Cross Street Architects

Israeli forces forcibly evict a Palestinian family from their home in occupied East Jerusalem, arresting one member and taking over the property. It's part of an intensified campaign, where Palestinian homes are being seized to make way for illegal Israeli settlements.

The decision to withdraw charges against Mai Abdulhadi, an individual who performed a Nazi salute and called for a “Final Solution” against Jews is nothing short of outrageous. Let’s stop pretending this is complicated. Invoking the “Final Solution” is a direct reference to the Holocaust. It is a call for genocide. The Nazi salute is not symbolic speech. It is the open glorification of an ideology responsible for industrial-scale murder. And yet, here in Montréal, that conduct now appears to come without consequence. This is not happening in a vacuum. Jewish schools have been shot at. Synagogues have been targeted. Jewish businesses have been attacked. Families are looking over their shoulders in neighbourhoods where they have lived peacefully for generations. The situation in this city is deteriorating. Rapidly. And decisions like this do not calm tensions, they inflame them. They tell extremists that the line is moving, that what was once unthinkable is now tolerable, and that even explicit calls for violence against Jews may be brushed aside. What exactly is the threshold now? What more needs to be said, or done, before authorities are willing to act? Jewish Montrealers are not asking for special treatment. We are asking for the most basic guarantee any society owes its citizens: that open incitement to our destruction will be taken seriously and met with consequences. Right now, that guarantee feels like it is slipping away. This is a test for our institutions. A test of whether we still have the moral clarity to recognize hatred when it is shouted in plain terms. So far, we are failing it. And the cost of that failure will not be theoretical.