Pro-Hamas activists have set up their encampments at Victoria Square in Montreal’s financial district. The counter protesters want them taken down. Whoever thought that these disturbances would be contained on campuses alone have been proven wrong. The disruptions will spread and escalate. This is a revolutionary movement of the Palestinian “resistance,” aimed at annihilating Israel from the River to the Sea. The movement has spring-boarded to the West since October 7, and the West isn’t prepared to deal with it.
The movement has gained plenty of support from leftists, many (if not most) of whom have no idea what the historic “resistance” is really about.
Western culture prides itself on negotiations and civility. The “resistance” movement is characterized by bullying, intimidation, and, when the time is perceived to be right, extreme violence.
Every encampment on and off campuses is demanding boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS) on Israel, as a long-term means to cripple the Jewish state economically, and delegitimize it, with the ultimate goal of destroying it altogether. October 7 provided them with fuel for escalation, heard in shouts to “globalize the intifada.”
The description of the unfolding events in Montreal’s financial district contains a key point:
They were met by counter-demonstrators from what appeared to be two different groups: a pro-Israeli group and an anti-encampment group.
The pro-Israel, anti-encampment group is made up of people who have had enough of the pro-Hamas intrusion on Western soil. This is their key motivation to protest. They want their cities and peace restored. As one counterprotester asked about Montreal’s mayor: “Why is she allowing people to sleep in the street without getting fined?”
Also, pro-Hamas encampments and demonstrations are costing taxpayers a fortune, as police continue to devote resources to dealing with them, even as they do virtually nothing. These revolutionaries, lauded by Iran, have vowed that they are “here to stay.”
“Pro-Palestinian protesters face off with counter-protesters at Victoria Square encampment,” by Hénia Ould-Hammou, CBC, June 25, 2024:
On Day 4 of the pro-Palestinian encampment at Victoria Square in Montreal’s financial district, protesters were confronted with a counter-protest that wants the encampment taken down.
On Saturday, pro-Palestinian protesters set up tents near the offices of the Caisse dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) and Quebec’s International Relations Ministry.
The collective Désinvestir pour la Palestine and other civil society organizations are urging the CDPQ, which manages Quebec’s public pensions, to divest $14.2 billion from 87 companies connected to Israel.
“How many dead people, how many unpunished crimes will it take before our institutions acknowledge the genocide in progress and stand on the right side of history?” asked Benoît Allard, a spokesperson for the collective at a press conference on Tuesday morning.
On Tuesday afternoon, pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered at the encampment to demand a ceasefire in Gaza….
CalvinsLutheran says
Because Western literacy is at an abysmally low level in today’s world, political idiocy is at an all time high in the West. Dhimmitude is at a stage in the West where a few more subliminal stages of terroristic bullying will consummate an unbearable discomfort in Western society where, paradoxically, an agonizing reappraisal of the deadhead Left’s idea of freedom will result in what might be called a strange comfort in nihilism. The useful idiot population at present is living under the umbrella of protection afforded them by the muscle of the right, yet when the children on the Left see their unintended consequences come to fruition THEY WILL HAVE TO IMPLEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR THEIR OWN GOOD. It will be gratifying to watch their reactions when their hedonistic lifestyles are forbidden by foreign dictates. Eurabia is accelerating towards the stupified West quietly and surely. The entire energy of the West vs enemies of the West is approaching CRITICAL MASS and Western leaders in Europe and Canada are forbidden to say a single word on the matter.
Sue says
Someone once wrote; “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.” “Bravo,” to the good people that are protesting against the protestors who are ignorant to the truth” Every anti-Israel protestor should be arrested and singularly be forced to watch the videos Hamas took of the horrific slaughter of innocent men, women, children and babies. They should see the evil they are standing for with their own eyes, living babies put into an oven to suffer horrendously. Mothers and Father’s chopped up in front of their children, and children being chopped up in front of their mothers and fathers. Women raped and sodomized. They should see the truth before their eyes. All foreign student protestors should be deported.
The same thing needs to be done in the United States. So true the words. When good people do nothing, evil will triumph. These antisemitic protestors actually believe they are doing God’s work, but they are doing the work of the devil who hates the Jews as much as Islam does. That should tell you who side they work for! The devil hates God’s chosen people, just as much as he hates Christians. It’s im the book of Revelations,.
FYI says
Well done to the counter protestors.
I always laugh at the pro-hamas lobby:they always seem a weird bunch.
The keffiyeh wearing lefty nonce{sorry,ponce,i meant to say ponce},the antifa who behave and dress exactly like… fascists.”queers for palestine”,”nonces and deviants against Israel”,”The self loathing Jews society”{keffiyeh wearers of course} etc
My favorite group is “Jews against Genocide” a sentiment i imagine many Jews echo..but then you see the keffiyeh and the pally flag..ah!Lefty self loathing virtue signalling Jews.They are accusing the Jews of Genocide{where btw is the evidence?Please don’t say the media reportage{biased} hearsay..some evidence ,like the Wansee conference….}