The Hamas Agenda of Destroying Israel

 

"We will bring in tougher laws to target vandalism, hate marches that break laws [and] violent attacks based on ethnicity and religion. Anyone who is here on a visitor visa who carries out law-breaking will be deported from this country."

"[Canada has criminalized hate speech, leveling a maximum punishment of two years imprisonment for anyone who engages in] communicating statements in any public place [which] incites hatred against any identifiable group where such incitement is likely to lead to a breach of the peace."

"[The string of recent hate crimes targeting Canadian Jews, the] targeting of synagogues and Jewish schools with hate, vandalism, violence [and] firebombings [must have legal criminal consequences]."

Conservative Leader and Prime Ministerial candidate, Pierre Poilievre

 

"We are going to make it stop, and the way we're going to make it stop is by confronting all these politicians, all these media figures that have justified, that are enabling the indefensible, that are enabling the mass slaughter of Palestinians, the starvation, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, the Canadian support for Zionism."

Yves Engler, Canadian journalist, critic of Canadian foreign policy 

"I'm here to protest the genocide and request an arms embargo from the Canadian government. The protests that are happening are very needed, crucial and relevant towards the Canadian election."

"I want [the party leaders] to hear our concerns, to address their plan and to endorse the Vote Palestine platform...I feel like support needs to be garnered."

"There is strength in numbers and the more supporters there are it brings justice and a voice to those who don't have a voice, especially in conflict zones."

Veda Chandra, Ottawa-Gatineau chapter, Amnesty International 

Pro-Palestinian protesters chant during a demonstration protesters are calling a "National March for Palestine" near Parliament Hill on Saturday. (Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press)

 

None of the committed protesters who show up for these organized shows of support for Palestinians in Gaza ever question why it is that Hamas, the terrorist Palestinian group that led an influx of five thousand terrorist operatives representing Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine targeted Jewish civilians in a bloodbath of savagery, and did so, knowing that an engaged Israeli military would respond to the butchery by seeking out Hamas leaders and destroying the terror group's infrastructure, weapons depots, launch sites, deliberately placed within crowded civilian areas in the Gaza Strip.

Parliament Hill Saturday, April 12, 2025. POSTMEDIA

Nor are they the least little bit interested in the terror groups' and their Palestinian civilian supporters holding hundreds of Israeli children, women, elderly, ill alongside foreign farm workers and soldiers when their return to Israel would have had the desired effect of stopping the conflict in Gaza in its wide-ranging search for the presence of the terrorists who took part in the sadistic torching of homes with families inside in southern Israel on October 7, 2023. Hamas's deliberate placing in harm's way as collateral damage of Palestinian civilians is never questioned by its Western supporters who prefer to term Hamas as a legitimate group of 'freedom fighters', chafing against oppression and occupation.

 

The trouble is that 'occupation' is the very land Israel sits upon; ancestral heritage land, divided so that Palestinians could share in a portion of it, aside from Jordanian land, while Hamas and others like them openly declare their intention of destroying Israel in the interests of taking all the land for Palestinians. An obviously dangerous, deadly and unjust quest that the supporters of 'Palestine' are not the least bit troubled about. Which brings any rational mind to think, why is that?

 

The rally that took place in front of Parliament Hill on Saturday was timed for the first day of Passover, a coordinated, widespread 'protest' of Palestinian support with attendees wearing keffiyehs, holding up signs calling the conflict imposed on Israel by Hamas et al, a 'genocide' against Palestinians. Chants of Palestinian slogans; "Free, free Palestine", and "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free", left little to the imagination, advocating for an end to the presence of Israel. 

 

This was part of the National March For Palestine, organized by pro-Palestinian advocacy groups that include the Palestinian Youth Movement and the Palestine Solidarity Network among many others. Protesters were bused in to Ottawa from Montreal, Toronto, Mississauga, Kitchener-Waterloo and Hamilton, to swell the rally numbers. The rally attendees professed to being enraged that the issue was not front and center during the federal election campaign.

 

Vote Palestine has an election platform, outlining demands from those who decry Canada's position on Israel and the Palestinian community, that they insist must be a top election issue. Packed into their demands is a two-way arms embargo on Israel, and for anti-Palestinian racism in Canada to be addressed. Which is rather rich, given that it is antisemitism in all its historic dimensions that has been roaring back to life through the auspices of the 'pro-Palestinian' movement in Canada. Police statistics register a huge increase in antisemitic crimes in the last several years, as opposed to a modest number attributable to anti-Muslim sentiments. A no time do these marchers decry Hamas's ongoing rocket barrage into Israel.

 

Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre speaks during a campaign event on April 12, 2025, in Ottawa, Canada. (Dave Chan / AFP)

"One year ago today, genocidal and sadistic terrorists carried out the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust. They burned people alive, tortured children in front of their parents, mutilated dead civilians and posted these demonic cruelties online for the world to see. All while their cowardly bosses and benefactors watched from Tehran and other faraway safe-havens. 101 hostages are still being held. Let them go."

"Meanwhile, Jews in Canada face grotesque antisemitism in the streets and by the two-faced and weak leadership of their Prime Minister placating lawless mobs."

"And yet, Israel and the Jewish people live on and fight on. Western democratic values depend on destroying Tehran’s proxy armies of Hamas and Hezbollah."

"Canada’s Conservatives have not and will not waver. We won’t bow to the radical, woke, anti-Zionist Jew haters. Because “Never Again” is now, tomorrow and every day after. We unapologetically stand with Israel through fire and water. And unite with Jews to say, ‘Am Yisrael Chai!'"

