France, Britain, Canada Demonizing Israel

 

"[The leaders of Canada, France and the U.K. have succumbed to] offering a huge prize for the genocidal attack on Israel on October 7 while inviting more such atrocities."

"This is a war of civilization over barbarism." 

"Israel will continue to defend itself by just means until total victory is achieved."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

 

"If Israel were to cease targeting Hamas, hostages would remain chained n tunnels and Hamas would repeat the October 7 massacre -- as it has explicitly vowed."

"If Hamas were to release the hostages and cease targeting Israel, a future of hope and prosperity would open for the people of Gaza."

Noah Shack, interim president, Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Canada 

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Israeli solders stand next to tanks parked near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Israel on Monday.    Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

 

Jewish citizens of France, Britain and Canada may have been shocked at the condemnation issued by the three leaders of those countries against Israel for what they construe as 'disproportionate' military action undertaken by the State of Israel in response to the savagery unleashed when thousands of Hamas terrorists joined by the PLFP, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Fatah operatives, all intent on sadistically raping, mutilating, burning alive, and slaughtering 1,200 mostly Israeli civilians in an orgy of bestiality not seen since the Holocaust, on October 7, 2023. Israel's response since then has been to carry out a promised military move to destroy the capacity of Palestinian terrorism to wreak horror on Israelis at any future time.

 

Although the Israel Defense Forces' actions have been relatively measured in comparison to past world wars in terms of civilian deaths, Hamas publicity and public relations inflating numbers of civilian deaths by failing to distinguish civilians from militant terrorists as the latter, as always, took shelter behind the former with the direct intention of sacrificing Palestinian lives in favour of sheltering the lives of terrorists. A useful outcome was achieved for Hamas; 'saving' the lives of its terrorist fighters, while increasing the numbers of Palestinian civilians whose deaths could be used in accusing Israel of 'genocide'.

 

The humanitarian steps that the IDF employs to minimize civilian deaths are of no account to its Western critics who portray themselves as allies of Israel and foes of Islamist imperialist jihad, whom leaders in the West puzzlingly choose to credit by quoting Hamas charges of genocide against Palestinians, leading them to warn and finally threaten Israel with isolation and sanctions for not adequately providing food aid to the very population that elected and approved of the actions of their terrorist leaders who not only use them as human shields, but take possession of humanitarian aid for themselves, meant for civilian relief. 

 

Palestinian terrorists move toward the border fence with Israel from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 7.    Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images

 

The same European countries experience no troubled conscience in betraying Israel, withholding support for its existential dilemma, while championing Palestinians who have consistently turned down one peace agreement after another in favour of their own vision of an absent Israel whose ancestral land these Arab 

'Palestinians' claim as their own. In the same token while Europe and North America stand firm in their support of Ukraine which faces a threat of extinction at the hands of Russian expansionism, it becomes clear that what divides one situation from the other is the involvement of the future of Jewish life.

 

The situation such that Israel's Prime Minister reacts with incredulity at the sanctimony of Canada, the United Kingdom and France threatening 'action' against Israel citing its military offensive in Gaza. The unexpected joint statement from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, recall the years of the Holocaust when all three nations failed in their humanitarian obligation to give Jews refuge from the Nazi juggernaut overtaking Europe. While the three countries iterated their support of Israel's right of defence, they condemn its defence as "wholly disproportionate". Sentiments that have pleased Hamas mightily, prompting them to congratulate Canada (and not for the first time), France and Britain.

 

Photographs of some of those taken hostage by Hamas during the October 7 attack on Israel are seen in Tel Aviv, Israel on October 18.   Leon Neal/Getty Images

 

"I want to put on record today that we're horrified by the escalation from Israel", Keir Starmer informed the British Parliament as he announced the suspension of free trade negotiations with Israel, and the ordering of new sanctions on West Bank settlements. European foreign ministers in Brussels are considering a proposal to review and suspend EU trade cooperation with Israel, led by the Netherlands, considered one of Israel's close allies in the bloc.

 

A reminder to Israel's detractors came by way of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs' director general Eden Bar Tal who reminded them that the country had accepted the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff's ceasefire proposal along with release of the hostages -- which Hamas promptly rejected, while continuing to hold their Ace card; innocent people whom they hold prisoner under inhumane conditions as a bargaining tactic for the release of Palestinian terrorists from Israeli prisons, while continuing to send rockets from Gaza into Israel. 

Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip. February 22, 2025.   (photo credit: Ali Hassan/Flash90)

Abandoning Israel, Pacifying Islamist Jihad

"We cannot allow the continued use of food as a political tool... Over 50,000 people have died as a result of the aggression caused against the Palestinians and the Gazan people in Palestine. Using food as a political tool is simply unacceptable."

"We need to continue to work towards a ceasefire. We need to ensure that we have a two-state solution, and Canada will continue to maintain that position."

Liberal Cabinet Minister, Foreign Affairs, Anita Anand

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand takes part in the cabinet swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall when she took over the position from Mélanie Joly. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press)

"Israel is [the] only country in the world that could be attacked on seven fronts and described as being the aggressor."

"Were doing everything we can to fight a terrorist organization and we're not going to fight it in a non-aggressive way."

Lt.Col. Nadav Shoshani

If, when Foreign Affairs Minister Anand made that statement to news reporters in a casual scrum, it seemed slightly off-kilter in a new-old government with a new mandate under a new prime minister, yet it took a week before there was any indication from Canada's new prime minister, Mark Carney that she was not speaking off the cuff on her own, but rather expressing this new government's position on Israel. Her predecessor famously/infamously made reference with respect to her own expressed antipathy to Israel that she had her constituents in mind; little did the Canadian public realize that the Trudeau government's betrayal of its longtime ally Israel ran through the Liberal caucus, with the same cabinet MPs reintroduced in the 'new' cabinet.

 

The latest statement of Canada's new foreign minister is to reveal that Prime Minister Mark Carney had spoken to Israeli President Isaac Herzog to 'discuss the  urgent need' for Hamas to release the remaining 58 hostages (23 of whom are believed to be still alive), 'lay down its weapons and have no role in Gaza'. A ceasefire, 'a two-state solution' and resumption of humanitarian aid to Gaza was also discussed, she revealed. And then came the second part of Anita Anand's statement where she ascribed 'aggression' to Israel, imputing its starvation of Gazans as a weapon of war, clearing up the mystery of her boss's silence.

 

When Canada, Britain and France issued a joint statement in condemnation of Israel's military operations expansion in Gaza with their threat of concrete action, including potential sanctions against Israel. "We will not stand by while the Netanyahu government pursues these egregious actions. If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response", they warned. No word of Hamas operatives warehousing looted humanitarian aid meant for the Palestinian civilian population. No word of continued rockets hurled by Hamas into Israel.

No word of the need for Qatar to 'influence' Hams to return all the Israeli  hostages, dead and alive without further delay. 

"Israel must halt settlements which are illegal and undermine the viability of a Palestinian state and the security of both Israelis and Palestinians."

"We will not hesitate to take further action, including targeted sanctions." 

Palestinians break through the Israel-Gaza border fence on October 7, 2023, as terrorists  infiltrated areas of southern Israel. Mohammed Fayq Abu Mostafa, Reuters

When Hamas led an attack on southern Israel with the planned intention to carry out mass rape, to mutilate helpless women, children and elderly, to ransack and loot and burn agrarian towns and massacre their residents along with foreign farm workers, then after a death toll of 1,200, gather 250 helpless hostages; children, entire families, the elderly, male and female Israeli soldiers to be used as bargaining chips in future negotiations for the release of terrorists from Israeli prisons, Israel pledged to finally destroy the terrorist groups that had been attacking the Jewish state for decades.

 

Lt.-Col. Shoshani begged to differ with the leaders of France, the U.K. and Canada, reminding them that Hamas began the conflict with its ongoing violent belligerence capped off by its sadistic savagery on full display on October 7, 2023. And Hamas could, at any point since then, easily have brought an end to the conflict by laying down their arms, releasing the hostages, and surrendering their control of the Gaza Strip to a civilian administration. Instead it chose to use Gaza's civilian population as  shields and tragic puppets in death for their public relations campaign demonizing Israel as 'genocidal'.

 

France, Britain and Canada, with their intake of large numbers of Palestinians and other Muslims sympathetic to the publicity and strident claims of victimhood of Palestinians against the 'aggressor' Israel, which had never initiated conflict with Palestinians, and only ever responded to the never-ending acts of lethal violence in self-defense, have succumbed to the pressure of sufficient numbers of Islamists within their own societies to oppose Israel in hopes of appeasing their own Islamist hordes, in that classic move of 'feeding the crocodiles' among them. 

