MONTREAL — Montreal police are investigating after electronic message boards at two road construction sites in Montreal displayed pro-Palestinian political slogans Wednesday morning instead of usual traffic alerts.
The message boards that normally advise motorists of roadwork were tampered with to display phrases such as “free Palestine," “escalate now," and “globalize the intifada." By the end of the morning, the original messages had been restored at the sites.
Eta Yudin, Quebec vice-president of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, called the messages on the traffic signs an incitement to violence against Jews because"intifada" refers to terror attacks. City spokesperson Gonzalo Nunez said in an email that padlocks on the signs were broken, allowing someone to program the unauthorized messages. He said that soon after it was noticed, the original messages were restored.
Niall Clapham Ricardo with Independent Jewish Voices disputed that the messages are a call for violence, saying the slogans refer to a desire to end the violence and dispossession of Palestinians in the occupied territories as Israeli strikes continue to claim thousands of lives in Gaza.
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