Digital Analysis Situation Room and Rapid Response Programming for Israel/Gaza-related Extremism, Hate and Mis/Disinformation in Canada

"Among the top performing tweets about the conflict that were shared among right-wing extremists in Canada in the month after October 7 2023 were posts claiming that Justin Trudeau had directly funded the Hamas attacks through contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees." 

"Several Telegram channels associated with extreme right-wing content creators both hosted antisemitic material and amplified posts from international right-wing extremists and antisemites."

Institute for Strategic Dialogue, London, England

 

"Israel gets attacked, they kill women. children, innocent people, torture them, burning babies and more."

"Israel starts retaliating and Palestinians fill the streets of Toronto with Anti-Jew slogans."

"Canada will soon be unrecognizable and filled with these religious extremists." 

Facebook: Turdeau/Liberals Are Destroying Canada

Muslims pray outside McGill University's Roddick Gate during celebrations marking the first anniversary of the October 7 terrorist attacks on Israel. Photo by John Mahoney / MONTREAL GAZETTE

 

Blacklock's Reporter made public a program funded by the Digital Citizen Contribution Program,  a Liberal fund described as a means toward "countering online disinformation". As part of its presumed mandate the Program contracted with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, for the U.K. company to monitor pro-Israel social media accounts in Canada. And its eventual report went on to frame those pro-Israel accounts as "right-wing extremists", whose motivation was led by "anti-Muslim hatred". 

The viral 'protests' that overtook the streets of Canadian cities and set up encampments on the grounds of Canadian universities, paraded their numbers and keffiyeh-clad members shouting invective at Canadian Jews and the State of Israel, recommending a global 'Intifada', a 'Final Solution', and 'From the River to the Sea', condemning Israel as genocidal, with an intent to annihilate Palestinians from land rightfully belonging to them, and not to Jews as their ancestral heritage geography, denigrating the presence of Jews in Canada. Yet these protests are characterized as peaceful events.

 

The targets of the pro-Palestinian -- Hamas-supporting-and-admiring Palestinian student groups in Canada who faced intimidation and threats in their very neighbourhoods with municipal police agents doing nothing to subdue the situation, or offer protection to Jews, while offering assistance to the civic-disturbing and obviously antisemitic throngs of anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian groups engaging in mass prayer sessions, shutting down highway access in a show of conquest -- were continually warned not to confront their tormentors. And it was the Jews who were ushered away, not those who threatened them.

 

Yet the Jews were the designated 'right-wing' threats to society by the U.K. contractor, and not the illegal actions of their indefatigable persecutors whose threats and implied violence clearly identified them as uncivilized malefactors. A few months following the October 7 massacres of Israelis in southern Israel by Hamas terrorists who rushed across the border in their thousands to wreak bloody havoc, the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau hired the London firm at a cost of $128,258.

 

The project was titled Digital Analysis Situation Room and Rapid Response Programming for Israel/Gaza-related Extremism, Hate and Mis/Disinformation in Canada. What resulted was a series of reports with the claims the Israel-Hamas conflict had caused an inflammation of "extremism, hate and disinformation" among Canadian 'right-wing extremists', exacerbating "online harms" in Canada. "Several influential accounts, particularly on X, have taken a staunch pro-Israeli position since the attacks on October 7", one report warned.

 

The post that was excerpted in one of the reports, posted by Facebook's Turdeau/Liberals Are Destroying Canada, was included as an example of an 'extremist' post that spread disinformation that "policing of protests related to the Israel-Hamas conflict has been inconsistent". Pro-Palestinian 'protest' demonstrations featured calls of "death to Israel", with banners praising "armed resistance". A recognizable pattern of demonstrators celebrating the October 7 massacres in the immediate aftermath and the first anniversary of attacks go unremarked and undenounced; presumably innocent in nature and definitely not 'extreme right-wing'.

 

Palestinian Youth Movement, one of Canada's most prominently active anti-Israel groups held a rally of celebration in "honour [of] the martyrs of the past year". In reference to which the Institute for Strategic Dialogue pointed out the extremist nature of any statement that the demonstrations were "protesting for the death of Jews and Jewish state"; an obviously unforgivable surrender to Islamophobia on the part of Jewish 'extreme right-wing' trouble-makers within society.

