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Canada is fast becoming one of the worst Western countries for its anti-Israel antagonism from the top, down to the lowest terrorist thug operating freely on its soil with little to no legal consequences.
“Canada Launches War Crimes Probe Into IDF Veterans With Dual Citizenship,” i24News, June 3, 2025:
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has launched a criminal investigation into several Israeli-Canadian soldiers suspected of committing crimes against humanity during the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, according to a report published Tuesday by the Toronto Star.
The probe—part of Canada’s Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Program (CAHWCP)—focuses on Canadian citizens who served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), particularly during the Gaza conflict that erupted in 2023.
The investigation, which began in 2024, is being carried out in coordination with Canada’s Department of Justice, immigration authorities, and border services.
Unlike high-profile Canadian investigations into alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine, which included public hotlines and dedicated websites, the current case has unfolded quietly. Authorities have not issued public statements or updates, though officials confirm that the process may include gathering evidence, international cooperation, and potential indictments on Canadian soil.
“The program’s aim is to ensure Canada does not become a safe haven for war criminals,” the Department of Justice said in a statement. “This includes both prosecuting those within Canada and sharing relevant evidence with other jurisdictions.”…
The targeting of the IDF by the Canadian government is a disturbing new twist that reeks of a double standard. In January, the Ottawa firm Insight Threat Intelligence revealed in an extensive report that the jihad terrorist threat to Canada “has rarely been higher,” yet no serious followup investigations have been reported. And since 2017, Canada’s Security Intelligence Service acknowledged that dozens of ISIS jihadis were walking free, yet authorities won’t charge them. Canada was focused on DEI, through which groups such as the Anti-Hate Network continued to bleed taxpayers of funds so as to drive their radical left agendas, even in schools, while targeting anyone as an “Islamophobe” who warned about Canada’s jihad problem. Yet Canada has ignored soaring antisemitism, and even worse, it is now exacerbating it by “quietly” going after IDF veterans engaged in a legitimate war.
Unlike high-profile Canadian investigations into alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine, which included public hotlines and dedicated websites, the current case has unfolded quietly.
Sneakily is a more accurate word, and one should not make even the remotest comparison between Israel and Russia. Israel is fighting for its existence, and has been since its founding in 1948.
The issue of IDF recruitment in Canada isn’t a new one. In fact, it’s longstanding, but because of the highly publicized war in Gaza, which is causing unspeakable suffering, entirely the fault of Hamas, pro-Hamas enemies of Israel have become emboldened. They are using every means at their disposal to attack the Jewish state and those who support it. Less than three month ago, an anti-Israel website surfaced called Find IDF Soldiers. The organization behind it, called The Maple, claimed that it was not a doxxing website, because it compiled “publicly available information about individual Canadians,” yet The Maple actually does extensive research about individuals, makes this information readily available, and incites antagonism against Canadian veterans of the IDF with the intention of boosting the Palestinian “resistance.” The Find IDF Soldiers website states:
For the better part of the past century, some Jews in Canada have been travelling to Israel to fight alongside other Jewish Zionists from around the world.
At first, these Canadians, along with some non-Jewish ones, fought with Zionist militias to establish the State of Israel, which was done through the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land. In the decades since, at least hundreds of Jewish Canadians have willingly joined the Israeli military, and aided the state in its wars and occupation of neighbouring land.
Canadian Jewish News reported that “groups of IDF veterans initially named on the website—most of whom are based in Canada, the U.S., or Israel—have been exploring legal avenues to respond to The Maple for publishing the project.” With the latest RCMP development, The Maple will be celebrating.
As pro-Hamas zeal grows, so do attacks of various kinds against the State of Israel and the Jewish community. The Newsmagine of the Islamic Movement, Crescent International has been working to incriminate those involved in IDF recruitment. It accuses Israel of “war crimes” committed “against Palestinians living under its military occupation,” without any mention of the zealous jihad in the region that sought to keep out Jews from emigrating to their homeland even before 1948.
Meanwhile, the National Council of Canadian Muslims (formerly CAIR-CAN) has “unveiled proposed legislation to reshape Canada’s stance on Palestine.” The legislation is called the “Nakba Bill.”
If it passes, the legislation could reorient Ottawa’s policy on the Middle East conflict with curbs on trade with Israel and its army recruitment activities in Canada, along with political recognition of Palestinian statehood. Stephen Brown, CEO of the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), which helped draft the bill, hopes it effects go beyond Canada’s borders.
Brown wants the bill to serve as “a blueprint for other Western countries that are looking at also reinforcing a rules-based order.” This upside-down bill smears Israel as it pushes the Palestinian “resistance” agenda from the River to the Sea, and it’s being done in the name of peace and human rights.
The Nakba Bill also calls for the Canadian government to “recognize the term ‘racism against Palestinians’ and recognize the state of Palestine,” and demands sanctions against Israel’s Otzma Yehudit party, “with their ties to Kahane Chai.”
The silence from human rights groups in Canada is deafening amid the disturbing trends unfolding against Israel and against Jews. The problem includes authorities such as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. And recently, a Toronto Police Document accused Israel of ethnic cleansing. Toronto has the largest Jewish community in Canada and the fourth largest in the world after Israel, the US and France. There have been numerous incidences involving Toronto police, which has now been accused of two-tier policing:
Police stood by and did nothing, or rather, enabled the problematic crowd, later justifying the disruption as “fundamental rights protected under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.” Then it emerged that Toronto police spent $14 million, mostly on anti-Israel rallies without permits. By this point, the Toronto police’s two-tier policing was glaring.
The latest revelations about Canada’s launch of a war crime investigation of Israeli-Canadian IDF soldiers is reportedly leading to fear of prosecution from dual citizens who volunteered with the IDF if they return home. Some Jewish community leaders say “a sense of unease is growing, with some describing an increasingly hostile political climate toward Israel and its supporters.”
Senator Leo Housakos recently spoke out about Canada’s soaring antisemitism and how “Jews are no longer safe.”
Jews have been relentlessly targeted in Canada by pro-Hamas sympathizers since October 7, 2023, after Israel was viciously attacked by Hamas, a group funded by Iran, which aims to obliterate the Jewish state. Now, jihad terror is allowed to proliferate in Canada, along with pro-Hamas activism, while the persecution of Jews mounts. Canada, along with many other Western nations, has preferred to look the other way, as authorities have found it more comfortable to believe that Islam is a religion of peace. It is a religion of conquest. The Palestinian “resistance” against Israel is rooted in Islamic doctrine, which is why the Jewish state was opposed from its founding. According to the Hamas Covenant:
The Islamic Resistance Movement: The Movement’s programme is Islam. From it, it draws its ideas, ways of thinking and understanding of the universe, life and man. It resorts to it for judgement in all its conduct, and it is inspired by it for guidance of its steps.
The Islamic Resistance Movement’s Relation With the Moslem Brotherhood Group:
Article Two:
The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of Moslem Brotherhood in Palestine. Moslem Brotherhood Movement is a universal organization which constitutes the largest Islamic movement in modern times. It is characterised by its deep understanding, accurate comprehension and its complete embrace of all Islamic concepts of all aspects of life, culture, creed, politics, economics, education, society, justice and judgement, the spreading of Islam, education, art, information, science of the occult and conversion to Islam.
Yet anti-Israel supporters and enablers of Hamas are multiplying rapidly and working toward the ultimate subjugation of all infidels.