A Database of Jews

"The Canadian Jews on this list are quite possibly the most unflappable members of our Jewish community. I don’t think we’ll be intimidated by it, if that’s the intention. I don’t think it’s an acceptable thing to happen in Canada."

"I think there’s a pretty dark historical precedent for making lists of Jews. That’s what it immediately reminded me of. A database of Jews."

"[It was a] pretty clear expression of hatred for Jews."

Canadian-born Rebecca Garner, 34, former IDF volunteer 

 

"[Its purpose is to provide a database of] mini-profiles for as many Canadians that have fought in the Israeli military at any point as I could find [because] there is little existing research in Canada beyond one-off news articles about who these soldiers are and how they came to make the life choices that they did."

"[The type of Canadian who becomes an IDF soldier as, on average], a white Jewish man born and raised in Canada who immigrated to Israel in their late teens with the express purpose of joining its military."

"The soldier is most likely to have grown up in a Greater Toronto Area neighbourhood with a larger-than-average proportion of Jewish residents in what they’d describe as a Zionist household."

"[It was not a] doxxing website, as all of the information it contains was already in the public domain, primarily in articles published in other news outlets, including the National Post, the CBC and The Canadian Jewish News."

"There is nothing antisemitic about the website, as the individuals were included based on their service in the Israeli military, not their religious identity." 

Davide Mastracci, The Maple

The flags of Canada and Israel fly in Ottawa. Photo by Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press/

 

Months ago it was revealed that someone had taken it upon themselves to compile a list of Canadian Jews who had left Canada to volunteer their combat services with the Israeli Defense Forces -- propelled by news of the atrocities that took place in southern Israel on 7 October 2023 when thousands of terrorists led by Hamas streamed across the border from Gaza into Israel on a defined mission that had undergone months of practise to plan storming the separation barrier, honing in on IDF defence posts, targeting Israeli farming communities and a nearby music festival to rape, loot, torch villages, and slaughter 1,200 Israeli citizens, soldiers and foreign farm workers, which led to the Israeli military invading Gaza to root out the terrorists and destroy their command posts and weapons stocks. 

 

Graphic emblem from the “GTA to IDF” website

In media interviews with the man who proudly amassed these names complete with addresses, it was revealed that the list was an ongoing venture, the author appealing to the public to contact him if they had additional names to be placed on his database, as he considered it an ongoing project. Not that it had anything to do with antisemitism. His facile splitting of hairs in professing his innocence of racism couldn't possibly have convinced his interlocutors of his sincerity. 

 

A list of Jewish 'culprits' who had willingly offered themselves as Canadian conscripts in a foreign war. At a time when the streets and cities of Canada were rife with ongoing demonstrations of anti-Israel protestors championing Hamas terrorism, and charging Israel -- by inference and pointed declarations all Jews everywhere -- with the intent to slaughter Palestinians in a 'genocide'. The protests that echoed with chants of 'Palestine will be free from the river to the sea', with the destruction of Israel. Other chants like 'Final Solution' in allusion to the Holocaust on repeat, and 'Jews go back to Poland', unsubtle invitations to genocide of Jews. How to accomplish that? Why, by mounting a strategy to 'Globalize the Intifada'.

 

While Jewish groups in Canada shudder and shrink in horror at the implications, and the Holocaust Memorial was defaced, Jewish businesses vandalized by 'pro-Palestinian' mobs, Synagogues were firebombed, Jewish parochial schools shot at, marches comprised of masked, keffiyeh-clad Jew-haters tramped through Jewish neighbourhoods shouting invectives and police stood by to inform Jewish counter-protesters that their presence was provoking the haters, governments at all levels failed to act to enforce bylaws and offer equal protection to all citizens.

Protesters and counter protesters hold flags during a protest outside the screening of the documentary "The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue" about the surprise attack by Hamas on Israel, at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 10, 2025.

(photo credit: REUTERS/CARLOS OSORIO)

 

Now, a petition has emerged for investigations that could theoretically lead to charges against Canadians serving in Israel's military. Alberta NDP Member of Parliament running for election as leader of the federal opposition party whose numbers had shrivelled during the last election as members fled the party, sponsored that petition dated January 7, to the attention of the Minister of Justice, claiming "credible evidence of serious violations of international law by the IDF in the Middle East", which should ostensibly criminalize any Canadian citizens who fought with the IDF.  

 

The government, according to the petition should "direct the Canada Border Services Agency to screen Canadian citizens/residents returning from Israel for foreign military service" to issue "warnings that Canadians serving/volunteering with the IDF may face criminal liability under Canadian law". For a website to be created "to collect information from Gaza/West Bank war crime victims/witnesses". 

 

In response Simon Wolle, CEO of B'nai Brith Canada, addressed the issue with the information that the RCMP had launched an investigation into the Israel-Hamas conflict. A news release dated June of 2024 revealed that the RCMP had failed to identify anyone who committed "core international crimes", a finding that invalidated any further investigation into the activities of any Canadian. "Canadian IDF veterans are no different than any other foreign veterans who have made Canada their home", responded Wolle. 

 

This preoccupation by the candidate for the NDP leadership is not a one-off consideration. She released a statement in November stating her concern with IDF soldiers visiting Canadian universities, condemning them for 'platforming' the soldiers. Amir Epstein, CEO of Tafsik, the Jewish advocacy group, characterized the petition as a "transparent attempt to appease radical ideologues by targeting law-abiding Canadian citizens". 

"MP McPherson's motion amounts to an antisemitic witch hunt, unduly singles out Jewish and Zionist Canadians by making unfounded accusations against them, problematically insinuates that service in the IDF necessitates a degree of culpability."

