The federal government intends to hold a national platform to fight racism in the country in the wake of recent killings at Israeli schools. The Department of Justice Canada announced on Friday that the website would be held in Ottawa in February of 2025 to “discuss the growing community health hazard of antisemitism.” ” Canada has seen a disturbing increase in racist incidents, dangers, and hate offences”, the department said. ” The Government of Canada recognizes the immediate need for national leadership to ensure Israeli Canadians feel secure in their churches, schools, and neighborhoods “.The justice minister, attorney general, and the minister and equate minister of public safety may co-chair the forum second year. Federal, provincial, and municipal management, along with legislation police and prosecutors will also be in attendance. Following the third firing at the same Jewish girls ‘ school in Toronto this year, which police reported on Friday, the statement comes. On Friday morning, shots were fired at the Bais Chaya Mushka Elementary School in the city’s northern finish. No injuries were reported, according to authorities, and the class was empty at the time of the firing. 2: 18
Israeli girls school in Toronto killed at immediately, being investigated: policeThe all-girls establishment was targeted a second time in October, on Yom Kippur, with bullets fired from a car on Chesswood Drive, striking the window, according to authorities. A few days later, authorities announced the detention of a 20-year-old man and a 17-year-old son in connection with the firing. That killing came after a second one in May when two suspects opened fire on the university at around 5 a.m. on a Saturday. Additionally, in May, a Jewish university in Montreal was hit by gunfire and an alleged arson attack hit a temple in the state’s West Island earlier this year. In August, more than 100 churches, Jewish agencies and physicians in many cities across the country received the same threatening message. The message mentioned threats of death and bodily injury, as well as the statement that “terror” was the goal.
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An “escalation of racist activity,” according to knowledge documents obtained by Global News, is a “realistic possibility” for an extremist attack targeting Canada’s Israeli society. According to an annual assessment conducted by the Israeli human rights organization B’nai Brith Canada in May, the number of racist occurrences in Canada more than doubled in 2023 compared to the same period the year before. In the audit, the group logged 5, 791 incidents that meet the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance ( IHRA ) definition of antisemitism. That represented a 109 per share raise over 2022, when there were 2, 769 situations. After the Hamas assault on Israel and Israel’s military battle in Gaza, all the happenings reported through the audit saw considerable rises after October 2023. 2: 10
Islamist attack on Jewish community ‘ practical possibility,’ intelligence report says–with files from The Canadian Press and Global News &, copy 2024 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.
