Iranian Canadians join Jews in condemning Al Quds Day anti-Israel protests

Canadian Jewish groups are calling on authorities to shut down Iran-backed Al-Quds Day protests in four cities this weekend, but the Jewish community isn’t the only one troubled by the show of support for the theocratic, fundamentalist regime.

“Seeing these people chanting what I was hearing from those who were beating me on the streets of Tehran is traumatizing,” said Ghazal Shokri, an Iranian Canadian woman raised in Tehran under the oppressive thumbs of successive ayatollahs for 30...