Hon. Pierre Poilievre, Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada on the First Anniversary of the October 7th terror attacks

Members of Parliament rise for a moment of silence on the one-year anniversary of a Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the ongoing war in Gaza, at the end of Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)

 

A Canadian Anti-Israel, Anti-Semitic Voting Bloc

"The Voting Guide purports to assign a 'Fail' grade to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for recognizing that BDS is a form of anti-Semitism that harms Jewish students on Canadian campuses, and gives the same failing grade to Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer."
B'nai Brith statement

"It is totally unacceptable that government funds have been used to promote an anti-Semitic movement in Canada."
"It is deeply troubling that taxpayer dollars were used to subsidize a document 'guiding' Canadians on whom to support in an election."
Michael Mostyn, CEO, B'nai Brith Canada

"[The Canadian Islamophobia Industry Research Project studies] media outlets, political figures, academics, think tanks, far right groups and ideologues, and the donors who fund their campaigns [as part of a broader anti-Muslim] industry."
Canadian Islamophobia Industry Research Project website

Canadian Muslim Voting Guide

"SSHRC [Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council] grants are awarded through a competitive and impartial process of independent merit review -- managed at arm's length from government -- designed to ensure the highest standards of excellence."
SSHRC statement

"Islamophobia is on the rise in Canada and political speech can fuel or quell it,"
"We’ve examined party leaders’ stances based on their public statements and voting records to help Canadian Muslims, and anyone interested in the issues we’ve identified, decide how to vote in the Monday, Oct. 21 federal election."
Jasmin Zine, professor of sociology and Muslim studies, Wilfred Laurier University

"[As disturbing as it is to see academics using Jew-hatred as a] useful metric [on how to assess a political party, what is worse is that the Liberal government paid for this] hateful propaganda."
"This is a clear violation of parliamentary ethics, election law, not to mention simple decency."
Conservative Senator Linda Frum

The Guide, to be sure, while censuring Justin Trudeau for 'rejecting' the Palestinian cause by classifying the BDS campaign in support of 'Palestinian human rights' as anti-Semitic -- punishing Israel for its 'oppression' of Palestinians -- so it is forgiving at the same time, contending that Trudeau was the "target of Islamophobic hate campaigns", and thus succumbed to pressure from the Jewish lobby -- as well as forgiving his black face antics because of his public stance against Islamophobia.

The 34-page voting guide was a dedicated labour of love by Jasmin Zine, a professor of sociology and Muslim studies, along with helpful and committed graduate students Fatima Chakroun and Shifa Abbas out of Wilfred Laurier University. The National Council of Canadian Muslims and Professor Zine received a $24,923 Partnership Engage grant in September of 2018 to map the 'Canadian Islamophobia Industry'.

At this junction, given the surprise revelation of the production of a Muslim-oriented voting guide, the SSHRC is taking steps to initiate an investigation into "an unapproved use of funds" whose granting was originally allocated for an entirely different purpose. It would appear that the grant, following on an earlier one of $80,000 to Professor Zine in 2009 for the study of Muslim youth post 9/11, was meant for an entirely different, academic purpose.

Funds were diverted for the project of assembling the Canadian Muslim Voting Guide gauging responses to six national and six international matters of concern to Canadian Muslim voters by the leaders of the federal parties engaged in the 2019 October 21 election campaign. The guide was meant to target, inform and urge Muslim voters to cast their ballot in support of federal parties whose positions align most closely to the interests of Muslims in Canada.

Clearly, it assumes that Canadian Muslims have one overriding interest in Canadian politics; how government policy will advance Muslim, not Canadian interests for the foreseeable future. And it is abundantly obvious that interpreting Muslim interests to be intertwined closely with the outcome of the Palestinian 'struggle' in its conflict against the existence of the State of Israel assumes an importance greater than the struggle of Canadians to forge their own identity as a nation of consensus and self-respect among all its regions.

The historical antipathy of Arabs and Muslims against Jewish interests exemplified by its hatred of Israel as a Jewish state is manifested in the incorrigible streak of violence incited by Palestinian authorities against Israeli Jews and Jewish statehood, where 'martyrs' are celebrated who have been inculcated with hatred and have committed violent lethal attacks against Jews as a symbol of their 'struggle' against brutal 'occupation', mandated by Israel seeking to protect the lives of its citizens from Palestinian 'vengeance' against their 'oppressors' with whom they refuse to sign peace agreements.

The Canadian Islamophobia Industry feels justified in slandering Israel, in upholding their right to manipulate Canadian public opinion through Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions targeting Israeli markets, academics, industry and science, but would never admit this is practising anti-Semitism, spreading hatred and alienation, and dividing Canadian public opinion on an intractable Middle East conflict stemming from religious-ethnic persecution, yet they soar in sanctimonious righteousness over 'Islamophobia' resulting from vicious Islamist threats against the international community.

The voting guide directly focuses on the BDS movement, arguing for the international boycott of Israeli interests at every conceivable point and level, for divestment from all state and business activities in Israel, in an effort to impact on its international relations and burden the country with  the failure of international outreach in trade, academic exchange and scientific and technical partnerships.

For its part, the government academic-scientific funding body, SSHRC stated it had no prior knowledge of the production of the voting guide, and "was not consulted in the development of this document", nor would it have been, given the nature of the guide and the purpose of its production, with the knowledge by its authors that this project would be disqualified for financial support from any body associated with government, however much at arm's length it operates.