"Malicious attempts to prosecute them contribute to an environment where Jewish and Zionist Canadians are increasingly persecuted for their beliefs."

"This petition should be denounced by MPs for what it is, a baseless attempt to incite against and ostracize Canadians who support the existence of a Jewish nation state."

Simon Wolle, CEO, B'nai Brith Canada 

A Bridge Too Far To Suit Terrorist Hamas

"[Hamas] paid a big price. [I'm giving them] about three to four days [to decide]."

"What we want is very simple: we want the hostages back immediately, and we want some good behaviour."

"Hamas is either going to be doing it or not, and if it's not, it's going to  bee a very sad end."

U.S. President Donald Trump 

 

"What's fundamentally different now is Hamas is going to face a level of pressure from a united, not just Arab, but Muslim world leadership that wants to see the war end and has signed on broadly to this outline of points."

Jonathan Panikoff, Atlantic Council Middle East Program

 

"This is an opening."

"A lot of the devil is in the details, but this is the most pressure I have seen [to bring the war to an end]."

Ghaith al-Omari, senior fellow, The Washington Institute 

A smoke plume billows in Gaza on September 30, 2025. AFP via Getty Images

 

Israel, stated President Trump, could be assured his "full backing to finish the job" should Hamas reject the offer. In truth an ultimatum for the hostages' release -- in full and instanter  -- and with that surrender of the terrorist group's ace cards, drop their arms and wave a white flag. The alternative is to face Israel's ongoing military punishment which has to date eliminated their top leaders and commanders, but as well Palestinian civilians whom Hamas maintains as living proof that Gazans are more than prepared to give up their lives in glorious martyrdom, faithful to Hamas and Islamism, even if they do so under forceful coercion.

 

Palestinians mourn the death of loved ones killed in Israeli strikes, outside a hospital in Gaza on October 1, 2025. AFP via Getty Images

 

The original 21-point plan, minus an expendable one to become a final 20-point plan echoes Israel's oft-repeated statement during the two-year war, that surrender of the hostages could end the devastating conflict with its civilian collateral victims no longer under orders to vacate one area of the Strip after another, facing hardships for which Hamas is entirely responsible, consequential to their violent savagery against Israeli civilians. 

 

The amnesty offer to Hamas operatives who put down their weapons and recognize Israel's right to existence, may have gone a tad too far. 

 

The world awaits Hamas's final decision, after its string of earlier rejections, once mediators Egypt and Qatar handed the proposal to the terrorist group. Even traditional allies of Hamas -- Qatar and Turkey --saw fit to recognize the proposal for its positive elements, co-signing the plan along with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and a number of other Arab League nations. 

 

According to the plan's hopeful view, should the Palestinian Authority manage to reform itself in coming years, the possibility raises itself that it could end up leading to "a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood, which we recognize as the aspiration of the Palestinian people".  A salve to the PLO/Fatah/PA that has assumed great unpopularity among Israelis who have lived far too long with a West Bank administration that never stopped inciting its population to violence and hatred of Israel and committing to award recognition-of-martyrdom status in financial payments.

 

Palestinians fleeing northern Gaza on October 1, 2025. REUTERS

 

 

 

Jihadis Among Us

"The Israelites in Victoria [British Columbia] are a large and  highly respectable body."

"Many of them have resided in the city from the date of its earliest existence, and their conduct and bearing has invariably been such as to earn for them the good wishes and esteem of their fellow citizens of other persuasions."

Victoria Colonist newspaper editorial June, 1863

 

"The Jews have an ancient and dark history of bloodshed and breaking covenants and treaties."

"If Allah had willed, He could have taken vengeance upon them Himself. But He ordered armed struggle."

"Listen! He ordered armed struggle to test some of you by means of others."

Muslim hate preacher Younus Kathradra, Victoria, 2025

 

"We have seen a disturbing permissiveness toward these [Islamist-jihadist] groups in Canada."
"Pro-Hamas protesters shut down our streets with chants, threats and hate, unchecked, unchallenged, and increasingly normalized."

"The messages invoked age-old and violent antisemitic blood libels, falsely accusing Jews of murdering children and calling for revenge. These are not just hateful words, they are dangerous incitements."

"That the act of antisemitic vandalism was discovered the weekend of Tisha B’Av, a day that commemorates centuries of Jewish persecution, is no coincidence. It was a calculated act of hate, exploiting a sacred moment to send a vile message."

"We call on civic leaders, law enforcement and the broader public to treat this for what it is: a hate crime and a threat to community safety. This is a moment for solidarity. A moment for courage. And a moment for all Canadians to take a stand against hate, in all its forms, wherever it appears."

Nico Slobinsky, vice-president, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs 

A  hateful message was written on an exterior pillar of ­Congregation Emanu-El, the synagogue in downtown Victoria. After documenting the ­graffiti, police worked with the city to have it removed. Photo credit: Solomon Siegel

 

Jews have enjoyed a long, reciprocal relationship with the capital city of British Columbia. In 1858 the city's Jewish community decided it was time to build a synagogue and the following year witnessed the emergence of the Victoria Benevolent Society, which laid a foundation stone for the synagogue in June of 1863, with a grand celebration and parade led by the St.Andrew's Society, the Germania Sing Verin choir, the French Benevolent Society, among other ethnic groups residing in the city.

 

That was then, almost two hundred years ago. Now, in Victoria marches and rallies take place, with a weekly "Free Palestine" protest taking place a the provincial legislative buildings, led for the most part by the Muslim Students Association of the University of Victoria. Joining the Muslim students is a contingent of aging white antisemites who find common cause with them, in assigning blame to Jews for the fallout of Palestinian terrorist atrocities against Israeli citizens, excusing acts of psychotic savagery as just due for the 'occupation' by Israel of ancestral Jewish land that Arab Palestinian claim as theirs.

