Canada
Trevor York, 35, has been charged with seven counts of mischief and damage to property, and one count of break and enter.
A video on Twitter showed protesters in Ontario waving Palestinian flags and chanting “Free, free Palestine,” as well as “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
According to Gustavo Zentner, president of the Jewish Federation of Winnipeg, “you would be hard-pressed to find a Jewish person in Winnipeg who doesn’t have a friend or relative buried there.”
Officials described the series of raids in towns near Quebec as a “national security operation.”
Marvin Rotrand, national director of B’nai Brith Canada’s League for Human Rights, said “haters can spin anti-Zionism anyway they want; the reality is it results in hate and violence aimed at Jews everywhere.”
Premier John Horgan: “We understand that to effectively combat one of the world’s oldest forms of hatred, we must first clearly identify it.”
He also took aim at the government and its Foreign Terrorist List, which includes Hezbollah and Hamas, asking why Israel isn’t on it along with Arab groups that have murdered Canadians.
The new 10,000-square-foot museum is geared to inspire visitors to contemplate the Holocaust while connecting with contemporary anti-Semitism, racism, current world events and life in Canada.
The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center in Canada tweeted being “sickened” by the graffiti found at York University: “Such vile hatred breeds violence and must never be tolerated.”
It had no official guidance, even though the department’s “uniform regulations allow candidates who wear the Sikh turban and the Muslim hijab to be hired as police officers.”
Shimon Koffler Fogel, president and CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, said Khaled Barakat addressing a multiple-day event is “a clear violation of the city’s policies meant to protect religious, national and ethnic groups from hate and incitement.”
A weapon was discovered on the suspect, who was arrested and faces several charges. He has since been released.
