Commentary
The anti-NATO and pro-Palestine protests on Nov. 22 dissolved into chaos about 40 minutes after the two marches merged on the streets of Montreal. Video shows black-clad rioters in masks breaking windows of the convention center where NATO met, while another protester appears to intimidate a journalist through frenetic jumping and wild arm movements uncomfortably close to the journalist’s head and camera.
A sign in one part of the crowd called for “intifada,” which means different things to different people. It can mean “uprising,” “struggle,” or “shudder,” but also interpreted as “shaking off,” “getting rid of,” or “violence against Jews.” At a smaller protest in the same Canadian city the day prior, a woman threatened pro-Israel counter-protesters with “the final solution” in apparent reference to the Holocaust….