Anyway, back in Canada, in the 18 months since Oct. 7, 2023, antisemitism has become so normalized in Canada in the worst outbreak of it since the 1930s that it’s no longer considered big news.
Jewish day schools have been shot at, Jewish-owned businesses torched and vandalized, Swastikas painted on synagogues and homes, Jews harassed entering and leaving their places of worship, Jewish university students threatened, Jewish neighbourhoods invaded by chanting pro-Hamas demonstrators describing them as “Zionist-infested” areas, and hundreds of street demonstrations calling for the death of Jews and the destruction of Israel.
Antisemitism today infects everything from the federal government – look at the people it hires as so-called “anti-racism” experts – to public sector union leaders – look at the things they say – to universities, “think tanks” and “non government organizations,” what we laughably used to call “civil society.”
During this time, only one national political leader and his party have consistently and unequivocally condemned this tsunami of hatred aimed at Jews — Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives. Queer that?
While vote-counting Grits periodically mouth pro-forma condemnations of Jew hatred, their attitude towards Canada’s 335,000 Jews, compared to 1.8 million Muslims, was best demonstrated by Liberal Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly.
Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair reported that she told him that her positions on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza were influenced by the demographics in her riding.
The fact she’s still the foreign affairs minister under both Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney, says all anyone needs to know about where the Liberals stand today.
In my neighbourhood where many Jewish Canadians live, there is still a Toronto police mobile field command unit operating in the parking lot of a prominent Jewish day school, set up in the wake of Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. It’s a daily reminder — and Thursday is Yom...
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As for the NDP, their behaviour on these issues ever since Oct. 7, 2023 has been so disgraceful that if they lose party status on April 28, it will be a blessing.
