A man dances on the Israeli flag as students gather outside Concordia University to protest the ongoing conflict in Gaza. The students are seen in Montreal, on Thursday, November 21, 2024.Photo by Allen McInnis/Montreal Gazette

Second Cup shuts café over Nazi salute, 'Final Solution is Coming' chant

The incident came as chaotic anti-NATO activists rioted through the city on Friday, leading to smashed windows, burnt cars, several arrests and clashes with local law enforcement

by · National Post

The Second Cup café chain has shut down a store it says is linked to a Montreal franchisee who gave pro-Israel demonstrators a Nazi salute and chanted, “The Final Solution is coming.”

In videos shared on social media, the woman was filmed wearing a keffiyeh, a traditional Palestinian scarf, black sunglasses and a medical mask initially obscuring her identity. Over the course of the weekend, as news of the incident went viral and drew stern condemnation from across the political spectrum, she was linked to a Second Cup café inside the city’s Jewish General Hospital.