As Israel's retaliatory campaign to destroy Hamas continues, antisemitism continues to explode around the globe, from the Middle East to Europe to the United States, and beyond. Now, a plan by pro-Palestinian protesters in Canada has been uncovered that should chill Jewish survivors or any descendant of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany.

First, some unconscionable history.

On November 9–10, 1938, Nazi leaders unleashed a series of pogroms against the Jewish population in Germany and recently incorporated territories. This event came to be called Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) because of the shattered glass that littered the streets after the vandalism and destruction of Jewish-owned businesses, synagogues, and homes. 

Nazi officials disguised the organized nature of the pogroms. They described the actions as justifiable and spontaneous responses of the German population to the assassination of a German diplomatic official, Ernst vom Rath, in Paris. This unprecedented violence against the Reich’s Jews generated international outrage.

During the pogrom, some 30,000 Jewish males were rounded up and taken to concentration camps. This was the first time Nazi officials made massive arrests of Jews specifically because they were Jews, without any further cause for arrest.

In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, the Nazi regime ordered the Jewish community to pay a 1 billion Reichsmark “atonement tax” and rapidly enacted many anti-Jewish laws and edicts.

And the rest was horrific history. By the war's end, an estimated 6.6 million Jews were killed by Hitler's Nazis, their allies, and their collaborators. 

With the above in mind, let's return to the plan in Canada.

"Solidarity for Palestinian Rights McGill," a student group at Canada's McGill University, scheduled a protest for Thursday that they used images of students breaking large panes of glass to promote.

Coincidence? Please.

In a direct appeal to students on Thursday, Deep Saini, principal and vice-chancellor of McGill, said he became aware of posters asking for students to partake in a “national day of shutdown” in solidarity with Palestinians.

The poster features an image of a group of individuals kicking and breaking glass windows. Publicizing an event through allusions to destruction of property is troubling. 

Far worse is using an image of people breaking glass to encourage participation in an event planned for Nov. 9, the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, a series of violent attacks in Nazi Germany that saw mobs smash the windows of synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses.

Unimaginable? Not at all.

lord have mercy

Canadian pro-Palestine activists planned an event on the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht and advertised it with posters showing people smashing windows.

It's just anti-Semitism all the way down. THEY'RE CALLING FOR KRISTALLNACHT. pic.twitter.com/wjWfhH7Xhx

— Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 (@lymanstoneky) November 9, 2023

The principal added that alluding to "an extremely dark day in world history” in communications is abhorrent and will exacerbate tensions between the Jewish and Arab communities, calling both groups “extremely vulnerable right now.”

That "both groups feel vulnerable right now" was not only interesting; it illustrated a large part of the problem. 

With due respect to pro-Palestinian protesters in Canada — or anywhere else, for that matter — who did what to them to make them feel vulnerable? On the contrary, at least prior to the ongoing events in the Middle East, antisemitic protests and crimes have occurred on a regular basis, virtually unreported as such, everywhere from New York City to beyond. Yet Israel forcefully counterattacks unspeakable terrorist attacks, and the left loses its bigoted hypocritical minds about it.

The Bottom Line

The question should be, how many of these idiot protesters knew, or even cared about, the significance of Kristallnacht? My fear is, with respect to similar antisemitic protests and crimes far beyond Canada, as well, that they know damn well the significance, and they loved every minute of it.