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Written by: Yves Engler
Zionist influence is a threat to the appearance of fairness in Canada’s judicial system. A judge with many ties to Israel recently found an Afghan immigrant guilty of threatening synagogues in a questionable case tied to the self-declared Jewish state.
This Tuesday, Global News reported that Ontario Court of Justice judge Edward Prutschi found Waisuddin Akbari guilty of threatening to bomb synagogues in Toronto. The owner of a shawarma shop, Akbari denied the claim both in court and to Global, calling judge Prutschi “racist”.
In his ruling, Prutschi found Akbari guilty of two criminal offences for purportedly telling a BMW salesman he planned to blow up synagogues. There’s no audio of the conversation between Akbari and a sales agent at a dealership where he stopped for an oil change. There’s only video of the two individuals having a conversation at the dealership. The judge admits his ruling was based almost entirely on giving greater credibility to the witness over Akbari.
Why would someone planning to blow up synagogues tell a car salesman he didn’t know about his plans? Conversely, why would the car salesman lie? Now, Akbari faces up to seven years in jail.
Irrespective of what transpired at the BMW dealership, the perception of judicial bias is stunning. The judge’s ruling mentions “Israel” or “Israeli” 32 times, noting that “he expressed a belief that Israel was not a real country” and “the Israeli state and the Jewish people should also be subjected to a genocide in retaliation.”
Prutschi is a staunch Zionist who, Jewish Toronto reports, “serves his community through his involvement on numerous boards and committees including senior volunteer service for Hillel Ontario, CIJA (the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs) and UJA (United Jewish Appeal) Federation of Greater Toronto.” One of his last posts on X is a photo of an event Prutschi attended in which his daughter was photographed with fanatically anti-Palestinian Islamophobe Michael Rapporteur. On his former law firm’s site, Prutschi is pictured with Alan Dershowitz at a talk sponsored by the firm.
The judge’s daughter went to live in Israel in August 2023 immediately after graduating from TanenbaumCHAT, which sent students to barbecue for soldiers on an Israeli military base last year. Prutschi also graduated from TanenbaumCHAT, which has long held “IDF days” where students fundraise for projects assisting the Israeli military.
In 2015, Prutschi made an Israel Bonds appeal at a synagogue in which he called on congregants to “secure your bond with the world’s most morally upstanding army”. The then lawyer also called on attendees to help finance the Israeli government to mark “our Covenant with the State of Israel”.
Prutschi shouldn’t be adjudicating anything to do with Israel (or antisemitism). It’s outrageous that he didn’t recuse himself. According to the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, “Recusal is typically called for when a judge has interests, beliefs, or opinions about the case at hand that could interfere with their ability to make an unbiased ruling.”.” Prutschi should be investigated by the Judicial Council [AJ1] for not recusing himself.
The judge’s failure to recuse himself portends badly for the objectivity of the judiciary. The fact Prutschi felt comfortable ruling on this matter speaks volumes on Zionist power in Ontario’s legal system. How many other stridently Zionist judges have ruled on Israel-related cases?
It’s unclear but many prominent legal figures across Canada promote what the World Court [AJ2] suggests is genocide in Gaza. Toronto employment lawyer Howard Levitt and Montreal lawyer, turned Conservative party candidate, Neil Oberman are maybe the most aggressive/high profile lawyers enabling genocide. A recent Canadian Jewish News story was headlined “This pro bono legal team has helped over 550 Canadian victims of antisemitism since Oct. 7”. The article explains that “CIJA’s new legal task force is suing the federal government, universities and school boards to ‘make people behave’.”
A former Deputy Attorney General of Ontario, Mark Freiman, and former federal crown prosecutor, Nanette Rosen are co-chairs of CIJA’s Legal Task Force. On Tuesday, CIJA announced a partnership with the Canadian Jewish Law Association and Alliance of Canadians Combatting Antisemitism to establish the Canadian Criminal Law Working Group. Former senior crown attorney Rochelle Direnfeld will chair a group that will combat the “rise in antisemitic incidents”.
In 2020, Tax Court of Canada judge David Spiro, chair of United Jewish Appeal Toronto’s Public Affairs Committee and former co-chair of CIJA Toronto, interceded after a University of Toronto law school hiring committee selected Valentina Azarova to direct its International Human Rights Program. After an outcry over academic freedom the university launched an investigation that was led by former Supreme Court Justice Thomas Cromwell. While assessing the case, Cromwell accepted an invitation to be keynote speaker at a CIJA/United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto conference.
There’s a need for a concerted response to Zionist influence in the legal world. It’s outrageous that a Jewish supremacist judge is allowed to rule on an Israel-related case.
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Yves Engler is the author of 13 books. His latest book, available now, is “Canada’s Long Fight Against Democracy”.
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