Incited by bitter comments in the Canadian press on the hanging of two British soldiers in Palestine by the Irgun, a gang of Canadians today carried out a second anti-Semitic demonstration here, racing through the Jewish section of the city in a fleet of trucks and shouting anti-Jewish slogans.
The Montreal newspaper “Family Herald and Weekly Star” came out with an editorial warning the Jews of Canada against “directly or indirectly supporting, encouraging, and financing Palestine terrorism.” The article declares that the behavior of the Jewish extremists in Palestine “is already inevitably affecting thinking on immigration into Canada.”
The Montreal Star editorially defended troops of the Sixth Airborne Division in Palestine against charges of anti-Semitism, quoting from excerpts from the newspaper of the army unit to prove its point.
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