Jewish Advocacy Group Condemns Hateful Remarks at Toronto Rally

Hazineh is the former president of "Palestine House," a Canadian NGO accused by the government of showing a "pattern of support for extremism.”

In response to the remarks, CIJA CEO Shimon Fogel said, "It is disgusting and outrageous that a speaker at a rally in Canada would call for the murder of Jews in Israel. This is a hideously new low for Al-Quds Day - and speaks to the reason why it was necessary for Queen's Park to refuse the protest access to the Legislature's grounds.”

Fogel added, “We are forwarding the information we have received to the Toronto Police Service for their review, in order to determine whether the statements made by the speaker constitute a violation of the Criminal Code of Canada. At the same time, we call on our fellow Canadians to recognize and condemn this incident for what it is: vicious anti-Semitism that has no place in our country."

The Al-Quds Day in Toronto has for years been used as a platform to delegitimize Israel and call for its destruction. Another speaker at this past Saturday’s protest, Zafar Bangash, attacked the Ontario Parliament’s decision not to allow the rallyoutside the parliament building, saying that the area had “become a Zionist occupied territory.”

Bangash also said that "Zionism will be eternally shamed.”

At last year's rally, a Jewish high school teacher from Toronto was warned by local police that he is inciting a riot and could be causing mass violence by carrying an Israeli flag.

Toronto police also arrested a Jew who shoved back a Muslim who punched him for not moving his “unclean” dog further away from Muslim women during the rally. The Muslim attacker was neither arrested nor questioned.

 

Sliders target women at gas pumps and day cares

Houston police are working to crackdown on a dedicated group of criminals targeting women who are distracted at gas stations and day cares.

Police said these crooks have sneaked into cars all over Houston and have even earned the nick-name, "sliders."

Houston police officer Jim Woods explained this group of criminals primarily stakes out gas stations and watches for women who leave their purses on the passenger side of the car and the doors unlocked while they pump gas. Woods said the crooks will park at a gas pump across from their victim and pretend to be another customer.

>>Watch raw surveillance video of two purse snatching incidents.

According to Woods, while a woman is distracted at the pump a person from the other car will get out, crouch down and 'slide' over to open the woman's door, grab the purse and take off. Many of these crimes happen without a victim ever realizing they've been burglarized until after the crooks are gone.

"They say it's sliding because they're sliding below the eye level of the door," said Woods.

HPD records show for the past two years there have been an average of just under 30,000 car burglaries each year. Woods said they've seen an increase in 'sliding' over the last three years. Crooks have found it more lucrative to break into a car rather than try to steal the car, and are preying on a common misapprehension.

"I'm right next to my car so nobody is going to try to break in when I'm standing right next to my own car?" said Local 2 Investigator Robert Arnold.

"That's exactly it, that's exactly what they're looking at," said Woods.

Woods said many of these burglaries can be prevented if people lock their car doors and either hide their purse or take it with them while pumping gas.

"Your vehicle is not a secure location for your belongings," said Woods.

Wood said many of these thieves will avoid confrontation and won't target a car that's difficult to break into or if they think a person is paying attention to who is around them.