 

The Liberal government of Justin Trudeau, renewed Canada's funding of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, after it was suspended by the previous Conservative government. That funding of UNRWA was renewed again by the Liberal government, irrespective of the proven fact that the agency was forced to dismiss nine staffers on the evidence, for taking part in the October 7 attacks in Israel. That UNRWA confirmed a top Hamas commander killed in Lebanon was one of its employees seemed irrelevant to the Trudeau government.

 

According to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, online posts that sought to link Canada's UNRWA funding with the October 7 attacks represented trafficking in right-wing extremism. "Disinformation" or "misinformation" in the public arena is profoundly disturbing to the Liberal government in Canada. The Online Harms Act, legislation to broaden police powers to punish online speech and preliminary detention of Canadians suspected of posting hateful speech may yet be the future, since Prime Minister Mark Carney appears willing to reconsider its passing.  

"Large American online platforms have become seas of racism, misogyny, antisemitism, Islamophobia and hate in all its forms."

"My government will act."

Prime Minister Mark Carney

Liberal.ca

Violations of Human Dignity

 

"Central to our assessment is the ethnically and ancestrally defined concept of the people that shapes the AfD, which devalues entire segments of the population in Germany and violates their human dignity."

"This concept is reflected in the party’s overall anti-migrant and anti-Muslim stance. [The AfD is stirring up ] irrational fears and hostility [towards individuals and groups]."

"[The party] aims to exclude certain population groups from equal participation in society."

"[AfD also does not consider German nationals with a history of migration from Muslim countries as equal to German people]."

Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz

Alice Weidel, co-leader of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.  JENS SCHLUETER / AFP - Getty Images

The Alternative for Germany party that came second in national elections held in February has been classified by the German domestic intelligence service as a "right-wing extremist" organization -- subject as a result to greater and broader surveillance of its activities. The intelligence service, as a result, can make use of informants and other investigative tools like audio and video records in monitoring AfD activities throughout the country. 

Giving the party so distinguished an opportunity to call out the persecution it is being subjected to in Germany.

The party more familiarly referred to as AfD has been described as a threat to the country's democratic order, according to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, charging the Alternative for Germany party that it "disregards human dignity", by what has been termed "ongoing agitation", aimed against refugees and migrants. 

 

Alice Weidel, and Tino Chrupalla, leaders of the AfD, condemned the move, characterizing it as "a severe blow to German democracy", for failing to reflect the reality that the party has risen to become one of the country's most popular political forces. The designation lodged against them now as a "right-wing extremist" group, they charge, is politically motivated. 

 

Germany has now absorbed six million people from Muslim backgrounds into its population. Extraordinarily enough, a replacement of the six million European Jews that Nazi Germany executed in its plan to rid Europe of its Jews through a state program of mass extermination. Present day Germany presents itself as a bulwark against antisemitism, and that denial of the Holocaust is a criminal offence. Yet throughout Germany the very segment of the population that the AfD would remove if it could, mounts mass rallies of clear antisemitic flavour, repeating a call for a 'Final Solution'.

 

Supporters of the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) wave flags as they take part in an AfD campaign rally in Hohenschoenhausen, Berlin, Germany. REUTERS/Christian Mang/File

The original platform of the AfD, formed in 2013, centered on opposition to bailouts for struggling Eurozone members. It began its turn rightward in opposition to then-Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to open Germany's borders to large numbers of refugees streaming into Germany in 2015, which established the party as a considerable political force, since it reflected the majority of the German public's dismay at the wholesale surge of a million-strong mostly Middle Eastern migrants into the country. 

In Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, the state domestic intelligence offices had previously taken steps to classify their AfD state associations as "proven right-wing extremist" groups. The federal intelligence service ruled that the AfD's comprehension of German identity was based on ethnicity and as such is "incompatible with the free democratic basic order."

 

The AfD's political positions, the intelligence service asserted, have underpinned "continuous agitation" against minorities and in the process stirred up the public in fear and hostility toward them. The German Interior Minister, Nancy Faeser, stated the classification was "clear and unambiguous", resulting from a 1,100-page "comprehensive and neutral audit" without political influence. 

A view of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) fraction on the day of the inaugural session of Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, in Berlin, Germany, March 25, 2025. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner/File

"Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That's not democracy — it's tyranny in disguise."

"What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD — which took second in the recent election — but rather the establishment's deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes."

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio