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Behind the Aegis

(53,833 posts)
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 06:49 AM Dec 2017

Toronto synagogues among several across Canada to receive anti-Semitic hate mail

Source: 680 News Canada

Four Toronto synagogues are among 10 across the country that have received disturbing anti-Semitic hate mail.

According to B’nai Brith Canada, Adath Israel Congregation and three other synagogues were sent a letter with the phrase “Jewry Must Perish” written around an image of a swastika inside a bleeding Star of David.

“I think they are being trouble makers, maybe they hope that they will upset people in the Jewish community,” said Rabbi David See, Adath Israel Congregation. “I think what it does is turns the table in a positive way. People reach out and say …’this is terrible. This is not what we as a country stand for.'”

Toronto police wouldn’t confirm all four Toronto incidents but said they have received two separate reports of hate mail to date — one to Beth Tzedec Synogogue and one to a private business in the Dufferin Street and Finch Avenue area.



Read more: http://www.680news.com/2017/12/19/synagogue-hate-mail/



Surely, just people displeased with some policy or something.
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Toronto synagogues among several across Canada to receive anti-Semitic hate mail (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Dec 2017 OP
Once again, this ridiculous "fear of the Jews" rears its head. Idiocy. 7962 Dec 2017 #1
Evil shenmue Dec 2017 #2
In Canada? I doubt this, and so should Canadians. Looks like a hit operation from foreign trolls. ancianita Dec 2017 #3
You can't be serious oberliner Dec 2017 #4
Because destabilizing public opinions never happened anywhere else, right? ancianita Dec 2017 #6
Anti-semitism exists in Canada oberliner Dec 2017 #7
The closest I ever came to marriage leftynyc Dec 2017 #5
Offering another perspective that doesn't sweep Canada into an anti-Semitic shade casting dustbin. ancianita Dec 2017 #8
Maybe you should read up on anti Semitism in Canada rising over the past few years.. 7962 Dec 2017 #9
Sure. Then again, there's been a rise in anti-Semitism everywhere. To me, who's doing it is key. ancianita Dec 2017 #11
I know it's hard to believe - but there *are* assholes in my country. knightmaar Dec 2017 #10
I'm not saying Canada doesn't have assholes or anti-Semites. But I'd like to find out who they are. ancianita Dec 2017 #12
Don't underestimate the power of social disapproval knightmaar Dec 2017 #15
True. But in this case, we both know the Canadian glare won't get to the bottom of this. ancianita Dec 2017 #17
I really don't get the hatred of Jews. It's just bizarre. OliverQ Dec 2017 #13
When your life sucks and you have no self esteem knightmaar Dec 2017 #16
The Story of the Jews on PBS was a real eye-opener Rhiannon12866 Dec 2017 #18
Damn William Postsalot Dec 2017 #14
 

7962

(11,841 posts)
1. Once again, this ridiculous "fear of the Jews" rears its head. Idiocy.
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 08:07 AM
Dec 2017

I dont recall ever seeing any Jews call for everyone else to convert to Judaism. Cant remember the last time I saw or heard of a video made by Jews that called for the wanton murder of pretty much everyone not like them. Or the last time a Jew ran over a crowd of people headed to work. Or shot up a school. Or a restaurant. Etc, etc......

ancianita

(35,813 posts)
3. In Canada? I doubt this, and so should Canadians. Looks like a hit operation from foreign trolls.
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 08:39 AM
Dec 2017

It looks like a too-organized attempt to make Canadians doubt their kind, open culture.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
7. Anti-semitism exists in Canada
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 09:41 AM
Dec 2017

Jewish people are the most frequent targets of hate crimes there every year.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
5. The closest I ever came to marriage
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 09:19 AM
Dec 2017

was to a Canadian. Many reasons we didn't walk down the aisle - one of them being his mother hated me for being Jewish. As I recall (and this was 35 years ago) her exact quote was "like should marry like".

ancianita

(35,813 posts)
8. Offering another perspective that doesn't sweep Canada into an anti-Semitic shade casting dustbin.
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 09:43 AM
Dec 2017

Are there anti-Semites everywhere? For sure. And maybe they were behind this series of attacks. But the article doesn't say. I'm sure more backstory will follow. Overall, would you say the U.S. is an anti-semitic country? Probably not.

ancianita

(35,813 posts)
11. Sure. Then again, there's been a rise in anti-Semitism everywhere. To me, who's doing it is key.
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 10:33 AM
Dec 2017

Anti-Semitism has been around for centuries. The likelihood that it's on the rise in Canada isn't surprising, yet I doubt that it's any more probable, given this country's anti-Semitism, than in any of the countries in which 90% of the world's Jewish population reside.

knightmaar

(748 posts)
10. I know it's hard to believe - but there *are* assholes in my country.
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 09:55 AM
Dec 2017

And sometimes it takes more than GLARING AT THEM REAL HARD to make them stop.

ancianita

(35,813 posts)
12. I'm not saying Canada doesn't have assholes or anti-Semites. But I'd like to find out who they are.
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 10:37 AM
Dec 2017

The article doesn't say. I'd rather err on the side of the general cultural climate of Canada having more sway than what looks like an organized attack across the country.

I'm sure Canada's law enforcement will get to the bottom of this, and never think of Canadians as simple glarers.

knightmaar

(748 posts)
15. Don't underestimate the power of social disapproval
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 10:46 AM
Dec 2017

Glaring at people really hard when they're misbehaving is surprisingly effective.

knightmaar

(748 posts)
16. When your life sucks and you have no self esteem
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 10:48 AM
Dec 2017

Racism is a good rope to reach for. If you actually took away the people that racists look down on, the racists would be forced realize what kind of awful, pathetic people they are.

But while they have their imagined superiority to <whomever>, they've at least got something.

But anti-semitism specifically ... it's a long history of passed down bigotry.

Rhiannon12866

(203,035 posts)
18. The Story of the Jews on PBS was a real eye-opener
Thu Dec 21, 2017, 01:46 AM
Dec 2017

I was certainly aware of the atrocities that happened during WWII, and this documentary series chronicled not only Jewish history, but the incidence of antisemitism - across the globe - that went back centuries. Having had Jewish friends and neighbors all my life, I never realized. And apparently it's still alive today.


http://www.pbs.org/wnet/story-jews/

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