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Terry Newman: Montreal anti-Zionists laud terror on Oct. 7 anniversary

One of its leaders refused to answer whether he supported Hamas and suggested the attacks were justified retribution

MONTREAL — Wednesday was the third anniversary of Hamas’s brutal October 7 attacks. This year, unlike last, few students showed up to celebrate on McGill University’s campus where Jewish students held a vigil on its field. A small crowd organized by Students for Palestine’s Honour and Resistance (SPHR) McGill appeared at the Roddick Gates at 2 p.m. but were drowned out by a counter-protest of Quebecois and Iranians.

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But after 6 p.m., Montreal for Palestine, an anti-Zionist group that has occupied the streets of Montreal consistently since the attacks, made a larger and more virulent showing. When I asked one of its leaders why they were inverting October 7 — a day that could easily be referred to as an attempted genocide of Israelis — one of its leaders made it clear that they had no qualms about the attacks by the terrorist group Hamas on that day.

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While several anti-Zionist events were planned for downtown Montreal on the third anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 invasion of Israel, in which about 1,200 were killed and 251 were abducted, the daytime campus events were nothing like the ones I reported on last year, when thousands of students and some teachers amassed on McGill’s lawn after migrating........

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