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Kate 11:15 on 2024-03-16 Permalink Reply  

• Ian 13:45 on 2024-03-16 Permalink

  “We’re very happy that the court recognized the urgency and importance of protecting the Jewish community.”

  Reminds me of those who claim to speak for the entire Irish community. I live in a Hassidic neighbourhood – there’s no injunctions needed here, and it’s not like they’re not obvious about their Judaism. One might almost think it had more to do with Zionism and Israel’s foreign policy than Judaism per se but hey.

• bob 16:24 on 2024-03-16 Permalink

  It does not. It has everything to do with the enabling of antisemites and their dupes who regurgitate antisemitic tropes by substituting “Zionist” for “Jew”.

  Sometimes, they forget. The “Important Message” posted to the Montreal4Palestine Instagram account about the protest in front of the Holocaust Museum said it was “not far from the Jewish Hospital as well as many Jewish-owned institutions.” The accompanying post from SPHR Concordia said “Today’s protest will be held in the vicinity of the Holocaust Museum and many Jewish institutions.” Why is it notable that it is near the “Jewish Hospital” and “Jewish-owned” institutions?

  The whole anti-Zionism is not antisemitism thing has become a farce, as has faux-left activism. Back when the anti war movement was about Iraq, the right wing descended on it with their antisemitic bullshit, and it stuck, until now a kind of fringe of conspiracy nuts and radicals. Now that fringe has become the mainstream. They think they are skeptics, but a more credulous population you will not find.

• Ian 17:34 on 2024-03-16 Permalink

  So you’re telling me my Hassidic neighbours are antisemitic? Fascinating. Say hi to Anthony Housefather for me.

• AMF 21:02 on 2024-03-16 Permalink

  Is “my hassidic neighbours” the new “my black friend”?
  Hassidim I know are in fact experiencing elevated levels of antisemitism, including being spat at and cursed at in the street. And these recent protests featured Nazi salutes, chants of death to the Jews, and a three hour blockade of a building, all on video, and all right beside the Jewish elementary school that had a bullet in the door a few months ago.

• Ian 21:24 on 2024-03-16 Permalink

  AMF, first time poster long-time lurker?

  I don’t know you, but I do know my neighbours, and have a great relationship with them. We help each other out and talk all the time, I actually find it a way more welcoming community than most neighbourhoods in Montreal. We look out for each other.

  Anyhow yeah, I do live in a Hassidic neighbourhood and no, we don’t have injunctions against protests in front of their schools and synagogues – because there aren’t any protests. There are 8 synagogues within a couple of blocks of my house, and tons of Jewsish businesses including groceries, butchers, restaurants, bookstores… all obviously Jewish.

  But hey, I know you don’t want to hear it as it doesn’t match your narrative.
  Maybe you can expain to me how Independent Jewish Voices aren’t real Jews either.
  https://www.ijvcanada.org/ijv-steering-committee-statement-on-anti-zionism/

• walkerp 09:38 on 2024-03-17 Permalink

  The excluded middle sits alone in the corner, more excluded than ever…

• bob 19:23 on 2024-03-17 Permalink

  @Ian – So, because this one community has not been targetted, it means that there is no such thing as antisemitism? That swastikas painted on schools are not a thing unless they are in your neighbourhood? And IJV is a thing, like log cabin Republicans are a thing. Viewpoints dissenting from the mainstream are often exceptions that prove the rules, not evidence of moral superiority.

• Ian 10:48 on 2024-03-18 Permalink

  To a hammer everything looks like a nail.