It is long past time for the Canadian government to release the final report of the Commission of Inquiry On War Criminals In Canada. The commission, whose mandate was to deal with the explosive issue of suspected Nazi war criminals admitted into Canada, was chaired by Jules Deschenes, a retired Quebec Superior Court judge. He […]
Controversial comments by U.S. Vice President JD Vance have set off ripples of unease in the American Jewish community. Vance, a friend of Tucker Carlson — a conservative podcaster who has been accused of dabbling in antisemitism — has conveyed the impression that he tolerates antisemites in the isolationist “Make America Great Again” wing of […]
Jewish settler violence against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is on the upswing, and Israel is doing virtually nothing to stop it. The attacks have occurred on almost a daily basis, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing nationalist government has taken scarcely any steps to arrest and prosecute the perpetrators. The Institute for National […]
Since October 7, 2023, when Hamas hordes from the Gaza Strip invaded southern Israel in a murderous rampage that sparked a two-year war between Israel and Hamas, Palestinian protesters and their supporters have staged hundreds of anti-Israel demonstrations in Toronto. They have demanded sanctions against Israel, which has cordial relations with Canada, and have called […]
Last June, the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa, Canada’s capital, was vandalized by Iain Aspenlieder, a middle-aged lawyer formerly employed by the city. He daubed the words “FEED ME” in blood-red paint on the memorial, which commemorates the victims of the Holocaust and recognizes the 40,000 or so Jewish survivors who found a new home […]
Israel’s recognition of Somaliland as a sovereign state came as a bolt out of the blue, but it was hardly surprising. Israel, the first nation to formally recognize Somaliland, has had a longstanding and clandestine relationship with it. When the State of Somaliland won independence from Britain in 1960, Israel was among the 34 countries […]
Strangely enough, the Canadian government seems to be in no hurry to deal with the pressing problem of rising antisemitism in Canada. Its somewhat lax attitude toward this issue is difficult to understand and fathom. Since Hamas’ one-day invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023, antisemitic incidents have skyrocketed around the world. A month […]
Judging by the recent arrest of three young Muslim men in Toronto charged with hate crimes, Canada’s immigration system needs to be fixed as expeditiously as possible. Last month, the Toronto Police Service and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced that Osman Azizov, 19, Farad Sadaat, 19, and Waleed Khan, 26, faced almost 80 charges […]
Who could have known? New York City, home to the largest Jewish population in the Diaspora, is now governed by an anti-Zionist Muslim mayor, a possibility that seemed inconceivable only a few months ago. A former New York assemblyman from Queens, Zohran Mamdani defeated Andrew Cuomo, the ex-governor of New York, in last November’s municipal […]
At its general assembly meeting in Geneva last week, the European Broadcasting Union judiciously came down on the side of fairness and justice. It allowed Israel to continue participating in the Eurovision Song Contest, the next one of which takes place in Vienna in May. Some members, having denounced Israel’s conduct of the war in […]