LILLEY: Schools shot up, students attacked, synagogue firebombed

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Two Jewish schools in Montreal were shot up with administrators finding bullets in the door as they arrived to start the day on Thursday.

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It’s a horrifying ordeal that comes just after a synagogue and a Jewish community centre were firebombed in Montreal.

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Meanwhile, angry and violent scenes at Concordia University where three were injured in an altercation when “pro-Palestinian” protestors objected to an information table from Jewish students on the hostages Hamas took on Oct. 7. The words “pro-Palestinian” are in quotations because if you are objecting to someone being concerned about the hostages, you aren’t pro-Palestinian, you are pro-Hamas – a terrorist organization.

“Go back to Poland, whore,” a man identified as Yanise Arab, a lecturer at the University of Montreal, can be heard saying.

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University officials told Le Journal de Montreal that they have seen the video and are considering next steps. Given that he has posted celebratory messages to social media about the Oct. 7 terrorist attack and his teaching duties include lectures on Palestinian issues and immigration, he really does need to be looked into.

Students standing behind the professor as they were trying to shut down the display by the Jewish students can be heard chanting, “Colonizers, colonizers,” over and over again.

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It’s not much better down the street at Montreal’s McGill University where posters went up on the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass, calling for people to take part in a rally for Gaza but using images of young men smashing windows.

The people who claim they are just peacefully protesting or standing up for Palestinian rights seem to like using violent images just as rally organizers in Toronto, Vancouver and elsewhere have done since Oct. 7. Don’t claim you are about peaceful protest when you promote your rallies using images of violence, including of Hamas terrorists carrying out their attacks on Israel a month ago.

For the second time this week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came out with a strong statement against the hate and violence we are seeing in this country.

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Trudeau said it’s understandable that so many people are anxious, especially those with family in the area, but that doesn’t legitimize violence here in Canada.

“No matter how strongly felt your fears or convictions are doesn’t give you the right to do what we saw yesterday at Concordia or in the shots fired at Jewish schools today in Montreal,” Trudeau said.

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“We don’t want hate and violence in Quebec, and we won’t tolerate this,” Quebec Premier Francois Legault said while standing next to Trudeau.

But so far, we are tolerating this.

Be it the people openly cheering Hamas – not the Palestinian people – or those openly advocating for violence. It was almost two weeks ago that Montreal Imam Adil Charkaoui calling for the destruction of Israel.

“Allah, count every one of them, and kill them all, and do not exempt even one of them,” he said to cheers at a rally in downtown Montreal.

We know about these words because Charkaoui posted them to his various social media profiles. He’s apparently proud of his words and confident that no one will come after him.

Why shouldn’t he be confident, there have been few arrests, warnings or other actions from police in Canada compared to how they police other groups or causes. That’s a point Britain’s home secretary Suella Braverman made in an op-ed in the Times of London published Wednesday.

“Unfortunately, there is a perception that senior police officers play favourites when it comes to protesters,” she wrote.

Those words may see Braverman fired from her cabinet role rather than the police officers who are playing obvious favourites. It’s the same in Canada as police fail to act on obvious calls to violence, obvious intimidation, obvious violations of the law.

We have politicians finally speaking up, now we need police to act, before it’s too late.

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