Canada: Loving Hamas: "Gaza called, Yemen answered"

"Since November, the Houthis [in Yemen] have fired on commercial barges in solidarity with Hamas in the war with Israel, which has earned them the applause of Canada's pro-Palestinian movement."

"The Houthis have been somewhat successful at piracy: four of the world's largest shippers are now avoiding the route, as are major oil companies like QatarEnergy and British Petroleum. The consequences are being felt worldwide."

Jamie Sarkonak, journalist, National Post

Pro-Palestinian march Nathan Phillips Square in downtown Toronto. Photo Ernest Doroszuk/Toronto Sun/Post

This is Canada today: where a large demographic now lives as Canadian citizens, originally hailing from 'Palestine' along with immigrants, refugees and migrants from throughout the Middle East and North Africa, all of whom appear to empathize with the terrorist group Hamas, approving of its horrendously savage attack on Israeli citizens on October 7, while at the same time expressing their fury at the response of the Israeli military, tasked by the government of Israel to derail any further plans on repeating such attacks again and again, by eliminating Hamas terrorism from Gaza.

Groups of these Canadian citizens and residents originally from Muslim-majority countries who find life more to their liking in a society that will allow them to publicly call for the destruction of a Western democracy in the Middle East, taking to the streets in large numbers, creating havoc and chaos for others in society while disseminating their caustic messages of vitriolic hate, where they demonstrate their credentials as bona fide racists have faced no official opposition to their 'protests'.

Where they are free to label Israel an apartheid and 'genocidal' nation intent on the destruction of Palestinians whom they would much prefer to be given the freedom to endlessly attack and slaughter Jews than to be subjected to the normal internationally-recognized right for any country to defend itself and its citizens from merciless onslaughts of terrorist groups intent on annihilating Jews and destroying their country but who cannot be identified as genocidaires themselves.

Now, since the Houthis, the proxy Iranian terrorist group that has occupied half of Yemen, has set out to emulate in the Red Sea what its mentor Iran has long done in the Persian Gulf, ostensibly in support of its collegial terrorists in Gaza, international shipping lines have been disrupted on the pretext that any with associations to Jews or Israel will be interdicted, Great Britain and the United States have taken active measures to put a stop to their maritime predations. Even Canada has involved itself.

That it is in Canada's interests that international shipping not be continually disrupted is of little moment to these Canadian-approving jihadis and their dhimmi-supporting contingents who have gone out in numbers this past weekend to parade their celebration of Houthi destabilization of maritime routes in its declared war on civilian cargo ships. "Yemen, Yemen, make us proud, turn another ship around", the pro-Hamas celebrants chant, marching through downtown Toronto.

That 12 percent of global shipping traffic ordinarily moving merchandise through the Red Sea has been imperilled means nothing to the demonstrators. That the Houthis have declared their solidarity with Hamas does mean a great deal to them, however, That they are now Canadian citizens or residents appears meaningless to their reasoning; they have no loyalty to Canada, and demonstrate that, according to their cultural values and religious inheritance. "Gaza called, Yemen answered, all Israeli ships are cancelled", they shout in jubilation.

Canada, a member of the United States-led Operation Prosperity Guardian is in conflict with the Yemeni Houthis who have now been placed back on the U.S. terrorist list, yet these enemy forces are being celebrated in Toronto and the government of Canada has not yet seen fit to put an end to the chaotic disruptions that the protesters have caused in Canadian cities, much in reflection of the Houthi disruptions of maritime traffic.

This photo released by the Houthi Media Center shows Houthi forces boarding the cargo ship Galaxy Leader on Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. Yemen's Houthis have seized the ship in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen after threatening to seize all vessels owned by Israeli companies. Photo by Houthi Media Center via AP

Hate Crimes in Toronto Courtesy of 'Pro-Hamas' Protests

"There is no logic as to the choice of this location other than the large local Jewish population."

"This appears to me to be a refusal by the city of Toronto to enforce existing laws."

Member of Parliament, Liberal Anthony Housefather

"The targeting of the Avenue Road overpass in north Toronto by the anti-Israel mob is far from random."

"[It is an attempt] to intimidate the local Jewish community."

