Pro-Hamas thugs attack Toronto meeting defending Israel – The Militant

[….] Some 40 or 50 thugs forced their way into the building shortly before the program was to begin. They smashed through a glass door screaming “Free Palestine,” and attacked Jonathan Karten, one of the Israeli soldiers. Six of the attackers were arrested and charged by police.

A video posted on YouTube shows people at the meeting barricaded inside a room as the pro-Hamas mob broke through the door. It also shows Karten step up to defend the meeting.

In a post on Instagram, meeting organizers wrote their “peaceful event … turned into absolute chaos,” describing “broken glass, blood everywhere — all because we’re Jewish.”

Karten and one of the students were taken to a nearby hospital. The Israel Defense Force soldier then returned and gave his talk. “I wasn’t going to let them take that away from us,” he said.

Students for Justice in Palestine had issued a call to “shut down the event,” posting on Instagram, “ALL OUT TO 49 ELM STREET NOW! Zionist war criminals have once again been welcomed into this city. … War criminals will never be welcome in our communities.”

Students for Justice in Palestine here is part of a North American-wide organization. It considers Hamas’ massacre of 1,200 Jews and others, rape and mutilation, and the seizure of hostages on Oct. 7 as an act of national liberation.

The group was one of the organizers of a two-month-long encampment at the University of Toronto in May-June 2024. It was one of 100 or so encampments held in the U.S. and Canada marked by Jew-hating slogans like “Death to the Zionists”; “We say justice! You say how? Burn Tel Aviv to the ground!”; and “Go Hamas, we love you. We support your rockets too.”

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Pro-Hamas thugs attack Toronto meeting defending Israel – The Militant