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Anti-NATO protest in Montreal erupts in fires, smashed windows (toronto.citynews.ca)

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Anti-NATO protesters gathered again in Montreal on Saturday to demand Canada withdraw from the alliance, a day after a demonstration organized by different groups resulted in arrests, burned cars and shattered windows.

the purpose of the protest was to demonstrate against what he called NATO’s “complicity with Israel’s military while it’s conducting its genocide in Gaza, … war crimes in Lebanon, Syria” and that “it’s enforcing illegal occupation of Palestinian territories.”

However, Allard rejected accusations of antisemitism. He said the protests were against the actions of the state of Israel and not Jewish people, adding that earlier this week the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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[-] ShadowRam@fedia.io 218 points 3 weeks ago

WTF does NATO have anything to do with Israel or Palestine?!

WTF would leaving NATO have any effect on Israel or Palestine?!

WTF are these people even on about?

NATO’s “complicity with Israel’s military while it’s conducting its genocide in Gaza

NATO isn't helping Israel... (while some NATO members might be, that's not NATO)

It's not NATO's job to get involved with with Israel or Palestine...

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 118 points 3 weeks ago

Russian propaganda had its way to them

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[-] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago

The idea is to dethrone the US from global power because people are sick of us having our boot on their necks.

But the alternative is China wearing the boot and they've proven they would kill every non Han in the world

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

Idk why you're being downvoted, you gave a pretty fair description of the situation. Even the Han bit, China doesn't have any anti-discrimination laws and they're more than 90% Han Chinese.

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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 10 points 3 weeks ago

In the last UK election, an old-school tankie named George Galloway ran a party. One of his candidates, a former professional cricketer IIRC, called for the UK to pull out of NATO to better control immigration. To his credit, he withdrew his candidacy and dropped out of politics a week later once it became apparent how far out of his depth he was.

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[-] Magister@lemmy.world 103 points 3 weeks ago

Those young people are being manipulated by Russia! We need NATO.

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 66 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Organizers and people arrested should be put on a plane and given a tour through Ukraines east.. to see with their own eyes. Too many people seem to be unaware why a counterforce to Russia was created in the first place.

Arguing against NATO for the reasons they state just means more people will suffer like the Palestinians do.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 61 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I'm sure Canada not being allied with a bunch of other naval powers would be a lot better for the residents of Монреаль in the long run.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

It is weird that there are these protest groups wearing particular scarves that always seem to be acting in the interest of Russia.

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[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 54 points 3 weeks ago

Russia sponsored protest gets reported by local news, after the break.

They could have protested against the involvement of Canada in the war (is there any?), against Israel, in favor of a Palestine state…

[-] takeda@lemmy.world 49 points 3 weeks ago

Looks like Russia is bout wasting time and once again uses their distinguishers network.

Remember trucker blockages of supply routes they did right before the full invasion?

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[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 35 points 3 weeks ago

Glad to see all the genocide sympathizers are out here in force, playing apologist for Russia.

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[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago

Tankies be tankin’

[-] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 weeks ago

Disappointed that this happened at all, but the fact that it was only 80 people is a plus. Seems like it's just a small group of terminally online agitators.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago

Vlad's tentacles slithering into Canada.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 weeks ago

NATO isn’t the problem, support to Israel is.

[-] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 21 points 3 weeks ago

An how many of them actually have the first clue why they're asking for that?

[-] maplebar@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Expert level challenge: hit a bong every time someone blames the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on some party who isn't even fucking involved...

God forbid we ever acknowledge the basic truth that the two most culpable parties responsible for the ~80 years of war are, unsurprisingly to many, Israel and Palestine for empowering the worst possible political leaders on both sides. Netanyahu and Hams got the violence and anger that they always wanted and have been working towards for most of our lives, and somehow that's NATO's fault in the peabrain's shallow mind.

NATO is the main thing keeping the western world and democratic ideology safe from countries like Russia, Iran and China. Is this another thing we're gonna throw under the bus for no reason other than some vague, nonsensical whining about Gaza?

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[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 weeks ago

80 protesters is all Putin could afford, eh?

[-] MisterD@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago

Send them to fight in Ukraine. Let them pick a side too.

When they ask why, tell them this is what would happen if there was no NATO. They would be drafted into the war. Just like in WW2.

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