Violence erupted in downtown Windsor Sunday as angry Jewish and Palestinian protesters clashed on Riverside Drive. Some shoving occurred with some punches being thrown and some even used flag poles as weapons. If that weren't enough, children even started swearing and uttering death threats. This ridiculousness started because CUPE Ontario held a meeting here in Windsor to debate a controversial resolution to boycott some Israeli universities because of the conflict in Gaza.

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Pro Palestinian view:

“When I see the Israeli flag here, they make me angry,” said Palestinian supporter Hussein Dabaja. “They’re not honest people. They come here to lie to Canadian people, to tell them they are honest. They killed people in Gaza and they killed lots of people in Lebanon. This country is a free country. When they talk about politics, they make propaganda. People who take our country and take our land, they’re not supposed to come here to talk about freedom. They don’t know what freedom is.”

Pro Israeli view: after a Palestinian flag blew over to their lines

“They came across the street and started shouting anti-Jewish remarks and death to Jews, and we don’t want to hear that,” said Meir Weinstein, national director of the Jewish Defence League. “We shoved them back and told them to get on their side or face the consequences. No one’s going to push us around.”

More crazy rhetoric from both fronts

“Meet me half way,” shouted one woman from the Palestinian side.

Another person yelled “Hezbollah will get you.”

A man on the Jewish side screamed out “did you murder anyone today?”

*Shakes head* all this because Sid Ryan opened up a can of worms with his remarks about Israeli academics. I still stand by my views that Ryan shouldn't have gotten involved in this matter and the idiots that clashed at this protest are a good indicator as to why CUPE or any other union should stay out of foreign affairs. Let the dumb politicians handle that.

UPDATE

I am tired of hearing about "slumdog millionaire" , that is all...

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