Israeli President Isaac Herzog said he expressed his “great concern” to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a phone call after the second firebombing of a Montreal synagogue in just over a year.
“I reiterated to [Trudeau] my great concern over the intolerable wave of antisemitic attacks against the Canadian Jewish community,” Herzog wrote in a Dec. 19 post on the social media platform X.
He said that “words would not suffice” and called for “firm and decisive action” to bring perpetrators to justice, stamp out antisemitism, and implement educational and legislative measures to protect the Jewish community.
Herzog’s discussion with Trudeau follows a Dec. 18 attack on the Beth Tikvah synagogue and the West Island Federation CJA building in Dollard-des-Ormeaux on Montreal’s West Island. The synagogue had previously been firebombed in November 2023, a month after the terrorist group Hamas attacked Israel, causing an estimated 1,200 deaths and hundreds taken hostage….