WARMINGTON: Al-Quds event still on despite Premier declaring it incites Jewish hatred

· Toronto Sun

The province of Ontario is expected to make a plea in a courtroom Saturday to try to get an injunction to stop the Al-Quds day anti-Israel protest.

Sources say the objective is to see the application for the injunction filed by noon with a desire to have a hearing in front of a judge following the filing Saturday morning.

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This is a very fluid, unprecedented situation. The clock is ticking on this event, which is scheduled to start at 3 p.m. on Saturday with participants expected to start arriving at noon.

To review: The unknown-to-the-public organizers of Al-Quds don’t have a City of Toronto-issued permit to protest. They have not hired paid duty police officers, which is a requirement for every legal parade, march, run or event. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has asked his Attorney General Doug Downie to “try” to get a court injunction to stop their protest .

But, at this late hour, it appears those celebrating the Iranian-inspired anti-Israel Al-Quds Day march are planning to go ahead with their protest at the U.S. Consulate today as scheduled. Still, a judge is expected to hear arguments on both sides of this.

Time will tell what said judge will rule, how people will comply with any ruling and how police will or will not enforce it.

Who knew it would be this hard to stop what amounts to nothing more than an anti-Israel rally. Would police and the city have this much trouble if people wanted to have a giant road hockey game on University Ave. today?

It is interesting what in Canada the authorities will cancel and what they won’t.

Last year when Christian gospel singer Sean Feucht was taking his music worship show across Canada, he found his venues cancelled everywhere, including in the GTA. He was forced to do his shows in farmers’ fields or in churches – one of which saw an incident in where a smoke bomb was thrown at him while he was singing .

Comedian Ben Bankas goes through the same kind of thing. His edgy comedy runs into the comedy police every week.

Yet Al-Quds, which the Centre of Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) calls “an IRGC rally exported to our streets,” is untouchable.

At this point, despite Premier Doug Ford making a video condemning the event that he says incites hate toward the Jewish community and is a “breeding ground for hate” that “glorifies violence,” there is no known court date to ask a judge to stop this year’s event from happening legally.

More than 3,000 Al-Quds supporters expected

Toronto Police have said they expect more than 3,000 supporters to congregate outside the U.S. Consulate starting at noon today to support the Al-Quds movement that was started by the ayatollah after the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979.

Supt. Craig Young also told the media on Thursday they were preparing for counter-protesters from the Iranian freedom movement and there was a plan to keep the two sides separated.

What no one has explained is why any of it is tolerated at this location, which was the site of a terror attack on Tuesday when two males in a stolen vehicle unloaded at least four gunshots at the building that manages American interests in Toronto.

Remember, this is a time of war .

While Young said the airspace has been closed to drone activity, including micro drones, they curiously have not closed the road activity for those demonstrating on foot. It’s a very risky affair after the shooting there and the three recent synagogue shoot-ups. A Jewish-owned restaurant and a Iranian-Canadian owned boxing gym were also struck by gunfire followed by the perpetrators fleeing in vehicles.

No arrests in synagogue or consulate shootings

There have been no arrests, which means those committing those acts of terror on religious or political sites remain on the loose.

Mayor Olivia Chow has not been seen or heard from on this issue for a week since she denounced the synagogue attacks with Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw on March 7.

She and Demkiw have been silent on this matter since then. Both have the power to demand citizens utilize their charter rights on public squares like Nathan Phillips Square, Queen’s Park or city parks.

But so far, they have not done that.

Councillors James Pasternak, Brad Bradford, Rachel Chernos Lin and Mike Colle have all called for this event to be stopped.

“Even the RCMP, which declared the drive-by shooting at the consulate a matter of national security, could prohibit it or ask the Public Safety Minister to stop it as the Home Secretary did in London after London Police made the request,” said Colle, who is also a Toronto deputy mayor.

Other than Ford, Bradford, Pasternak, Colle and Chernos Lin, there has been little will to step in. Like Hamas has shown since Oct. 7, 2023, the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) is trying to show they are in charge in Toronto. They feel it shoud be them who decide what happens here and how things are policed.

Many are waiting to see if the Premier and his top law man have the power to overrule them.

Whatever you’re view, there is no question that there is no legal permit in place to take over city streets like the St. Patrick’s Day Parade organizers obtained for their annual event on Sunday or like the Jesus in the City march or the Walk for Israel events obtain.

For that reason alone, the Mayor and the Chief can ask the anonymous-to-the-public Al-Quds organizers – who police say they have been working with for weeks – to move their event off the roadway, away from the consulate and hospitals, and take it to nearby public squares.

Even without an injunction, it’s “unlikely the Chief or Mayor will ask that it be stopped,” Colle said.

Whatever the court decides, people should remember to go easy on the police officers today. They are being put in an impossible position.

If protesters don’t show any hate, all sides respect the officers there, each other and the media present, there should be no need for any arrests there.

This is Toronto the good, afterall.

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