 

The Muslim Students Association aligns itself with the crude and highly inflammable vitriolic incitements by Islamist-jihadi Younis Kathradra, on record calling for the annihilation of Jews and denouncing Canada as “evil and filthy” for its tolerance of homosexuality. He had been invited by the UVic Muslim Students Association to conduct a lecture last year, entitled The Importance of Connecting with the Muslim Community -- which was ultimately cancelled by the university itself.

 

Sheikh Younus Kathrada in a 2018 video. Photo by MEMRI.org

 

The weekend desecration of Congregation Emanu-El synagogue represents the latest incident in a series now commonplace in Canada since the Gaza War of nearly two years, instigated by the terrorist group Hamas's invasion of southern Israel targeting its farming communities, raping and mutilating, abducting Israeli children, girls and women, the elderly, foreign farm workers, and a number of IDF soldiers; altogether 1,200 Israelis were slaughtered, leading to an invasion of Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces for the distinct purpose of ferreting Hamas terrorists out from their presence among the civilian population.

 

From early Victoria in the 19th century a Jewish merchant was sent by Victoria to Ottawa to represent their interests the year B.C. entered Confederation in 1871; Henry Nathan becoming Canada's first Jewish member of Parliament. A vice-president of Congregation Emanu-El, Samuel D. Schultz became the first Jew appointed a judge in 1914's Canada. The first Jew elected to a legislature in Canada was Selim Franklin in 1859. Victoria stood as a beacon of racial and religious toleration; seen in the fact that among subscribers to the synagogue's construction fundraising drive in the 1860s, there were as many non-Jews as Jews.

 

 Still from video   Victoria News

 

Back then, although there was both official and social antisemitism in play in various parts of Canada, where Jews were not permitted to become members of social clubs, were restricted in their numbers applying to Canadian universities, and Jewish communities were forced to build their own hospitals when Jewish doctors were refused residency at municipal hospitals, no one might have foreseen a day when raging antisemitism would raise its ugly head to the extent that is now seen, with an influx of Muslims into Canada and 'activist' Muslim university students would erect their own barriers against Jewish faculty and students entering to study and to teach, with encampments and signage condemning Israel and threatening Jews.

 

The Palestine Youth Movement held a downtown rally from Yonge and Dundas Sts. to the Israeli Consulate on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, before shutting down the intersection to traffic. Photo by Caryma Sa'd /Special to the Toronto Sun

 

Not only is Congregation Emanu-El Canada's oldest synagogue, but like other synagogues elsewhere in Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto that have been threatened, some firebombed, defaced, shot at, it like many others is a 'progressive' synagogue at a time when the progressive-left in Canada is allying itself with Muslim-Palestinian 'victimhood', finding due cause to condemn Israel as the aggressor in the turmoil that has resulted from Palestinian terrorism's sinister threats, violent savagery and the propaganda of Israel's 'genocide'.

 

The proud history and heritage of Jewish life in Canada has been besmirched even as it is being threatened by the infiltrated presence of foreign students at Canadian universities, of Muslim immigration, refugee intake, migrant refuge claims, to completely alter the social life, academic credentials, political orientation and values of justice and equality in Canada. That these same groups -- some of which like Samidoun -- that are considered terrorist entities in Canadian law are permitted to operate openly in Canada, damns the current government.

 

The reality is that these Muslim groups in their vehemence against Israel and their threats against Canadian Jewish life, also look a little further afield in their agenda against Western heritage and values; they threaten the democratic way of life, they openly express their contempt for Canadian verities and values, laws and heritage, as they continue to display hostile aggressive behaviours that challenge governments and policing agencies at every level, who fail to respond by upholding law and order. 

 

The Victoria Police Department released this photo of a man suspected in the vandalism of a synagogue on Aug. 2, 2025.  CTV News

  

"You cannot divorce the disgusting antisemitic graffiti found on a synagogue in Victoria, B.C. on Shabbat, from the Prime Minister's announcement last week. By declaring its intention to prematurely recognize a Palestinian state, the federal government has further emboldened the vitriolic minority that has been targeting Canada's Jewish community for almost two years."

"This is what happens when our leaders placate those who incite hate and sow division."

"Synagogues are defiled and Jewish Canadians are threatened."

B'nai Brith 

Slandering Israel Comes Easy

"Hundreds of aid trucks have entered Gaza with Israel's approval, but the supplies are standing idle, undelivered."

"The reason? The UN refuses to distribute the aid. Hamas and the UN prevents the aid to reach the civilians in Gaza."

"The world deserves to know the truth."

"But BBC, CNN, Daily Express and The New York Times spread a misleading story using a picture of a sick, disabled child to promote a narrative of mass starvation in Gaza -- playing into the hands of Hamas's propaganda war."

"Without proper disclosure. Without medical context. Without journalistic ethics." 

Israeli Foreign Ministry  

Humanitarian aid packages waiting to be picked up on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing on July 24, 2025. “The UN refuses to distribute the aid,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry says. Photo by  by Amir Levy/Getty Images

 British investigative journalist David Collier wrote an explanation that one of the children used as a shaming condemnation against Israel purportedly failing to ensure that sufficient humanitarian aid reaches the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza, a child with the surname al-Matouq "suffers from cerebral palsy, has hypoxemia, and was born with a serious genetic disorder", data extracted from a 2025 medical file.

 

A BBC documentary titled "Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone" was discovered by Mr. Collier to have been narrated by the son of a senior Hamas official. That revelation led to embarrassment on the part of the British public broadcaster and a retraction of the documentary. The photograph of the emaciated child saw sensational use by international media testifying to the devastation brought by Israel's war in Gaza and the resulting aid crisis there.

