Jewish Indigeneity to Israel..Not a Nakba | CAEF Bulletin, June 19, 2026

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CAEF & Partners Acknowledge Federal Step to Combating Hate, Bill C-9

Read the Joint Press Release, June 16, 2026.

Legal Update

1. Adham DIABAS

Adham DIABAS was found guilty of assaulting a police officer and assaulting a police officer with a weapon in connection with an incident outside Meridian Hall in downtown Toronto on September 11, 2024, when UJA Toronto held its annual fundraising event.

CAEF has filed a Community Impact Statement with the court.

On September 11, 2024, the United Jewish Appeal held its annual fundraiser campaign launch event at Meridian Hall in Toronto. This is the principal fundraising event for the principal Jewish community organization in Toronto.

The defendant, Adham Diabas, opposed the event and protested outside. That was, and is, his constitutional right. But then he did something else. He attacked two of the Toronto Police Service constables who were guarding the members of the Jewish community who were attempting to enter the venue. He threw a water bottle at them, striking one of the constables in the face.

The message this assault sends to the Jewish community could not be more clear: you are not safe. Even the armed police officers sworn to protect you are vulnerable to physical attack.

As a result, the organizers of Jewish community events now typically keep the event locations secret until immediately before the event is held. Attendees must go through multiple layers of security to obtain admittance. We install special screens on the windows of our synagogues and communal buildings to prevent the glass from shattering if struck by gunfire. We are even carrying out the advice of our security teams to cut down the trees and bushes in front of these buildings, lest an attacker hide behind them.

Our organizations spend thousands on paid duty police officers rather than programming. It doesn’t take an advanced degree in behavioral psychology to figure out that thousands of Jews across this city, and indeed this province and country, are as a result staying home rather than attending Jewish communal activities. They are disconnecting from the community out of fear. They are living lives of second-class citizenship in their own country. Both they, and the community as a whole, suffer from this dissociation.

In an address delivered on June 1, 2026 at the Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto, Prime Minister the Right Honourable Mark Carney stated that:

“Canada promises a country in which Jewish Canadians can be visibly, fully, joyfully Jewish in public life — at school, at work, on the street, in synagogue, in the academy, in the arts, in every place that is theirs because Canada is theirs. Canada promises a country in which Indigenous Peoples, Muslim Canadians, Black Canadians, Sikh Canadians, Christian Canadians, Queer Canadians — every Canadian — can be visibly themselves without fear.”

The crimes of Mr. Diabas, in the view of the Jewish community of Toronto, constitute a fundamental breach of those promises of civic equality. They create a climate of fear, of intimidation, and of insecurity where we constantly have to watch our backs and take precautions over precautions, because even one minor slip up renders us vulnerable to an attack that can come at any time from any direction, from someone angry and bold enough to attack even the police whose jobs are to protect us.

Mr. Diabas is entitled to his political views. He is not entitled to violently veto members of our community who want to assemble together to express our collective identity, celebrate our community’s achievements, and raise money to support our community’s charities. When he attacks those police constables carrying out their sworn duties to protect us from violence, he attacks us too.

2. At the 2026 Walk for Israel, Naveed Bahadur Gives His Followers Free Legal Advice

One of the fringe benefits of joining the anti-Israel hate mob to “walk against Israel” is the opportunity to receive unqualified legal advice free of charge from a fake lawyer who is the brother of a convicted criminal. Naveed Bahadur regaled his audience with his theory that calling Zionists “roaches” and “scum” isn’t hate speech under Canadian criminal law, as long as the speaker uses the magic word “Zionist” instead of “Jew.”

Watch the video here.

At CAEF we believe that if you rely on free legal advice, you always get your money’s worth.

Mark Sandler, a real lawyer who is President of the Alliance of Canadians Combatting Antisemitism (ALCCA) — of which CAEF is a proud member — weighs in on The Sinister Efforts to Mask Antisemitic Hate.

3. Upcoming Hearings and Trials

Case	Date	Details
PEO v. Bahira Abdulsalam	June 22, 2026
R. v. Hydri	June 22, 2026	Mischief, smoke bomb @ Cafe Landwer
R. v. Runighan	June 23, 2026	Wilful promotion of hatred, PEI
R. v. Toema	June 29, 2026	Theft of Israeli flag, Bathurst/Sheppard

The Invented Palestinian Narrative

The attacks on Jews globally are often “justified” as attacks on a settler-colonial state, an apartheid state, a state that cleansed its “indigenous” population and replaced it with White Europeans. These are just some of the libels, lies and hate speech attached to Israel and Israelis. Truth has to speak louder and move faster.

