If I had a nickel for every time a Jewish elementary school in Canada was shot at this week, I’d have two nickels.
And two is, in fact, a lot. If institutions associated with any other minority group were being targeted in this fashion, it would probably be the dominant Canadian news story and the subject of an emergency debate in the House of Commons.
But Jewish schools? As of this writing, you have to browse pretty deep into the CTV or CBC news websites to see it mentioned.
A maniac tried to mow down Orthodox students and a rabbi outside a Brooklyn Jewish school Wednesday while allegedly yelling “I’m gonna kill all the Jews” in a shocking antisemitic attack, sources told The Post.
Video footage supplied by the Flatbush Shomrim Safety Patrol shows the crazed driver revving his engine and mounting the curb as he swerved toward Orthodox Jews milling around a Yeshiva in Canarsie at about 11:25 a.m.
Police and sources identified the alleged attacker as 58-year-…
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