 

Last Thursday, the New York Times digital story was entitled "Gazans are dying of starvation", over the image of the skeletal child. "A horrifying image encapsulating the maelstrom of human misery gripping Gaza" was how the Daily Express captioned the heart-rending photograph of Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub Al-Matouq.  

 

Unlike his brother standing by his side, Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq suffers from cerebral palsy.

 

And then there is the image of five-year-old Osama al-Rakab, yet another child whose photograph saw use as an illustration of the threat of child malnourishment resulting from Israel's 'blockade' of humanitarian aid entering the Strip. Al Jazeera  featured the little boy's skeletal torso throughout a number of Italian media outlets to extract maximum disgust from news readers, holding Israel responsible for the pitiable condition of the child.

 

Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), divulged that al-Rakab "suffers from a serious genetic illness unrelated to the war", and with his mother and brother had been transported out of Gaza to an airport in Israel destined for treatment abroad. "This is what a modern blood libel looks like: A sick child. A hijacked photo. A lie that spreads faster than truth", wrote the Israeli Foreign Ministry on its X account.

 

A third infant, 11-month-old Sila Barbakh was featured on Israel's official X account, who "isn't starving", but rather "suffers from a pre-existing chronic gastrointestinal illness, unrelated to the war". In none of these pathetic photos of children suffering from dread diseases were they captioned 'for illustrative purposes only', unrelated to Hamas's wildly successful public relations' campaign aimed at the gullible West.  

 

His name is Osama al-Raqab. He has cystic fibrosis, a serious genetic illness. He’s been in Italy receiving treatment since June 12. Israel enabled his medical transfer from Gaza.

 

The Times of London found it useful when featuring tiny Barbakh's suffering from starvation to expand y explaining that the baby weighted a mere "seven-and-a-half pounds". According to data published by the Hamas-operated Gaza Health Ministry, 56 Palestinians had died in July of starvation. About half the total number reputed to have died of starvation since the war began on October 7, 2023 when Palestinian terrorists led by Hamas stormed into southern Israel to launch its campaign of rape, pillage, torture and mass slaughter. 

 

Humanitarian supplies handover was shifted away from the United Nations in May, with an U.S.-backed, Israeli-supported group, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), taking the initiative. Civilians in Gaza had then to travel into areas controlled by Israeli military to receive the supplies. That solved the issues involved in Hamas armed operatives taking control of aid-delivery trucks to have the goods they carried stuffed into Hamas warehouses, and withheld from the civilian population. Some of that aid ended up at open-air marketplaces selling for exorbitant prices. Most of it was sidelined for the exclusive use of Hamas operatives.

 

Today, the IDF invited dozens of international journalists to the Kerem Shalom crossing inside Gaza, to see for themselves. Israeli Foreign Ministry

 

Reportedly, GHF distributed close to 90 million meals to civilians while facing significant opposition from Hamas, which had attacked and murdered a dozen Palestinian employees of GHF who had been working with the group to help distribute the aid. According to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, Hamas offered bounties to any of their followers who kill American contractors or any Palestinians assisting their endeavours in providing aid.

 

The United Nations has accused Israel of reportedly killing hundreds of Gazans seeking aid in what is  essentially an active war zone. Many more have died resulting from stampedes in the chaos of crowds of Palestinians vying among one another to receive aid. A week ago Israel announced its intention to once again commit to airdrops of humanitarian aid, alongside Arab nations, including Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. Airdrops had been suspended in view of properties being destroyed and civilians being hit by the airdrops.

 

People carrying aid parcels from the privately run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) walk along the Salah al-Din road near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip (Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images)

 

The New York Times claimed that the "Israeli military never found proof that the Palestinian militant group had systematically stolen aid from the United Nations, the biggest supplier of emergency assistance to Gaza for most of the war". In response, the Israel Defense Forces released a video showing Hamas militants with rifles "looting an aid truck", while civilians gathered about.  These same images were shared by Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a Palestinian-American academic, senior fellow with the Atlantic Council. Showing Hamas operatives stealing aid during an earlier ceasefire.

 

"Right here before your eyes! But according to NGOs & media, there's still 'no evidence' of theft", charged Alkhatib who has been a vocal critic of Hamas and the Netanyahu government, both. Alkhatib shared a video in another post, showing Hamas police officers who stripped, arrested and beat Palestinians who had gone out to the GHF aid distribution site, and paid the consequences, with the aid they had gathered taken from them, for their pains. 

 

 A truck loaded with food on the Israeli side of the border crossing heads back into Gaza. However, the food is sitting for days or weeks before it can be distributed. The U.N. and aid groups say they face a host of problems that include a shortage of trucks and fuel due to the war, as well as criminal gangs that are looting the supplies.    Maya Levin for NPR

Israel's Right to Self-Defence

"Further action [risks triggering] a broader regional conflict with devastating consequences. De-escalation must be the priority."

"We urge all parties to refrain from actions that further destabilize the region. The protection of civilians must be paramount."

"Importantly, Canadians in the region are advised to exercise a very high degree of caution, monitor developments closely, and follow the advice of local authorities."

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand

 

"Don't think that they hit and it's over. No."

"They started the work and started the War."

"We will not allow them to escape safely from this great crime they committed."

Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei  

 

"[There will be] even more brutal [attacks if Tehran did not soon reach a nuclear deal]."

"Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire."

U.S. President Donald Trump 

 

"[Israel took] unilateral action against Iran [that did not involve the United States]." 

"Our top priority is protecting American forces in the region."

