Not particularly surprising, but it would be nice to see some counter protestors to send a message that this type of bigotry isn’t welcome in Canada.
CallMeRudiger on
Good news, though it’s what I expected. The mischaracterization of the event as hateful always lacked substance, and we thankfully designed our anti-hate laws to be robust against pernicious use like this.
beastmaster11 on
I dont know much about the day so I wont comment on it. But it was so obvious the injunction would fail that it was nothing mkre than an expensive virtue signaling to Ford’s base. He knew it wouldn’t pass and he did it anyway with our money.
If Ford is against this, he should have personally funded the injunction request or he has every right to organize and attend a counter protest
RNTMA on
Seems nobody is ever consistent about these protests. Whenever there is a left wing protest, the right wants it just down, just as whenever there’s a right wing protest the left wants it shut down, and both sides harp endlessly about how they’re on the side of justice. I don’t have any dog in the fight, but the hypocrisy is annoying.
Apolloshot on
Allow the rally to proceed, because democracy is better off when our governments don’t squash peaceful right to gathering.
But if we’re also of the mindset legislation like C-9 is okey-dokey then there better be police officers there to arrest every single speaker who makes an antisemitic comment — because you know there’s going to be.
Stoic_Vagabond on
Are we surprised? He made the day known even more because he opened his mouth. Streisand effect with a failed injunction. Good job there boomer
lewisfairchild on
Milestones in Hezbollah’s History A timeline showing milestones in Hezbollah’s history.
1943: After twenty-three years as a French mandate, Lebanon gains independence. Its new leaders sign the National Pact, which creates a government system dividing power among the major religious groups.
1971: The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) relocates its headquarters from Jordan to Lebanon.
1975–1990: Lebanon’s civil war rages as the country’s religious, political, and ethnic sects vie for control, leading to invasions by Israel and Syria and the involvement of the United States and other Western forces, as well as the United Nations.
1983: In April, Beirut’s U.S. embassy is bombed, killing 63 people. In October, suicide attacks on barracks housing U.S. and French troops kill 305 people. A U.S. court decides Hezbollah is behind the attacks.
1984: A car bombing attributed to Hezbollah kills dozens of people at the U.S. embassy annex in Beirut.
1985: Hezbollah releases its first manifesto.
1989: Lebanon’s parliamentarians meet in Taif, Saudi Arabia, and sign an agreement to end the civil war and grant Syria guardianship over Lebanon. The agreement also orders all militias except for Hezbollah to disarm.
1992: In March, the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires is bombed in an attack attributed to Hezbollah. Later this year, Hassan Nasrallah becomes Hezbollah’s secretary-general after Israeli forces assassinate his predecessor. Hezbollah wins eight seats in Parliament after participating in national elections for the first time.
1994: Car bombings at Israel’s London embassy and a Buenos Aires Jewish community center are attributed to Hezbollah.
1997: The United States designates Hezbollah a foreign terrorist organization.
2005: Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri is assassinated. His death, attributed to Syria, kick-starts the Cedar Revolution. A UN tribunal later implicates Hezbollah in Hariri’s death.
2006: Hezbollah abducts two Israeli soldiers, sparking a monthlong war with Israel that leaves more than one thousand Lebanese and fifty Israelis dead.
2009: Hezbollah releases an updated manifesto that expresses more openness to the democratic process.
2011: Syria descends into civil war. Hezbollah eventually sends thousands of fighters to support Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
2012: A suicide bombing targeting a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Bulgaria kills six people. The European Union blames Hezbollah.
2013: The EU designates Hezbollah’s armed wing a terrorist organization after considerable debate among the bloc’s members.
2018: Israel discovers miles of tunnels into Israel from southern Lebanon that it says belong to Hezbollah.
2019: Economic woes trigger mass protests calling for the political elite, including Hezbollah, to give up power. Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigns.
2020: Hezbollah vows revenge after a U.S. drone strike kills Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Solemaini. Later this year, a top judge begins investigating officials tied to Hezbollah in relation to explosions at a Beirut port that kill hundreds.
2023: Hezbollah launches attacks across the Israel-Lebanon border in a show of support for Palestinians amid the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. Hezbollah and Israel trade attacks at the border well into 2024, raising fears that Lebanon will be dragged into a full-scale war.
2024: Israel kills longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an air strike. This follows a series of strikes that kill other leaders and an attack triggering explosions in pagers used by the group’s members that results in thousands wounded.
