Hate Crimes in Canada

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"We will continue to take all measures necessary to ensure that citizens within our community feel safe and secure. Acts in violation of the law in the name of any cause will not be tolerated."

"All such acts will be investigated, and charges will be laid where appropriate."
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Dr. Tarek Loubani

"Once we have the allegations, once we see the evidence, then I'll make my defence, but until then, I'm not going to make my defence publicly."

"At the end of the day, for the police to show up at my home multiple times trying to arrest me over what if the allegations are true is fundamentally ketchup on a wall it really does speak of attempting to sort of silence our protests and silence our dissent."

"Today, I will be arrested by police in London, Canada. The police will put me in jail indefinitely because I will not stop protesting against MP Peter Fragiskatos, who refuses to call for a ceasefire against the civilians in Gaza."

Dr. Tarek Loubani, 42,  practitioner at the London Health Sciences Centre

"I've had many phone calls over the past several weeks, and in particular, this week, with members of the community who do want to see the Canadian government call for a ceasefire. Those conversations will continue."

"[The office had seen subsequent incidents of vandalism and a recent incident in which someone tried to] forcibly enter the office and occupy it."

"Who knows what could have transpired at that point in time? Certainly, the safety of our staff would have been compromised, and that's not something that's acceptable."

"For that reason, I haven't had conversations with those protesting in front of the office. But I have had many, many conversations with Londoners who do want to speak to me and have a view that Canada should call a ceasefire."

London North Centre MP Peter Fragiskatos

About a dozen people spent the day outside Liberal PM Peter Fragiskatos' office demanding he pressure the government to call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. (Michael Lacasse / CBC News)

Dr. Tarek Loubani, an emergency doctor also described as a humanitarian activist, was charged with vandalism for spraying a Member of Parliament's constituency office in London, Ontario at the time when a pro-Palestinian protest took place in the city last month, following Israel's invasion of Gaza to rout out Hamas after the terrorist group had entered southern Israel, its operatives driving and marching into Israeli border towns, villages and kibbutzim, slaughtering civilians at will during a surprise attack.

 

October 7 turned out to be a horrific day for Israelis where children were grenaded and burned to death with their parents, huddling in fear when Hamas unleashed a sadistic storm of death on the Jewish population, where girls and women were raped and sodomized, infants killed, soldiers in nearby military outposts killed. As they stormed through the kibbutzim and towns, the terrorists killed anyone in sight.

 

Others appeared at a music festival taking place near a kibbutz, where hundreds of young Israeli men and women had congregated in celebration of peace, listening to music, dancing and partying. In the towns and villages, sirens were first heard in the early morning hours warning of incoming rockets from Gaza, but this turned out to be no ordinary, familiar rocket attack. The invasion of terrorists followed by ordinary Palestinians converged on the towns, on the music festival, slaughtering and raping.

 

At the music festival alone, well over three hundred Israelis were murdered. The kibbutzim and villages suffered hundreds more grisly deaths, approaching cars were stopped by the terrorists, their occupants shot dead, people waiting at bus stops in groups, shot dead. Families sitting at their breakfast tables were bound, children forced to watch as their parents were mutilated, their parents helpless as their children were mutilated.

 

Before the defence forces were mobilized and able to move in to rescue those who survived, some 240 Israeli children, infants, elderly, inform, girls and women, and foreign agricultural workers were taken as hostages into Gaza, some suffering grave wounds from the attacks, placed on display to cheering crowds that surrounded the Hamas attackers in celebration of their 'victory' over Israelis. 

 

Before the Israel Defense Forces even moved into Gaza, Palestinians living abroad organized impromptu protests over Israel's 'genocide' of Palestinians.

 

The one that took place in London, Ontario at a much later date, included Dr. Loubani who along with several other men  unpacked bottles of ketchup in lieu of human blood, to spray on the front door and windows of the MP's office as 'punishment' and threats for his not having supported calls for Liberal parliamentarians to demand a ceasefire to be formally announced by the government of Canada.

 

Dr. Loubani had handed out bottles of ketchup at the October 22 protest, encouraging others to deface the MP's office. All four involved were identified by police. Dr. Loubani was arrested and placed in prison overnight. He then appeared in court by video from police headquarters, and released the following day with an undertaking with no conditions, to reappear in court on Dec. 6. 

 

Police said the three other men would not be charged. Dr. Loubani has a  history as an 'activist'. His activism is focused at the present time on the Israel-Gaza war. He is of Palestinian origin. Ten years ago, while in Egypt with another man, they were both arrested by Egyptian police and held in prison for a period of time. Dr. Loubani was accused at that time by Egyptian authorities of being involved with the Muslim Brotherhood, outlawed in Egypt.

 

Pro-Palestinian activists are enraged over Mr. Fragiskatos's unwillingness to align himself with the group of Liberal members of Parliament who have called upon Prime Minister Trudeau to declare Canada's position calling for a ceasefire, a position which, if taken, would see Canada break away from all of its collegial member-states in the G-7, and certainly differentiating it from the American position.

On November 9, the Fragiskatos London constituency office was once again splashed on an exterior wall, this time with red paint. In the incident, no arrests have yet been made, the perpetrators unidentified.

 

London North Centre MP Peter Fragiskatos's office can be seen here in the aftermath of vandalism his office says took place on Thursday evening. (Office of Peter Fragiskatos)