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| By: Israel Insider staff and partners |
| Published: April 5, 2007 |
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A bomb was detonated outside a Jewish community center in Montreal, Canada, during the weeklong Jewish holiday of Passover, police reported Wednesday.
"A homemade bomb exploded and there was a small fire," police spokesman Lynne Labelle said. No one was injured by the bomb which cause unsubstantial damage. The police have not verified whether or not the act was a hate crime.
Many members of the Jewish community, however, are worried.
Steven Slimovitch, national legal counsel for B'nai Brith Canada, considers the act to be anti-Semitic, though no evidence has yet been uncovered to support this.
"We're certain that it is a crime that has all the earmarks of a hate crime," Slimovitch said.
"It is an explosive device that was left at a visibly identifiable Jewish institution, during a well-known Jewish holiday, roughly three years to the day after the bombing of the United Talmud Torahs."
The three-year anniversary of the firebombing of Montreal's United Talmud Torahs elementary school library is two days after the incident.
According to the Jerusalem Post, "In its annual audit of anti-Semitism, B'nai Brith identified a 70 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents last year in Quebec and a 12.8 percent rise in Canada."
Jerusalem Newswire contributed to this report. |
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