Montreal Police Say Hate Crimes Rising, Most Targeting Jews, Amid Israel-Hamas War

Montreal Police Say Hate Crimes Rising, Most Targeting Jews, Amid Israel-Hamas War
A Montreal police badge is shown during a news conference in Montreal, on Oct. 7, 2019. The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes
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Montreal police say they’ve received reports of 16 hate crimes, mostly targeting Jewish people, since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas on Oct. 7.

Police say that, as of Oct. 18, they had received reports of 12 hate crimes targeting the city’s Jewish community—including one during a protest—and four hate crimes targeting the city’s Arab and Muslim communities.