“The Jews control the media, control the banks, control governments, control everything,” shouted the man in front of me, cheered on by a mob of men and women who quickly assembled around him.

“Will I condemn the murder of the three Israeli teens? Speak sense! They were killed in a car accident two weeks earlier and used by the Zionists to justify the holocaust on Gaza. Their families were part of the plot.” More cheering.

Welcome to the wonderful world of a Toronto protest against the Israeli response to Hamas and its killing of Jewish kids and firing of thousands of rockets into Israel.

There was several hundred Palestinians lined up across the road from the Israeli consulate, joined by Muslims from various countries and a few dozen Marxists and even a couple of ultra-orthodox Jews. These fringe anti-Israel Jews – some of them appearing to be disturbed - are paraded around at every demonstration, and on this night were pushed in front of me quite aggressively to prove that the Holocaust-denying, Jew-hating lunatics to whom I was speaking were not anti-Semitic. Quite so.

Not that every person there was motivated by racism, and I can understand the anger of the Palestinians. They have been mistreated by other Arabs for generations, used by their leaders, manipulated by Islamism and do have a genuine case for a two-state solution. The suffering of any innocents is obscene. Problem is, every time Israel does things like leave Gaza or give up the Sinai, the result is not peace but more terror.

But back to the gates of hell. I was repeatedly pushed, screamed at, called a racist, threatened, and one very white leftist said he would pour Coke over me. I said if he did I would “resist him” and use whatever force was necessary. He gave a silly grin and backed down. His comrade was distributing leaflets advertising the previous week’s gay pride. I explained that Israel had pride parades in all of its major cities but they were illegal in the Arab world. I told him that I had gay Palestinian friends who had to leave for Haifa and Tel Aviv out of fear for their lives. The idiots laughed.

A man called Elias Hazineh, a former assistant to Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish and failed Mississauga council candidate, roared at me for several minutes and told me that if I ever criticized Israel I’d be fired from Sun News. Hazineh had been on my former TV show at least a dozen times by the way.

This is significant. Almost all of the people I spoke to shared the view that Jews have a supernatural influence. None of my employers are Jewish, none have ever told me what to write or say. But Jew-obsession permeates anti-Israel protests. Witness, for example, the latest “Hitler was right” hashtag, the most popular in all of Pakistan.

Speaking of Pakistan, there were Muslims from numerous Islamic dictatorships where women, gays, minorities and dissidents are treated appallingly. Irrelevant to these fanatics. All that concerned them was a Jew-free Middle East.

Peace? Not if these ghouls are in any way typical, and I rather fear they are.