Offending Nature, Endangering Humanity

"I'll never forget the moment Kohli left it up there."

"I told him, 'You're making a huge mistake. this is going to go very badly. You have to bring that generator down."

"You can't leave plutonium by a glacier feeding into the Ganges!"

"We were trained to do it fast [unloading seven radioactive fuel capsules powering an electric generator]. At the time, I didn't quite grasp the importance."

"The Sherpas loved them. They put them in their tents. They snuggled up next to them [for warmth]." 

Jim McCarthy, lawyer, American rock climber 

 

"Maybe two or three people in the entire [Indian] government knew about this."

"[The government's intense fear that China was going nuclear led it to acquiesce]. You see, we had just lost a war to China -- no, not just lost, we had been humiliated." 

R.K. Yadav, former Indian intelligence officer

 

"I told them whoever is advising the C.I.A. is a stupid man."

The C.I.A. kept us out of the picture. Their plan was foolish, their actions were foolish, whoever advised them was foolish."

"The whole thing is a sad chapter in my life." 

"Even if the device doesn't explode, it is still out there, and that in itself creates a sense of fear." 

Captain M.S. Kohli, high-ranking Indian naval officer 

 

 

"Come back quickly. Secure the equipment. Don't bring it down", ordered Captain M.S. Kohli, monitoring a special mission from advance base camp led by the C.I.A. with Indian collaboration, in 1965. They had trudged up Nanda Devi carrying with them an antenna, cables and a SNAP-19C portable generator designed in a top-secret lab, powered by radioactive fuel. They planned to set up a surveillance device to spy on China's mission control, for intelligence on their nuclear program. 

 

The 23-kilogram, beachball-sized nuclear device would produce the electricity to operate the device. The team of American and Indian climbers had struggled their way up the mountainside in September, in a howling wind, crampons clinging to the ice, a 600-meter drop below, just before the onset of the dangerous winter storm season. Just as the climbers meant to push for the summit over the razor-sharp edge, in swept a blizzard bringing whiteout conditions. 

"We were 99 percent dead [when the blizzard hit]. We had empty stomachs, no water, no food."

"The snow was up to our thighs."

"In a situation like that you can't carry an extra needle." 

Sonam Wangyal, Indian intelligence operative 

Nanda Devi peak in India

 

Captain Kohli gave instructions to leave the generator behind to save the lives of the climbers. They secured the gear on an ice ledge, tying it down firmly, before descending down the mountain, fatigued and desperately anxious to survive. The nuclear device they left behind contained close to a third of the total amount of plutonium held in the Nagasaki atomic bomb. And that was the last time anyone saw the abandoned generator containing Pu-239, an isotope and larger amounts of Pu-238, a highly radioactive fuel.

 

No one outside those directly involved had any idea of this drama and how it played out. Until the late 1970s when an investigative reporter dug around for details and published his discovery. To the present, people in India demand answers;  high in the Himalayas villages in remote settlements -- and environmentalists and politicians fear that the nuclear device could slide into a stream of icy water and dump radioactive material into the headwaters of the Ganges, the sacred Indian river that hundreds of millions of people depend on. 

 

The question remains How dangerous is the missing device? Could it poison the headwaters of the Ganges, one of the world’s largest rivers?  India Today

 

 The plan was to set up  a secret sensor at the top of a mountain to intercept radio signals from Chinese missile tests launched from the Lop Nur testing grounds, some 1,500 kilometers away in Xinjiang. Nanda Devi stands 7,815 meters in height; a mere handful of people had reached its summit located within India, towering above the Chinese border; a strategic location. In mid-September the American and Indian climbers flew by helicopter to the foot of Nanda Devi,  around, 4,570 meters above sea level.

 

They faced an ascent of over 3,000 vertical meters along a knife's-edge ridgeline. A time shortage to carry out the mission before winter storms led them to bypass acclimatizing, the result of which was  altitude sickness striking the climbers. The porters were all  eager to carry the plutonium capsules, for the warmth they generated. No one ever explained to them what a deadly threat they represented. The climbers themselves were never warned about the radioactive material. 

 

Pushing the abandoned generator into an ice cave, everything was tied down with metal stakes and nylon rope. In spring of the following year Captain Kohli and another C.I.A. team returned for the device. When they scaled Nandi Devi there was no generator. The entire ledge of ice and rock was no longer there, likely sheared away by a winter avalanche. Captain Kohli organized search missions in following years using alpha counters to measure for radiation, telescopes to scan the snow, infrared sensors to pick up any heat and mine sweepers to detect metal. Nothing was revealed. 

 

Then in February of 2021 a massive rock wedge broke from a mountain close by Nanda Devi, unleashing a surge of water, mud, ice and more rock thundering through the narrow Rishiganga gorge. Over 200 people were killed in the landslide, many of them employed at a hydropower dam. The water surge was so gigantic the dam was swept away. "It has to be that generator. What else can there be?" stated Captain Kohli, noting the heat it generated to melt the ice would allow it to sink deeper and deeper and cause geological instability. 

"The radioactive material is right there, inside the snow."

"Once and for all, this device must be excavated and the fears put to rest."

Satpal Maharaj, Uttarakhand tourism minister 

Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks in Uttarakhand, India, are UNESCO World Heritage Sites celebrated for their breathtaking natural beauty and biodiversity.

 

 

The Afghanistan/Pakistan Love Affair

Ariana News

"Strong combat broke out in numerous areas of the 2,600-kilometer Durand Line in early October 2025, especially in the vicinity of Kunar, Spin Boldak–Chaman and the Kurram tribal region. While Kabul denounced Pakistan’s retaliatory airstrikes in Kandahar and Paktika as flagrant violations of sovereignty, Pakistan accused the Taliban government of providing sanctuary to Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants responsible for deadly raids inside Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. Numerous people were killed in the fighting, which also blocked important commerce routes and interfered with humanitarian supplies."