"Israel advised us that they believe this action was necessary for its self-defence. President Trump and the administration have taken all necessary steps to protect our forces and remain in close contact with out regional partners."

"Let me be clear: Iran should not target U.S. interests or personnel."

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio  

Israel continued to strike Iran's capital Tehran on Sunday night   Getty Images

 

The Liberal government that has ruled Canada for the last decade has abandoned in all but veneer, the traditional relationship of alliance between two democracies -- Israel and Canada -- under its administration. Under previous, and most particularly Conservative-led governments -- the Liberal government's immediate Conservative administration led by former Prime Minister Stephen Harper in particular -- left no illusions that there was ever a gap in the friendship and support Canada gave to Israel. During the administration of former PM Justin Trudeau that relationship descended markedly into suspicion and grudging support.

 

Canadian demographics had undergone a marked change, for one thing. In Mr. Trudeau's sanctimonious overtures to economic migrants flooding North America streaming toward the United States, he welcomed those whom the U.S. refused, recognizing them as fomenters of Islamic entitlements. He offered haven to Muslims from war-torn Middle East and North African nations. Emigration from the Near East and North Africa picked up pace, and Canada now has a sizeable voting bloc emanating from that demographic that politicians cater to, inviting their ballots.

 

Censuring Israel, for what is interpreted, thanks to an Islamist/Palestinian public relations campaign, as 'occupation' of unceded Judaic ancestral territory partitioned by the United Nations in 1948 to offer a state to the Jewish occupants of the land, and a similar state to the Arab population who took on the designation of Palestinians meant to distinguish Jewish territory during the Roman occupation. An 'occupation' necessitated to maintain security and control over the actions of Palestinians dedicated to the  destruction of Israel and the death of Jews.

 

Decades of incitement, agitation, formation of Iranian proxy terror groups undertaken by the Quds division of the Islamic National Guard Corps of the Islamic Republic of Iran, had succeeded in forging an 'Axis of Resistance' of Shi'ite Islamists to Israel's presence in the Middle East. That same axis conducted a sectarian/tribal conflict with the majority Sunni-Muslim Middle East in an enterprise of long duration to replace the authority of the Sunni majority with the conquest to be achieved by the minority Shias in their traditional sectarian-tribal antipathies.

 

Israeli security forces inspect the site of homes destroyed by a missile fired from Iran, in Rishon Lezion, Israel, on Saturday. The federal government is urging Canadians to 'avoid all travel' to Israel as the country exchanges missile and air strikes with Iran. (Ohad Zwigenberg/The Associated Press)

 

Iran has threatened repeatedly over the years to destroy the presence of Israel. And over those same years it has worked assiduously to produce nuclear-grade uranium to produce nuclear weapons, a program it disguises as fulfilling a domestic need for nuclear-powered civilian energy ... in a country with vast oil and gas energy resources. Iran has never fully cooperated with the UN's Atomic Energy Commission inspectors who have reported that Iran has flouted its rules and  hidden its true purpose in refining uranium to weapons-grade status.

 

Taken together with Iran's threats, its sponsorship and arming of acknowledged terrorist groups such as Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Iraqi Shia militias, Yemen's Houthis, and formerly Syria's Assad military, and finally its near approach of late to acquiring nuclear devices, Israel made its move. A move that Iran prompted when its Hamas-supported leaders decided to invade southern Israel in a concerted sadistically-savage orgy of mass rape, mutilation, murder and  hostage-taking.

 

That horrific event led to Israel's military invasion of Gaza and its determination to finally destroy the group that had continued to attack it with rockets and suicide bombers over the years, then to turn its military to address a year's worth of rocketry attacks from Hezbollah, and finally the Houthi rocket attacks. The Iranian regime as the source of the venom that had infested the Axis, was the final target to be addressed and destroyed, as a forced move of self-defense for Israel.

 

Israel launched a pre-emptive strike against the nuclear-facilities in Iran, targeting as well the top IRGC leaders. Iran retaliated, unleashing hundreds of ballistic missiles on Israel, targeting mostly civilian areas in response; explosions lighting up the sky over Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The missiles sent to Israel by Iran have been intercepted by Israel and the United States, with assistance from Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Israel's western allies like the U.K. and France are markedly less keen to render aid to Israel, more inclined to criticize the Jewish state, as Canada has done.

 

All three countries jointly censured Israel for its Gaza invasion, with the Israel Defense Forces engaged in eliminating the threat of Hamas terrorism:

"If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response."

"We will continue to work with the Palestinian Authority, regional partners, Israel and the United States to finalize consensus on arrangements for Gaza’s future, building on the Arab plan. We affirm the important role of the High-Level Two-State Solution Conference at the UN in June in building international consensus around this aim."

"And we are committed to recognizing a Palestinian state as a contribution to achieving a two-state solution and are prepared to work with others to this end."

Britain, France, Canada  

 

The Israeli Iron Dome air defence system fires to intercept missiles over Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, June 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) 

 

"[Israel] disarming Iran's genocidal nuclear program [is within Israel's right to self-defence]."

"It cannot wait until the regime has capabilities for a nuclear strike."

Canadian Official Parliamentary Opposition, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre

  

"The international community must not allow the Iranian regime to acquire the means to threaten millions of lives in the Middle East, Europe, and ultimately here in North America."

"Countries like Canada that value democracy and reject terrorism must stand firmly in support of Israel's right to defend itself, especially against the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran."

Noah Shack, interim president, Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs 

Bringing Them Home

"[Israel will not rest until] all of its war goals are completed, [which includes the return of every single hostage being held in Gaza. The US promised Israel would have the weaponry it needed to return to fighting if necessary]."

"[Israel would do so] in new ways and with very great power."

"In the agreement approved just now, we will get back another 33 of our brothers and sisters — most of them alive."

