Isolated and Alone -- Ostracized for Being Jewish

• In Canada, between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2024, law enforcement arrested six minors (under the age of 18) for terrorism-related offences (Section 83 Canadian Criminal Code offence or placed them on a terrorism peace bond, Section 810.011, Canadian Criminal Code).
• Radicalization is the process by which individuals adopt an overtly ideological message and belief system that encourages extreme views and actions.
• Radical thinking is not illegal and freedom of speech is a fundamental right in Canada. Radicalization becomes a threat to national security when people advocate or engage in violence as a means of promoting or furthering their ideology.                                                     Royal Canadian Mounted Police

In its 2018 annual report, the Committee noted that the national security and intelligence community identified terrorism as the primary threat to national security. The government also stated that individuals or groups inspired by Salafi-jihadi ideology posed the greatest terrorist threat to Canada. This assessment has evolved based on a number of trends and events. These include the liberation of Daesh-controlled territory in Iraq and Syria, the subsequent detention of Canadian extremist travellers (also known as foreign fighters) in Syria, attacks against Canadians by extremist individuals and organizations, and the rise of ideologically motivated violent extremism.

National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians Annual Report 2020 

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

 

Canada's National Police and Intelligence agencies are well aware of what constitutes terrorism and foreign interventions in Canada for the purpose of influencing Canadian society in the belief that the perpetrators of threats to national security and to the social contract of equality and security in Canadian citizenship are in reality, merely religious groups whose motivations and actions are deeply misunderstood. That they are, in reality, only appealing for recognition of their right to practise their religious devotions and those living abroad in traditionally explosive areas of the world seek freedom from oppression, justifying their violence as 'liberators' of oppressed people.

 

Rocks were thrown through the front door windows of Pride of Israel synagogue in North York in June. A second North York synagogue had its windows broken half an hour later. (Alexis Raymon/CBC)

 

Canada's intelligence agencies can go before the Parliament of Canada and attest to their findings, giving ample notice to the government currently in power to enable reaction in view of the alarm, authorizing the national police and the intelligence arms to take action, while placing policing agencies at the provincial and municipal levels on alert, so that when actual events take place that are identifiably counter to Canadian laws, its system of justice, that pose a threat to Canadian citizens and group unity, remedial action can be taken to neutralize such threats.

 

So far, for almost two years, those Canadian authorities who have been given ample notice, who have witnessed public events taking place that imperil citizens, that flout the rule of law, that cause major disruptions, that are responsible for property damage, that threaten harm to an identifiable Canadian ethnic/religious group, that destabilize academic institutions, that cause destructive violence on houses of worship, schools, community centers, hospitals, estranging communities from one another, have taken no action whatever to put a stop to these uncommonly strident threats and actions.

 

Demonstrators protest a sale of 'Palestinian' land held in a Thornhill synagogue in 2024. Source: CBC

 

While Canadian Jews have suffered the indignities of harassment -- violation of their community institutions, defacing of their synagogues, shots fired at Jewish primary schools, threatening marches through their communities, vandalizing of Jewish-owned businesses -- no actions by authorities at any level have been taken to counter these criminal acts, leaving the Jewish community to arrange for their own security to enable children at parochial schools to be safe, and Jews attending religious services to have security from the constant threats.

 

At any time that complaints arise from within the Jewish community to their municipal, provincial or federal governments, statements are issued of support for the community and condemnation of antisemitism, but the responsibility of governments to act to ensure that these travesties of public life not continue are shrugged off, ostensibly balanced against the constitutional right of 'free speech'. Denigrating others, threatening an identifiable group with death protected in the name of free speech is a massive dereliction of duty in a civilized country that prides itself on democratic order.

 

Even when police escorting the many 'protest' marches throughout the streets of Canada's cities as the 'demonstrators' demonstrate their contempt for law and order, while shouting imprecations at Israel and Jews, uttering coded messages well understood to signify death, either of Israel or Jews, as language like 'Intifada', 'Go back to Poland', 'Final Solution', and 'From the river to the sea', ring out -- while Israel, the place where Palestinian terrorists invaded in their thousands to leave a bloody trail of 1,200 dead children, women and men is accused of 'genocide' against Palestinians.

 

Pro-Palestinian protesters gather along the route of the United Jewish Appeal’s annual Walk With Israel march in Toronto on May 25. (Arlyn McAdorey/The Canadian Press)

 

Palestinian public relations has indeed succeeded in 'globalizing the Intifada', but not without the casual assistance of Canada's Liberal government which never misses an opportunity to decry the equal sins of 'Antisemitism' and 'Islamophobia', while Islamists entitle themselves to pray en masse in the streets, cutting off both pedestrian and traffic lanes in a demonstration of passive-aggressive conquest. And because there are no repercussions either to the marches and the threats, or the implied ownership of the streets, those demonstrating feel encouraged to reach ever greater heights of upheaval.

 

But it is not just governments of Canada which have stood by and supported these events by their very inaction. It is the neighbours, colleagues, friends and acquaintances of the greater Jewish community everywhere throughout Canada who have failed in sufficient numbers to stand with the Jewish community, to stand up against the travesties of the social contract of mutual respect and civility and dignity of the person that seems most inexplicable to the Jewish community, leaving it effectively isolated and alone.