."

"So replacing human involvement with drones significantly reduces losses."

"[Some of these Unmanned Systems Forces are used in the delivery of mines or to conduct] kamikaze [attacks]." 

Robert Brovdi, commander, Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces

 

"Replacing the infantryman is totally impossible."

"We are talking about helping the infantryman."

Taras Ostapchuk, CEO, Ratel Robotics 

The Droid TW 12.7, by DevDroid, is shown here outfitted with a 0.50-caliber M2 Browning machine gun that can be aimed and fired by a remote operator using a tablet and an encrypted communications link.  DevDroid

 

In the early years of the conflict imposed on Ukraine by the full invasion of the country by Russian forces it was tank formations and large-scale troop movements, the conventional mechanisms in the pursuit of offensive dominance and defensive responses that typified the war. Now approaching the second-half of its fourth year, not taking into account Russia's military annexation of the Crimean peninsula, the eastern and southern front line is at a stalemate, monitored by drones set to strike moving targets. 

 

Ukraine's surprise counteroffensive took Russia's Vladimir Putin off guard; despite its much smaller population, military, arms, and economy. Ukraine stopped the Russian military dead in its tracks, even recovering some of its territory. Ukraine steadily advanced from desperately attempting to down Russian missiles and drones to protect its civilian infrastructure targeted by Moscow, to striking back across the border into Russia, first hitting only border targets then moving on to strike as far as Moscow and beyond.

 

Now, Ukrainian infantry units are using robot vehicles on combat missions as Ukraine has out-innovated Russia. The asymmetric technological approach with the use of drones and robots is Ukraine's winning ticket to defeating the Russian military. Like Mykhailo Fedorov the Ukrainian Defence Minister recently removed, Ukraine's new Commander-in-Chief Mykhailo Drapatryi advocates leveraging drone and robotics know-how for advantage on the battlefield. 

 

Recently a battle robot armed with a flame thrower approached a group of Russian assault troops planning to challenge Ukrainian defences on a section of the eastern Donetsk front lines. The robot turned the area where the Russians were positioned near a tree line to into a flaming cauldron, followed up by a machine gun crew to clean up the surviving attackers. A new battlefield technique employed by Ukraine's 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade.

 

A heavy lift drone (top circle) transporting a ground robot (bottom circle) in a combat operation  Russian MoD via X

 

That robot represents an expanding Ukrainian corps of unmanned ground vehicles equipped with such offensive devices as rifles, to rocket-propelled grenade launchers. At least 50,000 of these UGVs are set to be produced for the battlefield to reinforce human troops tasked to confront Russian servicemen. A remote-controlled combat robot was landed using an unmanned naval drone reaching the shore 11 kilometres away at the occupied Kinburn Spit in southern Ukraine. 

 

The  ground robot, a Wolly 7.62, carried an ammunition-loaded machine gun firing on Russian troop positions, who were forced to pull back, then self-destructed.

 

The $11,000 robot was made use of by the 123rd Separate Territorial Defence Brigade with four Ukrainian operators conducting the assault. "We are already fighting with drones in many areas, and we are very polite to our robots in advance", laughingly explained a solder with the call sign "House Goblin" archly referring to the Terminator movie series. According to Ukrainian officials, unmanned systems help manage the manpower gap with Russia, freeing up soldiers, saving lives on tasks with dangerous logistics in supporting front-line troops and evacuating the wounded. 

 

While Ukraine's wish to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization remains endlessly deferred, NATO members are eager to learn from Ukraine's tactical innovations with the use of its advanced technology in the production of drones and robots. Some European states have signed defence production partnerships with Ukraine as Kyiv strives to become central to the security structures of the continent. 

 

Zysko Sergii/Shutterstock

 

"Absolutely incredible,  [Ukraine] fully integrates every single drone every sensor, and every shooting platform into just one single network", the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee was advised by U.S. army secretary Dan Driscoll. "Ours does not." Ukraine has signed drone deals with countries as disparate as Saudi Arabia and the Netherlands, with an increasing number of partnerships being floated, including with the United States.  

"They accomplished something never done in warfare."

"They pushed Russians off a position that was being defended by humans and they pushed them off the position with no humans in the fight."

Former U.S. army vice-chief of staff Jack Keane  

RoverTech’s Zmiy uncrewed ground vehicle moved through a forest during a demonstration. RoverTech