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Not particularly surprising, but it would be nice to see some counter protestors to send a message that this type of bigotry isn’t welcome in Canada.
Good news, though it’s what I expected. The mischaracterization of the event as hateful always lacked substance, and we thankfully designed our anti-hate laws to be robust against pernicious use like this.
I dont know much about the day so I wont comment on it. But it was so obvious the injunction would fail that it was nothing mkre than an expensive virtue signaling to Ford’s base. He knew it wouldn’t pass and he did it anyway with our money.
If Ford is against this, he should have personally funded the injunction request or he has every right to organize and attend a counter protest
Seems nobody is ever consistent about these protests. Whenever there is a left wing protest, the right wants it just down, just as whenever there’s a right wing protest the left wants it shut down, and both sides harp endlessly about how they’re on the side of justice. I don’t have any dog in the fight, but the hypocrisy is annoying.
Allow the rally to proceed, because democracy is better off when our governments don’t squash peaceful right to gathering.
But if we’re also of the mindset legislation like C-9 is okey-dokey then there better be police officers there to arrest every single speaker who makes an antisemitic comment — because you know there’s going to be.
Are we surprised? He made the day known even more because he opened his mouth. Streisand effect with a failed injunction. Good job there boomer
Milestones in Hezbollah’s History A timeline showing milestones in Hezbollah’s history.
1943: After twenty-three years as a French mandate, Lebanon gains independence. Its new leaders sign the National Pact, which creates a government system dividing power among the major religious groups.
1971: The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) relocates its headquarters from Jordan to Lebanon.
1975–1990: Lebanon’s civil war rages as the country’s religious, political, and ethnic sects vie for control, leading to invasions by Israel and Syria and the involvement of the United States and other Western forces, as well as the United Nations.
1983: In April, Beirut’s U.S. embassy is bombed, killing 63 people. In October, suicide attacks on barracks housing U.S. and French troops kill 305 people. A U.S. court decides Hezbollah is behind the attacks.
1984: A car bombing attributed to Hezbollah kills dozens of people at the U.S. embassy annex in Beirut.
1985: Hezbollah releases its first manifesto.
1989: Lebanon’s parliamentarians meet in Taif, Saudi Arabia, and sign an agreement to end the civil war and grant Syria guardianship over Lebanon. The agreement also orders all militias except for Hezbollah to disarm.
1992: In March, the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires is bombed in an attack attributed to Hezbollah. Later this year, Hassan Nasrallah becomes Hezbollah’s secretary-general after Israeli forces assassinate his predecessor. Hezbollah wins eight seats in Parliament after participating in national elections for the first time.
1994: Car bombings at Israel’s London embassy and a Buenos Aires Jewish community center are attributed to Hezbollah.
1997: The United States designates Hezbollah a foreign terrorist organization.
2005: Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri is assassinated. His death, attributed to Syria, kick-starts the Cedar Revolution. A UN tribunal later implicates Hezbollah in Hariri’s death.
2006: Hezbollah abducts two Israeli soldiers, sparking a monthlong war with Israel that leaves more than one thousand Lebanese and fifty Israelis dead.
2009: Hezbollah releases an updated manifesto that expresses more openness to the democratic process.
2011: Syria descends into civil war. Hezbollah eventually sends thousands of fighters to support Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
2012: A suicide bombing targeting a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Bulgaria kills six people. The European Union blames Hezbollah.
2013: The EU designates Hezbollah’s armed wing a terrorist organization after considerable debate among the bloc’s members.
2018: Israel discovers miles of tunnels into Israel from southern Lebanon that it says belong to Hezbollah.
2019: Economic woes trigger mass protests calling for the political elite, including Hezbollah, to give up power. Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigns.
2020: Hezbollah vows revenge after a U.S. drone strike kills Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Solemaini. Later this year, a top judge begins investigating officials tied to Hezbollah in relation to explosions at a Beirut port that kill hundreds.
2023: Hezbollah launches attacks across the Israel-Lebanon border in a show of support for Palestinians amid the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. Hezbollah and Israel trade attacks at the border well into 2024, raising fears that Lebanon will be dragged into a full-scale war.
2024: Israel kills longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an air strike. This follows a series of strikes that kill other leaders and an attack triggering explosions in pagers used by the group’s members that results in thousands wounded.
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounders/what-hezbollah