Israeli comedian Guy Hochman arrived in Toronto, Canada, on Monday ahead of a performance for the Jewish community in the city. Upon landing, Hochman was detained for six hours and interrogated at the airport.<\/p>\n
The detention comes after the anti-Israel Hind Rajab foundation filed a complaint against the comedian, calling him “a war propagandist and inciter, promoting violence and glorifying Israel\u2019s assault on Gaza.”<\/p>\n
Following hours of interrogation, Hochman was released after Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and Israel’s Consul General in Toronto intervened.<\/p>\n
Hochman then took the stage at the Prosserman Jewish Community Centre as a large group of anti-Israel demonstrators gathered outside.<\/p>\n
The keffiyah-clad, PLO flag-waving protesters stood in the below-zero temperatures, chanting “Long live the Intifada” and “1,2,3,4 Zionism no more,” among other chants.<\/p>\n
Hochman reported on social media Tuesday morning that while outside the venue, one of the protesters attempted to assault him. According to Hochman, Omer, a friend who was accompanying him, stepped in to protect him.<\/p>\n
The comedian reported that his friend was injured in the assault, but emphasized that “Omer is totally fine.” He noted that the assailant was arrested and added: “We’re not giving up.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli comedian Guy Hochman arrived in Toronto, Canada, on Monday ahead of a performance for the Jewish community…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":529411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[175804,2147,120333,99,234767,50,8790,234768],"class_list":{"0":"post-529410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-anti-israel-demonstrations","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-comedian","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-jewish-federation-in-canada","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-toronto","15":"tag-toronto-pearson-airport"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115926494554204003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}