The Global Intifada Has Reached Canada—And No One Is Stopping It

By Sonia Bailley

It’s time to stop pretending. The wave of anti-Jewish violence sweeping across North America, and increasingly across Europe and Australia, is not random. These are not isolated incidents. This is a pattern—deliberate, organized, and increasingly deadly. If we don’t confront this escalating threat now, the question is not if it will happen again, but when, and how many will die next time.

Just over a week ago in Boulder, Colorado, Jews were set on fire. A man shouting “Free Palestine”—now too often synonymous with “Kill the Jews”—hurled homemade firebombs into an older Jewish crowd marching peacefully in solidarity with the Israeli hostages still held in Gaza. This was a calculated act of terror: burn the Jews, light them on fire—just as the Nazis did during the Holocaust, and just as Hamas did on October 7. This act of terror should send shockwaves across every nation that claims to uphold human rights and civilized values.

Days earlier in Toronto, a man appeared at the city’s annual Walk with Israel event, carrying what looked like a grenade. Real or not, the message was clear: intimidation. That Toronto police looked the other way, whether by command or complacency, is deeply alarming. And a week before that, in Washington DC, two young Israeli embassy staffers were gunned down point-blank outside the Capital Jewish Museum by a man shouting, “Free Palestine.” 

These aren’t isolated incidents. They’re the result of years of unchecked Islamic radicalization—fueled by far-left media, Islamic-sympathizing neo-Marxist professors who glorify terror and demonize Israel, and indoctrinated hyper-woke students raised on a steady diet of anti-West and anti-Israel propaganda.

This twisted narrative built on revisionist history, falsely casts Israel as a colonial oppressor, erasing 3,000 years of continuous Jewish presence in their biblical homeland. The modern blood libels being spread are not just about Israel—they’re designed to reignite antisemitism and drive Jew-haters toward violence against Jews everywhere.

Add to that, the flood of unvetted Islamic radicals who have entered the West under reckless, open-border policies—many of whom share Hamas’s genocidal ideology to kill Jews first, then other infidels—and the result is a volatile alliance now operating openly in the West. 

What we’re witnessing now is the fusion of Islamic and far-left ideology—two forces bound together by their obsession with destroying the Jewish people. In Islamic doctrine, the Jew is the most reviled of infidels, singled out in Islamic texts as cursed, corrupt, and destined for destruction. In Leftist ideology, the Jew is the oppressor, cast as a symbol of white colonialism, capitalism, and Western power, stripped of victimhood, and denied legitimacy. Different beliefs, same target. First the Jew—then the West. The revolution has already begun. We are reaping what they’ve carefully and deliberately sown. 

The threat in Canada is growing daily, driven by a government that withholds support from our only democratic partner in the war-torn Middle East—Israel—while openly condemning it, blaming it entirely on the war in Gaza and all the lives lost, completely ignoring the October 7 massacre that triggered it all, and effectively vindicating Hamas. This emboldens street protestors to grow more extreme, fueling rage, and pushing them toward violent resistance.

This is no longer about slogans and slurs. Many are now openly calling for escalation, from protest to violent resistance. One recent video circulating online urges precisely that. It calls for a global “non-peaceful revolution” against Israel and the Jews. The rhetoric is filled with classic antisemitic slurs, calling Israel a “terrorist foreign entity” with “slimy Zionist tentacles infiltrating and manipulating all of our societies,” and urges followers to “hit them where it hurts.”

The group behind this video campaign, the Direct Action Movement for Palestinian Liberation (DAMPL), claims it’s actively building a network of radical operatives tasked with leading teams of “non-peaceful disruptors” in cities worldwide, including in Canada, to help ignite the “intifada revolution.” The video explicitly names Canada as part of this growing network.

This message was never meant to stay online. Posters are now appearing across Canadian cities, on street corners and community walls, bearing the words “Escalate for Palestine” in bold, militant font, echoing the violent resistance promoted in the video. The goal is clear: to shift from online radicalization to public visual indoctrination and street-level revolutionary agitation, transforming city streets into platforms for global revolution, in line with communist tactics of cultural and political subversion.

