Terry Newman: Israel-haters lose their mind as Montreal passes watered-down motion

MONTREAL — In early June, Projet Montréal filed a motion calling on the city to suspend institutional ties with Israel and refer to it as an “apartheid state” and a committer of “genocide.” On Monday night, sanity prevailed. The motion passed, but as a watered-down version with those features removed. Pro-Palestinian protesters outside were less than pleased and directed their aggression at those leaving the building, myself included.

Before the vote, the pro-Palestinian protesters gathered outside Montreal city hall chanting phrases such as, “ Viva, viva, intifada. Long live the intifada ,” Israel are terrorists, Soroya (the mayor) is complicit ” and “ Israel are terrorists, Montreal is complicit .”

"......Viva, viva Intifada. Long live the intifada....." pic.twitter.com/VTYFpxznts

Also present outside city hall before the council meeting began at 1 p.m. were members of Independent Jewish Voices , a small group that only concerns itself with the Palestinian cause, along with some communists waving flags that read , “From the river to the sea,” and “We are all Palestinians.”