"President Trump joined the mission to free the hostages from the moment he was elected. He spoke to me on Wednesday evening and welcomed the agreement. [Trump] rightly stressed that the first stage of the accord is a temporary ceasefire. That’s what he said, ‘A temporary ceasefire’."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Israelis attend a rally calling for the release of captives held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at “Hostages Square” in Tel Aviv, January 18, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Women, children, the elderly and the ill are classified as 'humanitarian' for purposes of initial selection in an exchange of hostages for prisoners and it is they, 33 in total number from among whom the initial choices for freedom will be made. They were all randomly, opportunistically snatched from the presumed security of their homes in farming communities, from a feel-good music festival, from bus stops and family outings to be taken to Gaza as human prizes to be held as chess pieces while also being raped, tortured, starved and humiliated in a twisted psychosis of Jew-hate.

 

Three hostages are to be returned Sunday, the initial day of the ceasefire; four on the seventh day, three more for each week in the following four weeks and the final 14 to be released in the sixth week of the agreement. The ceasefire to go into effect at 12:15 p.m. Sunday, the first three hostages, women all, to be freed around 4:00 p.m. Their names were to have been revealed Saturday afternoon by Hamas, but Saturday afternoon arrived and departed and no such revelation was received, causing great unease in Israel by anxious hostage families. But this is typical of Hamas; extracting as much psychological pain as possible from its victims.

Ninety-four of the hostages kidnapped during the October 7, 2023 invasion of thousands of Palestinian terrorists of the Palestinian Islamic and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine groups, led by Hamas, remain in Gaza. One third of the total is presumed to be no longer living. Two mentally unstable Israelis who years before had wandered into the Gaza Strip are also being held. The bodies of two murdered Israel Defense Forces soldiers from an earlier period are also being held for ransom and are to be included in the total released over a period of time in exchange for acceding to Hamas demands.

Israel is to release a thousand Palestinians from incarceration in Israeli prisons. It is also to withdraw its forces from populated areas of the Gaza Strip, among whom, needless to say, Hamas terrorists are prone to placing themselves, treating the civilians as human shields. A list of 95 Palestinian prisoners meant to be released on the first day was published by the Israeli Justice ministry.  Among those to be released are 25 male prisoners under age 21 and 70 women; the youngest among them 16 years of age. Accused of crimes such as incitement, vandalism, supporting terror, terror activities, attempted murder or throwing stones or Molotov cocktails.

Among the most well-known prisoners on the list is Khalida Jarrar, a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Among those to be released are murderers of Israelis. A byproduct of securing the release of the Israeli hostages, a steep price to pay, yet one Israeli authorities have countenanced for the urgent purpose of bringing their hostages back home, alive, if at all possible; dead, to be buried with honour, if that is the case. 

Hamas has stated it will not release the remaining captives unless a lasting ceasefire and a full Israeli withdrawal is achieved. Israel has vowed and reiterates that vow repeatedly that it will continue fighting until the Hamas terrorist group is completely dismantled, to ensure that the Hamas pledge to conduct future October 7 atrocities without end will never come to fruition. Israel's intention is to maintain open-ended security control over Gaza. For it has no other choice.

 

A woman and a little girl look at a mural showing female Israeli soldiers taken hostage during the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel in Tel Aviv, Israel, January 18, 2025 (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Incubaters' Intifada

"We very much have seen an impact from the conflict between Israel and Palestine, with how these clients are being affected here in Canada."

"There are surrogates who feel that carrying for an Israeli would be supporting genocide ... [but] more frequently than that is the fear of [harm to the parents or baby or reprisals for them]."

Jacki Lebert, CEO, Platinum Surrogacy, Ontario 

 

"Lately, I don't have any [surrogates] that will consider it at all."

"They feel it's a genocide or they say it's too much religion. They don't like seeing innocent women and children being killed over there."

"They say things like, 'I don't want a child to grow up in a war zone -- missiles bombs, suicide attacks'."

Sally Rhoads-Heinrich, agency head, Surrogacy in Canada

 

"When it was first presented to me ... it was more about comments calling Israelis murderers and not wanting to bring the next generation of murderers into the world, and that's what I found devastating."

"It was making a decision about an entire group of people."

 "They're [Israeli clients] very upset about it. They feel judged, they feel discriminated against."

"[Clients] said this is a feeling they have about how Israelis are perceived around the world right now, how everyone hates them."

Sara Cohen, fertility lawyer

 

"I fully understand that it's not the general population of Israel's [sic] fault for this abhorrent war."

"But the idea of a child that I birthed growing up in an active war zone is just too anxiety-inducing."

Surrogate statement

Fertility lawyer Sara Cohen at her Toronto offices, Friday November 8, 2024.  Photo by Peter J. Thompson/National Post /Postmedia

 

 Third-party parenting is having its 'ceasefire' moment. Two surrogacy agencies in Canada reveal that the surrogate staff appear unanimous in declining to 'work' with any of their once-Israeli clients. The reasons, however they've stated, to skirt around the issues, are quoted as objecting to the Israeli 'invasion' of Gaza with the result that according to the Hamas Health Ministry, has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, mostly women and children. 

 

That the prelude to this 'invasion'-cum defence of Israeli citizens was a monstrously savage true invasion by thousands of Palestinian terrorists on a mission to pillage, maim and murder 1,200 Israelis and capture 250 more as hostages is confined to the realm of inconvenient details.

Some claim not to oppose matching with Israelis as individuals, but feel concern over sending he resulting baby back to a violence-wracked region. Others fear blowback should it become known they were involved in an Israeli baby's gestation. Platinum Surrogacy alone claims up to 100 Israeli clients in any year. For them now, Platinum Surrogacy has become BaseMetal Surrogacy.