Western democracies choosing to take the statistics bruited by the Gaza Health Authority as believable, over the attestations of reality emanating from Israeli authorities. Choosing to ignore the reality that over the lifetime of the Jewish state, negotiations with Palestinian leaders over recognition of a Palestinian state went nowhere because while Israel gave concessions to achieve an agreement, none were ever given by the Palestinians. Their 'want' was the disappearance of Israel and the entire region dedicated to a Palestinian state. They never, ever desired a two-state solution. That was the goal of the West.

 

Palestinians make their way with belongings as they flee their homes after the Israeli military issued orders for evacuation from eastern Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 19, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled

Canada, France, Britain -- Incentivizing Terrorism

Prime Minister of Canada

"We strongly oppose the expansion of Israel’s military operations in Gaza. The level of human suffering in Gaza is intolerable. Yesterday’s announcement that Israel will allow a basic quantity of food into Gaza is wholly inadequate. We call on the Israeli Government to stop its military operations in Gaza and immediately allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza. This must include engaging with the UN to ensure a return to delivery of aid in line with humanitarian principles. We call on Hamas to release immediately the remaining hostages they have so cruelly held since 7 October 2023."

"The Israeli Government’s denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable and risks breaching International Humanitarian Law. We condemn the abhorrent language used recently by members of the Israeli Government, threatening that, in their despair at the destruction of Gaza, civilians will start to relocate. Permanent forced displacement is a breach of international humanitarian law."

"Israel suffered a heinous attack on October 7. We have always supported Israel’s right to defend Israelis against terrorism. But this escalation is wholly disproportionate."

"We will not stand by while the Netanyahu Government pursues these egregious actions. If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response."

"We oppose any attempt to expand settlements in the West Bank. Israel must halt settlements which are illegal and undermine the viability of a Palestinian state and the security of both Israelis and Palestinians.  We will not hesitate to take further action, including targeted sanctions."

Joint statement from the leaders of Canada, the United Kingdom and France on the situation in Gaza and the West Bank

Israel has blocked the entry of medical, food and fuel supplies into Gaza since the start of March to try to pressure Hamas into freeing hostages.  PHOTO: REUTERS

Now it is abundantly clear and out in the open: Canada's 'new' government is merely a retread of the 'old' Liberal government, but bolder and more to the point. Yes, expressions of sympathy for Israel's plight in being the target of a death-cult terror group whose constant attacks are merely an expression of their intention to annihilate Jews while destroying their state. And the October 7 attack in southern Israel on mostly Israeli civilians was certainly unfortunate so it is understandable that Israel would respond. But the offensive that transpired is beyond what Canada, France and Britain will accept. Israel, they thunder, is killing Palestinian civilians; the Hamas Health Authority says so, in huge numbers. 

Therefore, Israel's intention to counter Hamas's charter pledge of its destruction is simply unacceptable, and if continued, there will be consequences, promises the trio of nations whose populations are now swelled with the presence of sullen, antagonistic and often violently threatening Islamists, citizens with voting rights whose numbers have become impressively entitled to produce volatile and violent exhibitions of Islamist disaffection with Western democracies and the presence within them of Jewish populations long prior established as loyal citizens, now left in casual disregard by the nations for whom Jewish defence/offence is quite simply offensive.

 

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators waves Palestinian flags and burn flares during a demonstration against Israel outside the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest's grand final in Basel on May 17, 2025. Photo- AFP

The streets and highways of Canada, Britain and France are regularly suffused by overwhelming numbers of Hamas-supporting demonstrators stopping traffic, rallying before federal buildings, praying en masse, protesting in front of synagogues and Jewish neighbourhoods shouting prescriptions for a new range of Final Solutions to an age-old problem of a Jewish presence anywhere in the world, as Intifadas to be universalized, and campaigns to be finalized 'From the river to the sea', urging Jews to return to 'Poland' where the unfinished work of the Holocaust can be resumed.

 

The statement of condemnation released today by Canada, jointly with France and England is a start, one that the Hamas authority -- whatever is left of it after Israel's dedicated military campaign to eradicate them all -- busily persuading Palestinians not yet completely in their orbit to join them in replacing those that have been lost, to rebuild their military might for ongoing attacks that the group and others among them relentlessly pursue in their dedicated mission of death-dealing. Perhaps Hamas could persuade the three to begin providing it with weaponry with which to defend itself from Israeli malevolent reprisals?

