Alexander Rotman

#bringthemhome 🎗️

[Melissa Lantsman @MelissaLantsman]

Carney spoke at a synagogue about Antisemitism three years into a documented crisis. Gunshots into schools. Firebombs into businesses. Effigies of Jews hung in the streets. Full incitement of hatred against Canadians, weekly, in their own neighbourhoods. Terrorists free to roam in our country, funding Antisemitism in our institutions. A complete failure to enforce the most basic laws against a lawless mob.

And here are his “actions”: reviewing previous reviews. Studying studies. A new council, chaired by the government, tasked with assessing the government’s response to a crisis the government itself presided over, funded, and fuelled for years.

“Canada’s civic compact is failing Jewish Canadians” is an extraordinary admission. It should have been followed by concrete actions and concrete consequences for those doing the failing. Didn’t happen.

Tonight, the Prime Minister showed you that he thinks you are stupid.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

No Canadian flag.

But a flag of a non existent state that is the raison d’être of banned terror groups like Hamas.

But they regard Canada as an “illegitimate settler state” characterized by white supremacy and genocide.

Tommy Douglas must be rolling over in his grave.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

I’ll be generous by assuming this line came from a speechwriter, and that the Premier didn’t know that it’s verbatim Iranian regime propaganda, widely used as an antisemitic dog whistle.

But he degrades himself and his office by turning the murderous nature and genocidal intent of the Islamic Republic into a cheap political punchline.

Does he think the regime’s advanced efforts to build nuclear weapons and use them to “turn the little Satan (Israel) into a ball of fire” is a joke?

Does he understand the regime is detested by the overwhelming majority of the Iranian people, who desperately hope that this military campaign will accelerate the end of the Mullahs’ reign of terror?

Does he have zero understanding of the decades of violence and terror spread by the regime’s proxies across the world, from the hundreds of thousands murdered by the Iranian backed Assad regime, to the decades violent Jew hatred of Hamas & Hizbollah?

Does he think it is a mere distraction to stop Iran from building 100 ballistic missiles every month, some with a range that can strike Europe?

I’ve had high regard for Premier Kinew, despite our political differences. I hope this was just a monetary lapse in judgement.

But I fear it reflects the Canadian left’s brain dead embrace of even the worst regimes if they are opposed by Israel and the United States.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

The Toronto Police are banning pro-Palestinian protests in Jewish areas, along with deploying armed forces to protect the area.

The Free Palestine movement has weaponized protesting to threaten Jewish communities around the world.

There shouldn't need to be a reality where armed forces are protecting innocent communities, but this is what it has come to.

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

When truckers protested Covid restrictions, Canada's Liberal government declared an emergency, froze bank accounts of protesters, and empowered police to ban public assemblies.

Same government somehow can't do anything to expel hundreds of IRGC terror agents on Canada's streets.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

NOW 🔴

Hegseth on Iran: "Looking up, the IRGC and the Iranian regime see only two things on the side of aircraft: the Stars and Stripes and the Star of David. The evil regime's worst nightmare."

[Mark Mulroney 🇨🇦 @markmulroney]

Please tell me why we no longer care about churches burning, synagogues being shot at?

There was a time where there would have been marches if this had happened. Do we need focus groups to tell us this is wrong?

How many ⛪️s have burnt in Canada?
How many synagogues have been shot at?

Wake up 🇨🇦!

Enough.

[National Post @nationalpost]

‘All eyes are on Canada,’ says Israel’s president after attacks on Toronto synagogues https://t.co/U1u8KqsCYS

[Israel Radar @IsraelRadar_com]

WHO DID THIS?? 😂

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

The regime in Tehran is the principal source of terror in the Middle East and around the world. It tried to build nuclear weapons to annihilate our allies. It massacred tens of thousands of its own people. It orchestrated the attacks of October 7, 2023, murdered Canadian passengers on Flight PS752, sought to kill prominent Canadian leaders, and ruthlessly targets Canadians of Jewish and Iranian descent. It has shown no good faith in negotiations to change course.

That is why Conservatives support the courageous people of Iran in toppling this terror regime and reclaiming their destiny after 47 years of the regime's occupation. Conservatives support a democratic, free and permanently-denuclearized Iran that lives in peace and security with its neighbours. And Conservatives support the United States, Israel, and our allies across the Gulf to defend their sovereignty and dismantle the clerical military dictatorship of Iran.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

They did not bomb Iran. They waited for Iran’s entire leadership to sit down in the same room and then they bombed Iran.

Months of intelligence. Thousands of hours of surveillance and signal intercepts. One variable: the moment the Supreme Leader, the President, and senior military command gathered in a single location at the same time.

That moment was 8:15 this morning. Daylight. Every previous Israeli strike on Iran came at night. June 2025 launched in darkness. October 2024 after midnight. Iran’s entire air defense doctrine is built around the assumption that Israel attacks in the dark. Israel attacked in broad daylight because the target was not infrastructure. The target was a meeting.

Reuters confirms strikes targeted Khamenei and Pezeshkian. CNN confirms months of joint US-Israeli planning. Israeli officials confirmed the strike hit the location where Iran’s top officials were gathered. Whether Khamenei was moved before the strike or extracted after is the most consequential unknown on the planet right now. If before, someone inside Tehran’s inner circle told Jerusalem when and where the meeting would happen. If after, the strikes hit the room and he survived. Both scenarios are catastrophic for the regime.

Because Iran’s leadership now knows three things. Israel knew where they were meeting. Israel knew when they were meeting. Israel knew who would be in the room. And everything we watched over the past month, the F-22s at Ovda, the tankers at Ben Gurion, Al Udeid emptied to zero, 270 transport flights, all of it was the delivery architecture for one precision strike on one gathering.