"After the two regimes declared an emergency ceasefire on October 19, Qatar and Turkey mediated the conflict in Doha. Both governments promised to stop the attacks, restore communication channels, and set up verification processes. Although the truce provided temporary respite, it revealed underlying structural divisions, especially in relation to Pakistan regime’s demand that Taliban regime stop TTP activities and the Taliban’s insistence that Pakistan respect Afghan territorial integrity."

Australian Institute of International Affairs 

 

The U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 under UN approval in the wake of 9/11, saw a multitude of countries joining Operation Enduring Freedom, mostly NATO members. At that time Pakistan aligned itself on the surface with the U.S.declaring itself part of a coalition fighting terrorism. While in actual fact, the Taliban was given haven in Pakistan, as was Osama bin Laden, living at Abbottabad not far from a Pakistan military base. Pakistan's own Taliban was just getting started, inspired no doubt, by the Afghan Taliban.

 

Fast forward to the present, and Afghanistan now governed by the fundamentalist Taliban. Pakistan's designs on controlling Afghanistan, and keeping India out of the country have rather soured now that the Taliban for better or for worse -- and as it happens, much worse -- is in power and Pakistan now struggling against its very own terrorist Taliban, blames the government in Afghanistan with sheltering Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, and for its troubles having Pakistan penalize it by cutting off a vital trade route.

 

One of the largest, once-bustling markets in Peshawar where thousands of shops owned by Afghans selling a wide variety of consumer goods is now a wan image of itself with the closure of hundreds of Afghan shops. A deep chasm has resulted between Afghanistan and Pakistan with their traditional trade routes impacted with cross-border trade having been cut by Pakistan as punishment for the Taliban administration failing to cooperate with Pakistan's demands it stop giving haven to the terrorists that have attacked and killed members of Pakistan's military.

 

Millions of farmers, traders and communities in both countries have been impacted by the suspension of  trade. Trucks carrying coal, cement, pomegranates, cotton, medicine and other goods valued to $2 billion in bilateral trade have been held up for months. Pakistan's 250 million population represented a plentiful consumer base for Afghanistan. But they and access to India -- vital to the Afghan economy -- have been hit a powerful blow for the Taliban government, already suffering from the forced return of over 2.5 million of its nationals from neighbouring countries, and the damage inflicted by two deadly earthquakes.

 

Hundreds of trucks and trailers have been standing idle since October 11 near the busiest border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan, after deadly clashes resulted in suspension of trade |Photo: Reuters

 

Hundreds of trailer trucks have been parked along the road running through the border near Peshawar, since October 11. Most crossings have been barred by Pakistani border guards, with the exception of Afghan nationals returning home. "When they stopped us here, it was still summer. Now winter is right upon us", moaned Abdul Wakeel at the Torkham border crossing. Although the Taliban denied supporting Pakistani Taliban, Pakistan expelled over a million Afghans and carried out strikes on Kabul and Kandahar, resulting in the deaths of dozens of soldiers on both sides.

 

Over half of Afghanistan's 42 million people require humanitarian assistance, while containers brimming with aid stand blocked at the border. Pakistan itself faces a rising poverty rate of 25 percent; the trade standoff benefits neither country. Peshawar, about 48 kilometers from the border with a sizeable Afghan population among its two million residents, has been struck particularly brutally by the situation. "We're caught in between the politics of two countries", observed Syed Naqeeb Badshah, president of a lobby group representing Afghan traders in Pakistan, resignedly. 

 

These trucks are loaded with the belongings of Afghans attempting to return to their country after Pakistan closed border crossings with Afghanistan. They were pictured at the border crossing in Chaman, Pakistan, on Oct. 16.  Reuters

The Jew-Baiting Islamists at Canadian Universities

"[University campuses] are the places where there's been an ideological picture that incorporates anti-Zionism into the fold, so it emerges from -- I think it's driven by -- a lot of faculty who have very strong ideological positions on this stuff."

"We're [Network of Engaged Canadian Academics [NECA] 400 members across 53 campuses concerned about the safety of Jewish faculty and students and staff and combating antisemitism."

"[What's going on in campuses across the country is] really taking us away from the things that a university is supposed to be about."

"Basically, what we find is there are two groups of faculty; those who have experienced no antisemitism or very low, and those who have experienced really high levels."

"It seems to work through feeling that you have to support yourself, your Jewish identity; that you're vulnerable, and that you're  betrayed by your institutions, and your colleagues."

"In a very strategic and intentional way our universities are being used as a source of ideological propaganda. And there are bad actors who we know are doing that. [It makes sense if you are trying to get some] intellectual ideological capture; [ focus on university campuses -- where you have the most academic freedom]."

Carey Kogan, psychology professor, University of Ottawa

B'nai Brith

 

Professor Kogan co-founded the Network of Engaged Canadian Academics in 2022. He did so because even before the atrocity of Palestinian terrorists led by Hamas slaughtering 1,200 Israelis and taking another 240 as captives for barter back to Gaza, unleashing a storm of antisemitic vitriol against Jews in Canada by a number of Palestinian student 'activist' groups, the Jew-hating atmosphere in  Canadian universities was beginning to sear the lives of Jewish students and academics.

 

Following the barbarism of 7 October 2023, incitements to discrimination against Jews took to the streets of Canadian cities and on university campuses where tent cities sprang up with students as well as outsiders garbed in keffiyehs and masks harassing Jewish students, barring entry to their classes, chorusing epithets against Zionism, and chanting 'from the river to the sea Palestine will be free!' ad nauseum, while demanding that university administrations boycott Israeli academics and divest university investments from any links with Israel.

 

Jews, points out Professor Kogan, represent a mere one percent of the Canadian population yet 70 percent of religious-motivated hate crimes target Jews in Canada. Jews are 25 times likelier to experience a hate crime than anyone from within the general population. "We need to move to action, where people are taking a stand, being vocal about this. We can have people talking about, even protesting war. That's fine. We can have people asking for rights for Palestinians. Absolutely fine. But we can't have this kind of identity-based hate movement being taught in classrooms, being propagated through motions at university, faculty unions, student unions and all of that".

 

The Network of Engaged Canadian Academics Dr. Kogan is part of represents a defence against campaigns that target Canadian universities "with a high proportion of Jewish students and faculty, like the University of Toronto" or campuses where media attention is likely to be drawn for publicity. Canada has more than adequate laws to deal with these situations, but has yet to enforce those laws and rules. There is insufficient transparency on foreign donations to universities, there needs to be an improved collaboration with federal intelligence agencies in an era when leadership is wanting, not leading. 

Anti-Israel protesters march at McGill University on Oct. 7, 2025. Photo by Allen McInnis/Postmedia/File

 

"I mean, faculty were helping students with these encampments, helping students write these reports, make these statements, and I think there are unions, both student and faculty unions, supporting this ideological position. It became harder for certain leaders to actually make clear statements, and there was a double standard in terms of implementing policies, more than in any other minority group experience.The biggest or the most painful thing for Jewish students is the double standard. 

 

"They're avoiding campus, taking courses online, they're hiding their Jewish identity.  Their behaviour is changing as a function of the hostility. They won't talk about their opinions on things They're put on the spot asked to speak for the Israeli government, like absurd, absurd kinds of things that we would never see other minority groups be subjeted to."

 

Matters may yet escalate with ongoing negotiations with Hamas, and journalists reporting on the level of destruction in Gaza. Dr. Kogan points out that the entire area of Gaza was honeycombed with tunnels where underground military bunkers housed and protected Hamas operatives and weaponry. In bombing the tunnels and targeting Hamas terrorists, the Israel Defence Forces had little option, after instructing civilians to leave the areas before assaulting the structures, but to destroy the tunnels. 

 

Between January 1944 and 1945 the Royal Air Force and the U.S. air force conducted air raids over Germany where American planes alone made 744,000 sorties and dropped 1.4 million tons of bombs with inaccurate aerial bombing, dropping loads indiscriminately in and around major German cities. The result was Allied bombing that killed up to five hundred thousand German civilians. Allied raids destroyed between 4.5 and 5 million homes. How's that for perspective?

 

As for the level of institutionalized and casual Jew-hate, the former the result of an enormous intake of Muslims into Canada in the past several decades, the latter the always-present but generally underground antisemitism that always hovered in the air among the general Canadian population: "It's deep, it's structural, it's embedded, it's years old, it's informed by religion, it's informed by culture. And so it's not going away any time soon. But I think we can bring the temperature down, if we have strong leadership", ventured Professor Kogan. 

 

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Jewish Community Security Failures in Canada

"This attack will inspire both celebratory and violent rhetoric from religiously motivated violent extremists."

"The majority of violent rhetoric targeting the Jewish community very likely comes from those who do not intend to engage in serious physical violence. However, it remains a realistic possibility that such rhetoric could be used by individuals or transnational terrorist groups to justify violent acts." 

Government of Canada Integrated Threat Assessment Centre (ITAC) 

 

"The words and chants used matter and have real world consequences. Those using the phrase 'globalize the intifada' ... should expect the Met and GMP to take action."

"We will act decisively and make arrests. It is possible to protest in support of Palestinian people without intimidating the Jewish community or breaking the law."

Joint statement Met/GMP, Britain

 

"One of the things that would be really helpful, that doesn't require any policy or legislative change, is for leaders to be absolutely unequivocal about what's right and wrong, not only when it manifests in a terrorist attack  halfway across the world but when it's manifesting itself in streets across Canadian cities."

"...We need a focus on enforcing the laws that we already have on the books and ensuring there is clear and vocal leadership from all levels of government."

Noah Shack, chief executive, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA)

CIJA

 

What has happened to law abiding citizenship in Canada, the Canada we knew and loved where minority groups were  welcomed and the government boasted of its multiculturalism dimensions enriching Canadian culture, giving it greater scope and value. That was the Canada when immigrants were grateful to be accepted, when refugees were  happy to resettle themselves in a free and accepting society, when there were no incidents of mass illegal migrants storming our borders, a time when ethnic communities were free to cling to their traditions while integrating into the social order in Canada.

 

This is not the Canada we see today -- with some ethnic communities in silos of separation and compartmentalization from traditional Canadian values and the law -- has become common, where criminality is on the rise, where deep social fissures have been forged through deliberate regimented hostile group actions and where lawlessness and threats by one group against another have been ignored by government as Canada falls apart while the federal government itself displays hostility toward a former democratic ally.

Palestinians and supporters congregated at Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)

 

Jews are being threatened and terrorized in this new, unpalatable Canada. Where for the past two years constant harassment of the Jewish community has gone 'unnoticed' by governments at all levels, and violent criminal acts take place with minimal reaction. Where young Muslim men inspired by the sadistic rape savagery of Hamas's October 7 mass atrocity which led to Israel's invasion of Gaza, have been arrested for attempted emulation of the terrorist victim abduction and rape of Israelis, on the streets of Canada. A serious crime that seemed to warrant bail-release for one of the accused.

 

An RCMP-led Integrated National Security Enforcement Team recognized the leader of the trio, Waleed Khan, with links to Islamic State. Most recently the Integrated Threat Assessment Centre issued a statement to the effect that they found no indication of "an imminent, credible threat"  meant to disrupt the 2025 holiday season in Canada; code for their belief that a Bondi Beach style terrorist attack that killed 15 Australian Jews and wounded 40 others was unlikely in their opinion at this time. Well, give it time...

 

On the other hand, reported ITAC, an attack by a lone actor or small group could not be entirely dismissed, since such an attack is not only plausible, but a "realistic possibility" -- upon the Jewish-Canadian community. A resurgent threat of religiously motivated violence has been acknowledged, with links to Islamic State. As in ... sooner or later. The three young men arrested for attempts to kidnap and rape Canadian Jewish women, reflects online social media incitement through ISIS auspices.

