As Israel continues its war against Hamas, devastating vast swaths of Gaza and killing tens of thousands of people, the Western world, including Canada, is paying the price of rising antisemitism and Jew hatred.
Christians are now being targeted.
A video was posted to X Thursday of Palestine demonstrators climbing the Gesù Catholic Church in Montreal and setting off smoke bombs while chanting anti-Israel slogans.
The attack follows several incidents of antisemitic violence in Montreal, and calls for intifada, including a Jewish school being targeted with gunfire, a synagogue along with a Jewish community centre being attacked with firebombs and anti-NATO riots in November where and effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was burned.
"This is a prescription for disaster," said Abraham Cooper, director of Global Social Action Agenda at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in a conversation with the Western Standard regarding Canada's inaction to anti-Jew violence.
"And by the way, as we know, history has taught us that often this starts with the Jews and never ends with the Jews. When you have democracies that are essentially allowing Jews to be treated differently, Jewish taxpayers, citizens, freedom of religion, when you don't step forward it is unwise."
Cooper also called-out Christian church burnings in Canada.
He said the problem of Jew-hatred in Canada should be investigated as domestic terrorism with potential connections to offshore terrorist entities.
CSIS should be involved, he said, noting there have been extremely serious incidents of violence against Jews around the Western world.
"The idea that Jews have to look over their shoulders while walking down the street in democracies that allow them to develop great communities, is not acceptable."