Every future meeting of Iran’s senior leadership now carries one question: does Israel know about this one too.

This is not a military operation. This is the destruction of institutional trust inside a regime. Every general who sits with Khamenei tomorrow will wonder who told Jerusalem about today. Every IRGC commander who receives a meeting summons will calculate whether attendance is duty or a death sentence. Every secure facility in Tehran has been proven insecure.

In June 2025 Israel killed 30 generals in the opening minutes. That was brute force across dispersed targets. This was a scalpel. One meeting. One moment. Months of patience.

Iran fired missiles at six countries in retaliation. Most intercepted. One civilian dead from debris in Abu Dhabi. Saudi Arabia responded by pledging all its capabilities against Iran. The Gulf coalition that did not exist yesterday exists today because Tehran built it by attacking everyone simultaneously.

Israel traded one morning of precision strikes for the permanent destruction of Iran’s command cohesion.

That is not a battle. That is checkmate disguised as a first move. https://t.co/BrzGRrU3VW

[Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر @emilykschrader]

Bomb shelter in central Israel Shabbat morning ✌️

[Stephen Harper @stephenharper]

I sincerely hope that mine is just one of many portraits of Prime Ministers from both parties that will continue to be hung in the Parliament of Canada for decades and centuries to come […] but that will require that in these perilous times both parties whatever their differences, come together to preserve the independence and unity of this blessed land.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

The Israel Defense Force announced this morning that the remains of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, the final deceased hostage remaining in the Gaza Strip, was discovered and recovered earlier today from a cemetery to the east of Gaza City.

Beginning this past weekend, Soldiers had begun the process of exhuming hundreds of bodies from the cemetery - following a tip from a captured member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) - with forensic experts using dental records, fingerprints, and other tests until they identified the remains of Master Sgt. Gvili.

Following a brief ceremony attended by Israeli Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, the body of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili was returned to Israel. “For more than two years, we have been waiting for this moment, the return of the last hostage,” Zamir said. “The body of Ran Gvili has been found, and with this, in effect, one of our principal missions has come to an end: the return of all the hostages, the living and the fallen, to their homes, to their country, to their families.”

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

TIME: 30,000 kiIIed in two days in Iran.

For reference, Hamas ran ministry of health reported 60,000 deaths in TWO YEARS in Gaza.

[Alexander Rotman @ARotman]

@CanadaFP Now you care about the Trump peace plan? Canada’s move to reward Hamas by declaring recognition of a non-state almost torpedoed it…

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

The meaning of "intifada" was determined by the people who blew themselves up on Israeli buses during the last intifada.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Remember when the UN called for a ceasefire for Ramadan?

Hamas carried out the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust on Simchat Torah.

Hezbollah fired rockets on Yom Kippur.

The Iranian regime launched over 180 ballistic missiles on the eve of Rosh Hashanah.

The Houthis sent a deadly drone to Eilat in the final hours of Rosh Hashanah this year.

Two Jewish men were killed in a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur.

And today, 11 Jews, including a child, were murdered in Sydney on the first day of Chanukah.

Why is it that Jews are always the only ones who can’t celebrate their holidays in peace?

[Matthew Feinberg @thewebbie]

Bondi Beach didn’t emerge from a vacuum. What happened in Sydney was not a random rupture in an otherwise healthy moral environment. It was the predictable downstream result of antizionism being normalized, laundered, and taught to the public through recycled libels dressed up as politics. When those libels circulate long enough, they create a moral permission structure. And permission is all violence ever really needs.

That’s only part of the story.

The other part is harder, because it implicates us. Our own institutions are paralyzed. They are afraid to speak plainly about antizionism and antizionist libels because their moral authority was built for an older antisemitism framework—one that manages expectations rather than confronts today’s ideas head-on. Naming an antizionist libel risks upsetting alliances. Refusing to name it preserves access, funding, and the illusion of relevance. So coyness became policy, even as the cost of that policy is measured in livelihoods, safety, and lives.

We reach for euphemism because it’s easier. No major organization meaningfully teaches schools or workplaces about antizionism itself, or the genocide libel by name. We talk about medieval tropes and twentieth-century horrors, but we largely avoid engaging the actual content of today’s ideology. Antizionism is treated as a legitimate political identity rather than what it is: a modern hate movement that repackages very old myths about Jews in a new, supposedly enlightened form.

This avoidance is not accidental. It’s structural. Our institutions have been trained to believe that calling out antizionism is “taking a side.” Silence is rebranded as neutrality. Moral clarity is mislabeled as recklessness. Precision is framed as too risky. What if we lose our seat at the table? What if donors get uncomfortable? What if access dries up?

So nothing is said.

That silence is now a betrayal of our children’s futures and our community’s safety. When antizionist libels go unchallenged, they harden into common sense. When common sense casts Jews as avatars of evil rather than people, moral restraints erode. Violence doesn’t need to be instructed. It only needs to be permitted. And that permission structure is built from a thousand small omissions: statements never issued, lines never drawn, lies never named.

Culpability here isn’t always dramatic. It lives in the refusal to say, clearly and publicly: this claim is a libel, it is dangerous, and we have seen where it leads. Our institutions did not throw punches or pull triggers. But by treating antizionist libels as untouchable, they ensured those libels could circulate freely, without cost or consequence.

The tragedy is that many of these organizations exist to prevent harm. Yet by mistaking silence for sophistication, they end up defending the conditions in which harm becomes not only possible, but thinkable.

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

Powerful moral leadership from @chiefrabbi Ephraim Mirvis: hatred toward Jews and the Jewish state is inspiring people to translate hate speech into hate action. The result is Heaton Park and Bondi Beach.