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Re: Anti-gentrification
By: canada Date: November 26, 2023, 4:07 am
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HTML https://www.arabnews.com/node/2415261/world
Thousands demonstrate in Canada for cease-fire in Gaza
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OTTAWA, Canada: Thousands of protesters on Saturday carried
placards, waved Palestinian flags and chanted slogans before
Canada’s Parliament in Ottawa, demanding a permanent cease-fire
in the war between Israel and Hamas.
The diverse group included Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, Jewish,
anti-war, labor and social justice organizations.
The rally followed an online petition presented to lawmakers on
Friday with 286,719 signatures — said to be the most of any
parliamentary e-petition — urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
to press for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza.
“A pause is not enough,” said Yara Shoufani, a protest
organizer, adding that “thousands of Palestinians have been
killed and Gaza’s infrastructure has been destroyed.”
Protester Omar Yousif, 38, said he was taking part to “awaken
the world” to the plight of civilians in Gaza.
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Re: Your lord speaks to you, Oh Canada
By: protests Date: November 26, 2023, 10:01 pm
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HTML http://english.news.cn/20231126/b00f4e0993644a75b8f13c57e8d06094/c.html
People participate in pro-Palestine rally in Vancouver, Canada
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Canada
By: canada Date: December 8, 2023, 9:15 pm
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HTML https://calgaryherald.com/news/braid-gondeks-shocking-snub-of-hanukkah-turns-a-great-party-into-magnet-for-antisemitism
Braid: Gondek's shocking snub of Hanukkah turns a great party
into magnet for antisemitism
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At the last minute, she said she wouldn’t attend this year’s
menorah lighting at city hall, accusing Jewish leaders of
tricking her about the “political” meaning of the celebration.
Will she now cancel Christmas, too? Stop attending Muslim
events? I don’t think so.
Gondek’s snub has inflicted shock and anguish on Calgary’s
Jewish community. It came out of nowhere after she had agreed to
attend and a lot of work had gone into the event.
The mayor says she didn’t know support would be expressed for
Israel. There was a “last-minute change” that “goes against the
original intention” because the event was “repositioned to
support Israel.”
That left her “feeling let down by (Jewish) leadership.”
Liberal MP Anthony Housefather, who is Jewish, said of Gondek:
“You are sending a horrible message by not attending.”
The local federal Conservative caucus said in a joint statement:
“Her decision to withdraw could dangerously normalize
antisemitism at a time when across campuses and communities,
Jewish Canadians are already feeling threatened.”
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HTML https://www.bnaibrith.ca/amid-unprecedented-surge-in-antisemitism-toronto-public-library-welcomes-radical-anti-israel-author-for-appearance/
Amid Unprecedented Surge in Antisemitism, Toronto Public Library
Welcomes Radical Anti-Israel Author
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B’nai Brith Canada is urging the Toronto Public Library (TPL) to
cancel its event, scheduled to feature a controversial American
whose writings wrongly accuse Israel of manipulating the
Holocaust to suppress criticism.
Norman Finkelstein, a former political science professor who has
been denied tenure in the past over his extreme writings, has
been invited to participate at the TPL’s Dec. 5 event – part of
an “Intellectual Freedom” program series about free speech in
academic settings.
The TPL has billed its conference as an opportunity to address
the problem of faculty being “hemmed in or censored” for
“unpopular or politically challenging” opinions and research.
According to promotional materials, the goal is to “encourage
universities to push boundaries and challenge the dominant
narratives while at the same [time] ensuring that universities
are safe spaces for everyone.”
accusing the global “Jewish Establishment” of weaponizing the
collective memory of the Shoah
Last month, Finkelstein wrote a blog post lauding Hamas’ brutal
Oct. 7 assault - as “heroic resistance.”
“The irony in the TPL’s decision to feature Finkelstein in their
speaker series is that his anti-Zionist worldview already
represents the ‘dominant narrative’ on university campuses,”
said Michael Mostyn, B’nai Brith Canada’s Chief Executive
Officer.
the TPL is contributing to the further marginalization of a
Jewish community already under siege, and that is absolutely
[s]un[/s]acceptable.”
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HTML https://www.cp24.com/news/woman-charged-in-mischief-at-jewish-school-and-daycare-in-north-york-1.6679755
Woman charged in mischief at Jewish school and daycare in North
York
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Toronto Police have laid charges in connection with an incident
that saw a vehicle damaged with a rock outside of a Jewish
school and daycare centre last month.
Police initially said they were treating the incident as a
suspected hate-motivated offence. However they said Friday that
following further investigation, that is no longer the case.
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Re: Your lord speaks to you, Oh Canada
By: canada Date: December 19, 2023, 6:04 pm
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HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/antisemitic-incidents-make-up-53-of-reported-hate-crimes-since-israel-hamas-war-began-toronto-police-1.7064086
Antisemitic incidents make up 53% of reported hate crimes since
Israel-Hamas war began: Toronto police
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Antisemitic incidents are up 211 per cent since the Israel-Hamas
war began over two months ago compared to the same time period
last year, Toronto police Chief Myron Demkiw said Tuesday.
Demkiw rattled off new statistics about hate crime related
offences in the city at the force's monthly board meeting, where
he said antisemitism makes up 53 per cent of all reported hate
crimes since Oct. 7.
"That's 56 of 105 total occurrences," he said.
"In terms of all hate crimes reported this year, antisemitism
makes up almost 41 per cent of all these occurrences. That's 147
of 360."
The latest figures also show an increase in hate related
graffiti.
here have been 159 hate crime graffiti occurrences reported
since Oct. 7, 111 antisemitic occurrences
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HTML https://globalnews.ca/news/10180257/justin-trudeau-ottawa-terror-plot-charges/
Trudeau says antisemitism rise is ‘terrifying’ after teen
[s]terror [/s]charges
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the rise of antisemitism in
Canada is “terrifying” after a 15-year-old was arrested late on
Friday night in Ottawa and charged with[s] terrorism[/s]-related
offences.
“What we’re seeing, particularly right now with the rise of
antisemitism linked to what’s happening overseas right now, is
terrifying
Many Jewish Canadians have said they feel that safety is being
compromised, with instances of protesters targeting Jewish-owned
businesses, such as bookseller Indigo and at shopping centres,
as the Israel-Hamas conflict continues.
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HTML https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/ottawa-terror-arrest-shows-need-for-laws-targeting-online-hate-bernie-farber
Ottawa [s]terror [/s]arrest shows need for laws targeting online
hate, Jewish leaders say
[quote]
“Especially now, especially at this time of real danger, the
government has to take this bull by the horns and put this
legislation forward. Canadians need protection,” said Farber,
who is now retired but has spent decades fighting antisemitism
and hate.
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Re: Your lord speaks to you, Oh Canada
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 20, 2023, 5:14 pm
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Graph supplied by our enemies:
HTML https://vdare.com/posts/justin-trudeau-is-jumbo-sizing-america-jr
[img width=1280
height=1266]
HTML https://i.imgur.com/TwR8ZgM.png[/img]
[quote]Canada’s diploma-mill colleges have been going all out
getting temporary visas for South Asians who hope they can swing
a temp visa into a permanent one and then, if Shiva be merciful,
an American one. For example, obscure Conestoga College has
grabbed over 31,000 temporary visas over the last 16
months.[/quote]
WE WILL REPLACE YOU!
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Re: Your lord speaks to you, Oh Canada
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 24, 2023, 6:20 pm
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Our enemies report:
HTML https://vdare.com/posts/the-not-so-great-replacement-canadian-colleges-privatize-canadian-permanent-visas-by-promising-them-to-south-asian-early-education-majors
[quote]Northern College traditionally drew its students from the
province of Ontario’s vast, sparsely populated hinterland, a
region dominated by miners and loggers. Today, a whopping 82
percent of the public college’s students come from abroad—nearly
all from India.
...
or students from abroad, the institutions can be a conduit to
permanent Canadian residence, and for Canada, the students help
reduce labor shortages and increase the country’s flagging
productivity.
...
despite many foreign students’ initial reluctance to study at a
place as remote as Northern, Dr. Penner, the college’s
president, believed she held an ace: Graduates of Northern and
other public colleges may apply for a post-graduation work
permit that could lead to permanent residence and citizenship.
“We can say, if you come here, we can pretty well guarantee that
you could stay here and live and make a home for yourselves,”
Dr. Penner said.
...
Dozens of international students are immediately hired after
graduating, allowing them to apply for permanent residence, Ms.
Holmes said.[/quote]
:)
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Canada
By: annoying Date: January 3, 2024, 9:30 pm
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HTML https://www.nationalreview.com/news/this-is-the-tipping-point-canadian-jewish-business-firebombed-defaced-with-free-palestine-graffiti/
‘This Is the Tipping Point’ — Canadian Jewish Business
Firebombed, Defaced with ‘Free Palestine’ Graffiti
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A Jewish-owned grocery store in Toronto was firebombed and
defaced with “Free Palestine” graffiti early Wednesday morning.
