{"id":34569,"date":"2026-07-08T11:17:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=34569"},"modified":"2026-07-08T11:47:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:47:33","slug":"montreal-no-to-antisemitism-in-quebec-and-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/montreal-no-to-antisemitism-in-quebec-and-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal: NO to antisemitism in Qu\u00e9bec and Canada!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Montreal is charming with all its different cultural communities, including the Orthodox Jewish, vibrant corners and neighbourhoods where we hear the beautiful Yiddish language being spoken. They appear sometimes dressed in interesting\u2014or odd\u2014clothes. Some of them sell delicious Jewish products, including Montreal’s famous bagels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From her fifteen years in Montreal, starting in 1990, Bambi recalls beautiful memories of those Jewish-flavoured streets where she had walked, studied, worked, and volunteered. When she was in her early twenties, she once had an enriching encounter with one of these men with whom she tried to negotiate to support her friends’ new business. She boldly entered the senior Hassidic Jewish man’s store. She could not see anyone there, but she heard him saying hello from a room a few stairs higher. She climbed those stairs and introduced herself to him. She asked him if he can help her friends who were of Arab origins like her, she must add. In exchange, she offered him her commitment to also encourage his own business herself and by telling potential clients about it. At first, the man looked surprised. After their chat, he ended up being one of the most open-minded and friendly persons she had met in Canada thus far. Perhaps the longer-term outcome of this story was that her friend’s new business did not survive. Yet, this man was filled with humanity and this is what she recalls the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly, over the past years, this lovely spirit of Montreal is being threatened day after day. Indeed, in 2025 alone, B’nai Brith Canada has “documented 6,800<\/strong> incidents of antisemitism. This is equivalent to 18.6 incidents, on average, each day<\/em>” (https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/mpydz4ru<\/a>). This Canadian advocacy organization called its report “A National Crisis of Antisemitism”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shockingly, but sadly not surprisingly, there has been another antisemitic attack in Outremont, Montreal in which Hassidic Jewish men “returning home from a synagogue after Shabbat services were allegedly harassed by individuals driving around the neighbourhood<\/em>” (https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4x6u647z<\/a>). These innocent victims were physically attacked, spat on, sprayed with an unknown substance, and with their religious fur hats stolen. Who knows, these men could be perhaps related to that older sweet man described above?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To better describe this sad story, which is being investigated by the police, Bambi will end this post by sharing a 4-minute-video prepared by Ms. Alexa Lavoie, from Rebel News. Thanks to her for covering and following it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ENOUGH of violence on our streets. We want our peaceful Canada back. We do not want anyone to feel unsafe in our beautiful country. Today, it is those hassidic men who were physically and morally intimidated in Montreal. Tomorrow it might be other Jewish men, women, or children in another city\/province. They might be observant or not. What are we going to do collectively and concretely, as a state that respects itself, to protect them… and protect each one of us, Jewish or not, after them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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