La Presse published a cartoon depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a vampire on March 20. The image was an adaptation of the vampire from the silent film Nosferatu. The caption of the cartoon read, “Nosfenyahou, en route to Rafah,” implying Netanyahu is on the way to feast on the blood of Palestinians.

Screenshot of La Presse cartoon that has since been removed.

Besides being blatantly anti-Semitic, Nosferatu has troubling origins. The 1922 silent film was written by an occultist, adapted from Dracula, and released in Berlin when anti-Semitism was fashionable. J. Hoberman wrote at Tablet:

So who or what is Nosferatu’s ancient, tremendously powerful creature, a sort of humanoid rodent given an imposing hooked nose, who communicates with his minions in a mysterious code, which includes several Hebrew letters as well as the Star of David, and, contaminating every space he occupies, arrives out of the East with a swarm of plague-bearing rats to feast on the blood of naive Aryans until destroyed through an act of Christian sacrifice by a virtuous woman? The vampire recalls two monstrous slanders against European Jews, evoking both the blood libel and the accusation of poisoning wells to spread disease that resulted in widespread pogroms and the near-extermination of Jews throughout the Rhineland in the mid-14th century.

Nosferatu contributed to the Nazi depiction of Jews as vampires in movies, images and by Adolf Hitler in Mein Kempf. At the time, Nosferatu was shocking as a horror movie, not for its anti-Semitic message. The Weimar Republic became fertile ground for the violent anti-Semitism of the Third Reich.

It is troubling that the Montreal-based La Presse would publish such an image. The cartoonist, Serge Chapleau, was unrepentant. After some public outrage, La Presse removed the image and apologized. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau criticized the paper, saying: “It is unacceptable to bring back anti-Semitic tropes and allusions like that. It is distasteful and exactly the wrong thing to do in these times.”

What is more significant is what it says about Canadian society: Did La Presse think most Canadians wouldn’t be bothered by such an attack? Is there much difference between the dysfunctional Weimar Republic and Canada right now?

October 7 was a shocking demonic attack on the Jewish people. Yet it has shed light on the state of Canadian society and the Trudeau government. Despite the nice-sounding apology, the Trudeau government used October 7 to implement the most anti-Semitic foreign policy in Canadian history.

Canada has a pattern of betraying Israel: Before and during the Second World War, Prime Minister Mackenzie King’s government allowed in the fewest Jewish refugees of all Allied countries. In 1939, King rejected the entry of 900 Jews fleeing the Third Reich on the MS St. Louis. (Prime Minister King was a notorious anti-Semite and a zealous practitioner of the occult.) After the war, it was Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, Lester B. Pearson, who undermined Britain’s claim to the Suez Canal and Israel’s claim to the Sinai Peninsula. This left Israel’s southern flank vulnerable. However, no Canadian government has blatantly taken the side of the terrorists before.

The Trumpet has exposed the constant pro-Hamas marches across Canada. Many Canadians support the perpetrators of October 7 more than the victims. This segment of Canadians, as well as the terrorist organizations and proxies that operate within the country, have much political influence. The Liberal caucus is divided over supporting Israel and Hamas. In short, it appears the Trudeau government needs the Hamas supporters to stay in power. Many Muslim political groups have pressured the government to call for an unconditional ceasefire.

Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly announced on March 13 that Canada would send $1 million to help Palestinian women affected by sex crimes. Where is the money for the dozens of women who were raped by Hamas and ordinary Gazans who followed the first attack?

On March 18, a motion from the New Democrat Party (which is propping up the Trudeau government) was introduced calling for Canada to recognize the Palestinian state. Instead of openly rejecting this affront to our long-time ally Israel, the Trudeau government softened the language but kept the betrayal.

“This isn’t just a failure, it’s a disgrace,” wrote Joe Roberts at the National Post:

It’s a shameful chapter in Canada’s history that reveals a frightening truth: Our commitments are as shallow as the political gains they secure. When the chips are down, when our allies face existential threats, Canada’s support is nowhere to be found.

The March 18 circus in the House of Commons over an ndp motion that fundamentally altered 50 years of Canadian foreign policy toward Israel is hard proof.

The amended motion had four major points. Canada will 1) support the establishment of a Palestinian state as part of a two-state solution, 2) call for an immediate ceasefire, 3) continue to fund the UN Relief and Works Agency (even though it helped Hamas kill Jews), and 4) stop all weapon sales to Israel.

