Jewish organizations demand action after Montreal Jewish school hit by gunfire

Montreal police were investigating after a building housing a Jewish school and synagogue in the city's largest borough was allegedly hit by gunfire, only days after a Toronto Jewish girls school was also the target of a shooting. Nobody was hurt in either incident.

Montreal police responded after they received information that projectile impacts were visible on the school located on Hillsdale Road in the Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough. Police arrived at the school at around 6 p.m. Wednesday and discovered signs of two bullets having hit the front of the school.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denounced the violence and promised that law enforcement was working to ensure those responsible would be caught. Montreal police announced last week they had arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with gunshots that were fired at a Jewish school in the city in November. The Crown prosecutor's office says Abdizarak Mahdiahmed has been charged with discharging a firearm with intent and mischief, as well as auto theft and possession of stolen property.

"We have had enough. Yet another Jewish school was shot at in the middle of the night — in Canada," Federation CJA president Yair Szlak and CIJA Quebec vice-president Eta Yudin wrote."Thankfully no one was inside the building, but this violent hatred must no longer be tolerated.""We are witnessing a terrifying escalation of antisemitism in this country," he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre and CIJA were less specific in their demands towards authorities. However, both took aim at the pro-Palestinian encampments that have been erected on various university campuses, suggesting they are contributing to antisemitism.

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