‘Obvious’ antisemitism
Re: Everyone knows why protesters targeted Mount Sinai Hospital — Chris Selley, Feb. 16; and Jews made to feel they don’t belong — Editorial, Feb. 1
If the so called “pro-palestinian” demonstrations were really motivated to help Palestinians, then the war that is causing so much suffering would likely be over by now. To them the destruction of the state of Israel with its Western democratic and free enterprise values is far more important than the lives or well-being of Palestinians.
This is obvious from the fact that they do not call for actions by anyone other than Israel that would actually help Palestinians caught up in a war. For example, unlike the many European countries that took in Ukrainian war refugees, not a single neighbouring Muslim country has offered to provide such protection to Palestinians. In fact, Egypt has increased fortification of its border with Gaza to prevent them from escaping into their Sinai desert. Taking in refugees would save many lives, yet these demonstrators do not call on any of these countries to do so. They also do not call on Hamas to take any action whatsoever to protect its own people but cynically provide unconditional support for Hamas’s war tactic of deliberately placing civilians in harm’s way.
Referring to these demonstrators as “pro-palestinian” is a non sequitur because they serve only to prolong the war and the suffering of the Palestinians and Israelis. They are just antisemitic and pro-hamas.
Harvey Kaplan, Thornhill, Ont.
Demonstrators in front of Mount Sinai Hospital chanted, “There is only one solution, intifada revolution.”
While geographic and historical ignorance might explain an inability to apprehend the more subtle meaning of “From the river to the sea,” no such excuse exists for this chillingly direct reference to the Nazis’ “Final Solution” plan hatched at the 1942 Wannsee Conference.
Chris Selley appropriately called out the blatant antisemitism of this deplorable incident, and the grossly inadequate response of the Toronto Police Service.
Paul Ranalli, Toronto
Jesus Christ was a Jew. Why aren’t our Christian churches out supporting Jews against those who wish the annihilation of Israel? What a shame the Holocaust receives scant coverage in our schools, so that we now have an uninformed generation of people who are being corrupted by foreign-controlled demonstrations. Christian churches should be defending their Jewish brothers.
Gwen Johnston,
St. Albert, Alta.