The One Year Anniversary

 

The entrance to my office building this morning. The riding office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs is my tenant. So a couple of people with a flag, two folding chairs and some chalk - perhaps there will be friends arriving soon - have set up camp. They have decided that the anniversary of a massacre of Israeli Jews was an appropriate time to protest against Israel and Canadian government policy supporting Israel (in whatever minimum, ambiguous way they have). They write "365 days of Joly (the name of the Minister) Genocide," which of course, is inaccurate. It's actually been 365 days of captivity for Israeli hostages, 365 days since a pogrom by Hamas terrorists, since a barbaric slaughter was unleashed against innocents while they danced at a music festival and families while they slept in their homes. Do I go down and point out the inaccuracy? The revision of history? The repugnance of trying to flip the script on the anniversary of a bloodbath that has set in motion so much anguish and heartbreak across the Middle East and around the world. I would go talk to them if I thought it would accomplish something. But I think they know exactly what they are doing. And that's the worst part. Not their ignorance, their shamelessness.