Calgary Police made five arrests Sunday at a large demonstration involving pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli crowds on opposite sides of Macleod Trail at City Hall.
Canadian Jewish organizations are calling on the Liberal government to remove what they see as barriers to enforcing a relatively new Criminal Code provision against Holocaust denialism amid a rise in antisemitism.
The Jewish and Muslim communities in Montreal have often made common cause, working together in court to contest Quebec’s religious symbols ban. But the war in the Middle East has frayed such bonds.
The RCMP’s national security specialists are investigating a Montreal Imam who at a pro-Palestinian rally last month led a public prayer calling for the extermination of “Zionist aggressors.”
The war between Israel and Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization in this country that happens to govern Gaza, has prompted many groups and individuals to come out of the woodwork demanding the eradication of Israel and often, by extension, the slaughter of Jews.
OTTAWA - A string of events in Ottawa linked to antisemitism is creating alarm among Jewish people in the capital city, with a community leader saying the Israel-Hamas war is exposing hatred that has existed for years.
Police in Montreal are redeploying their squad cars in different locations this week in an effort to better protect the city’s Jewish community. The move comes a week after bullets were fired through the doors of two Jewish schools; Molotov cocktails were thrown at a synagogue and a Jewish office; and three people were injured in a fracas over the Israel-Hamas war at Concordia University.