The Wheels of Justice Grind Slow but Exceeding Fine | CAEF Bulletin – July 24, 2026
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Terrorism Charge Issued against Ahmad Hassan Layosa HAJAHMAD
Ahmad Hassan Layosa HAJAHMAD (aka Ahmad JARRAR), 33, a regular anti-Israel protester at the Bathurst/Sheppard corner and at the annual Walk with Israel parades, was charged on July 20, 2026 with participating in or contributing the activities of a terrorist group on account of his use of amplification devices to make public statements advocating for the detestation and harm against members of the Israeli and Jewish communities, according to a Toronto Police Service press release issued on July 22, 2026.
Here's what the gallant gentleman looks like.
Initiation of a prosecution for terrorism offences such as Section 83.18 of the Criminal Code requires the prior consent of the Attorneys General of Ontario and Canada, which have been granted.
The specific facts of HAJAHMAD's activities have not been publicly revealed due in part to a court-imposed publication ban.
The Alliance of Canadians Combating Antisemitism, of which CAEF is a member, has published a more detailed background article about the investigation, which you can read here:
The bail conditions for HAJAHMAD include a ban on attending any protest within 500m of a Jewish institution. That means he's banned from the Bathurst/Sheppard intersection. If you see him there, do not approach or confront him. Instead, immediately alert a Toronto Police constable or dial 911.
HAJAHMAD was charged with mischief in relation to a smoke bomb incident at Union Station on New Year's Eve December 31, 2024 but the charge was withdrawn by the Crown in July 2025.
For further background on HAJAHMAD, please see Ellin Bessner's detailed article in the Canadian Jewish News and Chris Knight's story in the National Post, as well as the Twitter blogs of Caryma S'ad and Leviathan, both of whom have diligently covered his adventures and antics in the past several years. Here are a few examples.
The next date HAJAHMAD will appear in court will be August 26, 2026 at the Provincial Courthouse at 10 Armoury Street Toronto. CAEF will be diligently following the progress of the case 4810-26500110987.
Counterpoint: Notorious Montreal three-time convicted criminal Yves Engler has come out to bat for his friend HAJAHMAD, according to this posting here.
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CAEF Supports House of Commons Petition Designate “Palestine Action Canada” a Listed Terrorist Entity under the Criminal Code – Sign Below!!
Palestine Action was founded in 2020 out of the United Kingdom as a direct-action network with the explicit goal of disrupting the operations of companies involved in manufacturing weapons and military equipment for Israel.
In UK court documents, cofounder Huda Ammori set out the network's aims:
“In 2020, I co-founded Palestine Action, a direct-action protest group aimed at preventing military targets in the UK from facilitating gross abuses of international law. The aim of terrorists is to take lives and hurt people: that is the opposite of what Palestine Action is about. Palestine Action's aim is to take direct action against Israel's arms trade in Britain. Our aims have never included, and we have never encouraged, harm to any person at all. The goal is simple: to put our bodies in the way of military machine perpetrating genocide. The main target has been stopping Elbit Systems [a defence company which is said to supply the Israeli government].
I am not the leader. We are a horizontal movement and everyone is the same. We have different working groups for different things and all work together. I sometimes do more of the public speaking. We encourage people to have their own ideas and take their own actions. These do involve damage to property contributing to the arms industry, but also have involved demonstrations, talks, sit ins, posters/banners and sieges. For example, supporters of Palestine Action from the local community in Leicester hold a demonstration outside an Elbit factory there weekly”
In 2025, the United Kingdom officially proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist organization due to its aggressive direct action tactics that included break-ins, property destruction and violence targeting defense contractors and military sites. This followed an attack a month before on RAF Brize Norton site where they spraypainted military planes. In 2024 it was reported that members of the group raided an Elbit Systems UK site during which a police officer was seriously assaulted with a sledgehammer. The terrorist designation was later affirmed on appeal by their courts.
Palestine Action, as a transnational extremist group, represents a national security threat here in Canada as well.
“In a report by Gabriel Colodro, security experts and Jewish advocacy officials warn that the group's online material may do more than name companies connected to Israel's defense sector—it may lower the barrier between political activism, vandalism, sabotage, and potential violence.”
Palestine Action has extended its reach into Canada with active chapters such as Palestine Action YYT and an active social media account On the YYT website the claim is made that each chapter is independent yet they share a network of common actions and information.
Palestine Action posted a “target map” where it listed organizations in numerous locations including Canada which they claimed had ties to Israel and/or its military. Clicking on these locations sent users to a manual setting out how to carry out “direct action”. These suggestions included putting together “cells” to carry out property damage and ways to avoid detection for criminal offences.
The line has been crossed. York Regional Police confirmed that an attack against Dishon Limited, in Concord Ontario, took place recently where windows were smashed and graffiti spray-painted on walls. It is reported that the group claimed responsibility for the incident. This will only intensify without government action with further campaigns targeting other defense companies such as Elbit Industries.
On an instagram account carrying the network's name, a call to escalate is clearly made –
Also see images below.
Both CIJA and B'nai Brith have called for Palestine Action Canada to be listed as a terrorist entity. CAEF supports this initiative. We recommend our readers sign House of Commons Petition e-7598 initiated by Kevin Vuong and sponsored by Melissa Lantsman MP.
Also, make your voice heard by writing to: the Minister of Public Safety Canada, the Honourable Gary Anandasangaree — gary.anan@parl.gc.ca. Copy your local MP
The Missing History of the “Nakba”
Geoffrey Clarfield and Igal Hecht have undertaken to produce a series of documentaries on Jewish/Israel history. Below is a short doc, The Nakba, the Forgotten Truth, which you are invited to share widely. Send this to Your MP, Mayor, Minister of Education, and others in your community.
