How Montreal became the antisemitism capital of North America

There is an aged saying that erstwhile the United States sneezes, Canada catches a cold. Recent events successful Canada, however, suggest that the US should immunize itself from a dangerously virulent microorganism that has swept crossed the federation — obscurity much truthful than successful Montreal:  Open Jew hatred.  

According to the Toronto Sun, past year, Montreal has endured the astir antisemitic hatred crimes of immoderate metropolis successful North America. 

Indeed, since the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre successful Israel, antisemitic incidents successful Canada person accrued by an astounding 670%. 

Canadian Jews — a miniscule 1.4% of the nation’s colonisation — were the victims of 70% of religious-based hatred crimes during astir the aforesaid period.

Jewish schools successful Montreal person been changeable at, and Montreal universities, including my location university of Concordia, person go cesspools of anti-Jewish harassment. 

As a Jewish prof who has weighed successful publically connected these difficulties, the concern has gotten truthful precarious that I person taken an unpaid permission from Concordia University and joined Northwood University successful Michigan. 

Last week, Montreal was rocked by violent protests laden with antisemitic overtones.

Aggressive agitators shattered store windows, tossed fume bombs and torched cars. An proprietor of a Second Cup Café franchise, ironically located astatine Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital, was caught connected camera expressing genocidal hatred of the Jews. 

Where is each of this Jew hatred coming from? 

Currently, the 3 cardinal sources of Jew hatred are Islamic-based hate, ultra-right neo-Nazi types and the world left, which promulgates the communicative that Jews are the brutal colonizers of the different peace-loving Palestinians.  

Within the Montreal ecosystem the neo-Nazi dynamic is little prevalent, but the different 2 sources person been connected overdrive for decades. 

The Quebec authorities has agelong fretted astir protecting its French linguistic heritage. 

As a result, they person opened their borders to hundreds of thousands of immigrants from French-speaking Islamic nations who mightiness different not stock the secular and wide values that specify Quebec society, and who hail from societies defined by ubiquitous Jew hatred. 

As agelong arsenic the conquerors talk French, the eventual erasure of the big nine volition surely beryllium painless. 

The adage “demography is destiny” is veridical for a reason. 

The premier curate of Canada, Justin Trudeau, is from Montreal. 

He is the merchandise of a profoundly progressive acquisition ecosystem that promotes postmodernism, extremist feminism, a committedness to DEI and taste relativism. 

When helium was inactive a specified subordinate of parliament, Trudeau famously became enraged that taste practices specified arsenic grant killings were labeled arsenic barbaric by the past blimpish authorities of Canada led by Stephen Harper. 

The barbaric acts did not daze him. 

Calling them “barbaric” is what drew his ire.  

Trudeau’s tendency to grounds Islamophilic tendencies is truthful pronounced that whenever a sedate antisemitic incidental takes place, helium is speedy to punctual america that we must combat Islamophobia (such arsenic helium did aft shots were fired astatine a brace of Jewish schools successful Montreal past year.)

But it’s really antisemitism that is moving rampant crossed Montreal, a metropolis present filled with intimidating protests against “Zionism.” 

These are taking spot connected campuses, connected the streets, crossed from synagogues, and successful buying malls. 

Everywhere that you turn, masked individuals wearing keffiyehs tin beryllium seen uttering the accustomed chants of “From the stream to the sea, Palestine volition beryllium free” and “globalize the intifada.” 

Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante did not deliberation that the protests from this past week were antisemitic, condemning them alternatively arsenic “pro-Palestinian” and “anti-NATO.”

A elder head astatine Concordia precocious told maine that determination was nary Jew hatred contempt the information that university president Graham Carr, testified connected Parliament Hill astir the endemic Jew hatred connected campus.  Ignoring the occupation is not going to origin it to spell away. 

Incidentally, arsenic the metropolis was burning past week, Trudeau was incapable to code the unit due to the fact that was engaged attending a Taylor Swift concert. 

Meanwhile, this past Sunday a Montreal rabbi was asked to permission the downtown country arsenic his unfastened Jewishness (wearing a kippah) mightiness beryllium viewed arsenic provocative.  

This is the world that I grew up with successful Lebanon: “Please don’t flaunt your Jewishness. It mightiness incite violence.” Unchecked migration from societies endemically hostile to Jews — on with a anemic big nine parasitized by ideological rapture — make the cleanable premix for Jew hatred to flourish successful an ecosystem of cowardice and apathy.  

The United States dodged an immeasurable existential slug by electing Donald Trump.  Had Kamala Harris won (she besides grew up successful Montreal), the United States would person headed down the way of galore European countries and Canada, namely an progressively much unsafe situation for Jews.  

Do not marque the mistakes that we person made successful Canada.  Be vigilant successful protecting American exceptionalism and connection zero tolerance for specified hatred to fester, for I tin guarantee you that it volition different metastasize into an incurable societal malady.  

In the Middle East, determination is an aged look “First the Saturday radical past the Sunday people,” (or a variant specified arsenic “After Saturday Comes Sunday”) — namely that the Jews mightiness beryllium the archetypal to beryllium targeted but Christians are inevitably next. 

Do not let these realities from which galore of america escaped to acceptable basal successful the US. 

Do not tolerate content systems that are antithetical to the cardinal principles connected which the United States was founded.  

Dr. Gad Saad is simply a visiting prof and planetary ambassador astatine Northwood University successful Michigan.