2025 Legal Review and More | CAEF Bulletin, Dec 31, 2025
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HAPPY NEW YEAR, MAY YOU BE BLESSED IN 2026! MAY ISRAEL DEFEAT HER ENEMIES.
MAY CANADA RECOMIT TO JUSTICE, HARMONY AND A SECURE FUTURE FOR ALL CANADIANS.
Legal Update – 2025 Year in Review
Along with our sister advocacy organizations, CAEF representatives appeared in Ontario courtrooms eight times in 2025 to deliver Community Impact Statements at sentencing hearings for antisemitic hate crimes and hate-motivated crimes.
Convictions and Sentencings
Leslie BORY. Bory, a Brantford resident, was convicted of advocating genocide (Criminal Code Section 318) and willful promotion of hatred (Criminal Code Section 319(2)) in Superior Court in Brantford, ON, and was sentenced to 35 months in jail, for which he was given 1.5 times credit for 23 months pre-trial time served.
Razaali Awan BAHADUR. Bahadur disrupted the April 7, 2024 rally in support of the hostages held at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto by calling out antisemitic slogans through a megaphone. He was convicted of Public Incitement of Hate in a Manner Likely to result in Breach of the Peace (Criminal Code Section 319(1)) as well as Breach of Probation. In handing down the sentence, the Ontario Court of Justice sitting at Toronto recognized that the “Khazar theory” of the origins of Ashkenazic Jews, which Bahadur was claiming in his messages, was false and hateful. Bahadur was sentenced to one year in jail followed by two years probation.
Razaali Bahadur Sentenced To 12 Months In Jail For Public Incitement Of Hatred After Antisemitic Tirade | THEJ.CA
Omar ELKHODARY. Elkhodary was convicted of Assault for shoving a Jewish woman who was installing posters of the Israeli Hostages on Yonge St. In North York. The Ontario Court of Justice sitting at Toronto found that Elkhodary had ripped down the posters in front of the woman that he shoved, calling them “stupid-ass propaganda”. Elkhodary was issued a five-month home confinement conditional sentence.
Kenneth GOBIN. Gobin was convicted on two counts of Assault and one count of Breach of Probation for charging on his electric bicycle at a group of worshippers exiting the Bathurst Flamingo synagogue following Shabbat services. Court heard that he yelled that Hitler should had killed them all as he aimed his bicycle at them. Justice Michael Townsend of the Ontario Court of Justice sitting at Newmarket sentenced Gobin to 12 months imprisonment. Gobin had an earlier encounter with the law, having been convicted of fraud in connection with a false fundraising scam ostensibly for Sick Kids Hospital.
2025 ONCJ 266 (CanLII) | R. v. Gobin | CanLII See paragraph 11 for reference to the CAEF Community Impact Statement in the sentencing judgment.
Waisuddin AKBARI. Akbari was convicted of Uttering Threats following an incident where he appeared at a local BMW dealership in York Region and, as found by the Ontario Court of Justice sitting at Newmarket, told a sales agent that he intended to “blow up every synagogue in Toronto” and “kill as many Jews as possible”. The sales agent immediately notified York Region Police. Akbari was sentenced to 60 days home confinement and a 10-year weapons prohibition.
Patrick James MACDONALD. MacDonald, known on social media as “Dark Foreigner”, was sentenced in the Superior Court of Justice sitting at Ottawa to 10 years imprisonment for Facilitating Activities of a Terrorist Organization on account of his role in producing propaganda for the “Atomwaffen Division”
Kenneth PAULIN. Paulin was convicted in the Ontario Court of Justice in North Bay of willful promotion of hatred (Criminal Code Section 319(2)) and was the first person in Canada to be convicted of Wilful Promotion of Antisemitism by Denying the Holocaust (Criminal Code Section 319(2.1)). Paulin was issued a 9-month sentence for both crimes.
Sentences Pending
Ian ASPENLIEDER. Ian Aspenlieder, a lawyer formerly employed by the City of Ottawa as a municipal solicitor, pleaded guilty in the Superior Court of Justice sitting at Ottawa to Mischief to a War Memorial in connection with vandalism at the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa. The sentencing judgement is scheduled to be issued January 7, 2026.
