Important for me to correct the record. It was the Ottawa Police who released a statement which avoided the use of the word rabbi in favour of the more vague term “religious leader.” So the question falls to them: in announcing this hate crime why did police hide that it was targeted against a Jew? CTV discovered the facts on their own whereas @CBCNews ran the release given by @OttawaPolice. But why did the police choose to suppress the facts around an act of anti Jewish hate? We can’t fight antisemitism if we don’t call it out by name.
And I immediately thought of the meme with "White man with white skin kills innocent black youth".
UPDATE: Apparently it was the Ottawa Police who avoided saying rabbi. But CTV did some actual journalism while CBC just parroted the line: https://twitter.com/LindaFrum/status/1721854419547885963
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