 

Hate crimes in Canada disproportionately aim at the Jewish community (with one percent of the population, Jews have been the recipients of 16 percent of all hate crimes between 2017 and 2023). And since October of 2023, reported hate crimes targeting Jews has skyrocketed. Where there were no fewer than 798 'demonstrations' that took place in Canada since the southern Israel terrorist attacks mounted by Palestinian terrorist groups led by Hamas.

A pro-Palestinian demonstration in Ottawa on March 18, 2025. (Shaun Vardon/CTV News Ottawa)

 

The commonly-heard chorus of 'intifada, revolution' with Palestinian flag-waving, along with 'Palestine will be free from the river to the sea', both of which are deciphered readily to mean the destruction of Israel, have brought deserved notice in Britain which is grappling with its own Islamist fallout against British Jews. The Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police Force Sir Mark Rowley and Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police Sir Stephen Watson, issued a statement warning that such phrases geared to strike fear in Jewish communities will be grounds for prosecution.

 

The Canadian Jewish community has pleaded time and again over the past two years, for government to act in good conscience on their behalf to ensure the security and safety of loyal Jewish-Canadians. Yet there has been no action of any substance to reassure Jews in Canada that they are regarded as citizens with full rights to live in peace and security. By continuing to permit the harassment and threats aimed at this community, the federal government has abdicated its responsibility of equality and justice under the laws of Canada. 

 

This diminishes Canada and mocks its values. Canada shaming itself by soiling its own laws, its politics, its social security obligations to all Canadians. 

 

CIGA

"We're creating an environment of permissiveness and of radicalization around terrorism that is feeding the outcome of these attacks."

"No intelligence is 100 percent foolproof; no law enforcement is going to be effective 100 percent of the time. We need to make sure both of these elements are as strong as possible but at the same time, we need our governments to be investing in community security resources that are required to mitigate and block the impact of these attacks when they do get through."

"We saw that on display in Manchester [in the October 2025 synagogue attack], where they were able to minimize the casualties as a result."

Noah Shack, CIJA 

Who Stands on Guard for Islamist-Threats Against Canadian Jews?

"Antisemitism in Canada has reached a crisis point. Jewish schools, community centres, and synagogues are being  targeted by gunshots and Molotov cocktails."

"Swastikas are openly displayed, while mezuzahs are torn from the doorways of Jewish residences."

"Chants glorifying terrorist violence against Jews are heard on streets and campuses, without consequence."

"Jewish students are afraid to go to class."

"The Government of Canada must act decisively to confront the alarming rise in hate threatening Jewish Canadians and Canada's inclusive, democratic society."

Coalition of Jewish leaders press release 

Hundreds of demonstrators blocked access to CANSEC, North America’s largest weapons and military technology expo, in protest against what they call Canadian complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

 

Since the Palestinian terrorist atrocity committed on October 7, 2023, when thousands of terrorist operatives led by Hamas swarmed out of Gaza across the border into southern Israel to rape, maim and murder over a thousand Israelis and kidnap hundreds more into Gaza, Jews in Canada have witnessed an almost-overnight change in their status as loyal Canadian citizens. Suddenly government leaders at all levels from municipal, provincial to federal, and their policing forces appear to have forgotten the values and customs and laws of justice and equality. Jews are left to fend for themselves against a phalanx of Jew-haters loudly and confidently making their presence known. 

 

No sooner had news erupted out of the Middle East that a mass pogrom had taken place, leaving Israel traumatized, and the expectation that this declaration of war by Palestinian terrorist groups would be confronted by an Israeli military response, Muslim Canadians launched demonstration after  demonstration, accusing Israel of 'genocide', while slandering Jews in Canada and calling for a global intifada, chanting 'Final Solution!', 'Jews go back to Poland' with the obvious message of another Holocaust.

 

Gathering in Place des Arts in the heart of downtown Montreal, demonstrators showed their support for Palestine (CBC)

 

Canada has laws against criminal behaviour; hate-mongering to the extent of inciting to murder -- threatening an identifiable demographic, interfering with people attempting to enter places of worship, defacing buildings with offensive messages, entering private property to harass clients, disrupting legal social gatherings, marching through ethnic-specific neighbourhoods to threaten residents -- are all criminal acts for which the law has remedies. But they have never been enforced in the case of Muslims vs Jews.

 

While governments at all levels intone formulaic rejection of antisemitism, there is no comfort in words which lack relevant action to put a stop to the incitement and the threats. Nor is it particularly comforting that authority figures condemn antisemitism, and in the same breath add 'Islamophobia', when it is in fact those faithful to Islam who primarily threaten and slander Jews, while advocating for the general public to join them, which some are willing to do now that overt antisemitism appears to be normalized in Canada.

 

(JERRY ZHANG/ THE EYEOPENER)

 

Ongoing for two years, with no stop to the constant haranguing, intimidation, and threats, episodes become more violent and openly aggressive. Jews must now build physical barriers around their community centres, synagogues and parochial schools for protection, employing security guards and  hoping this will forestall the events that have seen synagogues firebombed and vandalized, along with privately owned Jewish businesses, and Jewish elementary schools shot at. 

"Since the Hamas-orchestrated October 7, 2023 massacre, Canada has experienced a dramatic increase in violent antisemitism.¹ This dangerous spike is concurrent with an increase in activity by an interconnected and coordinated network of NGOs, whose campaigns of anti-Israel demonization, antisemitism, and intimidation create a hostile environment throughout Canada. A number of the leading groups are linked to Palestinian terror organizations and hide their sources of funding." 

