Nearly two-and-a-half years after the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre in Israel, the Islamist terror group is still firmly entrenched in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas remains armed, organized, and committed to its declared goal of destroying Israel through jihad (holy war). Yet instead of confronting this reality, international diplomats continue to indulge in dangerous fantasies about negotiating Hamas out of existence.
It takes a special kind of evil to destroy posters that have been distributed to help locate a missing child.
But Toronto has seen this kind of evil before. Back after Oct. 7, 2023, hostage posters of Jewish children kidnapped by Hamas were also ripped down or defaced.
To the people tearing down the “Help Find Esti” posters in my neighbourhood: STOP IT‼️
A 14-year-old girl is still missing.
I don’t know what you think you’re accomplishing, but I promise you, for every poster ripped down, many more will go back up, until Esti is back home. pic.twitter.com/N4kkAE6INw
— Michael Levitt 🇨🇦🎗️ (@LevittMichael) May 24, 2026
Anyone who understands the history of the Middle East knows the wars against Israel by the Arab-Muslim world are in reality wars against Jews.
That doesn’t mean criticism of Israel is antisemitic.
It’s no longer in the public consciousness, but domestic terrorism was very much a thing in the United States and Europe during the 1960s and 1970s.
There is no one hard count, but in those two decades, about 20,000 bombings happened in the United States, with actual revolutionary groups trying to overthrow the United States government.
This is VERY bad.
Palestine Action have put Jewish Civilian addresses and personal details on a Target Map teaching people how “choose a target” https://t.co/HLWI1Dk8Nf
— Kosher (@koshercockney) May 22, 2026
For years, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has promised the US, Europe, and Arab donors that he is committed to reforming Palestinian institutions, fighting corruption, introducing transparency, and preparing the ground for a new generation of Palestinian leadership. The recent elections for his ruling Fatah faction, however, prove otherwise.
A Department of Justice report says hundreds of Muslims in Canada have reported workplace consequences linked to their political views, particularly support for Palestine.
The report, A Qualitative Look at Serious Legal Problems: Muslims in London and Toronto, attributes the findings to advocacy and legal support data provided by the Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association of Toronto, which says it has assisted more than 300 individuals who faced workplace repercussions related to their political expression.
Documents captured by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the Gaza Strip should finally bury one of the most dangerous illusions: the belief that Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Iranian regime can somehow be persuaded to halt their jihad (holy war) and accept Israel’s existence.
On the morning of the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led invasion of Israel, three senior leaders of the terrorist group – Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif, and Marwan Issa – sent a message to Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah requesting support for the attack that had begun.
Gad Saad, a longtime Concordia University professor known for his outspoken criticism of “woke” politics as well as his denunciations of antisemitism, has announced he’s moving this summer to the United States.
Can’t argue with that tweet.
According to a report by an Israeli NGO, Hamas’s own internal memos show it has been working in tandem with Canadian government‑funded charities and non‑governmental organizations.
The documents, which the Israeli army says it seized during its Gaza counteroffensive, detail how the terror organization allegedly infiltrated and exploited international NGOs operating in the Strip.
At Tuesday’s anti-Semitism ‘summit’ in Downing Street, Sir Keir Starmer achieved a personal first. He used the word ‘Islamists’. But in order to utter a word he had previously avoided in relation to the subject, Sir Keir had to approach it crabwise. Instead of identifying Islamists as the main ideological and physical threat to British Jews, he said: ‘We’re clear-eyed about the fact that anti-Semitism does not have one source alone: Islamists, far-left, far-right extremism, all target Jewish communities.’ Islamists were thus inserted into the conversation but also downplayed. It is obsolete not to recognise that the far right in Britain – for the moment at least – more or less leave Jews alone. The far left is indeed a breeding ground for anti-Semitism, but not a factor unrelated to the Islamists. Indeed, the two have forged the modern equivalent of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The Prime Minister cannot say this, because he is not brave and because that pact is now so strong that he feared further punishment in Thursday’s local elections if he suggested its existence. If you watched Kemi Badenoch dealing firmly, two days earlier, with a verbal attack by a pro-Palestinian activist, you could see a leader who speaks freely because she knows what she thinks. Has poor Sir Keir ever known?
When certain prominent Jewish community leaders in the diaspora denounce Israel’s coalition government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as an “existential threat” to the nation, which then, in their view, risks becoming “incompatible with Jewish values”, it says more about those speakers than about Israel.
Some individuals — even Jews, such as Rabbi Charley Baginsky and Rabbi Josh Levy — who claim that criticism of Israel’s government is a “Jewish obligation,” which, from their perspective, does not amount to “an act of disloyalty.” No one, of course, ever criticizes Israel; they must find that so disappointing.
A former colleague of mine recently sold his home in Montreal and made “aliyah” by moving to Israel with his wife. Aliyah, a Hebrew word, literally means “rise” or “ascent,” but Jewish people define it as immigrating to Israel.
My former colleague isn’t alone. More and more Jews are leaving Canada for Israel. According to the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem, Canadian aliyah rose a record 51 per cent in 2025 from 2023. They are leaving this country at record rates and many are relocating to the United States, as well.
Israel says it has killed the leader of Hamas’ military wing, one of the architects of the Oct, 7, 2023, attacks that triggered the war in Gaza.
Izz al-Din al-Haddad was killed in a strike in Gaza City on Friday, Israel’s army said.
He was one of the last senior commanders in Hamas’ military who had directed the planning and execution of the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks on Israel.
On May 11 and 12, the Palestinian Authority organized mass rallies across the West Bank to commemorate the “Nakba” (“catastrophe”) — the term Palestinians use to describe the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.
Hundreds of Palestinians marched through the streets of Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinians, waving flags, carrying “keys of return,” and chanting slogans such as “We live a new Nakba every day” and “We will never forget the right of return.”
Gullible New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, always willing to see the best side of Saddam Hussein and fanatical Islamic radicalism and the worst side of democratic Israel, penned a long investigative column, “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians,” alleging without corroboration that Israel soldiers, settlers, and especially prison guards have long committed sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners. The most fantastical charge: Israel prisons train dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners.