DAMPL’s messaging suggests ideological alignment with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist group in Canada, the U.S., and the EU, rooted in anti-Israel and Marxist ideology. In fact, one of the clearest signs of that connection is visible in the video itself: a large poster of PFLP spokesperson Ghassan Kanafani, known for his role in promoting armed resistance and justifying terror attacks against Israeli civilians, dominates the background—an open nod to a group that glorifies terrorism and calls for the destruction of Israel.

Whether staged or real, the video’s message of violent anti-Israel revolution is gaining momentum across social media, fueling the same global intifada both pro-Hamas and far-left movements have been calling for since October 8, 2023. Helping to amplify and legitimize this narrative is Ramsey Zeid, president of the Canadian Palestinian Association of Manitoba (CPAM) and recipient of the Mayor’s 2025 Biz Award for business and community leadership, who posted it on the organization’s official site just days after receiving his award.

That next phase of terrorism has already begun. It’s hit Washington. It’s hit Boulder. Where will it strike next?

This crisis isn’t new. Western governments were warned about Islamic terrorism long before 9/11, but ignored it. Now, that threat marches openly alongside the far-left in Canadian streets—emboldened, unafraid, and increasingly violent.

In Canada, protesters can wear masks and block streets for prayer and protest—as long as they have a city permit and the event isn’t deemed unlawful. But what counts as “unlawful” is vague, hinging on subjective interpretations of threats, violence, or disorder by local authorities.

Even when protesters blast antisemitic slurs through loudspeakers late at night, wave oversized terrorist flags, or flood Jewish neighborhoods with red and green smoke flares—mirroring the Palestinian flag—they’re still shielded under “lawful protest.” That’s how they get away with it. 

And it’s why synagogues, not mosques, cancel events or bring in armed security. It’s why Jewish schools go into lockdown, and Jews are forced to hide their identity in public. These aren’t free choices made in freedom. They’re fear responses, enabled by a legal system that tolerates threats and offers no certainty of protection.

Under Canada’s Criminal Code, wearing a mask is illegal only if a protest is declared a “riot” or “unlawful assembly”—both narrowly defined. A riot involves actual violence; an unlawful assembly requires serious fear or expected violence. It’s up to local authorities, which gives masked mobs free rein to intimidate Jews. And this is where the loophole lies—in interpretation.

While recent attacks occurred in the US—even under a president actively confronting antisemitism and defending Jews—the same threat is spreading in Canada, where our leaders remain silent. We can’t afford to wait for the next escalation, the next firebomb, the next murder. We need action—legal action. Why are our leaders silent? Why do they appease those calling for Jewish blood? Why do they stand by while our communities are terrorized?

The answers never come.

That’s why Jewish organizations, legal advocates, and concerned citizens must unite behind a coordinated strategy—turning fear and outrage into real legal protection for Jewish communities.

The strategy must begin by enforcing existing public order laws. Genocidal chants like “globalize the intifada” or “from the river to the sea” aren’t protected speech—they’re incitement. And incitement to violence is prohibited by Canada’s Criminal Code. When combined with masks, smoke flares, street blockades, and targeted intimidation, especially in Jewish neighborhoods, these protests clearly cross into unlawful assembly, or even riot. Permit or no permit, this must be prosecuted.

Hate crimes must be prosecuted under existing law. Stopping dangerous protests is one step—but we must also target the hate itself—the slogans, graffiti, and threats fueling violence. Canada’s Criminal Code prohibits incitement and promotion of hatred, as well as threats against identifiable groups. Swastikas and antisemitic graffiti painted on synagogues, chants calling for intifada or another October 7—these are criminal, not just offensive. Harsher penalties apply when a hate motive is established. Yet, prosecutions are rare. That must change.