Matthew ALTHORPE. Althorpe pleaded guilty in the Superior Court of Justice sitting at Toronto to Facilitating a Terrorist Activity, Instructing Others to Commit a Terrorism Offence and Committing an Offence for a Terrorist Organization. The sentencing judgement is scheduled for January 2026.
Found Guilty; Discharged
The following persons were found guilty of various offences relating to anti-Israel protests, but were granted absolute or conditional discharges by the court. A discharge means that the court declared the defendant guilty of the crime but decided not to impose a penalty or register a conviction on the defendant’s criminal record.
Maryam ALNAZAR – obstruct police officer
Megan TAY – Mischief over $5,000
Allen GRAHAM – Mischief over $5,000
Deana SHERIF – Causing disturbance, breach of probation
Skigh JOHNSON – Mischief under $5,000
Charges Withdrawn
The following persons were charged with various offences relating to anti-Israel protests, but the charges were withdrawn by the crown. These cases are examples of the “Free Palestine Activist” exception to the Criminal Code.
Helene FURLOTTE-BOIS – unlawful assembly, mischief under $5,000; unlawful assembly while masked, forcible entry
Anna LIPPMAN – forcible entry, mischief under $5,000; unlawful assembly
Desmond COLE – mischief under $5,000; unlawful assembly
Celeste FURLOTTE-BOIS – assault peace officer with weapon
Loui BOUCHAHINE – public incitement of hatred
Syed RAZA – public incitement of hatred
Ahmed HAJAHMAD – mischief/interfere with use of property
Jabil JALBOUT – mischief/interfere with use of property
Muhammade Anas SIAL – assault police officer with weapon
Marco MUNOZ – assault with weapon
Faisal IBRAHIM – mischief under $5,000; disguise with intent
Marwan CHATILA – theft under $5,000
Maryam ALNAZAR – assault peace officer; public possession of dangerous weapon
Pending Cases CAEF is Following
All persons charged with a criminal offence are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Deana SHERIF (Ottawa) – various counts of assault, criminal harassment, obstruction of police
David F SHULTZ (Toronto) - weapons offences, obstruction of police
Mikhail BYKOV (Toronto) - willful promotion of hatred
Seyed VORUDI (Toronto) - willful promotion of hatred
Amir ARAVI-AZAR (Toronto)- various counts of mischief to religious property, willful promotion of hatred
Kerry GAUER (Toronto) - assault, disguise with intent, assault with weapon
Dominic BUCHANAN (Toronto) - mischief to religious property
Jennifer CLERMONT (Toronto) – assault
Shahrez HYDRI (Toronto) – mischief/interfere with use/enjoyment of property
Luke Alexander MACDONNELL (New Glasgow NS) – willful promotion of hatred
Brandon Taylor MOORE (Saskatoon, SK) - willful promotion of hatred
Waleed KHAN (Toronto) - conspiracy to commit kidnapping, sexual assault with weapon, attempted kidnapping
Osman AZIZOV (Toronto) - conspiracy to commit kidnapping, sexual assault with weapon, attempted kidnapping
Farhad SADAAT (Toronto) - conspiracy to commit kidnapping, sexual assault with weapon, attempted kidnapping
Matthew RUNIGHAM (PEI) - willful promotion of hatred
Oliver COUTO (Toronto) - willful promotion of hatred
John Charles REIT (Lloydminster SK) - willful promotion of hatred
Nicholas Vincent AMOR (London ON) - mischief over $5,000, disguise with intent, assault
Gezim TOPALLI (Halifax, NS) - mischief to religious property, public inctement of hatred
Joseph ROOKE (Kingston, ON) - aggravated assault
Watch the Jew Hating Grinches Who Stole Christmas in Toronto
This video showing Anti-Israel protest at Eaton Centre Mall, December 26, 2025 was posted on X by Dahlia Kurtz
Israel Recognizes Somaliland and Somliland Joins Abraham Accords
Despite objection by Turkey, Egypt and Somalia, PM Netanyahu announced the recognition of the State of Somaliland and signed agreements with its president, in which there will be exchanges, and are shared security interests.
Read full story in YNetNews, December 27, 2025.
