The National Post reports: “Politicians and community leaders are warning that anti-Israel rallies planned for Al-Quds Day this Sunday could be filled with antisemitic chants and the glorification of terrorism, and they are asking law enforcement to do more to protect the Jewish community.

‘There’s been a long history of concern about Al-Quds Day, which is an annual hateful protest, an event that calls for the elimination and eradication of the State of Israel,’ Toronto city councillor Brad Bradford told National Post.

‘That often ends up bringing out folks who are glorifying terrorists and waving Hamas flags and calling for the death of Jews, and I think in a country like Canada, that is morally objectionable. It’s abhorrent, and it’s not the type of thing that we want to see on the streets of Toronto.’

The event, which coincides with the end of the Islamic holiday of Ramadan, was created in 1979 after Iran’s religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was brought the idea by his foreign minister. Although nominally calling for the ‘liberation’ of Jerusalem (Al-Quds in Arabic), demonstrations across the globe often devolve into chants of ‘Death to Israel,’ ‘Death to America,’ and the burning of flags and effigies…”