Incidents increase by 9.4%: B’nai Brith
A few weeks after thugs vandalized several Jewish-owned summer cottages in the Laurentians, a human rights organization says anti-Semitic incidents were on the rise in Montreal last year.
There were 303 incidents reported in Montreal, a 9.4 per cent increase from the 277 cases documented in 2010, according to the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada, which released its annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents across Canada.
Vandalism against Montreal’s Jewish community jumped from 51 cases in 2010 to 75 in 2011. The incidents include attacks on synagogues and cars being vandalized with swastikas and anti-Semitic slurs.
Montreal has one of the largest Jewish populations in Canada and “an increase in immigration, in part, brings prejudice from other countries,” said Moise Moghrabi, the League’s Quebec chair.
“When there is a flare up in the Middle East, they hold the Jewish population responsible.”
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