Geoffrey wrote, “If truth is to have a voice, it must be presented clearly, professionally, and compellingly. That reality became especially clear in recent weeks when a publicly funded exhibit on the so-called Arab “Nakba” opened at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. In my view, the exhibit presents a misleading account of the events surrounding Israel's War of Independence in 1948, an interpretation funded, in part, by Canadian taxpayers.”
Read Geoffrey Clarfield's article in The American Spectator, on the missing history of the Nakba at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights, July 10, 2026.
Demand Accountability of the Canadian Museum of Human Rights
Go to CIJA ActionHub.ca and sign the letter, urge the CMHR Board to correct these failures, restore public trust, and hold the Museum's CEO Isha Khan accountable.
Legal Update
1. Mikhail BYKOV
The sentencing hearing of Mikhail BYKOV, originally set for July 24, 2026, has been postponed due to BYKOV requesting that he be allowed to complete a course of counselling prior to sentencing. BYKOV was found guilty of public incitement of hatred and willful promotion of hatred against Jews on account of a series of antisemitic stickers and posters he affixed to light standards and other outdoor infrastructure at various locations in downtown Toronto in the fall of 2023.
2. Mostafa ELDIDI and Ahmed ELDIDI – Jury Trial to Commence September 8, 2026, Superior Court of Justice Sitting at Newmarket
Mostafa ELDIDI and Ahmed ELDIDI stand charged with conspiracy to commit murder, while Ahmed Eldidi is charged with various terror offences and war crimes in relation to activities of ISIS in a case described by the RCMP, according to a CBC report, as “the first national security investigation where war crimes charges have been laid in Canada.”
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This international symposium will now be held under the auspices of the newly launched Contemporary Antisemitism Studies Association (CASA) as its dedicated symposium for empirical studies. The symposium will bring together scholars from a range of disciplines to present and discuss empirical research on contemporary antisemitism. It aims to foster rigorous interdisciplinary dialogue and advance the growing field of empirical antisemitism studies.
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Good News in Small Package
Nauru has announced plans to open an embassy in Jerusalem, Israel's capital, becoming the 10th country to do so.
Read article by Lazar Berman, Times of Israel, on this historic decision, July 23, 2026.
Recommended Viewing
Watch Oren on what “free Palestine” really means.
Watch Honest Reporting on the KGB's creation of the “Palestinian” people.
Watch the Imam's son who changed from hating Jews to defend Jews and Israel.
Watch post by Rachel in reserves on Hamas' child abuse in Gaza - proving they don't care about their own kids.
Recommended Reading
Read article by Nurit Yohanan in Times of Israel about Palestinian attacks on gay Muslims, threats to their lives, and those in Israel who work for their safety and support within Israeli society, July 18, 2026.
FAAM provides concerned faculty with opportunities to address antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and anti-Israel activity on campus and in the U.S. academy.
Read Zvika Klein in the Jerusalem Post about Mamdani's Jew hating tirade, July 10, 2026.
Read Avi Benlolo's article in National Post, July 17 on US stand against UN which has history of anti-Israel stands and UNRWA which has terror ties.
Read Michael Posner's Substack, an Open Letter to Rahm Emanuel after the latter's speech in Israel, pointing out all the errors and denials, July 20, 2026.
Read Dave Gordon in National Post on how DEI is to blame for declining goodwill for Jews and Israel, July 21, 2026.
Read article by Giovanna Dell'Orto and Amelia Thomson-Deveaux from an AP-NORC poll showing declining support for Israel among young American Jews, July 13, 2026.
Read article by Rick Eckstein in National Post, July 21, 2026 on Naheed Nenshi's Anti-Jewish, NDP-Muslim Placating Apology. (See apology below)
Read Melanie Phillips Substack on Marco Rubio's speech that identifies threats and violence from radical leftists, because this is the partner of Islamism and a threat to Jews, Israel and all of Western civilization, July 21, 2026.
Read Nahum Kaplan's Substack, Moral Clarity, to learn the truth about Judea and Samaria and forget the nonsense of UN, EU and others in denying facts and history about this area, July 21, 2026, a reprint from 2024.
Read excerpt below.
“..there are vastly more illegal Palestinian buildings as Israeli ones. There are 81,317 illegal Palestinian structures in Area C, compared with 4,111 illegal Israeli structures (which includes bizarre things such as bathroom extensions built while there was a settlement freeze.)¹
The PA's illegal building has multiple strategic aims. I have written about the illegal Palestinian construction over ancient Jewish archaeological sites and how the PA is trying to erase Jewish history and evidence of Jewish indigeneity.
This construction is also designed to encircle and isolate Jewish settlements and stoke international anger at Israel. Understanding the PA's actions and goals makes the whole issue look very different to what is commonly reported.”
Read article by Thane Rosenbaum in the Jewish Journal on the global censoring of Jewish authors and the resignation of the President of PEN because an internal study revealed this discrimination, July 19, 2026.
Read article by Ailin Vilches Arguello in World Israel News on Ontario court decision requiring Iran to pay over $560 million to Canadian torture survivor, June 14, 2026.
Read article by Tamar Stein on Israel365News about the mapping of Jews/Israelis/Zionists that was initiated in Italy, July 22, 2026.
Read Kevin Vuong's article in the Toronto Sun, part of the Promised Land Project of Macdonald Laurier Institute (MLI), on Canada having drawn a line on antiAsian Hate but not on Anti-Jewish hate, published May 11, 2026.
Advocacy and Action
Read Letter from Larry Shapiro, Calgary to the LA Times regarding an article about the Democrats' Left wing's priorities, July 21, 2026.
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