Michael Levitt, head, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center

Graffiti reading 'Free Palestine' was left on the rear doors of a Jewish grocer in North York after an early morning fire there on Wednesday. Toronto police says its hate crime unit is investigating the incident. (CBC)

Anti-Israel, Jew-hating demonstrators masquerading as 'pro-Palestinian' demonstrators in Toronto have hit upon a scheme to make it quite clear that the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza is a mere distraction for them; their demonstrative target is not Israel, defending itself from the savagery of the terrorist group Hamas for whom the demonstrators have the greatest admiration, but the Jewish population that has called Canada home for centuries. 

 

The relatively newly-arrived Palestinians and other Arab Muslims who now call Canada their home have failed to integrate into the social culture of a country celebrating itself as a multicultural haven that incorporates equality and human rights into its foundational values, but has chosen instead to nurture the enmities of tribal and religious disparities focusing on a single target: Jews whom they despise as usurpers of 'Palestinian' land. Land which as the original Palestinians, Jews inherited as ancestral rights.

 

The focus of these 'demonstrators' has been an overpass over Highway 401, that dissects the city of Toronto. Muslim prayer services have been led by men wearing keffiyehs, in the roads approaching the bridge. Palestinian flag-carrying crowds armed with placards comparing Zionism to fascism blockade streets and intersections around the overpass. Red and green smoke bombs are set off by the demonstrators, along with a steady noise of honking and chants of 'Free, free Palestine!'

 

Obligingly, Toronto Police Services dispatch officers to assist in the daily closures of the bridge for the purpose, the public is informed, to preserve the safety of 'demonstrators' and 'counter-demonstrators'. "Due to public safety concerns, the Avenue Road Bridge will be closed", the Toronto Police update read. The overpass is one of over a dozen such bridges over the 401 highway.The anti-Israel protest was set up in the midst of the Canadian Jewish community.

 

The only action taken by police was to temporarily apprehend a 58-year-old woman with an Israeli flag, reportedly seen on camera to be making a gesture of throat-slitting. Summarily arrested and charged with "Uttering Threats/Death or Bodily Harm". Needless to say, none of the anti-Israel crowd shouting the slogan "From the river to the sea", "gas the Jews!", or any other such tender expressions of regard have been arrested and charged with spreading hate. 

A five-minute drive from the shuttered Avenue Road Bridge is the location of over a dozen synagogues in Canada's centre of the Jewish community. It's where a dense concentration of Jewish bakeries are located, along with restaurants and shops catering to traditional Jewish cultural tastes. Elie Wiesel Park, named after famed author and Holocaust survivor, is located a kilometre from the bridge. The pro-Hamas demonstrators are not situating themselves in the heart of Toronto's Jewish community because they so admire Jews, but to mercilessly harass them.

Shouldn't all this be illegal? Hate-mongering, so to speak. Threatening, taunting, slandering. Coordination of the demonstrations have been arranged by a group called Palesign, working together with another group, Toronto4Palestine, a regular organizer of the anti-Israel blockades and street demonstrations that have dominated the news and people's aggravated tensions, since the October 7 attacks in Israel when Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Palestinian civilians signalled they were protesting their 'oppression' by rape, torture, mutilation and mass slaughter of Israeli infants, girls and entire families.

"Seems like the target is a Jewish neighbourhood, because it is."

"Gutless politicians say the words to your boss — not to Twitter."

"If you break the law, you should be punished."

"Apply the law to everyone who breaks it equally. Stop emboldening the anti-Semitism you’ve ignored for 3 months."

Melissa Lantsman, Conservative Member of Parliament

A photo by the group Palesign documenting a blockade of the Avenue Road Bridge in north Toronto. Photo by Veronika Sykoro

"I’ve directly engaged my provincial and municipal counterparts, as well as the @TorontoPolice Chief. Those who commit hate crimes need to be held accountable. Everyone in our cities, our communities and our neighbourhoods has the right to be safe."

"Antisemitism no longer merely lurks in the shadows. It is now increasingly in plain sight. This is a telltale sign of the erosion of respect that we owe to each other, as Canadians. And it needs to stop."

"Police are investigating arson at a Jewish owned business after it was firebombed. Antisemitism in plain sight demands everyone step up their fight. Everyone should stand together to condemn this heinous act and stop the scourge of antisemitism and hate."

MP Marco Mendcino, Liberal Member of Parliament