Binyamin Netanyahu knows how to speak to President Trump. To assuage him away from pursuing peace talks in his previous term, the Israeli prime minister used golf metaphors and maps of Trump’s beloved New York to show him why it would not work.
On his fifth trip to meet the president since Trump was inaugurated in January, a record for any foreign leader, Netanyahu may have to do more than beguile him with the 300-acre golf course near Tel Aviv he is building and naming in his honour.
Back in July, a Toronto man filed a complaint about antisemitic posts on X. Almost six months later, he’s still waiting for the results of the investigation from Toronto’s Hate Crime Unit. Meanwhile, the antisemitic posts continue. Six months is too long. Six days is too long. Heck, six hours could be too long when it comes to radical extremists.
More than two months after the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip went into effect, the Iran-backed Hamas terror group seems more determined than ever to stay in power and continue its armed struggle to destroy Israel.
On December 14, Hamas marked the 38th anniversary of its founding by praising its October 7, 2023 invasion of Israel’s southern communities as a “gigantic milestone and landmark in the struggle for freedom and independence and the defeat and elimination of the occupation [Israel].” On that day, more than 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were murdered, and thousands wounded. Another 251 Israelis and foreign nationals were kidnapped to the Gaza Strip, where Hamas is still holding the remains of one hostage.
On Boxing Day, a pro-Palestinian mob took over the Eaton Centre, one of Canada’s busiest and most iconic public spaces, chanting for “intifada” in the heart of Toronto. Not on the fringes. Not quietly. In the middle of a mall filled with families, workers, tourists, and holiday shoppers.
This did not happen in a vacuum. And it cannot be dismissed as just another protest.
Hamas supporters take over the Eaton Center in Toronto on Boxing Day.
This happened last year too by the way.
How were the police so unprepared yet again? https://t.co/qzrUPAbBSx pic.twitter.com/o8ZBvYFXUG
— Bruce (@bruce_barrett) December 27, 2025
After the October 7 attacks in Israel, Aviva Klompas noticed that rather than sympathy and support, what surfaced was a “disturbing undercurrent of Jew hatred that was apparently lying dormant in Canada.”
“The nature of what has exploded from under the surface is shocking, particularly for a country like Canada that prides itself on multiculturalism and the ability to live together,” said Klompas, a writer and the CEO and co-founder of Boundless, a think tank dedicated to educating groups about Israel and combatting antisemitism.
Ms. Klompas advised on the settlement of Syrian refugees.
“Bondi was a warning shot,” cautions Cary Kogan, professor of psychology at the University of Ottawa. “If Western governments aren’t going to deal with the issue (of antisemitism), this is what we’re going to end up with. And I worry; the intelligence community has told us very clearly that there are bad actors here in Canada, and you know, the government needs to listen.”
This week, mezuzahs were ripped off the doors of multiple units in a Toronto condo tower. The victims included Jewish seniors, among them Holocaust survivors. Police attended, interviews were conducted, and the incidents were correctly treated as hate crimes.
Two weeks earlier, similar acts occurred elsewhere in the city.
Apparently, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand has summoned Israel’s Ambassador for an explanation as to why Canadian MPs were turned away at the border from Jordan into the West Bank.
The Minister appears to not get it. Here’s what happened. The purpose of the visit, comprised of around 30 Canadians and six MPs, was ostensibly to meet with Palestinians in the territory. But it was more of a publicity stunt, of the sort you might see from Greta Thunberg, sponsored by malign parties and designed by people with an agenda, and meant to embarrass the Israeli government and deflect from the important and difficult work being done by others to try to reduce tensions in the region and mitigate the serious conflicts there.
A college instructor who called the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023 an “amazing, brilliant offensive” had her job reinstated by an arbitrator, then resigned from her position.
The Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of B.C. (FPSE), which represents faculty at several B.C. post-secondary institutions, called the decision — issued by arbitrator Randy Noonan on Nov. 19 — to reinstate Natalie Knight to her position at Vancouver’s Langara College a victory for academic freedom and freedom of speech.
Red paint — meant to symbolize blood — was scrawled all over the windows and front door to make it look like a slaughter scene.
Indigo book stores in Canada were targeted, attacked, in some cases occupied. In Toronto, Indigo was vandalized once again because the bookstore chain’s owners are Jewish and support Jewish charities.
Terrorists threw IEDs at the Chanukah event
… The pair are accused of throwing four improvised explosive devices at a Jewish crowd at Archer Park, which failed to detonate, before opening fire from a footbridge on the evening of Dec. 14.
Police said the pair parked their car on Campbell Parade in Bondi Beach at about 6:50 p.m. and then draped Islamic State flags over the front and rear windscreens. They then allegedly carried three firearms, three pipe bombs and a homemade “tennis ball bomb” as they walked toward the footbridge and began shooting at the Chanukah by the Sea gathering.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/6GXirA3oav
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) December 23, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
Activists in Canada and elsewhere who want to “globalize the intifada” are effectively calling for the murder of Jews. There should be no doubt this is what the phrase means for many of those who would put it into action. To naively — or cynically — argue otherwise is to wilfully ignore reality and risk Canadian lives.
Good luck getting the law to accept that.
Greta Thunberg has been arrested in central London at a demonstration in support of Palestine Action.
The Prisoners for Palestine protest group confirmed the climate activist had been arrested at a protest in support of the Palestine Action members on hunger strike in prison.
Deport!
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has been arrested at a protest supporting Palestine Action members in London.
Footage appears to show the 22-year-old holding a sign that reads ‘I support the Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide.”
City of London police said it has… pic.twitter.com/Q4eQKWvZWR
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) December 23, 2025
“It’s been an incredibly difficult two years,” says Phil Rosenberg, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. “I think our Jewish identity is being worn far more heavily these days given the pain of it all.”
Conflict in the Middle East has, he says, had a profound impact on British Jewish society.
“The attacks of 7 October were felt very personally, not least because there were British Jews who were killed in the initial onslaught and people with British connections held hostage.
“And in the war that followed, the devastation in Gaza was very painful to watch. Then there was the vitriol that surrounded the whole conflict, and the massive rise in antisemitism culminating in deadly attacks.”
Imagine if Jews across Canada were marching into Muslim neighbourhoods blaming them for the thousands of deaths caused by Hamas and other Islamist terrorist groups in Israel and around the world.
Imagine if our excuse was that we had nothing against Muslims, only Muslims who are terrorists.
