A scheduled visit to Toronto and Montreal by West Jerusalem's Deputy Mayor Arieh King was cancelled on Tuesday after Canadian authorities barred the extremist politician from entering the country.
Meir Weinstein, the organiser of an event where King was due to speak, said in a post on X that the Canadian government had cancelled King’s electronic travel authorisation, denying him entry.
Weinstein formerly led the violent far-right Jewish Defense League in Canada, which the FBI described as a “right-wing terrorist group”.
Grassroots campaigners, anti-genocide activists, the Legal Centre for Palestine, the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians and the Hind Rajab Foundation pushed Canadian authorities to block King’s visit. The organisations also filed a criminal complaint with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
“We are glad to see the Canadian authorities act on the facts outlined in our submissions. As a facilitator of ethnic cleansing in occupied East Jerusalem, Arieh King's actions are not only illegal under international law, they are illegal under Canadian law,” the Legal Centre for Palestine said in a post on X.
