Islamic school apologizes for anti-Semitic material on website
CBC News Posted: May 8, 2012 1:23 PM ET Last Updated: May 8, 2012 4:51 PM ET
A Toronto Islamic school that is under police investigation after anti-Semitic teachings were found on its website is apologizing “unreservedly” for its curriculum material, which is now being reviewed.

The Toronto District School Board is also reviewing a complaint that the East End Madrassah was teaching children that “treacherous” Jews “conspired to kill” the Islamic prophet Mohammed. It also contrasted Islam with “the Jews and the Nazis.”

The complaint came from the Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which found the material on the school’s website.

The East End Madrassah, a Sunday school run that rents space in a Scarborough school, is run by a Thornhill, Ont., mosque. It has since taken the material off the website, but copies are still available online.

Incidents increase by 9.4%: B’nai Brith

By KATHERINE WILTON

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.”

Retarded vandals broke into and defaced about 15 of 50 Jewish-owned summer homes in Val David. In one home, at least one of the vandals defecated on the floor, said Pinkas Feferkorn, director of the Val Morin synagogue. Photograph by: Pinkas Feferkorn

Vandals paint swastikas on Jewish-owned summer cottages in Quebec
By Andy Riga, Postmedia News April 16, 2012

Vandals broke into and defaced about 15 of 50 Jewish-owned summer homes in Val David. In one home, at least one of the vandals defecated on the floor, said Pinkas Feferkorn, director of the Val Morin synagogue.
Photograph by: Pinkas Feferkorn

MONTREAL — Vandals broke into several Jewish-owned summer cottages in Quebec in recent days, defacing at least two of them with anti-Jewish hate messages and swastikas.

The Quebec provincial police is investigating the break-ins in Val Morin, 90 kilometres northwest of Montreal in the Laurentians, but could not confirm Sunday that anti-Jewish graffiti was present.

No one was in the homes during the incidents.

Some break-ins occurred Thursday and others were reported Sunday, said Surete du Quebec spokesperson Ingrid Asselin. The vandals broke into about 15 of the 50 Jewish-owned homes in the area, said Pinkas Feferkorn, director of the Val Morin synagogue.

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Furniture was damaged, clothes and toys were thrown out windows and in one house, at least one of the vandals defecated on the floor, Feferkorn said.

Swastikas were spray-painted on the outside of one house. In another, swastikas were painted all over the interior, along with at least one phrase: “F–k Juif.”

Police-reported hate crimes down sharply in 2010

CTVNews.ca Staff

Statistics Canada says police reported 1,401 hate crimes in 2010 or 4.1 for every 100,000 people

Hate crimes reported to police based on race and religion dropped dramatically in 2010, but stayed about the same for sexual orientation, Statistics Canada says.

There were 1,401 reported hate crimes in 2010 or 4.1 for every 100,000 people, a rate which is down 18 per cent compared to 2009, stats released Thursday show.

Violent hate crimes, which account for one-in-three incidents, declined the most, StatsCan said.

About 95 per cent of all reported hate crimes involved race, religion or sexual orientation.

Race and ethnicity made up 707 of the complaints, while 395 were related to religion and 218 linked to sexual orientation.

Racial hate crimes were down 20 per cent from 2009, religion-related complaints dropped 17 per cent and sexual orientation incidents remained about the same.

Suspect yanked shopper’s hijab in grocery store

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The scene of the crime

Kingston, Ont., police are asking for the public’s help after a woman allegedly pulled on another woman’s hijab, which police are calling a hate crime assault.

Police said a woman was finishing her grocery shopping at a store around 5 p.m. ET on Jan. 28 when another customer came from behind her and pulled on her hijab.

They said the suspect yanked the head covering so hard it forced the victim to bend backward. The suspect then let go and left the store without saying a word.

The female suspect is described as Caucasian, slim, about 40 to 45 years old, with long black hair and was with a male companion.

Surveillance images of the suspect an associate and the victim can be viewed on the Kingston police website.

“He’s like a big elephant,” Gonzales said at the time. “He walks around, trots around, doesn’t know too much. He can’t get no better, and he smells like s—, man.”

Stevenson, Gonzales to fight with fists … and lawyers?
By Herb Zurkowsky, Postmedia News February 17, 2012

Adonis Stevenson (L) and Jesus Gonzales exchange words during the photo-op after the weigh-in at the Bell Centre in Montreal on Friday, February 17, 2012 for the main event of boxing card this Saturday night at the Bell Centre between Stevenson and Gonzales for the International Boxing Federation Intercontinental title.
Photograph by: Dave Sidaway , The Gazette

MONTREAL — Professional boxers are notoriously lousy actors.

They invariably yuk it up for the cameras and pretend to hate their opponents. And then, when the bout ends, they hug each other. It’s one of the best-known dichotomies of the sweet science.

Except this time.