A retired cop who could fairly be described as a genocidal Jewish supremacist is claiming “antisemitism” in the Toronto police department has led the force to coddle opponents of genocide. The CBC disseminated his claims without question, boosting a fanatic pro-Israel community’s bid to further trample on civil liberties.
Prominent retired cop Hank Idsinga recently told CBC The National host Adrienne Arsenault that he experienced overt anti-Jewishness during his 34 years in the Toronto Police Service (TPS), which concluded three years ago. Idsinga then said the anti-Jewishness he witnessed explains why the police haven’t heeded genocide advocates’ calls to repress social justice protesters. The ‘kill more Palestinians/Lebanese/Iranians’ media network has jumped all over Idsinga’s claims. Canadaland’s Jesse Brown posted, “Former head of homicide for Toronto police says Jew-hating senior officers are in charge of decisions about how to police antizionist protesters.”
But Idsinga’s media presence strongly suggest he is a genocidal Jewish supremacist. In February he spoke with genocide advocates at a Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) event on criminal law and in 20024 was hired as a commentator by anti-Palestinian Global News, doing interviews with Ben ‘genocide’ Mulroney and other anti-Palestinians. More significantly, Idsinga has shown his Zionist hand repeatedly on X. He’s retweeted Tafsik, CIJA, Jerusalem Post, Warren Kinsellla, Chris Alexandre, Vivian Bercovici, Mike Fegelman and other arch Jewish supremacist sources. Claiming that protesting genocide is anti-Jewish, Idsinga pushed to ban Al Quds Day and other anti-genocide protests. He’s also disparaged David Mivisair as an “Anti-Jewish rabbi”. One of his recent retweets noted:
“Canada’s elite virtue-signal about ‘tolerance’ while Al-Quds Day, straight out of Iran’s hate playbook, openly peddles antisemitism, glorifies terrorism, and calls for Israel’s destruction on our streets. Yet judges block injunctions, police stand by, and politicians wring their hands. Result? Synagogues shot up, Jews terrorized, and ‘hate speech’ laws that somehow only catch the wrong people. Tolerating intolerance isn’t progressive, it’s suicidal. Once you let the mob chant for genocide with impunity, don’t act shocked when the mob decides who’s next.”
Idsinga has also engaged in more direct Islamophobia. He retweeted a statement bemoaning an Eid Celebration accompanied with the statement, “This is akin to a dog marking its territory. And it will be done all under the watchful approval of [TPS head] Myron Demkiw and [mayor] Olivia Chow.”
Beyond this background, Idsinga’s claims fly in the face of reality. The Grind recently published another article detailing Toronto police repression of Palestine protesters headlined “Cops keep showing up to arts events about Palestine.” It noted that Toronto police showed up at a comedy fundraiser and at a film screening on the same night in April. Organizers described how this fit into a broader pattern.
Significantly expanded in response to opposition to genocide, the TPS’ Project Resolute has targeted opponents of genocide under the guise of combatting hate. Last month they established a Counter-Terrorism Security Unit to “substantially increase the resources dedicated to countering terrorism and violent extremism,” noted Demkiw. Framed as a response to shots fired at empty synagogues and the US consulate, the unit will see police patrolling with semi-automatic machine guns in a bid to intimidate opponents of Jewish supremacist colonialism.
Last month the TPS also announced they would ban protests in a neighbourhood because three in ten people living there are Jewish. They previously banned protests on a city overpass after complaints from genocide advocates.
It’s absurd to suggest that “antisemitism” in the upper rungs of the TPS have led the force to be soft on protesters. Demkiw has repeatedly been photographed with Zionist vigilantes and had multiple calls with billionaire Zionist Heather Reisman after posters and fake blood were placed on an Indigo bookstore denouncing her role in “funding genocide”. As a result, the police launched pre-dawn raids on a dozen peoples’ homes and charged individuals with hate crimes for putting up posters and using water-soluble paint.
By any impartial measure the TPS has been highly deferential to the city’s Jewish Zionist power structure. Yet, it’s still not enough. And a former top cop is willing to embarrass his former colleagues, with the assistance of the CBC, to bolster genocidal Jewish supremacists’ bid to further undercut civil liberties.
The cynical abuse of antisemitism is remarkable.
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