"NGO Monitor’s mapping of Canadian anti-Israel groups, partnerships, and funding shows the extent of NGO cooperation in advancing their agendas of isolating Israel and attacking the Jewish State’s supporters (and perceived supporters). This NGO network is responsible for violent public events, student encampments, statements, and legal actions. Ominously, many of these groups have publicly celebrated the Oct. 7th atrocities, and expressed support for Hamas and other Canadian-designated terrorist organizations."

• There is a blatant lack of transparency regarding the funding sources that enable the NGOs in the network. 
• 38 out of the 111 groups are registered with Canada Revenue as a business or charity. 29 organizations are known to have received some funding from the Government of Canada or provinces.
• Samidoun – a Palestinian terror-linked NGO with chapters in Vancouver, Toronto and Ottawa – is one of the key groups promoting hate and incitement in Canada through its planning and promotion of numerous antisemitic events and extensive partnerships across the country.
• Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), which claims to have 9 university and 18 regional chapters, has the most connections, partnering with 76 out of the 111 groups.
• While small in numbers, campus organizations are prominent in the network and have partnered with many NGOs, including those that receive Canadian government funding.
• On the cluster map, organizations are situated closer to other organizations with which they have more links (“force-directed layout”). Legal NGOs appear to be fairly central and connected, suggesting  that they are providing important services to many of the activist groups.

NGO Monitor 

 

If the federal government's inaction when Canadian Jews are relentlessly targeted leaves those Jews with the impression that they have little option but to leave the country they have lived in for centuries, they may succeed, even as the federal government welcomes immigration and refugee and migrant intake of Muslims fleeing violence in their countries of origin, bringing with them traditions of maliciously dangerous Jew-hate. 

 

Among Canada's lengthy list of proscribed terror groups, Hezbollah and Hamas have an honoured place, as do other groups such as the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. Canadian Intelligence has warned that members of Hamas and Hezbollah have a presence in Canada, diligently working to undermine safety for Jews by inciting to violence. They alternately turn to harassing people at shopping centers and at Christmas Markets. Samidoun's leader and co-founder, Charlotte Kates established Vancouver as her group's national headquarters. Despite advocating against Israel as well as Canada's legitimacy, burning a Canadian flag at a demonstration, no lasting charges of hate-mongering resulted.

 

 The Canadian Integrated Threat Assessment Centre stated the "realistic possibility" of a violent attack against Jews in Canada, following the Bondi Beach atrocity in Australia, since both countries now share a progressive-left ideology that sacrifices the safety and security of their Jewish populations, while catering to the 'Islamophobia' myth that censures any criticism of Islamist threats and violence. This latest assessment is certainly not the only one acknowledging Canada's dysfunctional response to Islamist violence, awaiting the sudden occurrence of an Islamofascist attack on a Jewish event in Canada.

 

Waleed Khan, Osman Azizov and Fahad Sadaat are facing a combined total of 79 charges according to police, including attempted kidnapping with a firearm and sexual assault with a weapon, police say. Khan is also accused of funding ISIS and aiding terrorist activity, the RCMP said. (Toronto Police Service/YouTube)

 

"Our intelligence officials have made it clear that the ingredients that were in place in Sydney are also in place here in Canada."

"[The extremism that] fuelled mass murder on the beach in Sydney is present here in the GTA [Greater Toronto Area] and Canada and it is time for Canadians and Canadian leaders in particular to wake up before it is too late."

Noah Shack, CEO, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs 

 

 

Raising the New Generation of Islamic State Jihadists at Al-Hol

"All of the women here are radical."

"But the bigger problem is that the mothers are educating their kids according to the Islamic State ideology."

Hokmiya Ibrahim, administrator, Roj camp, Syria 

 

"Repatriation is the priority."

"We are aiming to return people to their countries, not just in al-Hol, but for all the camps inside northeast Syria. Everyone should go back home."

"This camp is a ticking time bomb. We’ve received intelligence from our allies in the international coalition, led by the United States, and from the Iraqi government, that ISIS [the Islamic State] is planning something. But we don’t know whether it will be an external attack or an uprising from within."

"We’re trying to address this together with the National Security Agency and the [U.N. Refugee Agency]."

"[But on the part of the new government], no steps have been taken to relocate these populations."

"Humanitarian cases in al-Hawl need urgent referral to Damascus or elsewhere and, for the past month and a half, we’ve seen no positive moves." 

Jihan Hanan, co-head, al-Hol camp, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces

 

"Many international organizations have programs for al-Hol, but when it comes to actually moving and supporting families, there is no one there in practice."

"Given the scale of needs and funding constraints, no returnee receives a full package of support immediately upon return. Resources simply do not allow for that."

Mounzer al-Salal, director, Syrian NGO Stabilization Support Unit (SSU) 

Families prepare to return to their hometowns from northeast Syria’s al-Hol camp, 27 April 2025. Reuters

 

"A massive fence confines 39,000 people, 11,000 of whom are foreign nationals. Of these, 95% are women and children — mostly relatives of Islamic State fighters — along with a number of other civilians displaced by war. The camp is divided into six sections. Sections 1 through 5 house about 33,000 Syrians and Iraqis. Section 6, which the camp’s director described as “the most dangerous,” holds the families of foreign fighters from over 42 countries."

"There are 24,000 minors in al-Hawl. Many were born behind barbed wire and have never seen the world beyond the camp. Seven thousand of these children are under 12 years old. As we drive in, children hurl stones at the armored vehicles driven by our escorts from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led militia coalition that has battled the Islamic State for years. Others hide. One boy raises his right index finger — a gesture often associated with the Islamic State."

"Since 2019, over 150 killings have been documented inside al-Hawl; an average of more than two murders per month. A few weeks ago, authorities discovered the mutilated remains of a woman in Section 6, partly mummified and discarded in a ditch between tents belonging to extremists."

