Canadian MP Addresses Anti-Semitism

Addressing an international conference called to combat global anti-Semitism, Canadian MP Jason Kenney referred to the attack on the Chabad-Lubavitch center in Mumbai, India, as proof positive of the “newly resurgent” specter of ethnic hatred.

Kenney, who serves as his country’s Minister of Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, toured the destroyed Chabad House last month and paid tribute to its slain directors, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, as well as the almost 170 other people killed in the Nov. 26 series of attacks.

In his remarks at the Feb. 17 conference in London, which were printed in the National Post, the minister recalled that as he looked out on Mumbai from the top of the Chabad House, he “marveled to think that in this huge, teeming city of 20 million, the killers had meticulously, deliberately sought out to target this one rather obscure, peaceful place, and this particular man and his family. Why did they do so? Because and only because they were Jews.” …