The “Palestinian” narrative is but a tool in the global jihad against the Jews, against the West and against freedom itself. Too few people are brave enough to name it and challenge it. Amy Rosenthal dives into this “uncomfortable topic,” recognizing she will be vilified, labelled and dismissed, but knowing that “an honest understanding of Israel’s enemies is critical to the survival of the Jewish people.”

Read the excerpt below from article by Amy Rosenthal in American Thinker, June 15, 2026, entitled Inventing Palestine:

“Islam has been at war with Jews since its inception 1400 years ago. As Islam expert Robert Spencer documents, demonization of Jews is embedded in the Quran. For example, the Quran claims that Jews are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); they love to listen to lies (5:41); they are disputing and quarreling (2:247); feel pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); they are merciless and heartless (2:74), they are transformed into apes and pigs (2:63-65, 5:59-60; 7:166) and Muslims should wage war against them to subjugate them under Islamic hegemony (9:29). The critically relevant Sura 2:191 says “kill them (non-believers) wherever you come upon them and drive them out of the places from which they have driven you out.” This Islamic religious source of the conflict is something too few will speak about openly.

While not all the world’s two billion Muslims devoutly believe in the Quran, tens of millions do. Enough to create the Iranian Islamic revolution of 1979. Enough to create Hezb’allah (the party of Allah). Enough to create Hamas (Harakah al-Muqawamah al Islamiyyah), the Houthis (Ansar Allah), Palestinian Islamic Jihad, ISIS (Islamic State), and countless other Islamic terrorist organizations. Not surprisingly, all are intent on the Jewish state’s destruction.

Before modern Israel was founded, the Islamic world learned of the Zionist movement. They were horrified. They would not tolerate Jewish sovereignty over land they perceived as theirs in perpetuity. Suddenly, a part of the Ottoman Empire that had been ignored for centuries became important. Arabs started boycotting Jewish concerns in the early 1900s. In 1917, the Ottomans initiated a mass deportation, a forced, brutal march of 7,000 Jews out of Jaffa. In 1920, after WWI, the British Mandate of Palestine was created to establish a Jewish homeland. But in 1921, Arabs pressured Britain to give 77% of that land away, forbidding Jewish settlement in what became Jordan. The Arab revolt of 1936-39 forced Britain to end Jewish immigration and Jewish land purchases in the Mandate. When Israel declared independence in 1948, the Muslim Arab world again would not stand for it. Seven Arab armies attacked within 24 hours of Israel’s declaration. The Arabs lost, so what else could they do to destroy Jewish sovereignty?

Since military options failed, Islamist Yasser Arafat and the Soviets devised another plan. Working together, in the early 1960s, they created a “Palestinian people” that the West would see as victims of Jews. No matter that “Palestinians” who had recently emigrated to the Mandate from countries like Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen were lumped together to create a unique Palestinian people -- the world bought it.”

Read the full article in American Thinker.

Indigenous-Jewish Friendship Continued in Academia

Following a deeply moving weekend of Indigenous-Jewish exchanges, June 5–8^th in Toronto, two Indigenous Leaders took the conversation to Ottawa. On June 10^th, Dr. Sheree Trotter and the Hon. Harry S. LaForme were speakers at an event titled Antizionist Colonization of Indigenous Movements — and Our Response, hosted by NECA at the University of Ottawa. The Network of Engaged Canadian Academics, a national organization of 400 faculty members, invited the representatives of the Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem to address “indigeneity” which has been hijacked by activists in a cause that uses the concept as a prop, ignores its literal meaning and the historic fact of Jewish Indigeneity in the Land of Israel.

Read the article by Dan Donovan in Ottawa Life Magazine, June 17, 2026.

Read this essay by Jonah Cohen in Tablet, June 17, 2026, to understand the tribal nature of Israel — not an apartheid state, but a valued state for the preservation of a culture on a land whose history is honoured and revered. This in-depth essay relates Jewish Statehood to American Tribal Law and the historical experience of cancelling tribal cultures to restoring them.

View the Photo Gallery from the Building Indigenous-Jewish Friendship Symposium, Toronto, June 8^th, photographed by Tom Sandler.

Recommended Viewing

Watch David Rubin interviewing Batya Ungar-Sargon on her new book, The Jews and the Left, a serious and major source of antisemitism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-nFhoA7Y8U

Watch Lord Ian Austin confront the UK Parliament on its obsession with Israel.

Watch Nonie Darwish, who grew up in Gaza, tell the story of how an injured Gazan is saved by Hadassah Hospital in Israel.

Watch video posted June 14, 2026 by Dr. Maalouf, asking why — with hundreds of mosques — Muslim prayers take place in the streets of Toronto, blocking traffic and protected by police.

Advocacy and Action

Sign Petitions from DARA, Doctors Against Racism and Antisemitism, that demand the World Medical Association not expel the Israeli Medical Association. False claims are being circulated against the Israelis.

Please sign the following 2 petitions in support of the Israel Medical Association (IMA) and urging Medical Neutrality, Due Process and Non-Discrimination within the World Medical Association.

(1) DARA Petition: Reject May 2026 Petition to Expel the Israel Medical Association from the WMA

An anonymous petition circulated in May 2026 entitled “Open Letter to the Executive of the World Medical Association” presents a bad faith argument for expulsion of the Israel Medical Association (IMA) from the World Medical Association (WMA). The petition presents three allegations: (1) the IMA did not publicly condemn acts of torture committed against Palestinian detainees, (2) the IMA did not condemn the systematic Israeli destruction of health care facilities in Gaza, and (3) the IMA somehow contributed to acts of genocide committed against Palestinians.

(2) Global Jewish Health Association (GJHA) Petition: Open Letter in Defense of Medical Neutrality, Due Process and Non-Discrimination within the World Medical Association

We, the undersigned physicians, academics, healthcare professionals and supporters of international medical ethics, express our profound concern regarding recent calls for the expulsion of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) from the World Medical Association (WMA).

Bias/Ignorance/Antizionism at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights

Tell Your MP: Keep Foreign Conflicts Out of Our Institutions

Allies for a Strong Canada have raised serious objection to the taxpayer-funded national museum hosting an exhibit about one of the world’s most divisive conflicts.

Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present opens June 27, unless we can stop this abomination that has taken federal funds to tell lies and grow antisemitism.

Sign the letter to YOUR MP.

Read letter from CAEF to Isha Khan, CEO of the Canadian Museum of Human Rights regarding the “nakba” exhibit that is expected to portray a false narrative and continuing betrayal of the Jewish people’s history and legal rights to the Land of Israel, sent December 27, 2023.

Read CAEF Letter to Ms Isha Khan, CEO, CMHR regarding the "Nakba" Exhibit which fails to meet museum's own human rights standards.

Read the article by Terry Newman in National Post on the “Nakba” exhibit’s relationship to the Palestinian representative in Canada, June 17, 2026.

Read the article by Stewart Lewis in National Post, June 16, 2026, about the Minister’s lack of intervention in the dispute about the “Nakba” exhibit, leaving Jewish Canadians unhappy. David Asper, son of founder Izzy Asper, stated: “The Museum has allowed itself to become the tool, or dupe, of only one side of the story and thereby betrays its duty as a national institution to provide a common and inclusive meeting and educational space on the matter of human rights.”

Failure in the Promised Land

The Union of Reform Judaism issued a statement from the Reform Rabbis of Canada and the Reform Jewish Community of Canada on the firebombing of Temple Emanu-El-Beth Shalom in Montreal, after the second attack this year.

Read the full statement.

Watch the interview with Rabbi Lisa Grushcow with Ellin Bessner, Canadian Jewish News.

Hold FIFA Accountable

At a recent match between Iran and New Zealand, a FIFA official apparently removed an Israeli flag — yet allowed Palestine flags to remain on display. Send this letter and make clear to FIFA that such discrimination is UNACCEPTABLE.

Send this letter and make it clear to FIFA that such discrimination is UNACCEPTABLE.

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Toronto Public Library Booked Space for Terror Support Speakers

Read Letter from Y. B. to Hon. Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs, asking that Canada investigate all of its humanitarian funding to UNRWA, the PA and NGOs with documented terror connections, June 19, 2026.

Community Events

Unraveling UNRWA is being broadcast on television June 27th at 8PM ET on The News Forum.

See the trailer.

Short clips releasing daily:

June 19, 10:00 AM: Watch here
June 20, 10:00 AM: Watch here
June 21, 10:00 AM: Watch here
June 22, 10:00 AM: Watch here
June 23, 10:00 AM: Watch here

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About interview:

How did Canada's Jewish community begin, and what challenges has it faced over the centuries? This interview explores Jewish immigration, assimilation, and antisemitism—from the era of "None Is Too Many" and World War II to the rise of modern anti-Israel activism and the dramatic changes following October 7. We will examine the current state of antisemitism in Canada, the response of institutions and government, and the emergence of new grassroots advocacy efforts. The discussion concludes with a focus on Jewish pride, community resilience, and evidence-based action for the future.

About Scholar:

Andria Spindel is Executive Director of the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation (CAEF) and former President & CEO of March of Dimes Canada. Since 2019, she has served as volunteer Executive Director of CAEF, leading webinars, weekly publications, and advocacy initiatives, and building cross-community relationships. CAEF launched the End Jew Hatred Canada movement in 2021. Through CAEF programming, she helps reach audiences across Canada, the US, Europe, Israel, and beyond, with a focus on combating antisemitism.