Posted on 12/28/2025 11:34:13 AM PST by simpson96
Anti-Israel demonstrators staged an unlicensed rally at a busy shopping mall/office complex in downtown Toronto on Friday, Boxing Day, with some chanting “We demand an intifada” into megaphones.
The incident at the Eaton Centre, which ended without any arrests and closely followed the Dec. 14 massacre of 15 people by two alleged Islamists at a Chanukah party in Australia, prompted calls for Canadian authorities to shut down calls for violence against Israelis and Jews.
The flash-mob protest began at 4 p.m., at the end of a holiday light show, and security and police “asked the individuals to leave the premises,” Toronto Police Service media relations officer Ashley Visser told Toronto Today. No injuries were reported and no arrests were made, the Toronto Police Service added. The protesters exited the mall “without incident by 4:15 p.m.,” she added.
The protesters unfurled a banner accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of war crimes. Some wore ski masks, including one person who was filmed repeatedly telling police: “I’ll put you six feet deep” as they were standing and observing the protests. Another shouted, “You’re a pig,” at the officers.
Many wore keffiyehs, waved PLO flags and chanted, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” The event was organized by the local branch of the Palestinian Youth Movement, according to Toronto Today.
Dean Allison, a Conservative Party member of the Canadian Parliament for Niagara West, condemned the police’s inaction at the Eaton Centre.
“On Dec 26, shoppers at the Toronto Eaton Centre were harassed by Hamas supporters—inside one of Canada’s busiest malls, during the holidays,” he wrote on X, noting that a series of similar events was held at other shopping malls in Canada over the weekend.
“This isn’t ‘peaceful protest.’ It’s intimidation. It’s harassment. And it has no place in Toronto—or anywhere in Canada,” Allison wrote, telling authorities: “Public spaces must be safe for everyone. Enforce the law. Shut this down. Protect shoppers. Enough excuses. Do your damn job!”
HonestReporting Canada, the local branch of the nongovernmental organization monitoring anti-Israel bias in the media, wrote that “Somebody in leadership needs to step up and put these agitators in their place. This hate should NOT be tolerated.”
This would be the very noisy and small minority where far left, gay rights activists and actual Palestinians overlap. Given the Muslim world’s public stand on homosexuality (probably at odds with personal practice in some cases), this alliance has no real coherence, gays would probably be far more welcome in Israel than in Palestine. This noisy minority is basically the core of the Green party which regularly polls at around 3 to 5 per cent in elections despite being given every opportunity to spread their ideology, whereas the equally marginal PPC (populist UKIP type party) is shunned from election debates and media coverage and polls about the same away from Quebec where they don’t do even that well (except in their leader’s riding, Max Bernier used to be Conservative MP for Beauce south of Quebec City and still runs there for PPC, gets about 15 to 20 per cent of vote but in last three tries has lost to his Conservative replacement).
Anyone reading this who believes a demonstration at a Toronto mall speaks for anyone other than the handful who attended is mistaken. There is almost no public support for Hamas other than in this little misguided leftist group who would be taken out by hit squads if they lived in Gaza.
Islam is the real killing machine.
Islam is a death cult.
Send those white squish Canadian punks to go live amongst their precious Islamic pets and deport the foreigners to that Pali s hole.
Maybe coconut showers
Once they reach 100%, they start fighting amongst themselves.
What would the authorities response if Christians demanded the crusades return?
Riot police?
Arrests?
MSM hyperventilating?
“Anti-Israel demonstrators staged an unlicensed rally at a busy shopping mall/office complex in downtown Toronto on Friday, Boxing Day, with some chanting “We demand an intifada” into megaphones. The incident at the Eaton Centre, which ended without any arrests “
So an illegal rally and they let it go in with no arrests. I wonder what lesson the protesters learned.
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