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

National Post · August 25, 2026 at 10:23 a.m.

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.

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

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