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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney confronted criticism for failing to promptly condemn the assault of a Jewish man strolling together with his kids in a Montreal suburb on Friday.
The person was strolling together with his three kids in a park when an unknown particular person approached and sprayed them with water. The assailant then bodily assaulted the daddy, knocking him to the bottom and tossing his kippah away, a standard skullcap worn by observant Jewish males.
On Monday, police in Montreal introduced the arrest of a 27-year-old suspect in reference to the assault, an incident that has fueled rising requires the Canadian authorities to crack down on rampant antisemitism.
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at a press convention about recognizing Palestinian statehood whereas Overseas Affairs Minister Anita Anand listens, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on July 30, 2025. (Reuters)
“Canada had the prospect to vary course after the catastrophe of [former Prime Minister Justin] Trudeau’s tenure, however as a substitute selected to proceed marching towards the abyss. It’s past doubt {that a} violent incident just like the one we witnessed in Montreal attracts direct inspiration from the tailwind Canada’s authorities, de facto, provides to Hamas,” Israeli Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combatting Antisemitism Amichai Chikli advised Fox Information Digital.
“Canada just isn’t but on the stage of Belgium or the U.Ok.—each of which have develop into extraordinarily harmful for Jews—however it’s headed there, slowly and inexorably,” he added.
Carney commented on the incident at 11 p.m. Saturday — roughly a day and a half later — after Israeli Overseas Minister Gideon Sa’ar publicly criticized Ottawa’s response.
Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combatting Antisemitism Amichai Chikli condemned the assault on a Jewish man in Montreal. (Shahar Azran/Getty Pictures)
“The assault on a Jewish father in Montreal late yesterday, in entrance of his personal kids, is an appalling act of violence. Everybody in Canada has an inalienable proper to reside in security,” Carney posted on X.
Sa’ar had known as him out on X, writing, “The incident proven on this video is stunning and stomach-turning. … These are photographs harking back to darkish intervals of Jewish persecution. That is appalling.
“The Canadian authorities should do extra to battle antisemitism!” he added.
Though Jews account for lower than 1% of Canada’s inhabitants, antisemitism was behind 18.8% of all reported hate crimes in 2024. Of the 1,342 incidents categorised as religiously motivated, 920, or 68.5%, had been directed at the Jewish community.
Richard Robertson, director of analysis and advocacy at B’nai Brith Canada, famous that only a week earlier a synagogue in Victoria, British Columbia, had been defaced with antisemitic threats, underscoring that Jew-hatred has develop into a nationwide downside.
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“Because the state of affairs continues to devolve, Jewish Canadians don’t must be placated with mere lip service. We want our leaders to take clear and unequivocal positions and work vigorously to facilitate change. Something much less solely serves to additional embolden and allow the vitriolic cohort of our society that continues to assault our neighborhood,” Robertson advised Fox Information Digital.
A person fixes the lock of the doorways of Congregation Beth Tikvah as police examine an alleged arson on the synagogue within the suburb of Dollard-des-Ormeaux in Montreal on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press by way of AP)
“What occurred in Montreal on Friday afternoon was completely horrific. It should function a wake-up name for all the metropolis. That is what occurs when civic leaders allow an environment the place hateful thugs really feel as if they’ll act with impunity,” he stated.
The assault occurred amid a broader local weather of intense antisemitism, which not too long ago led Deborah Lyons, Canada’s particular envoy on Holocaust remembrance and combating antisemitism, to resign in July — three months earlier than her time period ended — citing bodily and emotional exhaustion.
It additionally occurred in opposition to a backdrop of strained Canada-Israel relations. Canada is one in every of 4 nations, alongside France, Australia and the UK, which have introduced their intention to recognize a Palestinian state.
Canada’s former ambassador to Israel, Vivian Bercovici, advised Fox Information Digital that it’s tough to debate the previous two years of rising antisemitism in Canada with out wanting again to October 2015, when former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was first elected prime minister.
“In my opinion, Trudeau’s approach to the conflict was very unsophisticated. He had a really rapidly rising Muslim inhabitants in Canada, and he was cautious to not do something to alienate these voters,” Bercovici stated.
Anti-Israel protesters holding antisemitic posters in Alberta, Canada, on April 13, 2025. (Photograph by Artur Widak/NurPhoto by way of AP)
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In line with Statistics Canada, the share of the inhabitants figuring out as Muslim greater than doubled over 20 years, rising from 2.0% (579,640 individuals) in 2001 to 4.9% (1,775,715 individuals) in 2021.
“What we’ve seen, as in lots of different components of the West, is that they’ve come and demanded that we alter to accommodate them — that we alter the way in which we do issues. A few of their most constant calls for concern Israel and Jewish communities, which have more and more develop into targets,” Bercovici stated.
