{"id":247745,"date":"2026-01-20T09:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/247745\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T09:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:02:08","slug":"israeli-comedians-canada-show-marred-by-assault-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/247745\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli comedian&#8217;s Canada show marred by assault, detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-aef5fdcb=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">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<p data-v-aef5fdcb=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">The detention comes after the anti-Israel Hind Rajab foundation filed a complaint against the comedian, calling him &#8220;a war propagandist and inciter, promoting violence and glorifying Israel\u2019s assault on Gaza.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-aef5fdcb=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Following hours of interrogation, Hochman was released after Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa&#8217;ar and Israel&#8217;s Consul General in Toronto intervened.<\/p>\n<p data-v-aef5fdcb=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Hochman then took the stage at the Prosserman Jewish Community Centre as a large group of anti-Israel demonstrators gathered outside.<\/p>\n<p data-v-aef5fdcb=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">The keffiyah-clad, PLO flag-waving protesters stood in the below-zero temperatures, chanting &#8220;Long live the Intifada&#8221; and &#8220;1,2,3,4 Zionism no more,&#8221; among other chants.<\/p>\n<p data-v-aef5fdcb=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">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<p data-v-aef5fdcb=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">The comedian reported that his friend was injured in the assault, but emphasized that &#8220;Omer is totally fine.&#8221; He noted that the assailant was arrested and added: &#8220;We&#8217;re not giving up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli comedian Guy Hochman arrived in Toronto, Canada, on Monday ahead of a performance for the Jewish community&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[76704,245,47818,85,46,132576,43,647,132577],"class_list":["post-247745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-anti-israel-demonstrations","tag-canada","tag-comedian","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jewish-federation-in-canada","tag-news","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-pearson-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}