(IsraelNN.com) A Jewish center in the Canadian city of Montreal was targeted in a bomb attack, and a synagogue in San Francisco, California was defaced with swastikas during the first days of the Passover festival.Once again, Passover is pogrom season. I am a Jew. I will not be silent.
The bomb detonated at Montreal’s Ben Weider Jewish Community Center failed to cause any injuries or deaths, though workers were present at the time of the explosion. Damage was caused to the building.
Montreal police downplayed the incident, emphasizing that the bomb was “homemade” and saying they have not yet determined whether it was a hate crime....
San Francisco’s Emanu-El synagogue, the largest in the city, was defaced with swastikas over the Passover festival. Congregants discovered the vandalism Monday morning....
In the heavily-Jewish populated Bergen County region of New Jersey, swastikas and anti-Jewish graffiti were found engraved into the playground of a Wallington park on Passover eve....
Chicago police are investigating the Passover eve spraying of graffiti on the walls of a Chicago synagogue....
A rough drawing of a building labeled “Jewish library” with missiles headed toward it was found in a Princeton University common room. Also in the path of the missiles were stick figures labeled “little Jews.” A swastika graced the top of the sketch....
Click here to read the full story in the Princeton student paper....
The Daily Kos blog, one of the most popular American political websites, is featuring anti-Semitic graphic content since Thursday. The Daily Kos reportedly receives 600,000 visits a day, and between 14 million and 24 million visits per month. It is often used by politicians – including Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama and many others – for dissemination of their materials.
The content is featured in a 'diary' by one of the site's contributors, a Belgian graphic artist. It shows a composite of Minister Avigdor Lieberman's face and Adolf Hitler's face holding a skull painted with a Star of David, under the caption "Zionism was and remains a racist ideology."
V'hi sheamdah l'avosaynu v'lanu, shelo echad belavad amad aleinu l'chalosaynu, eyla shebechol dor v'dor omdim aleinu l'chalosaynu, v'HaKadosh Borchu matzileinu meyadam.
--the Haggadah
"And it is this same promise that has sustained our ancestors and ourselves. For not only one oppressor rose up against us to destroy us, but in every generation some have risen to destroy us, but the Holy One, blessed be He, has delivered us from their hand."
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