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Other attacks

By: Staff Writer

Posted: 09/17/2012 1:00 AM

Other attacks

THIS weekend was not the first time Mayor Sam Katz has been targeted by anti-Semitic attacks.

March 2008: At a public protest surrounding Winnipeg's operating budget, one man showed up at city hall with a sign showing Katz with a moustache, wearing a German army cap. Katz, whose parents survived the Holocaust, said he was disgusted by the sign and called on the man to apologize.

July 2008: The mayor was again targeted by anti-Semitic imagery, after a sign bearing a swastika -- surrounded by the words 'Danger' and 'Katz' -- was placed in an Ellice Avenue apartment building. Katz did not press for legal action. "He has very thick skin," a spokesman said. "He accepts the fact that there is intolerance and racism that's prevalent in aspects of our society."

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition September 17, 2012 A5