🇨🇦 Opposition grows to anti-Israel motion to be heard by Montreal city council

A city council that cannot fix Montreal suddenly wants to rewrite international law. Projet Montréal is pushing a motion to denounce Israel, suspend ties, and posture as a miniature foreign ministry while lawyers and doctors point out the obvious: municipal councils do not decide genocide claims, and they do not have a mandate to import global ideological theatre into city hall, as reported.

The ugliest part is the timing. The snippet says Jewish people were the target of about 71 per cent of police-reported hate crimes in Canada motivated by religion in 2025, while Jewish schools in Montreal have been shot at, synagogues attacked, and people assaulted. And the municipal class still thinks the priority is symbolic punishment of a foreign state to satisfy activists and 700 cultural workers. Classic late-liberal governance: outsource local order, import global conflict, then call the social fallout solidarity. A sovereign country should expect its cities to protect cohesion at home, not audition for applause from the activist blob by inflaming divisions they are too unserious to manage.

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