Of course. To levy charges would be “Islamophobic.” Can’t have that. There is one group in the West that must never, ever have its feathers ruffled.
“LEVY: No charges flow from Al-Quds rally,” by Sue-Ann Levy, Toronto Sun, November 27, 2019 (thanks to Joe):
After a five-month investigation into the annual Al Quds hatefest against the Jewish people, Toronto Police have opted to lay no charges.
“The investigation into the Al Quds Day protest back in June of this year has concluded and no charges have been laid,” said Toronto Police spokesman Meaghan Gray this week….
Mayor John Tory said more than once before the protest that he would not tolerate, ignore or condone any rally that incites hatred and/or violence against groups or persons.
His spokesman Lawvin Hadisi reiterated that message Wednesday.
Yet it seems that it was all just talk.
I was at the Al Quds rally on June 1 — along with 100 cops — when 500 Al Quds supporters occupied the public space outside the University Ave. courthouse and subsequently blocked University Ave. to march north.
This was all done without a permit.
The protesters — even children under the age of 10 — brandished hateful placards that called Israel an “apartheid state,” urged boycotts of Israel, showed bloodied children and made outrageous claims as in “Israel kills one Palestinian child every 60 hours for the past 14 years.”
The proceeding’s leader asked the crowd — not once but many times — how many kids Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netayanu had killed that day. Another socialist activist mouthed the usual anti-Semitic tropes that Zionists are huge power brokers with billions of dollars.
Rabid anti-Israel hater Dimitri Lascaris, the lawyer who acts for the Al Quds organizers, called Councillor James Pasternak, Mayor John Tory and Premier Doug Ford “fanatical supporters of an apartheid regime.”…
Yet it appears the annual Al Quds rally — sanctioned by Iran’s government and which has in the past called for the eradication of Israeli Zionists — will get another free pass from our weak politicians and equally weak police chief.