Vancouver Gaza protest a New Kind of ‘Vicious’: Israel Advocate
Posted on: January 1, 2009

Our own Adam Carroll is interviewed by the Georgia Straight about a pro-Palestinian protest in Vancouver:  “I’ve probably gone to more anti-Israel protests than most anti-Israel protesters, because I go to them for my job just to keep tabs on what’s happening,” Carroll told the Straight in a cellphone interview today (December 30), from the site of yesterday’s protest. “I don’t think I’ve ever been to one as radical and as vicious as the one I went to yesterday. There was a bile in the air that I’d never, never seen before. There’s always been “Free, free Palestine” and some of the more benign chants, but “Viva, viva intifada”, you know, and those sorts of armed resistance calls, no. Those are new. For me, anyway. And hearing individuals chanting ‘We are all Hamas’ and things along those lines was a bit unsettling.”

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