Protesters at Cavendish Mall in Montreal attempted to disrupt a screening of 'October 8'

Protesters at Cavendish Mall in Montreal attempted to disrupt a screening of 'October 8'

About a dozen people arrived at the Cavendish Mall around 7 p.m. on April 7, and assumed their positions outside the doorway of the CinéStarz multiplex theatre. It was because the shopping centre, located in the Montreal suburb of Côte Saint-Luc, was playing host to a special Monday night screening of the documentary film about events triggered by what happened in Israel exactly 18 months earlier. October 8, directed by Wendy Sachs, documents th…

Anti-Israel activists protest at Quartier Cavendish

Some 20 mostly masked anti-Israel activists calling themselves Jews 4 Palestinian Liberation protested at Côte St. Luc’s Quartier Cavendish at the showing of the movie October 8, about the rise of antisemitism following the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack…