The war in Israel has inflamed longstanding tensions around the globe, but there hasn’t yet been a significant rise in hate-motivated incidents
A man holds an Israeli flag and a sign during a vigil organized by the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver in support of those killed in Israel, in Vancouver, on Oct. 10.Russ Klein returned from the Thanksgiving long weekend to an outpouring of grief at Vancouver’s King David High School, a private Jewish school where he is principal., had been killed by Hamas fighters when a rave he was attending was swept up in the militant Islamist group’s attack on southern Israel. That day, Mr.
“It was disappointing, but we understand how parents feel. You don’t want to be wrong about a calculation like that. Your kids are too precious,” Mr. Klein said. He added that colleagues who run Jewish schools in other parts of Canada had told him they saw about the same rates of absence.
Police in Surrey are searching for a suspect who threw eggs at a rabbi’s house. Police in Calgary are on the hunt for someone who did the same to a Jewish community centre. In Vancouver, a man was arrested after returning to a Jewish school on the city’s west side, where had allegedly yelled antisemitic epithets earlier in the week.
Gerry Almendrades, director of community security for the Ottawa-based Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, said earlier this week that law enforcement agencies had told his organization there was no credible threat of any attack on Jewish people or their institutions in Canada. But members of the Jewish community do face the possibility of being harassed or even physically assaulted as they go to and from demonstrations in support of Israel, he said.
“This is part of their information operations, or psyops, in order to disrupt people’s way of life without firing a single shot,” he said.
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