Sheryl Saperia

Co-founder & CEO of Pearl Strategic Counsel. Proud Canadian. Alum of @UofT, @WesternuLaw & @LSEGovernment.

[Dean Baxendale @DMCBaxendale]

Join us for an important discussion on Jihadi terrorism and here from an expert panel on National Security with Phil Gurski X CSIS Senior Counterintelligence Analyst @borealissaves @MLInstitute Senior Fellow, @sherylsap & Ches Parsons a former Assistant Commissioner, RCMP.

@csiscanada @RCMPONT @rcmpgrcpolice

Click the link, get your ticket and join us.

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[Sheryl Saperia @sherylsap]

25 years on, what would bin Laden see? On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, we should look at the world through bin Laden's eyes, because our enemies already are https://t.co/DPl8SAmKAn

[Sheryl Saperia @sherylsap]

In advance of the 25th commemoration of the 9/11 terror attacks, I'm glad that @nationalpost spotlighted @MaureenBasnicki: "How Maur­een Bas­nicki, Canada’s best-known 9/11 widow, trans­formed her­self into an advoc­ate who fought for ter­ror vic­tims, forged new law and even changed Canada’s cal­en­dar." It was an honour to work with her on some of these initiatives. https://t.co/RvmSX2GnTZ

[Sheryl Saperia @sherylsap]

Thank you @MLInstitute! In this article, Sarah Teich and I argue that Canada should create a dedicated federal fund for victims of transnational repression. Currently, these victims are left to pay for their own safety - a financially untenable situation for some.

[Macdonald-Laurier Institute @MLInstitute]

“Transnational repression is commonly used to describe the targeting of individuals by foreign actors. It includes the harassment, surveillance and intimidation of specific people, rather than the targeting of institutions or elections. It refers to the ways authoritarian states reach across borders to stalk, threaten and sometimes assault the dissidents, journalists and diaspora members who have fled their own jurisdictions.

The targets live here. The governments pursuing them do not,” write @sherylsap and Sarah Teich in @CDNAffairs.

Read here⬇️
https://t.co/4TYM6jkswb

[Sheryl Saperia @sherylsap]

Proud of this project with @CopelanPeter and Mark Sandler and incredible SMEs. This initiative seeks to examine the EXISTING laws in Canada available to combat antisemitism. Grateful to @MLInstitute & @brianleecrowley for the intellect & moral principle always on display

[Macdonald-Laurier Institute @MLInstitute]

“In recent years, and with particular intensity since the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, antisemitism has become increasingly normalized in daily life worldwide. Canada is not immune. Harassment, intimidation, and violence against Jewish Canadians are rising, threatening not only individual safety but also the security and cohesion of entire communities and the country as a whole. Left unchecked, hatred and illegal behaviour erode confidence in the rule of law and weaken Canada’s democratic foundations,” write Peter Copeland (@CopelanPeter), Sheryl Saperia (@sherylsap), and Mark Sandler.

Canada has the legal tools to confront these threats — so why isn’t it using them?

In “Beyond condemnation: Enforcing Canada’s laws against antisemitism, hate speech,” and support for terrorism, Copeland, Saperia, and Sandler examine how Canada’s existing criminal, immigration, and human rights laws can be employed more effectively to combat antisemitism and protect Jewish Canadians.

Read full commentary here⬇️
https://t.co/U49hppXlRb

[Sheryl Saperia @sherylsap]

Thank you, Phil Gurski, for the much needed infusion of common sense. When is Terrorism not Terrorism? When the CBC says it isn’t https://t.co/L9RRMzf3Bd

[Sheryl Saperia @sherylsap]

Completely agree. A national newspaper that brings important issues and common sense perspectives to the fore. Everyone should be reading @nationalpost

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Canada needs to be thankful that we have the @nationalpost. I don’t know how they managed to avoid becoming a propaganda rag like all other legacy media, but it can’t have been easy.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

This is wild. 😳

@MLInstitute has revealed that a “hostile foreign intelligence service had cloned (their) website… to recruit Canadians to supply sensitive and even classified information by offering research and other contracts that appeared to be from reputable and prestigious Canada think tank.”

MLI deserves huge credit for being a clear, principled voice calling out the aggressive behaviour and foreign interference of the Chinese, Russian and Iranian dictatorships.

This scheme underscores how some foreign powers engage in aggressive espionage in Canada with impunity.

[Sheryl Saperia @sherylsap]

Honoured to join @MLInstitute, Canada’s national public policy think tank.

