Canadian Synagogue Defaced with Swastikas and Anti-Semitic Slurs

[Jacob]

As it happens, that's my parents' synagogue, so that's pretty close to home for me. They live a few minutes walk away and go there pretty much weekly.

Seems like there's been a sudden surge in anti-Semitic and white supremacist activity this last week or so, including in Canada.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/swastika-machzikei-hadas-synagogue-1.3854868

[The Brain]

Nazis.

[viper37]

It's terrible.  I hope they catch them quickly.

[Martinus]

Morons. Flog them in the town square.

[Ideologue]

As it happens, that's my parents' synagogue, so that's pretty close to home for me.

Wow, I'm sorry, Jake.

Though this is new information to me.  Apparently, for the past eleven years, I thought your parents were ethnic Danes who lived in Denmark.  Were you actually born in Canada and I just now learned this?

[katmai]

Mom and step dad ya ignorant yokel

[citizen k]

Sorry to hear about this Jacob. 

[derspiess]

Sucks.  Sorry Jake

[Ideologue]

Mom and step dad ya ignorant yokel

Sorry.  I clearly missed that part in the bios we all have on the front page.  (Seriously, I feel bad for not having a clearer idea of Jake's personal history.  Feels like I ought to, right?)

[CountDeMoney]

Morons. Flog them in the town square.

Sarcasm noted, fuckstick.

[Grinning_Colossus]

What the hell

[Syt]

 

[Jacob]

Mom and step dad ya ignorant yokel

Sorry.  I clearly missed that part in the bios we all have on the front page.  (Seriously, I feel bad for not having a clearer idea of Jake's personal history.  Feels like I ought to, right?)

I've mentioned it a few times, but a long time ago. I was born in Denmark (single mom! not a big deal in Denmark!). Later my mom met a Canadian diplomat and eventually they got married and we moved to Canada (three days before starting high school in a foreign country, whee!). Step dad is Jewish, she converted. I have Jewish siblings.

[Jacob]

What the hell

Apparently the third such incident in about a week in Ottawa.

[Ideologue]

Mom and step dad ya ignorant yokel

Sorry.  I clearly missed that part in the bios we all have on the front page.  (Seriously, I feel bad for not having a clearer idea of Jake's personal history.  Feels like I ought to, right?)

I've mentioned it a few times, but a long time ago. I was born in Denmark (single mom! not a big deal in Denmark!). Later my mom met a Canadian diplomat and eventually they got married and we moved to Canada (three days before starting high school in a foreign country, whee!). Step dad is Jewish, she converted. I have Jewish siblings.

Thanks for filling me in.

Of course, it's a really shitty context to learn it in.