Lawyer for Quds Committee issues “cease and Desist” notice to Ontario Premier

Crescent International

Shawwal 03, 1447 2026-03-22

Daily News Analysis

by Crescent International

The lawyer for Al-Quds Committee, Stephen Ellis has issued a “cease and desist” notice to Ontario premier Doug Ford.

The premier slandered and issued libelous statements on social media against the annual Quds Day rally.

He has repeated pro-Israeli groups’ hateful characterization of Al-Quds rally speakers and participants.

These include but are not limited to calling the Quds Day rally “anti-semitic”, spreading hatred and calling for violence.

Lawyer Stephen Ellis gave Ford seven days from the date of notice (March 18) to delete the hateful messages and apologise to the Quds Committee.

Failure to do so would result in legal action against Ford.

As part of Ford’s attempt to shut down this year’s Quds Day rally, he instructed the Ontario Attorney General Doug Downey to seek a court injunction.

This came about after a number of pro-Israeli groups led by the Centre for Israel Jewish Affairs (CIJA)—readers will note that there is nothing Canadian about this organization, it reflects the interests of a foreign entity—called for shutting down the annual Quds Day rally.

Prior to Ford instructing his attorney general to seek a court injunction, the Israeli ambassador Iddo Moed and the zionist entity’s consul general in Toronto had also met the Ontario premier.

They pressured Ford to shut down the rally.

The case went before Justice Robert Senta of the Ontario Superior Court.

Justice Senta dismissed the injunction saying that Canadians can express their opinions even if they go contrary to others’ views.

This is guaranteed under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

He also said the police did not need a court injunction to stop a rally.

If the Toronto police felt the Quds Day rally was involved in illegal activities, they had the powers to stop it.

The Quds Day Committee has always worked with the Toronto police to ensure that the rally is peaceful and that no racist or hateful slogans are raised.

Quds Day rallies have been held in Toronto since 1980.

Not once have the rally participants indulged in any disruptive activity or targeted any particular community despite hateful slogans raised by the zionists.

Instead, it has invited Jewish and Christian speakers to address the rally.

One of the popular slogans at the Quds Day rally is, “Judaism Yes, zionism No”.

It is the repudiation of zionism that irks the pro-Israeli groups as well as politicians like Ford to go ballistic.

Since October 2023, there have been weekly rallies in support of the Palestinians suffering zionist-perpetrated genocide.

The Quds Day rallies have also become more energetic and grown in size much to the chagrin and discomfort of the Jewish supremacists.

The illegal US-Israel war on Iran has also aroused much anger.

Al Quds Day rallies are not the only annual event.

In 2005, the World Council of Churches called for annual commemorations of the Palestinians’ plight.

The following year, the United Church of Canada unanimously passed a resolution calling for its congregations to hold an annual week of focus on the Palestinian situation.

Toronto’s Trinity St. Paul United Church, for example, has continued this tradition.

Ford needs to answer some questions.

1: Has he ever attended a Quds Day rally to hear what the speakers are saying, what slogans are raised or what banners are carried?

2: Has Ford uttered a single word of condemnation against the zionist-perpetrated genocide of Palestinians?

3: Does he believe in International Law?

4: Does Ford accept that Canadian Charter Rights extend to Muslim Canadians as well?

5: Is he the premier of a select group of people or he represents all Ontarians?

His thinly-veiled anti-Muslim comments have fuelled Islamophobia resulting in increased attacks on Muslims.

During Ramadan, members of the Toronto Islamic Centre on Bloor Street, west of Yonge Street were attacked.

Muslims are the only community whose members have been shot, stabbed or killed.

The horrific massacre at the Quebec City Islamic Centre on January 29, 2017 stands out as a prime example.

Six Muslims were shot dead and 20 others seriously injured while offering nightly prayers.

In September 2020, a caretaker outside the International Muslims Organization in Etobicoke (West Toronto) had his throat slit and killed.

An even more horrific slaughter took place in June 2021 when three generations of Muslims were killed in London, Ontario.

The family, comprising a grandmother, son, daughter-in-law and a daughter were out for evening walk when they were run over repeatedly by a pick up truck.

They were crushed to death and their bodies badly mangled.

Only the nine-year-old son survived.

Ford’s racist comments fuel Islamophobia and lead to such attacks on Muslims.

The pro-zionist cabal is also part of the same diabolical plot.