Toronto Government Approves Rally to Eliminate Israel Inspired by Ayatollah Khomeini

By: Jewish Press Staff

Published: August 14th, 2012

Al-Quds Day Organizer Zafar Bangash
Photo Credit: Screen shot

Jewish groups are protesting Ontario Liberals' decision to permit an “anti-Semitic hate rally” to be held at Queen’s Park by an Islamic group labeling Jewish nationalists in Israel as “oppressors and criminals,” the Toronto Sun reported.

An Islamic group's request to mark International Al-Quds Day has been approved by Sergeant-At-Arms Dennis Clark. They will gather outside the Ontario Legislature on Aug. 18, as they have been doing for several years now.

Al-Quds Day was started 33 years ago by then-Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini to mark the last Friday of Ramadan, and a call for Muslims to rise up against Israel which should be eliminated and replaced by a Palestinian state.

Last year’s Al Quds Day event featured several controversial speakers, including Zafar Bangash, an Islamic journalist and commentator from Toronto who called Israel an “apartheid state” of “oppressors and criminals,” and urged Muslims to “march” to liberate Palestine.

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