When lawyer Cohen, who almost exclusively represents gay men, posted a lamenting message on Instagram about the situation, she received some expected responses: "Typical Zionists -- entitled to other people's land, so why wouldn't they be entitled to other people's wombs?" One surrogate said: "It's not a war, it's a genocide".

Another surrogate asking her name not be published stated "I would just prefer to spend my time with a couple where I'm not seeing expressly negative things in the media. You see videos of children parentless, or parents crying over injured children ... That really creates a bias I wish I didn't have, but it's there".

Surrogacy in Canada online

 

Yes, it is; one thing can be said about Palestinians; they've mastered the arcane art of public relations manipulation. Another thing that can be said with conviction, given the state of affairs on Canada's streets with never-ending displays of Palestinian pro-Hamas championing; the viral antisemitism that has pervaded Canada and other Western countries with corrupted messaging that produces a one-sided version of events certainly ignores the existential threat that Israel is facing surrounded by hostile Muslim attitudes toward usurping Jewish self-entitlement to their ancestral lands that Islam consecrated to itself.

Additionally, the unquestioning eagerness with which Canadians swallow whole the version of events that eclipse reality by a wide margin is testament to the underlying antisemitism that is part of any society and always has been, regrettably. In a war, people die. Wars erupt generally speaking when one belligerent threatens another and no option is open but defence.

In Israel's case, its entire existence has been one of defence against violent offensive measures by combined regional military powers, or by an Islamist terror-supporting theocracy pulling the strings of their puppet militias to attack and to aspire to mass murder of Israelis. In the case of Hamas, following the October 7, 2023 atrocities, spokespeople announced the Hamas intention to conduct as many October 7s as it would take to destroy Israel. What country wouldn't respond to that by taking the initiative to destroy those that would destroy them?

 

Bedroom in southern Israel where a toddler was murdered by Hamas terrorists

 

Jews -- Reliant on None But Themselves

"While many different communities have been targeted, the greatest increase has been against the Jewish community by 69 percent. We strongly encourage the reporting of any suspected hateful act to police."

"[The Toronto Police Service's hate crime unit investigates] every reported instance of hate, including on the ground at demonstrations to gather evidence and investigate any suspected hate crimes of hate speech or signage. This includes the presence of flags that promote terrorist organizations as identified by Public Safety Canada. We remind everyone that charges can be laid at any time."

"But let me be clear, hate has no place in Toronto, and we stand united in protecting our diverse communities. We know emotions are intense and as demonstrations continue we must balance the right to assembly with the need to maintain public order and public safety."

"We have seen assaults on officers, including the use of weapons and physical attacks. These actions are dangerous for everyone."

"Marked police vehicles will be patrolling some communities with static red and blue lights on their rooftop bars to enhance visibility. In addition, three mobile command posts will be stationed in Jewish neighbourhoods, one at Bathurst and Glencairn, another at Bathurst and Sheppard, and a third at Bathurst and Finch."

"...[Another mobile command post] will be deployed to various mosques across the city."

"The Toronto Police Service will be a visible and reassuring presence for as long as is necessary."

Toronto Police Service Chief of Police Myron Demkiw

Toronto skyline stands on the waterfront. REUTERS/Mark Blinch

Following the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist savagery in southern Israel, its repercussions have echoed in surprising ways across the world, and no less so than in Canada. Despite the demonstrated reality of thousands of terrorists running amok in a gory bloodbath of rape, mutilation, mass murder and hostage taking as they overran farming communities in Israel across the border from Gaza, killing 1,200 Israelis including infants, their young parents, girls and women, soldiers and foreign farm workers, the world has failed to empathize with the plight of Jews in the aftermath of that savage pogrom.

Instead, there has been a steady rise in antisemitism, and with it, the glorification of the very terrorist hordes that inflicted sadistic atrocities on mostly Israeli civilians, along with looting and destroying kibbutzim. The Nova Music Festival that attracted thousands of young people for a celebration of the new year, of youthful companionship and of life's celebrations through the language of music, turned into a hideous torment of killing, the events videoed by the terrorists themselves as they went from venue to venue, laughing, slaughtering, enjoying the visceral carnage of proto-humanity.

 

That event saw Jew-hate and accompanying reports of hate crimes surge in Canada's largest, most populated city of Toronto. For the year 2024 so far, a 40 percent increase over the first nine months of last year has been documented. Since October 7, 72 protest-related arrests have been made by Toronto police. Given the fact that since that fateful day of October 7, over 1,500 demonstrations by those identifying themselves as 'pro-Palestinian' have taken place, 72 arrests given the hate-mongering, threats and intimidation displayed by Palestinian and Muslim groups aided and abetted by unions and the left, doesn't seem much of a response to such criminal activities.

 

Police investigators examine the exterior of a synagogue in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Que., where an incendiary device was ignited in November. (Francois Joly/Radio-Canada)

 

The firebombing, vandalizing, live gunshots at Jewish community centres, parochial schools, synagogues and private Jewish businesses, along with violently threatening marches through Jewish communities in Toronto, has in fact, seen a feeble effort on the part of police in Toronto. A reflection of what has been occurring elsewhere in Canada, from Montreal to Vancouver, Halifax to Calgary. Canada's Jewish population is one-quarter the size of its Muslim population, and it tells. Since it is, after all, the Muslim population led by Palestinians that has been perpetuating this violence in persecuting Jewish Canadians.

