Canada
The White House said that pushing for statehood rewards the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza.
Ottawa said recognition is conditioned on a series of reforms by P.A. chief Mahmoud Abbas.
A Jewish leader in Vancouver wrote that “for my family, the luxury of patience has run out and our confidence in Canada’s political leadership is gone.”
“Our community was uplifted, inspired and reminded of the power of one Jew on a mission,” a rabbi in Saskatchewan told JNS.
“We have to be shoulder to shoulder with our community, working together to make sure that our governments understand what we’re going through,” Noah Shack told JNS.
“We’ve been sounding the alarm for a long time now, and it is completely intolerable,” Josh Landau, director of government relations for Ontario at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, told JNS.
Police stated that the incident is being investigated as a “suspected hate-motivated” crime.
“Allowing them to play in Canada would be a stain on our country’s reputation.”
Mark Sutcliffe, the city mayor, had said that he was “very disturbed” to hear the vandal was a city employee.
Jewish parliamentarian Melissa Lantsman told JNS the group stands “for a safer world where the Iranian people can once again have freedom in their homeland.”
“The word you are looking for is ‘Israeli,’” stated David Jacobs, a member of the public school’s governing council.
Mark Carney’s comments “only serve to embolden those who wish to use the conflict between Israel and Hamas as an excuse to incite hate and sow division,” Richard Robertson, of B’nai Brith Canada, told JNS.
