From Tragedy, We Rise Again | CAEF Bulletin June 26, 2026
- CAEF
- Jun 26
- 8 min read
Updated: Jul 2
Michael Moshe Mizrahi and Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal Officer Mohamed Lamine Benredouane were killed in a shooting near a kosher restaurant and Chabad house in Montréal. We mourn this tragic loss of life by the innocent Jewish man and a police officer operating in the line of duty, and denounce the deadly consequences of unchecked ideological hatred.
Read the Statement on the Tragic Events in Montréal from Mark Sandler, President of the Alliance of Canadians Combating Antisemitism (ALCCA), of which CAEF is a member.
Read Rabbi Yisroel Bernath of Chabad Montréal’s statement calling for responsible reporting of the incident and the avoidance of Lashon Hara.
Read Sheila Gunn Reid in Rebel News, reporting that the 104-page manifesto left by the killer is filled with explicit antisemitism, anti-Zionist rhetoric, communist ideology, and grievances commonly associated with the online “incel” movement, June 23, 2026.
YNetNews reported (June 22, 2026): “The shooting came just three weeks after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned that Canada was failing to protect its Jewish community amid a record surge in antisemitic incidents.”
Watch the CWAA webinar, supported by CAEF and other community partners, on C-9 featuring several legal experts.
Legal Update
1. Exhibition Place: Violation of the City of Toronto Human Rights and Anti-Disrcimination Policy by the Muslim Association of Canada.
In May 2026 at the annual conference of the Muslim Association of Canada held at Exhibition Place, this lovely image was reported by Juno News investigative journalist Melanie Bennet, as being displayed at one of the sessions. Note the tem “Jew free” on the left side of the word salad.
Exhibition Place is the property of the City of Toronto, and is governed by the City of Toronto Anti-Discrimination Policy. CAEF has taken a position that this display constitues a violation of the policy and wrote to Exhibition Place CEO Don Boyle demanding an investigation and an opportunity for CAEF and other Jewish community organizations to address the Board of Governors of Exhibition Place about the effect of this violation on the community and to request remedial measures. Mr Boyle wrote back on June 10, 2026 denying our request to delegate to the Board of Governors on the grounds that an investigation was still in process, but would be completed within two weeks.
As of today, June 26, 2026, we received a reply email from Mr. Boyle:
We are not letting this go. It is unacceptable for any group to use public property to promote the concept of a “Jew free” community. Specifically, we will be filing a Freedom of Information Act requesting release of all documents relating to this incident and the investigation to ensure public accountability and transparency.
2. Postponement of the trial of Shahrez HYDRI – Mischief (interfere with use/enjoyment of property) - smoke bomb at Cafe Landwer University Ave. Toronto May 15, 2025.
The trial of Shahrez HYDRI, scheduled for June 29, 2026 was postponed at the last minute due to administrative trial scheduling considerations. A new date is to be set July 3, 2026.
3. Distribution of hate propaganda in Orillia ON – Young Person charged with Public Incitement of Hatred
Please see attached article by ALCCA Staff. While we will not display a copy of the flyer, in our estimation it shares the content and style of antisemitic flyers produced by the US based hate group GoyimTV.
Advocacy and Action
Read Letter from Ruth Abrams and colleagues to Isha Khan, CEO of Canadian Museum Human Rights requesting inclusion of the story of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa to be included in the the museum's Nakba exhibit, noting over 800,000 Jews were expelled from Muslim countries, June 23, 2026.
Read Letter from Larry Shapiro, Calgary, to Melissa Lantsman, MP regarding the Qatari funding of "Arabic language education" in Edmonton schools which leaves the door open to Islamic indoctrination since that is what Qatar has been doing across the US, with references to reports documenting this, June 24, 2026.
Sign letter from Action Network objecting to Netflix release of a film that depicts the murder of Palestinian family by IDF. Over 4,000,000 letters sent, now get to 6,553,800.
“The Jordanian film Farha, by director Darin J. Sallam, in which IDF soldiers are seen murdering a Palestinian family during the War of Independence, will be released on Netflix in December. The film takes place in 1948 in Mandatory Palestine and is about a 14-year-old Palestinian girl whose father locks her in a warehouse because of IDF attacks in the village.
The production claims to be "inspired by true events", however this is a lie.”
Sign the Change.org petition calling on the Ontario Dental Association Council to uphold due process and stand by its own findings.
Lana Melman Interviews Hollywood Zionist Supporter
Oscar-nominated actor. Emmy winner. Four-time SAG award winner. Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Director. Humanitarian. You may know him as Lt. Dan, but long before Forrest Gump, actor Gary Sinise was a kid from Chicago whose Jewish friends taught him what it meant to have roots worth fighting for. Many of them moved to Israel after graduation and never came back. He tells CAEF supporter Lana Melman that decades later, he still calls them when the sirens start.
Lana Melman, entertainment veteran, interviewed Gary Sinise for her column Hollywood Stories in the Jerusalem Post Magazine.
Read her interview to see why Gary Sinise is one of Hollywood’s most unlikely heroes.
Watch this clip from her conversation to hear him talk about his Jewish friends.
Recommended Reading
Read Sheryl Saperia and Ches W. Parsons for Macdonald Laurier Institute (MLI) on the united hate known as the red-green-brown alliance behind antisemitism in Canada, June 23, 2026.
Read David Deutsch: The Enlightenment, ‘irrational memes’ and how Wikipedia turned woke.
Read the National Post quoting CAEF’s letter to the Canadian Museum of Human Rights, calling on the museum to reconsider its “Nakba” exhibit, June 22, 2026.
Read Israel365News: After October 7, majority of Israelis support rebuilding the Temple, up from 30% in 2013
Read the resignation letter from Mark Berlin, recent member of the Board of Directors for the CMHR, to Hon. Marc Miller, Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, and Benjie Nycum, Board Chair — expressing his view that the Nakba exhibit is a distortion of history and that the museum “loses its legitimacy when it presents as historical truth a narrative that erases a crucial part of the history.”
Read article by Micha Danzig in Jewish Journal on the real relationship between Israel and America, June 22, 2026. “This piece challenges a growing historical amnesia about how deeply America’s moral and political foundations are rooted in Jerusalem - its ideas, texts, and vision. It also responds to the current moment, where we’re hearing claims from President Trump that Israel owes its very existence to America, and where legitimate criticism of a sudden policy about-face on Iran is recast by JD Vance as “Israeli ministers personally attacking Donald Trump.” This isn’t abstract; it goes to the core of America’s identity - and to the integrity of the conversation we’re having now.”
Read article by Christine Douglass-Williams in Jihadwatch.org about the potential influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Arabic language and culture education offered in Alberta’s school system from K-12, funded by Qatar, June 21, 2026.
Read the editorial from The Globe and Mail , calling for the government to investigate and report on foreign funding of antisemitism in Canada, June 24, 2026.
Read Phyllis Chesler in her Substack, Why Jews Have Always Been in Serious Trouble, June 24, 2026.
Read excerpts:
“..in my 2003 book, The New Antisemitism, I explained that the cognitive or propaganda war would be bigger and more important than ever before; that ancient Blood Libels would be massively circulated around the clock in all the languages on earth, on every continent, in every country; that the internet and social media would be carefully and diabolically seeded with disinformation about the single Jewish state; that anti-Zionism was part of the new antisemitism; and that Western intellectuals would join forces with the Islamic world, and with Islamists, Marxists, and right-wingers in the West. Generations of university professors would teach these lies again and again over seven decades. College-educated journalists and international organizations would internalize them.”
“Ordinary citizens, both paid by Arab and left-wing money, as well as those who are just unpaid but passionate True Believers are, without shame, physically and verbally attacking individual Jews in the streets of America and Europe; shooting and bombing Jewish Centers and synagogues; marching, marching in Jihad-like swarms calling for “Death to Israel, Death to America”; staging campus encampments with Shari’a-compliant female students; Hollywood and Broadway celebrities are virtue-signaling their support for “Palestine” (a country that does not exist) and especially for “Gaza” (an area that has been taken over and taken down by Hamas terrorists, not by Israel).”
Read article by Jeff Ballabon in JNS News explaining the Talmudic rule of restraint that is caricatured as aggression, and note its been embedded in rules of war, and is a doctrine of preemption and not prevention, June 24, 2026
Read article by Melanie Bennet in JunoNews, June 7, 2026 on the Combat Islamophobia handbook published and promoted by the Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council, calling for more transparency of CRA audit processes of charities and far less public disclosure. This at a time when Jewish charities have been scrutinized and 8 had their charitable status revoked.
Read article by Sara Yoheved Rigler in Aish.com on what Israel’s enemies don’t want you to know, but then how can mammoth stones, masses of archaelogy get ignored, and in your face proof be denied, May 11, 2026.
Read Gerard Filitti, Sr. Counsel, Lawfare Project, in Times of Israel on the antisemitic behaviour of a NY coffee shop towards a Jewish congressman and how the Mayor is fueling Jew hatred, maligning Jewish organizations and repeating lies and hatred against Israel and its supporters, June 23, 2026.
Read article by Irwin Cotler, Mark Berlin and Alan Kessel in the Globe and Mail on the failed mandate of the Canadian Museum of Human Rights, June 25, 2026.
Recommended Viewing
Watch Reverend Melodie Greyeyes speaking at the Lodzer Centre Congregation as part of the Building Indigenous-Jewish Friendship weekend, June 6, 2025.
Watch Danny Seaman for JNSTV on what nobody is telling you about the Iran-US Deal.
Watch filmmaker Ric Esther Bienstock on TheHub.ca expose how universities became woke war zones, and learn about her new documentary Speechless — a 10-year investigation into campus culture, cancel culture and our free speech crisis.
Watch Brooke Goldstein at the JNS policy conference on Jewish Civil Rights and actions.
Watch Ellin Bessner interview Mark Berlin, a long-term board member who drafted a public letter on resigning from the Canadian Museum of Human Rights. He explains his reasons including the lack of information provided to the board, lack of proper consultation, and instances of blatant antisemitism displayed at the Museum.
Message to the Canadian Museum of Human Rights
Perhaps the “righteous” at the Museum, its CEO, Board of Directors and “Nakba advisors” and funders, including the Federal government of Canada, ought to present real human rights issues rather than lie about Israel and the Jewish People.
Below are images of Auctions of Black people in Libya, happening in 2026.
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