Arrest in Israeli flag theft
A teenage boy has been arrested after Israeli flags were stolen from a school in DDO, and set on fire.
-
Kate
Reply
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- jeather on REM and Montreal YUL airport: New bus route
- Joey on Park Avenue to be made safer
- Nicholas on REM and Montreal YUL airport: New bus route
- Blork on Man attacked by dog in Maisonneuve
- Blork on Family sues CP for train fatality
- Tim S. on The price of strawberries
- Blork on Family sues CP for train fatality
Pages
Other levels of gov’t
Sideblog projects
Enviro Montreal is a Bluesky feed that follows local environment news. Also available on Mastodon.
Archives
Pages rescued from montreal.com
Meta
shawn 20:23 on 2023-04-27 Permalink
Right and the Hebrew Foundation School is an integral part of the Beth Tikvah congregation.
shawn 20:26 on 2023-04-27 Permalink
I’m from that community. So a Palestinian kid or supporter tears down the flag of the state of Israel, and the Montreal police are investigating it as a possible hate crime against Jews. That’s what we’re looking at? Hooboy is my final word on it.
jeather 21:55 on 2023-04-27 Permalink
It’s so complicated. Yom Ha’atzmaut is of course actually a holiday about Israel, not a Jewish holiday, but in general (I am not sure about this specific case, the details of which I have not followed), destroying Israeli flags in North America isn’t about the very valid hatred of their government/policies, it’s about antisemitism.
denpanosekai 00:58 on 2023-04-28 Permalink
omg keep that garbage conflict to the middle-east
Kate 10:28 on 2023-04-28 Permalink
jeather, even if the perpetrator is Palestinian, rather than, say, an angry skinhead?
jeather 17:02 on 2023-04-28 Permalink
Are the flags at the Israeli embassy or at a synagogue or religious school? I mean I do think that burning flags is, as a rule, a reasonable political protest, and I also think that teens are, well, teens. But for all the problems it causes, the Israeli flag is also the symbol of Judaism, and when you’re doing it to a religious institution . . . Sure, you can find examples where it really is about the government’s actions, but honestly I think it’s a high bar to argue that the action isn’t antisemitic in North America or Europe.
steph 20:54 on 2023-04-28 Permalink
Can Israel ever be separated from Judaism? In some places in the world, Jews are even considered a distinct race.