Justin Trudeau dances while Montreal burns with Jew-hatred

The Roman Emperor Nero is said to person “fiddled” portion Rome burned.

That’s not wholly true.

Rome did drawback occurrence during Nero’s reign, but determination were nary fiddles oregon bowed instruments of immoderate kind.

The archetypal story, arsenic reported by the historian Suetonius, is that Nero enactment connected a signifier costume, climbed to the apical of a tower, and sang astir the autumn of Troy arsenic Rome went up successful flames beneath him.

But present successful Canada we don’t request Nero.

We person Justin Trudeau, helium of the unusual fondness for costumes and blackface, dancing portion Montreal burns.

Anti-NATO, pro-Palestinian protests in Montreal turned convulsive connected Nov. 22.

Protesters hurled tiny explosive devices and fume bombs astatine police, smashed store windows, and burned cars.

A coffee-shop franchisee was seen giving the Nazi salute and announcing an imminent “final solution” to a radical of Jewish counter-protesters.

Police dispersed the rioters with teardrop state and capsicum spray.

Meantime, Trudeau was successful Toronto, waiting for a Taylor Swift performance to begin, wherever helium was spotted dancing similar a teenybopper.

The adjacent day, Trudeau and his ministers issued bland statements condemning the rioting: The protesters’ destructive behaviour and antisemitism “must beryllium condemned,” “there indispensable beryllium consequences,” rioters indispensable beryllium “held accountable,” rioting “has nary spot successful Montreal” and truthful on.

No peculiar enactment was demanded.

Regrettably, rioting, deliberately intimidating demonstrations and threats of unit person recovered a spot successful Montreal and Canada.

They person been happening since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks connected Israel.

Violent protests successful enactment of Hamas began adjacent earlier Israel had taken immoderate subject enactment successful response.

On assemblage campuses, pupil “encampments” impeded ft postulation and disrupted graduation ceremonies.

Jewish synagogues, day-care centers and assemblage centers person endured bomb threats.

Pro-Hamas demonstrators blockaded the entranceway to a predominantly Jewish country successful Toronto.

A caller objection successful that metropolis took the signifier of a re-enactment of the sidesplitting of Hamas person Yahya Sinwar — not successful beforehand of the Israeli embassy oregon consulate, arsenic 1 mightiness person expected, but successful the mediate of a Jewish neighborhood.

Many well-meaning radical attraction profoundly astir the Palestinian cause; others sincerely judge that the Israeli subject has gone excessively far.

They indispensable beryllium escaped to explicit themselves successful an orderly fashion.

But astir caller protests successful Canada look to person little to bash with interest for Palestinians oregon a tendency for bid than with hatred for Israel — and the attacks connected synagogues and demonstrations successful Jewish residential areas oregon extracurricular day-care centers suggest a hatred of Jews successful general.

Most observers conflict to spot however specified deeds volition assistance the Palestinian origin oregon transportation others to clasp it.

The hatred astatine the bosom of the anti-Israel protestation question is obvious.

We saw possibly the clearest grounds astatine the Montreal riot, wherever the NATO acme seemed to arouse a caller level of rage and unit among the pro-Palestinian demonstrators.

Curiously, the warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for the apprehension of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — and Trudeau’s committedness to enforce it — did thing to dampen the protesters’ destructive enthusiasm.

They shouted “Death to Canada,” “Death to the United States” and “Death to Israel” anyway, arsenic they ever bash astatine specified protests.

What other does this signify but contempt for Western leaders and institutions, adjacent arsenic those leaders and institutions look to broadside with their critics?

In addition, Western quality services person been informing astir Iranian and other foreign influences on these protests for months.

The Montreal riot seems to beryllium nary exception.

Hosting the NATO parliamentary summit, supporting its state Israel and advocating for bid were expected to advertise Canada arsenic a mature mediate powerfulness nether Trudeau.

Instead, it has amounted to yet different embarrassment for a authorities determined to appease Jew-hating thugs, unwilling to support nationalist bid and reluctant to instrumentality overseas interference seriously.

Canada would person amended displayed the maturity and competence of its authorities by cracking down connected Montreal’s convulsive protesters.

Lawbreakers should beryllium punished. Foreign malefactors should beryllium deported.

If the Trudeau authorities genuinely believes successful the wide and multicultural values it professes, past it indispensable proclaim this message: If you cannot abide surviving adjacent Jews, if you despise NATO and if you privation decease upon Canada, past Canada is not the close state for you.

But Trudeau won’t bash this.

He volition tally retired the timepiece to the adjacent predetermination — present conscionable nether a twelvemonth distant — dancing to popular tunes portion his state burns.

Michael Bonner, a Canadian communications and public-policy adept with a decennary of work successful national and provincial governments, is the writer of “In Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our Present.” From the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal.