The Sons of Jacob synagogue in Belleville, Canada, was sprayed with bullets last night as congregants gathered for Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
A police officer was shot outside the synagogue while confronting the shooter. No one inside was injured. The synagogue’s president credits the heroic officer, who was hired to protect the congregation, with saving the lives of everyone gathered inside. We are praying for the officer’s recovery🙏
Distressing to hear of the attack on the Canadian synagogue on Yom Kippur. There is a real correlation between an increase in antisemitic violence in a country and the country's implementation of boycotts and sanctions against Israel, and condemnation of "settler violence."
Joint Statement by CIJA and Jewish Federations of Canada – UIA:
Jewish Canadians are emerging from Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, to the horrifying images of gunfire outside Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, where members of the Jewish community had gathered to pray.
We are profoundly grateful to Constable Jeff Smith who acted heroically in risking is own life to protect his fellow Canadians. Our entire community prays for his full and speedy recovery.
The investigation into last night's events is ongoing, but one fact requires no investigation: Jewish Canadians should not need armed police outside their synagogues simply to pray safely.
Canadians cannot accept a future, as now exists in Europe, in which synagogues and Jewish schools can only operate safely behind permanent armed police and soldiers with machine guns.
With Parliament returning this week, governments at every level must turn their attention to the domestic situation and the growing threat of extremist violence here in Canada.
We are calling for immediate action:
· Leaders need to speak clearly: antizionism is driving violence against Canadians. The demonization of Israel offers a green light for extremists who target the Jewish community. This includes when governments single Israel out or hold it to a double-standard. Canadian security officials have repeatedly warned about the potential for international conflicts and grievances to be exploited by extremists at home. Governments must take that threat seriously and confront antisemitism consistently, including when it is expressed through double standards in foreign policy, and the demonization or delegitimization of Israel.
· Convene federal, provincial and territorial attorneys general and public safety ministers to prioritize enforcement, disrupt extremist networks, strengthen intelligence coordination, and ensure those who threaten or perpetrate violence are held accountable.
· We need streamlined processes that enable Jewish institutions to rapidly request and secure paid-duty police officers during periods of elevated attendance and risk. The framework should allow for prioritized and expedited approvals, a designated point of contact within participating police services, and access to sufficient federal funding to help offset paid-duty policing costs.
· Confront extremist ideologies, organizations and foreign state actors that promote, finance, facilitate or direct violence in Canada, including the documented threat posed by the Iranian regime and its proxies.
No more thoughts and prayers. The clock is ticking and our leaders must act before lives are lost.
BREAKING: Jews gathered inside a synagogue in Canada to pray on Yom Kippur when gunfire erupted outside.
A gunman armed with a shotgun fired 23 bullets at a police officer stationed near the synagogue, triggering a shootout. The officer was seriously wounded and remains in stable condition, while the gunman was shot and hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
Jews should never have to fear for their lives while praying in a synagogue. Pray for the brave officer’s recovery. 🙏✡️
A police officer has been seriously injured while defending a synagogue from a gunman in Canada as Jewish worshippers marked Yom Kippur.
Follow the latest developments ⬇️
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🇮🇱🇰🇷 "Habayta" (הביתה)
Koreans gathered together, waving Israeli and Korean flags side by side, passionately singing this song on September 20, 2026.
📖 1 Samuel 18 : 1
"Then the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul."
76 years ago, more than 150,000 Jewish soldiers fought to defend our nation, South Korea, during the Korean War — some even giving their lives.
Because they first loved us enough to lay down their lives, we now love Israel and the Jewish people as we love our own lives.
📖 1 Samuel 20 : 42
"And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, since we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD shall be between me and you, and between my descendants and your descendants forever."
They gave everything for our nation and for future generations of Koreans.
Now, it is our turn.
We, the Korean people, promise to stand with Israel and the Jewish people, to defend them, and to love them and their descendants forever — and we pray that they may always live freely and securely in their homeland.
As it was between Jonathan and David, so may it be between us and Israel, and between our descendants and their descendants, forever.
The violence in Judea and Samaria global media won't report on:
Israeli father of six murdered in a terror attack on Yom Kippur Eve.
There is a Palestinian attack on Israelis every two hours.
Germany: Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Jewish life in Germany is no longer safe, calling it the gravest burden of recent years and “a disgrace for Germany.” Merz pledged to use every available means to protect Jewish communities, particularly in Berlin, and said the rise of open antisemitism should deeply concern every democratic party in the country.
Big government communism and socialism ALWAYS end in poverty, despair, death, and destruction.
We REFUSE to let them take over the greatest nation in the history of the world.
Republicans are READY FOR THIS FIGHT! 🇺🇸
National Association of Muslim Police should not be involved in anti-Israel & pro-Hamas extremist propaganda. How does this blatant bias & distortion affect public confidence in the police? Although NAMP subsequently repudiated the paper they published in their name, this cannot be allowed to rest here.
https://t.co/fNXFqYH8hr
There’s no museum quite like the @LucasMuseum. George Lucas and @BloombergDotOrg board member Mellody Hobson have created a home for the art of storytelling—including paintings by Frida Kahlo and Norman Rockwell, JR’s first photograph, and props, costumes, artwork and artifacts from Star Wars and Indiana Jones.
I was glad to join them in Los Angeles last night to celebrate its opening and the power of art to bring people together.
Photo: Getty Images
Palestinian activist Motaz Azaiza, who supported Hamas and admits that freely, says Palestinian civilians seek war because they get attention and money.
“A lot of people in Gaza were wishing the war would come…When a war or an escalation comes, the NGOs talk to you. There's a job opportunity. People only know us through war."
Denmark granted special residence permits to 321 stateless Palestinians from Lebanon in 1992. By the end of 2019, Danish government data showed that 196 of the original 321 (61%) had been found guilty of at least one criminal offense.
Together, the 196 accumulated 881 criminal convictions or other guilty decisions between 1992 and 2019.
The pattern extended into the next generation. Of 999 children of the original refugees who were living in Denmark at the end of 2019, 337, or roughly 34%, had been convicted of a crime.
The terror attack against the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville on the eve of Yom Kippur marks a further escalation of the antisemitism crisis in Canada.
Our thoughts are with the police officer who acted with remarkable courage and was wounded in the line of duty. We pray for his full and speedy recovery.
Israel stands in solidarity with Canada’s Jewish community, which faces an increasingly threatening reality.
Open incitement that goes unaddressed in the public sphere, along with anti-Israel policies, is fueling antisemitism.
A change is needed.
21 September 1932 | French Jewish girl, Florette Dawidowicz, was born in Paris.
She was deported from #Drancy to #Auschwitz on 24 August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection with her younger brother Simon.
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Video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau - Bunkers I & II: https://t.co/KArryHBbea
OPERATION BLACKOUT.
These aren’t random scammers sitting behind laptops. They built fortified compounds, trafficked human beings, forced slave labor, and constructed an international fraud machine targeting Americans.
So we’re dismantling the machine.
$15+ BILLION in assets and crypto seized.
500+ fake investment sites shut down.
Hundreds arrested.
Thousands of trafficked workers freed.
10,000+ Americans warned before they could be robbed.
More than $500 MILLION saved.
And 20+ countries are now coordinating in this fight.
These criminals built an industry that could target Americans from anywhere.
-DKP 🇺🇸
20 September 1939 | Dutch Jewish boy, Joseph Jacob Pinto, was born in Amsterdam.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in October 1942. He was murdered after arrival selection together with his sister Sientje.
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A video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau - Bunkers I & II: https://t.co/KArryHBbea
Qutb’s extremist writings, banned in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, remain widely available on Amazon https://t.co/qlYe9dnKY3 and in U.S. public libraries (e.g., Free Library of Philadelphia holds Milestones; NYPL research collections and OverDrive carry volumes).
“Revolutionary” Historical Popularity Index (HPI) on https://t.co/gmBnreAn2S is 74.34 (ranked ~#383 among writers worldwide, with ~540k Wikipedia page views in the past year). https://t.co/vrOIdnf7RE
Probable BDS boycott of NAZA looms, just as Palestinians targeted No Other Land for “normalization.”
Palestinians have been rejecting Israel’s existence itself—not dialogue or coexistence. As Mondoweiss noted of Abraham: his speech was “liberal hasbara, saviorism, and both sides-ism… Nowhere… questioning of Zionism, of the fact that Israel, by its mere existence, dispossesses the Palestinian people.”
https://t.co/vc20udHB1Z… https://t.co/WH7lBpYbiB
To all, especially those who consider themselves “pro-Palestine” and who liked the Israeli-made documentary film NAZA about the Israeli military’s use of novel AI and technological means for aggressive targeting during the war in Gaza: would you be equally enthusiastic about a Palestinian-made documentary showcasing how Hamas engaged in asymmetric warfare since October 7? Would you give a lengthy standing ovation to a documentary that detailed how the terror group abused civilian infrastructure to hide weaponry, fire projectiles, carry out ambushes, conduct hit-and-run attacks, divert aid, steal supplies, torture Gazans, hide inside schools and hospitals, and ignore Palestinian civilians’ pleas for it not to use their homes, properties, shelter areas, or humanitarian zones for militant activities? Given the danger to the lives of Palestinians who speak openly to cameras, would you be just as embracing, believing, and accepting of Palestinian voices in Gaza who would offer anonymous testimonies for this documentary, given that you’re clearly comfortable with members of the Israeli military offering anonymous testimonies and details about their army’s behavior?
To be clear, this is not a 1-to-1 comparison between the subject of NAZA and this theoretical documentary about Hamas. The point is that I strongly believe there is a greater willingness to believe Israelis when they speak out against their military and government. Could it be that when and if Palestinians do the same about the fascist terrorist group that has ruled them with an iron fist for two decades and led them to mass devastation, they aren’t actually heard? Could it be that, in fact, Israeli voices serve the narrative in ways that are more palatable to "pro-Palestine" Western audiences than actual Palestinians opposed to or living under Hamas?
If you genuinely want to understand how Hamas’s so‑called “resistance” guaranteed Gaza’s devastation after October 7, I will personally be leading an international effort to assemble the talent and resources needed to produce a documentary rooted in Palestinian self‑interest rather than Israeli state narratives and tell the hidden and untold truths regarding this terror “resistance” group.