Haviv Rettig Gur
In Canada, Jews are actively abused and the abusers enjoy police protection. Because free speech. I don’t believe them. I don’t believe that if the shoe was on the other foot, this is how the police would be reacting or that such rallies outside other minorities’ schools would be defended on free speech grounds.
Casey Babb
I've already posted about this - but I'm fuming - and more needs to be said. Canada has become one of the most antisemitic countries in the Western world. Full stop. It's been 575 days since October 7th - and for 575 days, pro-Hamas "activists" have been tormenting Jews for the crime of resisting their own slaughter. In Ottawa, these barbarians protested outside a Jewish retirement facility where several Holocaust survivors live, and where 60 percent of the residents suffer from dementia. Chants of "go back to Europe," and "we want bullets - we want missiles!" in Arabic could be heard from their bedrooms. Earlier this week in Winnipeg, another pro-Hamas rally was staged just steps from a Jewish community centre, where children attend school and daycare. And in the clip below, taken from Montreal, they chanted abhorrent things through megaphones at a school for students aged 4 to 16 with "intellectual disabilities, moderate to profound" and "autism spectrum disorders with intellectual challenges." These rallies aren't just disgusting and unacceptable - they're a sign of how far our country has fallen. They're also a sign of what's to come. Please listen to me: attacks are on the way. We have some of the best intelligence professionals in the world - but they're outnumbered, and they aren't supported politically. They won't be able to prevent them all. We're at an inflection point right now, and if we don't stand together and unite against this hate, disinformation, racism, bigotry, and intimidation, our communities and our nation will suffer in unimaginable ways. It's now or never.