Toronto police have "conducted thousands of proactive visits to schools, places of worship and community centres to ensure the safety and security of our residents". An approach that is of questionable value when the school administrators and school boards all appear to have been infected with the virus of celebrating Palestinian victimhood grievances, themselves persecuting their Jewish students, from elementary school to high school, to the university level where faculty has taken up the new DEI-inspired conscience of 'anti-colonialism' and Israel is identified as the ultimate colonizer.

 

Demonstrators have now cleared a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Toronto’s downtown campus. Still from video

 

Seated in its historical ancestral homeland in the Middle East, where Israel is the quintessential liberal-democratic melting pot of Jews, Christians, Muslims, Druze, Bedouin, Kurds, Baha'i  belying the left's favourite charge against Israel as an 'apartheid' state, the anti-Israel legations throughout the West paint Jews in the Middle East as imperial colonialists, a charge that reality and history challenge with the proof that Jews are indigenous to the Middle East and in particular to their heritage Judean lands latterly occupied by Arabs largely from Egypt, Jordan and Syria who claim 'Palestine' for their own.

 

Police and politicians in Canada are functionally incapable of mentioning their efforts to come to grips with antisemitism without also mentioning the evils of 'Islamophobia'. And while the federal government under Justin Trudeau's governing Liberal party has been no friend to the fellow democracy that is Israel, it has long sought to garner support at the ballot box from the Canadian-Muslim voting bloc, adding an outsize number of Muslim Members of Parliament to its cabinet in the most inappropriate positions.

 

Typically, now in Canada, as elsewhere in the world and has been the 'norm' throughout history, Jews everywhere from Israel to the great diaspora dispersed throughout the globe, have been taught through sad experience that their safety and security, their future and that of their children is in their own hands for Jews cannot rely on others to lend support on an issue of trust and justice and the very perpetuation of Jewish existence and the legitimacy of Israel.

 

 

Laudable Support of Ukraine Fending off Russia -- Israel Can Look After Itself

"Canada fully supports Ukraine using long-range weaponry to prevent and interdict Russia's continued ability to degrade Ukrainian civilians [and] infrastructure, and mostly to kill innocent civilians in their unjust war."

"[Canada] fully supports Ukraine using long-range weaponry] in prevention of Russian strikes on hospitals and daycares across the country]."

"[Putin] is trying to deeply destabilize the international rules-based order that protects us all, not just in every democracy around the world, but in all countries around the world."

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

"[Putin said that allowing long-range strikes] would mean that NATO countries, the United States and European countries are at war with Russia."

"Ukraine has the right to self-defence, and we've obviously been absolutely fully supportive of Ukraine's right to self-defence."

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's team said Britain’s “shameful decision will not change Israel's determination to defeat Hamas. | Pool photo by Ohad Zwigenberg/AFP via Getty Images

The stance of these two countries, both led by Liberal-left, politically 'correct', DEI-infused heads, is very similar in content and their context. Both countries have experienced an exponential rise in the presence of new citizens joining those already present, from Muslim-majority countries, with a  significant presence of Arabs and Palestinians among them.  Numbers count. As for example, the almost one-and-a-half million Ukrainian Canadians who represent a large voting bloc. Ukraine's valiant battle to secure its sovereignty and fight off Russia's territorial ambitions is laudatory.

 

Apart from the fact that in both countries Muslims have achieved a notable presence in government; Britain's capital city has its very own Muslim mayor who is on record as promoting the presence of even greater numbers of Muslims living in Britain as he sets about making London, once one of the most civilized and cosmopolitan cities in the world, 'a better place to live'. On its way to becoming a better place to live, London Police have been extraordinarily busy taming the wildly violent pro-Hamas street celebrations.

 

Britain's new Labour government, developed as a kinder, more citizen-representative party than of old, has stated through its new Foreign Secretary David Lammy, that the UK would be suspending 30 of 350 arms export licences to Israel during its conflict with Hamas. The equipment affected would be 'non-essentials' such as parts for fighter jets, helicopters and drones. Presumably to give Palestinian terrorist groups a better fighting opportunity to achieve their aspirational goal of exterminating the Jewish state; a goal that would mightily please Britain's growing Muslim population.

 

Additionally of help to the war effort, Britain has decided to drop its opposition to the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while calling for an immediate ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas, the release of all hostages and an increase in the amount of aid to civilians in Gaza whom Hamas has deliberately, as is its wont, negotiated into a position of vulnerability by positioning its rocket launchers, command posts and weapons depots within or beside crowded civilian enclaves, hospitals, schools and apartment blocks.

"[Britain’s] shameful decision will not change Israel's determination to defeat Hamas, a genocidal terrorist organization that savagely murdered 1200 people on October 7, including 14 British citizens."

"Instead of standing with Israel, a fellow democracy defending itself against barbarism, Britain’s misguided decision will only embolden Hamas."

Response from PM Benjamin Netanyahu's office

Coincidentally, Canada's own minister of foreign affairs in a government that is fast sinking in public opinion, and certain to be ousted sooner rather than later, has made it clear that her Liberal government will brook no arms exports to Israel in its battle against the sadistic savagery of Palestinian terrorism. Canada has had ample share of pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas, anti-Israel demonstrations marching through the streets of its cities. That Muslims now represent 5% of the Canadian population with almost two million of the faithful, make them a powerful voting bloc the Liberal government not only promotes in Parliament but courts at the ballot box.

 

Israeli soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip on February 8, 2024. (Dylan Martinez/Reuters)

 

"Our policy has been clear. Since Jan. 8, we have not accepted any form of arms export permits to be sent to Israel."

"We are asking questions to these [Canadian companies with existing permits] companies. Following that, I asked my department to look into any existing permits of arms or parts of arms that could have been sent to Israel."

"Following that, I suspended this summer around 30 existing permits of Canadian companies and we are asking questions to these companies."

Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly