On January 15, 2024, UK’s Home Secretary issued the following statement: The Home Secretary, James Cleverly, has today (15 January) laid a draft order before Parliament to proscribe the international Sunni Islamist political organisation Hizb…
Monthly Archives For January 2024
Faisal Kutty: “Israel has no right to defend itself from occupied people”
Faisal Kutty is a Muslim lawyer, law professor, writer and public speaker. After graduating from law school, he co-founded the Canadian Muslim Civil Liberties Association (CMCLA) and went on to serve as its general counsel…
Anti-Israel graffiti spotted in Mississauga
On January 18, 2024, at around 08:45 am, a Toronto resident spotted anti-Israel graffiti painted in an industrial area in Mississauga, Ontario (Dixie & Dundas). The graffiti equates the Israeli to the sign of death.…
Vancouver Police: Israel-Hamas war fuels increase in antisemitism
On January, 16 2024, the Vancouver Police Department issued the following press release: Israel-Hamas war fuels increase in hate crimes, protests in 2023 Vancouver – Tensions from the Israel-Hamas war have fueled increases in protest…
Dimitri Lascaris: “The Middle East will not have peace until Israel has been defeated strategically”
Dimitri Lascaris is a lawyer, journalist and pro-Palestinian activist. In 2021, Dimitri joined the Toronto-based law firm, Kalloghlian Myers LLP. Dimitri Lascaris’ posts on X: January 16, 2024: If Israel’s leaders were sane, they’d stop…
Alanna Johnston, Bahira Abdulsalam: “Zionism is rooted in every government”
Alanna Johnston is a political activist and until recently a delegate from Toronto for the NDP convention. On October 24, 2023, Alanna Johnston posted on X: I was stripped of my delegate credentials at federal…
Toronto: Antisemitic poster depicts Jews as “being so vile, sneaky and disgusting”
The poster featured an evil looking Jew with a hooked nose with the following caption: “imagine being so vile, sneaky and disgusting that laws have to be created to keep normal people from hating or condemning you.”
David Mivasair dismisses claims that Israeli women were raped by Hamas
Rabbi David Mivasair, a prominent member of Independent Jewish Voices Canada, dismisses reports about Israeli women raped by Hamas’ operatives: “I can say very confidently that didn’t happen”
Toronto: Antisemitism making up 37 per cent of all hate crimes reported in 2023
In 2023, there were 132 reported anti-Semitic hate crimes compared to 65 in 2022
Toronto man arrested for public incitement of hatred for displaying terrorist flag
Maged Sameh Hilal Al Khalaf, 41, of Toronto, was arrested and charged after he allegedly waved a flag of an organization listed as a terrorist group