Canada sent $15 million in military exports to Israel in 2022 (over $1 billion worth went to Saudi Arabia). After October 7, the Canadian government authorized more than $20 million in arms permits for Israel, but this was suspended on January 8 because Canadian law forbids the sale of arms to active war zones or places where women and children are under threat. The March 18 motion gives Trudeau an excuse to extend it indefinitely.

This was a nonbinding motion, but the Trudeau government adopted it nonetheless. It is easier to shift accountability for betrayal if it appears it didn’t originate with you.

On the same day Canada’s foreign policy shifted toward anti-Semitism, Joly was in the West Bank meeting with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas is a Holocaust and October 7 denier, and a rabid anti-Semite. But did Joly condemn him for his hatred for Israel? No, she discussed the humanitarian plight of the Gazans and the Canadian government’s opposition to Jewish settlers in the West Bank.

These actions were met with strong rebuke by the Israeli government. Canadian-born Israeli Knesset Member Sharen Haskel said, “Canada was always held as a symbol of democracy and a nation that values and defends freedom, liberties and inclusiveness. Trudeau’s government is telling the world that Israel doesn’t have the right to defend itself against crimes against humanity, and this is moral bankruptcy.”

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz posted on X: “Regrettably, the Canadian government is taking a step that undermines Israel’s right to self-defense against Hamas terrorists, who have committed terrible crimes against humanity and against innocent Israeli civilians, including the elderly, women and children.”

Canada is home to the third-largest Jewish population in the world, but it is becoming a hostile Weimar Republic. Jenny Hazan, a Jewish Canadian, painted a bleak picture in the Jerusalem Post:

The view from Canada is chilling. Massive pro-Palestinian and even pro-Hamas protests feature thousands of furious people calling unequivocally for genocide—the extermination of Israel “from the river to the sea.”

The thin shroud of humanitarianism disappeared before Israel went into Gaza, when protesters objected to potential infringements on Palestinian civilian lives, while failing to condemn the actual atrocities that Hamas had committed against thousands of innocent Israeli civilians.

Now, seven weeks later, our schools are receiving bomb threats. (Canadian police don’t need to protect mosques—no one blows up mosques.)

Synagogues are being defaced. … Toronto, my birthplace and home to my three Canadian-Israeli children, has grown cold and foreign. …

This is what being a Jew in Toronto is like in 2023. It must be how German Jews felt at the beginning of the Holocaust: a terrible mix of shock, betrayal and disbelief.

All of this is disturbing evidence that Canada has changed. Our society is composed of individuals who do not share Judeo-Christian values. Our government is filled with Communist operatives who are changing our economy, constitution and national values. The era of a “band of brothers” between the British Commonwealth, the United States and the State of Israel is rapidly coming to an end. Canada is a minor player in this relationship, but it suffers from the same affliction.

The only explanation for Canada’s deranged direction is spiritual. Its foreign policy and acts of anti-Semitism are physical symptoms of a spiritual cause. A spirit of betrayal and destruction is guiding the Trudeau government.

2 Kings 14:26-27 indicate we are afflicted with leaders who want to “blot out the name of Israel.” This saturates our national character as well. This is accelerating a key Bible prophecy where these historically united nations fracture. “We’ve been predicting this division for many years, thanks to two specific prophecies found in Hosea 5:13 and Zechariah 11:14,” Stephen Flurry wrote in “The Tie That Binds America, Britain and Israel.”

In the latter verse, God said He would “break the brotherhood between Judah [modern-day Israel] and Israel [primarily the U.S. and Britain].

When this breaking of the brotherhood occurs, it shows that all three nations are close to falling (Hosea 5:5). Mr. Flurry continued: “For the weakening of those once-mighty ties that bound together the United States, Britain and Judah is only making our peoples more vulnerable to the threat of invasion by ascending world powers!”

It may be easy to dismiss this change in Canada because it is not immediately affecting you, but you do so at your own peril. Bible prophecy indicates this is a sign of fatal decline and collapse. Our nations are spiritually sick, but you don’t have to follow a multitude toward evil (Exodus 23:2).

The Bible explains the way out of this age of betrayal. This way of hope is explained in Herbert W. Armstrong’s book The United States and Britain in Prophecy.