by Ee
Sons of Jacob Synagogue, Belleville Ontario. By Robert Taylor from Stirling, ON, Canada – Sons of Jacob Synagogue, Belleville Ontario_1601, CC BY 2.0, Link
Looking at the cautious information first. This is the right move. Too many of these events become destroyed in the public consciousness by a combination of disinformation and of course, the withholding of real information by authorities when the attacker is of the left, (trans etc) or Muslim. Our suspicion is it is to let people’s blood cool before announcing anything factual in order to prevent rational action or criticism of policies that create these events as a consequence.
As an unrelated aside, I remember seeing communist propaganda posters back in the 1970s which said, “What if they gave a war and neither side came?” A very clever dialectic to get what they wanted, which is what they now have, and which would be, from the perspective of the left and Islam, “What if we started a war and only our side came?”
From Grok:
What happened
Sunday 20 September 2026, about 7:00–7:10 p.m., outside Sons of Jacob Synagogue, Bleecker Ave and Victoria Ave, Belleville, Ontario. Yom Kippur service was underway. About 25 people inside.
A Belleville officer encountered a man armed with a rifle. There was an exchange of gunfire. The building was not breached. Bullets hit stained glass; the congregation president said 20+ holes in the windows. No one inside was injured. Remaining Yom Kippur services were cancelled.
CasualtiesOfficer: shot; SIU later: critical-stable. Taken to hospital (Kingston General in several reports).
Man (29): gunshot wounds, life-threatening.
Congregants: none injured.Ontario’s SIU has the file because an officer was shot. That is automatic; it is not a finding of fault.
Belleville police on Facebook/X-adjacent statements: officer encountered an individual ~7:10 p.m.; both injured; no ongoing public-safety risk. Spokesperson Lauren Wilkinson told local press that online “second shooter” rumours are inaccurate.
Witness detail that is on the record
Synagogue president Norm Weddum (CNN): officer had been hired for security that day, was in an unmarked vehicle, made contact as the man approached; Weddum locked the auditorium and told people to get down. He said the officer saved everyone inside.
Neighbours told Quinte News they heard one shot, then a burst — roughly 20–30 rounds.
Not established (treat as unverified on X)Motive. Police and the mayor have not said the synagogue was the target. Timing (Yom Kippur) is a fact; targeting is not yet a finding.
Shooter’s name, ideology, immigration status, or link to other cities.
Two shooters — police say no.
Who fired first, and how many rounds each person fired (SIU will do that).
Mark Carney / other politicians “condemning” on X is commentary, not evidence.
Going forward we have to look at what we can know for a fact. The state in Canada, and in the US during Biden, lies to the public to protect a narrative. This means we have to use our best thinking to determine what is true. In fact we may not be able to determine what is true, but we should be able to determine what is not true.
We know they know who the attacker was. We also know many people predicted an attack somewhere on the Jewish community somewhere between sundown last night and tonight because it is the most sacred day on the Jewish calendar.
Not sure I like his characterization. This isn’t “Tribal Warfare”. This is Islamic jihad.
Ezra covers it:
We will try and post more when we know more. For the moment, try to treat these as data points from which we can start to build a picture with a few more pieces.
The framing by Tablesalt as “Tribal Warfare” in our opinion is an own goal. The left wants us to see it this way as part of the deracination of all cultures and identities. This is Islamic Jihad most likely, although potentially a leftist attack of a useful idiot caught up in CBC narrative attacks and full of fury from it.
For those who read the Honest Reporting newsletter, one can see how often CBC produces brutal anti-Israel propaganda and how a person who listens to the official state broadcaster, even a very good person could get caught up enough to do an attack like this.
Either way, understanding the event is the only way we might ever be able to forge a meaningful defence against it. Looking at it as tribal warfare, or anything other than a leftist or Islamic jihad attack means not being able to put the damn dot on the right target. Metaphorically speaking of course.
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Loads of bafflegab here. Police struggling to find a motive. why cann’t we just call a spade a spade
Might just been some idiot duck hunting around the synagogue????
@Donaldo
Point well made.
This past Friday, Sept. 11, I was so upset, I came down with this bad cold.
(I wrote, “Roshoshana”)
https://vinnews.com/2026/09/20/huckabee-israeli-father-killed-in-terror-attack-deserves-global-media-attention/?
https://c14news.com/article/1503279
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https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-880876
Islamist Attacks on Holidays
by Noah Beck
Special to IPT News
April 20, 2017
Feiglin (Zehut) : “Conquest, Expulsion, Settlement, New Borders.”
My comment:
Facebook page of the ‘Jerusalem Intifada’s Young People’s Coalition’
Posted text:
“#Watch_and_you_won’t_regret”
A girl from Khan Yunis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, supports the stabbing operations (i.e., terror attacks) by the young people of Hebron.
#so_what?”
Video transcript:
“Israeli”: “[Palestinian] youth are throwing stones at us [Israelis]”
Girl: “So what!”
“Israeli”: “”[Palestinian] youth are running after us [Israelis] with knives”
Girl: “So what!”
“Israeli”: “Muhannad Halabi stabbed us” (i.e., terrorist who stabbed two Israeli civilians to death)
Girl: “So what!”
“Israeli”: “Fadi Alloun stabbed us” (i.e., terrorist who stabbed an Israeli civilian)
Girl: “So what!”
“Israeli”: “What do you tell [Palestinian] youth in the West Bank?”
Girl: “Stab! Stab! Stab! Stab! Stab!”
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This video and the term “so what” is a reference to a hashtag appearing on Palestinian social media as a slogan used to encourage Palestinians to continue rioting, throwing rocks and using violence against Israelis. “#so_what” is a Palestinian response that makes light of Israel’s alleged crimes, showing that Palestinians don’t care. It also implies that no matter what Israel does, the Palestinians will continue not to care, and they will continue to riot, throw rocks, carry out stabbing attacks etc. The words refer to a video that went viral, showing an elderly Palestinian man arguing with Israeli soldiers. A soldier points to rioting Palestinians, saying: “They’re throwing rocks at us.” The old man replies: “So what, let them throw rocks.”
Muhannad Halabi – 19-year-old Palestinian terrorist who killed 2 Israelis, Rabbi Nehemiah Lavi and Aharon Bennett, and injured Bennett’s wife, Adele, and their 2-year-old son in a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem on Oct. 3, 2015. Following the attack, he was shot and killed by Israeli security forces. Prior to his attack, in a post to his private Facebook page, the terrorist referred to recent terror attacks as part of a “third Intifada,” and said that it was a response to Israel’s actions at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and that the Palestinian people would not “succumb to humiliation.” This is a reference to the PA libel that Israel is plotting to take over and destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and to the PA’s portrayal of Jews praying on the Temple Mount as “an invasion of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Fadi Alloun – 19-year-old Palestinian terrorist who stabbed and injured Israeli citizen Moshe Malka (15) near the Old City of Jerusalem on Oct. 3, 2015. Alloun fled and was shot and killed by Israeli police. Before his attack, Alloun had written on his Facebook page: “Oh Allah, my goal is Martyrdom-death (Shahada) or victory for Allah… Allah is great.”
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