Antisemitism in Canada digest #55

Canada has the highest rate of antisemitism of any Western country, with an increase of nearly 700% from before

1. “Canada has the highest rate of antisemitism of any Western country, with an increase of nearly 700% from before,” Warren Kinsella’s article quotes a report released by the Israeli government. The Canadian Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre has warned that criminal activities and intimidation tactics on campus and online are likely to continue and has advised the federal government that Canada could experience a lone-wolf terror attack soon. Lone-wolf attacks are barely possible to prevent.

The attack is most likely to be motivated by religious extremism. Which religion is that? The one whose “God is great” exclamation is most likely to be followed by stabbing, shooting, or bombing.

At this exact time, Chrystia Freeland, Liberal Party leadership contender, vowed to protect Muslim organizations from CRA audits.

2. Islam is also the one religion that demands the most special accommodations. The Canadian Representative on Combating Islamophobia, Amira Elghawaby, must be the most hardworking federal employee. This week, she endorsed a guide that advises managers to provide the following provisions for their Muslim employees: dedicated quiet image-free prayer space with access to ablution facilities; 10-15 minute prayer breaks during work hours; avoid handshakes with opposite sex employees; accommodation for the changing Islamic holiday dates and leave requests; offering halal meal options.

Last but not least is the requirement for managers to learn about Islam directly from Muslims – this is literally a requirement to allow religious indoctrination in the workplace.

3. Indoctrination starts at a young age. At least four schools in the Halton District School Board in Ontario organized a “Student Walkout for Palestine.” Students were asked to bring keffiyehs, posters, and flags. In one of the schools, the walkout was led by the man who dressed up as Yahya Sinwar at an anti-Israel protest a few months ago. He called the students to become the leaders of the revolution and to free Palestine.

Teachers and parents from the neighboring Toronto school board gather to mourn Gazan children. Nothing wrong with mourning children, had they not exploited children’s deaths to villainize Israel.

In the meantime, the TDSB and the Elementary Teachers of Toronto have doubled down on protecting and supporting Palestinian children, affirming Palestinian identity, and teaching about Palestinian history, and have allocated $80,000 of members’ union fees to promote APR. That is despite zero evidence of anti-Palestinian racism existing in the first place.

4. UBC “Staff 4 Palestine” group is conducting sessions on how to evade the law. The official title is "What you need to know when interacting with police" and it is being held at Law school of all places.

Somar Abuaziza (mentioned a few digests ago) was recently elected as the president of York Federation of Students, representing 50,000 undergraduates and running a $2 million annual budget. She previously served as VP for campaigns and advocacy and issued a statement in support of Palestine where she called October 7 “a strong act of resistance.” That’s just a random example of her support for Hamas. “Lived a hero and died a hero,” she wrote about Yahya Sinwar.

Abuaziza is now being asked to resign. Unsurprisingly, there is currently a lawsuit against York University alleging a failure to protect Jewish students. If the university wants to protect Jewish students, Hamas supporters must not only be removed from leadership positions, but suspended and prosecuted.

A Kumon school owner and instructor in Burnaby has an overwhelming majority of her posts dedicated to condemning Israel, from standard genocide and ethnic cleansing claims to posting in support of the Islamic regime and accusing Israel of killing their own hostages.

In Alberta, Edmonton Islamic Academy is building a state-of-the-art campus for 1,700 students that embraces 21st-century learning. The name of the program is very telling. It is called "Exist to Resist."

Not only educators support Hamas, medical workers do too. The official journal of the Canadian College of Family Physicians has published an article about the pager attack on the Hezbollah terrorists. But the author, a Lebanese doctor, doesn’t call them “terrorists”; she refers to them as young men, poetically expresses her pride in treating their injuries, and praises them and their families for their strength, resilience, and endurance.

5. Educators and medics are followed by journalists. This week a fascinating investigation uncovered that BBC’s recently aired film about the horrendous suffering of the children of Gaza featured children of top Hamas officials.

The Canadian CBC isn’t better. For 1.4B of our tax dollars, the CBC instructed their employees to not refer to Hamas as terrorists; they present Hamas-provided casualty numbers uncritically, while framing every Israeli statement as "claims"; the CBC reporting on violence is selective, for example, focusing on "Israel's attacks in Lebanon" while omitting Hezbollah's aggression that led to it; the CBC employs reporters with open anti-Israeli bias and gives a platform to anti-Israel voices without any hint of balance.

And of course, they call Palestinian terrorists and murderers released as part of the exchange deal - hostages. And of course, when reporting on the bodies of the Bibas family return, they never mentioned that two of the bodies were infants, that their mother’s body was initially swapped for an anonymous woman’s body, and refrain from mentioning the barbaric Hamas celebrations of the murders.

6. Trudeau also posted about the return of the bodies. Like the CBC, he only named Oded Lifshitz, but did not name Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir, simply referring to them as the “Bibas family.” His post received nearly a thousand “laughing” reactions.

Rallies and vigils were held across Canada in memory of Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir. We had one in Vancouver.

In Toronto, at the Bathurst and Sheppard intersection, where jihadis usually come to disrupt Jewish rallies, this week they reached new lows (who could have thought it was possible?!) – they celebrated the deaths of the Bibas children by waving children’s toys. Same sick creativity as Hamas with their savage ceremonies.

7. Protesters in Montreal pledged allegiance to Hamas and loyalty to the resistance for as long as they live. “All Palestine” they chanted repeatedly, to make it clear they won’t settle for a two-state solution.

But the Canadian politicians aren’t listening. The Liberal party leadership contender, Mark Carney, said in the recent debate: “So we agree with Hamas, we agree with the two-state solution.” Whether he did or did not misspeak about his support for Hamas, he doesn’t even claim to have misspoken about the two-states.

With or without Carney, we have enough pro-terrorism Canadians. Charlotte Kates went to Beirut to attend the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader. “It is such an honor,” she wrote and went on praising the anti-imperialist leader, the true revolutionary, and his legacy.

Minister of Public Safety of Canada, David McGuinty, made a statement about Charlotte Kates, the leader of Samidoun, a designated terrorist organization in Canada, attending a funeral of a leader of Hezbollah, another designated terrorist organization in Canada. McGuinty wrote: “Ms. Kates does not represent Canada in any official capacity.” I suppose it’s alright then.

Other Canadians, an antisemitic lawyer and journalist, Dimitri Lascaris and Rami Yahia, SPHR leader and BDS activist, also attended the funeral.

8. Dimitri Lascaris and LCPAL, The Legal Center for Palestine, are the legal team behind the lawsuit against the Canadian government for accepting too few Gazan refugees too slowly. LCPAL’s team includes Yaffa Jarrar, the daughter of the PFLP leader Khaleda Jarrar, who was released from prison as part of the extortion exchange deal. I won’t be surprised if the daughter wants to bring her terrorist mother to Canada before the latter ends up in jail again.

Here is a paradox. On one hand, the anti-Israel activists demand that Canada take in more Gazan refugees. On the other hand, all their latest rallies focus on opposing Trump’s plan to relocate Gazans and calling it “ethnic cleansing.”

9. About a hundred protesters, including from the Palestinian Youth Movement, gathered to demonstrate in a residential neighborhood in front of what they thought was the home of Bill Blair, the Canadian Minister of National Defence. They did their regular drumming and screaming, called the Minister “war criminal,” and asked “How many children did you kill today?” Police observed and did not interfere.

10. A neo-Nazi, whose online threats to the Jewish community were accompanied by an illegal 3D printer firearms production, was sentenced to five years in prison. Don’t get me wrong, he very much belongs in prison! But I wish that our justice system was equally eager to put jihadists and socialists behind bars as they do neo-Nazis.

When asked today in the BC Parliament why they don’t prosecute the Samidoun leader, Charlotte Kates, Niki Sharma, the BC NDP Attorney General, replied that they have done a lot of other work to combat antisemitism. Hey, a new hate hotline was created! Nothing addresses terrorism threats better than a hotline.

The Federal NDP is even more openly pro-terror than the provincial. “Jagmeet has repeatedly demanded to stop the genocide in Gaza, called for the recognition of the Palestinian state, for a two-way arms embargo, and for sanctions against the Israel government” – this is a text message that NDP used to explain to a Jewish voter that their party is not antisemitic.

11. A Canadian author and anti-Israel agitator, Yves Engler, was arrested and charged with harassment and obstruction of justice. He has been spreading dangerous antisemitic rhetoric for decades and was previously arrested for property damage during his protest against Netanyahu's speech in Canada back in 2002. Predictably, there is a campaign in his defense, including a video from Rogers Waters and an open letter from PEN Canada. The letter emphasizes that PEN are a nonpartisan pro-free speech organization and they support calling pro-Israel people fascists.

12. A few days ago, Davide Mastracci, the Senior Editor of "The Islamic Monthly", Al Jazeera author, and a member of Electronic Intifada, published an article “Meet 85 Canadians That Have Fought For Israel” and a “Find IDF soldiers” website. The website became unreachable quite quickly. I suppose, Israelis don’t only excel in shooting.

Some of the people on the list are over 70 years old. The list also included Ben Mizrachi, a Canadian-Israeli from Vancouver who was murdered on October 7. What’s pathetic is that with over 30 thousand Israelis residing in Canada, they only managed to find 85 IDF soldiers. Many of my friends complained they didn’t make the list.

Shai De Luca, Israeli-Canadian designer and influencer, complained he was listed at #14 and demanded he’d be moved up to the top three.

Kevin Vuong, MP, posted in support of Israel and the IDF, saying “I’m #86.” A non Jewish friend of mine posted “I’m #87.” Others too made similar posts.

I don’t know the real ratio between haters and supporters. But I know that every one of our supporters is worth a thousand times more than a thousand haters. And that’s the extent of my gratitude.

Am Israel Chai.