Re: Canadian pilot Richard Rohmer, 100, recalls D-Day invasion: ‘This is what we’d been hoping for’ — Joseph Brean, June 4; and Trudeau and Ford decry ‘vile and despicable’ antisemitic acts at Jewish schools — Catherine Lévesque, May 30 This week we observed the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings on the beaches of Normandy, where thousands of young Canadian, American and British men made the ultimate sacrifice by leaping from their landing craft and planes into the jaws of war. This was a war against a regime so evil that one of its aims was the worldwide murder of Jews. Those young men died on D-Day to ensure that the Nazi regime was eradicated.
Eighty years later we have a regime just as evil, Hamas, calling for the same. Young people on our campuses and in our streets scream in support of Hamas. They cover their faces to remain incognito.
They are the antithesis of the heroes of D-Day. They should be ashamed. Those soldiers died on D-Day so that these masked cowards could live in freedom.
Let them instead protest the 400,000 Syrian civilians slaughtered in Bashar Assad’s civil war or the 500,000 civilians being starved and slaughtered by ethnic Arabs in Sudan. Canadians have had enough. Authorities must clamp down hard on these antisemitic protesters.
Ban them from the universities; there is no place in our society for them. Their reprehensible behaviour — shooting at Jewish schools, firebombing synagogues and advocating for the killing of Jews — .
