JNS.org - Video footage circulated on social media last week of a keffiyeh-clad young man stealing and burning Israeli flags at Hebrew Foundation School in Montreal as the community celebrated Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day. After bragging about the crime on Instagram with a caption “I am not afraid of Yahudis and I do not care about
“The targeting of Jewish schools and businesses and destroying the Israeli flag send a hateful message to Canada’s Jews,” said Michael Levitt, CEO of the Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
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