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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    9 hours 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…

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      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

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      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.