Anti-Israel group plans pro-Hamas rally on October 7 outside Israeli consulate in Montreal
‘Join us as we march to honour the martyrs of the past year,’ the Montreal chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement wrote on Instagram
As Canada’s Jewish community gathers to remember the victims one year after the October 7 attack on Israel, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) will be honouring Hamas terrorists as “martyrs.”
The anti-Israel group has announced a planned protest outside the Israeli consulate in Montreal on Oct. 7.
“Join us as we march to honour the martyrs of the past year — and the past 76 years — who gave everything for their land, their dignity, and their liberation,” the group’s Montreal chapter wrote in an Instagram post on Tuesday.
The poster has the words: “For Liberation. For our martyrs. For our people. For our land. For Palestine.”
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Anthony Housefather, the Liberal MP for Montreal’s Mount Royal riding and the federal government’s special adviser on antisemitism, decried the plan to glorify terrorists who killed some 1,200 people on October 7, and kidnapped 251 people, with 97 hostages still unaccounted for.
“It is beyond disgusting that anyone would celebrate the events of October 7 and diminish the murders and injuries that happened that day and the hostages taken some of whom are still in captivity,” he said.
The rally has caused concern among Montreal’s sizeable Jewish community, which has been rattled by several high-profile antisemitic incidents since last October. In the last year, In the last year, a Jewish restaurant was shot at, university students say they were regularly intimidated on local campuses, and anti-Israel protesters have picketed outside a synagogue and a Holocaust museum, among other incidents.
As tensions escalate between Israel and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, community leaders are calling on provincial and federal leaders to take greater steps to protect Canadian Jews.
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