Jesse Kline: Anti-Israel mob is dismantling western society from within

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2003, not a cloud could be seen in the skies over New York City, much as it had been two years earlier before al-Qaida terrorists flew two hijacked planes into the World Trade Center.

On the second anniversary of that horrific attack, the civilized world was united in grief and sympathy. The streets of Manhattan fell silent as some 200 children who lost parents and loved ones read the names of the 2,792 people who died that day. Similar ceremonies were held around the world, including in Canada.

Despite wars raging in Afghanistan and Iraq, there were no reports of protests. The only people who didn’t treat the anniversary with the solemnity it deserved were the terrorists themselves, who used the opportunity to broadcast calls for further violence and attack western troops serving in Afghanistan.

How quaint that seems today. This week’s second anniversary of the October 7 massacre was a tale of two worlds colliding. The civilized part of the free world mourned the dead and the hostages still in captivity. But far larger crowds took to the streets throughout Canada and around the globe, not to call for peace, but to celebrate violence.

In Tel Aviv, on the evening of Oct. 7, an estimated 30,000 crammed into Yarkon Park to take part in the largest memorial since the attack took place. Vigils were also held throughout Canada over the course of the week.

On Sunday in Victoria, hundreds gathered at a community centre to commemorate the victims and pray for the hostages. The next day in Winnipeg, an estimated 2,000 people took part in a “Walk for Israel” event to show solidarity with Israelis.

Later in the day, several thousand gathered at a Toronto synagogue to hear stories of the eight Canadians who lost their lives in the attack, in a ceremony attended by the mayor, premier, a couple of MPs and other provincial and municipal leaders.

At the University of Guelph, a small vigil organized by several Jewish groups was attended by around 150 people, including the mayor and local MPP.

But the scene was much different on Montreal’s university campuses, which were overrun by anti-Israel mobs.

On Monday, two people were arrested attempting to disrupt classes at Concordia, one of whom was in possession of “a metal bar and several incendiary devices,” according to the school’s president, Graham Carr.

With numerous anti-Israel student and faculty groups promising to hold a pro-terror rally on campus on Tuesday, Carr took the unprecedented step of closing the university for the day.

But that did not stop the protesters, thousands of whom took over Montreal‘s streets and universities starting at around noon and stretching late into the evening. At McGill, demonstrators burned an Israeli flag, smashed a library window while students were inside and vandalized steps with red paint.

Keffiyeh-clad demonstrators chanting, “We are the revolution” and “Who are the terrorists? Imperialist states,” set off flares, damaging private businesses. A man with a microphone attempted to dehumanize Jews, saying, “October 7 came to open the eyes of the world.… October 7 came to distinguish who are human, who are monsters,” as a crowd roared with approval.

One of the organizers of an evening protest celebrated “two years of the resistance fighting for their honour against the criminal, genocidal Nazi entity so-called Israel,” adding, “This day is in remembrance until the liberation of all of Palestine from the river to the sea,” an area that includes the internationally recognized borders of Israel.

Police, meanwhile, seemed more concerned with breaking up pro-Israel counter-demonstrations and threatening journalists. No arrests were reported by police throughout the day.

Similar protests took place in other cities. In Toronto, four people were arrested, including one who allegedly stole a flag from a counter-protester, another who was caught defacing street signs and a man charged with assaulting a police officer.

Protesters were also out in full force in the United Kingdom, despite admonitions from their prime minister that doing so would be insensitive, not only because it was the anniversary of October 7, but because it came on the heels of the Manchester synagogue attack.

In Melbourne, buildings were defaced with graffiti reading, “Glory to Hamas” and “Oct. 7, do it again.” A crowd in Kolkata, India, burned effigies of U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In Amsterdam, the Royal Palace was defaced with red paint. The list goes on.

As all this was happening, diplomats in Egypt were working hard behind the scenes to secure a deal to end the war in Gaza. Late in the day on Wednesday, Trump announced on social media that, “Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan.” With a little luck, we could see the remaining hostages set free within days.

The quieting of Israeli bombs may also quiet the Israel-haters in our streets. But those of us who believe in democracy, freedom, liberty and human rights cannot afford to get complacent.

In the 24 years since 9/11, we went from living in a society that knew the difference between good and evil, to one in which large swaths of people believe the bad guys — those who live-streamed their cries of joy as they raped and slaughtered innocent Jews — are actually on the right side of history.

And we should not be fooled into thinking this will only affect Jews. The unholy alliance between Islamists and progressives has captured our educational institutions and are indoctrinating whole generations to believe that not only Israel, but the entire western world, is underpinned by a system of colonialist oppression, and that violence is an acceptable means of achieving political ends.

Unless our governments get serious about cracking down on the universities that have been incubating anti-western and anti-Israel sentiment for decades, and take concrete steps to ensure new immigrants share our values, the hatred will continue to simmer beneath the surface, waiting to explode at any moment.

After 9/11, there was a lot of discussion about whether we were witnessing a clash of civilizations. If so, it has become abundantly clear since October 7 that we are on the losing side, as we have witnessed the Judeo-Christian society that’s been built in the West slowly dismantled from within. 

Source: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/jesse-kline-anti-israel-mob-101501126.html