Over the months leading up to last week’s mayoral election, a question circulated among some, or even many, Jewish voters in Toronto: does Olivia Chow have their backs?
The question was largely rhetorical, informed by a widespread whisper campaign that she had chosen the wrong side in the unresolvable fight about whether or not there’s an equal sign between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.
The Star’s contributors are hallucinatory. Toronto lives for “Palestine”.
A man who had already been found guilty of firebombing a group of protesters advocating for the release of Israeli hostages in the US state of Colorado has now plead guilty to federal hate crime charges.
Prosecutors said Mohamed Sabry Soliman threw Molotov cocktails at the group of demonstrators in June 2025 – injuring at least 12 people, one of whom died.
He plead guilty in May to 101 state charges, including first-degree murder – resulting in a sentence of life in prison – but initially pleaded not guilty in the federal case.
Senior Canadian national-security officials are warning that the Jewish community in Canada is facing unprecedented and unparalleled threats, both in severity and number, in the aftermath of the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.
The officials told The Globe and Mail that the speed of radicalization in this country is creating risks to the Jewish community at a pace not seen since after the 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S.
They must be required to include a reference to “white supremacism” with each announcement.
I cannot recall an antisemitic white supremacist march anywhere in Canada.
Meanwhile our political class has largely supported Muslims marching for the destruction of Israel in our streets for the last 3 years while demonizing those who support remigration.
That’s what normal is in Canada.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is quietly replacing the institutions through which the West once transmitted knowledge. Students who a generation ago consulted teachers and libraries now consult with often extremely unreliable chatbots. Reportedly 54% of American teenagers already use AI apps such as ChatGPT and its peers for schoolwork. Journalists, lawyers and civil employees are following the same path.
“Are we serving politics with a side of pancakes now?” fourth-generation Montrealer, chef and restaurateur, Raegan Steinberg, asked on her Instagram in mid-October.
It was Steinberg’s response to a question from a prospective diner, asking about her views on the “genocide in Palestine.”
“There’s a boycott list that’s been going around since October 7,” she explains in an interview with National Post. It points to Montreal businesses that have allegedly expressed support for Israel. And Steinberg is on it.
JERUSALEM — Israelis from Tel Aviv and West Bank settlements, from Jerusalem and overseas, poured into polling booths Tuesday at the highest rate in decades for a pivotal election widely seen as a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, and his record on the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas.
The election, the first since the Hamas attack, which killed about 1,200 people and ignited three years of regional war, has centered on Netanyahu’s stewardship of national security and the economy at a time when Israel remains locked in military conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran and faces heavy international criticism.
Israelis are heading to the polls for what many view as one of the most pivotal elections in the country’s history.
Polling published on Friday suggests incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu is in a near neck-and-neck race with former military chief Gadi Eisenkot to become prime minister.
But neither of their political blocs are projected to win the 61 seats needed to form a majority government – meaning weeks or months of political wrangling may lie ahead.
We’ve heard them say it before: we’re not antisemitic; we’re just critical of Israel. We don’t hate Jews; we’re just opposed to the Benjamin Netanyahu government. Yeah, the problem is that, factually, that was untrue, and only morons or the obtuse believed it. You can be critical of the Netanyahu government, but when blood money and ‘dirty Jew’ overtures ooze from the talking points, we know what’s going on. Some of us remember high school history and the propaganda a certain national socialist party in Germany distributed in the 1930s.
If you think this ad is antisemitic, you’re in a cult and don’t know it. You think Israel is owed all the money it wants from US and if Americans don’t hand it over – without complaint – they’re antisemites. That’s insane, but you don’t realize it because you’ve lost your mind.
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) October 26, 2026
After three years of regional war, this is a battle Israel always knew was coming.
The general election on Tuesday hangs over a country that’s deeply divided and ready for a fight.
Polls published on Friday put the governing coalition and the main opposition bloc almost neck-and-neck, with half a million first-time voters due to cast their ballot and some 70,000 Israelis reportedly flying in from abroad specifically to vote.
On Tuesday, Israelis will go to the polls in what may be the most emotionally charged election in the country’s history. Having grown up in Israel and witnessed its political battles for decades, I cannot recall another election in which the divisions were so personal, the accusations so devastating, and the consequences perceived as so existential.
For millions of Israelis, this election is no longer simply about political preferences. It is about moral responsibility for October 7, 2023, and the devastating years that followed.
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“How do you avoid a Nazi Germany? You didn’t,” Toronto employment lawyer Howard Levitt told The Hub. “It’s becoming like that here. And I mean, that would have seemed a ludicrous statement even a year ago… But it’s not a ludicrous statement anymore.”
Hamas has threatened to repeat the October 7 massacre in an ‘unprecedented’ warning to Israel, as the terrorist group faces mounting pressure to disarm.
The group said it would be prepared to unleash violence against targets in Israel, Judea, Samaria and abroad whenever the opportunity arises, according to the chilling message.
UN humanitarian coordinator Dr Ramiz Alakbarov was tasked with conveying the threat to the Israeli leadership by senior Hamas officials, who met him last week at his office in Gaza, Ynet reported.
Israel locked down the West Bank after two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed and three wounded by two Palestinian gunmen.
On Friday, two Palestinian gunmen armed with an M16 rifle and a handgun, whom Israeli authorities alleged were members of Hamas, opened fire at an IDF position near the city of Hebron, triggering a gunfight that lasted around 20 minutes until both were killed.
The Palestinian wave of terror continues.
Two IDF soldiers were murdered this morning in a shooting attack near Judea Junction.
A large-scale Hamas terrorist attack targeting innocent civilians was foiled, as evidenced by the substantial quantities of weapons and ammunition discovered.
Our brave soldiers acted with courage and determination and prevented an even more devastating terrorist attack.
Israeli security forces continue to operate with full force to thwart terrorism and bring those responsible to justice.
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) October 23, 2026
Tamer Muhammad Ibrahim al-Sabbagh, who was among the men caught on camera abducting Louk and parading her half-naked body around Gaza was killed in an airstrike.
More than three years after the October 7 massacre, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his ruling Fatah faction are still pursuing reconciliation with Hamas, the Iran-backed terrorist group that led the assault on Israel.
Instead of making Hamas’s disarmament and the dismantling of its military infrastructure prerequisites for Palestinian political unity, Fatah officials are traveling to Cairo to negotiate ways of incorporating the terrorist group into a unified Palestinian political system.