Holding accountable government officials—from prosecutors to police leadership—is just as urgent. Law enforcement must protect all citizens equally. When Jewish homes, schools, and businesses are targeted and police fail to act, that reflects political directives from higher authorities. No more special treatment for Islamic groups. No more hiding behind Islamophobia narratives to justify inaction against antisemitic violence. That’s already the norm in parts of Europe, especially the UK, where a two-tiered justice system protects Islam while leaving everyone, especially Jews, vulnerable. We can’t let that happen here.

That’s why legal action is crucial. Class action lawsuits must target officials who enable antisemitic violence through selective enforcement or willful inaction—from prosecutors to public safety ministers. These lawsuits should demand equal enforcement of criminal and traffic laws—often suspended when Islamic groups fall under politically protected categories (equity-based politics). These lawsuits must also protect both civil and constitutional rights, and end policies that shield Islam while leaving Jewish communities exposed.

We must close legal loopholes by enforcing a stricter, less subjective interpretation of existing laws, so they apply equally and protect everyone without ambiguity. Legislation should only be rewritten when absolutely necessary, especially when current laws fail to address today’s street violence. After all, it’s a slow legislative process: bills can take months, even years, to pass through Parliament and become law, while violence escalates in real time. And when the law fails to protect Jews, it’s not just a policy failure—it’s a threat to survival.

However, lawsuits alone won’t stop the violence. Legal action can address institutional failures, but the deeper battle unfolding in our streets is cultural—a cultural revolution rooted in communist strategy and fused with Islamic ideology. The revolution now underway doesn’t begin with weapons, though it most always ends with them. It begins by hijacking language, seizing control of education and media, and corrupting the truth and moral foundations that define a nation.

This is the essence of what Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci called “cultural hegemony”—the belief that power is maintained not through laws or force, but by controlling culture itself: what people read, watch, say, and believe. Gramsci laid out his Marxist cultural takeover strategy in his Prison Notebooks, written while imprisoned in Italy between 1929 to 1935. The strategy was later popularized as the “long march through the institutions”—a method of quietly infiltrating the pillars of society until the dominant worldview collapses from within. It’s a strategy aimed at reshaping society, silencing dissent, erasing national identity, and dismantling everything that once held the West together—as we are now witnessing.

Sayyid Qutb, one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s most influential ideologues, did the same for the Islamic revolution—writing his revolutionary manifesto Milestones from an Egyptian prison in 1964. That text continues to guide the Brotherhood’s strategy of civilizational subversion, pursued not through Marxist revolution, but through Islamic theocracy. This strategy was later formalized in the Brotherhood’s 1991 “Explanatory Memorandum,” which openly outlined a detailed plan to “destroy Western civilization from within” by infiltrating and dominating its institutions.

What Gramsci envisioned for Marxism in the West, Qutb and the Muslim Brotherhood planned for Islam in the West as well. Together, these revolutionary visions form parallel ideological blueprints for civilization takeover—one rooted in Marxist cultural revolution, the other in Islamic theocracy. Neither relies on immediate violence. Instead, both pursue slow reprogramming and the incremental capture of education, media, and public institutions—all aimed at overthrowing Western civilization from within. Both movements understood that the most effective revolutions are not won on battlefields, but through the strategic conquest of culture, education, and belief.

And that’s exactly what we’re seeing today—a fusion of far-left activism and Islamic ideology, advancing the same objective under different flags.   

We must expose the pro-Hamas hate groups embedded in campuses and institutions, born from the revolutionary alliance between far-left activism and Islamic ideology—whose influence now shapes public life, from the classroom to the street.

And we must hold accountable the leaders who enabled antisemitism to spread, before genocidal slogans erupt into bloodshed, and a full-fledged revolution transforms Western civilization into something unrecognizable. 

We’ve seen this before. We’ve seen where this leads. In the 1930s, antisemitism surged, leaders stayed silent, and the world looked away—until that silence paved the way for the Nazi revolution, a totalitarian movement that brought Western civilization to the brink of collapse and culminated in the Holocaust.

The pattern is clear. The danger is real. And the time to act is now.

We cannot afford to make the same mistakes that history has already warned us about. Enough is enough.

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