{"id":35239,"date":"2026-10-29T20:55:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=35239"},"modified":"2026-10-29T20:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:55:47","slug":"what-kind-of-quebec-and-canada-have-we-become-when-a-citizen-is-arrested-for-holding-an-israeli-flag-at-a-cycling-race-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/what-kind-of-quebec-and-canada-have-we-become-when-a-citizen-is-arrested-for-holding-an-israeli-flag-at-a-cycling-race-in-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"What kind of Qu\u00e9bec and Canada have we become when a citizen is arrested for &#8220;holding an Israeli flag at a cycling race in Montreal&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/A-question-mark-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28311\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.777738478618896;width:357px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/A-question-mark-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/A-question-mark-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/A-question-mark-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/A-question-mark-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/A-question-mark.jpg 1288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Bambi just learned while reading the Montreal Gazette as well as the Canadian Jewish News (<a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ypd6xbnc\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ypd6xbnc<\/a>; ; <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/mrxff9pe\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/mrxff9pe<\/a>) the following: &#8220;Daniel Bercovici filed the lawsuit in Quebec Superior Court over his Sept.14, 2025, arrest at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montr\u00e9al event, where he displayed an Israeli flag in support of the Israel Premier Tech cycling team. The team had attracted anti-Israel demonstrators protesting the participation of Israeli athletes, part of a coordinated series of demonstrations worldwide&#8221;. It seems that, Mr. Bercovici was arrested, with an unmeasured force, while expressing his citizen right, waving the flag of a country he likes (i.e. Israel). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether one is fan of Israel or not, why was this citizen arrested with an unmeasured force? Why was he arrested at all? Is it because the police is afraid of the larger demonstrating, hostile crowd? Instead of calming everyone fairly, they target individuals who are deemed less dangerous? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why can some citizens wave a Palestinian flag and others cannot wave an Israeli flag? We are in Qu\u00e9bec\/Canada, for God&#8217;s sake. We are not in the Middle East when countries are occupying each other, when they do not use each other as proxies, and people from different tribes or nations, on each side of eternal conflicts, are expected to keep hating each other endlessly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Die Gedanken sind frei (+ english translation)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wf714QxbZvs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/heart-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/heart-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/heart-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bambi just learned while reading the Montreal Gazette as well as the Canadian Jewish News (https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ypd6xbnc; ; https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/mrxff9pe) the following: &#8220;Daniel Bercovici filed the lawsuit in Quebec Superior Court over his Sept.14, 2025, arrest at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sackvillesmemorialpark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35243,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35239\/revisions\/35243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}