“Condemn These Violent Acts Of Antisemitism”: Justin Trudeau After Shots Fired At Jewish Schools In Montreal

As Montreal police are investigating after shots were fired at two Jewish schools, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the reports are horrifying. Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) spokesperson, Jean-Pierre Brabant, told CBS news that police received two 911 calls, one at around 8:20 a.m., and the second just before 8:50 a.m local time.

In both cases, the Canadian media house quoted the police official, the callers reported the schools” front doors had been struck by bullets, but police cannot yet confirm if there is a link between the incidents. “It is not clear when the shots were fired”.

“The reports of overnight shootings at Jewish schools in Montreal are horrifying. I condemn these violent acts of antisemitism in the strongest terms possible – and I want to be clear: This hate has no place in Canada, and we must all stand united against it,” Justin Trudeau said in an X post.

On Wednesday, the CBSE news reported that, a violent altercation at Concordia University between people aligned with opposing sides of the conflict in Israel and Gaza resulted in injuries and an arrest. Before this, earlier this week, Molotov cocktails were thrown at a synagogue at Dollard-des-Ormeaux, a Montreal suburb.

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister met with Deborah Lyons, Canada’s new Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, and said the current rise in antisemitism in the North American country is abhorrent, alarming, and unacceptable. “We’ll keep working together to combat this hate,” he added.

According to reports, in Toronto alone, hate crimes against Muslims and Jews doubled in last three weeks than the total tally of year 2022, after the war started in West Asia following a surprise attack on Israel by Gaza-based Hamas.

The war in West Asia has resulted in the killing of more than 11,000 Gazans and more than 1,400 Israelis.