Anti-Semitic Attacks in Canada in 2007

Anti-Semitic Attacks in Canada

2007

According to a recent report, anti-Semitic activity in Canada has risen to its highest level in 25 years, according to a report by the organization B'nai B'rith. Almost two thirds of all incidents were categorized as harassment, one third as vandalism, and about 3 per cent as violence. Incidents include physical assaults, threatening phone calls, internet hate-mongering, synagogue vandalism, Holocaust denial and the firebombing of a Montreal Jewish school. The overall number of anti-Semitic incidents is about 13 per cent higher than in 2005, double the tally of five years ago and four times higher than it was ten years ago. For more information, see: http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/news/globalnews/gn_archives/2007/03/gn_070326_canada.html

January: The oldest synagogue in Alberta was desecrated when a swastika and anti-Semitic graffiti were scrawled on the entrance wooden doors minutes before a visit by Premier Ed Stelmach to mark Beth Israel Synagogue's 100th anniversary.
January: The war of words has coincided with Russian-related vandalism this winter in Cote des Neiges. On December, swastikas and anti-semitic slogans in Russian - "Yids are garbage," "Yids should die" - were spray-painted on a Westbury Ave. synagogue, the Saidye Bronfman Centre and Federation CJA.
March: A TTC bus driver called police after seeing a man throw something through four windows of the Chabad of Midtown Jewish Centre on Bathurst St., south of St. Clair Ave. W., around 2 a.m., said Toronto police Const. Victor Kwong. The 20-year-old suspect was arrested within minutes. "It wasn't hard to find him because ... he was found to be with clothing and items that are representative of neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups," Kwong said, confirming the man was wearing a swastika.
A Jewish center in the Canadian city of Montreal was targeted in a bomb attack over the Passover holiday.The bomb detonated at Montreal’s Ben Weider Jewish Community Center failed to cause any injuries or deaths, though workers were present at the time of the explosion. Damage was caused to the building.
Justice served: The Jewish community applauded the Montreal police
for the arrests last week of two men, Omar Bulphred, 24, and
Azim Ibragimov, 22, reportedly Muslims, for the firebombing
attacks on the YM-YWHA Ben Weider Jewish Community Centre in
Snowdon on April 3 and on the chassidic Skver Toldos Yakov Yosef
school in Outremont on Sept. 2.
Awaiting Justice: Two men accused of firebombing Jewish institutions in Montreal, Canada, will remain in jail pending the outcome of their trials. Quebec court judge Celine Lamontagne has denied bail to Omar Bulphred, 21. In late April, another judge also denied bail to Azim Ibragimov, 23. The men are accused of setting off homemade bombs at a Jewish school and community centre as well as setting a vehicle on fire.

July 23 2007 Posted by under 2007 by Country

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Anti-Semitic Attacks in Canada in 2007

Anti-Semitic Attacks in Canada

2007

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