Open this photo in gallery: A new NATO military spending target will require Canada to spend $150-billion annually on defence-related priorities, Prime Minister Mark Carney said in June.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press Persistent prejudice Re “Federal report warns of rise in antisemitic incidents against children in schools” (July 14): When I was a 10-year-old Jewish boy in Grade 5 at a Winnipeg elementary school in 1961, a non-Jewish classmate asked me: “Why don’t you leave the old man alone?” He was referring to the then-Israeli government prosecution of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. My classmate was holding me responsible for the...