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On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 14:58:19 -0400, Auric Hellman wrote:

> June 30, 2025
> 
> OTTAWA – Following allegations that a government employee vandalized 
> Canada’s National Holocaust Monument earlier this month, B’nai Brith 
> Canada is urging lawmakers to mandate antisemitism training for civil 
> servants at all levels.
> 
> Over the weekend, Ottawa police arrested 46-year-old Ian Aspliender, who 
> is alleged to have used red paint on or about June 9 to desecrate the 
> monument and scrawl the words “FEED ME.”
> 
> Aspliender was working as a solicitor for the City of Ottawa during the 
> incident, although he was reportedly on a leave of absence at the time. 
> He has since been fired, according to the City, which confirmed the 
> decision Sunday.
> 
> “While we are extremely concerned about the incident and the weekend’s 
> news, B’nai Brith Canada applauds the Ottawa Police Service and the City 
> of Ottawa for their swift action,” said Richard Robertson, Research and 
> Advocacy Director for B’nai Brith Canada. “This sort of targeted, 
> hate-motivated vandalism is not only an attack on Canadian Jews, but 
> also on our collective conception of this country’s multicultural, 
> multifaith democracy.
> 
> “That a public servant may have been motivated to carry out such an 
> egregious act is an indictment of the entire system. Our leaders must 
> respond with more than mere condemnations – this is a clarion call for 
> mandatory antisemitism training and more effective approaches to 
> combating the scourge of hate plaguing this country.”
> 
> This is not the first time B’nai Brith Canada has stressed the 
> importance of antisemitism training for all civil servants. Our 
> organization has, in a series of submissions to federal and provincial 
> governments, advocated for mandatory antisemitism training.
> 
> https://www.bnaibrith.ca/bnai-brith-canada-urges-mandatory-antisemitism-training-for-civil-servants-after-ottawa-vandalism-arrest/
> 
> 
> 
> Where do these people find the audacity to make such demands? Jewish 
> people have had an easy experience here in Canada. I do not see where 
> the words "FEED ME" are offensive to anyone, let alone Jews. Stop seeing 
> hate where there is none. The fact that it happened on a Holocaust 
> monument is incidental. Many public monuments have been vandalized; it's 
> just happenstance that this one was a sensitive target. What happens is 
> authentic incidents of anti-Semitism get dismissed.

And here's someone with a clear understanding of the situation to do it:

https://www.aljazeera.com/#flips-6375173960112

"I think its more important to focus on ending the killing".

Dhu

   -- 
Je suis Canadien:
  Ce n'est pas Francais ou Anglais,
  C'est une esp`ece de sauvage. 
  Ne obliviscaris: vix ea nostra voco!

 *A mari ad mari ad mari*

  Duncan Patton a Campbell