 

There is no indication that the three leaders have taken into account the fact that were the Israeli  hostages to be released, the siege of Gaza would be over. Nor do they recognize publicly that Hamas operatives have taken possession of huge volumes of humanitarian relief supplies meant to be apportioned out to Palestinian civilians, not the terrorists who have warehoused it all for their own use. And no acknowledgement of the fact that Hamas and its partners Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Yemeni Houthis continue sending rockets into Israel. Let alone that West Bank Palestinians under the Palestinian Authority that incites them to violence, continue to attack Israelis.

 

For the Palestinians, however, the good news story is the West, not only its politicians, but its academic faculties, its unions, and many individuals within the populations of all three nations who revel in antisemitic expressions, take great pride in standing alongside Palestinians in their organized rallies to pressure governments at every level in these countries who refuse to take any security and law-enforcing steps to protect their Jewish populations and defuse the constant social-disturbing eruptions of anti-Israel rallies, preferring to protect instead the rally organizers and their followers.

 

Little wonder that Hamas was moved to acknowledge its satisfaction and appreciation toward the leadership of Canada, France and Britain, taking time out of its busy schedule of rearming, reorganizing, recruiting, to congratulate the leaders of the three Western countries for standing in solidarity with Palestinian 'liberation'. 

 

"By asking Israel to end a defensive war for our survival before Hamas terrorists on our border are destroyed and by demanding a Palestinian state, the leaders in London, Ottawa and Paris are offering a huge prize for the genocidal attack on Israel on October 7 while inviting more such atrocities." 

"The war can end tomorrow if the remaining hostages are released, Hamas lays down its arms, its murderous leaders are exiled and Gaza is demilitarized. No nation can be expected to accept anything less and Israel certainly won't."  

"This is a war of civilization over barbarism. Israel will continue to defend itself by just means until total victory is achieved."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's response

The People's Liberation Army Military Technological Advances

China unveiled at least three mobile, ground-based, high-power microwave-directed energy weapon systems during the Zhuhai Air Show in November. According to the excerpted article published on Chinese blog and news outlet Sina, these weapons are capable of paralyzing hundreds of drones with one strike and could give China an advantage in future wars. The article argues that the new weapon system will be an especially important counter-drone technology. The article outlines several key advantages of the high-power microwave weapons:

1. They can quickly deploy, lock onto, and attack a target the moment it comes into range
2. They produce electromagnetic pulses over a wide area and can attack multiple drones simultaneously
3. They are economical to employ, do not consume ammunition, such as missiles and artillery, and can be launched multiple times in succession
4. They are ideal in more complex environments, including urban settings, compared to traditional kinetic weapons, preventing civilian casualties and preserving necessary infrastructure

Specifically, China North Industries Group Corporation unveiled the Hurricane 2000 and Hurricane 3000 high-power microwave weapons systems. The article describes the first system as a large, flat array mounted on top of an 8×8 light armored vehicle chassis[i] or similar variant. The system features a small rotating radar for target detection and tracking. The second system, larger than the first, is mounted on a Shaanxi Auto SX2400/2500 series 8×8 truck. It also includes “planar arrays and radars.” Some sources claim the Hurricane 2000 and Hurricane 3000 have an effective range of 2000 to 3000 meters, an order of a magnitude higher than the U.S. manufactured Leonidas high-power microwave weapon system.[ii] The article also describes a third high-power microwave weapon system, which comes from China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation. Like the Hurricane 3000, it rides atop the Shaanxi Auto SX2400/2500 series 8×8 trucks.

According to the article, China has achieved major breakthroughs in the field of high-energy microwave weapons, which could indeed give it an edge in future warfare. Finally, China’s microwave weapon systems underscore its commitment to developing advanced weapons technologies, particularly to counter emerging aerial threats, such as UAVs.

Foreign Military Studies Office, U.S. Army, Training and Doctrine Command

 

"China attracts customers for its military equipment with cut-rate pricing and financing, but there are hidden costs -- especially when gear malfunctions", wrote Cindy Zheng, as a researcher at Rand Corp. before joining the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Inferior, low-cost, advanced technology on the surface, seemingly a kind of built-in obsolescence-production. Myanmar, facing the reality of structural cracks and other technical issues in its fleet of Chinese-made fighter jets, complained to Beijing in 2022.

 

Pakistan's Navy has been grappling with issues in its F-22P frigates bought from China, having to operate the vessels with wholly degraded capabilities. Bangladesh complained to Beijing about its Chinese-made military hardware's lack of quality, last year. "Questions about combat capabilities and other issues, including concerns about interoperability with non-Chinese platforms have hampered China's ability to expand exports beyond a handful of countries", observed Bloomberg Intelligence senior associate analyst Eric Zhu.

 

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But wait...during the recent conflict between India and Pakistan, Pakistan celebrated its Chinese J-10Cs, claiming to have shot down five Indian fighter jets, among them French-made Rafale aircraft, in response last week to Indian military strikes. India has not commented and though the reports have yet to be confirmed, the jet's maker saw its market capitalization rise by over 55 billion yuan (US$10-B). Leading China's nationalist Global Times to warn that "Taiwan should feel even more scared" if the Pakistani strikes were fact. 

Indeed, according to Shu Hsiao-Huang, an associate research fellow at the Institute of National Defence and Security Research, a think-tank based in Taipei, Taiwan had scrutinized the clash between Pakistan and India. "We may need to reassess the PLA's (People's Liberation Army) air combat capabilities, which may be approaching -- or even surpassing -- the level of U.S. air power deployments in East Asia". The J-10Cs have had few battle tests, are used to patrol the Taiwan Strait by the Chinese military's Rocket Force whose combat-readiness has been in question. How they would stand up against U.S. fighters like the F-16 is still in doubt.

Sources: CSIS, US Navy and Naval Technology

Yet another Chinese weapon in Pakistan's military arsenal is set to come under intense scrutiny, the PL-15 missiles deployed on Pakistan's J-10C aircraft, parts of which were found in India following the reported shootdowns. The PL-15 is rival to Western air-to-air missiles, with its top speed above Mach 5. This latest development could support Beijing's sales pitch. "There is a good chance the weapons systems China is able to offer will be even more appealing to potential buyers", noted James Char, of the China Program, S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies. 

While Chinese-produced weapons exports have been plagued by defects that add to the operational costs of the inexpensive systems, draining security budgets for maintenance expenses, customers for Chinese-produced weapons are largely developing nations with limited funds, which can ill-afford escalating repair costs for cheaply-produced-and-sold weapons. 

In the same token, China has been focusing on transforming the PLA to a modern force which has led to breakthroughs such as China's first next-generation amphibious assault ships, the largest of their kind. The country's test flight of its sixth-generation fighter jet circulated on social media brought a rally in defence stocks. "A lot is being learned about how Chinese systems perform under combat conditions", suggested M. Taylor Fravel, director of Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

As the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) seeks to become a “world-class military,” its progress in advanced weapons systems continues to provoke intense concern from its neighbors and competitors. The Chinese military and China’s defense industry have been pursuing significant investments in robotics, swarming, and other applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Thus far, advances in weapons systems described or advertised as “autonomous” (自主) or “intelligentized” (智能化) have built upon existing strengths in the research and development of unmanned (无人) systems and missile technology. While difficult to evaluate the sophistication of these emerging capabilities, this initial analysis concentrates on indicators of progress in weapons systems that may possess a range of levels of autonomy.

Brookings Institute

 

Victims of Communism -- Complicit with Nazism

"Over the years, we have submitted documentation detailing the atrocities committed by several individuals on the [memorial] list -- including in 2021, when we provided comprehensive evidence of the war crimes committed by Janis Niedra against Latvia's Jewish population."

"It is deeply disturbing that, despite our repeated warnings and the clear, documented evidence, the name of a Nazi involved in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust was ultimately engraved on the Memorial."

"This is simply unacceptable."

Jaime Kirzner-Roberts, senior director, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center 

The Victims of Communism memorial opened to the public with no names inscribed. Photo by JULIE OLIVER /POSTMEDIA

 

The seemingly endless saga of the The Victims of Communism Memorial's Wall of Remembrance goes on and on, with no end in sight, and no enlightenment by the Department of Canadian Heritage. More latterly revealed is that despite having been warned in 2021 that a Nazi collaborator who actively took part in the execution of Jews during the Holocaust, his name nonetheless was engraved to be placed among hundreds of others purporting to be victims of Communism, on a monument that sought to sanctify them as heroes for opposing Communism.

 

The nameplate that was meant to commemorate Janis Niedra had been installed on the memorial in 2023, according to government records obtained under the Access to Information Act, then later removed. By the time the memorial was formally opened in late 2024, no names were installed on the memorial. The inexplicable reason that Canadian Heritage permitted the commemorative nameplate for Niedra -- despite warnings from the Friends of Sion Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies -- to be originally installed has never been explained. 

The Department had been provided with research data indicating that Niedra had led a group of some 40 men on a mission to assist the Nazis in rounding up and executing about 350 Latvian Jews; mostly women, children and seniors. Niedra died in 1969, but it was known that he served the Nazis in various positions in Latvia. He arrived in Canada following war's end. Ricochet Media, an investigative online news outlet, had reported the existence of the nameplate.

 

Niedra's name had been removed before the public inauguration of the memorial after having been flagged in 2023 when a Canadian Heritage employer raised concerns regarding the man's Nazi connections. The main concern in the department was that the public, or news media, might recognize the name engraved on the memorial. That nameplate, as well as others for the memorial "are being stored at a National Capital commission facility" Canadian Heritage spokesperson Caroline Czajkowski confirmed. 

 

The memorial sits on the west side of the Garden of the Provinces and Territories in downtown Ottawa. Photo by JULIE OLIVER /POSTMEDIA

 

Canadian Heritage had been repeatedly warned that numerous individuals slated to be honoured on the memorial did not represent victims; they were instead Nazi collaborators responsible for having played significant rules in the Holocaust and in perpetrating other crimes against humanity. Concerns were raised by Jewish organizations and historians that names of eastern Europeans who had collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust had been nominated in a deliberate move to whitewash their past. 

Roman Shukheyvych, a Ukrainian nationalist who collaborated with the Nazis and who was linked to the massacres of Jews and Poles, was among those being commemorated. Only after, in 2021, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center repeatedly raised the matter with the department, had Shukheyvych's name finally been removed. Ludwik Klimkowski, chairman of Tribute to Liberty, posted on social media platform X his sentiments regarding concerns that the monument was honouring Nazi collaborators: "Let's stop the nonsense of the Nazi commemoration perpetrated by Canadian Marxists and the agents of the Kremlin's regime", he wrote.

 

"It's important to note that many anti-Communist and anti-Soviet advocates and fighters were also active Nazi collaborators, who committed documented massacres", Global Affairs Canada officials warned their counterparts at Canadian Heritage in 2021, as federal officials in other departments also continued to warn Canadian Heritage that including Nazi collaborators on the memorial would be the cause of international embarrassment for Canada. 

A report prepared for Canadian Heritage in 2024 had recommended that over half of the 550 names proposed for inclusion on the memorial should be removed because of potential links to Nazi Germany's 'Final Solution'. There were originally to be 553 entries on the memorial's Wall of Remembrance. Some 50 to 60 names or organizations had already been determined by the department itself, to have likely been directly linked to the Nazis, according to the documents. 

"In 2021, we discovered that one particular Nazi leader was being honoured by the Memorial and it took us more than a year of very active advocacy efforts before his name was finally removed."

"We told officials repeatedly that we believed there could be a great number of Nazis being commemorated but sadly this problem did not appear to be a priority for the department."

"[The recent report commissioned by the department confirmed her organization’s worst fears], It finds that more half of the individuals commemorated in the memorial may have been Nazis or Nazi collaborators."

"It is totally unacceptable for Nazis and collaborators to be honoured by a Canadian public memorial, especially one meant to recognize victims of state violence and tyranny."

Jaime Kirzner-Roberts

The memorial opened in late 2024. Photo by JULIE OLIVER /POSTMEDIA

In Canada, Prosecuting Funders of Islamist Terrorism -- While the Liberal Government Funds Terrorism-Enablers

On May 12, 2025, at the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto, Khalilullah Yousuf (36), of Toronto plead guilty to two charges relating to the largest terrorism financing scheme in Canadian history.

Between September 2019 and December 2022, Mr. Yousuf used cryptocurrency and money transfers to fund terrorism overseas. Yesterday, in an agreed upon statement of facts, Mr. Yousuf admitted to the financing of terrorism, contrary to section 83.03 of the Criminal Code of Canada.

"As part of the plea agreement, Khalilullah Yousuf has admitted to raising over $15,000 through the platform "GoFundMe" and contributing over $35,000 to multiple receivers for the benefit of Daesh, a listed terrorist organization."

"Regarding the second charge, Mr. Yousuf has plead guilty to participating in the activities of a terrorist group, contrary to section 83.18 of the Criminal Code of Canada. He has admitted to creating and distributing a collection of over 3,800 internet-based hyperlinks. These links were curated with the purpose of radicalizing, indoctrinating and recruiting for the benefit of Daesh, a listed terrorist organization. Between October 2020, and March 2021, Mr. Yousuf communicated with an individual in the United States who was later convicted there for attempting to provide material support to the same listed terrorist organization."

"This is the largest terrorism financing conviction to date in Canada in terms of monetary value. This conviction is also the first successful terrorism financing conviction in Canada where the accused used crypto currency and the first where they used online crowdfunding."

"The success of this RCMP-led project would not be possible without the contributions of the following Canadian partnerships: RCMP Federal Policing Central Region (Ontario) The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), Forensic Accounting Management Group (FAMG), Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC), Ministry of the Attorney General (MAG), and the Toronto Police Service (TPS)."

"The RCMP would also like to recognize and thank our international partners that were instrumental in this file: The Spanish Guardia Civil Special Central Unit 2, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Maldives Police Service."

Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 15 May 2025 report 

An RCMP patch is seen on the shoulder of a Surrey RCMP Officer in Charge on Friday, April 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

"At its core, terrorism is violence that seeks to justify itself. But the violence needs support by advocates, recruiters, and financiers as essential parts of the cycle of intimidation and destruction."

"The verdicts and sentences… represent how Canadian society in accordance with the rule of law, emphatically holds to account those who make the violence possible."

George Dolhai, director public prosecutions, Public Prosecution Service of Canada

 A 12-year prison sentence was handed down to a man, now 36 years of age, who has Canadian citizenship and was a resident of Toronto. Khalilullah Yousuf pleaded guilty to involvement and taking part in financing a terrorist group named as the Islamic State. He admitted to crowdfunding on such sites as GoFundMe on behalf of Palestinians in Gaza and for Muslim religious events, all the while collecting the funding by Canadian contributors to send what he collected to ISIS group supporters in the United States, Spain and other countries.

 

He had applied for, and received pandemic COVID Emergency Response Benefits (CERB) and contributed that money too that he received from the government of Canada under false pretenses. Supporters, on receiving the tens of thousands he provided for ISIS benefit, forwarded to him as proof ISIS was receiving the funding, photographs of weapons and ammunition provided by the funding, along with an ISIS flag.

 

Crowdfunding, or raising money from several investors over the Internet, has made websites like GoFundMe and Kickstarter popular. Photo: Karissa Donkin/Telegraph-Journal

 

This man and his schemes do not represent the rare and only incidents of funding collected in Canada by groups and individuals portraying themselves as legitimate charities whose only concern is raising funds for charitable programs to benefit Palestinians or other so-called marginalized groups, or civilian groups caught up in conflict in the Middle East, sending funding collected in actual fact, to the very terrorist militias that cause sectarian, tribal and anti-Western, along with anti-Israel war situations. There are a multitude of such groups masquerading as humanitarian while financially supporting Islamist terror groups.

 

In this instance, Khalilullah Yousuf, who was closely embroiled in an international ISIS funding network, communicated with the group through encrypted messages online, while taking part in recruitment and creating propaganda while providing methodology to supporters on how to mount successful attacks on behalf of violent Islamist culture. A two-year investigation on this man's activities involved intelligence forces in Canada, the U.S. and Spain, leading to an arrest in July of 2023. 

 

Cryptocurrency, increasingly being used for funding terrorism, may have signalled to authorities that there was something to investigate there. Samidoun, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Hezbollah and Hamas, have all received funding through Canadian sources that have successfully exploited the Canadian public to fund terrorism both abroad and internally.

 

Popular fundraising sites encourage crowdfunding in various and mostly specific categories that include patient medical needs, support of school teams, raising funds for Palestinian children, with sky-high funding goals. And while the platforms emphasize their trust that users will collect funds only for the stated reasons and not resort to illegally collecting funding in support of proscribed terror groups, any kind of actual policing of the results is not followed as being unfeasible.  

The Government of Canada itself sends mixed messages on the funding of terrorism; on the one hand decrying terrorism, and on the other continuing to fund it with taxpayer money. As with the Liberal government overturning the previous Conservative government's cutting off of UNRWA funding in recognition of its complicity in Palestinian terrorism where UNRWA-run school curricula teach Palestinian children to hate Jews and to visualize themselves as future martyrs in the 'struggle' against Israel.

 

Proven reports that UNRWA staff were actively involved in the October 7 attacks on southern Israel, and that almost two hundred were, while on UNRWA staff, also Hamas or Islamic Jihad operatives. UNRWA teachers glorify terrorism, encourage martyrdom, demonize Israelis and incite to antisemitism among their Palestinian pupils, modelling them in the vision of Hamas. Despite all of this, known and yet excused, the Liberal government continues its funding of UNRWA.

