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AGAR: Fanatics from the left are organized — and dangerous to Canada

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Left-wing fanaticism is our worst danger in Canada at the moment.

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Contrary to what some seem to think, a vast right-wing conspiracy is not at the root of all our ills.

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Neither are right-wing fringe groups.

In this partisan world we find ourselves in, the left has its share of fringe radicals.

While there are no doubt fanatics from the right, it is the left that is supporting and carrying out the hate we see on the streets of Canada today.

So-called pro-Palestinian rallies and marches may include those who come from deep sorrow over the plight of the Palestinian people, but radical, violent and anti-Semitic people are increasingly making themselves known. They seem unashamed; they are dangerous and organized.

Since Oct. 7 last year, when Hamas terrorists brutalized, killed and captured innocent Israeli citizens, we have seen the left rise up in Canada.

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Some major media, the very same that often seem sympathetic to the left, have made the same claim.

The day after the Oct. 7 attack, the New York Times headlined a column: “The Anti-Israel Left Needs to Take a Hard Look at Itself” and wrote: “In Midtown Manhattan, a speaker at a rally of pro-Palestinian and left-wing groups celebrated that atrocity.”

A few days later, NBC reported that those on the left had preferred not to talk about Israel, but the topic “is now spilling into public view in heated and sometimes ugly ways, dividing Democrats and exposing what some say is antisemitism that has been allowed to fester on the left for years.”

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Foreign Policy wrote, “Many on the extreme left see Israel as a classic imperialist state, acting as an agent of the United States in the Middle East and imposed on the region by outside powers. This is an interpretation that is not only mistaken, but also dangerous to the Palestinian cause itself.”

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Here in Canada, we have seen a rise in anti-Semitic hate through rhetoric and through marches and rallies on the street.

In Toronto, police have been physically attacked. Jewish neighbourhoods have been intimidated.

Warren Kinsella has reported that “a Victoria, B.C. group called the Plenty Collective has been distributing thousands of dollars to individuals and groups to show up at anti-Israel rallies.”

The Plenty Collective describes themselves as queer activists and certainly does not appear to be in any way right wing.

“In the U.S., it has been confirmed that protesters are getting paid as well. Millionaire tech mogul Neville Roy Singham has bankrolled multiple pro-Palestinian protests since last year,” Kinsella wrote.

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It is easy to believe that left-wing actors are rounding up useful dupes, paid to look the part of protesters. Last week, I encountered a pro-Palestinian rally in Ottawa.

A reporter on the scene told me that upon hearing the protesters chant, “From the river to the sea,” she asked them, “What river? What sea?”

They didn’t know.

The chant is widely seen as a call to wipe the Jews out of existence between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

It is good to see some media occasionally addressing the danger of the radical left. It is still distressing to see that most often they trumpet the idea that all social ills and dangers are due to right-wing radicals.

The left is in the streets. Can you see it?

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