Andria Spindel’s Monday webinar on combating antisemitism was only a few minutes in, when it became obvious there was something wrong. “We could see people sending chat messages that were unpleasant, they were asked to stop… and then things erupted,” Spindel said.
The dozens of Jewish video chat users, who had logged on from around the country to listen to a presentation by the Canada Antisemitism Education Foundation, appeared to have had their webinar hacked. “The screen was suddenly taken over,” Spindel said. “Then there were unpleasant voice messages and sounds.
We thought we heard Hitlerian marching music in the background, which made everyone really shudder. People were dumbfounded, I thought I heard somebody crying.” [ Sign up for