 

Photo sent by ISIS facilitator to show donated funds were going to fighters. U.S. Department of Justice

 

 

 

Trump's 'Mixed Metaphors'

"[The United States is getting very close to securing a nuclear deal with Iran, and Tehran] sort of [agreed to the terms]."

"We’re in very serious negotiations with Iran for long-term peace."

“We’re getting close to maybe doing a deal without having to do this … there [are] two steps to doing this, there is a very, very nice step and there is the violent step, but I don’t want to do it the second way."

"[Iran] must stop sponsoring terror, halt its bloody proxy wars and permanently and verifiably cease pursuit of nuclear weapons."

"They cannot have a nuclear weapon."

"[The moment is ripe] for a future free from the grip of Hezbollah terrorists."

U.S. President Donald Trump

Trump is welcomed by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday.   Brian Snyder/Reuters

 

Stunningly oblivious it seems, to reality while steeped deep in the belief that his pronouncements will have an immediate chastising effect on the world's most egregious human rights deviants, the American president has deluded himself into the belief that his singular influence, his very presence meeting one-on-one with individuals representing proponent regimes of conquest and terror will quake and quiver and submit to his grandiloquent gestures of goodwill and charitable belief that they are not motivated by evil, merely misunderstood. And he is the right man to guide them tenderly along a passage leading to peace.

 

It worked during his first administration with North Korea's little tyrant Kim Jong Un, did it not? Donald Trump's avuncular, but firm, and understanding presence persuaded Kim to surrender his dedication to perfecting missiles and launching nuclear warheads at any nation -- including but not restricted to South Korea and even !gasp! the United States -- that his febrile paranoid mind believes is hostile to his regime. Now, the unholy trinity of China, North Korea and Iran present a unified challenge to the man who believes he is the most powerful man on Earth, with an intellect to match.

 

That this impressively cerebral man cannot distinguish fact from fiction gives pause to wonder at the state of the world and its governing circles. That perhaps, after all, that mind with its explosive whims and dictates is lodged within a very small character with an oversized personality, and we should all be consumed with fear for the future. This deep thinker, describing the self-appointed new leader of Syria, Ahmad al-Sharaa -- an authentic Islamist terrorist -- with the confidence of a connoisseur of human traits, as a "young, attractive guy", with a "very strong past", dazzles with its shallow depth.

 

Donald Trump and Ahmed al-Sharaa met in Riyadh on Wednesday   Reuters

Even more spectacularly incredible, that Trump sparkles with enthusiasm and the true egotism of an entitled narcissist, chumming about with Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, an interlocutor for him with the Islamic Republic of Iran, as a trusted adviser. That both Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood have established themselves as highly respected representatives of Islam in the United States is mind-boggling to begin with, in myopic credulity. But Trump is delighted with pomp and ceremony, particularly when it is staged for his illustrious presence.

 

And he is even more impressed with ostentatious shows of great wealth. That Qatar can so readily impress Trump with the gift of a hugely costly Boeing aircraft for his use as Air Force One is certainly the way to his heart. And a revelation of the extent of his cupidity. And his depth of character: as in the characteristics he portrays: glibness/superficial charm; grandiose sense of self-worth; need for stimulation/proneness to boredom; pathological lying; conning/manipulative; lack of remorse/guilt; shallow affect; callous lack of empathy; parasitic lifestyle; poor behavioral controls; promiscuous sexual behaviour; irresponsibility; failure to accept responsibility for one's own actions.

Ah, well; he is the president of the United States of America. And when his plane entered Qatari airspace Air Force One was escorted by Qatari F-15 jets, nearing Doha. That trumps a red carpet. And none other than Al Thani greeted Mr. Trump at the airport. At the administrative office of the emir, Trump allowed as how he was impressed with the "perfecto" marble, and the camels that were present during the arrival ceremony. "I know that you are a man of peace", Al Thani complimented the American President.

 

Who was somehow able to overlook the fact that Qatar is fully supportive of Iran and its search for nuclear weaponry. More to the point, the Islamic Republic's proxy terrorist allies, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, to name just the most notorious ones, are also promoted by Qatar through its Al Jazeera news network. That the stealth infiltration of these agencies of change for the West through the subtle byways of Islamic conquest is irrelevant to the president of the United States is more than a trifling matter of concern.

 

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (R) and US President Donald Trump sit side by side at the Royal Palace in Doha on May 14, 2025. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)