A Canadian Jewish journalist was reportedly taken off the air and faced disciplinary action by the country’s public broadcaster because he posted a video of an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protest outside his Toronto synagogue’s service on Yom Kippur on Sunday evening.

Award-winning reporter Neil Herland uploaded the video on his X page, which showed protesters hurling abuse, including a man shouting “Zionist alert” into a megaphone, while another protester with a megaphone repeatedly told Herland, “You’re going to hell.”

Another activist yelled, “baby killer” repeatedly, and another chanted “all Zionists are racists.”

Protesters apparently targeted the site since Mark Regev, former Israeli ambassador to the UK, was a guest speaker at the Song Shul synagogue, which was being held at the Meridian Center in Toronto due to the large crowd expected for the event.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation subsequently pulled Herland off the air and brought him in for a disciplinary hearing with his lawyer on Thursday, the Toronto Sun reported.

CBC refused to tell the Toronto Sun who complained, and Herland refused to comment on the matter on advice from his lawyer. However, the Sun noted that an anti-Israel group, Canadian for Justice and Peace and the Middle East, had submitted a complaint over Herland for the post.

In his post, Herland wrote, “I’m a journalist. And I happen to be Jewish. On Yom Kippur I went to a synagogue service in Toronto and was met by protesters trying to taunt and intimidate me from entering the building.”

“My late father was an Austrian Jew who survived the Holocaust in Romania. And came to Canada as a refugee. This........

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