Watch video post of celebration in Republic of Somaliland due to Israel’s recognition, despite none from other UN countries. If Prime Minister Mark Carney can recognize a State of Palestine, which has no borders, no recognized government, no constitution, no civil order, then surely Israel can recognize an African state that is fully functional, n’est ce pas?
Recommended Viewing
Watch short video from Aristotle Foundation on Why You Should Support Israel.
In a historic first, Qatari opposition leader Khalid Al-Hail sits down with Erin Molan for his first-ever English television interview — breaking his silence on the regime he says has tortured dissidents, funded extremists, manipulated the West, and built its global power on deception. For years, most of the world never knew Qatar had an opposition movement at all. According to Al-Hail, that was by design.
Watch Oren Cahanovitc on Bondi Beach attack.
Results are in: The United Nations Bias is Blatant
The UN in 2025 passed17 resolutions condemning Israel—but only12 resolutions against the world’s 170 other nations!
But that travesty is the least of it.
Even more outrageous: Since October 7, 2023, the U.N. has not issued a single condemnation against the “State of Palestine,” which launched the greatest single-day murder of Jews in 80 years, since the Holocaust. Not a word.
No U.N. resolutions, either, against Hamas, which seized and tortured Israeli civilian hostages against all international law.
No U.N. resolutions, either, against Hamas, which seized and tortured Israeli civilian hostages against all international law.
Add to this the vicious drumbeat of media lies and slanders against Jews and the Jewish state:“starvation,” “genocide,” “colonizers,” “apartheid.”
While Israel has almost single-handedly defeated the Middle East’s jihadis—decimated Hamas, decapitated Hezbollah and destroyed Iran’s military—it now faces the greatest explosion of worldwide antisemitism in a hundred years.
Our streets, our media, our universities, our halls of Congress are teeming with enemies of Jews and Israel as never before—they accuse us of dragging the world into war . . . and killing babies.
Recommended Reading
Read Pat Johnson’s Substack, Beaten with a Shtick, on how antisemitism is killing non-Jews.
CAEF is pleased to send a Mazel Tov to Pat Johnson, Founder of Upstanders Canada and regular contributor to various media, and a writer at Substack, Beaten with a Shtick, for the Government of Romania’s 2025 Ambassador Mihnea Constantinescu National Award for outstanding merits in combating antisemitism, xenophobia, radicalization and hate speech. Read more.
Read Micha Danzig in JNS.org on film, Palestine 36, an ahistorical narrative, denying the Islamist terrorism, the roots of Nazi ideology that are incorporated in Hamas and other terror groups, the role of the Mufti of Jerusalem.
Read Patrick Houck, December 22, 2025 in American Liberty on intelligence warnings about an imminent strike against Israel from Iran.
Read article in YnetNews that Georgetown U has finally dropped Francesca Albanese from their roster of successful grads, given her standing as a major antisemite.
Read A.J. Caschetta for The Investigative Project on Terrorism. about the non-Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), Hatam Bazian, December 29, 2025.
Book Review
CAEF publishes reviews of books relevant to our readership—activists, educators, policy-makers, security/intelligence personnel, faith leaders, and Upstanders for freedom. Readers are welcome to submit reviews.
Islam, Israel and the West, a former Muslim’s Analysis by Danny Burmawi, reviewed by David Schlanger.
Read excerpt: “Dan Burmawi, a former Muslim born in Jordan who converted to Christianity and now lives in the West, produced a provocative and bold examination of Islam’s role in the modern world as it relates to Israel and Western civilization. Burmawi’s purpose is urgent: to correct widespread misunderstandings about Islam, explain the deeper roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and challenge Western readers to see why the survival of liberal democratic culture is connected to how the world interprets Islam today. His book is an unabashed warning.”
One Islamic Response to Bondi Beach
Community Events
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Bridges For Peace is a stalwart friend and supporter of Israel and Jews across the globe.
This seminar will feature Itamar Marcus, the Director of Palestinian Media Watch that for years has reported on Hamas/Palestinian anti-Israel-anti-Zionist-antisemitism.
Marcus has also provided Hamas’ and Palestinians’ own charters and other official documents that are rife with Jew-Israel-anti-Zionist hatred as well as publishing the Public words of Hamas and Palestinian leaders (in English or translated from Arabic) indoctrinating their people in that hatred and urging them to commit murderous terrorist acts against Jewish Israelis.
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