“I’ve been a criminal investigator the vast majority of my
career, and in most of those criminal investigations, there was
a tipping point. This is this tipping point,” Toronto Police
Service spokeswoman Pauline Gray said outside the vandalized
International Delicatessen Foods building, which is located in a
predominantly Jewish neighborhood.
“We will leave no stone unturned. We will use all the resources
available to us to investigate, arrest and prosecute who is
responsible for this.”
Ya’ara Saks, the Liberal Party parliamentary representative for
the district, condemned the apparent hate crime in a public
note. “I have just learned the shocking news of the attack in
#YorkCentre at the Jewish-owned local business International
Delicatessen Foods. With each brazen act of incitement and of
violence, the cycle of antisemitism and hateful acts increases.
This must stop,” Saks, a minister in Justin Trudeau’s cabinet,
wrote Wednesday afternoon.
“We are all witness to the frequency of these acts of
intolerance targeting Jewish-owned businesses and Jewish
neighbourhoods.
The attack drew the condemnation of the Centre for Israel and
Jewish Affairs (CIJA), a prominent Canadian Jewish lobbying
group. “This is another sickening example of the escalation in
#Antisemitism we’re seeing in cities across #Canada. Political &
community leaders need to speak out loudly & decisively — this
violence cannot be tolerated any longer,” CIJA wrote in an
official statement on X.
Toronto has witnessed a spike in antisemitism since the Hamas
invasion of Israel on October 7
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Canada
By: canada Date: January 7, 2024, 7:52 pm
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HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/1/5/drop-the-charges-against-indigo-peace-11-protesters
Drop the charges against Indigo ‘Peace 11’ protesters
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People peacefully protesting a Canadian business for openly
supporting the Israeli military as it commits egregious war
crimes should not be branded antisemites and treated like common
criminals.
On November 22, Canadian police conducted coordinated pre-dawn
raids on seven homes across the greater Toronto area and made 10
arrests. They broke doors, ordered suspects out of their beds,
and went on to completely ransack every single room and
confiscate computers, cars and other private property, in some
cases in the presence of terrified children and the elderly.
The suspects, known to their supporters collectively as “the
Peace 11” – including one that was arrested separately on
November 14, were professors, community organisers, legal
workers and labour activists, targeted for the ostensibly
dangerous offences of plastering posters and splattering
washable red paint on the window of a Toronto branch of the
Indigo book store chain.
They had taken action against the store, like hundreds of
others across Canada, to protest the material support Indigo’s
owners have long been providing to the Israeli military.
And these early morning raids, during which peaceful protesters
were treated as violent criminals and humiliated in front of
their family members, are not even the most troubling aspect of
this intimidation campaign.
The media coverage of the protest action and its aftermath, the
nature of the charges, and the police messaging on the case,
raise serious questions about abuse of police powers and
systemic anti-Palestinian discrimination in Canada.
It seems the raids were designed to terrorise, and scare into
silence, Canadians who have been taking to the streets in large
numbers in Toronto over the past few weeks to call for an end to
Israel’s war on Gaza.
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HTML https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/383208
Police serve hot coffee to anti-Israel protesters in Toronto
Jewish area; sparked outrage
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Anti-Israel protesters blocking a bridge within the largest
Jewish community of Toronto, the capital of Canada's province of
Ontario, were served hot coffee by the local police.
When one of the protesters was asked how he got coffee from the
police, he replied: “It’s not from the police. Someone brought
it for us, and the police won’t let them in. So, the police have
become our little messengers.
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HTML https://globalnews.ca/news/10209484/toronto-mayor-interrupted-protest/
Mayoral event in Nathan Philips Square interrupted by
demonstrators
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Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow held the annual Mayor’s Skating Party
in Nathan Philips Square Sunday, which was interrupted by
demonstrators.
While addressing the media about the free skating event, Chow
was interrupted several times by protestors with megaphones
waving Palestinian flags.
Several security guards stepped in to create a barrier between
the mayor and the demonstrators.
After she exited the rink, demonstrators could be heard saying
to skaters “while you’re skating, bombs are dropping.”
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Re: Your lord speaks to you, Oh Canada
By: canada Date: January 9, 2024, 5:03 pm
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HTML https://globalnews.ca/news/10213076/hate-motivated-assault-vaughan/
4 Jewish people assaulted after walking home from Vaughan
synagogue: police
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York Regional Police say four people who identify as Jewish were
walking home from a synagogue when they were allegedly assaulted
by a man who was later arrested by officers.
