Canada bars UK activist who denied Oct. 7 massacre

(JNS) — Canadian border authorities interrogated and refused to let into the country the director of the Muslim Association of Britain, who had denied the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacres in Israel.

Immigration officials in Montreal had questioned Anas Altikriti, a dual citizen of the U.K. and Iraq, at Montreal’s main airport for 11 hours before escorting him to a London-bound airplane, Britain’s Telegraph newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Altikriti had planned to speak at a Muslim Association of Canada convention in Toronto on May 16-18, the report said.

In a statement, the Muslim Association of...