Canadian authorities charged the son of a prominent anti-Israel activist with “facilitating terrorist activity.” A heavily armed police unit on Tuesday raided the home of Mohammad Momin Khawaja, 24, a software developer in Ottawa. His father, Mahboob Khawaja, a prominent member of the local Pakistani community, has written many scathing articles against Israel and asserting that Jews control the media and have brainwashed the public with “questionable Hollywood images of the Holocaust.”
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