In 1980, the PFLP terrorist group bombed a Paris synagogue during Sabbath services, wounding dozens of people and killing four.

About 300 worshippers were attending the Shabbat service and celebrating five bar mitzvahs that Friday evening when, at 6:35 p.m., a bomb exploded right outside the synagogue. The door was blown up, the glass ceiling collapsed on the worshippers; wooden benches were projected across the room.

Outside the synagogue, the scene was even more gruesome. In his book about the case, the French journalist Jean Chichizola described “cars thrown on the road like children’s toys,” “flames licking the upper floors of adjacent buildings” and “shop windows blown up all along the street.”

In what looked like a war zone lay four bodies. Israeli TV journalist Aliza Shagrir, 44, was hit by the blast as she walked by. Philippe Boissou, 22, who was riding by on his motorcycle, also died on the spot. Driver Jean-Michel Barbé was found dead in his car, which was parked right outside the synagogue where he was awaiting clients attending the service. Nearby, a hotel worker named Hilario Lopes-Fernandez was seriously injured and died two days later.

Investigators quickly established that the bomb had been placed in the saddlebag of a Suzuki motorcycle parked in front of the synagogue. It was meant to go off precisely as the worshippers left the building, which would undoubtedly have killed many more people. But the ceremony had started a few minutes late.

The attack was ultimately attributed to an extremist group in the Middle East, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-Special Operations, and investigators alleged that (Hassan) Diab had planted the bomb.

After over 40 years, Hassan Diab was recently tried and convicted in absentia in France.

The Trudeau government, which declared a bunch of truck drivers to be terrorists, has refused to extradite Diab back to France. Instead, Diab teaches a class on ‘Social Justice in Action’ at Carleton University in Ottawa.

The topic of Diab’s class on ‘Social Justice in Action’ is his own claim of victimhood. The class takes place in Carleton’s ‘Loeb’ building named after the Jewish family behind the Loeb supermarket chain.

In academia, ‘Social Justice in Action’ is bombing synagogues and killing Jews.