If Anthony Housefather’s car was set ablaze, would it be linked to Palestine and antisemitism? Why is confirmed and probable Zionist violence treated differently? Should we also be pointing a figure at those inciting it?
In the middle of the night Wednesday Liberal MP Salma Zaid had her car set ablaze. Video shows a man pouring gasoline on five cars in her Scarborough driveway. He succeeds in burning two of them and runs off when the gas container catches fire. Reportedly, cars were also set ablaze near the MP’s house in 2024.
The prime minister and leader of the main opposition parties, as well as multiple Muslim organizations, expressed their solidarity with Zaid. Conspicuously, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, B’nai Brith and Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center have stayed mum on the (probably) hate motivated arson. Ditto for Zaid’s ultra–Jewish supremacist Liberal colleague Anthony Housefather. In fact, I couldn’t find any comment on the matter from a mainstream Jewish Zionist organization.
An arson at the home of Canada’s first veiled MP, who has been the party’s most vocal critic of Israel’s genocide and apartheid, follows on the heels of an assault by a Jewish Zionist at a Palestine rally in Montreal. As I reported, Robert Moisecu shoved a camera into a photographer’s face, screamed slurs and uttered death threats against an Arab during a pro-Palestinian rally on Monday. More information has emerged about the scope of the former Israeli soldier’s criminal background. As late as last year Moisecu was caught robbing a restaurant and in 2015 he killed a British tourist in Tel Aviv with a fatal dose of fentanyl.
In a violent, racist, Substack post boasting about his actions Monday Moisecu admits, “Yes.. I was a terrible human being. I killed.. robbed.. assaulted.. used narcotics.. smoked.. fucked and drank my way through life.. everyone has their idiosyncrasies. Believe it or not.. I have changed.”
In “‘Bad’ Jews like me… won’t stay silent” Moisecu utters multiple threats and concludes, “We are at war. we are active combatants whether you know it or not. Trotsky once said, ‘You may not be interested in war, but war may be interested in you.’ Arm the fuck up.”
At the bottom of a commentary noting “I may as well use my innate predisposition to kinetic conflict resolution in the defense of western civilization”, Moisecu includes two posts with my name marked prominently and another with a photo of Toronto journalist Samira Mohyeddin.
Moisecu followed up his Substack rant with another post explicitly threatening to attack the next pro-Palestinian demonstration in Montreal.
(After popular outrage online, the Montreal police announced that their hate crimes unit was investigating his actions at the Monday rally. They haven’t, however, arrested Moisecu despite his threats. In contrast, the Montreal police jailed me for five days in a failed bid to impose onerous conditions regarding a charge they ultimately dropped.)
Local Jewish organizations, fighting in IOF, family living in illegal Israeli settlement, etc. likely radicalized Moisecu. More specifically, three days before the Montreal city council vote, former Conservative party candidate Neil Oberman released a video calling on Zionists to “go down there … [to show] we reject your impairment, we reject your sickness.” Montreal’s leading Zionist lawfare activist angrily added “take back our city, take back our province, take back our country, take back your dignity.”
Did Oberman’s word influence Moisecu?
Similarly, was the person responsible for the arson at Zaid’s home influenced by the violent rhetoric coming from the newly created Jewish Defence Force? The former head of the fascistic Jewish Defence League, Meir Weinstein, recently set up a Toronto organization named after the genocidal Israeli Defence Force.
Israel supporters’ response about the arson at a Liberal MP’s house and Robert Moisecu’s attack is deafening in its silence.
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