[Macdonald-Laurier Institute @MLInstitute]

We are excited to announce Sheryl Saperia (@sherylsap) as a senior fellow at MLI! Sheryl is a lawyer by training and a policy strategist with a Master’s in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics, where she specialized in political violence, terrorism, and radicalization.

Read her expert page here⬇️
https://t.co/W1HqYIJjcU

[Sheryl Saperia @sherylsap]

The most dangerous figure in an ideological dictatorship is rarely the one who looks the part. It is the competent administrator who makes the machinery work, and who knows that a measured tone is the best solvent for an adversary’s resolve.

[Macdonald-Laurier Institute @MLInstitute]

“Canada is also home to one of the world’s largest Iranian diasporas, and that community lives under the long arm of the same security state — surveilled and intimidated on Canadian soil. The work is carried out by the IRGC’s intelligence arm and Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, often through criminal proxies; CSIS has confirmed credible death threats here — former federal justice minister Irwin Cotler was the target of an Iranian assassination plot — and scholars who track transnational repression warn it is intensifying against Iranian-Canadians. For these Canadians, ‘Ghalibaf the reasonable’ is no abstraction. He is the man who wrote the threatening letter, swung the stick, and ordered the volley,” writes Avideh Motmaen-Far for MLI Inside Policy.

Read here⬇️
https://t.co/NCnov0P3IF

[Sheryl Saperia @sherylsap]

@kshahrooz and @nazaninaj warned that Canada is considering restoring relations with Iran. I hope they are wrong but fear they are right. As U.S.-Iranian relations thaw, we must remember Iran isn't our friend | National Post https://t.co/mRWKd7TSov

[Sheryl Saperia @sherylsap]

A police officer is dead, Jewish-Canadians targeted and Iranian dissidents threatened, in investigations that allegedly lead back to Tehran. As U.S.-Iranian relations thaw, we must remember Iran isn't our friend | National Post https://t.co/mRWKd7TSov

[Sheryl Saperia @sherylsap]

Very few Canadian politicians pay sufficient attention to the anniversary of the Air India terrorist attack. Of course @shuvmajumdar is the exception. Thinking of the families of the victims.

[Shuv Majumdar @shuvmajumdar]

Today, at the 41st Air India 182 Memorial, we honoured the 329 innocent people murdered, including 268 Canadians.

They were mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, neighbours and friends. We honour them by refusing euphemism and calling out the perpetrators and terror groups that still threaten innocent people at home and abroad.

Their memory endures. So does Canada.

[Macdonald-Laurier Institute @MLInstitute]

Canada was built on a commitment to peace, order, and good government, and on the premise that a liberal democracy can unite a diverse society. In the wake of October 7, that premise is now being tested.

In “United in hate: The unlikely ‘red–green–brown’ alliance behind rising antisemitism in Canada,” MLI Senior Fellow Sheryl Saperia (@sherylsap) and Ches W. Parsons examine how far-left activists, Islamist movements, and far-right extremists in Canada have converged around a shared hostility toward Jews, Israel, and the liberal democratic order.

Read full commentary here⬇️
https://t.co/hDi0r4YvlM

[Sheryl Saperia @sherylsap]

Red, green, and brown extremists agree on little except their hatred of Jews. Ches W. Parsons and me, in @MLInstitute, on what that convergence means for Canada's national security. United in hate - The unlikely “red–green–brown” alliance behind rising antisemitism in Canada: Sheryl Saperia and Ches W. Parsons | Macdonald-Laurier Institute https://t.co/WkbdbtwGxe

[Sheryl Saperia @sherylsap]

The irony is that this hatred confirms what the haters wish to deny: Jewish centrality in the human story. The more furiously the world fixates on this people and its historical homeland, the more it makes the case. …they give Jews more power, not less. https://t.co/GEi0UIOZoy

[Macdonald-Laurier Institute @MLInstitute]

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[National Post @nationalpost]

Opinion: The level of antisemitic violence in this country has far surpassed what hate crime law was intended to address
https://t.co/kW9ZZh9BpR

[Sheryl Saperia @sherylsap]

To keep prosecuting these antisemitic acts as though they are… a lesser offence is to misread what is happening, and to respond with less than the circumstances demand. The law must call things by their proper name. That name is terrorism. https://t.co/9Dh22fV4bC

[Sheryl Saperia @sherylsap]

Lessons for Canada on the Iran War | Sheryl Saperia | The Times of Israel - Canada is not a central player in this conflict by any stretch. But the crisis offers a series of strategic lessons the Canadian government would be unwise to ignore. https://t.co/rFsqaNniun