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Andrew Scheer, leader of the Conservative Party, has vowed to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital if he wins the October national election.
Incidents of vandalism, however, decreased from 327 to 221, while such violent attacks also dropped, from 16 in 2017 to 11 in 2018.
“It’s worth noting that Quebec’s famously secular society has for decades tolerated the existence of a large crucifix over the chair of the speaker of their provincial legislature,” Canadian pundit Neil Macdonald. “This, argue Quebec nationalists, is a symbol of history, not religion.”
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin also noted the Canadian parliament’s decision to freeze its relations with Iran and to declare the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization.
“It’s shameful that Canadian university students are using Western platforms to discriminate against the Jewish people and the only democratic state in the Middle East: Israel,” said Avi Benlolo, president and CEO of the Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
“Statistics, Media and Organizations of Jewry in the United States and Canada” is a 137-page document written in German and constructed by Heinz Kloss, a prominent German linguist who was in touch with American Nazi sympathizers.
More than half of all people questioned and 62 percent of millennial demographic did not know that 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust • 52 percent of millennial respondents could not name a single Nazi concentration camp or Jewish ghetto from World War II.
Some 360 incidents occurred in 2017, while 221 were recorded the previous year, according to a new report by Statistics Canada.
Toronto Police are investigating an anti-Semitic assault that took place against four 17-year-old Jewish boys wearing religious clothing.
“We apologize to the 907 German Jews aboard the ‘St. Louis,’ as well as their families,” said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “We are sorry for the callousness of Canada’s response. We are sorry for not apologizing sooner.”
“We have a lot of projects that we want to move forward,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Helmut Oberlander, a 94-year-old living in Waterloo, Ontario, lost his appeal to keep his Canadian citizenship, being found to have lied about his identity as a former Nazi when applying for the status.
