Canada: ‘This is terrorism’: Shots fired at Toronto Jewish
elementary school on morning of Yom Kippur
The perpetrator may have been a leftist. He may have been a jihadi. He may have been both. In any case, we know that his hatred for Jews has been ginned up over the past year with an inundation of pro-jihad propaganda, often disseminated by supposedly respectable “news” outlets. In any case, the children who attend this school have nothing to do with Israeli foreign policy. This is the genocidal imperative in microcosm.
‘This is terrorism’: Shots fired at Jewish elementary school in Toronto on morning of Yom Kippur
by Courtney Greenberg, National Post,
October 12, 2024:
Shots were fired at a Jewish elementary school in Toronto on Saturday, on the morning of Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day of the year.
According to police, the incident occurred just after 4 a.m. near the school, located at Dufferin St. and Finch Ave. A motor vehicle “discharged a firearm at the Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School,” police said in a post on X.
Police found evidence of gunfire at the scene. It was not known how many suspects were in the vehicle.
The school was empty when a window was smashed after being hit by a bullet, according to Insp. Paul Krawczyk, the Canadian Press reported. There were no injuries. Police will continue to have an increased presence in the area, he said.
“We understand the fear and pain this causes, especially on Yom Kippur,” police said in another post on X Saturday afternoon. “To Toronto’s Jewish community: We stand with you.”
Police urged residents to share any relevant videos or dash-cam footage of the area with authorities.
Michael Westcott, CEO of Allies for a Strong Canada, said in a statement to the National Post over email that the incident was the “latest in a long string of violent, hateful attacks on institutions in the Jewish community.”…
Samidoun, group behind ‘death to Canada’ chant,
listed as terrorist entity
Canada has listed Samidoun, a pro-Palestinian group behind a rally where people chanted “death to Canada” and burned the Canadian flag in Vancouver earlier this month, as a terrorist entity.
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc made the announcement on Tuesday and noted that the listing was made alongside the U.S. Treasury Department’s own decision to list the group as a specially designated global terrorist entity.
“Violent extremism, acts of terrorism or terrorist financing have no place in Canadian society or abroad,” LeBlanc said in a statement.
“The listing of Samidoun as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code sends a strong message that Canada will not tolerate this type of activity, and will do everything in its power to counter the ongoing threat to Canada’s national security and all people in Canada.”
Samidoun has been previously listed as a terrorist entity by Germany and the Netherlands and, in a release, Public Safety Canada, said the group has “close links with and advances the interests of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
That group is also listed as a terrorist entity by Canada, the U.S. and European Union.
Being a listed terrorist entity carries severe consequences. It is illegal to contribute to any activity of a listed group, and its property can be seized and forfeited.
The listing comes just over a week after MPs in the House of Commons condemned the group after supporters chanted “death to Canada, death to the United States and death to Israel” and burned the Canadian flag at a rally in Vancouver.
The masked speaker at that rally who uttered the chant over a microphone also told the crowd “we are Hezbollah and we are Hamas.”
Both Hamas and Hezbollah are listed as terrorist entities.
The Conservatives during question period last Tuesday called on the federal government to list Samidoun as a terrorist organization.
“Samidoun has been fomenting these violent and horrific protests and mob actions, this organization is a front for an already banned terrorist group,” Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said last week.
Vancouver Police say they are also conducting an investigation into the pro-Palestinian rally in which the chant and flag burning took place, where law enforcement say speakers expressed “solidarity with terrorist groups.”
The police force has previously investigated Samidoun, having arrested its director Charlotte Kates last year in a hate-crime investigation. She was released from custody on an undertaking, but the hearing which she was to appear at was cancelled, and her court-ordered conditions along with it.
And Canadian media is not interested in finding out why.
B.C. Premier David Eby, who previously condemned the chants made at the pro-Palestinian rally, said in a statement Tuesday that he agreed with the designation as it gives authorities more tools to take action against the group.
He went on to say there has been a “disturbing rise” in antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas on Israel which killed 1,200 people.
“There is no place in British Columbia for groups inciting and glorifying violence,” Eby said.
Right. That's why B.C. is home to the global Khalistan movement responsible for Canada's worst air disaster - Air India Flight 182. And it is why we have a political disaster happening with India right now.
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