Toronto police are investigating a suspected hate-motived act after it was reported several Israeli flags were lit on fire in North York early Wednesday.
Emergency crews responded at 1:30 a.m. to reports of the flags on fire near the religious facility Word of the Faith International Christian Centre around Sunrise Avenue and O’Connor Drive, Toronto police Const. Jamie Loomans said in an email to CBC News.
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Hamas praises 7 October as ‘historic milestone’ on attack anniversary
Hamas has released a statement praising 7 October as a “historic milestone” in its “ongoing struggle project”.
The statement, attributed to the group and disseminated in Palestinian media, calls the attack “a natural response” to “bitter suffering” imposed by Israel.
It says that the idea that the conflict with Israel began on 7 October 2023 is “a blatant falsification of reality and motives”, and that it is not over yet.
I wonder about the “anti-Zionists” who were caught on camera ripping down hostage posters.
Some became angry at being recorded, a few were embarrassed, most acted without shame.
It was then I realized how rotten things had become, our politics, our institutions all have been poisoned.
Nothing ever gets better with Islam. Keep that in mind.
On Friday, Sept. 25, I was invited to accompany members of the Sons of Jacob congregation in Belleville, Ont., back into their synagogue for the first time since their Kol Nidre service had been shattered by gunfire earlier that month.
During this intimate service for Shabbat, or the weekly Jewish day of rest, I stood beside a stained-glass window riddled with bullet holes, frighteningly close to the pews where we prayed. The service was small and beautiful. People cried openly as they sang. They expressed gratitude for the lives they were still able to live, and they prayed for Constables Jeff Smith and Michael McCurdy, who had helped ensure that they could. There was something surreal about standing in a place of religious refuge while confronting how little distance had separated an ordinary Jewish service from mass death
For nearly three years, the international media has repeatedly presented the deaths of Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip as evidence that Israel is deliberately targeting journalists in an effort to prevent the world from seeing what is happening there.
This accusation deserves serious investigation. So does another question that has received considerably less attention: How many of those described as “journalists” were also members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)?
DUBAI—Before Hamam al-Hammami stood behind his captain on FlyDubai Flight 1073 and raised an emergency ax to begin the assault that nearly brought down the plane, there had been ample opportunity for authorities in three countries to keep him from getting anywhere near that cockpit.
Oman had scrutinized his online habits and decided he showed too much interest in radical ideology to trust as a pilot at state carrier Oman Air, where he worked. They banned him from flying, sent him to a deradicalization program and put him in a desk job but didn’t flag their concerns more broadly, people familiar with the matter said.
When FlyDubai hired him in February, it didn’t contact Oman to vet his experience. The company did do a criminal-background check, a person familiar with the process said. The airline later put him on the sensitive route to Tel Aviv, where he flew multiple times, people familiar with the matter said.
I’m glad that the pretence that the Left aren’t Jew-haters is over. They can no longer bother with the crying that it was just Netanyahu they despised. Or just “the genocide” they abhorred.
The full-throated support for the Green Party’s motion that “Zionism is Racism” is them showing how much they hate Jews with their chests out.
They are proud of it. Yes, they are proud of their nasty anti-Semitism. So sickening. But at least there is now sunlight on their obsession. No two-state solution for this lot: nothing less than the eradication of Israel “by any means necessary”. Self determination for the Palestinians but not for the Jews.
Not far separated from our own Liberal and NDP parties.
Michael Sachs pulled into the synagogue parking lot in his GMC Sierra Elevation, took off his Stetson and picked up his transparent tallit bag, containing his Jewish prayer shawl. On his way into B’nai Emunah, also called “The Synagogue,” he fist-bumped the armed security guard, and once inside, replaced the cowboy hat with a kippa.
A pro-Hamas group that led a riot at the University of Washington still operates despite the United States sanctioning its foreign affiliate as a front for terrorism.
Students United for Palestinian Equality and Return UW, or SUPER UW, called on Seattle locals in a September Instagram post to join an Oct. 7 protest marking three years of Israeli “genocide.” The group openly labels itself an ally of the U.S.-designated terrorist group Masar Badil and its youth branch, according to posts documented in a Friday report by George Washington University.
The co-pilot who attempted to hijack an Israel-bound flight posted videos of Al Qaeda leaders and clips appearing to show plans to target Israeli planes three years ago.
Omani national Hamam Al Hammami, 29, severely wounded captain Smit Machchhar using the onboard crash axe as he tried to take control of the Flydubai plane on its way to Tel Aviv on Wednesday.
The prosecutor general of the United Arab Emirates, Hamad Saif al-Shamsi, said this morning that the co-pilot was ‘attempting to carry out a terrorist act’.
Passenger airline crashes are unusual, intentional ones are rare and intentional pilot crashes are virtually unheard of. Passenger planes are generally flown by highly trained airline pilots, many of them are veterans of their respective air forces, and they remain calm in a crisis.
That’s why there hasn’t been a single case of an American airline pilot deliberately crashing a plane and only one case of an airline pilot taking down a western plane with all onboard and that took place in 2015 when a suicidal first officer crashed Lufthansa’s Germanwings Flight 9525.
The BBC should be ashamed of its Gaza coverage. The latest embarrassment is the revelation that 53 of the people killed in Gaza who the BBC described as ‘journalists’ were, in fact, Hamas terrorists. As the Telegraph reports, most of the obituaries appeared on BBC Arabic, while 10 featured on the BBC’s English coverage. Among them was Abdullah Darwish, an Al-Aqsa TV cameraman who was also a Hamas fighter who participated in the 7 October attacks.
Antisemitic flyers were distributed this week to a Belleville, Ont., synagogue targeted in a shooting last month as well as the surrounding neighbourhoods, the synagogue’s president said Friday.
Norman Weddum said he woke up Thursday morning to find four different flyers blaming Jewish people “for everything under the sun” had been distributed overnight to the Sons of Jacob synagogue and throughout the city’s east end.
“The number of flyers that were distributed and posted, it couldn’t have been done by one person,” he said.
A dozen Jewish teachers have filed human rights complaints against four Ontario school boards and two teachers’ unions, alleging they were discriminated against amid persistent incidents of antisemitism.
The group named in their complaint the Toronto District School Board, York Region District School Board, Simcoe County District School Board, Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, and the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation.
The federal government, through Public Safety Canada, published a document last week ostensibly describing progress on its “National Commitments to Combat Antisemitism — Summer 2026.”
It’s a classic example of closing the barn door after the horses have fled.
