Anti-Semitism in Canada: Why now? By BRIAN HENRY Canadian Jewish News, April 29, 2004 Across the country, the firebombing of a Jewish day school in Montreal appalled Canadians. Why did it happen? Why now? I see four root causes. First, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 radicalized anti-American and anti-Jewish sentiment in Canada and around the world. Much of the far left has always considered America and Israel as a single enemy and the primary source of evil in world affairs. While Sept. 11 demonstrated to most people that there are much nastier people around, the far left wasn’t prepared...