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Canada: Pro-Israel and Jewish Students Attacked With Machete by Men Yelling in Arabic..
Topic Started: Apr 8 2010, 09:05 AM (51 Views)
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You don't have to be Jewish to be a victim. You only have to have an opinion.

Canada: Pro-Israel and Jewish Students Attacked With Machete by Men Yelling in Arabic..

A student supporter of Israel at Carleton University and an Israeli engineering student at the university say they are lucky to have survived an attack with what they say was a machete near a Gatineau bar early on Monday.

Nick Bergamini, 22, vice-president of the Carleton University Students' Association, said he and his roommate Mark Klibanov, 20, were leaving Le Volt bar on Promenade du Port More..age at 1:45 a.m. when a group of about 10 men began yelling in English and Arabic that they were Zionists and Jews.

"These people must have been Carleton students because I recognized one of them," Mr. Bergamini said. "I said I love Israel because I support Israel's right to exist.

"I told them not to do this because I knew who they were, but I got hit hard on the back of the head. We ran to the bar entrance because bar security was there."

The two men decided to walk across the Chaudière Bridge to Ottawa when the crowd surrounding them dispersed about five minutes later. As they walked through a parking lot near the bridge, however, three men in a car pulled up beside them.

"One of them rolled down the window and said: ‘I am the one who hit you, you f---ing Jew,'although I am not a Jew," Mr. Bergamini said."Two guys came out of the car and one of them tried to kick my roommate.

"One attacker said ‘Open the trunk,' and another guy pulled out a machete that glinted in the street lights. I yelled that they had weapons and we started running as fast as we could. I saw the guy wind up with the machete as I looked back."

Mr. Klibanov said the machete narrowly missed the back of his friend's head as the two men sprinted across the bridge to Ottawa. He said they were not injured only because they outran their assailants.

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http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2766638


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Another reported angle to this story is that these two students were very vocal in their support of the Jewish people and likely annoyed many others. Not that this justifies what their attackers did of course, but it may partly explain the actions.
Add to this that Carleton University is known for its controversial views and discussion amongst students,about the middle east issues, as well as the recent ban in Quebec province of the burqa in public, which didn't go down too well with some people.
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