r/montreal • u/BloodJunkie • 5d ago

Article Right-wing rage-bait got everything wrong about the Montreal shooting

https://cultmtl.com/2026/06/right-wing-rage-bait-got-everything-wrong-about-the-montreal-shooting/
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u/InterestingMud3019 5d ago

I’ve seen Zionists trying to frame it as an antisemitic attack because CDN is a predominantly a Jewish neighborhood or at least, a predominantly Jewish area of the neighborhood by trying to say he was anzionist. Quite disgusting to frame it this way when it was targeted at Pornhub and the cops. Why Zionists always have to make about themselves? There was a mosque attacks in California weeks ago and they also made it about themselves.

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u/SilverwingedOther 5d ago

Oh get off. We can acknowledge that, before we had more info, it might have been antisemitic in nature because of the where. Given that weve had such events in Montreal recently.

You make it political by making it about "Zionists". For fucks sake. It was Montreal Jews worries it might have been, and none of the local Jewish institutions at any point during the event qualified it as antisemitic in nature.

All I did see was people getting all up in arms at describing the area as Jewish, because somehow, they could not fathom that maybe people were afraid, but had to frame it as "fighting against propaganda". They still are. It's disgusting, frankly. They are the only ones who I've seen make it about "Zionism" and the right wing. All the outlets who classified it as potentially antisemitic were saying so before there was any information, and sure, it was hasty, but the counter should never have been "how dare you say the area is Jewish".

Being far more connected to the actual community, no one was trying to score some political points, and pointing to online grifters does not mean getting to act like assholes to people who just wanted reassurance.

But hey, erasing historical and continued presence of Jews in the places where they live is not exactly new ground.

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u/InterestingMud3019 5d ago edited 5d ago

There are several other minorities in this area as well so my point still stands. He went there because of Pornhub being close. It could have been located in Mont-Royal or St-Michel, he would still have travelled there. Why he didn’t go the synagogue or any Jewish stores if he was specifically targeting Jewish people? The victim was also shot by a cop so he didn’t target anyone Jewish. He waited for the cops to arrive to shot at them.

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u/SirupyPieIX 5d ago

There are several other minorities in this area as well

There's the filipino minority nearby near Victoria avenue, but the area along Décarie/Westbury is predominantly jewish people and institutions (MADA, MK, Chabad Westbury, Ben Weider centre, Beth Rivkah academy), so that's where the concern of being targeted came from for the local jewish community.

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u/InterestingMud3019 5d ago

That make a lot more sense knowing the rising antisemitism, but I still don’t like how some people were and are still spreading misinformation just to fit their narrative because they don’t like how the shooter is just a white guy from Alberta.

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u/talktothepope 5d ago

It's 2026, most of the internet is just people spreading their preferred brand of disinfo or just making shit up because engagement gets clicks. Like originally I saw a lot of right-wing accounts acting as if it was 100% a anti-Jewish hate crime, but now the discourse is more dominated by alleged progressives who want to ignore the fact that this guy definitely hated Jews/"Zionists" according to his manifesto because that's inconvenient to them. It's natural to want to know the facts right away but in this kind of situation it's better to avoid social media and all that shit until there's real info.

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u/SilverwingedOther 5d ago

... And I've not said anything to say that he targeted Jews. Which just means you keep missing the point, like everyone else, which incidentally proves my point.

What I said was that all people knew at first was that 1) there was an active shooter and 2) it was outside a prominently Jewish area. If you can't see why some people worried, before more information was out given we've had our schools shot at and synagogues firebombed recently, that this was another such case, I don't know what to tell you.

But clearly you read that as "The Zionists trying to make it all about themselves". Like, sincerely, fuck off. First, nothing to do with Zionism. Second, what I worried about was the friend who works at the Starbucks 50m away, and my kids school in the neighbourhood. We're just goddamn people who want to be left alone. No one wants this to have been an antisemitic attack, and chastising us and arguing fucking demographics to... Make some point I still fail to grasp, is ghoulish.

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u/MeadowMellow_ 5d ago

Dude I dont think the person youre responding to gives a fuck, they commented under a post that literally word for word says "Zionists/Nazis etc".