“The victims felt intimidated by the manner in which the suspect
operated the bike in their presence,” police said,
Investigators said there was an argument and the man on the bike
allegedly spat on the victims and made anti-Semitic comments
before he rode away. Police have deemed the assault
hate-motivated.
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HTML https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/windsor-jew-israel-gaza-palestinian-protest-march-demonstration-1.7077679
Pro-Palestinian march in neighbourhood group says is
historically Jewish sparks criticism
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"Hebrew Heights." That's how Dan Brotman, executive director of
the Windsor Jewish Federation, describes Victoria Boulevard — a
residential neighbourhood in South Windsor.
The federation has issued a public statement expressing fears
and concerns about a pro-Palestinian demonstration that included
Victoria Boulevard in its marching route on Dec. 31.
Organizers say they weren't aware they were marching in a Jewish
neighbourhood. But Brotman believes it was a form of deliberate
intimidation.
"I can say that many members of our Jewish community felt unsafe
and felt targeted, because that area has historically been known
as a Jewish area. It is symbolic of Jewish Windsor," Brotman
told CBC Windsor.
Brotman said there are 40 to 50 Jewish homeowners in the area of
Victoria Boulevard.
There's no evidence, he said, that the route was planned for
that reason.
"We can't prove it. But what we can say is that this is a
strategy being used by the pro-Palestinian movement in other
parts of North America, including in Toronto."
He says he doesn't believe that organizers did not know the area
was home to a number of Jewish homeowners.
"Anybody who is from this area usually knows it," Cheifetz said.
"I can't argue with what they say, but I don't believe it."
But Rasha Zaid, an organizer with Windsor4Palestine, bristled at
the WJF statement, describing it as "inaccurate" and
"insensitive."
"We are not a mob," Zaid told CBC Windsor. "We are protesters
that speak the voice of humanity. We want nothing but peace on
every land existing."
"It's not just me," Zaid said. "Many members that actually live
and grew up in Windsor had no idea (that area is Jewish)."
"We do not want to see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict imported
to Windsor-Essex," Brotman said.
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Canada
By: canada Date: January 14, 2024, 5:11 pm
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HTML https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/three-anti-israel-protesters-arrested-for-defying-bridge-demo-ban
Anti-Israel protesters strike Joly's home; three arrested for
defying Toronto bridge protest ban
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Anti-Israel protesters once again attempted to occupy the Avenue
Road overpass in Toronto on Saturday
Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw announced last week that
demonstrations would no longer be permitted on the bridge, and
that future protesters would face arrest.
Despite that warning, protesters began arriving at the overpass
— located amid Toronto’s largest Jewish neighbourhoods —
Saturday morning, where police were waiting.
The Avenue Road bridge is located in Canada’s largest and most
diverse Jewish communities, within a kilometre of nine
synagogues and several Jewish businesses, homes, schools,
daycares and community centres. Protesters and their advocates
insist the demonstrations are meant to inform rather than
intimidate.
Protesters on the bridge were seen carrying signs depicting
Adolf Hitler and related Nazi imagery.
Jewish residents have said they felt intimidated and harassed by
the protests.
Anti-Israel activists soon began picketing outside of
Jewish-owned businesses and community centres, and targeting
politicians they perceive as being pro-Israel.
Protesters set up a noisy demonstration outside of the Montreal
home of Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly on Saturday
morning, a day after she issued a government statement that
rejected the claims by South Africa at a UN court accusing
Israel of “genocide.”
About three-dozen protesters appeared at Joly’s home, setting up
a tent as well as a loud speaker, and accused her of complicity
with the [s]alleged [/s]“genocide.”
Anti-Israel demonstrators were expected to disrupt a number of
events on Sunday.
A Toronto anti-Israel group planned to sabotage a Sunday
afternoon family ice skate at Mel Lastman Square, hosted by
Toronto City Councillor Lily Cheng, Liberal MP Ali Ehsassi and
Ontario PC MPP Stan Cho.
Anti-Israel protesters were also expected to disrupt a vigil
marking the 100th day of Israeli hostages being held captive by
Hamas, scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. Sunday at Nathan Phillips
Square in downtown Toronto.
Two anti-Israel groups were also planning a 4 p.m. rally at the
Israeli consulate at Bloor and Yonge streets.
In addition, starting at 7:30 p.m., a rally of community leaders
and politicians in support of Israel will take place at
Toronto’s Congregation Habonim to mark the hostages’ 100 days of
captivity, near Bathurst Street and Glencairn Avenue.
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