OTTAWA – The federal government has identified “anti-Zionism” as a driver of anti-Jewish hate — a major policy shift that has prompted a range of reactions.
The change took place on Sept. 24 when Public Safety Canada published a progress report on federal efforts promised in January to combat antisemitism.
The report said Ottawa sought to do a better job of recognizing and responding to “contemporary manifestations of antisemitism, including anti-Zionism.”
In what the media is hailing as some sort of stunning achievement, the Mamdani administration released an antisemitism policy. This booklet mostly consists of setting up various groups to hold meetings and some security funding for synagogues.
Of course security funding would be much less needed if Mamdani didn’t insist on allowing Muslim and Marxist hate rallies outside synagogues. That’s the equivalent of legalizing arson and then funding some smoke detectors.
A flight bound for Israel was forced into an emergency landing after one pilot allegedly attacked another in a suspected hijacking attempt before being overpowered by passengers.
Flydubai flight FZ1073 was travelling from Dubai to Tel Aviv when the cockpit brawl broke out, with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu claiming the attacker was trying to crash the plane after stabbing the other pilot.
🚨 BREAKING: A pilot aboard Flydubai flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv attacked the other pilot and attempted to seize control of the aircraft in terror attack.
The plane, carrying 174 Israeli passengers, plunged 14,000 feet before the situation was brought under control and… pic.twitter.com/FAgyt7dOpK
— Combat Antisemitism Movement (@CombatASemitism) September 30, 2026
The Carney Liberals are to be commended on finally taking concrete action to tackle the scourge of antisemitism, but as recent fatal and terrifying events have shown, the lateness of their initiative has allowed the ancient hatred to flourish.
We must also wait to see if the new tools will be adequate for police who will have the difficult job of enforcing the law.
The federal government recently released a progress report on its National Commitments to Combat Antisemitism. In its introduction, the report makes clear just how deeply entrenched antisemitism is in Canada.
Five men arrested on suspicion of a bomb plot near a Royal Air Force base may have been conducting a “dry run”, it is feared.
The British nationals, all aged in their 20s, were detained on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act and preparation of a terrorist act contrary to Section 5 of the Terrorism Act near RAF Fairford on Sunday.
They had travelled to the area in three vans, found 400m from the Gloucestershire air base, which were later examined by army bomb-disposal specialists and a robot.
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RAF Fairford incident involves ‘foreign actor’, says Rubio
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said the suspected terror plot at RAF Fairford “clearly involves the hands of a foreign actor”.
In an interview with Fox News on Monday, Rubio said “I think it ties us to the reality here, and that is we are dealing with elements in the world, and in the case of Iran, for example, who have openly threatened to attack American interests globally”.
He did not provide evidence or further details. Tehran has strongly denied any involvement.
JERUSALEM — A slew of reports that Arab officials warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about a serious threat emerging from Gaza days before the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas have put the longtime Israeli leader on the defensive less than 30 days before a pivotal election.
Ever since the attack, the most deadly in Israel’s history, Netanyahu has argued that Israeli security chiefs collectively failed to foresee the surprise attack by Hamas — but that he led the fightback, scoring redemptive battlefield victories in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Iran.
In a pre-recorded speech played at the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas presented an extraordinarily positive picture of the reforms he claims his government has carried out. According to Abbas, the PA has fulfilled the commitments it made to the international community.
Israel has tracked down and killed the Hamas terrorist suspected of kidnapping hostages Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or during the October 7 attacks.
Saher Nidal Latfi Sakr supplied weapons to Hamas during the war and rode the motorbike used to kidnap the couple from the Nova music festival and take them into Gaza in 2023.
The terrorist was killed by an airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, in an operation carried out by Israel Police’s Gideonim Unit 33.
Saher Nidal Latfi Sakr (@ArgamaniNoa's kidnapper) is shown here performing a magic trick inspired by David Copperfield. pic.twitter.com/Ayf0axFluC
— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) September 27, 2026
Neil Herland has worked for the CBC, Canada’s state-owned media corporation, for 29 years. He is also Jewish. And today, for the first time in his 29-year career, his employer has taken him off the air, seemingly at the behest of a Muslim advocacy organization. What the hell is going on with freedom of speech in Canada?
I'm a journalist. And I happen to be Jewish. On Yom Kippur I went to a synagogue service in Toronto and was met by protesters trying to taunt and intimidate me from entering the building. 1/5 pic.twitter.com/2eH3MaC9QB
— Neil Herland (@NEWSneil) September 22, 2026
During the decades I lived in Kingston, Ont., I visited Belleville countless times. It’s on the way to Toronto and was a favourite place for a road-trip milkshake. I often stopped at the imposing St. Michael’s on the hill, where a good friend was the pastor. It’s a friendly place.
I doubt I ever passed the Sons of Jacob Synagogue, where the Yom Kippur shooting took place. It’s not far from the imposing churches nearby, but it is rather modest. It’s not a prominent synagogue in a prominent place. Which made the shooting rather more ominous still.
Canada is not France. Yet.
Several friends and former colleagues of a Jewish CBC staffer reportedly facing “disciplinary action” after sharing a video on social media showing anti-Israel protesters outside a Yom Kippur event he was attending in Toronto last week are questioning and condemning the broadcaster’s decision.
Canada’s largest internet providers have been ordered to block websites operated by anonymous anti-Israel activists targeting Indigo Books & Music Inc. for the next two years, according to a Federal Court ruling.
Justice Janet Fuhrer granted the long-term blocking order after Indigo spent years pursuing activists behind websites that copied the bookseller’s branding and accused the company and CEO Heather Reisman of complicity in Israel’s actions in Gaza.
On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly this week, Prime Minister Carney pledged an additional $100 million toward Palestinian assistance. This amount is in addition to the $600 million Canada has given to the Palestinians since 2023, mainly funnelled through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), some of whose staff have been accused of participating in the October 7 massacre.
A longtime CBC journalist and national newsreader has reportedly been removed from the air and is facing disciplinary action after posting video on social media showing pro-Palestinian protesters outside an event for Yom Kippur in north Toronto.
Neil Herland posted the video and his comments on Monday after attending a service at the Meridian Arts Centre at Yonge and Sheppard. The Song Shul holds annual events there to mark Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, known as the Day of Atonement. The synagogue doesn’t have its own building but rents different locations to hold services.
On the eve of the third anniversary of the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is seeking “reconciliation” (musalaha) with Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist factions, including Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
Instead of talking about “reconciliation” with Hamas and other terrorist groups, Abbas should be demanding that they surrender their weapons, answer for their actions, and disappear from the Palestinian arena.
