Lawyers on Monday challenged a decision to extradite Lebanese-born Canadian university professor Hassan Diab, who is accused of being involved in the deadly 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue, calling France’s key handwriting evidence “fatally flawed.” On October 3, 1980, the eve of Simchat Torah, a bomb went off outside the Union Libérale Israélite de France synagogue in Paris. Four people were killed and more than forty injured. The […]
Radical Left-wing activists demonstrated in Vancouver, Canada on Sunday in a call to boycott Israeli company SodaStream for operating in “occupied territories” and “mistreating” Palestinian workers. SodaStream manufactures and distributes machines for home use to make carbonated drinks, eliminating the need to buy environmentally harmful plastic bottles. It has been discriminated against by the boycott movement for holding its […]
Canada’s Foreign Minister, John Baird, reiterated on Monday his country’s commitment to Israel’s security. In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Baird also warned against Iran’s recent conciliatory remarks, saying that they must be followed up by actions. “Some observers see encouraging signs, but sound bites do not remove threats to global security. […]
An anti-semitic incident was reported Thursday in a neighborhood with many Jewish residents in Vaughan, a city in the York region, north of Toronto, Canada. According to Shalom Toronto, the swastikas were painted on parked cars off of Beverly Glen road. Two similar incidents were reported recently in the Tornto region. Swastikas were painted recently […]
(IslamWatch) The Canadian Government is proclaiming a new law that would ban: “Promoting Terrorism, Violence, or Criminal Activity: A foreign national who makes public statements or uses any means to broadcast, write, produce, publish or distribute material, including a website and public speaking, to express views which: (a) promote or glorify terrorist violence; (b) […]
Police in Canada have arrested two residents of the province of British Columbia in an alleged Al-Qaeda-inspired terror plot that involved placing pressure cooker bombs at the B.C. legislature in Victoria during Canada Day celebrations. The two made a brief court appearance in Surrey on Tuesday, reported the CBC. Amanda Marie Korody, 30, and John […]
Police have released surveillance video footage of perpetrators who firebombed two kosher restaurants in Montreal in the hopes that someone in the public might have seen the perpetrators and could offer investigators a tip on their identity. Although no one was injured in the arson, both businesses were damaged. Police have offered a reward of $20,000 […]
State Department/Sipa USA/Newscom Earlier this week the Arctic Council met in Sweden for its biannual meeting. At this time, the applications of 14 countries and organizations, including the European Union Commission, were considered by the Arctic Council to become observers. In what can only be described as a boost for sovereignty and democracy in the […]
Canada tried to deport one of the two terrorists it caught this week, CBC News confirmed on Thursday. According to the report, Canada tried nine years ago to deport Raed Jaser, one of the two men accused of plotting a terrorist attack on a passenger train, but authorities didn’t proceed and later granted him permanent […]
Canadian police say they have arrested two Muslims and thwarted a plot to carry out a major Islamic terrorist attack on a Via passenger train in the Greater Toronto Area. The two Muslims are Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of Montreal, and Raed Jaser, 35, from Toronto. They have been charged with conspiracy to carry out an […]
