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Following this year's Walk with Israel, ALCCA's Chair examines the policing approach that helped keep participants safe while respecting Charter rights. The article highlights recent enforcement actions, the use of designated protest zones, and the ongoing challenges of addressing antisemitic hate and incitement.

Part 3 of our review of the Senate Report on Antisemitism examines key recommendations that were omitted and explores broader systemic issues contributing to the rise of antisemitism in Canada.

ALCCA comments on recent hate-related charges connected to demonstrations at Bathurst and Sheppard, the evolving policing response to antisemitism in Toronto, and the growing normalization of anti-Zionist rhetoric targeting Jews and Israelis in public spaces.

This week’s Hate Crime & Legal Update examines major developments involving hate-motivated and extremist activity – including upgraded hate propaganda charges tied to the Bathurst–Sheppard protest incident, Iranian-backed terrorism allegations, synagogue shooting arrests, and multiple vandalism and harassment investigations targeting Jewish communities.

ALCCA Chair Mark Sandler evaluates key recommendations from the Senate report on antisemitism, examining education, online hate, enforcement, and the need for stronger federal leadership.

Our latest legal update highlights a series of developments, including a public incitement of hatred charge arising from protests at Bathurst and Sheppard, a 20-year sentence in a terrorism case tied to extremist propaganda, new charges in an antisemitic threats investigation, and other recent cases.

Today, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, the Alliance of Canadians Combatting Antisemitism, B’nai Brith Canada, Canadian Women Against Antisemitism, Canadian Jewish Law Association, and Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center welcomed the adoption of Bill C-9 by the House of Commons and urged Parliamentarians to advance more measures to confront Canada’s antisemitism crisis.

Following reports of antisemitic propaganda displayed at a demonstration near Bathurst and Sheppard, ALCCA Senior Criminal Counsel Rochelle Direnfeld joined Deb Hutton on Newstalk 1010 to discuss the legal implications and broader concerns.

ALCCA’s Chair, Mark Sandler sharply criticizes the decision to lay charges of public incitement of hatred against a counter demonstrator at the Al-Quds Day protest, absurdly treating the Islamic Republic of Iran as a victim of hatred. This is doubly troubling given the frequent failure to prosecute legitimate cases of incitement of hatred against Jews and Israelis.

In this legal update, ALCCA’s Senior Criminal Counsel, Rochelle Direnfeld, reviews an Ontario court decision denying the Attorney General’s last-minute bid to halt the Al-Quds Day protest in Toronto. Following the demonstration, Toronto Police laid multiple charges in connection with incidents at the rally, also addressed in an editorial by ALCCA’s Chair, Mark Sandler. Direnfeld also reports on a separate hate crime case involving the playing of a Hitler speech outside a resi