Naomi Klein supports the anti-Israel protesters accused of vandalizing a downtown storefront while profiting from Indigo selling her books
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If the people chanting “free, free Palestine” in the streets of Toronto over the past several weeks really cared about a free Palestine, they would be calling for Hamas to be ousted as the ruling party in the Gaza strip. They would also be calling for free and fair elections in both Gaza and the West Bank, which haven’t happened in years.
You don’t hear these calls at the “pro-Palestinian” rallies because it’s not about making life better for Palestinians, it’s about getting revenge on the Jews.
Time and again you hear the chant, as you did on Wednesday, “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” That’s a call for a Palestinian state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea and a call for the elimination of the State of Israel and given the position of Hamas, which these protestors tacitly endorse, the removal of Jews from their homeland.
Do these faculty members teach delusion and absurdity at York University? Are the students, who backed teachers charged in the graffiti attacks on Jewish businesses, majoring in anti-Semitism and minoring in hate? Or is there just something in the water? Sometimes you see a quote in a news story...
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If in the wake of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks you are chanting “from the river to the sea” but not denouncing Hamas and their rape, torture and murder of civilians, then you are tacitly endorsing Hamas. If in the wake of Oct. 7, you are showing up at these “pro-Palestinian” protests and not also calling on Hamas to release the innocent civilian hostages taken captive them you are tacitly endorsing Hamas.
So, yes, we have terrorist supporters in our midst, they hold high positions in our universities and colleges, in our hospital systems, some are elected officials or union leaders. They can claim to simply be speaking up for a “liberation movement” but when you won’t denounce the raping, the torture, the hostage taking or murder of civilians while speaking up for that movement then you are endorsing “any means necessary” as some have said.
We wouldn't accept Nazis marching in our streets to express hatred of Jews, so why do we allow these rallies?
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In Montreal this week, another Jewish community centre was firebombed. The JCC firebombing on Décarie Blvd. followed on the heels of three separate incidents of bullets being fired at Jewish schools, and a synagogue and community centre being fire bombed on the West Island.