New Lines Magazine 

Mostly women and children live in the al-Hol camp    BBC

 

Most of the detainees in the Al Hol Camp located in northeastern Syria where a fence with barbed wire surrounds the immense compound, are family members -- the wives, sisters and children -- of the Islamic State fighters imprisoned nearby. Prisons close by the women's prison house over 8,000 of the ISIS fighters. Kurdish-led Syrian forces supported by the United States fought to reclaim land in Syria that ISIS had ruled for years as well as in Iraq, when it established its 'Islamic Caliphate', planning to conquer ever greater tracts of land until it was finally brought to heel.

 

The Kurdish-led forces that had protected the minority groups such as Yazidis, Christians and their own from the  brutal Islamists detained thousands of ISIS fighters and tens of thousands of their relatives, many women who had entered Syria from abroad responding to an appeal from ISIS for 'brides' for their terrorist fighting men. Ever since that wind-down of ISIS and the capture and imprisonment of their cohorts, the Kurds have been left to the task of guarding them. Despite years-long appeals to the international community by the Kurds to repatriate their citizens, few have complied.

 

The United States, allied with the Kurds, is now preparing to completely withdraw their presence and expects the new government of Syria to take responsibility for the thousands of residents in the detention camps, part of its plans to have the  Syrian Democratic Forces led by  the Kurds merge with the reconstituted military of the Syrian government under one-time ISIS affiliate, President Ahmed Al Sharaa, once known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani, in his earlier role as a bona fide jihadist. 

 

Although the Trump Administration has given the new Syrian administration a clean bill of health, that hasn't stopped the Al Sharaa military from aiding and abetting parts of its Sunni alliance jihadist militias in deadly reprisal attacks against the Syrian Alawites as well as Syrian Druze and Christians. Understandably, given the Kurdish experience with Sunni Jihadist militias and its battles over the years to free the geography from the hold of the Islamic State, the Kurds have little trust in the new government and its stated commitment to fight ISIS. 

 

The al-Hol camp holds families of alleged Islamic State fighters [Getty]

 

 Kurds view the likelihood that the former al-Qaeda-linked new government may turn the ISIS prisoners free, despite their public stance of battling ISIS. By no means is the Islamic State dead and gone as a violent ideological threat to global stability and security. It continues to target northeast Syria's Kurdish-led forces, expanding reach and frequency and lethality, reflecting the assessments by the UN and U.S. Two American soldiers were killed in one such attack in mid-December.

 

According to camp officials, ISIS operatives remain inside the camps, their focus that of radicalizing the children. Over 27,000 family members of ISIS fighters are held in Al Hol and nearby Roj camps. And while none of the women have been charged with  any crimes, the officials are under no illusion that many of these women are dangerous as ongoing proponents of the ISIS agenda, intent on teaching their children to become future acting members of the terrorist group. 

 

The most extreme of the detainees are those from countries outside the Middle East; Tajikistan, France and Russia; among them, about 6,000 women and children living separately in the camp, off limits to visitors. Violence and ill-health are the lot of the residents of the camp, where weapons are smuggled in and women and older adolescent boys attempt frequent escapes. Among the hundreds of vehicles entering daily with supplies, some carry human contraband out of the camp. 

 

"Every day people are fleeing, and it seems it is an organized operation", observed Al Hol administrator Jihan Hanan. 

  

All the residents at the camp are under indefinite detention, even though many have no links to the Islamic State and fled to the camp to escape the punishing U.S.-led bombing campaign. Photograph by Ivor Prickett

 

 

 

Hush, Hush, Watch Your Phobic Language Over Islamist Terrorism

"Australia ... warns against any 'phobic' association of Islam with extremism. Indeed, in recent months, as the killers of Bondi were reportedly in the Philippines learning how to murder Jews, Aussie officials were poring over a new report titled 'A National Response to Islamophobia'."

"It proposes, among other things, challenging 'narratives that depict Islam as being 'intrinsically associated with ... extremism'."

"You couldn't ask for better proof of the moral corrosion and wilful blindness of the West than this vision of Australia's ruling class fretting over Islamophobia, as two men were plotting an apocalyptic act of Islamist violence."

"The fear of offending Muslims has had deadly consequences."

"Radical Islam directly benefits from this snivelling culture of cowardice. As we gag ourselves, it takes root and spreads. Our self-censorship creates the dark corners in which it can fester -- uncommented on,  uncriticized, even unnamed."

Brendan O'Neill, chief political writer, Spiked 

Candlelight vigil at Bondi Pavilion, December 16, Sydney, Australia,. Audrey Richardson, Getty Images

 

Naveed Akram made a brief video court appearance from the Sydney hospital while being treated for an abdominal injury. He has since been transferred to an unnamed prison. Australian police on Monday released documents outlining the two men, father and son, had recorded footage justifying the planned Bondi Beach attack that killed 15 people and wounded 40 others. Akram himself had been wounded on December 14 when the duo committed their mass atrocity while Australian Jews were celebrating the first day of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, at the popular beach.

 

The attack by the 24-year-old and his father began when they threw four improvised explosive devices at the crowd of families, children and friends bathed in a communal euphoria of remembrance that light dispels the darkness surrounding us. For the children it was the epitome of a joyous holiday, where sweets were in abundance, playgrounds beckoned, face-painting and animalia balloons were available and a general aura of peace and tranquility prevailed. The IED devices failed to explode. But the staccato of gunfire took their place, shocking the celebrants and killing some immediately.

 

The Bondi Beach shooting suspects seen leaving a rental in Campsie

New South Wales Police

 

The Islamist jihdists had rented a room in Campsie, a suburb of Sydney, for three weeks, refining their plans of attack. On the day of the attack they left for the short journey that would take them to the destination they had carefully chosen as their attack venue. CCTV revealed their arrival, bearing two shotguns, a rifle, five IEDs and two Islamic State flags wrapped in blankets. The IEDs were comprised of three aluminum pipe bobs and a tennis ball bomb filled with an explosive, gunpowder and steel ball bearings, described as 'viable' by police.

 

Images of the two killers shooting from a footbridge -- overlooking the beach below, which also provided them a raised vantage point, along with the protection of waist-high concrete walls -- were released by police. Akram was charged with 59 offences ranging from 15 counts of murder to 40 counts of causing harm with intent to murder and one count of committing a terrorist act.

 

Still from video

 

Draft laws were introduced by the New South Wales government to Parliament, promising to be the toughest in Australia, according to Premier Chris Minns. Among them new restrictions included a condition of qualifying for a firearms licence requiring Australian citizenship beforehand. Sajid Akram was an Indian citizen living in Australia on a permanent resident visa. He had purchased the six long guns in his possession legally. No word, however, of the Australian government's permissiveness of the years-long 'pro-Palestinian' marches to 'globalize the intifada'. 

 

The memorial that had quickly been mounted near the Bondi Pavilion as an expression of grief and mourning following the massacre, with thousands of mourners bringing flowers and cards as an expression of sorrow and solidarity, was no longer to be seen on Monday, removed as the beachfront returned to normal activities. The jarring vision of a memorial to murdered Jews no longer visible to shock the gaze of beachgoers. Part of the memorial is set to be installed at the Sydney Jewish Museum as a permanent exhibit. 

 

Birds fly over police cordons at the scene of the mass shooting at Bondi Beach on December 14, 2025 in Sydney, Australia.   George Chan/Getty Images

 

"[A video on Naveed Akram's phone shows him and his father expressing] their political and religious views and appears to summarize their justification for the Bondi terrorist attack."

"[The men are seen in the video] condemning the acts of Zionists [while they also] adhere to a religiously motivated ideology linked to Islamic State."

"[October video shows them] firing shotguns and moving in a tactical manner [on grassland surrounded by trees]."

"There is evidence that the Accused and his father meticulously planned this terrorist attack for many months."

New South Wales Police 

The Islamist Incompatibility With Western Culture and Values

"Public incitement of hatred, wilful promotion of hatred and wilful promotion of antisemitism through downplaying, denying or condoning the Holocaust are hybrid indictable offences."

"[Other indictable offences include] mischief in relation to religious property, educational institutions, buildings used for cultural, administrative, sports or social events or residences for seniors if the commission of the mischief is motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on, amongst other grounds, race, religion, national or ethnic origin."

"[The offences of] intimidation of a journalist, or justice system participant [ are also indictable]." 

David Matas, Counsel, B'nai Brith Canada 

 

"Some versions of Islam are not really compatible with life in a liberal, democratic, pluralist society."

Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott

 

"Killing Jews is worship that draws us close to Allah."

Hamas 

 

"Social cohesion [is] hard to measure, hard to quantify and sometimes a dangerous thing to discuss."

"But we damn well should."

Jason Kenney, former Conservative Immigration Minister 

Police tape off a road after the shooting in Bondi. (ABC News: Victoria Pengilley)

 

The tragedy of the Bondi Beach Hannukah atrocity in Australia can be traced to many harbingers of the assault. Above all, the migration of people of the Muslim faith in large numbers Down Under. Australia now fancies itself another Canada, in its celebration of 'multiculturalism'. Trouble is, there is a certain degree of integration that should sit alongside multiculturalism; above all, the adoption of the values and traditions and justice system of the welcoming society, while maintaining links with the home culture. And the accompanying recognition of the receiving society that there are cultures whose values do not and never will align with their own.  

 

Making them, ipso facto, a risk to either be denied entry on that recognizable factor, or one to be monitored and subject to correction. In many instances those who practise the faith of Islam demonstrably fall into that category. In very particular those who emigrate from countries where fundamentalist Islam is the norm, with its baggage of jihad, either passive or violent. Which is to say the sheer weight of immigrant numbers demanding the introduction of Sharia and the demand that the receiving population be respectful beyond reasonable of their dominating religion. Or the presence of violently malign jihadists prepared to exact a lethal toll on the non-Muslim population as an obligation to their faith of conquest.

 

Mourners gather by floral tributes at the Bondi Pavillion in memory of the victims of a shooting at Bondi Beach, in Sydney on Dec. 15.  Saeed KHAN / AFP via Getty

 

In Australia, insufficient attention was given to the calibre and integrative quality of individuals admitted into the country, a situation mirrored in Canada over the past several decades. Where both governments in their Liberal zeal for compromise and progressive leadership along with an eye to a growing vote bloc chose to overlook a growing threat to another segment of their population when in the wake of the October 7 mass atrocity perpetrated by Palestinian terrorists in southern Israel, Muslims in both countries, led by Palestinian youth movements mounted threatening demonstrations against the Jewish populations.

 

People take part in a protest for Palestine in Montreal  THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

 

Crimes of intimidation, of incitement to hate and violence, the threats that erupted in Jewish neighbourhoods in both countries, the illegal interference of normal activities, the bombing of synagogues, of Jewish community centres, the harassment of Jewish shop owners, vandalizing of their businesses, the chorus of braying 'globalize the intifada', of 'Jews go back to Poland', of 'Final Solution', sending none-too-subtle messages of  death-to-Jews have been permitted to play out, week after week, with no lawful intervention by authorities. Leaving Jews to fend for themselves.

 

Political leaders at all levels, along with municipal and federal and provincial policing agencies placated the demonstrators and berated Jewish anti-demonstrators that their presence was provocative and they must leave or be arrested. Rarely do police intervene to put a stop to the pro-Palestinian raucous and threatening marches, nor do they uphold the law when masses of Muslims hold street prayers impacting traffic lanes. Permissiveness equals support, and support for anti-social activities creates dangerous situations of ever-increasing lawlessness.   

"About 450 people with assorted roles in Hamas have ties to Canada, according to a source familiar with the intelligence on the matter."

"The source, who spoke on the condition of not being identified, said the list was comprised of permanent residents, as well as those with family or associates in Canada."

"The number said to have been active in the organization in various capacities, and connected to Canada, is significant and includes a top leader."

