The publisher of a Canadian Jewish magazine called Montreal a “fascist and totalitarian” city because of recent anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli incidents. Ghila Sroka, publisher and editor of Quebec’s French-language Tribune Juive, wrote in the magazine’s recent issue — the cover of which read “Montreal: Capital of Palestine” — that the city’s facade of open-mindedness hides a dark side of anti- Semitism in the trade unions, universities and media.
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