Man with knife storms 'Israel tent' at Canadian festival: 'All Zionists are racists' | Footage

Canadian police arrested a man of Somali origin on suspicion of storming the 'Israeli tent' with a knife at a heritage festival in Edmonton. No injuries were reported. The attacker shouted 'All Zionists are racists' during his arrest. The CEO of the city's Jewish federation said dancers were evacuated to shelter. According to B'nai Brith, 27 violent anti-Semitic incidents have been recorded since the start of 2026.

Canadian police arrested a man of Somali origin on suspicion of storming the 'Israeli tent' with a knife at a heritage festival in Edmonton, the capital of Alberta province. No injuries were reported. In videos circulated online, a shadow of a person is seen trying to cut the tent with a knife, and then security personnel arrest him as he shouts 'All Zionists are racists'. The CEO of the Jewish Federation in Edmonton, Stacey Leavitt-Wright, said that dancers who were about to go on stage were evacuated to a shelter in the culture tent, and chose to perform a shortened show against the backdrop of chants of 'One solution, revolution'. The incident occurred earlier this week and is under police investigation. The article cites data from B'nai Brith Canada, according to which 27 violent incidents with an anti-Semitic background have been recorded since the beginning of 2026, more than double the 10 cases in all of 2025, and the year ranks second only to 2023, when 77 incidents were recorded following the Hamas attack on October 7.