In France, Protests Have Grown Into Full-Blown Insurrection

"People were traumatized by what happened last weekend when they sometimes found themselves on their own, sometimes for two or three hours or the whole day, facing the rioters."

"Shopkeepers, restaurant owners and individuals got scared and are looking to defend themselves."

"They're not seeking to take justice into their own hands."

"[However, the increase in sales of non-lethal protective gear is] unprecedented."

Yves Gollety, proprietor, l'Armurerie de la Bourse, Central Paris

 

"It's not just Paris. It's many cities across France."

"There will be large-scale operations everywhere. [At least 75 percent of the police force will be mobilized, with postponements of days off, as required]."

Thierry Clair, national secretary, Unsa Police union 

People enter a ransacked Franprix store as clashes erupted at Place de la République. Photograph: Matthieu Rondel/AFP/Getty Images

 

The shopkeeper of a costume jewelry store in Les Halles, a sprawling commercial district in Paris, went shopping a few days back, for self-protection weaponry; a truncheon, a plastic handgun propelling small canisters of a substance like tear gas, and all together found himself 600 euros out-of-pocket. Although his store was spared by the rioters who had ransacked other stores nearby his own last weekend, he finds it necessary to be prepared for such exigencies as may reoccur.

 

"I never thought it would come to this. I'm doing this, but I don't feel reassured", he said in an interview, taking care to ensure his name would not be used. He didn't stop just with procuring those weapons, but went on to hire private security guards complete with trained canines. He is boarding up his storefront windows. And then, when he feels somewhat prepared, he will reopen his business. And he is not alone in feeling the necessity to protect himself and his property, feeling he can no longer be reliant on police alone in the face of violent mob action.

 

Last Saturday's protests across France came complete with violence and vandalism, with roving bands of rioters attacking hundreds of shops, smashing windows and making off with merchandise. Observers note that most of these looters are people of colour, individuals who may be first- or second-generation immigrants to France. Palestinian flags have become a common sight among the protests, whereas the flag of the Republic is less seen among the protesters who initially came out to inform French officialdom that students are fed up with underfunded education.

 

An optician’s on rue Beaubourg in central Paris on Monday. The graffiti says: ‘Burn the prisons.’ Photograph: Angelique Chrisafis/The Guardian

 

Residents, shopkeepers and authorities have been on edge in fearful anticipation, with another planned weekend of protests, where students, teachers, unions -- and others whose purpose is not as well defined plan to roil the country with more of the protests that come complete with threats and violence. The owner of l'Armurerie de la Boure, Yves Gollety, is also chair of the organization representing weapons sellers in France. It is not only his store but others like his own where customers are usually hunters, seeing self-defence weapons sales rise ten times normal in Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Bordeaux.

 

Sales of hunting rifles are stagnant, while demand for pepper sprays, tear gas-like canisters, pistols that fire rubber bullets and other non-lethal gear have exploded. Although other shops in the area where Yves Gollety's is located were attacked and looted last weekend, his was not. His plans were to open his shop again on Saturday, if for no other reason than to protect it from the potential of swarms of rioters looting it as they did those of his neighbours.

 

Masked protesters confront French riot Police   CNN

 

Business owners were informed by the Prefecture of Police to hire more private security agents in anticipation of what Saturday and coming Saturdays may bring. The co-founder of the Crypto hardware wallet maker Ledger wrote on X that if the state can no longer protect the people, the French should stop paying taxes. Authorities have promised to roll out the military to back up police tasked with upholding law and order, planning prevention of last weekend's riots on repeat. 

 

In an effort to reassure markets whom the violence has unnerved, a 20 percent-greater police presence was expected, according to the Interior Ministry, in response to the chaos that erupted through cost-of-living protests that deteriorated into the looting of 3,000 stores that merited 2,700 arrests. Special-intervention forces ordinarily deployed for risky missions such as counter-terrorism will be present should they be required, according to French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez.

 

Forensic investigators search for evidence after a shooting in Trappes, outside Paris, Friday, Oct. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Emma Da Silva)

 

Sensitive buildings will be guarded with soldiers and helicopters, water cannons and armoured vehicles popularly called Centaurs, will be present to ensure a level of public order. On Friday an escalation in the violence occurred when a Black mixed-martial-arts figure was shot and killed in an act termed 'racist' and a 'terrorist attack' by French authorities. The government, added Minister Nunez, would be 'uncompromising' in dealing with hooligans, with 70,000 security forces to be mobilized Saturday. 

"The suspect of the deadly shooting in Trappes (central France) claimed to have acted in response to the unrest during the October 17 demonstrations and the widespread looting and vandalism of shops."

"When he was arrested on Friday, October 23 in Coignières, after a deadly rampage lasting nearly 20 minutes, the man suspected of killing one person and injuring five others, including a 12-year-old girl, with an automatic weapon, stated in substance that he had "avenged the shopkeepers" by targeting "Black people and Arabs." 

Le Monde  

 

Misplaced Empathy for an Indigenous Psychopath

"[His] risk of violence is assessed as moderate to high in the short term. [He has a] need to dominate and control women."

[There is concern over his] problematic reactions to feelings of rejection, dismissal, and criticism."

"[Ewert's] attitude  towards women indicates that an undue risk to the community continues to exist."

Parole Board 

 

"You informed [the parole officer] that you find her very attractive and distracting. It appears that these comments were not made in the search of aid or for any therapeutic purpose. You made these comments in a flirtatious manner, while smiling, possibly to assert control."

"During the meeting with your [parole officer], another staff member noticed that you were visibly fixated on your [parole officer] in a preoccupying fashion. Your facial expressions were enough to alarm her to the point that she asked for additional supervision of the meeting."

"We are concerned with the rapidity of your behaviour and with your attitude as you have murdered and sexually assaulted two women whom you found attractive, in an impulsive manner. [Your behaviour] represents a risk for the security of our staff."

Quebec Court Incident Report 

Jeffrey George Ewert began attending law classes at McGill University in August. Some students told CBC they were upset his violent criminal past was not disclosed. (Name withheld/Instagram)

 

Convicted murderer-rapist Jeffrey George Ewert despite his serious criminal convictions was paroled in recognition of his Indigenous heritage, where courts are enjoined to giving special consideration to Indigenous criminals, noting their purported vulnerability as members of an underprivileged class known to be disproportionately represented in Canada's penal system. This man, an unrepentant murderer and rapist made application to attend law school at McGill university, aided by a number of faculty with his application. 

 

When students at the university discovered the presence in their midst of a convicted murderer, they rallied to have him expelled. They obviously were unaware that the university administration, according to the lawyer representing Jeffrey Ewert, was "fully aware" of his past. At McGill Law, this man shared classrooms with female students who reported to news media that the man had raped and killed a young woman in 1984, and a month later, beat a 15-year-old girl into a vegetative state from which she has never fully recovered; left completely spastic, incapable of controlling her movements and unable to speak more than several words.  

 

Despite which, other students petitioned in support of Ewert. Denied day and full parole, Ewert had appealed to the Federal Court and won his case in 2024 when Justice Jocelyne Gagne determined that since Ewert had managed a 12-year, long-term relationship through his incarceration years which, when ended, failed to erupt in a violent psychotic reaction was proof enough for her that he no longer held any issues with women. His Indigenous heritage required to be taken into consideration, she insisted.

 

On Friday afternoon, hours after this story was published, McGill's provost Angela Campbell sent an email to its community, attempting to reassure students. (Kolya Hubacek-Guilbault/CBC)

 

Now, in 2026, the man was permitted entry to the McGill law program, while continuing to express his untoward attraction toward women He had accounts on Threads and on Instagram which CBC investigated, reporting that "Ewert is actively communicating with women, commenting on images of women, many of which appear to be altered or created by AI." Writing in one instance: "hotties like you drive  us crazy." This is a man with a frighteningly horrible past with a lawyer who previously taught at McGill Law. 

 

Not only have a number of McGill professors gone out of their way to assist him in his application to McGill, but an outpouring of public support has resulted from people able to look beyond his history of violence against women. A retired lawyer in a LexisNexis publication wrote that Ewert's enrollment represented an opportunity for students to learn about the "difficult realities of rehabilitation". Law students and alumni -- some 100 people -- signed a petition imploring McGill to "rescind the restrictions placed" on Ewert to enable him to continue his legal education. 

"One-third of Canada's prison population is Indigenous, and Jeff's own incarceration is inextricable from the colonial institutions in which he was born."

"Few people in this country have been failed by as many institutions as he has, and McGill University now has a chance to set a precedent."

"Jeff's situation is where our collective commitments to reconciliation and rehabilitation are tested."

Petition arguing for reinstatement 

 

"[McGill has failed to] guide us through critical learning. [We are] shocked by the reactive manner [in which the university handled the matter]." 

"We also believe that a circle discussion led by an Elder would provide an important and culturally appropriate space for our students to process recent events."

"Should the student in question be welcomed back onto campus, we ask that they receive the academic support necessary to continue their studies."

McGill law students' association 

 

McGill University in Montreal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

 

Mark Carney's Sanctimonious Miscalculation; One Among Many

"We are certainly holding [the Palestinian Authority] to account."

"We're supporting efforts to have those elections and to have free and fair elections in Palestine, and we'll continue to do so."

"[Canada remains committed to a two-state solution, which is] critical for peace, stability and security in the Middle East and beyond."

"We have far more resources dedicated to support [the people in Gaza] than are able to be delivered to Gaza. So there are many things that are not working within Palestine, and there are many who are responsible for that." 

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney 

 

"[Mahmoud Abbas's] attempt to drag Israel into this [excuse for cancelling imminent elections by the Palestinian Authority], falsely claiming that Israel imposed obstacles to holding elections, is yet another ridiculous lie designed to evade responsibility and accountability."

"Just like the other lies about 'reforms' that were never implemented -- ending payments to terrorists and their families, and stopping incitement in the Palestinian education system."

Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Gideon Sa'ar 

Nearly two decades have passed since the last Palestinian Legislative Council elections were held, and five years since the planned 2021 elections were postponed. [Getty]

 

Either PM Mark Carney is acutely, deliberately obtuse, or, perhaps more likely, so devoted to his possibly subconscious hostility to the reality that Israel does not control what happens in the Palestinian Territories, that he has no problem digesting the accusations of  Israeli interference that makes everything go sideways for Palestinians. He cannot possibly be ignorant of the fact that Israel intervenes only when she has no other choice, when the constant incitements of the PA to its citizens to dedicate themselves to hastening the destruction of Israel creates a backlash of defense. Defensive actions that Palestinian leaders inform the credulous West represents Israeli violence against Palestinians.

 

Insistence on a two-state 'solution' as an answer to the ongoing conflict between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East, is a fly-in-the-sky sop to an imagined, simple problem that can be corrected when two parties to a dispute agree between them to finally shelve hostilities in an agreement to share disputed land. The problem is that Israel has for the past 80 years accepted that concept of reasonable accommodation, while the Palestinians, led by their leaders have rejected a state of their own alongside that of Israel for the more palatable solution of one state and Jews begone!

 

It never seems to occur to Canada's prime minister and his colleagues in Ireland, Spain, France, the United Kingdom and Australia that they are willingly absorbing a false, two-sided message; one delivered in Arabic to Palestinians that their ongoing 'resistance' to the presence of Jews on Judean ancestral land will eventually succeed, and the assurances given to the West that the Palestinian dream of their own sovereign state cannot be accomplished as a result of Israel's refusal to allow them that dream. They can afford to be duped; Israel bears the horrific brunt of Palestinian violence through their death-cult leadership.

 

Internal disarray within Fatah, disagreements over candidate lists and the distribution of power, and emerging alliances among Abbas's opponents have all contributed to delaying elections until 2027. [Getty]

 

So, no, the statement that the Palestinian leadership is being held to account for its promotion of murderous assaults on its neighbour, for its generous payouts to the terrorist they breed, for school curricula that identify Jews as mortal enemies that must be killed to stop them from eliminating all Palestinians in their zeal to preserve their position as a Jewish state in Muslim-Arab territory, is far from reality; it is a blatant lie iterated as a demonstration of just how even-minded and neutral Israel's critics are.

 

As reported by The Associated Press, the decision to postpone the legislative elections until September of 2027 represented another stalling tactic by the PA, in consultation with Hamas and Islamic Jihad. As a 'reason' for that postponement, the Fatah, the party in power with the Palestinian Authority cited the Palestine Liberation Organization's executive committee claiming Israeli military raids, expansion of settlements, withholding of tax revenue were responsible for the decision. Israel's fault, a charge readily accepted by Israel's natural Democratic, putative allies.  

"[We] deeply regret [the decision by Abbas not to move forward with elections]."

"We call on the Palestinian Authority to reconsider the decision to postpone elections and to take the necessary steps to hold legislative and presidential elections, without further delay."

"[The] significant challenges that impediments have affected the ability to conduct elections."

"[We call upon Israel] to refrain from actions that could impede the conduct of elections, including the practical arrangements necessary for all Palestinians to participate."

United Kingdom, Australia, France foreign affairs ministers' joint statement  

President for the last 22 years, since 2005, when Hamas challenged Fatah and was itself elected alongside Fatah, leading it to establish its headquarters in Gaza, the very year in which which Israeli Forces had removed all Jewish settlements by order of then-Israeli President Ariel Sharon with the intention of leaving the territory for the Palestinians to administer on their own as a good-faith gesture. That gesture led to Hamas taking authority for itself by co-opting Gaza, and violently neutralizing the Fatah presence. The rest is  history as Gaza became the staging ground for continuous, non-stop deadly assaults against Israel, until a separation wall was finally built. 

 

Even that had its limits in protecting Israeli citizens from the vicious savagery of Palestinian terrorism as the dreadful events of October 7, 2023 demonstrated. Canada boasts of its generosity to pledging close to $600 million in charitable assistance for Palestinians in the past three years. And another $100 million for charitable aid was announced by Carney last month at the UN's General Assembly, alongside $80 million more in humanitarian aid. There is no accountability, no tracing how those charitable funds are disposed of, even though it was channelled through UNRWA. As though that would guarantee anything positive, other than ending up with Hamas, hundreds of whose operatives are part of UNRWA. 

 

This photo taken Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, shows a newly built mansion for the Palestinian Authority, on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

  

On 10 October, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree cancelling the legislative elections set for 28 November. Instead, presidential and legislative polls will be held together on 11 September 2027. The decree followed approval by the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and consultations with political factions.

The official explanation was Israel's occupation. Fatah officials insist that the movement was ready and that Israeli restrictions made a free, fair, and inclusive vote impossible. While that argument is real, it is also incomplete.

Read closely, the accounts of those around the decision point to three pressures converging at once: external obstacles that have not changed, rivalries inside Fatah that its own leaders acknowledge, and a factional dialogue that gave the leadership a consensual route away from a deadline its critics say it was not ready to meet.

The postponement is less a verdict on Israeli obstruction than a decision about who gets to shape the next Palestinian political order, and on what terms.

"Fatah respected the outcomes of the dialogue held in Cairo with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Hamas,” Nasrallah said, “and conveyed them to the movement's leadership bodies before the procedures for the postponement were completed”. 

Monjed Jadou, 19 October, 2026, The New Arab

The Viral Vector of Antisemitism in Canada

"Under the radar, Canada is being infiltrated."

"The Muslim Brotherhood manipulates and uses these democratic principles [of Western democracy] and our cultural institutions in a way that allows them to enter into our society, to enter into higher education, to enter into the Muslim community, to create mosques and civic organizations that are radicalized."

"In the West -- in Canada but in other Western democratic countries -- we don't really understand what the Muslim Brotherhood is."

"It sounds like a benevolent organization. It's a nice name, [but] we don't understand the ideology, the goals, the religious worldview of the Brotherhood, what the strategic and military or philosophical  underpinnings are, and they have mastered us." 

Dr. Charles Asher Small, founder/director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) 

 

"The ISGAP report is nothing more than recycled Islamophobic tropes dressed up as research."

"It is a biased, unsubstantiated hit piece that relies on discredited allegations that were themselves challenged by the Ontario Superior Court for their apparent bias."

"It amplifies narratives designed to fuel Islamophobia and sow division within Canadian society."

Muslim Association of Canada 

 

"This report is a wake-up call for all Canadians. The Canadian government’s direct funding of organizations with documented links to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas is a betrayal of public trust and a threat to Canada’s national security."

"Our report exposes how federal agencies have become complicit in sustaining and legitimizing networks that promote antisemitic and anti-Israel ideologies under the guise of charity and social welfare."

"These entities are exploiting the very values of tolerance and pluralism that Canada holds dear, weaponizing public institutions against Jewish communities and undermining Canadian democracy itself."

Dr. Charles Small  

SGAP Urges Canadian Government to Designate Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Organization

 

The newly released report by ISGAP holds that Canadian institutions have been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood, a group founded in Egypt in the first quarter of the 20th century that has grown its tentacles worldwide as an inspiration in the world of fundamentalist Islam for global Islamic conquest. Its influence throughout the Islamic world is divided between Muslim-majority countries that have outlawed it in recognition of its goals to be achieved by any means of establishing a worldwide Caliphate ruled by Islamic Sharia law and those countries such as the Islamic Republic of Iran, Turkey, Qatar and Pakistan for whom that conquest goal is a shared aspiration.

 

The Brotherhood's entrenchment of its operatives throughout Canadian institutions, through non-profit organizations and universities, government agencies and trade unions poses a clear and present danger to the country. Its presence and influence in Western countries such as Spain, Italy, Ireland, the U.K., France and Belgium, to name but a handful, including the United States has succeeded in undermining culture, tradition, social mores and values to an extent that is truly alarming. And no group knows this as keenly as the diaspora Jews living in those countries which for the past three years have been subjected to Palestinian-focused threats, harassment, isolation, prejudice and violence.

Anti-Israel protesters at Toronto Metropolitan University on April 30, 2024.

 

The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism sets out its argument in a 200-page study that an organized campaign of pro-Palestinian activism and anti-Islamophobia rhetoric has succeeded in activating antisemitism throughout Canada. Groups associated with the Brotherhood have themselves been radicalized by them to carry on the scheme of painting Israel and Jews everywhere as the fulcrum of all that fails in the world; that conflict is the fault of the Jews -- ostensibly for having the unmitigated gall to rise to its own defence and responsive offence when savagely attacked by Islamist terrorists. 

 

Funding for Islamist groups under the aegis of the Muslim Brotherhood is supplied by Qatar, investing oil wealth in gifting millions to academic institutions whose administrations are eager to receive those funds and amenable to cooperating with faculty and study bodies reflective of the Brotherhood's interests. While Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Jordan and Saudi Arabia have outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, the West is slow in taking up the initiative in recognizing them for what they represent, a wholesale move to install a foundation throughout civilized society of core Islamic values.

 

It is a type of 'entryism' - the act of changing institutions; cultural, governmental, educational and others from within that the ISGAP report points out the Muslim Brotherhood is involved in. Canadian multiculturalism provides the perfect backdrop along with immigration laws that have been relaxed without due diligence to enable viral Islamist fundamentalism entry. Canadian government authorities are fully aware of the presence of members of the Islamic Republican Guard Corps living in Canada, proscribed in some European countries, and posing a direct threat to security, but fail to deport them.

 

ISGAP-U.S. is calling on the U.S. to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. (J. David Ake/Getty Images; Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images)

 

Muslim advocacy groups and charities purporting to be innocent and well-meaning entities are involved in lobbying to achieve their interests to the detriment of Canada's and to raise 'charitable' funds that end  up funding Islamist terrorism. The Brotherhood is a true transnational threat to civilized society everywhere, from the West to the Middle East. Yet recognition of their malign presence and the security threat they represent seems beyond the notice of government in Canada. Groups such as the Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council (CMPAC) and The Canadian-Muslim Vote (TCMV), represent mobilization organs for bloc voting in Canada, the ISGAP report points out. 

 

Khaled al-Qazzaz, CMPAC executive director, was formerly foreign affairs secretary for the Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi in Egypt in 2011 after the violent disruptions of the Arab Spring brought down Egypt's long-time president, Hosni Mubarak, until a year later, Egypt's chief of the military, Abdel Fatah El-Sisi struck a coup, brought down the Brotherhood presidency, imprisoned Morsi and became Egypt's new president.  

 

An anti-Israel protest outside Concordia University in Montreal on Oct. 7, 2024. Photo by John Mahoney/Montreal Gazette/Postmedia

 

 

 

Toronto Metropolitan University: Faculty For Palestine

"The report is exhaustive in listing the relevant university codes and guidelines, including the Student Code For Non-Academic Conduct, which recognizes freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, provided those occur lawfully, without harassment, discrimination, intimidation or violence."

"The review meticulously details examples of members of the Students for Justice in Palestine organization engaging in intimidation and violence, in breach of that code, but Benotto's subsequent conclusions have been redacted."

"The published report includes Benotto's statement that TMU must be prepared to enforce its codes of conduct consistently, but the published version redacts her finding that those codes were broken repeatedly."

John Ivison, Investigative Journalist, National Post

 

"Your analysis fundamentally misinterprets the facts, leading to conclusions that are demonstrably incorrect."

"The measures are necessary to ensure that established processes can proceed fairly and appropriately, without compromising the rights of those involved."

"We will not compromise the integrity of ongoing proceedings by disclosing information that must remain confidential."

Toronto Metropolitan University, rejoinder to journalistic scrutiny 

Have questions about the external review or the university's next steps? Explore our answers to common inquiries. Toronto Metropolitan University

 

A review was undertaken by retired justice Mary Lou Benotto at the request of Toronto Metropolitan University, seeking to respond to criticism that it has permitted antisemitism to permeate its hallowed halls of learning, without taking any steps to put a stop to the propaganda, harassment of Jewish students and violent verbal expressions and actions seemingly condoned by some university faculty members by Students for Justice in Palestine, at the university.

 

Justice Benotto investigated the antisemitic incidents and produced a fairly exhaustive report, one that constituted a damning indictment of the policies of the TMU administration in failing to support breaches of its own code-of-conduct policies. The university administration responded by redacting the review that concluded with the observation that absence of clear enforcement of its own code contributed to tension escalation at the university through rampant expressions and incidents of antisemitism.

 

Instead of addressing the report and releasing it, the administration of the university decided to appoint another investigation to take place; in essence investigating the conclusion of the initial investigation. To that end, TMU president Mohamed Lachemi and his staff appointed former Ontario NDP premier Bob Rae as chairman of an implementation task force to study the Benotto review and produce a report of their own on that review by the following spring.

 

The task force membership includes a number of faculty members of the university along with others who have heretofore expressed opposition to one of the key recommendations of the Benotto report: adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of antisemitism. TMU must also be prepared, according to the Benotto report, to enforce its codes of conduct consistently. The Benotto report concludes that by establishing clear behavioural expectations to be enforced adequately TMU could solve its problem. 

 

Two events drew Justice Benotto's attention in her appraisal of the situation at TMU; one of which was Students for Justice in Palestine disrupting a Democracy Forum panel discussion on artificial intelligence where their operatives shouted "war criminals", "baby killers" and "murderers" at attendees, forcing the event to be cancelled. When a number of the activists were arrested, the protesters accused the police of "brutalization". Another incident off-campus sponsored by Students Supporting Israel was broken into by SJP protesters shouting accusations of "Zionist murderers"; the event cancelled, violence causing some hospitalizations and a few arrests. 

 

 

 

"Freedom of speech is not an unlimited right", stated Judge Benotto in her finding of a deeply polarized camps environment that emerged following the Palestinian terrorist attacks that took place in southern Israel on October 7, 2023. The university's Faculty for Palestine, listed as being present at the September 2025 protest, involves themselves by sending their students out to volubly protest and get arrested whereupon the professors claim the students are penalized for the simple act of protesting. 

 

Also in the review are references to faculty members denying or minimizing the Holocaust while leading discussions on how much violence is justified in support of the activities of supporting Palestine. TMU's sociology department issued a statement criticizing the university for the "systematic silencing of Palestinian and Arab students". A message from F4P in support of the pro-Palestinian student protests was circulated by the TMU faculty association which declined to distribute a response from a member of the Jewish Employees Community Network.

 

Should it ever come to this pass, the Ontario government recently announced its intention to cut operational funding to institutions failing to address racism and hate. The TMU efforts to place the Benotto report high up on a shelf, undisturbed until the next century might just qualify for that special attention and defunding.

 

Anti-Israel protesters hold a rally against Toronto Metropolitan University on April 30, 2024. Photo by Peter J. Thompson/National Post

 

Wikipedia: "Our Standards of Neutrality"

"Art workers across so-called-Canada demanding cultural institutions divest from settler colonialism and genocide."

"[Stop Art Washing] is hosting a Wikipedia 101 session [with] hands-on editing [on October 22 at an undisclosed location]."

"[The purpose of the event is] to populate Wikipedia entries honouring martyred Palestinian artists and exposing the Canadian, Zionist backers of genocide."

 "Against attempts to erase Palestinian martyrs and conceal the Imperialist perpetrators of Israel’s genocide, this Wiki Edit-a-Thon remedies the narrative, towards Palestinian liberation."

Stop Art Washing 

Canadian group hosts Wikipedia “Edit-a-Thon” to honor Palestinian artists                     Roya News

 

Yet another anti-Zionist group in Canada to be heard from. Palestinians and their groupies just cannot think up schemes fast enough to satisfy their rapacious appetite for celebrating Palestinians' penchant for terrorism and their insalubrious joy at any opportunity to take credit for originating everything that the world ever depended upon to advance toward prosperity and comfort as authentic Palestinian initiatives. The one Palestinian initiative that few care to imitate or take possession of is their pathological drive to prove how courageous their death-cult is.

 

That even as they everlastingly boast of their victimhood to  elicit empathy from those who are quick to have their inner core of Jew-hate elevated to a 'just cause', they take pride in their devotion to the goal of killing Jews in Israel while in the West where they migrate to infiltrate socially, academically, as noble victims of Israeli colonialist-grabbing land claimed by Palestine as their own with no historical or ancestral attestation other than that which identifies it as the traditional heritage of Judea, they claim indigeneity is theirs, not that of Jews. 

 

What a novel idea, to use Wikipedia as a platform to celebrate the courage and honour inherent in suicide bombing by lone martyrs, or swarms of Palestinian terrorists streaming in their thousands into Israel from Gaza in an organized bedlam of savage bestiality to maim and to rape, burn entire families alive in their homes, raze farming villages, looting and shooting as they race toward the next unaware civilian enclave to destroy the lives of children, their mothers and grandparents. What courage that takes!

 

Instagram

 

 Now the advertising of a training session to prepare avid Jew-haters for the practical work of using and abusing Wikipedia's popular influence on the unwary and the trusting to present the nobility of mass murderers as victims of Islamophobic Jews whose mission in life is solely to destroy the presence of Palestinians in a fell swoop of genocide is underway. The plan to flood Wikipedia with these special entries to persuade the undecided that they too can aspire to raving lunacy on the platform is set to go.

 

Needless to say Wikipedia, considering itself a reliable purveyor of facts and statistics for the purpose of educating and informing, has policies in place for the platform not to be defiled as "a soapbox, a battleground, or a vehicle for propaganda". All content, it insists, must be composed and presented from a strictly neutral point of view; say for example, how the BBC and the CBC present news coverage of the Middle East; 'just the facts, Ma'am'... 

 

Coverage on Wikipedia of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the wake of the atrocities committed by Palestinian terrorists in southern Israel on 7 October 2023 "has surged significantly". Leading to "criticism from advocates on both sides for perceived bias". Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, was asked about an entry on the "Gaza genocide" described as an "ongoing, intentional and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel". 

 

His response was that "It needs to change. I think it's just terrible. It doesn't live up to our standards of neutrality, and I think it's very problematic." Earning the ire of the very 'unbiased' composers of the page in question. No fewer than 27 unbiased writers contributed to a Wikipedia page on the genocide case against Israel lodged by South Africa at the International Court of Justice. Researchers in their turn identified "patterns of anti-Israel bias among power-user editors". 

"Alarming patterns of bias [revealed] that can cascade through the digital information ecosystem, infecting everything from search engine results to academic citations to social media posts and even AI training data."

Research analysis  

Toronto Scoop

 

 

 

PM Mark Carney's Trade Fixation Wisdom

"[China's theft of western intellectual property amounts to a] lost generation of prosperity [for Canada]."

"Not to overhype it, but there is the reality that all of your data -- what you say, where you go, with whom you are, who you associate with, everything to do around your car -- will be acquired by China."

"It is not a question for me, it is a reality."

"You need to have more than your eyes wide open; you need to also make sure that you're protecting your wallet in your back pocket."

"The amount ... of intellectual property that has been taken away from the West, from Great Britain, from Canada, the United States is essentially a lost generation of prosperity. It's not the amount of job losses in our society now, but also in the future."

"Any new information innovation technology that comes into China is looked at through the prism of 'Can we industrialize it to make to create jobs and opportunities', but also, is there a way to weaponize it to essentially give new capabilities to the People's Liberation Army." 

Former head, Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) David Vigneault 

Chinese-made Geely E5 SUV electric vehicle at the International Paris Motor Show on Oct. 12, 2026. Photo by Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images

 

Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney found it politically expedient to appeal to China for trade deals in an attempt to offset some of the trade damage imposed on Canada though U.S. President Donald Trump's imposition of crushing tariffs on an entire range of critical Canadian goods and services. The Free Trade agreement that Mr. Trump had signed in his previous administration extolling it as a 'good deal' for the U.S. has been eviscerated by that same Mr. Trump who claims his intention of forcing bankruptcy on Canada to make it into a 51st U.S. state.

 

The brilliant Mark Carney made a deal with the devil to save Canadian GDP from the ravages of a formerly friendly neighbour, driving the country toward a different kind of colonization, this time by a colossus of consumer-goods-production like none other, working zealously to bring the entire world into a state of dependence on Chinese-produced manufacturing and advanced technologies garnered by the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing's cyber-tentacles and student and foreign worker infiltration abroad skilled at espionage and lifting industrial/scientific and government intellectual properties.

 

Entry by Chinese-manufactured electric vehicles into Canada will set loose another enterprise-acquisitive facet of Beijing's -- the focus on private individual data put to whatever use in assessing social systems, customs, proclivities, current events and any kind of minutiae that might conceivably be of any use in understanding, manipulating, coercing, convincing, or leading foreign populations in a direction useful to the CCP as it goes about routinely and covertly offering its services to all that fail to suspect their enterprising purpose.

 

Mr. Vigneault's focus is the entry of Chinese-made electric vehicles and the software it is loaded with, including the capability to transmit back to Chinese investigators all manner of data which in aggregate might prove to be useful to the intelligence agencies and the military with which they are integrated for future use in some unknown but possibly malign purpose. Among the Five Eyes intelligence chiefs concern is being expressed about those electric vehicles made in China. But former CSIS chief Vigneault's is the first to voice his expert misgivings from a Canadian perspective plainly and publicly.

 

Mark Carney's interest in arranging potential joint-venture Chinese EV manufacturing to Canada to replace U.S. automakers leaving under pressure from the U.S. president is not viewed with favour by Mr.Vigneault from his intelligence perspective. It is, in fact, a careless, dangerous folly. Yet in  his zeal to increase trade with China, preparing to lower tariff levels, some 50,000 Chinese EVs are set to enter Canada on an annual basis. "To make Canada a leader in electric vehicle manufacturing, we're working to attract significant new joint-venture Chinese investments", Mr. Carney stated in unheeding triumph.

 

In its wholesale acquisitive greed, Beijing has passed a law that all Chinese companies and individuals whether in China itself or based and living abroad have a lawful obligation to work on China's behalf to aid and assist its operatives in espionage operations and in acquiring by stealth and any means conceivable, the intellectual property of governments, industries, research facilities, viral-medical laboratoties and academic institutions that might further Chinese enterprise. Such furtive stealth has exacted its toll in Canada in the past, where industrial secrets of successful corporations in Chinese hands have undercut and ruined all future prospects for the original corporation forced out of business through Chinese uncompetitive strategies.

 

In his address last week in London, speaking to the BBC, Mr. Vigneault added his concerns over the pathological rise of antisemitism globally, mentioning in particular that anti-Jewish, anti-Israel terrorists radicalized by ignorance in Canada are threatening the Canadian Jewish community. What he either diplomatically or through political awareness failed to make note of in his comments was that Canada's careless immigration process, refugee intake, and acceptance of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa have imported their venomous brand of traditional Jew-hate as baggage with which they have been able to turn a flicker of antisemitism into a raging-blazing-hot furnace. 

Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrators are seperated by police in Montreal, on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press)

"With Israel, you can absolutely disagree with policies. Unfortunately, I've seen some of the more extreme groups recuperate some of the legitimate angst against those policies and turn that into antisemitism."

I've seen that in terrorist attacks in my country, in Canada, where people who honestly have no idea what they're talking about, but the radicalization online essentially brings them ... to become anti-Semite."

Former CSIS head, David Vigneault