WARMINGTON: Gaza protest delays commuters at Union Station

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The TTC or Metrolinx can’t be faulted for any delays in this morning’s commute into downtown Toronto.

Blame this with one on Hamas – and those supporting the terror group under the guise of claiming they are pro-Palestine.

The morning train delay had nothing to do with the GO trains or TTC subways not running on time. This slow trip into Toronto’s core had more to do with several hundred protesters.

Pro Hamas protesters can take over lobbies of banks, places of businesses, or inside Union Station during morning rush-hour as they did today with messages of cease-fire, or free Gaza from the Jews. But the one thing never heard at the endless gatherings were the words “free the hostages.”

Never.

You also will never hear any of them acknowledge the Oct. 7 massacre perpetrated by the very Hamas terrorists that they so vocally support.

Canada would jail truckers, cancel their bank accounts and imprison Christian pastors, shinny hockey players, or rollerbladers for breaking lockdown mandates but act as facilitators for this movement.

The rules don’t apply to them. The police are there but more in a concierge role.

Overall, however, police have prevented things from getting worse. But it is frustrating for Jewish Torontonians who don’t feel comfortable having to walk through such an angry mob — many of them not from the region and likely couldn’t point it out on a map, let alone be able to say they have been there.

Many of them just come through as anti-Semitic and anti-Israel.

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Everybody knows is there was a similar series of actions by Christians Jews, or any other group towards Palestinians, the police wouldn’t just stand there looking like doormen and the politicians would be loud with their denouncements.

This crowd feels it runs this city. The politicians seem to be OK with that.

No one should be able to impede someone going to work on transit, going to the bank or going into a restaurant or day care. But they do it every day in Toronto.

The big concern next is how far will they take it. This is the 85th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s Kristallnacht and we are on the eve of Remembrance Day.

Time will tell.

The protesters should understand that if they even dare to try to mess with Remembrance Day ceremonies on Nov. 11, they won’t get a red carpet rollout from veterans. The veterans fought and died to give them the right to protest but that good will ends when vandals desecrate Canada’s war memorials.

It happened once at the 48th Highlanders monument at north Queen’s Park in the last month, when someone wrote Palestine where it paid tribute to our war dead in Afghanistan.

Veterans are keeping watch on sacred remembrance locations around the GTA to make sure it doesn’t happen again.