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How Montreal Descended into Two, Near-Simultaneous Violent Riots

Tristin Hopper
National Post, Nov. 26, 2024

“This doesn’t make any sense. It’s completely crazy,” one bystander yelled at the mob in French.”

A series of anti-Israel riots in Montreal have attracted international condemnation and prompted Conservative calls for an emergency parliamentary probe. “Violent protesters set cars on fire, threw small explosives and other objects at police officers, and set fire to an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,” reads a Monday letter penned by Conservative members of the Standing Committee on Public Safety.

“This is the crime, chaos and antisemitism that is taking over Canada,” it added.
The violence was condemned by everyone from Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante to Quebec Premier François Legault to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

A lengthy statement by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre became one of the most circulated reactions to the disorder in Montreal. “This is what happens when a Prime Minister spends 9 years pushing toxic woke identity politics, dividing and subdividing people by race, gender, vaccine status, religion, region, age, wealth, etc.,”  wrote Poilievre in an X post seen nearly six million times..… [To read the full article, click here]

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