"The Canadian Security Intelligence Service confirmed it was investigating Canadians in Middle East terror groups, but declined to elaborate."

"Hamas is a listed terrorist entity in Canada, making it illegal to participate in or contribute to “any activity” of the group, which Public Safety Canada calls a “radical Islamist-nationalist terrorist organization”."

Stewart Bell, Global News 

Demonstrators burned an Israeli flag as they protested on McGill University campus in support of Palestinians in Montreal. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press)

 

Peace? Of Course Peace!!!

"The United States is the creator of NATO, its main sponsor. All the main resources come from the U.S. -- money, military technology weapons, ammunition, everything."

"And in the new U.S. National Security Strategy, Russia is not named as an enemy or a target. Yet the NATO secretary general is preparing for war with us."

"What is that? Can't you read?" 

Russian President Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin during his annual Direct Line call-in show at Moscow’s Gostiny Dvor, 19 December 2025. Photo: EPA / SERGEI ILNITSKY

 

"The financial package for Ukraine has been finalized. Ukraine is granted a zero-interest loan."

"These funds are sufficient to cover the military and budgetary needs of Ukraine for the two years to come."

"If Russia does not pay reparations we will -- in full accordance with international law -- make use of Russian immobilized assets for paying back the loan." 

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz 

 

"[The U.S. is trying to] figure out if we can nudge both sides to a common place."

"We understand that you're not going to have a deal unless both sides have to get."

"Both sides will have to make concessions if  you're going to have a deal. You may not have a deal. We may not have a deal. It's unfortunate."

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio 

 

"The key question [relating to the U.S.-proposed plan to end the 4-year war] remains how the United States responds after consultation with the Russians. At this point, I honestly don't know, but I will know later today."

"This [agreement between Ukraine and Portugal for joint production of maritime drones] is one of the most promising areas of defence co-operation. What matters now is delivering results, and all parts of Europe must have sufficient capabilities to counter any threats."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy 

Moscow Times

 

According to the Russian Defence Ministry it struck unspecified "transport and storage infrastructure used by the Ukrainian armed forces" as well as energy facilities supporting Kyiv's war effort. But then, Ukrainian drones have hit a Russian oil rig, the military patrol ship Okhotnik and other facilities as the ship patrolled the Caspian Sea near an oil and gas production platform at the Filanovsky oil and gas field, also hit, as well as a radar system in the Krasnosilske area of Crimea. 

 

Nothing, however, stops Mr. Putin from sneering at Ukraine's presumably feeble efforts at defence and offence, as, he claims, Russian forces are clearly winning the war that Ukraine is responsible for starting and he, Vladimir Putin, is anxious to put an end to. During the annual question-and-answer availability session staged by the Kremlin, Mr. Putin responded to many questions put to him. And in the process beamed over the fact that U.S. President Trump had shunted aside America's European allies in favour of Russia.

 

In responding to journalists and the general public in Russia the Russian president expressed his confidence on the trajectory of the Ukraine war while denying any responsibility for the war's consequences in massive human casualties, since it wasn't his fault at all, but rather that of the West. Sneering at NATO secretary-general's assertion that Russia might attack a NATO country within five years, pointing to the U.S. National Security Strategy linking Russia to "strategic stability". As for the security document; it is "largely consistent with Russia's intentions".  

 

"He can come back when he is ready for peace" 

Vladimir Zelensky and US President Donald Trump   REUTERS/ Brian Snyder

 

"When I arrived in Anchorage, I said these would not be easy decisions for us. But we agree to the compromises being 'proposed'. To say that we reject anything is absolutely incorrect and has no basis."

"The ball is entirely in the court of our opponents, so to speak, and, first and foremost, the leaders of the Kyiv regime and their, in this case, and above all, European sponsors." 

President Vladimir Putin  

It is, he reiterated, Kyiv that is refusing to end the war, while Moscow was prepared for peace with Ukraine and is willing to compromise to end the conflict, while Ukrainian forces were retreating "in all directions".  Terms suitable to Moscow are all that Russia is asking for to achieve peace. Terms eliminating "the root causes" of the conflict. Russia bears no responsibility for human war casualties "as we did not start that war".

 

While having assured President Trump that Russia stood willing to compromise in peace talks, Russia is also prepared to absorb more of Russia's "historical lands" from Ukraine through military force if negotiations to end the war on  Russian terms failed. Those Russian terms are, he contends, completely reasonable; the surrender of both Ukrainian territory in Russian hands, and portions still held by Ukraine. Oh and by the way, Ukraine taking steps to downsize its military and forego the weapons it holds to a limited number.

 

Right: no NATO presence in Ukraine as a guarantor of peace conditions upheld, nor any future attempt by Ukraine to join NATO. As for reconstruction costs associated with rehabilitating and rebuilding Ukraine, reparations are of no concern to Russia; Europe can foot the bill. Europe's decision to help fund Ukraine's continuation of its offensive saw EU Council President Antonio Costa declaring: "We have a deal. Decision to provide 90 billion euros of support to Ukraine for 2026-27 approved. We committed, we delivered."

 

Belgium continues to hold out on the EU's plan to use frozen Russian assets for Ukraine's war effort and reconstruction. The International Monetary Fund estimated 137 billion euros would be needed by Ukraine in 2026 and 2027. The 210 billion euros of Russian assets frozen mostly in Belgium would fit the bill nicely. While Putin's ally, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban who sees himself as a peacemaker declared: "I would not like a European Union in War. To give money means war".  

"Western leaders created this situation themselves and continue fanning the flames by saying they are preparing for war with Russia. [It is] nonsense [that Russia wants a war with Europe]."

"I have no doubt that you and I will witness new successes of our armed forces, our troops on the contact line before the end of this year. That's the plan." 

President Vladimir Putin 

Putin answers questions as presenters Pavel Zarubin and Yekaterina Berezovskaya look on. Photo: EPA / SERGEI ILNITSKY